Growing The Family

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• 1:00Connor Wood?

  Hey, darling.

• 1:02Brooke Averick?

  Hi, Connor.

• 1:04Connor Wood?

  How are you?

• 1:06Brooke Averick?

  Hanging in there.

• 1:08Connor Wood?

  Yeah, in a big way?

• 1:09Brooke Averick?

  Like, major, major hanging. Yeah.

• 1:12Connor Wood?

  That's good. Why, what's up? What's going on?

• 1:15Brooke Averick?

  I mean, just like, to cut right to it, I had a baby on Monday.

• 1:21Connor Wood?

  I saw.

• 1:22Brooke Averick?

  I'm completely postpartum.

• 1:24Connor Wood?

  Yeah, and it was a, uh...

• 1:26Brooke Averick?

  It was a dramatic birth.

• 1:27Connor Wood?

  It was a shocking, it was immaculate conception.

• 1:30Brooke Averick?

  No, actually, the birth was, like, perfect, like, went off without a hitch. The afterbirth was the problem.

• 1:38Connor Wood?

  Oh, I've heard that about afterbirth.

• 1:40Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, the placenta was, like, the main issue.

• 1:44Connor Wood?

  Right.

• 2:04Brooke Averick?

  Can I just get right into it?

• 2:06Connor Wood?

  Dive in.

• 2:06Brooke Averick?

  So.

• 2:07Connor Wood?

  Well, first, let's just say, welcome back.

• 2:08Brooke Averick?

  Welcome back, yeah.

• 2:09Connor Wood?

  Podcast.

• 2:09Brooke Averick?

  100%.

• 2:10Connor Wood?

  We're, we're gonna dive right in. We just started before even, well, let's, I'm just gonna preface really quick that we are starting an hour late because we had every technical difficulty known to man. But what you will realize and you'll hear and you'll see if you're watching is that we have a much better system going on, the quality all around, thanks to our friends Evan, who is here in New York with me.

• 2:30Brooke Averick?

  Friends Evan.

• 2:33Connor Wood?

  Well, and is he, the whole team at TMG, Grace, everybody that worked so hard to get this.

• 2:38Brooke Averick?

  Truly.

• 2:38Connor Wood?

  And we're like, we're making.

• 2:40Brooke Averick?

  So grateful to them. Love of my life.

• 2:43Connor Wood?

  This is what Louis Armstrong was talking about when he said, one small step for man, but one big step for BNC listeners. Do, do, do. Okay, so we're, we're, we're moving and we're growing. And speaking of growing, Brooke, you gave birth to a full grown adult man.

• 3:04Brooke Averick?

  Genuinely.

• 3:05Connor Wood?

  Like, what, two days ago?

• 3:06Brooke Averick?

  On Monday, yeah, two days ago. And so that, like, forgive my, like, mood today because I've just been like, I've really gone through it. Basically, I have been wanting a sibling for John for quite a while because leaving him alone in my home, it's like a knife to the heart every single time. Like, I just, he's like restless and he just like is so clearly needed a sibling. So I was so excited and ready and still I'm very excited about giving birth to another child. It happened pretty quickly. I reached out to a rescue, Friends

• 3:49Brooke Averick?

  of Normie, which is like the best, truly the best cat rescue in LA, could not recommend enough, and then was immediately just like set up with my new baby the next day. His birth name. Was Romeo.

• 4:03Connor Wood?

  Oh, cute.

• 4:04Brooke Averick?

  Because he has this little heart on his chest. He's a tuxedo like, like his brother, like his little brother, John. He's 10 months. John is six months.

• 4:14Connor Wood?

  Oh, wow.

• 4:14Brooke Averick?

  So he's an older brother. Yeah, but he is just, I'm not like-

• 4:17Connor Wood?

  Quick turnaround on a, on a young mama.

• 4:20Brooke Averick?

  Quick turnaround. He is the most cuddly, affectionate, like he can't get close enough to you. He's constantly nuzzling. He's just the sweetest boy.

• 4:33Brooke Averick?

  And up until recently, I was under the impression that John was also just like the sweetest boy. And of course he still is. Um, but because they're both so sweet, you really are supposed to keep cats separate for a bit before introducing them. But I was talking to, um, Romeo's foster mom and we were like, well, if they're both just like the most friendly, sweetest boys who both have previously loved other cats, like without really needing any space, let's see what happens if we just kind of intro them right away. So brought Romeo home, um, kind of let him loose. John was very curious. Romeo went under the bookshelf.

• 5:15Brooke Averick?

  Um, John followed him and it was like a very precious moment of John being like, hey, come out of the bookshelf. Like, I love you, my big brother. It was so tender, so sweet. It lasted for 10 minutes until John, like I didn't, I've never heard a human make this noise. It was like a blood curdling guttural scream. Okay. So that was definitely alarming and then continued just like screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming. So now Romeo has his own setup, his own room. He's doing great. Um, but John has been a little bit-

• 5:57Brooke Averick?

  Tough, just kind of like with the screaming and you know, haven't been able to sleep because of it, which is totally fine. New mothers don't sleep. Um, but yeah, he's getting better. The screaming is becoming a lot less frequent. We had one more small meeting. John did pretty okay. Um, so yeah, I'm hopeful, but the last two days have been a little bit rough, but I'm, things are on the up and up. I'm hopeful. I'm just tired.

• 6:26Connor Wood?

  Was the sound, I feel like I kind of heard like the beginning of the sound you snapchatted me on. It's like

• 6:33Brooke Averick?

  I have a really mild version of it.

• 6:36Connor Wood?

  Wait, no, try to do it. Try to show us what it is.

• 6:39Brooke Averick?

  It's just guttural scream.

• 6:41Connor Wood?

  Show us, like, show us what it is.

• 6:42Brooke Averick?

  I can't, I literally, it's not produce reproducible. That's the, what the whole point.

• 6:47Connor Wood?

  Like that? Or is it?

• 6:48Brooke Averick?

  I'm saying I have a version I could play you. I have a version I could play you, but it's not this though. This was like very mild. That's the toy.

• 7:06Brooke Averick?

  That was a very mild, like, that was almost like a friendly version of it.

• 7:10Connor Wood?

  I didn't even hear it.

• 7:11Brooke Averick?

  Oh, did you really not?

• 7:14Connor Wood?

  Mm-mm. I heard like Sodi talking or something.

• 7:16Brooke Averick?

  Oh, okay. But things are looking up. Um, I've been going back and forth between names. Romeo really is such a darling and sweet name, especially because he's such a little lover boy. But I don't, I just, I, you know, I just wanted to name him myself, I think. And I wanted something that kind of goes with Jonathan, like the vibe of like a, a human name.

• 7:39Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 7:41Brooke Averick?

  So I've been diddling with, um, Robert.

• 7:46Connor Wood?

  Oh, like just randomly you pulled that out of a hat?

• 7:48Brooke Averick?

  It's a family name.

• 7:49Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 7:50Brooke Averick?

  It's Pop-Up's name. It's my great grandpa Robert's name.

• 7:54Connor Wood?

  Right.

• 7:55Brooke Averick?

  Noah's middle name.

• 7:56Connor Wood?

  Susu's husband's name.

• 7:57Brooke Averick?

  Uncle Rob. Susu's husband's name, exactly. Um, so I, I've been liking Robert. I've also been calling him Bob a lot.

• 8:06Connor Wood?

  Bobby, Bobby's cute.

• 8:07Brooke Averick?

  Bobby and Johnny.

• 8:09Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 8:09Brooke Averick?

  Uh, I've been calling him Bert, Bert, Rob.

• 8:12Connor Wood?

  Bert, Bobby, Rob.

• 8:14Brooke Averick?

  You can really call him anything with Robert. So I kind of like Robert and Jonathan. So that's kind of where I am now. Um, I was, uh, fiddling with Chip for a second.

• 8:23Connor Wood?

  I like Chip.

• 8:24Brooke Averick?

  Chip from, uh, Chip on My Shoulder Industries from Legally Blonde the Musical.

• 8:30Connor Wood?

  Oh, okay.

• 8:31Brooke Averick?

  But I've been liking Robert more, Robert Chartorius.

• 8:34Connor Wood?

  You're going with that?

• 8:35Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. Cause he

• 8:37Connor Wood?

  Oh, cool.

• 8:37Brooke Averick?

  Like charts non-stop.

• 8:40Connor Wood?

  Uh.

• 8:41Brooke Averick?

  And so Tristan came up with Chartorius, which I, I like the way Robert Chartorius.

• 8:46Connor Wood?

  Oh, it just reminds me of Jacob.

• 8:48Brooke Averick?

  Jonathan Marie and, uh, Robert Chartorius. That's Sartorius. This is Chartorius.

• 8:54Connor Wood?

  Right. It's so, um, similar.

• 8:58Brooke Averick?

  But

• 8:59Connor Wood?

  Like I would just think

• 8:59Brooke Averick?

  Completely different when you break it down. Chart.

• 9:02Connor Wood?

  I actually think it's maybe just one, even just one letter different, which would make it feel like I was living with Jacob Chartorius.

• 9:08Brooke Averick?

  Changes the meaning. It changes the meaning.

• 9:10Connor Wood?

  You're right.

• 9:12Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. So I'm go, I'm leaning towards Robert Chartorius. Bob, Bobby, Rob.

• 9:17Connor Wood?

  But you can't go wrong. Cause what's, what's gonna happen, just like with any other animals.

• 9:21Brooke Averick?

  His baby.

• 9:21Connor Wood?

  You're gonna

• 9:22Brooke Averick?

  Stink bug.

• 9:23Connor Wood?

  Just like any other pet that you have, like you can name it, you can literally name it's whatever you want.

• 9:28Brooke Averick?

  Totally.

• 9:29Connor Wood?

  But by just the evolution of language in a home, one year in, your cat will be named like Brickhouse or something.

• 9:38Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 9:38Connor Wood?

  It's like, why is, why do you call your, why do you call your cat Brickhouse? Well, Like how Max, I told you when he was running into the road that one time and I was going, poop, poopy, poopy, poop, poop. And they were like, why are you, yeah, I was like, that's my, oh, sorry, that's my dog Max. They were like, why are you yelling, poopy? I was like, I don't know, like, you're not, you don't live in my home, you don't know how, how we got here. And I, I kind of don't know how we got.

