Something’s Gotta Give

SUBSCRIBE TO THE BNC CHANNEL: https://bit.ly/45Pspyl Ad Free & Bonus Episodes: https://bit.ly/3OZxwpr NEW MERCH: https://shoptmgstudios.com This week, Brooke and Connor talk about their new heightened awareness and their superpower capabilities. Plus, Brooke breaks down her weekend as a Kappa while Connor hits Tangent Town USA. Join our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/5356639204457124/ Get 50% off your first box with code bandc50 at https://everyplate.com/podcast. Cancel your unwanted subscriptions today at https://rocketmoney.com/bandc. Upgrade your style and get 40% off at https://cozyearth.com/bandc or use code BANDC at checkout. Date your way on Bumble and download the app today. B+C IG: https://www.instagram.com/bncmap/ B+C Twitter: https://twitter.com/bncmap TMG Studios YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/tinymeatgang TMG Studios IG: https://www.instagram.com/realtmgstudios/ TMG Studios Twitter: https://twitter.com/realtmgstudios BROOKE https://www.instagram.com/brookeaverick https://twitter.com/ladyefron https://www.tiktok.com/@ladyefron CONNOR https://www.instagram.com/fibula/ https://twitter.com/fibulaa https://www.tiktok.com/@fibulaa Hosted by Brooke Averick & Connor Wood, Created by TMG Studios, Brooke Averick & Connor Wood, and Produced by TMG Studios, Brooke Averick & Connor Wood. Chapters: 0:00 Something’s GOTTA Give 2:03 Intro 2:35 Lisps Are In 3:30 New Heightened Senses 8:19 Surviving With Just A Brain 9:36 Book About Death 10:35 EveryPlate 12:59 The Real Apple Geniuses 14:20 Shout Out to the Blacksmith Community 16:03 Apple’s Confusing Business Model 18:19 Connor’s Coffee Bagel 20:07 SVU Lives On 25:12 Rocket Money 26:36 The Plaque Is Here! 29:31 Jonathan and Max’s Chapters 33:12 Cat Eating Owner Story 36:30 Cozy Earth 38:17 Brooke’s Kappa Weekend 43:47 The Raising Cane’s Incident 50:48 Bumble 52:24 British People Losing Their Accent 56:20 The Perfect First Date Question 1:01:10 New Tote Bag Fashion 1:04:24 New Segment Alert! 1:10:17 Connor Goes On Tour 1:12:55 See You In Bonus!!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 0:00Speaker 00

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• 0:30Speaker 01

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• 0:45Brooke Averick?

  Okay. Okay. Okay. I'm gonna give your, uh, your body my phone, so I'm not tempted.

• 0:54Connor Wood?

  Well, I'm gonna have my phone on the notes page.

• 0:57Brooke Averick?

  I will need that too, that's the problem.

• 0:59Connor Wood?

  Um.

• 1:02Brooke Averick?

  You could, how about you call out anything I wrote if...

• 1:04Connor Wood?

  I'll, I'll call out really quickly. Can I floss my back, Moller, really quick?

• 1:08Brooke Averick?

  You may.

• 1:09Connor Wood?

  Um, I, we're, we are recording, yes?

• 1:11Brooke Averick?

  Yes.

• 1:12Connor Wood?

  Well, one thing I love about me, well, first of all, I'm wearing new pants and...

• 1:17Brooke Averick?

  Awesome, they look pretty.

• 1:19Connor Wood?

  Thanks. Um, last week I was sweating so much between my tits that I, I couldn't wear pants. So I was, I was below the belt.

• 1:28Brooke Averick?

  You were sweating so much between your tits that you couldn't wear pants?

• 1:32Connor Wood?

  Well, 'cause I couldn't take off my shirt, so something, something's gotta...

• 1:34Brooke Averick?

  Something had to give? Starting by eating.

• 1:36Connor Wood?

  Brooke, that is our motto going into Q2. Something's gotta give.

• 1:42Brooke Averick?

  Something's gotta give. I completely, I've been saying that a lot recently, actually.

• 1:46Connor Wood?

  What happened?

• 1:47Brooke Averick?

  After any inconvenience, something has gotta give.

• 1:50Connor Wood?

  Something's gotta give, and I'm not talking about me. I'm talking about something.

• 1:54Brooke Averick?

  Something else has gotta give. I'm not ready to give right now, something else has to, completely.

• 1:58Connor Wood?

  I'm not, I'm not giving?

• 2:00Brooke Averick?

  I'm ready to receive. I am ready to receive.

• 2:03Connor Wood?

  I'm ready to receive, I'm open to receiving. Giving more an outside thing that's been hap, that needs to happen.

• 2:10Brooke Averick?

  I'm on the, I've never been more on the same page as you.

• 2:13Connor Wood?

  Yeah, I'm feeling really aligned with you as well, too.

• 2:17Brooke Averick?

  Go get your flosser.

• 2:18Connor Wood?

  Oh, yeah, well.

• 2:22Connor Wood?

  I think they're packed, I fear they're packed away in my, in my larger suit, my larger away suitcase,

• 2:26Brooke Averick?

  which is, which is the size of a, a full-sized bed. I think that I could get, I think I could get like

• 2:33Connor Wood?

  a camping-sized mattress into that suitcase.

• 2:37Brooke Averick?

  Awesome, and that's not even sponsored?

• 2:39Connor Wood?

  Listen bitch, something's gotta give.

• 2:41Brooke Averick?

  So are you gonna floss your back roller or not right now?

• 2:44Connor Wood?

  No, I'm giving up on that dream. It was a pipe dream anyways.

• 3:06Brooke Averick?

  Okay, well, just to flag my teeth really quickly, I am gonna have a lisp for the next few months. And that, that's, that is what it is. I wish something would give. I don't think it's going to in this situation. Um, but please, please note that I do have a lisp because I have my new aligners in and my gap is actively closing. So it's good news that I have a lisp. So I hope that, I hope that you appreciate that as much as I do.

• 3:34Connor Wood?

  Listens are kind of it.

• 3:35Brooke Averick?

  I have always loved a little lisp. I always thought it was cute. It's probably a little less cute coming through a mic. It maybe loses the charm of seeing it come out of the person. Cause I like when you can see their like mouth move in a certain way that creates the lisp, you know?

• 3:52Connor Wood?

  Yeah, I do now.

• 3:53Brooke Averick?

  But, that is what it is. And I'm not allowed to put the white paint in this, in these. So you can see the gap through them, if you look hard enough. But it's fine. I don't care.

• 4:06Connor Wood?

  Just mind the gap, as they say overseas.

• 4:09Brooke Averick?

  Hell yeah.

• 4:11Connor Wood?

  Hell yeah.

• 4:14Connor Wood?

  So, back to, back to the something that has to give, if you don't mind me circling back, um, to that juncture. I have, something's happened spiritually to me. Been laid upon me spiritually. Something shifted.

• 4:33Brooke Averick?

  Okay, something gave?

• 4:34Connor Wood?

  Something gave. Or something's giving currently. But something's, something's, something's happening, something's shifting. Something might be giving as we speak.

• 4:48Connor Wood?

  I've been really being, I've, I've, I'm having been affected in, in real time by like graffiti and poetry and, and I like, I look at the ground and I'm, I'm looking at this thing and it's like, I, I read this saying and I'm like, oh, yeah, that was made for me. That was, that was given to me. That's something that has to be given. One, I read and I was like, said like, I don't need your drugs. I just need your high fashion. I was like, oh, what is that? That's an, that's an ad for Addison Rae's new album. So that was not really written in the stars as much as on the ground, but.

• 5:21Brooke Averick?

  I love that you're being profoundly moved by the written word.

• 5:25Connor Wood?

  I am, I am being, I'm being moved and I think it's because I'm moving so much, both literally, and I'm so open to being, to receiving as well. And I've also been experiencing, maybe my awareness is really heightened right now. I've been experiencing really prolonged eye contact with animals recently.

• 5:50Brooke Averick?

  Did you see what I posted about how to tell your pet that you love them?

• 5:54Connor Wood?

  I must've missed it. I don't know. When did you post?

• 5:56Brooke Averick?

  Prolonged eye contact with a slow blink. So I've been doing that for a week straight because I've been traveling so much, just looking at John and doing a really slow blink for minutes at a time. So that's what you can do when you're doing the eye contact with your animals. And then really, yes, almost, and I would even keep your eyes closed for a second or two once. Yeah, that's what I've been doing. Yeah.

• 6:25Connor Wood?

  Yeah, felt good.

• 6:26Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 6:28Connor Wood?

  Um, well, yeah, I'll, I'll start implementing that into my day to day, but.

• 6:32Brooke Averick?

  Like squirrels and stuff?

• 6:34Connor Wood?

  Squirrels, even some people, even some, some people that.

• 6:39Brooke Averick?

  Humans are animals too.

• 6:41Connor Wood?

  Humans are animals. I had one yesterday that I wish that there were, I could have talked to someone about it because I almost feel like I dreamed it. He, it wasn't like a eye contact. It was like a craning of the neck. And this was an older gentleman with long hair and glasses. It was impossible to miss. And I want to wear a GoPro on my head at all times. I want, I want it on. Because there are things happening to me right now that are making me feel like I might be the subject of one of those shows where like this person starts to notice things happening around them and then they end up being. Percy Jackson, yeah, or Truman Show, that would also, yeah.

• 7:20Brooke Averick?

  Percy Jackson.

• 7:22Connor Wood?

  Percy Jackson, where he ends up having powers.

• 7:25Brooke Averick?

  So you think you're about to develop powers?

• 7:27Connor Wood?

  Powers or something, or someone's gonna kill me, one of those.

• 7:30Brooke Averick?

  You know, every morning I wake up and test to see if I have powers.

• 7:34Connor Wood?

  What do you do to test to see if?

• 7:35Brooke Averick?

  See if I can look at something and see if I can make it float.

• 7:38Connor Wood?

  Oh, like telekinesis?

• 7:40Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 7:40Connor Wood?

  I don't know what I'm gonna end up having, but I did.

• 7:43Brooke Averick?

  Or I'll try to turn off my alarm with just thinking.

• 7:46Connor Wood?

  Like thinking, like hopefully it'll turn off soon. It does turn off.

• 7:49Brooke Averick?

  Think, turn off.

• 7:51Connor Wood?

  I also think.

• 7:51Brooke Averick?

  But in a way, it is kind of magic that my brain is telling my hand to do that.

• 7:57Connor Wood?

  Oh.

• 8:00Connor Wood?

  So like your, your hand is your telekinesis, like you're moving your hand.

• 8:03Brooke Averick?

