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• 0:02Speaker 00

  Fall never arrives all at once. First the air, then the light. And slowly, the things you love begin to find each other. A jacket meets a dress. A hoodie slips beneath a blazer. An old cap finds a new scarf. Because you don't simply step into the season. You create it, layer by layer. Until it finally feels like fall. Find fall your way at Ross.

• 0:37Connor Wood?

  Hi guys, we won't have another episode before the Dancing with the Stars premiere.

• 0:41Brooke Averick?

  Woo!

• 0:42Connor Wood?

  Yeah! So, remember to vote, please. My code's gonna be Connor, C-O-N-N-O-R-W.

• 0:49Brooke Averick?

  It's O-R.

• 0:50Connor Wood?

  That's O-R. There's two Connors. If you feel like voting for me, it's C-O-N-N-O-R-W.

• 0:55Brooke Averick?

  Don't give them an option.

• 0:56Connor Wood?

  Please vote for me, Connor, to 21523. C-O-N-N-O-R-W, to 21523, please. Thank you.

• 1:22Brooke Averick?

  Hi, Dancing Queen.

• 1:25Brooke Averick?

  Each episode, I'm gonna start with a new greeting. Today is Dancing Queen. I have next week's. And I'll keep thinking until, until you get that mirror ball.

• 1:35Connor Wood?

  Yo! Knock on wood. Knock on this laminate wood right here. Did you have that ready to, like locked and loaded?

• 1:42Brooke Averick?

  Dancing Queen, yes.

• 1:43Connor Wood?

  Oh, you were eager.

• 1:44Brooke Averick?

  I was ready for Hi Dancing Queen.

• 1:46Connor Wood?

  When you, when you, when you train a dog not to eat its food until you say, "Okay, go."

• 1:49Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 1:50Connor Wood?

  That was what you were like.

• 1:50Brooke Averick?

  I was ready.

• 1:51Connor Wood?

  Like when you throw the ball and it's waiting to fetch, but it can't go until it's said.

• 1:54Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 1:55Connor Wood?

  We said, "We should start recording," you said, "Hi Dancing Queen," like right out the gate.

• 2:00Connor Wood?

  Well, hello, chica.

• 2:01Brooke Averick?

  How are you feeling?

• 2:03Connor Wood?

  I'm good.

• 2:03Brooke Averick?

  It's also your birthday episode, kinda.

• 2:05Connor Wood?

  Oh yeah, it's my birthday episode. Izzy has such like a good read on people's spirits that, you know, I don't wanna like blow this one up.

• 2:14Brooke Averick?

  Right.

• 2:15Connor Wood?

  This girl...

• 2:16Brooke Averick?

  She did the perfect understated...

• 2:17Connor Wood?

  It's an understated birthday.

• 2:19Brooke Averick?

  She knows.

• 2:19Connor Wood?

  If you're listening on audio, we're taking it very chill this year. In fact, I wanna go into how chill I'm taking it in a second. Actually, no, I'm gonna start with how chill I've taken it, and then I wanna look at what Izzy... Because like, I couldn't help but notice Izzy put together a Connors Dancing with the Stars Survival Kit, which I'm gonna have to go through.

• 2:36Brooke Averick?

  She's ama... Do you wanna go through it now?

• 2:37Connor Wood?

  Yeah, I'll go through it now. Oh, this is so sweet, Izzy. Thank you.

• 2:40Brooke Averick?

  She's incredible.

• 2:41Connor Wood?

  Oh, a couple makeup removers, which is great because they are putting a lot of...

• 2:44Brooke Averick?

  Are you doing full glam, like in rehearsals?

• 2:47Connor Wood?

  No.

• 2:49Brooke Averick?

  What are you doing full glam for so far?

• 2:52Connor Wood?

  Like the big camera stuff, like the promo shoot we did, but nothing else so far.

• 2:56Brooke Averick?

  Okay.

• 2:57Connor Wood?

  Oh, and Good Morning America, we did.

• 2:58Brooke Averick?

  You did full glam.

• 3:00Connor Wood?

  Which is so weird, because I'm not, you still like, you have to take your makeup off.

• 3:04Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. What is your full glam made up of?

• 3:07Connor Wood?

  They put something all over my face. I don't know what it was.

• 3:10Brooke Averick?

  Is it like a tinted cream of sorts?

• 3:12Connor Wood?

  I don't know. I don't know.

• 3:15Brooke Averick?

  Are you getting any, like blush?

• 3:17Connor Wood?

  I don't know.

• 3:17Brooke Averick?

  Okay.

• 3:19Connor Wood?

  I don't think I'm getting blush.

• 3:20Brooke Averick?

  You might be getting blush.

• 3:21Connor Wood?

  I don't know, I'm pretty flustered all the time. I feel like I have a natural blush to my face.

• 3:24Brooke Averick?

  But if you're getting like a base, like a skin tinted base, then your flush would be hidden by that maybe, and you might be getting new flush on top.

• 3:35Connor Wood?

  Maybe I'm getting blush.

• 3:36Brooke Averick?

  You might be getting blush.

• 3:37Connor Wood?

  So Izzy got me a bunch of travel size makeup removers, which I'm gonna need for that. Oh, a bunch of mints, which is good, because I can't, you can't chew gum when you have the mic on. I get stopped. Oh, this is good too. BTS, which is, this is a good call out. I'm kind of Flop City, USA, in terms of content I'm putting out. I'm doing, I'm having a lot of fun with doing sounds and dances.

• 3:59Brooke Averick?

  And I think that's great.

• 4:00Connor Wood?

  But if, if anyone wants to see like a... Because you said, you said we could talk about like stuff, we'll talk about some stuff today, like what we do, I don't know.

• 4:08Brooke Averick?

  What do you mean, I said we could talk about some stuff?

• 4:10Connor Wood?