• 10:03Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, I've been calling him Shart a lot, too.

• 10:06Connor Wood?

  Well, I was like dogging on you for naming him Shart and I just admitted that I called Max poop.

• 10:10Brooke Averick?

  Poop, yeah. I didn't name him Shart, his middle name is Shartarius.

• 10:14Connor Wood?

  Well, you'll probably end up, you'll probably end up calling him Sharty or something.

• 10:18Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, he does stink. I love him so much. He really is just good.

• 10:23Connor Wood?

  Does he smell like poop?

• 10:25Brooke Averick?

  Well, he has a bit, he has a bit of an upset stomach right now, cause like new food, new home, nerves. I've, don't worry, I'm keeping an eye on it. Um, but yeah, John had the same thing, so he's definitely, definitely he doesn't smell good, but he's my, he's the love of my life.

• 10:43Connor Wood?

  Is it him that doesn't smell good, or is it?

• 10:46Brooke Averick?

  It's what's coming out, yeah.

• 10:48Connor Wood?

  Oh, but does he smell bad?

• 10:51Brooke Averick?

  Well, what's so interesting, and this is something that I see so much on cat talk.

• 10:56Connor Wood?

  Does your cat smell bad?

• 10:57Brooke Averick?

  No, his sharts smell bad.

• 11:00Connor Wood?

  Sharts are in the litter box, or is he sharding on your?

• 11:03Brooke Averick?

  His sharts are in the litter box.

• 11:04Connor Wood?

  Okay.

• 11:04Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, but I'm so used to my robot that kind of sweeps it out right away. And he also doesn't cover his, this is disgusting, but he doesn't cover his poop with the litter. Like he just lets it sit there, which John, John covers, which I can appreciate. But I wouldn't say a bad word about Shart.

• 11:27Connor Wood?

  Probably doesn't want to get his feet near, near the mess.

• 11:30Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, but the thing about.

• 11:33Connor Wood?

  Cat poop is so gross.

• 11:35Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, but he's perfect. The thing about cats, which is so interesting, is they smell great. Like they smell like detergent, like a baby angel, because they're cleaning themselves constantly.

• 11:49Brooke Averick?

  But their mouths and their tongues that they're cleaning themselves with smell like the fish market sat outside for 18 days at the bottom of the ocean.

• 12:02Connor Wood?

  Okay.

• 12:03Brooke Averick?

  So it doesn't make sense.

• 12:06Connor Wood?

  You know what? There wouldn't be a fish market at the bottom of the ocean. I just want a flag. I know what you're saying. But I know the smell you're talking about. Um, because my cat is.

• 12:18Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, he just smells fishy because he eats.

• 12:19Connor Wood?

  We changed. My cat, we changed her food.

• 12:23Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 12:24Connor Wood?

  And she stopped smelling, but we also, she was an outdoor, indoor, outdoor cat. So she didn't really want to be close to our face.

• 12:30Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 12:30Connor Wood?

  Certainly didn't sleep next to my.

• 12:32Brooke Averick?

  Oh, no, both of my cats are kissers. Like licking my face. Yeah. He doesn't, he, well, I haven't been able to sleep with him yet, which like breaks my heart. Cause he's so cuddly, but um, I would, I don't think he's a sucker like his brother.

• 12:49Connor Wood?

  Well, he's grown out of that phase. I'm sure the sucking phase.

• 12:53Brooke Averick?

  I know.

• 12:53Connor Wood?

  You know what's funny?

• 12:54Brooke Averick?

  What?

• 12:54Connor Wood?

  You know what I was thinking about? R E sucking?

• 12:56Brooke Averick?

  What?

• 12:56Connor Wood?

  How like, how like you're a sucker, R E water bottle. And you kind of like genetically gave that to your boys.

• 13:04Brooke Averick?

  O M G.

• 13:06Connor Wood?

  It skips generation because obviously Shardi doesn't have it, but Johnny do.

• 13:12Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, Johnny, Johnny has it big time. Johnny's been so good.

• 13:15Connor Wood?

  Johnny'd be sucking.

• 13:16Brooke Averick?

  But I really, I'm very proud of John's, the progress that John has made with his big brother. You can just tell. And then there's also these cat diffusers that you can get and plug in that are like supposed to ease the tensions between cats. So everyone's like, get one and plug it in. The room that they're in, I got eight plugged in every single outlet in my house. So.

• 13:37Connor Wood?

  Good.

• 13:38Brooke Averick?

  I have high hopes for today. I'm not going to rush it, but I am pretty antsy to get. Chartorius out of that room.

• 13:47Connor Wood?

  I think it's just, yeah, you said it already, getting used to your new environment. If you put a fish in a new environment, it just dies, you know? So it's nice that cats are able to, to work through it.

• 13:57Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. And I feel guilty that I made the mistake of introing them right away, but I've truly. Like when we had to evacuate, John was with four other cats. I mean, he was having, he was the belle of the ball. He was having a blast. And when we went to Florida, he was great with my cousin's cat right away. But I guess it's because it's his space. I should have taken that.

• 14:18Connor Wood?

  I was gonna say, he's probably territorial.

• 14:19Brooke Averick?

  Taken that into account. But also Patrick's dog comes over a lot, Skipper. And maybe it's just because he's a different species. Don loves Skipper. I think he, he must know deep down, this is, this is deeper.

• 14:30Connor Wood?

  This is my like roommate.

• 14:32Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 14:34Brooke Averick?

  But.

• 14:34Connor Wood?

  Um, well, that's cute.

• 14:36Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, you'll love. I mean, you still haven't met John, but you will love.

• 14:39Connor Wood?

  No. Well, I'll, I'll meet him. I'll meet him when I'm there and not next week, the week after.

• 14:44Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. Uh, but when they start cuddling, my God. And they look the same, but completely different.

• 14:53Connor Wood?

  Cute.

• 14:53Brooke Averick?

  Cause Shart has short hair.

• 14:55Connor Wood?

  Shart has short hair?

• 14:56Brooke Averick?

  Shartorius has short hair and John has long hair.

• 14:59Connor Wood?

  I like that, um, when people talk about their cats, they're like, oh my God, that is so orange cat vibes. I'm like,

• 15:07Brooke Averick?

  It's true.

• 15:07Connor Wood?

  It's such a different language. This is such a tuxedo cat thing. I'm like, okay.

• 15:11Brooke Averick?

  What is so insane to me is if you asked me seven months ago, I would have said, I'm not really into cats. Not really a cat person. Now I would throw, hurl my body in front of a bus for either of them.

• 15:24Connor Wood?

  Yeah. And it's so weird cause it's not like you to have these like obsessive.

• 15:27Brooke Averick?

  It's not.

• 15:28Connor Wood?

  Obsessive.

• 15:28Brooke Averick?

  It's not.

• 15:29Connor Wood?

  Things to obsess over.

• 15:31Brooke Averick?

  It's really not.

• 15:32Connor Wood?

  Um, so this is out of character for you, but I, it's cool to see you in like an uncomfortable, like you're, you got out of your comfort zone with felines and that's special.

• 15:41Brooke Averick?

  I do.

• 15:42Connor Wood?

  And not only once, but twice.

• 15:44Brooke Averick?

  Twice.

• 15:44Connor Wood?

  You've got a little family happening over there.

• 15:47Brooke Averick?

  I really, um, you know, and you feel this way with Max and for like, they're going to meet our kids. Should we be blessed?

• 15:53Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 15:54Brooke Averick?

  With fruits of our loins.

• 15:56Connor Wood?

  Fruits of our loins.

• 15:57Brooke Averick?

  But.

• 15:58Connor Wood?

  Um, yeah, I've been thinking about getting, it seems like all of a sudden, and I've, I bet like this is what it's like to be in heat. Well, no, I bet this is what it's like to like, what's it called when you're like, uh oh, I'm gonna get, I just have noticed a lot lately that everybody's pregnant.

• 16:14Brooke Averick?

  You're gonna get pregnant?

• 16:15Connor Wood?

  Yeah, but I don't think I'm gonna get pregnant. I don't know. It's just this thing where I'm like,

• 16:18Brooke Averick?

  Okay.

• 16:18Connor Wood?

  Is, is everybody pregnant?

• 16:20Brooke Averick?

  I'm not experiencing that.

• 16:22Connor Wood?

  Oh, like you probably will today after I, I put this out there. But like, I forget, I think in Chicago, when I was in Chicago, I was like looking around a restaurant and I was like, am I at like?

• 16:33Brooke Averick?

  Oh, you mean just in general, not like people you know?

• 16:35Connor Wood?

  Yeah. I, I felt like I was at like a restaurant called Dirt Trimester. Like everyone was about to pop. I was like, we're about to have like a situation. We're like, is there a doctor here type thing?

• 16:47Brooke Averick?

  Oh, I haven't noticed that, but I'm sure I will now that you said something.

• 16:49Connor Wood?

  You will now. You'll be hyper aware. I have a question.

• 16:52Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 16:52Connor Wood?

  At what point, if, if you heard that, say like, if you heard, is there a doctor here? If you were. Not even a, like a psychologist, like technically you have your doctorate. You can also be a doctor of, you can get your doctorate in like-

• 17:11Brooke Averick?

  My dad's a doctor.

• 17:13Connor Wood?

  And what, what is his, I forget what he does.

• 17:15Brooke Averick?

  Math, mathematics.

• 17:17Connor Wood?

  Yeah. So at what point are you no longer, like, I'm not going to raise my hand on a plane if you yell for a doctor, because I'm a doctor of math.

• 17:24Brooke Averick?

  I think you just know. And if you don't, there's something wrong.

• 17:30Connor Wood?

  Like, imagine, imagine- Imagine a narcissist on a plane, like, yeah, I'm a doctor. And then they're like, okay, cool. Like, give him the high, I'm like, he's like, oh, I'm a doctor of math.

• 17:42Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, that would be someone who has a, I agree, like some sort of like personality disorder or something like that. Cause you know what someone means.

• 17:52Connor Wood?

  Someone's having a seizure, ask me to divide something.

• 17:55Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, no one's screaming for a PhD candidate.

• 17:59Connor Wood?

  I could just see that, oh, that's a perfect Curb Your Enthusiasm episode. I am a doctor.

• 18:04Brooke Averick?