  But that's the thing about like magic, if like we didn't know, if we weren't used to anything that happens in this world, we would think it was magic. Like the very thought of your brain telling your body to do things and them doing it, that's magic to someone who has never experienced those, to an alien who's never experienced those things.

• 8:20Connor Wood?

  You have just shifted so many perspectives that I have on my end because that's so true because we are really just our brain, right? I don't know.

• 8:29Connor Wood?

  That scares me so bad. Like you, we, you could, we could both, you, my brain and your brain could be just in a vat next to each other on a shelf and we could still have a podcast, technically, like.

• 8:39Brooke Averick?

  Well, that will, well, you would need like a vessel to get the words out.

• 8:45Connor Wood?

  Yeah, they could probably, they could probably use some sort of like electrodes.

• 8:50Brooke Averick?

  But yeah, I don't understand how the technology hasn't been.

• 8:55Brooke Averick?

  Invented yet where you just put like a human brain in a robot and like keep that person alive.

• 9:01Connor Wood?

  I have the craziest question for you.

• 9:04Brooke Averick?

  And your brain.

• 9:06Connor Wood?

  I think this all the, I think this all the time and I try not to think about it too hard because it freaks me out. But if you're like, like, I don't, I don't know who to say, like if your sister passed on. And they're like, well, we have her brain and we can put her brain and like you can still talk to her and something. It's like legit, just her brain. Like, would you be like, I love you?

• 9:28Brooke Averick?

  What?

• 9:30Connor Wood?

  If it was just her brain, like you could still talk to her, like she was still technically like sentient.

• 9:35Brooke Averick?

  Would she be able to talk to me?

• 9:37Connor Wood?

  Yeah, like they could. Yeah.

• 9:39Brooke Averick?

  So she's just my sister in a different, in a robot?

• 9:42Connor Wood?

  It'd be like, you're like looking at, say like her brain and then like her spinal cord on a pole or something on wheels.

• 9:48Brooke Averick?

  SpongeBob woman?

• 9:49Connor Wood?

  Yeah, basically. Yeah, yeah.

• 9:51Brooke Averick?

  Would I want that or would I prefer that to death?

• 9:54Connor Wood?

  Would you be like, I love you, sis?

• 9:57Brooke Averick?

  I, yeah, of course, of course. But I would be, I would doubt that that she would want to live that way, you know?

• 10:03Connor Wood?

  Right. Yeah.

• 10:04Brooke Averick?

  Honestly though, I probably would if like my options are like eternal nothingness and just living with my spinal cord. Would I still be able to watch TV?

• 10:14Connor Wood?

  Um, yeah, sure.

• 10:17Brooke Averick?

  Then yeah. I read the best book the other day about this girl who's just like so obsessed with the concept of death and the fact that she's going to be dead one day and it's all she thinks about. And she sends herself like into complete spirals like every other second. And it was just like, truly, I've never read a book where I'm like, oh, I have thought this, but never been able to like put those thoughts into words. It was really a powerful experience. And it's really short. Maybe you could read it. It's called, Everybody in This Room Will Someday Be Dead.

• 10:49Connor Wood?

  No, that's not.

• 10:50Brooke Averick?

  Well, I'm recommending it to everyone. It was so good.

• 10:52Connor Wood?

  That's not really up my personal alley.

• 10:55Brooke Averick?

  Do you think it'd make you more anxious?

• 10:57Connor Wood?

  Yeah, randomly a book called, Everybody's Going To Be Dead One Day does make me feel.

• 11:00Brooke Averick?

  But it's sometimes it's so comforting to know that everyone else is like having the same thoughts as you. And like you're not spiraling alone.

• 11:06Connor Wood?

  I would like, I would like to remove that. From my brain and have like, that would be the part of my brain that I would like lobotomize. Little off the top, please.

• 11:17Brooke Averick?

  I get that. It's not, it's not a great. I wish we just knew what would happen.

• 11:22Connor Wood?

  Okay, well, here's, I'm gonna move right, I have to. See, this is not, this is not fun for me.

• 11:27Brooke Averick?

  Okay.

• 11:28Connor Wood?

  Um, not that it has to be fun for me, but like.

• 11:33Brooke Averick?

  Now, it's probably not fun for anyone, so.

• 11:35Connor Wood?

  I, I already said, I was gonna have a different type of gas leak today, but now I'm having like the original form of gas liquid panic attack.

• 11:42Brooke Averick?

  Pick something else.

• 11:43Connor Wood?

  Okay, I'll just tell you this. So, this morning I had to walk and buy a new laptop because mine just like shit the bed, of course. I'm, I'm coming to you live from my brand new laptop, my brand new MacBook.

• 11:55Connor Wood?

  I walked over, first I walked over to the Apple Store where I was greeted by the geniuses. And one thing about the geniuses is they're gonna let you know that they're a genius. They are gonna let you know that they, they hold all of the power of your professional life behind the desk and wherever, in the backrooms, where they keep all the devices. And who knows what happens in those genius backrooms? One thing I know is that all those geniuses are hooking up. I just know, I can feel the energy in the Apple Store. They are hooking up with each other. They're hooking up across, um, levels of their career. Like, I don't, I think bosses are, are hooking up with interns. I don't know if Apple geniuses have interns or prodigies or whatever they call,

• 12:41Connor Wood?

  when you, when you intern for a blacksmith, whatever that is.

• 12:44Brooke Averick?

  Protege?

• 12:45Connor Wood?

  Protege, yeah, but what is it called when you're like a blacksmith and you have like a little boy as you're, he's like shadowing you?

• 12:51Brooke Averick?

  Apprentice?

• 12:52Connor Wood?

  Apprentice.

• 12:53Brooke Averick?

  Why blacksmith specifically?

• 12:56Connor Wood?

  That's who I think of as having an apprentice, is like a blacksmith.

• 12:59Brooke Averick?

  Okay.

• 13:00Connor Wood?

  Did we still have like apprenticeships or no? They're internship.

• 13:05Brooke Averick?

  I mean, I don't think it would have been called an internship in the olden days.

• 13:08Connor Wood?

  No, I mean, like now they're internships, right? That's what we've.

• 13:11Brooke Averick?

  Of blacksmiths?

• 13:13Connor Wood?

  Are there blacksmiths?

• 13:16Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 13:18Brooke Averick?

  What technically does a blacksmith do?

• 13:21Connor Wood?

  Smith's metal? Like hammers it?

• 13:24Brooke Averick?

  Maybe his job has been replaced by a machine?

• 13:28Brooke Averick?

  Make tools?

• 13:29Connor Wood?

  I guarantee we have at least one listener who's a blacksmith who's gonna come for our jugs.

• 13:34Brooke Averick?

  I mean, obviously, no one does it better than than a person, but it's probably like hot, maybe been, there's probably less than there used to be, let's just say that.

• 13:43Connor Wood?

  Hi, professional blacksmith here, so.

• 13:49Connor Wood?

  Hi, bestie, blacksmith here. So what you said was really deeply offensive to the blacksmith community and our apprentices.

• 13:57Brooke Averick?

  I feel horrible.

• 13:59Connor Wood?

  Oh, my God. I actually, the rings that I wear every day were were made by hand.

• 14:06Brooke Averick?

  By a blacksmith?

• 14:08Connor Wood?

  A young man in Santa Monica, and they're metal, scratch and stone.

• 14:12Brooke Averick?

  Okay, so, yeah, he was blacksmithing those.

• 14:15Connor Wood?

  Yeah, he was blacksmithing TF out of them, and he did a good job. But yeah, so I guess, like, that wasn't made by a machine. Okay, so blacksmiths are alive and well.

• 14:23Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 14:23Connor Wood?

  Anyways, I'm at the Apple Store. We, I dared, Brooke, I said, I dare, I dare you to go to Tangent, Tangent Town, USA, on everything we talk about today, and we're doing it.

• 14:34Brooke Averick?

  Uh huh. I agree.

• 14:36Connor Wood?

  I love it. Um, so, basically, I go to the Apple Store, and I'm like, I need to get a new laptop. Mine is, mine, all right, well, no, at first, I was like, can, what's going on with my ding? And they're like, ooh, yeah, this is, this one's probably, I don't think this is like necessarily, we can ship it in, and I was like, no, I need one in like three hours, like, I need a laptop. And they're like, yeah, we'd have to turn that, we'd have to ship it in. He goes, when did you get this? And I said, like, three and a half, four years ago. He goes, oh, yeah, I mean, it's time for a new computer, for sure. I go, when did things only last, since, when do things last four years only? I feel like my dad. Has owned things for his whole life.

• 15:17Brooke Averick?

  No, like Apple's like pretty open about the fact that like you're toast after a few years, which is like an interesting business model to be like vulnerable about.

• 15:26Connor Wood?

  They go, oh yeah, sorry, bestie. You're gonna have to drop $1,500 today. I was like, oh, hang on. I got like, I, I, I still in my head. I was like, this is a new laptop to me.

• 15:37Brooke Averick?

  No, yeah, they're very open about the fact that you just either need to spend the amount of a new laptop to get it fixed or just get a new laptop.

• 15:46Connor Wood?

  I would, and then I was like, can I like trade this one in? They go, yeah, we could probably give you like seven or five dollars. I go, no, hang on, hang on. This, that is not even one tenth of what I paid for it.

• 15:57Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 15:57Connor Wood?

  And I don't even know what's wrong. They didn't even tell me what's wrong with it. It was just breathing really hard.

• 16:03Connor Wood?

  It was sounding like a

• 16:04Brooke Averick?

  My mobile?

• 16:05Connor Wood?

  It was sounding like a wind turbine engine and all I had open was notes and Chrome. And there was only one time it was Zoom open on Chrome.

• 16:14Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, I'm, I don't know what to tell you.

• 16:16Connor Wood?

  God forbid a guy has a podcast. A man has a podcast.

• 16:19Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, they really, something's gotta give there.

• 16:23Connor Wood?

  Making it really hard for young men in the United States, sure, yeah, yeah, young, young, straight gentlemen to have a podcast.

• 16:29Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 16:32Connor Wood?

  So I'm going, I buy a new laptop and I leave with it and on the way home I buy a coffee. Now this is where it gets interesting, Brooklyn.

• 16:42Brooke Averick?

  Okay, been waiting.

• 16:44Connor Wood?

  So I, I get a coffee and they see that I have my hands full with my new laptop. And they go, okay, we'll get, we'll, we'll, we'll do it to go. And I'm in a bodega, like there's no, I wasn't gonna get a mug and hang out with the guy in the deli section. So he gives, they put it in a cup and I was like, okay, well, that's not, and then they put the cup in a bag.

