Post Foxtrot Clarity

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• 0:02Speaker 00

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• 0:30Speaker 01

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• 1:21Connor Wood?

  Hey, guys, welcome back to Brooke and Connor Make-A Podcast. It's a brand new day.

• 1:26Connor Wood?

  What are you doing?

• 1:26Brooke Averick?

  What am I doing?

• 1:29Connor Wood?

  For the audio-only listeners, Brooke is giving someone a mammogram.

• 1:34Brooke Averick?

  Nope.

• 1:35Connor Wood?

  What are you doing?

• 1:35Brooke Averick?

  Six, seven.

• 1:36Connor Wood?

  Oh, six, seven, okay.

• 1:38Brooke Averick?

  Because you're my seven, six, seven king.

• 1:41Connor Wood?

  Oh, thank you. Okay, so we're gonna get, we'll get right into the-

• 1:44Brooke Averick?

  I mean, what else is there to do?

• 1:45Connor Wood?

  Well, then we'll just segment it, and I'll cut us off. I want to say start-

• 1:48Brooke Averick?

  I don't, no one wants you to cut me off.

• 1:51Connor Wood?

  I'm gonna cut myself off.

• 1:52Brooke Averick?

  I'm going to reverse-

• 1:54Connor Wood?

  I don't want anyone to get tired of this stuff.

• 1:57Brooke Averick?

  No, Connor, this is a once in a lifetime. This is once in a lifetime.

• 2:01Connor Wood?

  Okay.

• 2:02Brooke Averick?

  Every single person is watching. Like, we'll never get to do that again. You know?

• 2:07Connor Wood?

  Oh, my God, that's sad.

• 2:08Brooke Averick?

  Like, we're all on the same boat, and in it, too.

• 2:11Connor Wood?

  We're in the same boat.

• 2:12Brooke Averick?

  We're on it, we're in it.

• 2:13Connor Wood?

  I hope you have your sea legs.

• 2:15Brooke Averick?

  Oh, I put my sea legs on this morning.

• 2:18Connor Wood?

  Did you?

• 2:18Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 2:19Connor Wood?

  Wow.

• 2:20Brooke Averick?

  What are sea legs?

• 2:21Connor Wood?

  Um, I don't know, just being used to be on the poop deck, which I know you know you're wearing on the poop deck. Come on, poop deck.

• 2:29Brooke Averick?

  Girl, oh, I have to tell you something housekeeping-related really quick.

• 2:33Connor Wood?

  Hit me with the housekeeping.

• 2:34Brooke Averick?

  Um, I know your birthday was like a long time ago, but I've been working on something.

• 2:39Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 2:40Brooke Averick?

  And I'm hoping that it will be ready by next week.

• 2:43Connor Wood?

  Okay.

• 2:44Brooke Averick?

  And it's something that we can all experience.

• 2:46Connor Wood?

  Oh, fun, okay.

• 2:47Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, so that's something to look forward to. I'm getting a little bit antsy.

• 2:50Connor Wood?

  Well-

• 2:51Brooke Averick?

  So fingers crossed for next week.

• 2:52Connor Wood?

  That's exciting for everyone.

• 2:54Brooke Averick?

  That's all I have to say. I didn't want to think I didn't get you anything for your birthday.

• 2:58Connor Wood?

  I forgot about that, I even have a birthday, but thank you, I'm excited.

• 3:02Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, I'm excited, too. I'm a little bit nervous.

• 3:05Connor Wood?

  Okay.

• 3:05Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 3:07Connor Wood?

  Can I be honest about something?

• 3:09Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 3:10Connor Wood?

  I'm, I came in a little bit heated.

• 3:12Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 3:12Connor Wood?

  Rivalry.

• 3:13Brooke Averick?

  Because I didn't get your birthday present?

• 3:15Connor Wood?

  Yeah, because of the birthday, no. Because I was making a turn into a parking structure.

• 3:20Brooke Averick?

  That'll happen.

• 3:21Connor Wood?

  And slowly inching my way, because there was so much traffic, but they were letting me through. And a biker runs through the thing and like yells at me, and then pulls his bike to the curb and just continues to yell at me. And like, I understand, like, as a biker, you're constantly fighting an uphill battle, because it seems like everyone against you, because-

• 3:40Brooke Averick?

  Because they are.

• 3:40Connor Wood?

  We are.

• 3:41Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 3:41Connor Wood?

  But like, one, infrastructure needs to be better for bikers, so that they can stay the hell away from everybody. I'm all for like carless cities and walkable cities, but like, this is not the world we live in right now.

• 3:52Brooke Averick?

  Okay.

• 3:53Connor Wood?

  Even though like, I understand like, this person in their completely skin-tight, adult man, skin-tight outfit as a hobby. Me and my pink tux last night, mullet, um, just yelling at me. I'm like, you're putting, this is a choice you made this morning.

• 4:12Brooke Averick?

  Someone yelled at me last week.

• 4:14Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 4:14Brooke Averick?

  But I couldn't see what he was saying, and he just kept saying the same thing over and over again. And I was like so upset, beyond belief. And I thought, I think he was saying line, because he was crossing the crosswalk. And like, I think he was suggesting that I was like blocking it, but I wasn't. And then I realized like five minutes later that my lights were off.

• 4:38Connor Wood?

  Oh, lights.

• 4:39Brooke Averick?

  So he was saying lights. And I had spent so much time being angry at him, when really, he didn't deserve it. So maybe the situation is different, in a way like that.

• 4:52Connor Wood?

  Maybe we-

• 4:52Brooke Averick?

  Maybe he was telling you, congratulations on your seven, six, seven.

• 4:56Connor Wood?

  Oh, my gosh, you're right.

• 4:57Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 4:59Connor Wood?

  Hmm, Brooke, perspective is everything.

• 5:00Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, he probably recognized you.

• 5:03Connor Wood?

  Thank you for that.

• 5:03Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 5:04Connor Wood?

  That's really sweet.

• 5:05Brooke Averick?

  Perspective is a good thing to have.

• 5:06Connor Wood?

  Mm-hmm. Well, yeah, so last night, we, our scores were like the best, obviously, we've ever, we've ever had out of the three.

• 5:13Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 5:13Connor Wood?

  It feels like I've been doing this for two and a half years.

• 5:15Brooke Averick?

  I mean, you did amazing.

• 5:16Connor Wood?

  Thank you, really, you mean that?

• 5:17Brooke Averick?

  Of, of course, I would have loved to see more of you, but the camera was like not showing me your feet.

• 5:24Connor Wood?

  Yeah, obviously, like, I, I can't watch it, so, but like, the camera guy was getting kind of flamed in the comment section.

• 5:30Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, so there was like a solid five seconds where it was just like zoomed in on your mullet, which like, awesome, I love the mullet. But like, I want to see my friend's feet as he is dancing. So that was hard, but like, you, you looked amazing, and I know you were amazing.

• 5:47Connor Wood?

  Oh, thanks.

• 5:48Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, you were completely incredible. I thought you were gonna get three sevens. And might I say, I was surprised that it was Derek that gave you the six. Not that a six is bad by any means, a six is freaking fabulous, but he seemed really excited, so I was confused by that.

• 6:04Connor Wood?

  Yeah, the one piece of feedback, he actually came up to me after and was just like, the suit was an oversized suit for eighties themed, because it was like yacht rock, and there was too much fabric on the shoulders. So when I was in frame, which frame, everyone has had an opinion on frame, I totally, I had dropped my elbow a little bit, which just sucks, because I've been putting grocery bags on my, on my crevices, so my elbows in my apartment, so that I can hold, and I put like candles and like bottles of shampoo in them, just so that it weighs. Yeah, I could get like weighted bracelets, bala bracelets, but I had forgotten about those. So I've been walking around in frame in my apartment. And of course, the one time I dropped my elbow a little bit is show day. Oh, and then I think that there was-

• 6:45Brooke Averick?

  But like, look, you're so good that now we're focused on those little technicalities.

• 6:48Connor Wood?

  And my butt, like Bruno, Bruno's comment was about tucking my butt, keeping my butt in. It was so nice to get like Bruno, get like the Bruna that I know.

• 6:57Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 6:57Connor Wood?

  Be like, oh, my gosh, Bruno's here. Um, and then the, the leading man comment, I, you know, wow.

• 7:06Brooke Averick?

  How'd you feel about that?

• 7:07Connor Wood?

  Congratulations to my mom.

• 7:08Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 7:09Connor Wood?

  That's what I want to say, like, yeah, my scores were good, congrats to my mom.

• 7:12Brooke Averick?

  But like, and, and you know, I'll give Carrie Anne credit, when she earns it, like, she, she flipped that into something positive. You know, like, you might not have been leading, which is fine, not everyone has to lead all the time, by the way.

• 7:26Connor Wood?

  What'd you say?

• 7:27Brooke Averick?

  Justice for followers.

• 7:28Connor Wood?

  Breaking-

• 7:28Brooke Averick?

  Breaking gender norms, et cetera. But you were supporting, and supporting can be even better than leading. I, there, when they're, when I need, as a woman-

• 7:42Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 7:42Brooke Averick?

  Sometimes I don't want, most of the times, I don't want to be led, I want to be supported. Am I a dancer? No, but just in life, I love your support, and I'm sure Riley did last night, too. And Carrie Anne noticed that, thank you, Carrie Anne.

• 7:58Connor Wood?

  Carrie Anne, I really like appreciate her feedback. I know that every, like, has thought it to be hard. I like the way she delivers things, that's like the way that I deliver things.

• 8:08Brooke Averick?

  You like Such a Shame?

• 8:11Connor Wood?

  It was, it was Such a Shame. We performed it, and it wasn't the best version of us performing it, like, that made sense to me.

• 8:17Brooke Averick?

  See, the, I struggle, you struggle with the delivery. She did something last night, I forget who it was, but it was akin to Such a Shame to me. Someone said, it could have been Taylor.

• 8:28Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 8:28Brooke Averick?

  Um, someone stepped on someone's foot, or something like that, or like did something.

• 8:33Connor Wood?

  Jenna Dewan stepped on her foot.

• 8:34Brooke Averick?

  Oh, maybe it was Jenna? I don't know.

• 8:37Speaker 04

  Someone, yeah, she was like-

• 8:39Brooke Averick?

  It was something. And then she started off with like, are you okay? Like, I know, I know it really hurts when you like, and then just went into that fuck-up. That didn't sit with me.

• 8:51Connor Wood?

  Oh, there's Jenna Dewan.

• 8:53Brooke Averick?

  I don't care.

• 8:54Connor Wood?

  He's gonna be okay.

• 8:56Brooke Averick?

  He will be okay, but like, it's just like, oh, to me.

• 9:01Connor Wood?

  Yeah, well, that's-

• 9:02Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 9:03Connor Wood?

  That's the jo, that's the nature of the job, I guess.

• 9:07Brooke Averick?

  Derek doesn't do it that way.

• 9:08Connor Wood?