  Well, that's like an ongoing bit in Friends, kind of, with Ross, like-

• 18:09Connor Wood?

  Oh, oh my gosh.

• 18:10Brooke Averick?

  Constantly insisting that he's a doctor.

• 18:13Connor Wood?

  Parallel thinking much. So has he done that? Like, did he ever stand up and be like, I'll take it?

• 18:17Brooke Averick?

  Um, I don't think there was that scene that you're describing, but there was definitely, I'm, I can't repeat it, but I'm seeing a conversation in my head that happened between like Ross and Rachel. And Ross being like, I'm a doctor. And Rachel being like, yeah, I'll call you. And like something, something like that, something flipped.

• 18:34Connor Wood?

  Yeah, when we need to like, find, when we find a fossil.

• 18:37Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. Ross is a funny name for a cat.

• 18:41Connor Wood?

  Oh, something to think about. I do think that that cat looks like a Ross, so.

• 18:45Brooke Averick?

  Really? But his bow tie is like Robert. He's a bow tie, by the way. He was born with his bow tie on.

• 18:52Connor Wood?

  Totally Ross vibes to have a bow tie, but something to consider. No, no harm in having, having options.

• 18:59Brooke Averick?

  Also, the thing about Ross is that it could be a nickname for Robert.

• 19:03Connor Wood?

  You could go Ross, because cats hiss and stuff. Which is fun.

• 19:08Brooke Averick?

  I think I will end up calling him Bob mostly.

• 19:11Connor Wood?

  Did you know I was on a plane and they, like several times, one time someone genuinely like-

• 19:19Connor Wood?

  Like fell forward, neck down, like, and I was like, oh, this person's dead. And it was next to me and they were like medical professional, but I was in the window and he's in the middle. So like, I couldn't even like sneak out like, oops, excuse me. I'm just gonna like, let me get out of the way here. This person might be dead. And everyone else cleared like aisle in front of me, like row in front of me, row behind me, but I'm in the window and I didn't want to like, they were like, just stay there. Like, don't step over him.

• 19:42Brooke Averick?

  What was happening to him?

• 19:43Connor Wood?

  He had like a stroke and we landed the plane. We had an emergency landing and I was like, oh, he's fully dead and I'm stuck here. And there was randomly like four doctors on board.

• 19:53Brooke Averick?

  I like, I'm going to be completely honest. I would also have a stroke and I'm not just being dramatic. Like I would, my brain could convince my body to do that in that situation.

• 20:05Connor Wood?

  My dumb ass like looking around like, oh my God, hmm, this is like a good, oh, where are we? I wonder. And then we were like above the clouds. So it's just like, there's nothing even to look at outside.

• 20:14Brooke Averick?

  Nothing to look at. Nothing to look at.

• 20:17Connor Wood?

  Nothing to see here.

• 20:18Brooke Averick?

  Couldn't see the ground. You could not see the ground.

• 20:21Connor Wood?

  Oh, Brooke, oh, stop. Okay. I want everyone to, everyone that DM'd me and said, I saw the ground my whole way from here to here. By the way, I screenshotted like nine of them. Everybody's seeing the ground.

• 20:31Brooke Averick?

  I know. I was wrong, but I've never seen the ground.

• 20:34Connor Wood?

  Well, I sit window like every flight.

• 20:37Brooke Averick?

  That's a really good reminder that just because you haven't experienced something doesn't mean it's not true. So thank you. And I want to take that and also say that I've been getting a lot of DMs thanking me for bringing awareness to DOMS because everyone's saying, wow, I thought you were like being dramatic before and I thought I had DOMS before when I just had sore muscles, but no, this is an entirely different beast. Thank you. Thank you for letting me know. Thank you for letting me know so that I didn't freak out when I was experiencing this tremendous amount of pain.

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• 22:08Brooke Averick?

  So, just want to say, because you haven't experienced DOMS, doesn't mean it doesn't exist, just like how I haven't experienced seeing the ground.

• 22:16Connor Wood?

  Well, I may have experienced symptoms of DOMS called muscle soreness that happens after I work out.

• 22:21Brooke Averick?

  If you say I may have experienced DOMS, you haven't. I'm telling you, Connor, I've gotten so many DMs being like, "I thought you were being crazy." Like, "I've had sore muscles, like, I've had delayed sore muscles." That is not what DOMS is. You cannot...

• 22:33Connor Wood?

  I'm gonna keep my mouth shut.

• 22:34Brooke Averick?

  Okay.

• 22:34Connor Wood?

  I'm gonna keep my mouth shut on that.

• 22:35Brooke Averick?

  Nice.

• 22:37Connor Wood?

  Um, I... Yeah, well, we... One of those is like, "I saw the ground my whole flight." Like, that's just like a fact of what happened. And DOMS is just like, so personal to people that like, it might not exist outside of their head.

• 22:52Brooke Averick?

  Wow. I hope that, like, Jay Shetty clips this and uses it for like, a little, uh, gaslighting moment.

• 23:01Connor Wood?

  I mean, before you learned that you couldn't see the ground on flights, you had me call my sister.

• 23:08Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, I was calling in a professional.

• 23:10Connor Wood?

  Right. I want a doctor. I want to call a doctor and ask about DOMS.

• 23:14Brooke Averick?

  I do too.

• 23:14Connor Wood?

  Okay, let's just leave it there for now, then.

• 23:16Brooke Averick?

  Okay.

• 23:17Connor Wood?

  Because like, you didn't see...

• 23:18Brooke Averick?

  Next episode, we're having a doctor of applied mathematics on this podcast.

• 23:24Connor Wood?

  To talk about delayed onset muscle soreness.

• 23:27Brooke Averick?

  Yes, I agree.

• 23:28Connor Wood?

  Um, are, like, sure, can I stop saying "are" E? That's just not... I don't even know what it means. What does it mean?

• 23:34Brooke Averick?

  Like, in reference to?

• 23:35Connor Wood?

  In reference to? Is that what "are" E is?

• 23:37Brooke Averick?

  That's how I would use it.

• 23:39Connor Wood?

  Okay.

• 23:39Brooke Averick?

  Like, "reee." I think of it like, "reee," like, "Oh, replying to."

• 23:43Connor Wood?

  When I hear the word "reee," I think, "reeeet!" Because that's like when they call a hog in, you know, they do the pig calls. "reeeet, reeeet!" I'm glad that I have neighbors and I just got here. Did you know there was a flight that just happened recently and someone died and they wouldn't let, they wouldn't, they finished the flight and someone was sitting dead next to these people?

• 24:05Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, I did know that.

• 24:06Connor Wood?

  Like, can we, can we read that article? Is that okay? Cause I didn't look into it and I wanted to talk about that on here. Couples, I think they sued the plane.

• 24:14Brooke Averick?

  I think they did too.

• 24:14Connor Wood?

  I have another thing, I have another thing for you after this. Wait, really quick, I just want to read this. An Australian couple have spoken on the traumatic moment of, moment the body of a dead passenger was placed next to them.

• 24:28Brooke Averick?

  Oh, placed next to them.

• 24:30Connor Wood?

  Okay, that's different than someone dying next to you.

• 24:32Brooke Averick?

  I think that's worse.

• 24:34Connor Wood?

  And, and at least the, the airline apologized for any inconvenience or distress that they may have caused.

• 24:44Connor Wood?

  Okay, can you move over here, please? I said, yes, no problem. And they placed the lady in the chair I was in.

• 24:51Connor Wood?

  Okay, she moved to a seat nearby and said ambulance and officers. Okay, so what, they just landed the, the normal plane and had her move next to the body?

• 25:00Brooke Averick?

  She was quite large and they couldn't get her through the aisle. So that's tough.

• 25:08Connor Wood?

  Okay, well, it's the duty of care at the end of the day.

• 25:12Connor Wood?

  I don't think I would be affected by a dead body that much, but that being that I have an...

• 25:16Brooke Averick?

  You say that?

• 25:17Connor Wood?

  I know.

• 25:18Brooke Averick?

  I think that would like really mess me up.

• 25:21Connor Wood?

  I just say that.

• 25:21Brooke Averick?

  To be next to a vessel that used to house life and now just doesn't.

• 25:27Connor Wood?

  Okay, yeah, you're doing it to me. You're doing it for me right now.

• 25:30Brooke Averick?

  Just, it reminds you of your own fleeting mortality and that you're just a vessel and you're nothing without like, whatever that, whatever life is. And it could just go out in one second. You're alive and the next you're not.

• 25:45Brooke Averick?

  So I think I'd start going like spiraling.

• 25:47Connor Wood?

  Like nuts?

• 25:49Brooke Averick?

  Yes.

• 25:50Connor Wood?

  Okay, let's go to something less heavy. Did you see the woman that um was asked to move so that a mom could sit next to her kid? And she said, no, I paid for this seat. And so the mom started filming her and posted it.

• 26:06Brooke Averick?

  No, I did not see that.

• 26:07Connor Wood?

  This woman wouldn't move. And the woman that wouldn't move sued the woman that filmed her and posted her unconsistently. And the airline and won.

• 26:15Brooke Averick?

  Good. Honestly.

• 26:17Connor Wood?

  Good.

• 26:17Brooke Averick?

  Good.

• 26:18Connor Wood?

  Then the nerve of some people. I'm sticking with that. By the way, I got some people being like, you really think you think you're better than a child sitting with this kid? You know what? Pay for the seat if you want to sit next to your kid.

• 26:30Brooke Averick?

  How old was the kid?

• 26:32Connor Wood?

  Well, it was two kids. I moved, by the way. I don't know about this, this one. Would you ask someone to move so you could sit next to both Romeo and, or sorry, Jonathan and Shart City?

• 26:44Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 26:44Connor Wood?

  You say?

• 26:45Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, I would. I still get angry thinking about that woman when I was on the plane with John, just looking at him and going, ugh, I hate cats. Thank you. That's really helpful for everyone involved right now.

• 27:00Brooke Averick?

  And just sweet.

• 27:03Brooke Averick?

  Also, I have a new tic. I don't know if you caught it.

• 27:06Connor Wood?

  Caught it?

• 27:06Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 27:07Connor Wood?

  Why'd you say it like that?

• 27:08Brooke Averick?

  Nice.

• 27:10Connor Wood?

  No, you've had that for a while.