  Like, you were like, I want, I have dancing questions.

• 4:13Brooke Averick?

  I said, yeah, don't be afraid to talk about DWTS.

• 4:16Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 4:16Brooke Averick?

  Because that's all we wanna hear about.

• 4:17Connor Wood?

  Yeah, well, you know, I woke up and tried to film like a day in my life. I'm like, oh wait, I don't do anything until I go, and then I just come back and I...

• 4:24Brooke Averick?

  Film a day in your life.

• 4:25Connor Wood?

  Okay, I'll film a very...

• 4:27Brooke Averick?

  What are you talking about?

• 4:28Connor Wood?

  Earnest day in my life.

• 4:28Brooke Averick?

  People are on their knees for a day in their life.

• 4:32Connor Wood?

  Ew.

• 4:33Brooke Averick?

  Serious, I'm serious. What's that?

• 4:35Connor Wood?

  Self tan eraser.

• 4:37Brooke Averick?

  Oh my god, that's brilliant.

• 4:39Connor Wood?

  So this takes off, the self tan?

• 4:44Connor Wood?

  What?

• 4:44Brooke Averick?

  You could've used that a few years ago.

• 4:46Connor Wood?

  The self tan, it's, it's weird that you get darker with the self tanner, like the more you put on. I was thinking like, it would just make it last longer?

• 4:53Brooke Averick?

  Hmm. No, because it's like, have you seen that episode of Friends where Ross gets two twos?

• 4:58Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 4:58Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. He was an eight.

• 5:01Connor Wood?

  Well, that was a spray tan, right?

• 5:03Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 5:04Connor Wood?

  Yeah. What I did was like a self tanner, it was your, it was out of your makeup bag.

• 5:08Brooke Averick?

  Isle of Paris, yeah.

• 5:09Connor Wood?

  And I had, I did it, and then I did it again on top of what I did, because I liked it so much, which... That's just like so, my MO is to like just keep going when things are looking good.

• 5:20Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 5:21Connor Wood?

  To overdo it.

• 5:21Brooke Averick?

  Totally. Stop while you're ahead.

• 5:23Connor Wood?

  Stop while I'm ahead.

• 5:24Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 5:26Connor Wood?

  And then what had happened was I would...

• 5:29Connor Wood?

  I don't think I was, I didn't, I think I was drinking something, and I realized how much I was drooling, because I looked like someone's puppet.

• 5:34Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 5:35Connor Wood?

  Because I was drooling out of both sides, and so it looked like I had marks going down both corners of my mouth, down past my chin. And it washed away.

• 5:44Connor Wood?

  Like, like the parting...

• 5:45Brooke Averick?

  You look like a marionette.

• 5:46Connor Wood?

  Like the parting of the great sea, and it did give me that marionette look.

• 5:49Brooke Averick?

  You had that marionette-like style.

• 5:54Connor Wood?

  That did. Oh, I could've used this Bondi Sands self tan eraser back then. They paved paradise, they put up a parking lot. Oh, and bless your heart, relax and relieve. Epsom salt for my bath.

• 6:08Brooke Averick?

  That's so good.

• 6:08Connor Wood?

  Oh, and Band-Aids. What's cool is that like, I have already bled so much through, I've actually thrown away probably a dozen pairs of socks, because I'm bleeding so much out of my feet that I have to throw away my socks, but I have calluses now.

• 6:21Brooke Averick?

  That's good.

• 6:22Connor Wood?

  Yeah, but I'm sure that they'll come back. Oh, thank you, Izzy. That's so sweet, thank you.

• 6:27Brooke Averick?

  I have a present cooking for you, but it, it's something that will take some time.

• 6:33Connor Wood?

  Oh, Izzy, you know, I don't like cake very much.

• 6:37Brooke Averick?

  Since when do you not like cake very much?

• 6:39Connor Wood?

  When have I eaten cake?

• 6:41Brooke Averick?

  Every single time we've gotten it? Yeah, you have, definitely had sliced.

• 6:45Connor Wood?

  Why do you think Izzy got me?

• 6:46Brooke Averick?

  But you've definitely had pieces of Suzie cakes when Izzy's gotten Suzie cakes.

• 6:50Connor Wood?

  I'm thinking maybe...

• 6:52Brooke Averick?

  No, you've had slices.

• 6:53Connor Wood?

  I maybe have had, I maybe have...

• 6:55Brooke Averick?

  You've had little slices.

• 6:56Connor Wood?

  I've not had, I take a fork to the actual physical cake.

• 6:59Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 6:59Connor Wood?

  I take my one big bite.

• 7:00Brooke Averick?

  So what part of that's gonna make me think he doesn't like cake, if you're taking a fork to the whole cake?

• 7:05Connor Wood?

  I'm not taking a big, I'm not taking a big slice of cake.

• 7:08Brooke Averick?

  You eat the cake, and you moan, and you moan.

• 7:12Connor Wood?

  I don't moan when I eat the cake.

• 7:13Brooke Averick?

  You definitely have liked the cake in the past.

• 7:14Connor Wood?

  I say, "Mmm."

• 7:16Brooke Averick?

  Okay, what part of you eating, taking a fork to the cake and going, "Mmm," is gonna make me think he doesn't like cake?

• 7:22Connor Wood?

  Shut up. I like, don't want a big slice of cake.

• 7:25Brooke Averick?

  That's fine. It's just, I don't think you can say you don't like cake.

• 7:31Brooke Averick?

  It's not your preference?

• 7:31Connor Wood?

  No, I prefer cupcakes.

• 7:32Brooke Averick?

  That's fine.

• 7:33Connor Wood?

  Sorry, I should've said that.

• 7:33Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, no worries.

• 7:34Connor Wood?

  Oh, so you hate waffles?

• 7:37Brooke Averick?

  It just has to make sense to me.

• 7:41Connor Wood?