  Did you see my face? Yeah, but like Simon, Simon Cowell also doesn't, you know, Simon Cowell, someone has to like, put the hammer down.

• 9:16Brooke Averick?

  Like, is, like nasty.

• 9:19Connor Wood?

  Simon, yeah, is a nasty individual. What's going on with him?

• 9:23Brooke Averick?

  I don't think anything good.

• 9:24Connor Wood?

  Did he have like something outside of American Idol that threw him into the deep end, or was that-

• 9:30Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 9:30Connor Wood?

  Was it just his actual personality?

• 9:32Brooke Averick?

  He was definitely, he was definitely going through, he was definitely under fire for a while, based off of, I think it was something to do with like working people too hard. I think like something had happened with, like, a lot of people he worked with were like either like going through-

• 9:47Connor Wood?

  You know what would be an incredible talent show?

• 9:53Connor Wood?

  Simon Cowell, Tyra Banks, Ellen DeGeneres, and it's just titled Welcome to Hell.

• 10:00Connor Wood?

  Welcome to Hell, who brought my mattress?

• 10:02Brooke Averick?

  I'll be nice, I'll be nice, I don't get the who, I don't get the mattress part.

• 10:05Connor Wood?

  I guess someone on Ellen's team said that she needed to travel with her mattress, which like, you get to, I'm sure you would love to travel with your mattress.

• 10:12Brooke Averick?

  I'm sure I would. I'd like to travel on my mattress. Like Aladdin.

• 10:18Connor Wood?

  Far away.

• 10:19Brooke Averick?

  Like Aladdin.

• 10:19Connor Wood?

  I had a dream of like a haunting in Connecticut last night, but it was like my childhood.

• 10:23Brooke Averick?

  I had a horrible nightmare about you. But I can't tell you because this is about your birthday present.

• 10:30Connor Wood?

  Okay.

• 10:31Brooke Averick?

  So I'll tell you later. But don't be scared about your birthday present.

• 10:36Connor Wood?

  I also, I want to say two quick things. Could you see my face during the dance?

• 10:40Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 10:41Connor Wood?

  Because everyone's saying that like my face doesn't, my face needs work.

• 10:45Brooke Averick?

  I would never say that about your face.

• 10:46Connor Wood?

  Hollywood's taking a toll. They're saying my face needs work.

• 10:49Brooke Averick?

  What does that mean? Like medical work?

• 10:50Connor Wood?

  No, like that was a fun dance. I need to be smiling.

• 10:54Brooke Averick?

  Oh, I didn't notice anything off.

• 10:55Connor Wood?

  The lighting is

• 11:00Connor Wood?

  so unfortunate in that, in that room. Unless you have great, like a bone structure like Ezra or Val.

• 11:07Brooke Averick?

  I think you look great.

• 11:08Connor Wood?

  Thanks. I think that like, um,

• 11:12Connor Wood?

  the shading of the mullet did strip away my, granted, it was part of the costume. It stripped away any form of like jawline. So it was just kind of like a straight up thing. And I was getting a couple of comments that I noticed. He looks like the actor from The Last of Us. And someone said-

• 11:29Brooke Averick?

  Pedro?

• 11:32Connor Wood?

  Someone said, did, did you mean, um,

• 11:37Brooke Averick?

  Bella Ramsey?

• 11:38Connor Wood?

  Yeah, Bella Ramsey.

• 11:41Connor Wood?

  Next, he looks like my aunt. She smoked a lot of cigarettes in the nineties. Um, and then someone just commented, my aunts did wonderful tonight.

• 11:50Brooke Averick?

  I loved that. Did anyone say anything about Coach Beast?

• 11:52Connor Wood?

  Who's Coach Beast?

• 11:53Brooke Averick?

  Did anyone say anything about that? Because if not, it's not even-

• 11:56Connor Wood?

  Well, no, last night I decided to unplug because it would be best for my health.

• 11:58Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 11:59Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 12:00Brooke Averick?

  I'm not saying you looked like Coach Beast at all, but with the mullet, there was, there was a, uh, some, I was thinking of her.

• 12:06Connor Wood?

  Can I see Coach Beast?

• 12:08Brooke Averick?

  No, no, no. We don't have to pull Coach Beast out.

• 12:09Connor Wood?

  I think I want to see Coach Beast. I'm, the mullet's gone. I was gonna wear it today, but, oh God, okay.

• 12:14Brooke Averick?

  Coach Beast, it was just the mullet. It was just the mullet that was giving a little bit. I loved the mullet though.

• 12:20Connor Wood?

  Oh.

• 12:21Brooke Averick?

  You didn't look like Coach Beast. It was just something, something brought Coach Beast up for me. But I, I also, the mullet was, gave me a few different things. Like on one hand, I was like, I, I love it. I like it. I love it. And then on one hand, I was like, it's interesting.

• 12:40Brooke Averick?

  You know what I mean?

• 12:42Connor Wood?

  Did it give you any good things?

• 12:43Brooke Averick?

  I just said, I like it. I love it.

• 12:45Connor Wood?

  Okay.

• 12:47Brooke Averick?

  You didn't look like Coach Beast.

• 12:48Connor Wood?

  Okay, well, it was, that's hard to-

• 12:50Brooke Averick?

  I love Coach Beast.

• 12:51Connor Wood?

  Right, personality wise.

• 12:53Brooke Averick?

  No, and, and physically.

• 12:57Connor Wood?

  I don't know anything about Coach Beast's character. I don't know Coach Beast's heart.

• 13:00Brooke Averick?

  Coach Beast. But I do feel like that, those photos weren't indicative of Coach Beast. I think definitely was rocking maybe like a mullet at one point.

• 13:08Connor Wood?

  Coach Beast at a glance was more

• 13:11Connor Wood?

  handsome woman?

• 13:12Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, that's fine.

• 13:13Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 13:14Brooke Averick?

  I do think, you know, Coach Beast was in Glee. I think that Coach Beast transitioned halfway through the season, but I don't know about real life.

• 13:22Connor Wood?

  Okay.

• 13:23Brooke Averick?

  So

• 13:25Brooke Averick?

  hard, it's hard for me to say.

• 13:26Connor Wood?

  Hmm. I didn't see, I hadn't, I had no-

• 13:29Brooke Averick?

  Maybe you'll watch Glee now that you know Harry.

• 13:31Connor Wood?

  Yeah. Harry looked good in his mustache last night.

• 13:33Brooke Averick?

  He looked great in his mustache.

• 13:34Connor Wood?

  Yeah. Everyone's saying that, well, when Kenzie and Carson came last week to the show.

• 13:40Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 13:41Connor Wood?

  They said it was like bone chilling how much we look like.

• 13:45Brooke Averick?

  You and Harry?

• 13:45Connor Wood?

  Yeah. They were like, it was freaking us out.

• 13:47Brooke Averick?

  I can see it.

• 13:50Connor Wood?

  Okay.

• 13:52Brooke Averick?

  I can definitely see that now that you said that.

• 13:54Connor Wood?

  Okay. Yeah.

• 13:57Brooke Averick?

  I don't want anyone to think I was insulting Connor when I said Coach Beast came up for me.

• 14:00Connor Wood?

  Take it. I can, I can definitely take it. Okay. Now that I have, now that I have this, I'm like, I'm cool to move on past dancing now.

• 14:08Brooke Averick?

  Oh, I'm not. I have so much to say, but about other, just a few other takes that I have about other people.

• 14:13Connor Wood?

  Can I really quickly just knock these out really quick?

• 14:16Brooke Averick?

  Are they dance?

• 14:17Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 14:17Brooke Averick?

  Oh, yeah.

• 14:19Connor Wood?

  One, sorry I was miserable last week. That was my first note in this. It's funny to go from the show and then the first people I talk to is this thing that everyone watches. So it's hard for me to shake my personality.

• 14:29Brooke Averick?

  You weren't miserable.

• 14:31Connor Wood?

  I was very negative last week.

• 14:33Brooke Averick?

  No, you weren't.

• 14:33Connor Wood?

  I didn't need to be, but-

• 14:34Brooke Averick?

  You were not.

• 14:35Connor Wood?

  And I'm gonna be a little bit negative this week because-

• 14:37Brooke Averick?

  That's fine.

• 14:38Connor Wood?

  We talked about this when I first came in. I just like, as soon as I get off the stage after performing, I get like,

• 14:47Connor Wood?

  like post nut clarity of like, why did I do that?

• 14:51Brooke Averick?

  Like you get the ick from yourself?

• 14:52Connor Wood?

  I get the ick.

• 14:52Brooke Averick?

  I totally, like you should not.

• 14:54Connor Wood?

  Oh, like, well, like last night I got like really hyper because I was excited and then I was like, what are you doing? Calm down.

• 15:00Brooke Averick?

  I have totally felt that way before.

• 15:02Connor Wood?

  Like I was going like this in the background and I saw and I was like, oh my gosh, no.

• 15:08Brooke Averick?

  I feel that way often.

• 15:12Connor Wood?

  You know, and then I convinced myself that like, we didn't deserve the scores that we got. And it's like, they, we've seen historically that they're very comfortable giving scores that we deserve. So I, I need to get through that. And then, um,

• 15:26Connor Wood?

  that we went, so the, the one kind of misstep that I had, that wasn't like a literal misstep. It was just kind of like jumpy, which sucks because that's a really smooth dance, the foxtrot, was in the corner. We went back to the corner that I don't like on the dance for the front left corner. We were in the corner.

• 15:43Connor Wood?

  I was wearing new shoes last-

• 15:44Brooke Averick?

  You have like PTS from that corner.

• 15:46Connor Wood?

  Mm-hmm. I really don't like that corner. And like to get through it, I've been, we've been going to that corner. I'm like, I know.

• 15:51Brooke Averick?

  Exposure therapy?

• 15:52Connor Wood?

  I'm familiar with the corner. And there was actually other, the passive Glee was in that corner.

• 15:57Brooke Averick?

  That's incredible.

• 15:57Connor Wood?

  I keep having like my friends from my life come and like, I think I need to start having like some characters from Glee sit in my, next to my parents.

• 16:06Brooke Averick?

  I wouldn't mind, I would honestly like to curate an invite list.

• 16:12Connor Wood?

  I would like if you-

• 16:13Brooke Averick?

  And I would like to be seated there as well.

• 16:15Connor Wood?

  Cool. If you don't mind going through my contacts.

• 16:18Brooke Averick?

  Happy to do it. Who are your contacts that are on Glee?

• 16:21Connor Wood?

  I don't have any. I'm saying, for example, like Harry to Glee, me too, people that I've-

• 16:26Brooke Averick?

  Okay, I'll, I'll curate my like dream blunt rotation of your friends and put me in, Coach.

• 16:31Connor Wood?

  Thank you.

• 16:32Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. So that sounds good to me.

• 16:34Connor Wood?

  So next week, we're dancing to Touch My Body by Mariah Carey.

• 16:38Brooke Averick?

  And if, if you boot me from the ballroom next week, I will riot.