• 27:11Brooke Averick?

  It's getting worse and it's louder.

• 27:15Connor Wood?

  I was gonna say, but I'm even seeing it in your comments online.

• 27:18Brooke Averick?

  Yes. But I don't want people to think I'm being rude. It's just a tic. Because people thought I was being rude when I kept saying, thank you for letting me know. But that was a tic. Not tic, I shouldn't say tic. A habit. A very, it just, it's a

• 27:35Connor Wood?

  It just is what it is.

• 27:37Brooke Averick?

  It is, you know, it's just something I can't stop doing. Nice.

• 27:43Connor Wood?

  Nice. Okay, well, whatever. This woman won the lawsuit.

• 27:46Brooke Averick?

  It was just a kid.

• 27:47Connor Wood?

  Okay, it was just a kid. So luckily, the mom that filmed that woman and posted her online is trying to stay anonymous here. That totally makes sense. Um, well, I was on a plane. First of all, last.

• 28:00Brooke Averick?

  You have been back and forth, back and forth, back. Like, where have you been since the last episode?

• 28:05Connor Wood?

  I.

• 28:06Brooke Averick?

  Like, two different continents?

• 28:07Connor Wood?

  First of all, like, count how many times in the last episode I was just like, hey, just so everybody knows, I gotta run, like, I gotta get to the airport. Should have plenty of time to get to the airport. No worries.

• 28:18Brooke Averick?

  Which airport?

• 28:19Connor Wood?

  Um, that was the issue. I went to, I went to LaGuardia on accident.

• 28:23Brooke Averick?

  LaGuardia?

• 28:24Connor Wood?

  LaGuardia? LaGuardi- I had to go to.

• 28:28Brooke Averick?

  That's a sweet name for a cat.

• 28:29Connor Wood?

  LaGuardi- I.

• 28:31Brooke Averick?

  Gert. Oh, my God, Gert. Cute.

• 28:35Connor Wood?

  Gert is, thank you for bringing that up. That's, um, what I had growing up, gastro-

• 28:39Brooke Averick?

  Good gerd.

• 28:40Connor Wood?

  And tenesbral reflex disorder, disease.

• 28:43Brooke Averick?

  Oh, my God, also a cute name for a cat. Sorry. Dom, as in doms, as in dom and arella.

• 28:49Connor Wood?

  That is, oh, my gosh. And speaking of Dom.

• 28:51Brooke Averick?

  Sorry, go back.

• 28:52Connor Wood?

  Love that you brought it up.

• 28:53Brooke Averick?

  Go back, go back.

• 28:54Connor Wood?

  Love that you brought it up.

• 28:54Brooke Averick?

  I know.

• 28:55Connor Wood?

  Dom, our boy. Okay, we'll talk about him in a second. Okay, we'll talk about him in a second. It's fine. So New York is one of those places where if you say, like, New York, or if you type in an airport even, New York to blank, it gives you LaGuardia, Newark, which is in Jersey, and JFK.

• 29:11Brooke Averick?

  Yes.

• 29:12Connor Wood?

  And if you're not paying close attention, it will just be like, here's the best flight for you, and it's not LaGuardia, or it's not Newark, it's not JFK. It's just like one of the three.

• 29:20Brooke Averick?

  I always go to JFK, which is the worst.

• 29:23Connor Wood?

  JFK is the worst, confirmed. Newark is my favorite.

• 29:26Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 29:26Connor Wood?

  Um, LaGuardia is, is nice, but it's just too big. Like, I don't know who decided, let's, like, put an entire shopping mall in the airport so that once you're through security, you need to walk about two and a half miles to three and a half miles.

• 29:44Connor Wood?

  To your gate. Cause like, once I was in the airport, I was like, oh, I'm so fine. I'm just like, lollygagging like, oh, duty free cigarettes. Maybe I'll get some.

• 29:53Brooke Averick?

  You were lollygagging?

• 29:54Connor Wood?

  Maybe I'll get some Captain Morgan sweet chili lime Caribbean rum for my troubles. No, I wasn't really lollygagging, but I was like, oh, I'm late. Also, I get to the airport and I have enough time. I wait through security, get to the front. They're like, um, your boarding pass doesn't match.

• 30:14Connor Wood?

  Like the flight that you're. I switched my flight, basically. And it was, it was, I was going to Canada. I was going to Edmonton to go to McEwan University. And that's in Alberta, by the way.

• 30:28Connor Wood?

  If you didn't know.

• 30:29Brooke Averick?

  I didn't.

• 30:30Connor Wood?

  And, yeah, no. And I, uh, so they sent me back out of security to go change my flight at the ticketing desk. And the woman was like, you're not going to make your flight. I was like,

• 30:42Connor Wood?

  so she had to rebook, you know what? Change. Sorry. Okay. I know what changed. Sorry. I know what, I know what to say.

• 30:46Brooke Averick?

  Okay.

• 30:47Connor Wood?

  My Celsius hit me just now.

• 30:51Connor Wood?

  In such a crazy way. She was like, well, you, you, you said you were going to check your bag and then you didn't check your bag. And I was like, I didn't check my bag because I was, you guys require two hours pre boarding for me to check my bag. That's why I took it. And they were like, well, that's why your tickets don't match. Cause you didn't check your bag. I have to rebook you without a checked bag. I don't know.

• 31:10Brooke Averick?

  I've never heard of that.

• 31:11Connor Wood?

  So.

• 31:11Brooke Averick?

  What airline was this?

• 31:13Connor Wood?

  Air Canada.

• 31:14Brooke Averick?

  Sometimes I, are you sure that happened?

• 31:17Connor Wood?

  I promise. Cause I was like sending pictures to everyone being like, I'm not going to make it. I'm not going to make it. Anyways, I run all the way to the gate. They're like, obviously you didn't make it. We'll book you to Toronto tonight. So I spent the night in Toronto. And then I went to, the next morning.

• 31:32Brooke Averick?

  Via plane?

• 31:33Connor Wood?

  Via plane, which was actually only an hour and a half. It was.

• 31:37Brooke Averick?

  If I were me, I'd call it.

• 31:38Connor Wood?

  Well, I had a show.

• 31:39Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, I know. You're a good boy. I would say, thank you so much. Can't, can't do it.

• 31:46Connor Wood?

  I've never missed a show yet.

• 31:48Brooke Averick?

  Good job.

• 31:49Connor Wood?

  Um, but I flew to Toronto, spent the night at the airport hotel. And then at 7:00 AM the next morning, I flew to Edmonton.

• 31:58Brooke Averick?

  How long is that flight?

• 32:00Connor Wood?

  It was like four, three hours, four hours.

• 32:02Brooke Averick?

  Why? Oh my heavens.

• 32:05Connor Wood?

  It's truly like, I landed and I was like, oh. I'm not in the right place. Like, there's no, absolute no way. It's completely flat. It's like tundra, snow. And then you enter a city and I was in the right place and it was really fun. Loved them. And then I took the red eye that night to Miami, which was a long flight. And I had to-

• 32:30Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, how long is that?

• 32:31Connor Wood?

  I had to connect through Atlanta, which is just a special experience because when I, I did the show, went straight to the airport from the show. And then I didn't realize we're connecting in Atlanta. Luckily, because it's an international flight, I had to land in Atlanta. My baggage checked. I had to go get it from baggage claim, go out through customs and security and go back in through security and get on another flight to Miami.

• 32:55Brooke Averick?

  I don't know how you operate, truly.

• 32:58Connor Wood?

  It was fun because we had an, it was an amazing weekend in Miami. I went to the Miami Open, the tennis tournament. And then randomly, the Unwell Network, the Alex Cooper's network, I saw Grace Malley's story and I was like, oh, what are you doing here? And they're like, oh, we have like a, like a spring break trip for all the unwell people. And so I invited myself to all of that.

• 33:20Brooke Averick?

  Izzy, we should do that spring break trip.

• 33:24Connor Wood?

  Wait, yeah. We should do a spring break trip and we can come to, let's all go to Edmonton. It was really easy to get there.

• 33:32Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 33:34Brooke Averick?

  My ancestors are from Canada.

• 33:36Connor Wood?

  Really?

• 33:37Brooke Averick?

  Mm-hmm.

• 33:38Connor Wood?

  They went from Canada to Boston?

• 33:40Brooke Averick?

  No one's from Boston.

• 33:42Connor Wood?

  Philly, I mean, sorry.

• 33:43Brooke Averick?

  I think so.

• 33:46Connor Wood?

  And then to Philly.

• 33:47Brooke Averick?

  At least my great grandpa, not great grandpa Robert.

• 33:52Brooke Averick?

  Great grandpa Louis. Thank you. Louis is a-

• 33:55Connor Wood?

  Louis Louis. Louis is, Louis is a cat's name, by the way, like-

• 33:58Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, but it's almost like too common.

• 34:01Connor Wood?

  Yeah, you wouldn't want to do that.

• 34:02Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 34:03Connor Wood?

  Anyways, I had a great time in Miami. So I did the thing, which is crazy that as an adult man, I like forget how the sun works. Cause I wanted to do that thing where you have like a base burn.

• 34:13Brooke Averick?

  Mm hmm. I'm familiar.

• 34:15Connor Wood?

  But then I was like, I like walked down the beach when I got there and I laid there and I was like, it's like windy and cold. Like this sucks. I'm so embarrassed. I'm just not gonna put sunscreen on.

• 34:23Brooke Averick?

  Hmm.

• 34:24Connor Wood?

  If you touch my, you could, you could grab the back of my head and you could sand down an old car to be, for it to be repainted with my cheek. That's how rusty crusty my face is right now. You can't really tell cause I'm, I'm loaded up on Neutrogena Hydro Boost.

• 34:40Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 34:41Connor Wood?

  And I DM Neutrogena Hydro Boost and I said, I want you to know that I love this product and I use it every day thinking like, it's kinda expensive. I was like, they're gonna like send me like a gallon of this stuff. Cause I ran out. I was in Miami. They said,

• 34:54Brooke Averick?

  Thank you.

• 34:54Connor Wood?

  Thanks.

• 34:56Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 34:57Connor Wood?

  I was like, I'm humiliated. Like I'm such a bad influencer and now I put my, I wore my heart on my sleeve for Neutrogena Hydro Boost and they're like, thanks. Like it felt like I went up to like talk to my crush. Will you go to prom with me? And they're like, oh, that's so cute. Like that's what it felt like.