  This is just a dream come true.

• 7:43Brooke Averick?

  I know that.

• 7:43Connor Wood?

  I love cupcakes. Oh, thank you Suzie cakes, thank you Izzy.

• 7:46Brooke Averick?

  I'm gonna have to eat one of those if you don't mind later.

• 7:49Connor Wood?

  No, please.

• 7:50Brooke Averick?

  Thanks.

• 7:51Connor Wood?

  I'm on a very, very seafood diet. I seafood, I eat it.

• 7:56Brooke Averick?

  Nice. You've been eating so healthy.

• 8:00Connor Wood?

  I, Brooke, the way I've put on weight needs to be studied.

• 8:05Brooke Averick?

  Well, you're probably building so much muscle.

• 8:07Connor Wood?

  No, it's in my face.

• 8:09Brooke Averick?

  No, it's not.

• 8:09Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 8:10Brooke Averick?

  You've, I like, I do think you have dysmorphia.

• 8:13Connor Wood?

  What's going on with my shirt?

• 8:14Brooke Averick?

  Facial and body.

• 8:15Connor Wood?

  Again, why, how come every time I start... Oh my god, I don't even have a button there.

• 8:20Brooke Averick?

  I didn't notice.

• 8:22Connor Wood?

  I gotta keep that closed a little bit.

• 8:25Brooke Averick?

  How are you feeling about this, this birthday?

• 8:27Connor Wood?

  Well, hang on really quick, I wanna start, if you're a new listener, which I couldn't help but notice, there are a few new listeners to the podcast in the past week. We have a very special...

• 8:38Brooke Averick?

  Oh, yeah.

• 8:38Connor Wood?

  Code. Also, if you're not a new listener and you want a little, we want a little bite. We have, via Izzy, this is Kiss Your Brain Izzy, a free month of bonus episodes on the bonus, on the site. It's TMGstudios.tv/BrookeandConnorMakeUpPodcast, slash B and C M A P. You can find it if you go to TMGstudios.tv. Use code DWTS to get a free month of bonus content. That's cool. I don't think we ever, we had ever done that.

• 9:08Brooke Averick?

  DWTS.

• 9:11Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 9:12Brooke Averick?

  One week. It's, is it next Tuesday or Wednesday that you're on?

• 9:15Connor Wood?

  Tuesday.

• 9:16Brooke Averick?

  Less than one week until you hit the stage. Until you weasel your way into the hearts of America.

• 9:24Brooke Averick?

  My hole for you page is Connorwood.

• 9:28Connor Wood?

  I talked to Dylan Efron on the phone yesterday.

• 9:31Brooke Averick?

  What did you guys talk about?

• 9:32Connor Wood?

  He's so sweet. He's like POV nonchalant final boss. Like, he answers the phone, not even hello. I don't even know when he answers the phone. Even when he calls me, there's no like, hey, he's like,

• 9:45Connor Wood?

  what did he say? His opening line?

• 9:46Brooke Averick?

  Just starting conversation.

• 9:47Connor Wood?

  Dude, you are killing it. Just like, he called me like an agent would call.

• 9:51Brooke Averick?

  He's the greatest guy.

• 9:52Connor Wood?

  He's the greatest. I'm gonna go see him at some point, but um, yeah, it's very scary and you're gonna be there on the floor.

• 10:00Brooke Averick?

  Yes.

• 10:00Connor Wood?

  Tonight, we're gonna get on the floor.

• 10:03Brooke Averick?

  I think I'm gonna like, I'm really scared and like this is not gonna happen.

• 10:08Connor Wood?

  Don't, don't even, please, please, please don't even say whatever you.

• 10:12Brooke Averick?

  No, it's not horrible. It's not like I would will something bad into existence.

• 10:16Connor Wood?

  Well, remind, remind us of where we are.

• 10:18Brooke Averick?

  You're not gonna like, no, no, no, it's not bad. But like, God forbid you don't get a 10 from each judge. Like, I'm scared of my, I will like not be able to like hold in my like expletives on camera. I'll be like, like fucking.

• 10:37Connor Wood?

  They go Connor's friends and family with the.

• 10:39Brooke Averick?

  And I can be like cursing out everyone.

• 10:41Connor Wood?

  My dad's holding you back.

• 10:42Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, no, it'll be, I'll be good.

• 10:44Connor Wood?

  Um, that's gonna be so funny. Oh, you're gonna be down on the floor.

• 10:48Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, I'm, I'm really excited.

• 10:49Connor Wood?

  That's gonna be so fun. Um, well, in terms of the ratings, I guess like a lot of them are based on like technicalities and.

• 10:58Brooke Averick?

  I'll be fine with a nine. I'll be fine with some nine.

• 11:00Connor Wood?

  I'll take a nine. I'll take a nine.

• 11:02Brooke Averick?

  Even an eight, whatever, whatever. I don't want, I don't want to see them below eights.

• 11:06Connor Wood?

  They have to take.

• 11:07Brooke Averick?

  No, I'm kidding. You can get whatever you want. It's just, you deserve, you deserve the vote.

• 11:12Connor Wood?

  That's very kind. They take.

• 11:13Brooke Averick?

  I know how hard you've been working.

• 11:14Connor Wood?

  They, I know. They take um, skill, I hope they take skill level into account. I don't know. Cause like, unlike past.

• 11:22Brooke Averick?

  I like, yes.

• 11:23Connor Wood?

  Like, I hope it's on like um, whatever scale that is.

• 11:27Brooke Averick?

  Should be curved.

• 11:28Connor Wood?

  Yeah, I think there, I think there should be like.

• 11:29Brooke Averick?

  There should be a curve.

• 11:30Connor Wood?

  Scale, but.

• 11:31Brooke Averick?