• 16:42Connor Wood?

  No one's getting booted from the ballroom. You're not getting booted.

• 16:45Brooke Averick?

  I have to be there.

• 16:46Connor Wood?

  Yes.

• 16:47Brooke Averick?

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• 17:19Connor Wood?

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• 17:28Brooke Averick?

  I do too, yeah.

• 17:30Connor Wood?

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• 17:36Brooke Averick?

  No one is younger than us.

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• 18:32Connor Wood?

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• 18:54Brooke Averick?

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• 19:18Connor Wood?

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• 20:00Connor Wood?

  Getting the leading man comment this week and then having what is definitely the sexiest, like the, the tango was more romantic. This is like a sexy dance. I do have several body rolls. It's a rumba and the way that my body is really refusing to roll at this time is interesting.

• 20:20Brooke Averick?

  You can roll.

• 20:21Connor Wood?

  I know I can roll. I'll have to roll is the thing.

• 20:23Brooke Averick?

  You'll roll because you have to.

• 20:24Connor Wood?

  I'll have to roll.

• 20:28Connor Wood?

  As was written.

• 20:29Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 20:30Connor Wood?

  So, come time I will be rolling. But, as of now, like, I certainly, like, I can't, I'm not rolling and I, and I don't feel sexy in my role, but I'll have to figure it out.

• 20:40Brooke Averick?

  How can we make you feel as sexy as possible?

• 20:43Connor Wood?

  Yeah, that's the other thing, is like, I'm not fishing for other people to make me feel sexy. The sexiest I could feel is if I get this dance down.

• 20:49Brooke Averick?

  No, we need you to feel sexy.

• 20:50Connor Wood?

  I know, I wanna get the dance down, I go to practice from here.

• 20:52Brooke Averick?

  What will you wear while you're rolling?

• 20:55Connor Wood?

  It's a very simple outfit, it's like, it's-

• 20:56Brooke Averick?

  Are you showing skin?

• 20:58Connor Wood?

  Um, yeah, it's just the same, like, shirts coming down to here.

• 21:00Brooke Averick?

  Shirt coming down, how far?

• 21:02Connor Wood?

  Pretty far, well, I-

• 21:03Brooke Averick?

  Stop, tell me when to stop.

• 21:05Connor Wood?

  Stop, right there, yeah, like, right below my nipples.

• 21:07Brooke Averick?

  Okay.

• 21:08Connor Wood?

  But, we'll have to tape it down, because I had to wear Spanx last night, because my nipples were showing. And, um, like, it was showing and it was like so, it was like so nasty. It wasn't like, my bra is showing.

• 21:19Brooke Averick?

  Do not call my friend's body nasty.

• 21:21Connor Wood?

  No, no, no, my body wasn't nasty.

• 21:22Brooke Averick?

  Don't call my friend Spanx nasty.

• 21:24Connor Wood?

  They had to cut them down, so they wouldn't show.

• 21:26Brooke Averick?

  That's, that's fine.

• 21:27Connor Wood?

  And it was just like, cut Spanx underneath my-

• 21:29Brooke Averick?

  Like, bodysuit?

• 21:31Connor Wood?

  Mm-hmm.

• 21:31Brooke Averick?

  Was it like-

• 21:32Connor Wood?

  It wasn't-

• 21:32Brooke Averick?

  Bathing suit Speedo on the bottom?

• 21:34Connor Wood?

  No, it was like a tank top.

• 21:34Brooke Averick?

  Oh, okay.

• 21:36Connor Wood?

  But it was just nasty looking, it was like my skin color and they like, cut it down and it was just kinda like loose. Oof.

• 21:42Brooke Averick?

  That's fine. Like a deep V?

• 21:44Connor Wood?

  A, like a very deep loose V.

• 21:46Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 21:47Connor Wood?

  Like, it looked like...

• 21:50Connor Wood?

  A loose V.

• 21:51Brooke Averick?

  Okay, looser than you're comfortable with, typically?

• 21:54Connor Wood?

  Um, but Leading Man, that will be, that, that will be the true test of, like, I heard what you said about Leading Man, check this out.

• 22:00Brooke Averick?

  I bet they like, get so horny for like, you really taking their feedback seriously, like, even if you mess up next week, if you do Leading Man, like, I bet you'll get really high scores.

• 22:13Connor Wood?

  I sure hope so.

• 22:14Brooke Averick?

  I sure know so.

• 22:16Connor Wood?

  But we'll see. It'll be, it'll be a fun, if we get two good weeks in us, that'd be fun.

• 22:21Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 22:22Connor Wood?

  Cause that will be, as of next week, that will be four full weeks of Dancing with the Stars, which I'm very, you know, like, what do we come to do, we came here to have fun. That's the other thing about me, like, getting like, oh my gosh, I did so much. I always talked about, like, actors are so scared to get ugly. People are kinda, I think, this has become, Dancing with the Stars has become so much pressure, because there's so, so much commentary on it and everyone's an expert, that like, it has been a little bit stripped down of like, I'm wearing a pink suit and I have a mullet on, this is not life or death, like, nothing here is serious, please be so serious. I got here three weeks ago and I'm learning a foxtrot, like, this is pure fun. This should be fun to watch on TV, you should be watching with your kindergartner, you should be watching with your grandma, you should be giggling, you should be like, oh, that's cute.

• 23:08Connor Wood?

  There should be nothing like, mm, no. My hot take is that he should be taken out back and shot.

• 23:13Brooke Averick?

  Mm-hmm.

• 23:14Connor Wood?

  There's no room for that here. It's fun, we gotta let our hair down and enjoy it, and I've had to tell myself that, so that's why I feel so comfortable.

• 23:23Brooke Averick?

  Got it, maybe I need to take that to heart, cause, you know, I get angry with, with some of the judges.

• 23:27Connor Wood?

  I know.

• 23:28Brooke Averick?

  With a few of the judges, sometimes.

• 23:30Connor Wood?

  Well, they're doing their job, I think that the scoring aspect comes in as like a-

• 23:35Brooke Averick?

  Scoring makes no sense, I love it though.

• 23:36Connor Wood?

  An additional fun piece. I, I think that the coolest part now is that, we went last year and I was like, I'm confused why they wouldn't do Tango Night, Foxtrot Night. Um, you know, but now I get it.

• 23:49Brooke Averick?

  I don't, can you try and explain it?

• 23:52Connor Wood?

  One, they're definitely-

• 23:53Brooke Averick?

  I guess everyone would get bored of the same dance.

• 23:56Connor Wood?

  And it's too, it's too identi, if I, if I had a salsa right after Harry Shum does a salsa, it's just like, gonna be an unfortunate lineup, you know, like, it is just gonna be like, oh, he needs to go home tonight.

• 24:10Brooke Averick?

  Can you do a repeat? Like, if you already salsa'd, can you salsa again?

• 24:13Connor Wood?

  In the finals.

• 24:14Brooke Averick?

  Okay. What kind of dances do you have left?

• 24:18Connor Wood?

  Um-

• 24:19Brooke Averick?

  A waltz?

• 24:19Connor Wood?

  A waltz, Viennese Waltz.

• 24:22Brooke Averick?

  Venus?

• 24:22Connor Wood?

  Vi, Viennese, like-

• 24:24Brooke Averick?

  I don't know Viennese.

• 24:26Connor Wood?

  I don't even know, Viennese.

• 24:27Brooke Averick?

  Oh, the Viennese.

• 24:29Connor Wood?

  Yeah, I thought it was like Viennese, like, there's this like, there's this like alien woman.

• 24:32Brooke Averick?

  This Italian place, like, yeah.

• 24:34Connor Wood?

  I thought it was more like Xenon from the future.

• 24:38Brooke Averick?

  Got it, I was thinking like, the Italian place at the end of your street.

• 24:40Connor Wood?

  Beep boop, beep boop. Um, see, the other thing, my parents keep coming to Italian every single night after Dancing with the Stars.

• 24:47Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, are y'all going to the same place every time?

• 24:50Connor Wood?

  No, they've managed to find three separate Italian restaurants within one block.

• 24:54Brooke Averick?

  I know the, I know the ones.

• 24:55Connor Wood?

  Yeah. One was like completely money laundering vibes, when I ordered food, they were like, what?

• 25:01Brooke Averick?

  Have you gone to the one next to me?

• 25:03Connor Wood?

  Like, I don't know, probably not.

• 25:05Brooke Averick?

  Okay.

• 25:05Connor Wood?

  Making our way that way, I'm sure.

• 25:06Brooke Averick?

  I would love, I would love to have you.

• 25:08Connor Wood?

  Viennese Waltz, salsa, salsa.

• 25:11Brooke Averick?

  You didn't salsa yet?

• 25:12Connor Wood?

  Salsa yet, no. Um, Paso Doble, which Jackson did last night.

• 25:16Brooke Averick?

  I have not, I've never heard about the Paso Doble.

• 25:19Connor Wood?

  It's what Guillermo did last week, and then, it's with the, it's kind of like, obviously-

• 25:25Brooke Averick?

  YMCA?

• 25:26Connor Wood?

  Yeah, it's kind of like YMCA, um, and then Jive and Quickstep. And I'm sure there's more that I'm missing.

• 25:33Brooke Averick?

  So, so far you've done a Foxtrot?

• 25:36Connor Wood?

  And there's one that starts with an S, and we're doing the Rumba.

• 25:40Brooke Averick?

  What was your first night?

• 25:41Connor Wood?

  Samba.

• 25:41Brooke Averick?

  Samba, and you've done a Cha Cha.

• 25:44Connor Wood?

  Cha Cha, we did Cha Cha, Tango, Foxtrot now.

• 25:47Brooke Averick?

  Oh, you've not done a Jive?

• 25:50Connor Wood?

  That's what, um, wait, Tyler Cameron either did a Jive or a Quickstep last night.

• 25:56Connor Wood?

  I can't remember.

• 25:57Brooke Averick?

  I struggle with like, the dance part, like, I really like, I don't know anything about dance. And also, like, when I, like, I'll watch a dance and I'll be like, shit, that was like, they really fucked up. And it's like eights across the board, and then I'll watch one and I'm like, wow, that moved me, fours. So like, I'm really off.

• 26:20Connor Wood?

  Maybe you're just more tuned in to the performance piece, because you love theater so much.

• 26:23Brooke Averick?

  I'm extremely tuned in to the performance.

• 26:26Connor Wood?

  Which is interesting that you didn't catch my face last night, cause I'm getting a lot of comments like, your dance was good, your face is weird.

• 26:32Brooke Averick?

  Well, I obviously think you're amazing, but I wonder if there's an element of like, susu to me? Where I'm like, you are, you are my movie star, you know?

• 26:41Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 26:42Brooke Averick?

  Or it's like, you are my Ryan Gosling, like, everything you do is just, but that's good, cause it's like, I, I would wanna be judged based off of like, me and, and my performance. And I think you're amazing, you know that, I have, I have nothing bad to say about you.