• 17:05Brooke Averick?

  Okay.

• 17:06Connor Wood?

  And I was like, oh wow, that's cool actually, cause I can, I can, I can carry it with me home. I don't know why I thought like this bodega had invented a new technology where like the coffee's not gonna spill. Because it's in a bag. Obviously like got hum, it's just fully a bag full of liquid and the cup just turned over. And I had gotten a bagel that I was, that I did eat most of.

• 17:28Brooke Averick?

  What's your, what's your New York bagel order?

• 17:30Connor Wood?

  Sausage, egg and cheese.

• 17:33Brooke Averick?

  You love sausage.

• 17:34Connor Wood?

  I love sausage. I'll never get a bacon, egg and cheese. I just don't love bacon in that way.

• 17:38Brooke Averick?

  We have the exact opposite taste buds, I think.

• 17:41Connor Wood?

  I know. I just wanted to tell you my bagel was soaked with coffee today and it was actually very good. So I might've been, I might've been like, I might be the inventor of a caffeinated bagel.

• 17:50Brooke Averick?

  Or like a coffee bean bagel.

• 17:53Connor Wood?

  Like a genuinely like I, I feel energized. Granted, I was able to pour a little bit of the bagged coffee back into the cup.

• 18:01Brooke Averick?

  What kind of bag was it?

• 18:03Connor Wood?

  Paper.

• 18:04Brooke Averick?

  Oh, that's interesting.

• 18:05Connor Wood?

  Obviously it must've been lined with some chemical plastic.

• 18:08Brooke Averick?

  You would think it would have given.

• 18:09Connor Wood?

  You would think it's something it would have to give in that situation, but it wasn't the bag. The bag was not given. Um, so anyways, made it home. I had, I had a caffeinated bagel and I needed the caffeine today. Because I didn't Snapchat you this. I might've Snapchat'd you this as well, but outside of this apartment that I'm subletting, you see it here behind me.

• 18:34Brooke Averick?

  You're subletting?

• 18:35Connor Wood?

  I'm subletting for the rest of the week. I should just go into that really quick. I'll just give everyone updates across the board. Since we're already in tangent town, let's just do it. Um, I was obviously staying with Hunter. He was out of town though. When he got back into town, like I'm sitting there, I'm talking. I told you last week, like I kept, I had random stuff like lockjaw after you said that. Like I just couldn't stop saying stuff like that out loud in his apartment.

• 18:59Brooke Averick?

  You know, I can't stop doing the shut up that goes before the lockjaw.

• 19:03Connor Wood?

  Shut up. And so I'm sitting in his apartment, like saying stuff like that all day. He's like, can you stop pacing? Can you do? And I'm like, okay, I need to get out of his apartment. This is no longer.

• 19:12Brooke Averick?

  Can you stop pacing? Can you stop screaming lockjaw every eight minutes?

• 19:15Connor Wood?

  Like, what am I supposed to do?

• 19:17Brooke Averick?

  What is a bag supposed to do?

• 19:19Connor Wood?

  Something's gonna give. It was me. I had to give. Like actually that I have given a little bit this week. Um, and it's that I subletted someone's apartment instead of staying somewhere where I, I was like taking up space. I felt bad. But now I'm here and last night I got hot. So I like opened a window and randomly there's just so much noise and it was at midnight and then it was 1:00 AM, then it was 2:00 AM, then it was 3:00 AM. And I look outside this morning and they have set up, I'm not kidding, an entire movie set outside.

• 19:53Connor Wood?

  I went to check the sign. It's Law and Order SVU. How many episodes of Law and Order SVU are there? That they're able to? I've seen this set like 40 times. Every time I come to New York City, they're set up somewhere in New York City.

• 20:07Brooke Averick?

  I just had to look this up. For, for research. I think it's on its 16th season.

• 20:13Connor Wood?

  You know what's insane?

• 20:14Brooke Averick?

  Huh?

• 20:14Connor Wood?

  Always Sunny is on its 18th season.

• 20:17Brooke Averick?

  Wait, then that can't be right about Law and Order. That's been around much longer. But SVU is a spinoff, right? Oh, there's 564 episodes. It is actually on its 26th season. It's close.

• 20:28Connor Wood?

  Okay. I mean, that's like 26 seasons if you think about it.

• 20:32Brooke Averick?

  When you think about it, yeah.

• 20:34Connor Wood?

  From my math freaks.

• 20:36Brooke Averick?

  So that is, so if there's 564 episodes out and there's, it's on its 26th season. Exactly.

• 20:45Connor Wood?

  Well.

• 20:46Brooke Averick?

  There's exactly that many episodes per season.

• 20:50Connor Wood?

  How many did you say?

• 20:51Brooke Averick?

  Yes.

• 20:52Connor Wood?

  Yeah. Um, but they are genuinely setting up completely outside. I've seen the Law and Order SVU set every single time I've come to New York. Since I started coming to New York and this time.

• 21:04Brooke Averick?

  Isn't just the city the set?

• 21:07Brooke Averick?

  That's what they would say about BU whenever they were like, you don't need a campus. Boston is the campus.

• 21:12Connor Wood?

  I want to walk you over to the window and show you.

• 21:15Brooke Averick?

  Okay.

• 21:15Connor Wood?

  But that's not, it's not doable, is it?

• 21:18Brooke Averick?

  Let's just not, let's not mess with anything.

• 21:20Connor Wood?

  All right. I'll send you a video, but it is mind blowing. They took up an entire city block that every time, they came here. Not last night, the night before, and there were people camped out and every time someone moved their car, they put cones out so that they could block off the entire block.

• 21:35Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. I mean, I guess they have to film the murder scenes.

• 21:40Brooke Averick?

  At night, usually that's when, because that's when you, it's usually the hardest. That's when murders happen. Wait, is SVU murder?

• 21:47Connor Wood?

  SVU is like sexually. Sex violent.

• 21:51Brooke Averick?

  Oh, some.

• 21:52Connor Wood?

  Sex, right?

• 21:52Brooke Averick?

  I'm sure there's some.

• 21:53Connor Wood?

  Sexual violence? I'm sure there's some murder happening. And.

• 21:57Brooke Averick?

  There's gotta be, yeah.

• 21:59Connor Wood?

  After the sexual violence, probably.

• 22:01Brooke Averick?

  Special victims. Special victims.

• 22:03Connor Wood?

  A special victim, you know.

• 22:04Brooke Averick?

  There's definitely murder, yeah.

• 22:06Connor Wood?

  But they're, they do special as like Ice Cube is always like. You know, the John Mulaney bit.

• 22:11Brooke Averick?

  I do.

• 22:11Connor Wood?

  You're telling me he's into little girls, like whatever he said.

• 22:15Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 22:16Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

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• 23:03Connor Wood?

  Yeah, sex crimes are particularly the worst. I remember something about SVU, the intro where they say that.

• 23:08Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 23:08Connor Wood?

  But they are genuinely, I walked outside this morning and it's the building next door that they've taken over. I wonder like, someone probably listening knows this, but people live, this is a residential building and the one next door is identical to it. I wonder if they get paid to like move, leave their apartment all day. No one can go in and out. It's all like full blown taped up. I don't know if it's for the crew or if it's for like the famous people that they're like bunking in there or something.

• 23:36Brooke Averick?

  Well, go ahead and see if you can be an extra.

• 23:38Connor Wood?

  I played.

• 23:38Brooke Averick?

  You know, I have always wanted to be a dead body on a show like that.

• 23:41Connor Wood?

  I know. I just go outside and lay down on the street.

• 23:45Brooke Averick?

  I think there's something incredibly healing probably about coming to terms with your own death. Like playing a dead body, I think would really, I don't know, be healing in some way.

• 23:54Connor Wood?

  Wait, my dumb.

• 23:54Brooke Averick?

  To be dead and then come back to life.

• 23:56Connor Wood?

  My dumb fat.

• 23:58Brooke Averick?

  What?

• 23:59Connor Wood?

  My dumb, my dumb fat stupid ass just goes outside and lays in the street. Like what if I just went outside with my stupid dumb ass and went and laid down in the street too?

• 24:08Brooke Averick?

  See what happens.

• 24:09Connor Wood?

  What if I almost just went out and laid in the street as well with my dumb fat?

• 24:12Brooke Averick?

  Go ahead.

• 24:14Connor Wood?

  I could.

• 24:16Brooke Averick?

  You could.

• 24:17Connor Wood?

  Okay, something's gotta give.

• 24:20Brooke Averick?

  Well. Can I open this now?

• 24:25Connor Wood?

  Oh my God. Oh yeah, you guys, welcome back to Brooke and Connor makeup podcast. Thank you guys so much for joining us this week. Brooke has something special on her lap.

• 24:34Brooke Averick?

  I do. It's our YouTube. It's our 100K YouTube plaque.

• 24:38Connor Wood?

  And of course, God works in such mysterious ways. Something had to give. And I think the thing that had to give is I needed to not be present when the thing that I've been begging on my hands and and clit for has arrived. And of course, it's it's our plaque.

• 24:50Brooke Averick?

  Well, here's the thing. You're you've been begging on your hands and clit and I was always like, oh yeah, like not as excited as you, but still supporting that venture, of course. But now that I like I've seen the plaque, I'm like, that's actually like very cool. And we should kiss our brains. What an accomplishment. Thank you, everyone. I I'm kind of giddy.

• 25:11Connor Wood?

  Is it heavy?

• 25:12Brooke Averick?

  No, it's like couldn't light as a feather.

• 25:15Connor Wood?

  Oh, is it like hollow?

• 25:16Brooke Averick?

  Let's see. Oh, wait, let's see what the note is. Do you remember your first subscriber? Your 100th, your 1,000th? Chances are you do. And we know you'll definitely remember your 100,000th subscriber. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Blah, blah. Keep creating, keep building. We can't wait to see what you'll do next. Thank you very much. And when you reach your 1 million subscriber, we may just write to you and ask, do you remember your 100,000th subscriber? Sincerely, Neil Mohan, YouTube CEO. Thank you, Neil.

• 25:49Connor Wood?

  Thanks, Neil. Wow.

• 25:52Brooke Averick?

  Here it is.

• 25:56Brooke Averick?

  And it has one of those like dry package, like not dry ice, but like dry poison, you know, that thing?

• 26:03Connor Wood?

  Yeah, I want to eat them still.

• 26:04Brooke Averick?

  I know.

• 26:06Brooke Averick?

  Here we go. Wow.

• 26:08Connor Wood?

  Are you unwrapping it? So wait.

• 26:10Brooke Averick?

  Unwrapped it.

• 26:11Connor Wood?