  I do think it's like the whole package. Like, when Clay can audition for American Idol, like even though he had the vocals in his pocket, Simon was like, I don't know if you have what it takes to be the American Idol. Like, I don't know if you have the star power. So it really is like more, but I mean, he proved that he could go above and beyond, of course. But like, it is about more than just your ability to dance.

• 11:56Connor Wood?

  Agreed. That being said, I'm, what we're locking in now and what we've been locking in is like all of the little things. Because Riley will be like, Bruno really looks at like your, your toes.

• 12:06Brooke Averick?

  Whoa.

• 12:07Connor Wood?

  So like.

• 12:08Brooke Averick?

  Bruno's gonna love you.

• 12:09Connor Wood?

  You know, I hung out with Bruno the other night. Yeah.

• 12:11Brooke Averick?

  Didn't know that.

• 12:12Connor Wood?

  We.

• 12:13Brooke Averick?

  Is that allowed? It feels like a conflict of interest.

• 12:15Connor Wood?

  I wasn't like, I didn't like hit him up and I went out to dinner with Bruno.

• 12:18Brooke Averick?

  Okay, it wasn't like one on one like.

• 12:20Connor Wood?

  No, we had like a big like.

• 12:22Brooke Averick?

  Against the world?

• 12:22Connor Wood?

  It was like a happy hour with like everybody before GMA and um, we all like met and hung out and I met Bruno and then we were heading out and we were on the same shuttle back to the hotel.

• 12:34Brooke Averick?

  Crazy that you're doing like, oh, Bruno.

• 12:36Connor Wood?

  Bruno.

• 12:37Brooke Averick?

  First name.

• 12:38Connor Wood?

  Oh, he's so funny.

• 12:39Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. He's a.

• 12:41Connor Wood?

  I think he likes me, but I think he's just really nice too. So I wouldn't know. But I think he'll like the work I'm putting into both my hips and my toe and my hands, the pointing of my hands.

• 12:51Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 12:51Connor Wood?

  And as, as well as the, the, the tongue, the teeth, the tip of the.

• 12:55Brooke Averick?

  I hear you're working on your smile.

• 12:57Connor Wood?

  Yeah, how did you know that?

• 12:58Brooke Averick?

  Oh, you told me.

• 12:58Connor Wood?

  Okay. That's a dead giveaway.

• 13:01Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 13:01Connor Wood?

  Yeah. But also like.

• 13:04Brooke Averick?

  That's the hardest part.

• 13:05Connor Wood?

  Yeah, there's like some smiling parts and then there's some stuff where you're like, this is not necessarily a smile for this part. You have to kinda like.

• 13:11Brooke Averick?

  Like sexy?

• 13:12Connor Wood?

  Kinda like, yeah. You like that?

• 13:16Brooke Averick?

  Right. Your face has to match the dance.

• 13:18Connor Wood?

  You like when I dance for you?

• 13:20Brooke Averick?

  Oh, I don't like that.

• 13:22Connor Wood?

  Yeah, I'll reel it in a little bit from there. Do you like when I dance for you?

• 13:25Brooke Averick?

  Hi, do you like when I dance for you?

• 13:29Brooke Averick?

  Hi, question.

• 13:30Connor Wood?

  Hi. Like when I dance for you? Freak?

• 13:35Connor Wood?

  Yeah, with the hips and stuff, you do need to deliver a message in that way.

• 13:38Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 13:38Connor Wood?

  That's digestible for the masses. But it's good. It's going really well. Yeah, we are, when this comes out, it will be technically four days and then the fifth day, it, well, let's see. So this will come out Thursday. So I'll have Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, four days of practice left. But like some of those days are getting set up and like not actual like three hour practices. But we were practicing last night. Riley was like, I don't wanna overdo the, like, we are there, so I don't wanna like overdo it. Me, I'm like, I need to be doing this dance.

• 14:12Brooke Averick?

  It's kinda like writing, I think, where it's like you get to a point where it's like you have to stop. Cause like, it's the best it's gonna be and like the more you work at it, like, you don't wanna get in your head about it.

• 14:24Connor Wood?

  We did, we did this fun thing where we did show and tell.

• 14:27Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 14:28Connor Wood?

  Where we.

• 14:30Brooke Averick?

  Right, are you guys doing like group, like bonding activities?

• 14:33Connor Wood?

  Yeah, cause you don't know who you're gonna be in the studio with at the same time. But um, um, Alan was there with his partner G, the, the chef.

• 14:42Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 14:42Connor Wood?

  And then Jackson, Olsen and uh, yeah.

• 14:47Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 14:47Connor Wood?

  And um, his partner Emma were there. And so us three did a show and tell. We did our dances for each other. It was fun, but it does make you be like.

• 14:55Brooke Averick?

  You have to size up the comp.

• 14:56Connor Wood?

  Well, everyone, like, you're not supposed to do that. Riley keeps being like, stay in your lane. There's nothing we can do about their dances or whatever. But, um, I'm like, everyone's so good. Like, what the, what the hell are we doing? Why are we fighting?

• 15:09Brooke Averick?

  Wow.

• 15:10Connor Wood?

  We should be out.

• 15:11Brooke Averick?

  We should all be performing this. You know how, wait, I like, I did watch Dancing with the Stars last season, but like not enough to know the answer to this. You know how in American Idol, they would do like, when they got to the top 12, they would do like a group performance at the beginning? Do you guys ever do like a group dance?

• 15:29Connor Wood?

  I don't think, outside of the trio, I don't think there's any, and then like dedication.

• 15:32Brooke Averick?

  What's the trio? Like you bring in a third?

• 15:34Connor Wood?

  I think you bring in a third, yeah. Wait, I could be getting this wrong.

• 15:39Connor Wood?

  I'm getting everything mixed and jumbled.

• 15:41Brooke Averick?

  Like a third, like dancer?

• 15:46Connor Wood?

  I could be wrong. Can we?