• 27:00Connor Wood?

  Oh, Brooke.

• 27:01Brooke Averick?

  Turning into susu.

• 27:02Connor Wood?

  I'll take it, that's fun, but I do wanna, I, it's, it's also one of those-

• 27:07Brooke Averick?

  And you're, you're a good dancer though, even though I don't know what that means.

• 27:10Connor Wood?

  I wanna earn the, the scores, you know, I wanna be good at the dance.

• 27:12Brooke Averick?

  You have, you are, I definitely think you are.

• 27:15Connor Wood?

  Oh my gosh, tuck my butt, like, I don't even have a butt.

• 27:17Brooke Averick?

  I did see, like, when they replayed your butt, I was like, I can see that's poking out there, that's valid.

• 27:24Connor Wood?

  Okay, good.

• 27:25Brooke Averick?

  So tuck your butt in.

• 27:27Connor Wood?

  It's just like, always something, you know?

• 27:30Brooke Averick?

  Hey, tuck your butt in.

• 27:31Connor Wood?

  I'd love a bi-week.

• 27:32Brooke Averick?

  Bisexual?

• 27:38Brooke Averick?

  I honest to God, I don't, I don't know what that is.

• 27:40Connor Wood?

  Yeah, instead of the Trio Night, we're doing a Bisexual Night.

• 27:43Brooke Averick?

  I wanna be in Bisexual Night.

• 27:45Connor Wood?

  You're in the, yeah, you'll be front and center, friends and family.

• 27:48Brooke Averick?

  Fab.

• 27:48Connor Wood?

  Bi-week would be just like, we don't play that week.

• 27:51Brooke Averick?

  Oh, I thought, you only have bi people on?

• 27:57Brooke Averick?

  Legendary.

• 28:00Connor Wood?

  Oh, you'd be living bi-curiously through me?

• 28:02Brooke Averick?

  I want to.

• 28:04Connor Wood?

  Well, I, anyways, that's all I got.

• 28:07Brooke Averick?

  Well, all else, all else I have to say is that I loved, my favorite dance besides you-

• 28:13Connor Wood?

  Mm-hmm.

• 28:14Brooke Averick?

  Was Tatiana.

• 28:15Connor Wood?

  Mm-hmm.

• 28:16Brooke Averick?

  I thought she did so amazing, and what a redemption arc she's having, I love her. Uh, I have someone I need to go, but like, I'm not gonna be mean, but there's someone that needs to go. Uh-

• 28:30Connor Wood?

  I wouldn't even know.

• 28:32Brooke Averick?

  Yes you would, cause I've spoken about it at length privately, but I will not say it publicly. Uh-

• 28:39Connor Wood?

  Well, I just like, I wouldn't, I don't have any, like, truly every single person when I watch her dance, I'm like, that is, I don't know who could go home. Like, when Taylor and Britt went home, I was like, what?

• 28:48Brooke Averick?

  Oh, that's what I wanted to say, that's fucked up.

• 28:51Connor Wood?

  Oh.

• 28:52Brooke Averick?

  I love Britt, and Taylor's great too, but like, as I get more into the Dancing with the Stars community and the lore, like, Britt's one of my favorite pros, I just, Britt is completely robbed every season. And, even when she made it to fifth place with Daniel, you know, who's now her husband, um, that fifth wasn't even considered a finalist then.

• 29:12Connor Wood?

  And now it would be.

• 29:13Brooke Averick?

  And now it would be.

• 29:14Connor Wood?

  Oh dang.

• 29:14Brooke Averick?

  I think.

• 29:15Connor Wood?

  Yeah, we, Britt and I connect, well, Taylor and Britt separately, I've connected with a lot since I've been there. I love them both, I know, it just sucks.

• 29:22Brooke Averick?

  They really didn't deserve to go.

• 29:24Connor Wood?

  I know, I agree.

• 29:25Brooke Averick?

  And, it was really tough to watch, because I feel like, the first two episodes, like, the people went home, they like, had an idea that was a possibility, and I feel like Britt and Taylor really weren't expecting it, because they shouldn't have expected it, because that wasn't the right call.

• 29:41Connor Wood?

  Sucks.

• 29:41Brooke Averick?

  Which really sucked, so, I'm, I mean, I'm rooting for them, and I, I love Britt, and I really hope she come, we'll see her again next year. And I would want her to be my partner. I would never go, be asked to go on or go on, but if I, if I would, I would, I would want Britt. So, watch-

• 30:01Connor Wood?

  Do you think you, do you think you would do it?

• 30:02Brooke Averick?

  Never.

• 30:03Connor Wood?

  Really?

• 30:05Connor Wood?

  Like, opportunity of a damn lifetime.

• 30:06Brooke Averick?

  If I get like, really famous and they're like, we will pay you so much money.

• 30:12Connor Wood?

  Still no?

• 30:14Brooke Averick?

  It's just like-

• 30:14Connor Wood?

  Just anxiety or what?

• 30:16Brooke Averick?

  I mean, I can't imagine living in that state, I mean, I would die, my body would go into shock. Like, you can't, I don't think the body can function with, with that much cortisol, like, I would be puking for weeks and weeks, so sick, like, I would have diarrhea all over the ballroom floor, like, think of the girl running the marathon, like, me in the ballroom, me in the ballroom, being spun around.

• 30:41Connor Wood?

  Everyone move.

• 30:42Brooke Averick?

  Like, it's not, it just is like, it's just like, the worst, and you know what makes me even more nervous than the dancing?

• 30:49Connor Wood?

  What?

• 30:50Brooke Averick?

  Because you know how I get stage fright for other people? The post-interview, for whatever reason?

• 30:55Connor Wood?

  Oh, let's talk about my post-interview. Can we?

• 30:57Brooke Averick?

  Oh yeah, I'd love to, you're so endearing.

• 31:01Connor Wood?

  I keep forgetting that's where I need to tell my story, I go up and she goes, how do you feel, I go, I'm in a wig.

• 31:06Brooke Averick?

  And, and I think, you know what? Sometimes we'll get your story and sometimes we'll get you, and we'll be ready for both.

• 31:14Connor Wood?

  Julianne and I are like-

• 31:15Brooke Averick?

  Julianne, talking about Jules?

• 31:16Connor Wood?

  Jules, I really like her, like, we are, I, I think we're friends unless, unless I misread-

• 31:23Brooke Averick?

  Jules posted you on her story.

• 31:24Connor Wood?

  I know, well, we were having really fun, I wanna talk about that too.

• 31:27Brooke Averick?

  I kind of like, really like them, I feel like they get a lot of heat, the Huffs.

• 31:33Connor Wood?

  Oh, I heart the Huffs.

• 31:34Brooke Averick?

  I really like Derek.

• 31:35Connor Wood?

  Yeah. I like them both a lot.

• 31:38Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 31:38Connor Wood?

  And they're very friendly, I mean, everyone's really friendly, but Derek like, comes out, makes, goes out of his way to like, find me and talk to me, so does Alfonso, Julianne too, but-

• 31:46Brooke Averick?

  I love Alfonso.

• 31:47Connor Wood?

  Um-

• 31:50Connor Wood?

  My post-game interview, when I was supposed to go out there and tell our story, I think we were gonna talk about like, my mom's comments and whatever. And so when I got the question about like, was this redemption? I was like, yeah, redemption can look like anything.

• 32:01Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 32:02Connor Wood?

  And I was trying to get through that really quick. And I was like, it sounds like it looks like this.

• 32:05Brooke Averick?

  I love when Julianne just like, is like, how did it feel to hear like, oh, that was horrible?

• 32:14Brooke Averick?

  Oh, you did terribly. Walk me through what you felt when that was said. Love that bullshit.

• 32:20Connor Wood?

  I like that, too. The redemption thing, I was like, oh yeah, I do feel, I feel good. I feel redeemed. And I was waiting for the next question. It was like, alright, time for the scores. It was like, oh my God, I didn't get to do any like, story stuff. Cause it was, it was like, truly, leading up after you mess up. One, that should be like, okay, I already did worst-case scenario. Like, it can't get worse than last week, when that feeling of like, okay, I just messed up. Time to get feedback. Like, I'm already aware, like.

• 32:45Brooke Averick?

  I would literally, like, if I were in a situation where I messed up, I would just, if we get, we get to the feedback, I'd say, let's pass this week. Let's pass this week, put it in an email. I like, I don't think I'd be able to receive it, which is another reason, like, it's not a match.

• 33:03Connor Wood?

  Yeah, so like, that was bad. And then, but you know what's worse than that?

• 33:07Brooke Averick?

  What?

• 33:09Connor Wood?

  Leading up, I mean, like, what if I did it two weeks in a row?

• 33:12Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, I imagine that's really stressful.

• 33:14Connor Wood?

  And so, so I wanted to talk about, like, that was my, trying to shake that this week, was like, the biggest roadblock for me to be like, okay, like, stop thinking about what happened last week. It's this week. And just like, working on this dance and like, not thinking about that. And then like, starting on next week's dance and like, oh my gosh, like, what if we don't, you know, whatever? But then, that didn't, I wasn't able to share that. The other thing, and this is the last thing I'm saying, this is like, I, I'm unplugging, I'm gonna start treating this like traitors, like, I don't have my phone. Like, I don't know what's happening. I'm gonna get off the island and I'll check in on my socials, you know?

• 33:49Connor Wood?

  Me when I lie. But, cannot wait to look at my phone.

• 33:55Connor Wood?

  But one thing I said, everyone is like, he's so anxious, he's so anxious. Give him Xanax, put him on a beta blocker.

• 34:03Connor Wood?

  You feel something. Why is it such a shame for me to feel something? Like, this is still fun, even though I'm so anxious. Like, it's a rewarding feeling to be anxious and then feel relieved, or like, work at something and then have performance things.

• 34:16Brooke Averick?

  If I was never anxious?

• 34:17Connor Wood?

  Yeah, it's, it's like, why is everyone so concerned about me being like,

• 34:22Brooke Averick?

  Completely.

• 34:22Connor Wood?

  biting my fingernails and like, looking nervous on TV? It's TV, it's fun, that's what you want. If I was sitting there just kinda like, that'd be so boring.

• 34:31Brooke Averick?

  Completely.

• 34:31Connor Wood?

  Whatever, having a feeling stuff and being raw.

• 34:34Brooke Averick?

  Love that concept.

• 34:35Connor Wood?

  And doing things unmedicated.

• 34:36Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 34:37Connor Wood?

  Plenty of people do things unmedicated, unmedicated on reality TV. That's why we have Real Housewives. That's why we have Summer House. That's why we have all these amazing franchises that last so long. Because no one's on their meds. I don't take any meds, but.

• 34:53Brooke Averick?

  I actually can't believe there are as many people willing to do Dancing with the Stars as there are. Cause to me, like, it truly seems like the most anxiety-inducing, strenuous, just like,

• 35:11Brooke Averick?

  big, for lack of a better word, it's just like, the biggest thing in the world to me. I'm shocked that there are that many people who are like, sign me up.