  Is it? It's light as a feather?

• 26:12Brooke Averick?

  Like it is hollow and light as a feather. Smaller than I thought.

• 26:18Connor Wood?

  Oh, it is small.

• 26:22Brooke Averick?

  Pretty, there's a mirror in it.

• 26:24Connor Wood?

  It's very thin as well.

• 26:27Brooke Averick?

  No, it's gorgeous. I wouldn't want it any other way.

• 26:30Connor Wood?

  I want it bigger and heavier, but that's

• 26:33Brooke Averick?

  That's just your preference?

• 26:34Connor Wood?

  That's special. Aw, thanks. Thank you guys.

• 26:38Brooke Averick?

  I'm gonna put it on the somewhere on the shelf. I can't get up right now, but I will do that in the interim between mane and bone.

• 26:47Connor Wood?

  And obviously, we remember our first, our 100th, and our 100,000th followers. Paula, Michael, and

• 26:56Brooke Averick?

  Stuart.

• 26:57Connor Wood?

  Stuart. Michael Stewart as well.

• 27:00Brooke Averick?

  Thank you, guys.

• 27:02Connor Wood?

  Thank you guys so much.

• 27:05Connor Wood?

  That was something that I've been waiting for, for a very, very, very long time. I want to touch it. I want to feel it. And that's something that I'm just gonna look forward to doing when I get there.

• 27:12Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 27:12Connor Wood?

  In P.

• 27:13Brooke Averick?

  We'll see you soon.

• 27:14Connor Wood?

  When did you get here? When? You leave at 3 a.m. and when?

• 27:18Brooke Averick?

  So, this is the quickest travel turnaround I've ever done in my life, which is causing me stress, because I just got back from Indiana yesterday. No, I got back from Indiana Sunday night, and then I leave at the house at 3:30 a.m. tonight slash tomorrow morning, and it's Tuesday. So I had two full days home.

• 27:43Connor Wood?

  You sound like me.

• 27:45Brooke Averick?

  I know, which is tough for me. But I'm doing, I'm doing it with a smile on my face.

• 27:51Connor Wood?

  If you, if you can do it with a smile on your face.

• 27:54Brooke Averick?

  Do it with a frown. I'm doing it. I'm doing it with a neutral expression. I feel better about it than I thought I'd feel about it. But not great. Does that make sense?

• 28:04Connor Wood?

  Yeah, you can do it with like a frown in your Cozier's PJs, too.

• 28:08Brooke Averick?

  What gets me the most is this quote, I guess words are affecting me too, Connor, that I saw on TikTok. I don't know if I've shared this already. Um, your pet is a chapter in your life, but to them, you're their whole book.

• 28:22Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 28:22Brooke Averick?

  That obviously has like completely altered me and like the thought of just like leaving John is so agonizing because I can't say like, I'm coming right back.

• 28:33Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 28:33Brooke Averick?

  Like, that's all I want to tell him. Like, I'll be right back. That being said, when I got home on Sunday night, he literally was like, oh, I don't give a fuck.

• 28:44Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 28:44Brooke Averick?

  Which made me feel better, but worse.

• 28:47Connor Wood?

  Right.

• 28:48Brooke Averick?

  So I feel, I feel better than I thought I would about leaving him again because he genuinely, truly couldn't, didn't give a shit.

• 28:54Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 28:55Brooke Averick?

  Which obviously hurt my feelings, but I'm happy for him.

• 28:58Connor Wood?

  Right. If, if Max, if Max's life is a book, it has had many, many MJ Shal- Shalamey Knight, whatever his name is, twists.

• 29:10Brooke Averick?

  MJ Shalamey Knight.

• 29:12Connor Wood?

  MJ Shalamey Knight, um, twists and turns. That kind of, that kind of shit is going on with Max's book because he's in Texas, he's been to Michigan, he's been to Idaho.

• 29:22Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, he's been to a lot of states.

• 29:24Connor Wood?

  He's been to many states. He, you remember, you remember Snakes on a Plane?

• 29:27Brooke Averick?

  Mm-hmm.

• 29:28Connor Wood?

  Have you heard of Shits on a Plane?

• 29:29Brooke Averick?

  Mm-hmm.

• 29:30Connor Wood?

  That was Max's whole chapter in his book, I assume.

• 29:32Brooke Averick?

  Oh, yeah. Max has, Max has a few different chapters, so that's good for him.

• 29:38Connor Wood?

  Twists and turns. My dad's excited to bring him out this summer though, after I'm done with, sure. But he will have been in Texas for a year.

• 29:45Brooke Averick?

  Wow.

• 29:46Connor Wood?

  Almost a year, like two months short, but 10 months. That's a long time.

• 29:50Brooke Averick?

  Wow.

• 29:51Connor Wood?

  But he's living his, his beast leave in Texas. He's got a full backyard and shit, but sorry, you're living with me now.

• 30:01Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 30:01Connor Wood?

  Sleeping on my, you're sleeping on my chest.

• 30:03Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. John has, um, he's like, as he gets older, he's become like less cuddly, which is so hard.

• 30:11Brooke Averick?

  Like he's not sleeping on my face anymore. He's sleeping at the bottom of my bed. Like he'll cuddle for like 10 minutes and then migrate to the bottom of my bed. And now he's been like leaving in the middle of the night for like hours at a time.

• 30:24Connor Wood?

  Cats are like nocturnal.

• 30:26Brooke Averick?

  Are they?

• 30:27Connor Wood?

  No.

• 30:28Brooke Averick?

  I thought they were supposed to sleep all the time. No, cats are not nocturnal, but rather crespicular, meaning they are the most active at dawn and dusk. Yeah, that makes sense. John's very active at dusk. Wait, is dusk the morning?

• 30:42Connor Wood?

  Dusk is night.

• 30:43Brooke Averick?

  Like he does love to cuddle in the morning. Tik Tok said that's because he's so glad I woke up. And I'm not dead.

• 30:49Connor Wood?

  You read that thing about cats, like if you died and you were dead for like four hours, they would eat you?

• 30:54Brooke Averick?

  Thank God. Like if he's hungry and I'm not there to feed him, I would hope so.

• 30:59Connor Wood?

  Right, but like you could also be in a coma.

• 31:03Brooke Averick?

  I would, you would survive if you were alive and they started eating you. Like they're not eating your heart. They're probably taking a few bites out that you would survive.

• 31:14Connor Wood?

  Genuine, real question. If, if you got out of a coma and you were missing like big, significant chunks of your torso because your cat like was hungry for 12 minutes. And would you be able to look at your cat and be like?

• 31:26Brooke Averick?

  I would say thank God. Thank God that he didn't go hungry.

• 31:30Connor Wood?

  Oh, I would be like.

• 31:31Brooke Averick?

  That would have made, like the thought of him being hungry, eating my torso is much more preferable.

• 31:37Connor Wood?

  I mean, I don't know the exact amount of days that it took, it like scientifically takes. Dogs like genuinely will starve. Like Max, the same way Max like would never bark or tell me he has to pee or poop. He just stares at me. Like I can't imagine how hard it would be for him to convince himself that he needs to eat my face.

• 31:55Brooke Averick?

  I don't think like, I think it's way blown out of proportion, the whole the cat will eat you thing.

• 32:02Brooke Averick?

  I'm sure it's just happened like a few times.

• 32:05Connor Wood?

  Well, I don't know how they would test that unless they had like a, someone who loved their pet and then had a camera in their house and was like, oh, they died. Leave them there for a little bit. Let's see how long it takes their, their cat to eat them. Like, how, how did they do that study? Can we look at that?

• 32:22Brooke Averick?

  I mean, I'm sure they just found a dead body that was eaten a little bit.

• 32:26Connor Wood?

  Oh, I guess they can test like how long the body's been dead.

• 32:30Brooke Averick?

  Okay, if you died alone, would your cat or dog eat you? Psychology Today. There's a little scientific data about how likely it is a dog or cat would try to eat their owner.

• 32:40Brooke Averick?

  And blah, blah, blah. Cats may be more predatory than dogs if their owner is deceased.

• 32:46Brooke Averick?

  Okay. No, I can't read this. This is making me sad.

• 32:50Connor Wood?

  Wait, can I read it?

• 32:51Brooke Averick?

  Sure.

• 32:51Connor Wood?

  Hang on.

• 32:52Brooke Averick?

  But it's making me sad.

• 32:54Connor Wood?

  A news report that claimed that a man in his 80s died while sitting in an easy chair. After some time, family and neighbors began to become concerned that he, that they hadn't heard from him and he wasn't responding to phone calls or emails. They asked police to carry out a wellness check and when they entered the apartment, they found the man dead. That was, what was most surprising is that they also found his Labrador Retriever lying dead beside him, apparently.

• 33:13Brooke Averick?

  That's what made me sad.

• 33:15Connor Wood?

  The dog starved to death despite the fact that sitting in the chair is a source of nourishment. While the news report

• 33:22Connor Wood?

  couched that, what a weird way to use the word couch. Couch this as a wonderful example of love and loyalty on the part of the dog. In more skeptical scientific mind, I wonder just how atypical this behavior was, given the fact that the dog and cats are carnivores and my expectation would be that the most loving pet would have tried to stay alive by eating the body of their dead owner. So one specific Labrador decided not to eat, which is like a dumb, not a survival move. Or he just was like, I'm not eating that old man. That's, that's gross. I would eat a younger man or a younger source of nourishment, but his like. Wrinkly skin is just not looking.

• 34:01Brooke Averick?

  Do you remember how the conversation we were having earlier was making you feel sick?

• 34:04Connor Wood?

  Oh, this one is.

• 34:05Brooke Averick?

  I'm having that experience with this conversation.

• 34:08Connor Wood?

  Okay, we can stop.

• 34:10Brooke Averick?

  Do you want to hear about Kappa?

• 34:12Connor Wood?

  Oh, my God. Why didn't you tell me about Kappa yet? Yes, I want to hear.

• 34:15Brooke Averick?

  You didn't ask.

• 34:17Connor Wood?

  Well, we we did. We went through my freaking random ass stories of my day and my coffee.

• 34:23Brooke Averick?

  I know. You seemed really to need to tell me that.

• 34:27Connor Wood?

  Well, tell me about Kappa. You seem like you really need to tell me that.

• 34:29Brooke Averick?

  It was great.

• 34:30Connor Wood?

  It looked, it was giving me chills. Every picture I saw of you there, like, you genuinely looked like you were having fun.

• 34:36Brooke Averick?

  I had a blast, and I think it was like whatever happened to me at Coachella, where I was like, you literally just like are here.

• 34:43Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 34:43Brooke Averick?