• 15:48Brooke Averick?

  Like a third.

• 15:57Brooke Averick?

  Wow.

• 15:59Connor Wood?

  Yeah, well, I'm not there yet. And so I'm trying not to think about too far ahead in case I start. Yeah, so trio dances on Dancing with the Stars, competing celebrity and their professional partner performing alongside an extra pro, true member or past celebrity champ. Yeah.

• 16:14Brooke Averick?

  Whoa. Past celebrity champion. I know who you could do.

• 16:19Connor Wood?

  Who?

• 16:19Brooke Averick?

  I'll tell you later.

• 16:23Connor Wood?

  You want me to bring Rob out?

• 16:25Brooke Averick?

  Irwin?

• 16:25Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 16:26Brooke Averick?

  No, I wasn't even thinking of Rob.

• 16:27Connor Wood?

  Guys, I have to pee so bad and the timer stopped. I don't know why, like suddenly and all at once, it feels like I'm, I'm actually gonna squirt.

• 16:34Brooke Averick?

  Okay, go.

• 16:34Connor Wood?

  And speaking of squirt,

• 16:37Connor Wood?

  I'm coming right back with a story to tell you.

• 16:39Brooke Averick?

  Okay, cool.

• 16:39Connor Wood?

  All right, hang on. I feel like everyone I meet lately is trying to be smarter with money, myself included. Cash back here, coupons and points there, but why does it take so much effort? We all just wanna make our money work a little harder.

• 16:52Brooke Averick?

  I totally agree, Connor. I love a good deal, but if I actually have to hunt for one or go out of my way to activate a coupon, I've already checked out.

• 17:01Connor Wood?

  Yeah, well, Brooke, I think I found one you'll actually like. Prime for young adults. It's actually pretty genius. It's a prime membership for 18 to 24 year olds that actually makes prime feel like it's built for you.

• 17:11Brooke Averick?

  All right, you've got my attention, Connor, but what's the catch?

• 17:15Connor Wood?

  What if I told you there isn't one? I'm talking about 5% cash back on eligible purchases in categories like beauty, apparel, electronics, PCs and health and personal care.

• 17:25Brooke Averick?

  You're telling me this whole time I could have been getting rewarded for the purchases I already make and with no catch?

• 17:30Connor Wood?

  Exactly. You're not changing your shopping habits. You just get rewarded for them. And the best part, the cash back is automatic. No coupons, no activation, no extra steps.

• 17:41Brooke Averick?

  Now that's the kind of reward I can get behind. No extra work, just getting rewarded for the life I'm already living. Talking about Prime for Young Adults, 5% cash back, 100% made for you.

• 17:52Connor Wood?

  I'm talking about that. If you're between 18 and 24, check out Prime for Young Adults and start earning cash back on the purchases you're already making. Prime for Young Adults is only available for 18 to 24 year olds. Terms apply. Hi guys, we wanna take a quick break to thank a sponsor of today's episode, Pop Chips. Notice there's no Pop Chips around today. It's cause I ate all them.

• 18:11Brooke Averick?

  Yum.

• 18:12Connor Wood?

  They're very good. Um, we kinda were eating them just like as a, during the last time we were filming and then as a joke, I finished the whole bag.

• 18:20Brooke Averick?

  It was a funny joke.

• 18:21Connor Wood?

  It was a complete joke to me. The sea salt ones are my favorite. They're so good and they go down very easy, you guys.

• 18:27Brooke Averick?

  You know why I think? Cause they're made with avocado oil, they're super crunchy, bold flavors, and Pop Chips are popped potato chips. So you don't get greasy fingers, which is important because I'm not touching my phone with snack hands and I'm obviously gonna be on my phone.

• 18:43Connor Wood?

  You, it is completely unlike you to touch your phone with snack hands. That's destiny, okay? It's cinema. Never fried, always real, period. Hi guys, I wanna take a quick break to thank a sponsor of today's episode, Warby Parker. Buying glasses used to feel more complicated than it needed to be. I wouldn't know. I just started buying glasses. So all I know is Warby Parker, which is like. You know, check my privilege, right? But every time I started looking for new frames, once I started shopping, I'd end up with 20 tabs open, trying to compare prices, styles and reviews. And somehow I'd still have no idea what I was going to look like, what was gonna look good on my face. You know, that's why I've become such a huge fan of Warby Parker. They make the whole process way easier.

• 19:23Brooke Averick?

  One of my favorite features of Warby Parker is their virtual try on. You can use your phone to see how different frames look on your face in real time before you buy them. It sounds simple, but it's one of those things that completely changes the experience.

• 19:35Connor Wood?

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• 20:11Brooke Averick?

  And they're not just a glasses company. They also offer contacts, online eye exams and sunglasses. So pretty much everything you need for happier eyes is all in one place. Plus, if you're someone who likes seeing things and seeing things in person, they have more than 300 retail stores across the US.

• 20:30Connor Wood?

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• 20:46Connor Wood?

  Well, should we finish birthday or should we go to my squirting story?

• 20:50Brooke Averick?

  Uh, shh, shh, shh.

• 20:51Connor Wood?

  We can come back. Well, I guess let's finish.

• 20:53Brooke Averick?

  Let's finish, let's wrap up birthdays.

• 20:55Connor Wood?

  Have me circle back.

• 20:56Brooke Averick?

  Are we done with dancing?

• 20:57Connor Wood?

  We can circle back and, well, what do you want to? Do you have any questions about it?

• 21:00Brooke Averick?

  I mean, like tons.

• 21:02Connor Wood?

  It is weird. Like, I felt weird because in all fairness and truthness, to be fair, we did record that episode of Dancing Announcement a week before I had announced it.

• 21:13Brooke Averick?

  I thought you were being, you were being.

• 21:15Connor Wood?

  I think we're okay now.