• 35:20Brooke Averick?

  You know what I mean?

• 35:21Connor Wood?

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• 35:49Brooke Averick?

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• 36:23Connor Wood?

  I feel like every time we talk about Quince, they've added some new, amazing thing to their Rolodex. To their armoire, their digital armoire, if you will. Everyone knows my green sweater that I love to wear on the podcast. It's one of my favorite pieces. It's timeless, and by the way, everything at Quince is priced 50 to 80% less than similar brands. They work directly with ethical factors and cut out the middlemen, so you're paying for quality, not the brand markup. And it's not just apparel, okay? Quince brings that same approach to everything they make, from hotel-quality bedding and bath, to kitchen essentials and thoughtfully-designed furniture. They make well-designed pieces for everyday living.

• 37:03Brooke Averick?

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• 37:21Connor Wood?

  Let them know.

• 37:21Brooke Averick?

  It's the best way to support the show.

• 37:23Connor Wood?

  Oh, wow. Guess who's back? Back again. Lola Blankets, and we're so glad they're back. I,

• 37:34Connor Wood?

  I think allergy season is back.

• 37:35Brooke Averick?

  I think so, too.

• 37:36Connor Wood?

  Okay, unrelated to this, I can't believe I became someone who like, has something that they need to have. Like, I can't sleep now without this Lola blanket. And I have one in this, in this apartment that I'm living in temporarily. I don't, I don't see myself ever living in a home without a Lola blanket now. And I'm not, I'm not just doing this. I don't even know what the ads, what does the ad say? What do I, what do they want me to say? And then I'll throw in my pieces, too. They said, they, they want me to say, the second I get home, I'm changing into comfortable clothes, getting on the couch and grabbing my Lola blanket. That's what I was gonna say anyways.

• 38:08Brooke Averick?

  I know that.

• 38:09Connor Wood?

  It's genuinely, it's heavy, but it's not too hot. You know, I run really hot. I sleep with it, I, I am like a big, old baby that goes, I get in my bed and go, something's not quite right. Like the princess in the pea.

• 38:21Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 38:23Connor Wood?

  But I'm the prince and the Lola. I'm like, something's not quite right in my bed. My Lola's on the couch. I'd walk out, Winnie the Pooh, naked, bottom half.

• 38:31Brooke Averick?

  Nice.

• 38:31Connor Wood?

  Grab my Lola blanket, trudge back to my bed, and pass out.

• 38:35Brooke Averick?

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• 39:04Connor Wood?

  Really?

• 39:05Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, they groom it.

• 39:06Connor Wood?

  They groom it?

• 39:07Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, it's really cute.

• 39:07Connor Wood?

  Like this thing?

• 39:08Brooke Averick?

  No, that's, that's biscuits.

• 39:10Connor Wood?

  I'd like to talk about biscuits.

• 39:12Brooke Averick?

  Okay.

• 39:12Connor Wood?

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• 39:56Connor Wood?

  Wrap yourself in luxury with Lola Blankets.

• 39:59Brooke Averick?

  It kinda feels like, to me, there's not really a difference between signing up to do Dancing with the Stars and signing up to climb Mount Everest.

• 40:08Brooke Averick?

  Like, they, like, dancing was, like, doing that every week just seems crazy to me, like, and that's part of why I'm so proud of you. Like, it's just like, it just seems like the craziest thing to put yourself through in such a, such a challenge.

• 40:21Connor Wood?

  I think you could do it. I would love to watch a season of you on Dancing with the Stars.

• 40:25Brooke Averick?

  I'm sure you, I'm sure everyone would, it'd be good entertainment.

• 40:28Connor Wood?

  Oh, my God.

• 40:29Brooke Averick?

  To watch someone die on live television. Ain't gonna happen, my lovey.

• 40:35Connor Wood?

  Oh, it'd be funny, oh my gosh, if you got Val and he's just spinning you like, up in the air. God, I pray for that day.

• 40:42Brooke Averick?

  That would hate my ass.

• 40:44Connor Wood?

  No.

• 40:44Brooke Averick?

  I'd be, four seconds in, I'd be like, I'm so tired.

• 40:49Connor Wood?

  Yeah, I'm lucky I got Riley, because we are both equally tired.

• 40:53Brooke Averick?

  She gets tired?

• 40:54Connor Wood?

  She gets tired.

• 40:55Brooke Averick?

  She looked stunning last night.

• 40:57Connor Wood?

  She always looks stunning.

• 40:58Brooke Averick?

  She does always look stunning, but like, last night, I was like, my.

• 41:03Connor Wood?

  Someone said, who's, someone said Riley's walking, looking like an absolute princess next to Lord Farquad.

• 41:10Brooke Averick?

  That's mean.

• 41:12Connor Wood?

  I can take it. I am there, I said I will do anything.

• 41:15Brooke Averick?

  I know, me saying that's mean, I just called you Coach Beast.

• 41:18Connor Wood?

  I wanna look ridiculous. That's the point. This is fun.

• 41:21Brooke Averick?

  I know, it's, it's, I'm having, I'm having the time of my life.

• 41:25Connor Wood?

  Anyways.

• 41:25Brooke Averick?

  Watching you.

• 41:26Connor Wood?

  Rumba next week. Sexy dance.

• 41:28Brooke Averick?

  I will be there. I'm saying that now, so you can't take it away.

• 41:31Connor Wood?

  No, you got it. Verbal claim. I, I, I think that there, there's just this ridiculous thing where, like, the fact that I'm, we had the show last night and I'm going to practice tonight, or like, right from here.

• 41:45Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 41:45Connor Wood?

  To learn the rumba.

• 41:46Brooke Averick?

  Have you already started learning the rumba?

• 41:47Connor Wood?

  Hmm.

• 41:48Brooke Averick?

  You didn't say what song you're doing.

• 41:49Connor Wood?

  Yeah, I did.

• 41:51Brooke Averick?

  Did he? Oh.

• 41:53Connor Wood?

  What's funny is when Riley does the counts of the songs, like, we learn it with the one, two, three, and then she starts using the lyrics. So it's just be like, touch my body, throw me on the floor. And it's like, it's just like ridiculous, like, okay, and this one, step back, okay? You're gonna do a satellite turn? Okay, now touch my body and throw me on the floor.

• 42:16Brooke Averick?

  That's how, yeah.

• 42:17Connor Wood?

  It sounds like Ben Shapiro, like, walking me through dance steps.

• 42:20Brooke Averick?

  That's how I had to sing in chorus as an alto.

• 42:23Connor Wood?

  Throw me on the floor.

• 42:24Brooke Averick?

  Need a little Christmas now. Haul out the holly.

• 42:31Brooke Averick?

  I never got to sing the melody.

• 42:33Connor Wood?

  Why were you doing Christmas songs? As a Jewish woman?

• 42:37Brooke Averick?

  I went to a Quaker school. We did everything.

• 42:41Connor Wood?

  Nothing?

• 42:41Brooke Averick?

  I actually can't, I don't know if we did any Hanukkah songs.

• 42:45Connor Wood?

  You guys were-

• 42:46Brooke Averick?

  I went to, I technically went to a Christian school. It was 60% Jewish, but technically, Quakerism is, is part of Christianity. In a way.

• 42:57Connor Wood?

  And oats.

• 43:00Brooke Averick?

  Yes. But, oh yeah, I, I threw up during We Need a Little Christmas Now. During the chorus concert.

• 43:08Connor Wood?

  What part?

• 43:10Brooke Averick?

  Uh. It's, it's time we hung some tinsel on that babe. I ran off, I ran off.

• 43:16Connor Wood?

  Oh, okay.

• 43:17Brooke Averick?

  It's so hot.

• 43:18Connor Wood?

  The show must go on.

• 43:19Brooke Averick?

  Speaking of like, me throwing up during that because it was too high stakes? I'll be dancing with the stars. Me throwing up in a room of 30 parents?

• 43:29Connor Wood?

  Sometimes that's worse. I was talking to Bryce this weekend.

• 43:34Brooke Averick?

  King.

• 43:35Connor Wood?

  King. And he has to, he's ordaining his brother's wedding and he's like, I'm freaking out.

• 43:39Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 43:39Connor Wood?

  And that was actually the worst stage fright I've ever had, was for like 150 people. My friend, both of my friends, parents and grandparents in the front row. I was shaking, turning my pages of my thing.

• 43:49Brooke Averick?

  I have to give a speech at my brother's wedding this year.

• 43:52Connor Wood?

  Wow.

• 43:53Brooke Averick?

  As the best man. I guess I'll be nervous.

• 43:58Connor Wood?

  I think you'll be okay.

• 43:58Brooke Averick?

  I'm doing, tonight, I'm moderating my first author event. So like, you know how Iman moderated mine in the New York one? Like, I'm doing that for my friend Lila, who's like, a very big author, and I'm sure it will be like, very scary for me, and so I'm very scared.

• 44:15Connor Wood?

  Where's it gonna be?

• 44:16Brooke Averick?

  The Ripped Bodice. It's not, it's not my, like, it's her, her book launch.

• 44:21Connor Wood?

  I wonder if you'll feel less pressure because it's like-

• 44:23Brooke Averick?

  I'm wondering if I'll-

• 44:23Connor Wood?

  Think about how you felt at yours, being like, oh my gosh, this is my book, and then that's how she probably feels.

• 44:29Brooke Averick?

  I'm wondering, could either be a lot less pressure, because like, not my book? Or more, because it's like, these people aren't here for me, they don't like, fuck, they don't like me, or fuck with, like, you know? Because the peace that, I was, I felt a moment of peace during my shows, because I was like, these people are here for me, they don't care if I pass out. But, maybe Lila's fans would care if I passed out.

• 44:52Connor Wood?

  Not in like, a bad way, they would probably be concerned for your health.

• 44:55Brooke Averick?

  Sure. I think I'll be, I think it'll be okay, especially now that I feel comfortable with my beta blockers, but I'm definitely a little bit nervous.

• 45:01Connor Wood?

  You know, you can't take beta blockers and like, do something strenuous, so like, that's the, that's another reason why I'm like-

• 45:05Brooke Averick?

  Oh, I didn't know that.

• 45:07Connor Wood?

  Yeah, it like, slows your heart rate so much, like, I think you just could pass.

• 45:11Brooke Averick?

  You can't take beta blockers and do drugs.

• 45:15Connor Wood?

  Okay.

• 45:15Brooke Averick?

  Or you will die.

• 45:17Connor Wood?

  Good to know.

• 45:18Brooke Averick?

  That's what I've heard.

• 45:19Connor Wood?

  I'm really nervous to do drugs. I'm gonna take a beta blocker to calm down.

• 45:23Brooke Averick?

  Well, I'm just saying, like, if, if you had an event where you took a beta blocker, and then had an event where you're like, I'm gonna do drugs, you can't.