• 35:16Brooke Averick?

  You just have to ask, I think.

• 35:17Connor Wood?

  Hey, I would love some lotion.

• 35:20Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 35:20Connor Wood?

  Anyways, I went to CVS and bought some, but it was, I like really fuck with Miami all of a sudden. Like I haven't, I haven't had the experience where I like, cause I usually stay at a hotel and it's like really party city, but I stayed at like a really nice like family hotel and I did resorts. I never like hang out at the resort, but I had so much downtime in between the Miami Open, which by the way, if you catch me at every tennis tournament moving forward, don't be shocked. Love tennis tournaments. So much fun. Miami Open was to die.

• 35:56Connor Wood?

  We need to go. Like, that is something that I want to like, travel to and go with a group to. You would love it.

• 36:02Brooke Averick?

  I'll go to Miami, for sure. And I'll be at the resort.

• 36:08Connor Wood?

  Brooke, it was so up your alley. They had hand-rolled sushi, which was the best.

• 36:13Brooke Averick?

  Say yes, I'm there.

• 36:15Connor Wood?

  Fatty tuna, like, hand-rolled stations where you sit at a bar at the sinister man, eat hand-rolled sushi.

• 36:22Connor Wood?

  Oh, it was just so, so nice. I just really, it was hard to leave.

• 36:25Brooke Averick?

  Wait, correct me if I'm wrong, but have you been reading? Like, were you reading at the resort?

• 36:32Connor Wood?

  Yes. How did you know that?

• 36:34Brooke Averick?

  Because you sent me a picture of you reading.

• 36:37Connor Wood?

  Yeah, I brought my book and I sat in a chair that I rented from-

• 36:41Brooke Averick?

  No way, Connor.

• 36:43Connor Wood?

  Yes, oh my god, Brooke.

• 36:44Brooke Averick?

  I'm really, really proud of you. Are you enjoying yourself?

• 36:46Connor Wood?

  Thank you for asking. Would you mind if I went and got my book really quick?

• 36:50Brooke Averick?

  Connor, don't ever ask me that again. The answer's always yes. I would not mind. The answer's no, I would not mind.

• 36:57Connor Wood?

  I bookmarked a page to read to you, and I'm so glad you said that. Okay, let me go grab it really quick.

• 37:02Brooke Averick?

  Okay, I'm so proud of you.

• 37:03Connor Wood?

  Quick intermission while I grab it.

• 37:05Brooke Averick?

  Okay, okay.

• 37:08Brooke Averick?

  I'm reading this book that is so good. It's called Deep Cuts by Holly Brickley. And I picked it up because the publisher is Crown, who's going to publish Phoebe. And I think my editor also worked on this, so I was like, it'll be great to read one of Phoebe's sisters. It's like, too good, it's making me uncomfortable. Like, this woman is so brilliant and smart and I don't, I'm like, wait, how, like, okay, this is maybe less sister, more, more of a distant cousin of Phoebe. But it's going to be a movie starring Saoirse Ronan and Austin Butler. This, this, it's going to be huge, I think. And it just came out. It's so insanely good.

• 37:53Brooke Averick?

  Originally, I thought it, yeah, I thought it to be Phoebe's cousin, or Phoebe's sister, it's probably very distant cousin. Obsessed with it, though. Would recommend. It's like, so smart, I almost don't understand it. But sometimes that's fun. When you're like, wow, like, I know this means something really cool. It's not accessible to me right now, but like, I know it's brilliant.

• 38:16Brooke Averick?

  Anyway, that's what I'm reading.

• 38:20Brooke Averick?

  And now here's Connor. Hey Connor, all good?

• 38:25Connor Wood?

  Hi, I couldn't figure out my headphones. Okay. What did I miss today?

• 38:29Brooke Averick?

  Nothing, I was just telling people the book I was reading.

• 38:32Connor Wood?

  Oh, perfect. Look at us being a book, book talk.

• 38:36Brooke Averick?

  I really love the cover too. It's kind of different. And it's all about music, so that's like the tracklist at the bottom.

• 38:43Brooke Averick?

  And there's like an actual playlist on Spotify that goes along with the book. So you can listen to all the songs that are mentioned. And like, I obviously don't have like a sophisticated music palette. Like I'm, like this isn't like about Legally Blonde the Musical and stuff like that, and I still am really loving it too.

• 39:00Connor Wood?

  Look at you, you're getting out of your comfort zone this year.

• 39:03Brooke Averick?

  I really am. I was telling everyone this is published by Crown, Crown, by Crown.

• 39:07Connor Wood?

  Crown.

• 39:07Brooke Averick?

  Crown, Crown who's publishing Phoebe, so I thought they were gonna be sisters, but upon like reading this and, you know, seeing how like kind of like brilliantly smart. It's really written smart. So it's like more distant cousins.

• 39:20Connor Wood?

  Real smart.

• 39:20Brooke Averick?

  It's like real smart, like, it's like real intellectual, like.

• 39:27Connor Wood?

  Okay, so I did, I started my book. I'm, but you'll be shocked, I'm 58 pages in.

• 39:33Brooke Averick?

  Honor, that's not nothing.

• 39:35Connor Wood?

  It's not nothing. Um, I-

• 39:38Brooke Averick?

  I want you to pretend you're like, you're in 7th grade right now, you're in front of the class and you're doing a book report. Okay, tell us everything.

• 39:45Connor Wood?

  Okay, so basically like this is the book that I said, uh, that I talked about. And I'd said, I got this book because I liked the cover. I saw it in a, in a, in a bookshop and I like couldn't take it with me there, so I just ordered it online and it arrived at my house.

• 39:59Brooke Averick?

  Oh wow, so you felt really strongly about the cover.

• 40:01Connor Wood?

  Yeah, I did.

• 40:02Brooke Averick?

  Show it to us.

• 40:03Connor Wood?

  It's called, well, I took it off so I could travel with it and I wouldn't ruin the cover, so it's just white right now. But I, uh, it's called Long Island Compromise and I was thinking like, okay, I'm in, you know, I'm on the East Coast now, Long Island, like it's right there. And so I like know a lot of the locations they're talking about, which is cool too. Like, isn't that a cool, it's like the-

• 40:23Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 40:24Connor Wood?

  What are those colors called? I don't know.

• 40:26Brooke Averick?

  The primary colors except for green.

• 40:28Connor Wood?

  Green.

• 40:29Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, I feel like you like, you like- That is your vibe. Like, it reminds me of your merch almost.

• 40:35Connor Wood?

  Right. That was kind of the idea. Yeah, exactly. And so I was like, okay, this is, this will be cool. It's a novel. It's like a story.

• 40:44Brooke Averick?

  Did you read the back before ordering it?

• 40:47Connor Wood?

  No, I thought it'd be fun to just like dive in and it's, it's at first they give you a lot of characters and stuff and right away someone's kidnapped. I'll just tell you that and it's not, it's not giving anything away. So I'm like, oh, this is like a murder mystery, which I love. And then you kind of get in and, and there's a new chapter and it's, it fast forwards a little bit. And so the new characters introduced and this, he's, he's one of the sons of the guy who gets kidnapped in the beginning.

• 41:13Brooke Averick?

  I'm just thinking about this being an actual book report, like in seventh grade, there's new characters, there's a son.

• 41:20Connor Wood?

  I'm reading this on the plane, okay? And I am sitting in the aisle and it's a smaller plane. So the person across from the aisle can, can read. The book, it's, it looks big. The words are, the typeface is big.

• 41:31Brooke Averick?

  Okay.

• 41:31Connor Wood?

  It's large. And so I, it's easy to see if you're sitting next to someone and I, listen, prying eyes, no shame. I'm looking at, if you're scrolling through your phone and I'm sitting next to you on a plane, even if you're watching a different movie than me, my eyes are all over what you're consuming. If you're reading a book, I'm reading a couple of pages with you. I'll be frank. Now.

• 41:53Brooke Averick?

  Did it get smutty?

• 41:55Connor Wood?

  Out of nowhere, I am not only reading porn. I am reading hardcore, diabolical smut.

• 42:08Brooke Averick?

  How did that, how did that fit into the kidnapping?

• 42:10Connor Wood?

  And, and let me reverse those roles. I'm not only reading smut, I'm reading hardcore porn.

• 42:16Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

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• 43:32Connor Wood?

  It is... One of the sons just basically... Here, let me just read.

• 43:36Brooke Averick?

  Are you gonna read us a passage?

• 43:38Connor Wood?

  Basically, fast forward. He's in a hotel room, and he's bound and tied up, and there are two women that are...

• 43:44Brooke Averick?

  Is this the one that was kidnapped?

• 43:45Connor Wood?

  No. This is the son that just likes... He's really kinky.

• 43:49Brooke Averick?

  Okay.

• 43:50Connor Wood?

  "The new person stuck a long fake fingernail, the acrylic kind that comes in colors with crystals glued onto them, right up his ass."

• 43:57Brooke Averick?

  Imagery. Very good imagery.

• 43:58Connor Wood?

  Good, yeah. "It had aroused him to look at those terrible nails, but now that one was up his actual rectal cavity, he was wondering exactly how well glued those crystals were, and also how well glued that nail was." Now that he was really thinking about it, "And what exactly is the thing you can explain to the ER doctor or physician's assistant at an urgent care if you needed to have it removed?"

• 44:20Brooke Averick?

  I would say that's not smut. Like, that's not made... Like, that's not meant to turn you on.

• 44:27Connor Wood?

  It's...

• 44:28Brooke Averick?

  It's sexual imagery and descriptions.

• 44:32Brooke Averick?

  But it's not like...

• 44:35Brooke Averick?

  Supposed to make you horny.

• 44:36Connor Wood?

  I mean, it was just crazy to be reading. I mean, it's just like, "What does a pig do?" She asked. "Oink, oink," he said, reminding him of his kids.

• 44:43Brooke Averick?

  Nice. That was good.

• 44:46Connor Wood?

  No, she's like lick the carpet. It's just like.

• 44:49Brooke Averick?

  It's kinda like baby girl.

• 44:51Connor Wood?