  And you just have to have fun is maybe what happened to me at Kappa. I had a blast, like, nothing even, I don't even have anything negative to say.

• 34:53Connor Wood?

  Do you want to go back to school and get your?

• 34:55Brooke Averick?

  No, I think that's why I had a good time. It was like, I'll be in my bed literally tomorrow night.

• 34:59Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 35:00Brooke Averick?

  Like, I think if it was like, oh, this is a four-year situation, that would be a little bit more challenging for me. But I had a great time.

• 35:09Brooke Averick?

  Um, I didn't need my puffer at the frat because of the body heat. Gabby was completely right. There were other moms. I was talking to the other moms before at the pregame, like, should we bring our puffers? I don't know. The girls are saying not to bring our puffers. I'm scared I'm gonna be cold, but we'd all decided it would be worse to be hot.

• 35:27Connor Wood?

  At the end of the day.

• 35:28Brooke Averick?

  And so I did not wear my puffer. There were people in puffers there. Okay?

• 35:32Connor Wood?

  At the, at the end of the day, those girls, those Kappa girls have survival skills. They're not like that Labrador that wouldn't eat eat the old man. They are like, we know how to survive. We know a thing or two about the streets. We know a thing or two about a frat basement, and we know a thing or two about stomping around with the moms. And we do not need our puffers to stay warm because we have our sisters for body heat.

• 35:56Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, that, well, this was at the frat.

• 35:59Connor Wood?

  We have our brothers under Christ.

• 36:02Brooke Averick?

  Wow, this was at Phi Sig. Those are my brothers.

• 36:06Connor Wood?

  Those are.

• 36:07Brooke Averick?

  Like, genuinely, those are my brothers.

• 36:09Connor Wood?

  It's special to find your chosen family, especially at IU.

• 36:13Brooke Averick?

  It really, it was really special. Had a great time. Um, Gabby was, kept saying like, I'm really worried that like, you're gonna get swarmed. Like, I think probably a lot of this is your demographic. Like, I'm worried that a lot of people listen to the podcast, whatever, blah, blah. And I was like, no, Gabby, it's gonna be fine. But I was kind of like thinking like, like, maybe, like, maybe I will get, maybe I will get some attention.

• 36:37Connor Wood?

  No.

• 36:38Brooke Averick?

  Mm-mm. Not Connor. I went in like worried, like scared it was gonna be overwhelming. No, no one.

• 36:43Connor Wood?

  Not the case today.

• 36:44Brooke Averick?

  To the point where I was like, has anyone ever listened to Brooke and Connor make a podcast?

• 36:49Connor Wood?

  Well, I think.

• 36:50Brooke Averick?

  No.

• 36:50Connor Wood?

  I think that specific day in that specific scenario, if I'm thinking about the, the state of mind I was in when I was going to a day party mixer, I'm not looking for podcasters.

• 37:04Brooke Averick?

  Well, let's just say I went in like a little bit worried and scared and came out a little bit pissed.

• 37:08Connor Wood?

  Oh.

• 37:09Brooke Averick?

  And insecure.

• 37:10Connor Wood?

  Something's gotta give at the end of the day.

• 37:12Brooke Averick?

  Something's gotta give. No, but it was so fun. Um.

• 37:15Connor Wood?

  It really truly looked.

• 37:17Brooke Averick?

  I was wearing my Ray-Ban Metas, so I was able to take pictures of Gabby and her crush, who I also have a crush on now.

• 37:25Connor Wood?

  That's good.

• 37:25Brooke Averick?

  By the way, I've decided, I think younger men is not that young, but like, I think I, I'm gonna set my hints to like 22, 3. 23. That's fine to say.

• 37:35Connor Wood?

  Okay, your next book is.

• 37:36Brooke Averick?

  I'm 27.

• 37:37Connor Wood?

  Your next book is just gonna be called 23 and Me, A Story of a, of a, of a Woman Searching for a Young Man.

• 37:44Brooke Averick?

  I'm just saying, like, I felt very like, they were like, oh, she's so cool, which like, I don't feel for men my age. And I think that's nice to be appreciated in that way. That's what I'll say.

• 37:56Brooke Averick?

  That's fine to say. That is fine to say.

• 37:59Connor Wood?

  Lady F from College Tour.

• 38:01Brooke Averick?

  You can be a cougar.

• 38:03Connor Wood?

  You can.

• 38:03Brooke Averick?

  I did not say college. I said 23.

• 38:06Connor Wood?

  Okay.

• 38:07Brooke Averick?

  That's fine. Is that, am I gonna get in trouble?

• 38:10Connor Wood?

  No.

• 38:11Brooke Averick?

  You're making me nervous.

• 38:13Connor Wood?

  No, I'm literally supporting you. I'm telling you to write a book about it.

• 38:17Brooke Averick?

  Maybe I will, Connor. That is like a big, that's a big thing in romance.

• 38:22Connor Wood?

  I know. All of the, all of the movies right now are like.

• 38:25Brooke Averick?

  Are, yeah, Younger Man.

• 38:26Connor Wood?

  Nicole Kidman goes to the Frats.

• 38:29Brooke Averick?

  Yes, that's what I'm saying. This was Baby Girl.

• 38:33Connor Wood?

  This was Baby Girl.

• 38:33Brooke Averick?

  At Papa.

• 38:35Connor Wood?

  Um, well, that's like genuinely dreamy and I'm excited for you. These is like, oh, it's all about self-discovery. That's what college is all about, is finding yourself and learning things about your body.

• 38:44Brooke Averick?

  And then I would say the only negative thing that happened, and I would say like, we were all like a perfect level drunk, like no one was like sloppy or anything, but we were like having the best time. Everything was just the greatest. And then we went to Cane's, which is like, wow, what a fabulous thing to do right now. Like, how excited are we to get to experience Cane's at a time like this on a Saturday in Bloomington?

• 39:11Brooke Averick?

  You know, what an amazing thing. We get there. One of us had spilled some water on the table or something like, not even like drunkenly, just like someone knocked over water. It happens. Okay. One of the Cane's employees walked by and said with so much attitude,

• 39:33Brooke Averick?

  you're gonna have to clean up that mess that you so obviously spilled.

• 39:37Brooke Averick?

  Okay, now that set me, that put me from complete bliss to literally like I'm seeing the most red that I've ever seen in my life. And then at this point, someone was like, oh, I love your podcast. And I was like, thanks, I have to talk to the manager right now. Thank you.

• 39:53Connor Wood?

  You did not talk to the manager, right?

• 39:55Brooke Averick?

  Well, two more things happened. So first, there was that attitude that he gave me. Okay. Then now we're all pissed and Channing and Alexa were like pissed, like, but like a normal amount. And me and Gabby, just because of our DNA, we're like, this is completely unacceptable.

• 40:13Brooke Averick?

  Then he came back and threw napkins at us. He threw napkins at us and said, for your mess. Keep in mind, it is water. It is water. It is a water spill. Okay. In, in the middle of the day in Bloomington, Indiana on IU's campus. Okay. During mom's weekend. So a little water spill that we had intended, had every intention of cleaning up. Okay. Then now me and Gabby are completely like beside ourselves. Then he walks by again. Gabby had, had a little bit of attitude back and said, we cleaned up. And he said, thanks, love. That was the respectful choice. And then at this point, Gabby said, what is your name?

• 40:55Brooke Averick?

  He gave us his name and then Gabby said, can you, or Channing said, can we please speak to the manager?

• 41:02Brooke Averick?

  Okay. So we did. And that was the first time that I've ever spoken to the manager was last was was this past weekend.

• 41:13Brooke Averick?

  How does that sit with you?

• 41:14Connor Wood?

  Um, no. I wasn't there. Okay. But I also have never worked at a fast food restaurant on a college campus.

• 41:24Brooke Averick?

  I I I was gonna say like I put in my notes like um to really like fully expose this person whose name I have and then I said, you know what, Brooke? He's probably like Ms. So I so I'm not gonna do that, but this is me taking the high road. Connor, I can't even explain the attitude that I received. Know that this is me taking the high road.

• 41:47Connor Wood?

  Yeah, no, and I appreciate you taking the high road.

• 41:50Brooke Averick?

  I threw the napkins at us.

• 41:52Connor Wood?

  Yeah, I I again, I wasn't there. I just I my heart goes out to individuals that have dealt with me when I was 19 drunk at Whataburger.

• 42:02Brooke Averick?

  I'm telling you.

• 42:03Connor Wood?

  E. Campus.

• 42:04Brooke Averick?

  No, Connor, I'm telling you like we were not even like sloppy drunk. We had simply spilled water.

• 42:10Connor Wood?

  No, no, I don't think.

• 42:10Brooke Averick?

  Sure, he's like in obviously like in a state which I can.

• 42:15Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 42:16Brooke Averick?

  Appreciate. I'm sure I would be too, but like I've never been.

• 42:20Brooke Averick?

  I've never I've never.

• 42:21Connor Wood?

  No, I I bet it was some some some frat group of people that came in right before you that like spit on him or something, you know?

• 42:28Brooke Averick?

  No, I think that I think that there was hate in his heart. I really do.

• 42:33Connor Wood?

  I I think it just he took it out on you guys probably, but I'm just assuming also I'm just making up a.

• 42:37Brooke Averick?

  You are giving him the benefit of the doubt, I promise, which is a sweet thing to do. And a noble thing to do. If you were at that table, Connor, and it was like. I I literally have never in my life.

• 42:51Connor Wood?

  Oh, Lord, you got you got someone.

• 42:53Brooke Averick?

  And the manager didn't even care. Gabby had sent the three of us away because she was like, I let me handle this. Um, she was like, I feel like you're not taking this seriously to the manager. Like, it was really, like, we were really, we were really upset. And that's what I was saying, we, obviously, that's when people were like, oh, I love your podcast. And I was like, I actually have to speak to the manager right now. So I want to apologize to those people. That's not really who I am usually. This was an extenuating circumstance based off the way that we were treated at the Bloomington, Indiana Canes.

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• 44:44Brooke Averick?

  Okay.

• 44:45Connor Wood?

  Oh, my gosh, it reminds me of, there was this one time, we had, we were at UT and we went to IHOP. Oh, no, we were in Dallas, we went to IHOP, and it was a huge weekend for our football teams. It was like our rivalry weekend. And we all went to IHOP, like, late at night. And...

• 45:07Connor Wood?

  It was super late and I remember it was super late because someone at our table was pouring the syrup just right into their mouth from those like little fun containers.

• 45:16Brooke Averick?

  See now that I can understand just an employee being like shut the fuck like stop. I'm telling you Connor, we were so benign.