• 45:32Connor Wood?

  Great to know.

• 45:32Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 45:33Connor Wood?

  Moving forward.

• 45:34Brooke Averick?

  Just so you know. I have so many things to talk to you about. I want to show you my new toy. Do you, is there anything dancing else?

• 45:41Connor Wood?

  No, I wanted to be done with dancing 20 minutes ago, so this is-

• 45:43Brooke Averick?

  No, you did not.

• 45:45Connor Wood?

  Yes, I did.

• 45:45Brooke Averick?

  No, you did not.

• 45:47Connor Wood?

  Like, in an ideal world, yeah, I did.

• 45:50Brooke Averick?

  You think you did, but you, oh, no, you did not. You like to dance.

• 45:55Connor Wood?

  I love to dance.

• 45:55Brooke Averick?

  You like to talk about dancing on our podcast, too.

• 46:00Connor Wood?

  Are you trying to hypnotize me?

• 46:01Brooke Averick?

  No. I got a toy.

• 46:05Connor Wood?

  Okay.

• 46:07Brooke Averick?

  Well, it's not really a toy, because it's actually a very expensive piece of machinery.

• 46:10Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 46:10Brooke Averick?

  But I got a word processor.

• 46:12Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 46:13Brooke Averick?

  Which is like, kind of like the toy laptops that you would have as a kid. So it's like, you basically just like, write on it, and you have no access to the internet. So like, I, I can leave the house with my word processor, no laptop, no phone. And I would have absolutely, like, zero distractions, and be able to write on like, my typewriter. You want to see it?

• 46:33Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 46:33Brooke Averick?

  And like-

• 46:33Connor Wood?

  Oh, you brought it?

• 46:34Brooke Averick?

  Oh, absolutely. Oh, I, oh, I don't go anywhere without my word processor, by the way.

• 46:37Connor Wood?

  Let me see.

• 46:38Brooke Averick?

  And I could bring this on traders. So that, just, just heads up.

• 46:43Connor Wood?

  Traders check?

• 46:44Brooke Averick?

  Just heads up traders.

• 46:45Connor Wood?

  40 minutes.

• 46:46Brooke Averick?

  I could absolutely still write if I went on traders.

• 46:49Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 46:49Brooke Averick?

  Because now that I have my word processor.

• 46:51Connor Wood?

  I don't know how much downtime you have on traders. Like, I don't think everyone's like-

• 46:55Brooke Averick?

  I think none.

• 46:56Connor Wood?

  Reading the book.

• 46:57Brooke Averick?

  But in theory, could totally bring my word processor on traders.

• 47:00Connor Wood?

  Like, I'm finally getting back into painting, now that I'm on traders.

• 47:03Brooke Averick?

  I got my word processor. This is the travel-

• 47:05Connor Wood?

  Ooh, that's sleek.

• 47:06Brooke Averick?

  This is the traveler's free write. There's lots of fingerprints on it.

• 47:10Connor Wood?

  When did you get this?

• 47:11Brooke Averick?

  A few days ago.

• 47:12Connor Wood?

  It's covered in grease.

• 47:15Brooke Averick?

  All of my gadgets are covered in grease.

• 47:18Connor Wood?

  I'm sorry, I haven't really opened a laptop in a while. Ooh.

• 47:20Brooke Averick?

  Isn't that fun? I put stickers on the grease. Yes. How fun is that?

• 47:26Connor Wood?

  Oh, it's-

• 47:27Brooke Averick?

  Greasy?

• 47:28Connor Wood?

  It's really greasy, Brooke.

• 47:30Brooke Averick?

  Nice.

• 47:31Connor Wood?

  Oh.

• 47:33Brooke Averick?

  And then it just-

• 47:34Connor Wood?

  Wait, is this your, are you-

• 47:35Brooke Averick?

  Oh, don't look at-

• 47:35Connor Wood?

  Writing something?

• 47:36Brooke Averick?

  Well, just, yeah, I'm writing, I have to write another book. But don't read, it's like, literal, like, brain, like, dump, and don't, please don't read it.

• 47:43Connor Wood?

  No, I'm just looking at the names, because I'm, I really like one of these names in here.

• 47:46Brooke Averick?

  Which name? Just say it. Oh, okay, you can say that. But, um, it just blasts out to my Google Drive.

• 47:54Connor Wood?

  Wow, that's really cool.

• 47:55Brooke Averick?

  Isn't that fun?

• 47:56Connor Wood?

  So it's not connected, is it connected to wifi then?

• 47:57Brooke Averick?

  It's connected to wifi.

• 47:59Connor Wood?

  Are you nervous, like, there'll be a family emergency if you go to the coffee shop with no phone?

• 48:03Brooke Averick?

  Yes.

• 48:04Connor Wood?

  Okay.

• 48:05Brooke Averick?

  But like, it's a risk that sometimes you have to take if you need to write another book and you, and you're having a really hard time.

• 48:09Connor Wood?

  If the family emergency happens while you're at the coffee shop and you don't have your phone, did it happen at all?

• 48:16Brooke Averick?

  Valid.

• 48:17Connor Wood?

  Yeah, it did.

• 48:18Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 48:19Connor Wood?

  But like, what are you, how would you have, that wouldn't have, at least you, you know, were productive during it.

• 48:24Brooke Averick?

  So I'm super excited. I got it a few days ago, I have been pretty busy, so haven't really like, been able to give it all the attention that I want to, but this is about to change my life. Who are you showing me a picture of?

• 48:35Connor Wood?

  Who is that?

• 48:35Brooke Averick?

  I don't know, who is that?

• 48:36Connor Wood?

  I don't know, someone just died. Like, which is-

• 48:38Brooke Averick?

  Someone just died? Let me see.

• 48:40Connor Wood?

  From Spider-Man?

• 48:41Brooke Averick?

  Which Spider, the newer, I haven't seen any of the Tom Holland ones, except for the last one.

• 48:45Connor Wood?

  It was like a-

• 48:47Brooke Averick?

  I don't know him.

• 48:48Connor Wood?

  Okay.

• 48:49Brooke Averick?

  But that's sad.

• 48:50Connor Wood?

  Like, since when do I get Snapchat news article notifications? This is the first time I've gotten that, it's, anyways. Well, that's exciting. I like that.

• 48:57Brooke Averick?

  That's what's going on in my life.

• 48:58Connor Wood?

  We are, we are slowly advancing our way to get our screen time down, and I think it's very healthy.

• 49:05Brooke Averick?

  Yes. It was really expensive, though, which is interesting.

• 49:09Connor Wood?

  How much was it?

• 49:10Brooke Averick?

  Like, as much as the new laptop.

• 49:12Connor Wood?

  What?

• 49:12Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, I don't, like, get it, but like, it was the best investment I needed to make.

• 49:17Connor Wood?

  That seems like a, um, step back, step backwards, because they're like, you hungry piggies went wifi so bad, that we're gonna make no wifi more expensive.

• 49:25Brooke Averick?

  I think there are deals where like, you could, like, I know people have gotten it for like, $250 or something, but I'm extremely impatient, so I needed to get it full price.

• 49:34Connor Wood?

  Damn.

• 49:35Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. So.

• 49:37Connor Wood?

  That just reminded me, my dad flew here with a GameCube. So now I have two GameCubes, I have to return the one I bought.

• 49:43Brooke Averick?

  Are they coming every week?

• 49:44Connor Wood?

  Yeah. They flew in Monday, they left-

• 49:46Brooke Averick?

  They really, like-

• 49:47Connor Wood?

  This morning.

• 49:48Brooke Averick?

  That's kind of nuts.

• 49:49Connor Wood?

  They're being show parents, which I really like.

• 49:50Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 49:52Connor Wood?

  I know. I wasn't able to-

• 49:54Brooke Averick?

  Do you think Mimi will ever come?

• 49:55Connor Wood?

  Yeah, she wants to.

• 49:57Brooke Averick?

  I want her to come next week.

• 49:58Connor Wood?

  Oh, maybe she will. Maybe she'll come, maybe my Mimi will come see me sexy dance.

• 50:02Brooke Averick?

  Oh, she will love that.

• 50:05Connor Wood?

  I think she will, too. I have a random offshoot thing that I want to say, and I kind of went on a rant about this, but like, I think that you might feel similarly. Okay, let me just see how I should start this. Okay. I think we should stop making Instagram accounts for movies coming out.

• 50:28Brooke Averick?

  That feels good to me.

• 50:30Connor Wood?

  You have nothing?

• 50:32Brooke Averick?

  Unless it's a movie I like.

• 50:36Connor Wood?

  Why are you following the Instagram account for a movie?

• 50:38Brooke Averick?

  And then what happens when the movie's-

• 50:40Connor Wood?

  What happens when the movie comes out?

• 50:41Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, I agree with you.

• 50:42Connor Wood?

  It's just such a throwaway culture.

• 50:43Brooke Averick?

  I agree with you.

• 50:44Connor Wood?

  You used to follow something because you felt passionately about it. I found out in college that one of my friends was following the Walgreens Instagram account, and I was like, why are you following Walgreens?

• 50:54Brooke Averick?

  You know what it is, though?

• 50:55Connor Wood?

  I was like, uncomfortable being around them, I was like, what, what, what made you click that follow button? I want to follow Walgreens?

• 51:01Brooke Averick?

  I can tell you what it is. It's that the actors in the movies, like, don't want to crowd their feeds with promotion. So like, someone has to just make a new account. Because even I got like, that with Phoebe, like, I was like, really, I was like, I don't want to bother anyone, or like, bombard anyone, and I guess actors feel that way about their projects, but like-

• 51:22Connor Wood?

  I don't know, I feel like-

• 51:26Connor Wood?

  Getting convincing people to follow and account for that and then like throwing it away. It's like, wow, you really just like

• 51:33Connor Wood?

  used us. You're like, you kind of used us.

• 51:35Brooke Averick?

  I guess it's like they need a, they want to go viral, right? And so they need to make a place where they can post things that might go viral. Like they need a post, you know?

• 51:48Brooke Averick?

  Where else are they gonna do it?

• 51:50Connor Wood?

  I can't do devil's advocate for movie accounts.

• 51:53Brooke Averick?

  But maybe, no, I'm not necessarily, but it's like they have to post somewhere. Should it be, maybe they should just be doing it on the studios account.

• 51:59Connor Wood?

  Correct.

• 51:59Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 52:01Connor Wood?

  I don't know. I don't know why that made me like so

• 52:04Connor Wood?

  yuck. It felt like, I don't know, it felt like somehow she in's fault. That there's Instagram accounts for movies.

• 52:10Brooke Averick?

  Oh, like over production?

• 52:12Connor Wood?

  We're doing too damn much. Yeah. Just on a side note too, I'm just so, I know this is like the current thing. I'm so over stimulated with actors going on. I know I said this with, um, Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman, but like, how many times are we gonna get an actor duo like faking? Like a bizarre love affair, like I'm every single day it's a new two actors and they're like, oh my gosh, tell them about the story from your trailer when you picked up my socks and thought they were like,

• 52:45Brooke Averick?