• 21:16Brooke Averick?

  Okay.

• 21:16Connor Wood?

  I like miss, I miss Red House serious, though.

• 21:18Brooke Averick?

  Okay, yeah, I mean, yeah.

• 21:23Connor Wood?

  You, you kept, you kept.

• 21:24Brooke Averick?

  I was so good. I was so good until I accidentally leaked it when everyone flip-fucked my Hobonichi.

• 21:29Connor Wood?

  That is bizarre. Brooke posted a picture of her, what was it? Like a to do list on Snapchat?

• 21:39Brooke Averick?

  I might have been on Instagram because I've been obsessed with stickers recently. So I was posting pictures of all the stickers that I put in my Hobonichi. And in the page behind it, so like, there was like a little bit of bleed through that I like truly didn't even see. And like, you really couldn't see unless you were like zooming in, looking with a microscope. It said DWTS backwards. And like, somebody flip-fucked it.

• 22:04Connor Wood?

  Yeah, Brooke texted me, he was like, I'm so sorry. Like, it's been leaked.

• 22:07Brooke Averick?

  And by flip-fuck, I mean like inverted the image.

• 22:10Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 22:11Brooke Averick?

  And it said like, O R D W T S, like probably Connor Dancing with the Stars. Cause we have like an event that I'm going to with you tomorrow, which I'm very excited about. But it was in my hope, of course. And somebody looked through and I was literally convincing my, I was, I had had a gummy when, when that had been blasted out. And Connor, like, like in his defense and honor, was really like being really good and scared about it being leaked. Like, I posted a picture of my moldy ass chomp. And he was like, you need to delete that because people are gonna connect the dots. And we've recorded this a week ago. So I delete my moldy chomp, all that. He was being like really intentional. I'm saying, I'm saying that you were being really.

• 22:56Connor Wood?

  I want to talk about, I want to talk about the Instagram story, too.

• 22:58Brooke Averick?

  He's being really intentional. Completely made me delete my moldy chomp. Responded to the picture of my moldy chomp, delete.

• 23:04Connor Wood?

  This is a writer.

• 23:05Brooke Averick?

  Delete, period. I ignore it. Text me, please delete.

• 23:08Connor Wood?

  She's being so, so good with her words. She's like, he's being very dedicated. And he was obviously feeling very convicted in his ways, right? And it was, it was, he should be so full of pride that he was this way.

• 23:20Brooke Averick?

  Fucking insane. He was being batshit fucking insane.

• 23:23Connor Wood?

  That's what she's trying to say. I was like, Brooke, please delete it. Cause I just knew that we were, it was funny and we were gonna clip it. And then they're like, wait, that was last week. But, um, yeah, I was like, Brooke, can you delete?

• 23:32Brooke Averick?

  And then I responded, I said, I don't think Dancing with the Stars is gonna be watching my story and then connecting it to the bonus from, I was like, hey, I deleted it.

• 23:39Connor Wood?

  No, but I was like, Brooke, I was just.

• 23:40Brooke Averick?

  I deleted it.

• 23:41Connor Wood?

  I responded, Brooke, I get it, but can you please just delete it?

• 23:44Brooke Averick?

  And I did.

• 23:44Connor Wood?

  And she goes, okay. And I'm like, did you really need the moldy chomp?

• 23:50Brooke Averick?

  Yes.

• 23:50Connor Wood?

  That bad on your story at the specific time?

• 23:52Brooke Averick?

  I'm obsessed with posting on my Instagram story right now.

• 23:54Connor Wood?

  I know.

• 23:55Brooke Averick?

  So yes.

• 23:56Connor Wood?

  But like, the episode was coming out the next week, like.

• 23:58Brooke Averick?

  It was bonus. That's why it's like not.

• 24:02Connor Wood?

  We clipped it.

• 24:02Brooke Averick?

  Not a lot of people have access to that. So I was putting it on main.

• 24:07Connor Wood?

  I was just laughing that like, we were genuinely getting, we were genuinely butting heads because she needed to post the moldy beef jerky on her story.

• 24:14Brooke Averick?

  I did.

• 24:14Connor Wood?

  Right then. And I was like, can you delete? And she was like, why? I don't really see a problem. I was like, please take it down. Like, if it would have been like genuinely like anything else, but it was, I was like, it is a moldy, like old piece of beef jerky. Like, why do you need this on your story?

• 24:31Brooke Averick?

  It tells a story. It told a beautiful story. People connected to it, by the way. Everyone responding is like a Dom situation. Like, this happened to me, like, it helped people feel more.

• 24:40Connor Wood?

  Well, there was one young woman that was like, that's so clearly fat separation. And I was like.

• 24:44Brooke Averick?

  By the way, I don't think it was.

• 24:45Connor Wood?

  No, I looked at it up close.

• 24:46Brooke Averick?

  It was pretty moldy.

• 24:47Connor Wood?

  I know what mold looks like.

• 24:48Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, it was pretty.

• 24:49Connor Wood?

  And I've seen fat separated, too.

• 24:51Brooke Averick?

  And I feel bad because chomps is like, let me make this right. And it's like, I will still eat chomps.

• 24:54Connor Wood?

  No, I'm good. I ate one in my car on the way home.

• 24:56Brooke Averick?

  I'm not holding it against chomp in any way. Like, food gets moldy, it's fine. It just is what it is.

• 25:02Connor Wood?

  Yeah. And it wasn't fat separation. I see fat separation every day when I look in the mirror.

• 25:06Brooke Averick?

  Well, why were we talking about that on my Instagram story? Oh, because you were being really intentional. So I was so scared that you were going to be so mad at me and I had had a gummy. And so I texted you and I had this whole thing like planned out like, hey, this happened, like, I'm so, so sorry, but I think it's okay because I was invited to this event separate from you. So it's not like I'm leaking that you're on it. Like, I was just, I'm going like as an, as like an invitee, like separate from you. And he was like, you were like, it's total, it's totally fine. No worries. So that was really.