• 45:25Connor Wood?

  No, this is not a story involving staff.

• 45:28Brooke Averick?

  Oh.

• 45:28Connor Wood?

  Um, at all. It just reminds me of this story. Then a girl comes up to one of the girls at our table and just grabs her ponytail and rips her out of it.

• 45:38Connor Wood?

  And starts just like girl, you know, girl fighting, like hitting with the side of your fist, you know, like in those fights that you see. Starts doing that. So then another girl at our table jumps on her and they start fighting. The girl, the original girl, Scott, I look at her face and goes, oh my God, I thought you were someone else.

• 45:58Brooke Averick?

  Oh, my bad.

• 45:59Connor Wood?

  They all stopped fighting. They're like, oh, thank God. Okay. We didn't know what that, we thought we were being like jumped or whatever. And we, they, everything ended. I obviously was frozen in shock. So it's good to know in those situations. And again, this is like, has nothing to do with the staff. The staff actually did not do anything at this IHOP.

• 46:20Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 46:20Connor Wood?

  And there was a lot happening, but with this fight, no call, no one called the cops. No one did anything. My ass didn't move. You know how people have like fight or flight?

• 46:33Brooke Averick?

  Mm hmm.

• 46:34Connor Wood?

  The third option is just, I think.

• 46:35Brooke Averick?

  Paralysis.

• 46:37Connor Wood?

  Cause I'm a freezer.

• 46:38Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. I get that.

• 46:41Connor Wood?

  What are you doing?

• 46:42Brooke Averick?

  Let's just say you wouldn't have been able to freeze when this employee was involved. Let's just say he, he inspired action.

• 46:49Brooke Averick?

  With his attitude.

• 46:50Connor Wood?

  I just, I don't think I would do anything there either. I would just be like mad. Actually.

• 46:53Brooke Averick?

  Well, I wouldn't have asked, I wouldn't have asked for the manager, but I wouldn't have asked for the manager. I didn't ask for the manager. I still think that's not something I'm capable of, but in this situation, I did speak to the manager when he was summoned because I was so.

• 47:08Brooke Averick?

  And then Gabby sent me away because I just kept saying, I have never felt compelled to do this. Did you just burp? Is that why you're looking that way?

• 47:17Connor Wood?

  Did you not hear that? Really?

• 47:18Brooke Averick?

  I heard you burp.

• 47:20Connor Wood?

  I didn't burp.

• 47:21Brooke Averick?

  What was it?

• 47:22Connor Wood?

  It was like a doorbell, but I don't know when I don't that that thing keeps happening when I'm in this apartment. I don't know what I'm supposed to do because I don't know if there's yeah, I don't know if I'm supposed to let Amazon in or something.

• 47:36Brooke Averick?

  Anyway, now I'm having like obviously horrible anxiety that I'm coming across as a brat between this and my anthropology customer service experience. But I think I'm just trying to grow a backbone.

• 47:46Connor Wood?

  Good. It's important to grow a backbone.

• 47:50Brooke Averick?

  Thanks.

• 47:54Connor Wood?

  I forgot I was gonna say.

• 47:56Brooke Averick?

  Okay, well, here's something.

• 47:57Connor Wood?

  It's gonna be productive at all. So yeah, take it, please.

• 48:00Brooke Averick?

  Why don't British people have their accents when they're singing?

• 48:03Connor Wood?

  I don't know. I just thought that that was the thing.

• 48:07Brooke Averick?

  Well, some do, but then most don't.

• 48:11Brooke Averick?

  Like, why is Jonathan Bailey not singing Don Sing Through Life? Like, he's very much saying dancing eh eh eh with that American A.

• 48:20Connor Wood?

  I've never.

• 48:20Brooke Averick?

  Why is he? Why wouldn't he just do Don Sing?

• 48:22Connor Wood?

  I've never even at all looked into this. Even Adele, who's got the most thick Hackney accent or whatever, wherever she's from. She goes, never mind.

• 48:34Brooke Averick?

  Exactly.

• 48:35Connor Wood?

  I'll find.

• 48:35Brooke Averick?

  Exactly.

• 48:36Connor Wood?

  Someone like you.

• 48:37Brooke Averick?

  Why?

• 48:38Connor Wood?

  Hello, it's me.

• 48:40Brooke Averick?

  Then you have Ed Sheeran, who does sing in British.

• 48:44Connor Wood?

  I'm in love with the shape of you.

• 48:46Brooke Averick?

  No, the uh, in the dark, a few between my arms, barefoot on the grass. He says grass. I remember that specifically because I was doing karaoke to that song and had like a moment of panic. Like, do I say grass or gross? And it ended up coming out as like grace.

• 49:03Connor Wood?

  You had a moment of Brit panic?

• 49:05Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, a panic on that stage. But yeah, I can, permission to grab my phone Connor?

• 49:12Connor Wood?

  Grab your phone, you've always had permission from me.

• 49:14Brooke Averick?

  Why don't Brits sing in a British accent?

• 49:20Connor Wood?

  I think it's because-

• 49:22Brooke Averick?

  Well, it might seem like Brits don't always sing with a strong British accent, the reality is that many do, okay, but some don't. Factors like the nature of singing, cultural expectations, and the dominance of American pop music can make their accents less noticeable when singing. Often leading to a sound closer to a general American accent.

• 49:37Connor Wood?

  That's what I was gonna say, not to be so like, American elitist, but I do feel like a lot of- I just watched the Amy Winehouse movie, I don't know if I told you that-

• 49:49Brooke Averick?

  Should've been me.

• 49:50Connor Wood?

  It should've been you, it really should've been anyone else besides the girl who played it, even though-

• 49:54Brooke Averick?

  I haven't seen it.

• 49:55Connor Wood?

  I do like her as an actress and she was really good in industry, which is what she's in. But she did not look, or sound, or really even act like the Amy Winehouse that I know. Not to be an Amy Winehouse expert, hotness-

• 50:09Brooke Averick?

  No, you love Amy.

• 50:11Connor Wood?

  Amy Winehouse expert here, but I do, I am a huge fan. And I don't feel like it was a good casting, but, why did I talk about her? Oh, because- There was like a big point there, where they were like, hey, to make money, we really need to break into the American markets, and this one is not gonna do it. And so I think that there's just like a really big pull to appeal to Americans in music globally. I don't think it's like- So I think that, not that we would care, hey, British people, we would love if you used your accents-

• 50:44Brooke Averick?

  I would love if Jonathan Bailey would sing "Don't Sing Through Life."

• 50:47Connor Wood?

  It's kinda fun to play pretend for us a little bit, even.

• 50:51Brooke Averick?

  But now I'm seeing that it has to do with just like, the way that the vowels are when you sing.

• 50:57Connor Wood?

  Yeah, the vowels, oh yeah, maybe.

• 51:01Brooke Averick?

  It's not just British people who lose their accent while singing, we all do. A British person could say the same about an American singer.

• 51:07Connor Wood?

  I don't think that that's true. Who wrote that article?

• 51:10Brooke Averick?

  This is Reddit.

• 51:13Connor Wood?

  You know my-

• 51:13Brooke Averick?

  Oh my god, Japanese language, alright, we're good, okay.

• 51:17Connor Wood?

  What?

• 51:18Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, apparently we all lose our accents. "The muscles we use for singing are different than the muscles we use for talking. It's not that the accent disappears, it neutralizes because singing techniques are pretty universal."

• 51:32Brooke Averick?

  In the early days, foreign pop musicians were coached to seem more American. The United States has a significant larger and more profitable music industries. Okay, interesting. Well, let me know if you guys.

• 51:41Connor Wood?

  Wait, was I exactly right?

• 51:42Brooke Averick?

  Kinda.

• 51:43Connor Wood?

  Oh, wow, that's cool. Um, that has never happened. So that's fun. I have two things to tell you.

• 51:51Brooke Averick?

  Okay.

• 51:52Connor Wood?

  They're just like one-off, like little things that I will noted because it's maybe laugh.

• 51:57Brooke Averick?

  Okay.

• 51:58Connor Wood?

  Okay, so last night I went, um, to have a Guinness, which is my new thing that I like is Guinness, having Guinness.

• 52:07Brooke Averick?

  I like beer now.

• 52:09Connor Wood?

  You are, you are becoming,

• 52:13Connor Wood?

  like you're becoming more up my alley now that I'm living abroad.

• 52:17Brooke Averick?

  Hey, I'm starting to like you.

• 52:19Connor Wood?

  Distance, distance is like-

• 52:20Brooke Averick?

  Hey, you're starting to grow on me.

• 52:22Connor Wood?

  Making us like branch together, which is crazy. We'll have to get a beer while you-

• 52:27Brooke Averick?

  You're starting to get cozy and I'm starting to like Guinness.

• 52:29Connor Wood?

  No, genuinely-

• 52:30Brooke Averick?

  No, I don't think I like Guinness.

• 52:33Connor Wood?

  Guinness took, until I went to Ireland, to actually drink a Guinness to completion. But last night I went-

• 52:39Brooke Averick?

  I like beers that taste like a half water, half soap.

• 52:41Connor Wood?

  Okay.

• 52:42Brooke Averick?

  More of a light, a light beer.

• 52:43Connor Wood?

  Like a Coors Light. You probably like a Coors Light. Um, well, my buddy, he's British and he was, so he's like having a Guinness at this bar that you would really like. Um, Simon Fraser. He's a comedian.

• 52:57Brooke Averick?

  Okay.

• 52:57Connor Wood?

  He's really funny. He's, um, so he was at, uh, this bar that you would really like. This is where Jason Momoa was last week. This bar called Swift and it's, it's, uh, named after Jonathan Swift, an Irish poet.

• 53:12Brooke Averick?

  I love a Jonathan.

• 53:14Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 53:14Brooke Averick?

  I love a good Jonathan.

• 53:16Connor Wood?

  Um, and so we're sitting there, we're having a Guinness and we're talking and Simon gets up to go to the restroom and there's a couple next to us and they're clearly on a first date. My phone's on 4%. So I couldn't even pretend like I was on my phone. I was just staring straight ahead and listening to their first date. We're sitting at the bar. So I'm right next to the dude. And this is when I, when I clock into their conversation, the first thing I hear is- And you know, I, pears, the shape of pears make sense to me. Because if you think about the way they hang and the way water would flow into the fruit itself, it forms sort of like bottom heavy and it almost looks like a water droplet.

• 53:56Connor Wood?

  And then where I lose any logic here is when we start talking about apples. The shape of apples don't make as much sense as the shape of pears. And I was like, this is the most awesome conversation for a first date.

• 54:10Brooke Averick?