  Yeah, and then it was funny because it's so funny. You just, you just made a really good comparison, actually. He's like, I'm sick and twisted in the head and I'm tied and bound. And then he took all these drugs, I guess, in the morning. And he said he just envisioned the guy who kidnapped his dad coming in and that's when he came.

• 45:09Brooke Averick?

  Very cool.

• 45:10Connor Wood?

  So maybe he's like.

• 45:11Brooke Averick?

  Maybe he is a little fucked up in the head.

• 45:13Connor Wood?

  Yeah, it could be cuz like I didn't make that comparison and apologies if you are.

• 45:20Brooke Averick?

  If you.

• 45:20Connor Wood?

  Listening to this in public or with your parents or. Anyone else that would be, I'm sorry.

• 45:27Brooke Averick?

  I'm gonna see what it got on Goodreads, Connor. Because my general rule of thumb, it does not always apply, though. Is usually like I try to read things that have a four and above rating on Goodreads out of five. That being said, some of my favorite books ever are in the threes, okay? But like if I'm at a bookstore and I'm like, huh, what's this? I've never heard of it and it has below a four, I probably won't. Okay, Long Island Compromise, 3.76.

• 45:54Connor Wood?

  That's not horrible, right? Out of five?

• 45:57Brooke Averick?

  It's not horrible. People, oh my God, tons of my friends have read it, Connor.

• 46:02Connor Wood?

  Okay, well.

• 46:02Brooke Averick?

  Ellen, the, the woman I was telling you about who rated Silent Patient said, no, this is for people who have never read a book.

• 46:08Connor Wood?

  Right.

• 46:09Brooke Averick?

  She gave it four stars.

• 46:10Connor Wood?

  Okay.

• 46:11Brooke Averick?

  That's very good for Ellen.

• 46:12Connor Wood?

  It's written by the same person who wrote Fleishman is in Trouble, which is a really good TV show.

• 46:16Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, five stars from two people I, I trust their opinion. Four stars from another girl who I, I trust. Marked Want to Read by my brother.

• 46:27Connor Wood?

  Oh.

• 46:28Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 46:29Connor Wood?

  Look at that.

• 46:29Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 46:29Connor Wood?

  Wow, I'm right in the zeitgeist of people that read.

• 46:32Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 46:33Connor Wood?

  That's out of nowhere. But I will be reading the rest in private. I'm gonna read it just in my house, I think. And I'll be reading self-help books in public.

• 46:40Brooke Averick?

  Do you feel like you're gonna finish it?

• 46:42Connor Wood?

  Yeah, I got started. I feel like it would be, I, I always start books and don't finish them and it's just making me a little sick. To just have all these half-baked things that I'm working through.

• 46:53Brooke Averick?

  Have you tried an audiobook?

• 46:54Connor Wood?

  It doesn't feel the same.

• 46:56Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 46:56Connor Wood?

  Cuz I'll do other stuff and I won't, I won't absorb.

• 46:59Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, I mean, me too, but I know it works for some people.

• 47:03Connor Wood?

  I know.

• 47:03Brooke Averick?

  But I'm really, really, really, really proud of you. Like that makes me so happy.

• 47:08Connor Wood?

  Thanks. It's a new, um.

• 47:12Connor Wood?

  Chapter.

• 47:14Brooke Averick?

  Literally.

• 47:17Connor Wood?

  Trying to think, oh, my new thing, by the way, this weekend, I'm at the beach, okay, in Miami, like, walking down with my book, I'm feeling so good, I post a mirror selfie, just being like, "Yeah, I'm in Miami, yeah, I'm enjoying my, my, my, like, little time in between stuff," because you gotta just enjoy some time, you gotta fit it in where you can. And I go down, I take a picture, all my DMs, "Ew, what the fuck, you're wearing flip flops?"

• 47:43Brooke Averick?

  I can't.

• 47:44Connor Wood?

  What? Ew, ick, ick.

• 47:49Connor Wood?

  What do you guys wear to the beach? Doc Martens? What do you, what else would I be wearing? I'm so confused. And then everyone was like, "Oh, wow, you're wearing Javianas?" You don't know a thing about Javianas.

• 48:00Brooke Averick?

  They don't.

• 48:01Connor Wood?

  And I guess what, I didn't need Gigi Hadid to be the creative director for me to fuck with, I almost said Benihanas, Javianas. Love Benihanas, too. Javianas have been that bitch.

• 48:14Brooke Averick?

  They've always been that bitch.

• 48:15Connor Wood?

  And now they're gonna be expensive.

• 48:16Brooke Averick?

  They're such good quality flip flops.

• 48:18Connor Wood?

  Great quality. They, they used to be just kinda like, easy to get, accessible, they're about to not be because...

• 48:24Brooke Averick?

  You're about to blow them up.

• 48:26Connor Wood?

  Well, between me and Gigi, we'll see what happens, but I was, it was like the new, like, "Oh, feet, you're posting feet for free," like, which is just so...

• 48:37Connor Wood?

  Like, how?

• 48:38Brooke Averick?

  It's just like, what happens to, like, body positivity, like, I can post whatever part of my body I want. People seem to forget that when it comes to feet. If I wanna post my feet, let me post my feet.

• 48:52Connor Wood?

  It's, I should also just like...

• 48:54Brooke Averick?

  And it's also, you don't, you're the one sexualizing my feet just in the corner of the image in a flip flop.

• 48:59Connor Wood?

  I, no, I had the, I felt the need to defend flip flops, because it's like, it is 82 degrees outside, what would I be wearing to the beach, except flip flops?

• 49:08Brooke Averick?

  I wonder if they would have the same reaction if you were barefoot?

• 49:13Brooke Averick?

  And I, I don't, I bet they wouldn't say anything if you were in Birks.

• 49:16Connor Wood?

  Oh, people want me to be wearing Birks. I just want to remind people that a Burke?

• 49:22Connor Wood?

  When you're in the heat, creates a smell that is almost opaque. It is, it's an uninvited ghoul of things that you're walking into a fleshy cave when you sweat in a Birkenstock in the heat.

• 49:37Brooke Averick?

  I have not experienced that, so.

• 49:39Connor Wood?

  That's like a clogged, in the clogs? Is that what you're talking about?

• 49:44Brooke Averick?

  I have not experienced that.

• 49:45Connor Wood?

  Or the open toed?

• 49:46Brooke Averick?

  What are you talking about?

• 49:48Connor Wood?

  The clogs.

• 49:49Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, no, I haven't experienced what you're speaking about. But I genuinely, my feet do not smell.

• 49:55Connor Wood?

  That's great. That's good.

• 49:57Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 49:58Connor Wood?

  Um, mine do.

• 49:59Brooke Averick?

  I know.

• 50:00Connor Wood?

  Yeah. I told you that story about when me and my friend in high school took an edible on a plane and we were leaving Colorado, like where they were legal. And so we're like, let's, let's take this edible. And we got on the plane and we're both freaking out, just like, she looks at me at one point. I was like, wait, people do this for fun? And I was like, shut it up. Don't look at me. Everything was like moving in slow motion for me. We got the wrong kind that wasn't like the fun body high. It was like melty, heavy. I'm drenched in sweat. I had to take off my shoes. And she looks at me and she goes, what's that smell? And I go, hey, take my shoes off. Shut up. Like, don't look at me. She started gagging.

• 50:41Brooke Averick?

  Ew, Connor. I wouldn't, I wouldn't even share that.

• 50:46Connor Wood?

  Well, it's fine. It was just like I was sweating and I had to take my socks off.

• 50:49Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 50:50Connor Wood?

  I'm not ashamed. Like, I am, I have good hygiene. When I sweat a lot randomly, my feet smell bad.

• 51:00Brooke Averick?

  Thank you.

• 51:01Connor Wood?

  I don't, I don't, I don't have shame in that.

• 51:03Brooke Averick?

  Okay, good. Good. You should try the whole body deo on your feet.

• 51:08Connor Wood?

  I would be interested in trying that. I've been an outspoken ball deodorant man my whole life, and that was before they were for sale. So.

• 51:15Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, give it a try and let us know what happens.

• 51:18Connor Wood?

  Oh, maybe I'll put some Lume on my heel.

• 51:20Brooke Averick?

  Oh, nice.

• 51:22Connor Wood?

  I don't know what part of my foot it is.

• 51:23Brooke Averick?

  I was gonna say, I don't think it's the heel.

• 51:25Connor Wood?

  It's like the actual bottom of my foot? Or is it in between my toes? You're grossed out with feet?

• 51:30Brooke Averick?

  I am.

• 51:31Connor Wood?

  Wow, you're, you're like almost one of these people.

• 51:33Brooke Averick?

  I know I'm not. I mean, I feel like there's a big difference between just like looking at a foot and being grossed out and you talking about the smell of in between your toes. Thanks.

• 51:41Connor Wood?

  I mean, it's not like if you're sitting next to me and I'm barefoot, you're like, holy shit, what is that?

• 51:45Brooke Averick?

  It sounds like that based off of what you had described.

• 51:48Connor Wood?

  No, like, it's like, when I, when I'm in shoes all day, like, it's like, if I played soccer in my cleats and I take my socks off and I'm in a locker and that's just like, or if I work out in shoes and stuff, like, obviously, if you put your head into my shoe and huff, like, you might have a little, you might get a little lightheaded.

• 52:06Brooke Averick?

  Thank you.

• 52:07Connor Wood?

  Oh, god, I'm feeling like, really not in a safe space.

• 52:09Brooke Averick?

  No, I mean, obviously, like, that's normal.

• 52:13Brooke Averick?

  You know, like, people's feet smell. Me?

• 52:17Connor Wood?

  By the way, I don't want, I don't want some ogre to DM me and be like, mine smell too. Like, I don't need you. I'm good, like, I'm okay with my body, I don't need any, like, reassurance.

• 52:27Brooke Averick?

  I feel good about my body.

• 52:30Connor Wood?

  No one DM me, by the way, and this, like, try to relate to me, I do not care. But, yeah, so, let's move forward.

• 52:39Connor Wood?

  I tried to make a new list about people that I hate, and I was gonna make today, like, a really positive episode, and it just, like, switched.

• 52:46Brooke Averick?

  I don't speak negatively about anyone anymore. And I rate every book on Goodreads five stars now, just in case.

• 52:53Connor Wood?