  I really buy into it.

• 52:46Connor Wood?

  How can I do that? Do you?

• 52:47Brooke Averick?

  Like Sandra and Nicole and like they're sisters.

• 52:50Connor Wood?

  I don't know. Maybe it's like, I don't know.

• 52:52Brooke Averick?

  There was, who was it recently that I was not buying?

• 52:54Connor Wood?

  Being a hater today.

• 52:55Brooke Averick?

  That's fine. Who was it recently that was like, this isn't working?

• 52:59Connor Wood?

  I don't know. I'd love, I'd love to see two actors that hate each other again. That's the good stuff that I like.

• 53:04Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, I get it.

• 53:04Connor Wood?

  When they're so, like put Shailene Woodley in a room with literally anyone else. I want to see that.

• 53:10Brooke Averick?

  Oh my God, her with that one interviewer where she was like, are you hungry?

• 53:13Connor Wood?

  No.

• 53:14Brooke Averick?

  No?

• 53:15Connor Wood?

  I'm hungry.

• 53:15Brooke Averick?

  You should eat then.

• 53:16Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 53:18Brooke Averick?

  That was bad. If that, if I was the interviewer, I would just never.

• 53:21Connor Wood?

  Shailene has a lot on her plate right now. So.

• 53:24Brooke Averick?

  Does she?

• 53:25Connor Wood?

  I don't, it seems like it.

• 53:26Brooke Averick?

  I don't know what she's, what's going on.

• 53:29Connor Wood?

  Oh my gosh, what was I gonna say? Oh, there's a Scooby Doo movie coming out. And there's like a whole batch of like young act, like going to be like, it's just weird saying a, a batch of young actors being that like looking, we're looking at like the new faces of Hollywood. Scooby Doo franchise is gonna be massive. That's gonna be one that happens over and over again.

• 53:47Brooke Averick?

  A live action?

• 53:48Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 53:49Brooke Averick?

  I haven't even heard of it.

• 53:50Connor Wood?

  I have an idea by the way.

• 53:51Brooke Averick?

  What?

• 53:51Connor Wood?

  Like bone chillingly brilliant.

• 53:54Brooke Averick?

  What?

• 53:55Connor Wood?

  Remind me that I have an idea, but like, look at these people. That's McKenna Grace. I don't know any of the other, the second from the top is McKenna Grace. But like, look at them. They look like Scooby Doo.

• 54:06Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, I have not seen anything about this.

• 54:08Connor Wood?

  Well, they're like young, young, young, young, young. It's crazy.

• 54:11Brooke Averick?

  That makes sense. Velma seems to be about six years old.

• 54:18Brooke Averick?

  Like not a day over.

• 54:19Connor Wood?

  Can we just see? I'm just curious. Eighteen.

• 54:24Brooke Averick?

  Okay. The imagery showcased.

• 54:27Connor Wood?

  I agree.

• 54:28Brooke Averick?

  She's six.

• 54:29Connor Wood?

  We always talk about, well, we talked about it before, but it's, it is crazy that like, you legally can't start working a job until you're, like in some states like 16. But like child actors like start pumping out millions of dollars of work at like 11.

• 54:46Brooke Averick?

  Definitely controversial.

• 54:48Connor Wood?

  Is it?

• 54:48Brooke Averick?

  Industry. Oh, absolutely.

• 54:50Connor Wood?

  I know. Who was, uh, Stavros was on Drew Barrymore Show, like interviewing her. And was like, when did you start working? She's like 11 months old.

• 54:58Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, that's, it's pretty crazy.

• 54:59Connor Wood?

  Whoa. She's, she deserves a daytime talk show. You know, want to hear my live action idea?

• 55:06Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 55:06Connor Wood?

  We do so many live actions. It's so good, Brooke. Are you ready?

• 55:09Brooke Averick?

  Yes.

• 55:09Connor Wood?

  Hold on to your britches.

• 55:10Brooke Averick?

  Holding.

• 55:11Connor Wood?

  Where's Waldo live action? Thanks. And there's a deeper story here, like.

• 55:17Brooke Averick?

  Him finding himself?

• 55:18Connor Wood?

  Finding himself.

• 55:19Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. That's good.

• 55:22Brooke Averick?

  Why has no one written that?

• 55:23Connor Wood?

  Stop. Please don't do it. Like, I'm busy right now, but like, keep in mind, I cleared my schedule for the rest of the year for Dancing with the Stars, assuming I would make it that long. And still, we're here still, but like if I get off, I'm gonna have so much time and I would love to do this project. Please don't take it from me.

• 55:42Brooke Averick?

  As an act of good faith.

• 55:43Connor Wood?

  As an act of good faith, like verbal trademark, I would like to write the where's Waldo, if I could say it, where's Waldo? Live action. I want that. Please. Thank you. Or if you're going to do it, can I just like be a part of it? Thanks. Where's Waldo? It's, I'm, everyone's looking for me while I was looking for myself.

• 56:02Brooke Averick?

  Oh my God, that's an amazing tagline.

• 56:05Brooke Averick?

  He had no arms or legs. He couldn't see, hear or speak. This is how he led a nation.

• 56:12Connor Wood?

  Is that about Mr. Potato?

• 56:13Brooke Averick?

  No, that was a quote from The Office.

• 56:15Connor Wood?

  Oh.

• 56:15Brooke Averick?

  I love The Office.

• 56:17Connor Wood?

  Yeah, you do.

• 56:17Brooke Averick?

  I really do.

• 56:22Brooke Averick?

  Can I say, can I tell you something?

• 56:23Connor Wood?

  You may.

• 56:24Brooke Averick?

  I saved a TikTok for you.

• 56:25Connor Wood?

  You don't have to ask me permission to tell me something.

• 56:27Brooke Averick?

  Well, you were just about to open your mouth. So I just wanted to get in there first.

• 56:32Connor Wood?

  Well, when a, when a woman speaks, I shut up and I sit down and I listen.

• 56:34Brooke Averick?

  I saved a TikTok for you called craziest overlaps in history.

• 56:39Connor Wood?

  Yeah. Oh, Brooke, thank you.

• 56:40Brooke Averick?

  Cause it's like things that were happening at the same time in different parts of the world that you just never would have thought were in the same time period.

• 56:47Connor Wood?

  Love this bullshit.

• 56:49Brooke Averick?

  Ready?

• 56:49Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 56:50Brooke Averick?

  George Washington didn't know dinosaurs existed because the first recording of a fossil was years later.

• 56:56Connor Wood?

  That one doesn't really do it for me.

• 56:58Brooke Averick?

  Rated on a scale of one to 10.

• 56:59Connor Wood?

  I'm soft.

• 56:59Brooke Averick?

  Okay.

• 57:02Brooke Averick?

  This doesn't do it for me at all. Ancient Egyptians lasted so long that ancient Egyptians had their own historians studying their own ancient history.

• 57:09Connor Wood?

  Ooh, not so ancient, are we?

• 57:11Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 57:11Connor Wood?

  Okay.

• 57:12Brooke Averick?

  That one, I don't care about that one.

• 57:13Connor Wood?

  I don't care.

• 57:13Brooke Averick?

  This one is, this one is crazy.

• 57:14Connor Wood?

  Okay, I like it.

• 57:16Brooke Averick?

  Samurai's, cowboys and the Victorian era all existed at the same time.

• 57:20Connor Wood?

  That I love. That's kind of like a mind F. And I think that would be another good like meeting if, if, if there was a show about that, like that's good TV. I think the per, the person that wrote maybe like Westworld, that which is also a good show. I'd love to see that come back. Or like Yellowstone could do like a Samurai meeting a cowboy. Cause that like doesn't, and then like a Victorian.

• 57:41Brooke Averick?

  And yeah, all three of them existed at the same time.

• 57:44Connor Wood?

  That is weird. But they had no forms of communication.

• 57:47Brooke Averick?

  Good book or movie.

• 57:48Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 57:49Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, they probably didn't know the other existed.

• 57:51Connor Wood?

  No way.

• 57:52Brooke Averick?

  I'm sure they did, but okay. While Harvard University was already teaching students in 1636, the Golden Age of Piracy was just beginning.

• 58:01Brooke Averick?

  So you could be a student at Harvard and across the pond, there were pirates.

• 58:05Connor Wood?

  Or you could drop out of school to be a pirate.

• 58:07Brooke Averick?

  You could drop out of school to be a pirate.

• 58:09Connor Wood?

  Wow. Imagine like your parents being like, yeah, our son dropped out of school. We're really worried about him. What did he? Is he like doing drugs? No, he's a pirate.

• 58:21Brooke Averick?

  Similarly, you could have dropped out of Oxford University in 1325 to be a member of the Aztec Empire.

• 58:31Brooke Averick?

  Oxford University was already teaching students before the Aztec Empire was even founded in 1325.

• 58:36Connor Wood?

  What?

• 58:37Brooke Averick?

  Isn't that crazy?

• 58:38Connor Wood?

  So they, they weren't learning about the Aztecs and because the Aztecs were learning about themselves.

• 58:44Brooke Averick?

  Like Waldo?

• 58:46Connor Wood?

  Exactly like Waldo.

• 58:47Brooke Averick?

  This one's beyond to me. The last execution by guillotine in France happened in 1977, the same year the first Star Wars movie was released.

• 58:59Brooke Averick?

  Like beheading.

• 59:02Brooke Averick?

  Like someone's head was to the floorboards.

• 59:05Connor Wood?

  Via ga, ga.

• 59:06Brooke Averick?

  Via the guillotine.

• 59:08Connor Wood?

  Wow.

• 59:08Brooke Averick?

  While Star Wars was blasting out in theaters.

• 59:11Connor Wood?

  Oh, wow. With Carrie Anne Fisher.

• 59:16Connor Wood?

  Carrie, just Carrie Fisher. Oh, I'm brainwashed. Okay.

• 59:19Brooke Averick?

  Well, I was confused for a second too.

• 59:22Brooke Averick?

  Coca-Cola was invented while the Ottoman Empire was still functioning.

• 59:25Connor Wood?

  I don't know what the Ottoman is.

• 59:26Brooke Averick?

  I was literally gonna ask you like,

• 59:28Connor Wood?

  Means nothing to me.

• 59:28Brooke Averick?

  Do the best you can to describe the Ottoman Empire.

• 59:31Connor Wood?

  Like my feet would have nowhere to sit without them.

• 59:33Brooke Averick?

  Gun in my purse to your head. What's the Ottoman Empire?

• 59:40Connor Wood?

  Wish them the best.

• 59:42Brooke Averick?

  I have another, um, Ottoman Empire, unfortunately, but this is, there's something here. The Ottoman Empire was still a functioning world power when the first fax machine was patented in 1843. That one doesn't like, whatever.

• 59:57Connor Wood?

  Fax machine?

• 59:58Brooke Averick?