  I was literally about to say that is you on a first date, probably.

• 54:13Connor Wood?

  I was like, this is so, like, Brooke, genuinely, I, I was like, ah.

• 54:19Brooke Averick?

  About to pull up a chair?

• 54:20Connor Wood?

  No, I was like, ah, ah, ah, and then I was like, oh, I can't, like, what am I, what am I doing? Like, I've had, I've had half of one beer and I'm ready to chime in on someone's first date. But I was like, oh, my God, so true. And I couldn't hear if, if she was even responding to him. But I was about to just-

• 54:37Brooke Averick?

  That was the guy that was saying that? I don't know why I would assume the girl.

• 54:41Connor Wood?

  No, it was the guy.

• 54:42Brooke Averick?

  Oh.

• 54:43Connor Wood?

  It was so funny, like, doesn't the shape of pears make so much sense? And I was like, yes, she does. And-

• 54:49Brooke Averick?

  That would have, that would have, he would have had my heart in that moment.

• 54:52Connor Wood?

  They get up to leave. He had offered me a phone charger because he heard me ask the bartender if I could charge my phone for a second. And he's like, I have one, but it was an old one. I was like, oh, thank you so much. And they got up to leave and I was like, I'll see you later. And he's like, by the way, love the podcast. The dude on the first date.

• 55:08Brooke Averick?

  Same about the, the people in Bloomington.

• 55:10Connor Wood?

  I know, what a damn shame. We need to step up our-

• 55:12Brooke Averick?

  I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I don't care.

• 55:14Connor Wood?

  You need to step up our Indiana talk.

• 55:17Brooke Averick?

  I actually, I genuinely, I hope people understand that I don't actually care. It was like, more of like a funny, like, oh, damn type of thing, you know what I mean?

• 55:25Connor Wood?

  We all have those oh, damn moments.

• 55:28Brooke Averick?

  Thank you.

• 55:31Connor Wood?

  Well, he said, love the podcast.

• 55:33Brooke Averick?

  That's sweet.

• 55:34Connor Wood?

  I, I was like, I really wanted to chime in on your pear conversation, by the way. And they were both laughing.

• 55:41Brooke Averick?

  Oh, I hope that they, it went well.

• 55:44Connor Wood?

  I hope that that sparked, like, a, a, a circling back on the conversation surrounding the shapes of fruits.

• 55:53Connor Wood?

  For them?

• 55:53Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 55:54Connor Wood?

  Cause I thought it was like a really good topic to bring up, especially because there were fruits at the bar and he was just using what his surroundings to start conversation. I think that's a really admirable to-

• 56:04Brooke Averick?

  I do too.

• 56:05Connor Wood?

  You don't have to talk about anything serious. You don't have to talk about people's families. You don't have to talk about your past, your future, your present even, or politics, or religion. You can talk about the shape of fruits-

• 56:16Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, that's nice.

• 56:17Connor Wood?

  At the end of the day.

• 56:18Brooke Averick?

  Cause-

• 56:18Connor Wood?

  That is-

• 56:18Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 56:19Connor Wood?

  A level playing field for all.

• 56:20Brooke Averick?

  It's refreshing to not be doing get to know you questions.

• 56:23Connor Wood?

  So, and it's not, it's not even small talk.

• 56:25Brooke Averick?

  Oh, maybe this is even the get to know you.

• 56:28Connor Wood?

  That might be the get to know you.

• 56:29Brooke Averick?

  More so than the where are you from?

• 56:32Connor Wood?

  Why your tooth brown?

• 56:33Brooke Averick?

  And why your tooth brown and why you have no tooth?

• 56:36Connor Wood?

  Why you have no tooth?

• 56:37Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 56:38Connor Wood?

  Um, I, then I had something funny happen today. So, did you see my Instagram story yesterday? Where I saw a young man with a tote bag worn-

• 56:45Brooke Averick?

  Yes.

• 56:46Connor Wood?

  Worn backpack style? So, I posted that yesterday. It, it set the internet ablaze, to be honest. I've never had more responses. I've never had more shares.

• 56:56Brooke Averick?

  Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.

• 56:59Connor Wood?

  And the people had begun to talk. And so, I, I wore mine out of respect for the young man that I posted yesterday. I wore mine backpack style today. Hamburger style instead of hot dog style. And someone DM'd me and I was like, oh, a fan. I open it and someone, he said to me, "I saw two dudes kissing yesterday and this is actually gayer than that."

• 57:24Brooke Averick?

  Okay.

• 57:24Connor Wood?

  That I was wearing a bag like a backpack.

• 57:26Brooke Averick?

  Okay.

• 57:26Connor Wood?

  And I thought that was the funniest thing that I've ever seen. So, thank you all for your, I'm assuming we got muted for it. Are you muted?

• 57:34Brooke Averick?

  No.

• 57:35Connor Wood?

  Oh, okay.

• 57:37Connor Wood?

  Okay, wasn't sure cause it's-

• 57:38Brooke Averick?

  No, not at all. Why?

• 57:40Connor Wood?

  Um, I thought that that was really funny. I don't know.

• 57:44Brooke Averick?

  Calling things gay is back and when it's used by a gay person or an ally, it's hysterical. But sometimes I can't tell.

• 57:54Connor Wood?

  Well, that's like, I think-

• 57:55Brooke Averick?

  I would need to get to know him more.

• 57:57Connor Wood?

  Oh, okay. Well, I think that that was, I think, I couldn't, I didn't look at his profile or anything, but I, um-

• 58:04Brooke Averick?

  But that doesn't scream as, as an ally.

• 58:09Brooke Averick?

  That doesn't scream gay to me. It just screams like quirky, like Joey D'Amelio.

• 58:15Connor Wood?

  To break through the noise, but I was just laughing. I was just laughing.

• 58:19Brooke Averick?

  That's fine. You can laugh.

• 58:21Connor Wood?

  It was great that no one else did. Um, let's leave that in and see if one person that listens to the podcast even laughs at that.

• 58:28Brooke Averick?

  I bet they will.

• 58:30Connor Wood?

  Yeah, I'm sure that someone will, even though I'm over here sweating. My tits are sweating off.

• 58:33Brooke Averick?

  Are your pants on or off right now?

• 58:35Connor Wood?

  My pants are on. So I'm out of, I'm out of underwear officially. I need to do wash.

• 58:41Brooke Averick?

  Is, is your new apartment gonna have a washer dryer in unit?

• 58:45Connor Wood?

  Yeah, okay. I need to ask you this. Have you ever heard of a washer dryer that's the same machine?

• 58:51Brooke Averick?

  I have, but like I have no experience with them or know nothing about them.

• 58:55Connor Wood?

  Cause I had that burning question.

• 58:57Brooke Averick?

  That seems to make the most sense.

• 59:00Connor Wood?

  I don't really, so it drains and then it heats up and dries? Cause that's what I have.

• 59:04Brooke Averick?

  That's what the litter robot does, in a way.

• 59:09Connor Wood?

  Yeah, I, I just don't see how that could be effective at all. I'm probably gonna be spending so much money on washing and drying my stuff in terms of.

• 59:18Brooke Averick?

  Well, thankfully, I feel like it will wash, you know? It might not dry. And drying is something that you can just do when you put your clothes out in the open.

• 59:29Connor Wood?

  I don't, yeah, I guess.

• 59:31Brooke Averick?

  You can probably get them to at least damp in that machine.

• 59:34Connor Wood?

  You spend so much money on rent and you still have to put that to dry.

• 59:38Brooke Averick?

  Well, let's see. Let's see. We don't know. Let's not get ahead of ourselves.

• 59:42Connor Wood?

  Yeah. Um.

• 59:46Connor Wood?

  I'm trying to think of pop.

• 59:47Brooke Averick?

  Can we talk about White Lotus?

• 59:48Connor Wood?

  I can talk about White Lotus, but I really wanna, I had an idea for a segment on here that we've never done before, but I kinda wanna do like pop culture that wouldn't cross your desk that I'm aware of. You know what I mean?

• 59:59Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 1:00:02Connor Wood?

  I don't feel like you do based on that, yeah.

• 1:00:04Brooke Averick?

  No, I do know what you mean.

• 1:00:06Connor Wood?

  Like, because I feel like we don't, when I, when I, when I tell you about certain stuff, like, have you heard of Bad Baby and Alabama Barker beefing?

• 1:00:14Brooke Averick?

  No.

• 1:00:15Connor Wood?

  Does that sound like an ad lib to you?

• 1:00:16Brooke Averick?

  No, I know, well, I know Alabama. I don't know Bad Baby.

• 1:00:20Connor Wood?

  It's Bahad Bahabi.

• 1:00:22Brooke Averick?

  Oh. Is that, is she on TikTok?

• 1:00:25Connor Wood?

  She's Gucci flip flops.

• 1:00:28Brooke Averick?

  I don't know her.

• 1:00:29Connor Wood?

  Bahad Bahabi and Alabama Baharker?

• 1:00:33Brooke Averick?

  No, I don't know. I don't.

• 1:00:35Connor Wood?

  She's Catch, Catch Me Outside, how about that? That's the her. Remember her from Dr. Phil?

• 1:00:40Brooke Averick?

  Yes.

• 1:00:42Connor Wood?

  That's her, and they're beefing. And, that was an example that I was giving. That being said, I don't know why. I don't know why they're beefing. There's something to do with, like, Alabama is hooking up with one of her Bad, Bahad Bahabi's exes or something, and now Bad Baby dropped like an, like a diss track. That's as far as we can go. I'm actually never gonna be able to tell anyone about beef between rappers, but I'm gonna work, I'm gonna have, I'm gonna have a better segmented thing next week where I do pop culture, trending pop culture topics that have not come across Brooke's desk, I assume.

• 1:01:16Brooke Averick?

  Well, do I, then do I get to do something, like, maybe in the book or the Broadway space?

• 1:01:21Connor Wood?

  Please, yeah, I encourage you.

• 1:01:23Brooke Averick?

  I have one.

• 1:01:24Connor Wood?

  Okay, hit me.

• 1:01:25Brooke Averick?

  Okay, I'm gonna say a name and you're gonna tell me who this person is. This is somebody that I've probably talked about in probably 20-plus episodes. Okay? Jonathan Larson. What does that name mean to you?

• 1:01:38Connor Wood?

  Um, I know what it is. I know he's in something, but I can't remember what it is. You've just got so many Jonathans on your-

• 1:01:44Brooke Averick?

  This is the number one Jonathan who my cat is named after.

• 1:01:48Connor Wood?

  Yeah, I know. I knew that. Jonathan Bailey, Jonathan Larson, Jonathan-

• 1:01:54Connor Wood?