  That's a, that's like, a really dangerous, like, new life to lead, but if someone has to do it, go for it.

• 52:59Brooke Averick?

  Thanks.

• 52:59Connor Wood?

  I'm gonna state my, my blatant opinion, unless I'm being paid to do otherwise.

• 53:04Brooke Averick?

  God, I get it.

• 53:05Connor Wood?

  The worst people in the world, people who don't put their carts back, and people that are adjacent to that, I've already been outspoken about, um, people that don't stack their trays at TSA.

• 53:17Connor Wood?

  Do you know what I'm talking about?

• 53:18Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. There's that cart, the guy who, like, lurks in the parking lot.

• 53:21Connor Wood?

  Cartnarks.

• 53:22Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, him.

• 53:23Connor Wood?

  You know who loves cartnarks?

• 53:24Brooke Averick?

  Matt King.

• 53:25Connor Wood?

  Matt King.

• 53:26Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 53:27Connor Wood?

  He's just like such, he would be a cart, like, I think if he didn't pop off in other ways, like, he would be cartnark.

• 53:33Brooke Averick?

  Totally.

• 53:34Connor Wood?

  Like, Matt King was also, always destined to be famous.

• 53:37Brooke Averick?

  I said that to him yesterday.

• 53:40Connor Wood?

  Did you?

• 53:40Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, his voice, just his voice. Like that was meant to, it was meant to speak and be recorded.

• 53:46Connor Wood?

  Did he do theater?

• 53:48Brooke Averick?

  I think he did.

• 53:49Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 53:50Brooke Averick?

  I don't think like intensely, but I'm sure he, I think I know that he was in at least a few school plays.

• 53:56Connor Wood?

  His body yearns for the stage.

• 53:58Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 53:58Connor Wood?

  I'm being serious.

• 53:59Brooke Averick?

  He, he was, if he didn't find, find, he would have found something else, you know? He's the only person in the world where I'm like, yeah, you should have three podcasts.

• 54:08Connor Wood?

  I mean, he, he thrives on ours. When he steps up, like when he's in for one of us, it's just always so easy for him. I'm jealous.

• 54:15Brooke Averick?

  Fruitly.

• 54:15Connor Wood?

  Um, but so people who don't bring their carts back, people who don't stack their bins at TSA. And I always love that, like one martyr that's like, okay, I'll do all of them. Like I try to be that person, but it's like, I'm going to miss my flight to Edmonton, so I need to go.

• 54:29Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 54:30Connor Wood?

  And I can only have my shoes off for two seconds because people are starting to notice. But people who scoot chairs at like a cafe instead of just lifting them. Are you a scooter?

• 54:43Brooke Averick?

  I'm sure I am, Connor.

• 54:45Connor Wood?

  Oh my gosh, the way that you look.

• 54:46Brooke Averick?

  Shit, I am. I don't know what I am, but based off of just like me and you, I'm sure I am.

• 54:52Connor Wood?

  Oh my gosh, if someone like is pulling their chair out and it's like.

• 54:55Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, I would assume I, I would assume I do that, honestly.

• 54:58Connor Wood?

  I, I think I'm also really noise sensitive also. So I feel like that might just be like a pet peeve of mine. But that is just like a level of inconsideration at like a cafe or like a coffee shop or at a restaurant.

• 55:11Brooke Averick?

  I think.

• 55:11Connor Wood?

  In public.

• 55:12Brooke Averick?

  Hence, like, there's a huge difference between like scooting a chair out a little bit so you can sit and like dragging it back a lot and then dragging it back in.

• 55:21Connor Wood?

  I mean, I, I wrote that down when someone at a restaurant was dressed, they needed an extra chair for their table and they dragged it from one table to the other table.

• 55:29Brooke Averick?

  But I don't think I, I don't know. I mean, I would have to put myself back in the position, but I don't know if I'd be annoyed if someone just scooted a chair out. I feel like that's.

• 55:38Connor Wood?

  Last time it happened, I was like, I'm going to say something to them like Larry David style. Like I'm going to go up and be like, hey, by the way, like it's easy to pick it up.

• 55:44Brooke Averick?

  It might not, it might not, were they 411?

• 55:47Connor Wood?

  No, they were a big tall man.

• 55:49Brooke Averick?

  Okay.

• 55:51Connor Wood?

  Okay, I want to do White Lotus before we wrap.

• 55:54Brooke Averick?

  Okay.

• 55:54Connor Wood?

  I got a lot of stuff.

• 55:57Connor Wood?

  I guess to start, it was a big episode because of the, by the way, just, you can end the episode now if you don't want to hear White Lotus spoilers. Love you, though, completely, head over heels. The incest stuff was like the big kicker.

• 56:11Brooke Averick?

  It was definitely a kicker. Like, for example, like Sweet Chili Lime type of kick.

• 56:17Connor Wood?

  So it was definitely a mouth blowing type of incest that happened.

• 56:20Brooke Averick?

  And when last week I said I don't think the incest piece is that bad, I did change my mind on this week's episode. Thank you so much.

• 56:29Connor Wood?

  You almost feel, I can't, I don't think you have had anxiety in like the longest time, probably.

• 56:36Brooke Averick?

  You don't think I've had anxiety in the longest?

• 56:38Connor Wood?

  Hangxiety.

• 56:39Brooke Averick?

  Oh. Yeah, it's been a minute.

• 56:43Connor Wood?

  You could almost feel his hangxiety, like, I can't, but like, it also made me be like, wow, everything pales in comparison to like hooking up with your sibling. There is nothing.

• 56:54Brooke Averick?

  That almost could be worse.

• 56:55Connor Wood?

  You, like, it really, really, really puts things in perspective, like, and I, I know it's fictional, but like, definitely that shit happens. And before that part happened, I was like, okay, like, what, like, and everyone's gonna be mad at me when I say this, like, the make out was weird, but it's like.

• 57:12Brooke Averick?

  No, that's what I was saying.

• 57:13Connor Wood?

  Okay, like, whatever, like, come on, like, let's just like act like we both blacked out.

• 57:17Brooke Averick?

  It wasn't as crazy as I was expecting, the make out, especially because they were both, like, heavily on drugs, and there was no tongue, I don't think.

• 57:23Connor Wood?

  No, I mean, it was definitely weird. If I was with them, I'd be like.

• 57:26Brooke Averick?

  I'm not condoning it, but I'm just saying that wasn't like, oh my god, like.

• 57:30Connor Wood?

  This is, it's fucked up. So I want to say like, that's, that was bizarre, like, I can't believe it got there. What I want to bring up, though, however, is the fact, this is just a different scene. Belinda.

• 57:45Brooke Averick?

  Oh my God, I know exactly what you're gonna say and I completely agree.

• 57:50Connor Wood?

  Yes, incest is weird, but walking in on your mom with a man and being like,

• 57:57Brooke Averick?

  Should I give you two a minute?

• 57:59Connor Wood?

  Are you in, oh, did I walk in on, oh my God, shut the door!

• 58:02Brooke Averick?

  I literally said, okay, so the theme of this season is incest when that happened.

• 58:06Connor Wood?

  Like, that was almost like, at least those two were on Molly when they like, like, made out, but like, you just walked in, hesitated, and then, by the way,

• 58:19Connor Wood?

  the son coming in and being like, uh oh, you in the middle of something, mom?

• 58:24Connor Wood?

  I would have found the gun.

• 58:26Brooke Averick?

  Connor, I was gonna say.

• 58:27Connor Wood?

  Hidden in the resort and been like, why the fuck did you stare at me when I'm naked with another, like with a man, I'm your mom, get out of here. And then, at lunch, to be like,

• 58:37Brooke Averick?

  Debrief.

• 58:38Connor Wood?

  I'm just happy you're getting some? Oh my God. If I say, I mean, I don't know, like, you probably, okay, you have divorced parents, would you be like happy that your mom is getting some? Like, I don't know.

• 58:49Brooke Averick?

  No.

• 58:51Connor Wood?

  Like, I can't picture saying that to my mom, but then I was thinking like, I would, in so many words, you know, if like, you didn't, would you be like excited that your parent is moving on? Like, maybe like that, be like, ah, I'm happy you're having fun, like whatever.

• 59:04Brooke Averick?

  Very different dynamic of like, single mother who like spent her whole life like, caring for me and never cared for herself, it could be different, but even then, I wouldn't linger.

• 59:15Connor Wood?

  Stare at her in bed?

• 59:16Brooke Averick?

  Then I wouldn't linger.

• 59:17Connor Wood?

  Yeah, that was almost like up there with

• 59:22Connor Wood?

  the make out, not the touching. And then, do you have anything else on that?

• 59:27Brooke Averick?

  I just agree that I was like, this is like, just as abnormal.

• 59:32Connor Wood?

  I couldn't look.

• 59:33Brooke Averick?

  At the brothers kissing.

• 59:34Connor Wood?

  I couldn't look and it really dragged out that scene.

• 59:38Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, I agree.

• 59:39Connor Wood?

  The next one, I mean, again,

• 59:43Connor Wood?

  the father just about, I can't ever remember any of their names, but like everyone seems to know all the names. The dad, just being about to kill himself and imagining all the scenarios. I'm like, okay, this, that has been affecting me in a way that's just like mind blowing. The acting of,

• 59:59Connor Wood?

  Parker Posey and, and what's her face when they find him? Unbelievable.

• 1:00:05Brooke Averick?

  So good.

• 1:00:05Connor Wood?

  And I thought it was interesting how like he didn't, when he pictured like the scenario of being found dead, like he didn't picture the sons. Obviously they're on that boat, but like I thought it was funny that he didn't even like, he flashbacks and like he, he doesn't even think that they would even be there. And then he goes to the monk to talk about everything and, and the monk is kind of like, you know, death is, is, is awesome. Like it's like relaxing and great. And like you're home. And the fact that that should be such a great sentence, except when the guy tried to kill himself this morning. You know what I mean?

• 1:00:39Brooke Averick?

  Right. How would he know?

• 1:00:41Connor Wood?

  And is now romanticizing taking out his whole family and then the wife being like, yeah, I don't know. I could never be poor now. Like I would rather be dead. And he's like, okay, now I'm going to take this, this woman with me. We're all going down into the ocean of, of group consciousness now.

• 1:00:57Brooke Averick?

  But there's no way he's dying.