  Fax. Did I say tax? Fax is to me, I'm like, that seems more high tech than like an iPhone.

• 1:00:05Connor Wood?

  Me too.

• 1:00:05Brooke Averick?

  Like that's crazy. Same with record players and like these things that are now like archaic actually seems to be more complex to me.

• 1:00:12Connor Wood?

  How did you do that?

• 1:00:13Brooke Averick?

  Than an iPad.

• 1:00:13Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 1:00:14Brooke Averick?

  What do you mean this needle and these ridges are playing a song?

• 1:00:17Connor Wood?

  What do you mean this needle's in the haystack?

• 1:00:18Brooke Averick?

  What do you mean this, well, I did used to think a fax machine was transporting the same piece of paper, like teleportation. But like, what do you mean? What do you mean?

• 1:00:28Connor Wood?

  Yeah. That's why I could never be sent back to the past. Cause I'd be like, we have fax machines. And they'd be like, okay, how did, and I'd be like, I don't know. And then they would like tie stones to my feet and throw me in the lake to see if I say.

• 1:00:40Brooke Averick?

  Beheaded. You ready for the last one? Oxford University had been open for over 400 years before anybody in Europe even knew what a potato was. I didn't even know there was like, there, that was like, the world existed without potatoes for so long.

• 1:00:57Connor Wood?

  I mean, like I wouldn't look at a potato and be like, we could eat that. I'd be like, throw it, throw it at.

• 1:01:02Brooke Averick?

  You, you would try anything, I think.

• 1:01:04Connor Wood?

  If you eat a raw potato, you could die. I think you do die.

• 1:01:07Brooke Averick?

  No, you made that up.

• 1:01:09Connor Wood?

  Did I?

• 1:01:09Brooke Averick?

  I think so, but let's see. I mean, I've maybe in the same way that like anything raw could.

• 1:01:15Connor Wood?

  You should avoid eating raw potatoes because they're hard to digest. Hmm.

• 1:01:20Connor Wood?

  Maybe if, I mean, if you choked on it.

• 1:01:22Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 1:01:24Brooke Averick?

  Can you die from eating?

• 1:01:26Connor Wood?

  Raw potatoes can deirdletically kill you in rare cases, but it's extremely uncommon. Okay.

• 1:01:31Brooke Averick?

  It's like the same.

• 1:01:32Connor Wood?

  I would avoid it.

• 1:01:34Brooke Averick?

  Yup.

• 1:01:35Connor Wood?

  You know, want to hear a crazy thing that I also made up in my head? I thought at midnight Cinderella was going to die if she didn't make it home. I didn't know her dress just turned ugly.

• 1:01:48Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, I guess her dress turned ugly, but she back to her normal clothes, her pumpkin chariot poofed away. Just everything went back to the way it was. I think it's like, you know, in the movies where it's like the girl takes off her glasses and she's hot. Like I think that's the same with Cinderella is like if she had poofed in front of the prince, he would have been like, ew, what the fuck? Like I think that's what they were like wanting us to believe.

• 1:02:13Connor Wood?

  What a sad world we've raised our young women on about, you need to get, you need to get all this materialistic things too. Yeah.

• 1:02:23Brooke Averick?

  But honestly, the prince loved her no matter what.

• 1:02:25Connor Wood?

  Yeah, I don't remember the end. I just remember being very stressed that she would get.

• 1:02:28Brooke Averick?

  Slipper frickin' fit.

• 1:02:30Connor Wood?

  Well, the slipper was still there. Glass slippers. Can you imagine having glass slippers on? Oof.

• 1:02:35Brooke Averick?

  Hey, if the dress poofed away, why was the, why was the slipper still there? Can we confirm the dress just disappeared into thin air?

• 1:02:47Brooke Averick?

  Or did she take it off?

• 1:02:48Connor Wood?

  Too many potholes in this. I got a bone to pick.

• 1:02:50Brooke Averick?

  If this, if the dress poofed into thin air, this is a serious problem.

• 1:02:59Brooke Averick?

  So this is a problem.

• 1:03:00Connor Wood?

  This is a problem to me. And, and so she...

• 1:03:05Connor Wood?

  What about the, did she have the other glass slipper? What did she sp-

• 1:03:10Brooke Averick?

  Why didn't, why didn't Cinderella's glass slipper morph back to her ugly face?

• 1:03:14Connor Wood?

  Also, like, is she returning her newly order with one glass slipper? She's gonna be in deep doo-doo.

• 1:03:18Brooke Averick?

  Cinderella's glass slippers did not disappear midnight because they were conjured from pure magic rather than transformed from an existing object. Bull. Hi, I call Bull.

• 1:03:29Connor Wood?

  Okay, there's a lot of information on this. Transformation versus creation.

• 1:03:33Brooke Averick?

  Kind of, like, I kinda do get that.

• 1:03:35Connor Wood?

  Yeah, that makes total sense. Hmm, okay. Gotcha.

• 1:03:38Brooke Averick?

  They figure, they did figure out, they did figure it out.

• 1:03:43Brooke Averick?

  Many interpretations also suggest the fairy godmother intentionally left the magical slippers behind as a permanent gift so Cinderella and the prince could find each other again. Ooh, chills.

• 1:03:52Brooke Averick?

  Did you ever see the Brandy version of Cinderella?

• 1:03:55Connor Wood?

  No.

• 1:03:55Brooke Averick?

  That's the best.

• 1:03:56Connor Wood?

  Oh, yes, I have. The mic.

• 1:03:59Brooke Averick?

  You ate a chunk.

• 1:04:00Connor Wood?

  Oh, yeah. I was, like, fully chewing on it for a second. Whoa. Do you have an electric toothbrush?

• 1:04:05Brooke Averick?

  Mm-hmm. Do you?

• 1:04:07Connor Wood?

  No.

• 1:04:08Brooke Averick?

  It does make a pretty big difference.

• 1:04:09Connor Wood?

  Really?

• 1:04:10Brooke Averick?

  To admit, yeah.

• 1:04:11Connor Wood?

  Hmm. Hmm, I might get one.

• 1:04:14Brooke Averick?

  I will also say, like, because it has the buzzer, like, when the two minutes is up, I didn't realize that before I was only brushing my teeth for, like, eight seconds. Not actually eight, but like, two minutes. It feels like forever. Like, compared to how I was doing it with my manual.

• 1:04:30Connor Wood?

  Two minutes is twice as long as the dance that I did on TV.

• 1:04:34Brooke Averick?

  It's really long.

• 1:04:35Connor Wood?

  Oh, that's not gonna happen.

• 1:04:36Brooke Averick?

  It's a long amount of time to be brushing your teeth.

• 1:04:38Connor Wood?

  Big toothbrush.

• 1:04:40Brooke Averick?

  How long are you supposed to be washing your hands for?

• 1:04:42Connor Wood?

  Tw- two happy birthdays.

• 1:04:44Brooke Averick?

  20 seconds? Okay, I mean...

• 1:04:48Connor Wood?

  I'm still here, ain't I? Yup.

• 1:04:51Brooke Averick?

  Valid point.

• 1:04:52Connor Wood?

  Yeah. No, I love washing my hands. I wash them a lot.

• 1:04:55Brooke Averick?

  Obsessed.

• 1:04:56Connor Wood?

  I'm gonna get an electric toothbrush. I get these bamboo toothbrushes, um, in like, eight packs, and then I use them until I feel like they're probably on their way out in terms of putting them into my mouth. And then I toss them, because they're biodegradable.

• 1:05:09Brooke Averick?

  Did you see the new Dyson toothbrush?

• 1:05:11Connor Wood?

  Yeah, that's what I was asking about, because I saw it on sale today.

• 1:05:14Brooke Averick?

  Well, I've, I have a friend. I have a friend who used the Dyson.

• 1:05:18Connor Wood?

  Toothbrush.

• 1:05:19Brooke Averick?

  Toothbrush. And said that her Philips tooth, electric, regular electric toothbrush is better.

• 1:05:26Brooke Averick?

  I think they might have done too much with the Dyson.

• 1:05:28Connor Wood?

  I'm embarrassed that at one point in my life, I got the automatic toothbrush thing from an ad on Instagram, and I was like, "This will make my life easier."

• 1:05:35Brooke Averick?

  But did it work?

• 1:05:36Connor Wood?

  No.

• 1:05:36Brooke Averick?

  Like, why don't we have one of those that works?

• 1:05:38Connor Wood?

  No, but like, why was I trying to get something easier for my two minutes of brushing?

• 1:05:43Brooke Averick?

  Absolutely, you should try, like, I would, that, I would pay a lot of money for an easier way to brush my teeth.

• 1:05:48Connor Wood?

  Are you flossing?

• 1:05:50Brooke Averick?

  Not as much as I should, but I do carry around those tooth, flosser toothpicks in my car and stuff.

• 1:05:57Connor Wood?

  You could, you could find my actual physical location by the amount that fall on the ground from my pocket or my backpack or something.

• 1:06:05Brooke Averick?

  I like those.

• 1:06:05Connor Wood?

  Yeah. People go, "Connor was here," because there's, like, little flosser things. I feel bad. I'm not littering on purpose. I hate littering. Litter bug. Okay, well, let's wrap up, because I have my legs crossed for a reason.

• 1:06:17Brooke Averick?

  Connor?

• 1:06:19Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 1:06:21Connor Wood?

  So I'll release you, Cinderella, before you poof in your chair.

• 1:06:25Brooke Averick?

  Very good.

• 1:06:26Connor Wood?

  And thank you guys-

• 1:06:26Brooke Averick?

  Poop.

• 1:06:27Connor Wood?

  Poop in your chair. Thank you, guys, for listening. And, um, we will see you in the bonus.

• 1:06:35Brooke Averick?

  Eee.

• 1:06:36Connor Wood?

  If you want to come.

• 1:06:37Brooke Averick?

  And is there still a code or no? The code to the bonus now is Papa.

• 1:06:43Connor Wood?

  Papa for free month of bonus episodes. TMGstudios.tv, and you'll find Brooke and Connor make a podcast. It's, I think it's pretty easy once you get there. You'll figure it out. And then next week, we got the rumba on Dancing with the Stars. Please vote if you don't mind. That would be mean a lot, and I will show up as a lady man for you, baby. Good night.

• 1:07:04Brooke Averick?

  This week on Close Friends.

• 1:07:06Connor Wood?

  Oh, I wanna party with Dakota and Elle.

• 1:07:08Brooke Averick?

  You will.

• 1:07:09Connor Wood?

  Oh, I wanna party with the Fannings.

• 1:07:10Brooke Averick?

  You will.

• 1:07:11Connor Wood?

  Woo! I wanna go to Miami with the Fannings! Okay, so what happens with the mosquitoes turn gay? They're making the mosquitoes gay. Oh, brother.

• 1:07:19Brooke Averick?

  Octopussy. Is that a James Bond movie? There's a lot of James Bond stuff happening.

• 1:07:24Connor Wood?

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