  He's in a play.

• 1:01:55Brooke Averick?

  Come on, man.

• 1:01:56Connor Wood?

  Rent.

• 1:01:57Brooke Averick?

  You're close. Okay, Jonathan Larson, you want me to tell you or are you getting there?

• 1:02:02Connor Wood?

  He's in a play that you like, and I can't remember what it is. Yeah, tell me what play.

• 1:02:05Brooke Averick?

  Are you thinking of Jonathan Groff?

• 1:02:07Connor Wood?

  Oh, damn.

• 1:02:09Brooke Averick?

  Okay, Jonathan Larson is the creator of Rent.

• 1:02:13Connor Wood?

  Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah.

• 1:02:13Brooke Averick?

  Okay, and also Tic Tic Boom. Andrew Garfield played him in Tic Tic Boom.

• 1:02:17Connor Wood?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:02:17Brooke Averick?

  Okay, and you know Tic Tic Boom is about the feeling that he was running out of time before he made something of himself and then named Rent.

• 1:02:23Connor Wood?

  And then he died.

• 1:02:24Brooke Averick?

  Completely changed the course of Broadway history and then he died right before opening night. He never got to see what he did, okay? So I am, you know, doing my best to try to keep continuing his legacy. You know, small thing I can do is name my cat after him and just continue to talk about him, etc., okay?

• 1:02:40Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 1:02:40Brooke Averick?

  There's a new show off Broadway that I'm going to next month called The Jonathan Larson Project, which is a collection of all the music of his that was never released. How cool is that?

• 1:02:53Connor Wood?

  Wow, from beyond the grave.

• 1:02:54Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 1:02:55Connor Wood?

  That's really cool.

• 1:02:55Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. And that's, and that's that, exactly. So I'm really excited about that, Connor.

• 1:03:02Connor Wood?

  That's awesome. That's very cool. And now I'm never gonna forget Jonathan Larson.

• 1:03:06Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, say that name, Jonathan Larson.

• 1:03:08Connor Wood?

  And, and go ahead and-

• 1:03:09Brooke Averick?

  Keep his legacy alive.

• 1:03:10Connor Wood?

  Go ahead and say Bahad Behabey for me.

• 1:03:12Brooke Averick?

  Bahad Behabey.

• 1:03:13Connor Wood?

  Thank you.

• 1:03:14Brooke Averick?

  Wow.

• 1:03:15Connor Wood?

  Out of respect. Put some respect on Bahad Behabey while we're at it. Um, okay, cool. Well, that's, that's all I have for your pop culture update. I wish I could have explained it better as well as you explained Jonathan Larson to me. Um, but I can't.

• 1:03:27Brooke Averick?

  For my Broadway update. I like this. I like this idea.

• 1:03:31Connor Wood?

  Yeah, it's fun. I thought, I thought it was, because I was putting some stuff in and I didn't want to sound like another individual that talks about young people's gossip because I just don't, you know, and I never want to be that person and I don't really care that much about other people's gossip.

• 1:03:45Brooke Averick?

  Well, how about you find something that you really care about?

• 1:03:48Connor Wood?

  Yeah, next, next week I'll do something that, you know, like this Luigi Mangione, you know, he's gonna have a mistrial, allegedly.

• 1:03:54Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 1:03:55Connor Wood?

  And be let go because they didn't read him as Miranda rights and they like said he wasn't being, um, what's it called when you're in handcuffs?

• 1:04:04Brooke Averick?

  Read his Miranda rights?

• 1:04:06Connor Wood?

  When he's in handcuffs.

• 1:04:07Brooke Averick?

  Oh, captive?

• 1:04:09Connor Wood?

  Yeah, not held captive, though. It's not pirates.

• 1:04:15Connor Wood?

  Like, you're not being...

• 1:04:18Connor Wood?

  What is he? What was he being? Does anyone know what's it called?

• 1:04:21Brooke Averick?

  Contained?

• 1:04:22Connor Wood?

  Not contained either.

• 1:04:24Brooke Averick?

  Held?

• 1:04:25Connor Wood?

  Not held. Not held prisoner, not a prisoner of war. He's just being, he's being held. Someone, someone, anyone?

• 1:04:34Brooke Averick?

  He was being held.

• 1:04:36Connor Wood?

  Hang on, I can look it up.

• 1:04:39Connor Wood?

  I can do it, I can do it, I can do it, I can do it, I can do it. I can do it, I can do it, I can do it. Hang on, he is...

• 1:04:44Brooke Averick?

  Are you talking about the action of him being held in handcuffs?

• 1:04:47Connor Wood?

  Custody!

• 1:04:48Brooke Averick?

  Oh, good one.

• 1:04:49Connor Wood?

  Someone said, they were like, "You are not in custody." He was in fact in custody. And what's funny is, when I got arrested, they did not read me my Miranda rights. And when I told my lawyer that, this was when I was 19, they were like, "Oh, you watch too much TV."

• 1:05:05Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 1:05:06Connor Wood?

  Like, you don't, you do not get your Miranda rights read, do you?

• 1:05:11Brooke Averick?

  But why would TV take that liberty?

• 1:05:16Brooke Averick?

  Like, you don't have, it just gives you more lines.

• 1:05:21Connor Wood?

  Yeah, I also don't, yeah, I don't totally get... Hmm, I should look into that before just like spewing that I do not understand, am I right?

• 1:05:30Brooke Averick?

  That could be, how about next week you teach us about Miranda rights?

• 1:05:34Connor Wood?

  I would be happy to.

• 1:05:35Brooke Averick?

  Okay, so no one tell us that we were wrong? Connor's gonna come back next week and let us know.

• 1:05:40Connor Wood?

  And I'm gonna learn a couple things myself. I am going on tour on Friday.

• 1:05:44Brooke Averick?

  Okay.

• 1:05:44Connor Wood?

  Away. Um, I'm gonna be in Baton Rouge and New Orleans over the weekend. I'm so excited.

• 1:05:50Brooke Averick?

  That's fun.

• 1:05:51Connor Wood?

  To be back on tour and to be like, working.

• 1:05:56Connor Wood?

  And I'm gonna be on tour with Jake.

• 1:05:58Brooke Averick?

  That's so fun.

• 1:06:00Connor Wood?

  Um, I understood super late in the game that no one understood what dates I was doing with Jake, because we made a graphic that had an arrow pointing to one single date that we collab posted. And everyone was like, I don't get it. You're doing one date and you posted a poster? Doing all the dates that I posted.

• 1:06:16Brooke Averick?

  Okay.

• 1:06:17Connor Wood?

  Just want to be very clear.

• 1:06:18Brooke Averick?

  Okay.

• 1:06:19Connor Wood?

  Um.

• 1:06:20Brooke Averick?

  Well, I'll see you tomorrow.

• 1:06:22Connor Wood?

  I'll see your ass tomorrow in New York City.

• 1:06:26Brooke Averick?

  Yup.

• 1:06:27Connor Wood?

  Um, oh, question.

• 1:06:29Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 1:06:31Connor Wood?

  Thursday, we're going to see Little Shop of Horrors. What time?

• 1:06:37Brooke Averick?

  Let's offline about it.

• 1:06:39Connor Wood?

  Well, because I have the follow up with my therapist at 7:00 PM.

• 1:06:42Brooke Averick?

  Okay, it's at 7:00 PM.

• 1:06:45Brooke Averick?

  So reschedule that.

• 1:06:48Brooke Averick?

  I'm proud of you for making it. This time, make it at a different time where we're not going to see Little Shop of Horrors. You can't bail on Little Shop.

• 1:06:57Connor Wood?

  Like the play starts at that exact time.

• 1:06:59Brooke Averick?

  Starts at 7:00. You should be at the theater at 6:45.

• 1:07:03Connor Wood?

  How interesting that that, the stars have aligned in such a negative way.

• 1:07:09Brooke Averick?

  You can reschedule a follow up with a therapist. You can't reschedule seeing Little Shop of Horrors with your friends.

• 1:07:14Connor Wood?

  That's true. Well, damn.

• 1:07:17Brooke Averick?

  Look at me and tell me you're gonna reschedule.

• 1:07:20Connor Wood?

  I'm gonna try to reschedule, sure.

• 1:07:21Brooke Averick?

  No, no.

• 1:07:23Connor Wood?

  This, I mean, it was hard to get this person to have availability at all.

• 1:07:30Connor Wood?

  Um.

• 1:07:31Brooke Averick?

  There's no way this is happening.

• 1:07:33Connor Wood?

  That is legitimately, I was worried that that would happen. I thought 7:00 PM for New York City was a little bit early to start a play.

• 1:07:40Brooke Averick?

  No.

• 1:07:40Connor Wood?

  But that was my fear. I am gonna email, so my attempt will be made, but I'm not.

• 1:07:45Brooke Averick?

  Lord in heaven.

• 1:07:46Connor Wood?

  I can't promise.

• 1:07:46Brooke Averick?

  Lord in heaven.

• 1:07:48Connor Wood?

  I know it.

• 1:07:49Brooke Averick?

  There's no way.

• 1:07:51Connor Wood?

  No, and it's literally like gonna be like a five, 10 minute call.

• 1:07:55Brooke Averick?

  I mean, then just like coming to the show late, you'll be missing a really great opening number, but.

• 1:07:59Connor Wood?

  Yeah, no, obviously I'm not gonna not go. I'm on the, I'm on.

• 1:08:02Brooke Averick?

  Oh, that was my understanding.

• 1:08:04Connor Wood?

  I'm like 12 seats down from you guys in the same row, but sitting by myself. So looking forward to that.

• 1:08:10Brooke Averick?

  Yay, me too. I'm so excited.

• 1:08:13Connor Wood?

  Me too.

• 1:08:13Brooke Averick?

  Okay, I'll see you then.

• 1:08:15Connor Wood?

  Let's uh hop over to the bonus now.

• 1:08:17Brooke Averick?

  Okay. See you there. Yay, bye.

• 1:08:20Connor Wood?

  Bye.

• 1:08:21Brooke Averick?

  This week on Close Friends.

• 1:08:23Connor Wood?

  I have something really insane to say. I'm so sorry to switch gears.

• 1:08:27Brooke Averick?

  Sorry, I just got depressed.

• 1:08:29Connor Wood?

  Incest. That's when there's a hint of incest.

• 1:08:32Brooke Averick?

  If you could eat anything right now, what would it be?

• 1:08:34Connor Wood?

  I'm not giving you attitude, love, but just be respectful with me.

• 1:08:38Brooke Averick?

  Okay, love.

• 1:08:40Connor Wood?

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