• 1:00:59Connor Wood?

  No, I think he's going to be killed by like the, one of the sons. Like I think one of the, I think the, this, the young Loch, Loch Ness monster, what's his name? Lochte? Ryan Lochte? What's his name? Lachlan? Lachlan. Got it. Lock and Key is probably going to just lose his mind at the end of the episode because he's having, when they were meditating, had the flashback and now he's realizing, oh my God, I did that.

• 1:01:22Brooke Averick?

  I thought that he knew, like when they woke up, like I was like, he knows what he did.

• 1:01:26Connor Wood?

  I know. I think it was just like typical blackout. Like you like have random memories and you're like, am I like imagining myself having done that? But then that like must've just stayed with him and was revisited because of the meditation.

• 1:01:41Brooke Averick?

  Ooh, it's so bad.

• 1:01:43Connor Wood?

  Mind blowing and really did something to my stomach that I had have not experienced in a long time. I was just like, oh, I'm going to kind of like freak out too.

• 1:01:51Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. Very unsettling.

• 1:01:55Connor Wood?

  Yeah. Really uncouth.

• 1:01:59Connor Wood?

  I was, I was freaking out with that. And then, um, oh, the three women.

• 1:02:05Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 1:02:05Connor Wood?

  Thoughts on the three women?

• 1:02:06Brooke Averick?

  I just want to say really quickly that the guy who plays Valentine doesn't look like, uh, doesn't look like himself. Like the, him in real life doesn't look anything like Valentine.

• 1:02:18Connor Wood?

  Oh, did you do a little Google?

• 1:02:20Brooke Averick?

  No, I see, he came up on my free page. I was like, and he was talking about being in this season of The White Lotus. And I was like, who is this?

• 1:02:26Connor Wood?

  Oh, wow.

• 1:02:26Brooke Averick?

  And it's literally, he just doesn't have the facial hair, but Connor, he's, he looks. Oh, my God. Right? He doesn't look like him, like it's a different person.

• 1:02:36Connor Wood?

  Oh.

• 1:02:36Brooke Averick?

  That's him.

• 1:02:39Connor Wood?

  Oh, wow.

• 1:02:39Brooke Averick?

  That doesn't look like the guy in White Lotus.

• 1:02:42Connor Wood?

  That's handsome Squidward.

• 1:02:43Brooke Averick?

  That's not the guy in White Lotus. I don't know what, it has to be more than just no facial hair.

• 1:02:49Connor Wood?

  He kinda looks like someone who would have hatched. Like not, he wasn't born, he hatched, yeah.

• 1:02:55Brooke Averick?

  Interesting.

• 1:02:56Connor Wood?

  And don't, don't have me explain that. That's just a vibe I get.

• 1:03:00Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. I mean, he doesn't look like Valentine.

• 1:03:02Connor Wood?

  Well, speaking of Valentine, I'm gonna read off a tweet that I, I just think it's funny. So obviously I missed the part, and I think you explained it to me, when Jacqueline, which is the only name I know out of the whole show. She's the, she's the one who's been like the normal, like, not as successful one.

• 1:03:21Brooke Averick?

  No, Jacqueline is the actress.

• 1:03:23Connor Wood?

  Oh, who was the other one?

• 1:03:24Brooke Averick?

  I wanna say Kate.

• 1:03:27Brooke Averick?

  Kate is Leslie Bibb, right?

• 1:03:29Connor Wood?

  Oh, not, I'm not talking about Leslie Bibb. I'm talking about the other.

• 1:03:32Brooke Averick?

  Carrie Coon.

• 1:03:34Connor Wood?

  What is her name in the show?

• 1:03:36Brooke Averick?

  Uh.

• 1:03:37Connor Wood?

  Why is this so hard? Like the, the characters themselves are memorable, but their names are not. They should have done a better job with that.

• 1:03:43Brooke Averick?

  Lori.

• 1:03:44Connor Wood?

  I, I have, I have new thoughts about Lori. My favorite thing is Jacqueline kinda, you, you, you showed me that Jacqueline was like, I think you explained this to me last episode, like, Jacqueline was like, setting her up the whole time and then ended up hooking up with Valentine.

• 1:04:00Brooke Averick?

  Right.

• 1:04:01Connor Wood?

  And I didn't even understand, like, I didn't, that didn't even click for me that like, that was not cool. And then.

• 1:04:06Brooke Averick?

  So fucking annoying.

• 1:04:08Connor Wood?

  I was just like, oh, okay. Well, like, and this is, I finally saw the sentiment, the sentiment that I was feeling. Bitch is mad at this, but like, if I offer you a plate and you let it get cold, I'mma start to nibble on it. No shade, scoot over, ho.

• 1:04:24Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, I guess, I guess like, would have been like, okay, if you're not gonna eat it, I will.

• 1:04:30Connor Wood?

  That's what, I mean, she-

• 1:04:31Brooke Averick?

  But saying that. Like, it feels shady that she didn't say that.

• 1:04:36Connor Wood?

  I hate Lori. Like, I hate Lori. I think she's always felt this way. She's always felt like she loathes these two women and their success. And she seems like she's always been miserable and it's, it's like this thing where she's on this trip. She obviously came into it with a bad attitude. She accepted a free trip from her friend. And now she's just got this, this like-

• 1:05:01Brooke Averick?

  The thing about-

• 1:05:01Connor Wood?

  Holier-than-thou attitude because she's like-

• 1:05:03Brooke Averick?

  That I love-

• 1:05:04Connor Wood?

  I'm normal, I'm normal, I'm normal. I'm not a celebrity. You're a celebrity. Like, you're, and it's like, why are you act- Like, she just acts like better. I don't know. It's weird.

• 1:05:12Brooke Averick?

  Well, the thing about her character that I love is that we know nothing about her life pre-White Lotus, but you can just tell how miserable it is.

• 1:05:20Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 1:05:20Brooke Averick?

  You know? Just based off of the way she acts.

• 1:05:22Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 1:05:23Brooke Averick?

  Did you see the theory that she forced his mom?

• 1:05:25Connor Wood?

  Why, all the theories I see are like, this person, the theory I just saw was that Greg is Walton Goggins.

• 1:05:31Brooke Averick?

  I saw that as well. They're the same age.

• 1:05:34Connor Wood?

  They are the same age. And then I saw that, um, the woman that works there and is like having that rom- romance-

• 1:05:42Brooke Averick?

  Mook?

• 1:05:42Connor Wood?

  Romance with, yeah, Mook, with, what's his name? Gay Talk?

• 1:05:46Brooke Averick?

  Gay Talk?

• 1:05:47Connor Wood?

  Gay Talk.

• 1:05:49Connor Wood?

  She, you know, she's a huge pop star. She was in, what, Blackpink?

• 1:05:52Brooke Averick?

  She's in Blackpink, yeah.

• 1:05:54Connor Wood?

  So there's a rumor that she's the daughter of the woman that owns the hotel. And like, they, people are saying it's like too crazy to have someone of her status in this show without making some sort of reference to her being like a real-life pop star. And I think that'd be funny if she ends up being the daughter and then Greg ends up being the dad.

• 1:06:16Connor Wood?

  Also, Jaclyn, whoever plays her character, I R L, went into an interview and said, "What? You guys think the monkeys did it? Like, no. What are you talking about? That's insane."

• 1:06:27Brooke Averick?

  Also, she's 48, which I can't stop fixating on. She looks my age.

• 1:06:33Connor Wood?

  Anyways, okay, I don't have any... Well, I have one more thing. I thought it was funny how R E, the two brothers sleeping together, um, the first episode, do you remember when Patrick Schwarzenegger's like,

• 1:06:46Brooke Averick?

  "You can't sleep with your sister. Like, you're a mature genitals. Like, adult children don't sleep together. That's weird." Great callback. Great callback.

• 1:06:57Connor Wood?

  That's, that's one thing about, um, Mike White. He's like a callback king.

• 1:07:01Brooke Averick?

  He's a callback king.

• 1:07:03Connor Wood?

  Oh, also, one more thing. I saw a tweet about this. You were right, I think, on this, like, on, he's, like, Mike White is just playing up all these things about, like, um, what is it called? Like, stereotypical media portrayals of, like, different groups? And he's, people are theorizing that he based, in some, in some level, um, the brothers on Call Me By Your Name, Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer, based on, like, their, like, vibes and, like, their, what they look like.

• 1:07:40Brooke Averick?

  Oh, that's interesting.

• 1:07:43Connor Wood?

  I, I, like, some genuine, like, intellectual would have to look into that further, but, like, when, based on just what they look like, I'm like, oh, I see that.

• 1:07:49Brooke Averick?

  I could see it based off of what they look like, for sure. I'd be curious to read more about that, because I'm not sure that I see the parallels.

• 1:07:59Connor Wood?

  I'll send you the tweet. I gotta find where I saw that.

• 1:08:02Brooke Averick?

  Okay.

• 1:08:02Connor Wood?

  Um, no, it's just about, like, I don't know, I'll find it. It's way more intellectual than I made it sound.

• 1:08:08Brooke Averick?

  Our whole White Lotus tweet was just like, "Well, I saw a tweet. I saw a tweet. I saw a tweet."

• 1:08:14Connor Wood?

  Yeah, I don't really have any thoughts like genuinely.

• 1:08:16Brooke Averick?

  I don't either because I literally, every episode ends and I'm just like, huh?

• 1:08:20Connor Wood?

  No, when I finish an episode, I go yawn and then I get on like Twitter and they're like, wow, that was an incredible episode.

• 1:08:27Brooke Averick?

  And I'm just like, wait, you're right. You are right.

• 1:08:29Connor Wood?

  They alluded to so many, like they alluded to Homer's Odyssey. I'm like, oh, did they? I must have missed that.

• 1:08:37Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 1:08:38Connor Wood?

  And I'm genuinely not on my phone during this show because I want to see all the like little references, but I miss them. All right, let's jump to bone.

• 1:08:48Brooke Averick?

  All right. I'll see you there.

• 1:08:50Connor Wood?

  I'll see you there and thank you guys for listening.

• 1:08:52Brooke Averick?

  Thanks everyone. We'll see you in the bone.

• 1:08:54Connor Wood?

  We'll see you there.

• 1:08:56Brooke Averick?

  Bye.

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