• 25:37Connor Wood?

  That's an insane, and everyone else, I was so serious about it because everyone else kind of leaked themselves because they were antsy. But I was like, I'm gonna let this, I'm gonna let this slide because I already feel very lucky to be a part of this as like a wild card pick. And like, I know that there is going to be some pushback about me being included in this group. And there wasn't, I wasn't met with that much. Or I've chosen to not watch things where I can clearly see the person on the other end of the line

• 26:07Connor Wood?

  has an, has an opinion about.

• 26:09Brooke Averick?

  No, everyone, everything that I've been getting on my Connor Wood FYP is like, people are so excited for, about you and, and for you. And the people that didn't know you before are already obsessed with you. Which, by the way, like, I bet that feels really good. Cause I know it feels really good to me when people are like, I didn't know this girl at all before, but like, this is, I like this book. Those mean like more, more to me. You know, when it's like, wow, I didn't know this guy at all, but like, I really like him.

• 26:37Connor Wood?

  Yeah. Yes, that is good. Like, oh, like, all, all they've seen is the press line. Get ready to see me shake my hips.

• 26:45Brooke Averick?

  It's really nice to know that like you still have.

• 26:48Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 26:48Brooke Averick?

  Some stuff going for you.

• 26:50Connor Wood?

  And those people, I want them to know, I'm taking their, their show very seriously.

• 26:54Brooke Averick?

  And it's not just like your family, you know?

• 26:56Connor Wood?

  Yeah, that's true. So who is this little Tom Holland looking cute comedian man that everyone's calling Papa? So, wait, what is this? I'm scared. Is this just a screenshot of this? Is there more to it?

• 27:09Brooke Averick?

  No, that's like the meanest people have been.

• 27:11Connor Wood?

  Okay, so I, I don't.

• 27:14Brooke Averick?

  It's all positive.

• 27:15Connor Wood?

  I've chosen to avoid the like, wait until you meet Brooke 2000 likes. Oh, to be experiencing.

• 27:21Brooke Averick?

  Let's see those replies. I'm sure they're great.

• 27:25Connor Wood?

  My thoughts exactly. That's big dog, literally. She's mid.

• 27:29Brooke Averick?

  Is he trying to, is he trying to scroll past it?

• 27:35Connor Wood?

  Okay, how come? Yeah, it's just so good. And then when I read a couple of good comments, I stop and, and then I know, I say, cool. It seems like they're all positive.

• 27:43Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 27:43Connor Wood?

  But what we just did was scroll until we find a negative one. And then now there's like this dark cloud over this specific.

• 27:49Brooke Averick?

  Scientifically, it's crazy how you could read 20 positives and one negative. And the weight of the negative is more than the 20 positives.

• 27:56Connor Wood?

  Correct.

• 27:57Brooke Averick?

  So sick.

• 27:59Connor Wood?

  Shoot, I have the funniest thing. Oh.

• 28:03Connor Wood?

  What? I was gonna say, two things. One, the scary part that you get to is like, the posts, they're, they're analyzing my micro expressions now? Which are like, he clearly blah, blah, blah. Like, the way he's, I'm like, all right, where now we.

• 28:21Brooke Averick?

  Oh, like fans?

• 28:22Connor Wood?

  No, like.

• 28:23Brooke Averick?

  Or people like.

• 28:26Connor Wood?

  Yeah, I just know how this goes. You know, like, you know, on the internet when people really like someone and then all of a sudden it just like, it just switches one day?

• 28:33Brooke Averick?

  Oh, yeah.

• 28:33Connor Wood?

  Like, I hope it doesn't change.

• 28:36Brooke Averick?

  It won't. And if it does, you just don't look.

• 28:39Connor Wood?

  It's hard not to look because of my screen time.

• 28:41Brooke Averick?

  Sure. I got that.

• 28:45Connor Wood?

  My other thing, too, is Papa. Now, I want to circle back to the origin of Papa. Cause I was not the original Papa. Papa, Papa, the, Papa originated in me commenting on other people's posts. I was like, oh, this is so Papa, like.

• 29:05Brooke Averick?

  That's not even remotely where Papa came from.

• 29:08Connor Wood?

  No, well, I was saying Papa on other, as like a term of endearment to my friends because it came from my friend group in San Francisco.

• 29:14Brooke Averick?

  Papa started with Papa and Legume.

• 29:16Connor Wood?

  I know. But I was using, but like after Papa and Legume, I started calling other people Papa. And then people started commenting, seeing my, on like, like a picture of Milo. I'd be like Papa vibes. And then it would circle back. But like Papa E Legume was the origin of us saying it on the podcast. But as a term of endearment, because nobody calls you Legume.

• 29:38Brooke Averick?

  I would say some people do, but it's not caught on like Papa.

• 29:41Connor Wood?

  So, one young woman was like, if you're looking for the origin of Papa, like, I encourage you not to even go watch it because you'll leave more confused.

• 29:48Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. That's a good point.

• 29:51Connor Wood?

  Can we play Papa Elegium? As like a-

• 29:54Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, but this is why people are calling Connor Papa.

• 29:56Connor Wood?

  As a refresher, because I do feel like it's one of those things that has been adopted and-

• 30:01Brooke Averick?

  You will leave more confused.

• 30:02Connor Wood?

  No, at the scale that it's being used, like, there are brands in my DMs, "Hi Papa," every brand, by the way, "Hey Papa," "Hey Papa," "Hey Papa," I'm like-

• 30:10Brooke Averick?

  This is a, like, random conversation we had in a bonus episode when we were probably, like, overtired.

• 30:17Connor Wood?

  Yeah. I miss those days.

• 30:19Brooke Averick?

  I do too. Well, they're still here.

• 30:21Connor Wood?

  Yeah, nothing's changed. Oh, I don't think this is it, because this is with Kat.

• 30:29Brooke Averick?

  It's that, I don't, I don't care for the clips going viral that are of me looking a little bit different than I do now.

• 30:39Connor Wood?

  Oh, we have to do... I'm gonna, I'm gonna send it to you. I have it. I can find it.

• 30:45Brooke Averick?

  I don't care for any of the pre-Invisalign clips.

• 30:48Connor Wood?

  Pre-Invisalign? I was also-

• 30:49Brooke Averick?

  Pre-Invisalign, like, you can tell when I started smoking weed.

• 30:56Connor Wood?

  Um, Papa Elegium. You found it? Legumes.

• 31:02Brooke Averick?

  Legu- legume.

• 31:04Connor Wood?

  These legumes have a certain joie de vivre? It's called Bebe Beans. I, you want me to just-

• 31:10Brooke Averick?

  Yes, that's this one.

• 31:11Connor Wood?

  Beans.

• 31:13Brooke Averick?

  You so do.

• 31:14Connor Wood?

  I love beans.

• 31:16Brooke Averick?

  And you know I don't like beans.

• 31:17Connor Wood?

  We look young.

• 31:18Brooke Averick?

  Baked beans are okay.

• 31:19Connor Wood?

  Baked beans are literally like, beans from Violegium, and then-

• 31:25Brooke Averick?

  Hola legume.

• 31:26Connor Wood?

  Hola Papa. Beans should be the baby of Papa Elegium.

• 31:31Brooke Averick?

  Oh, Bebe Bean.

• 31:33Connor Wood?

  Wait, becau-

• 31:34Brooke Averick?

  Was there nothing before this? Like, you will leave more confused.

• 31:37Connor Wood?

  Bonjour Mama.

• 31:39Brooke Averick?

  Como se va?

• 31:40Connor Wood?

  I'm thirsty. I need water and juice.

• 31:48Connor Wood?

  Baby, baby, itchy.

• 31:51Brooke Averick?

  Baby, what?

• 31:51Connor Wood?

  Itchy. Help me, I'm in a bin of drill. Baby, bean in bin of drill.

• 31:57Brooke Averick?

  Whoa, I just got scared that this was a dream. Something about you doing what you just did made me think this can't be real. Wait, did you even say Papa?

• 32:12Brooke Averick?

  So this is not even the beginning.

• 32:14Connor Wood?

  Oh, wow.

• 32:15Brooke Averick?

  So where did it start?

• 32:20Brooke Averick?

  From?

• 32:21Connor Wood?

  Legumes.

• 32:22Brooke Averick?

  Legu- legume.

• 32:24Connor Wood?

  These legumes have a certain joie de vivre. Ciao, legume. You have any beans for me, legu? Bonjour, legume. You have any beans for Papa?

• 32:33Brooke Averick?

  Me?

• 32:33Connor Wood?

  We did.

• 32:34Brooke Averick?

  Ciao Papa.

• 32:34Connor Wood?

  Ciao, legume.

• 32:35Brooke Averick?

  J'ai une legume.

• 32:37Connor Wood?

  You have any beans for Papa, legume?

• 32:39Brooke Averick?

  Oh.

• 32:40Connor Wood?

  Give me all-

• 32:41Brooke Averick?

  You didn't know what you were doing with that. Papa?

• 32:43Connor Wood?

  Le Papa? Like, your bean, legume? Yeah, see, like, that doesn't need to be played on our podcast. No, no. Papa is not like a father figure. Papa is just like, that's his name, Papa.

• 32:55Brooke Averick?

  Forgive me.

• 32:57Connor Wood?

  Oh. Hmm, I almost regret playing that on the scale that we just did.

• 33:03Brooke Averick?

  It will go over well with the Dancing with the Stars community and America.

• 33:08Connor Wood?

  Surely.

• 33:10Brooke Averick?

  It will touch the beans of America.

• 33:15Brooke Averick?

  By the way, I keep saying my mirror ball slipped out, just for future reference.

• 33:21Connor Wood?

  Papa touching the beans of America.

• 33:23Brooke Averick?

  Toucha Papa.

• 33:24Connor Wood?

  Toucha Papa. Toucha Papa, the beans of America with that dance.

• 33:30Brooke Averick?

  The beans and the mirror balls.

• 33:35Connor Wood?

  Ciao.

• 33:36Brooke Averick?

  No, we can't.

• 33:37Connor Wood?

  Ciao Mama.

• 33:39Brooke Averick?

  I, I, it's like-

• 33:41Connor Wood?

  Do you have a message for Papa? Ooh, Papa's starting to sweat off of his back, Mama.

• 33:49Connor Wood?

  Have you ever had any-

• 33:50Brooke Averick?

  There's like, too much pressure for me. I can't-

• 33:52Connor Wood?

  Oh, I know, that things are kinda, kinda stick around.

• 33:55Brooke Averick?

  Or it's just like, I, I don't, I'm like, too scared to bring it back, because it's like, so weighted.

• 34:00Connor Wood?

  The staying power.

• 34:01Brooke Averick?

  I don't, it's like, writing a sequel.

• 34:04Connor Wood?

  Sure.

• 34:04Brooke Averick?

  It's like-

• 34:05Connor Wood?

  Let's leave it.

• 34:05Brooke Averick?

  I, let's leave it. Like, some things don't need a sequel.

• 34:08Connor Wood?

  Here's what I'll say. I wanna say, well, okay, I just wanna move forward. I wanna tell you the story so I can be done with the story, because it is, it's almost, it's almost poop on shoe level. Happened yesterday.

• 34:21Brooke Averick?

  What happened?

• 34:23Connor Wood?

  What's weird is, every time I'm in this specific area of Santa Monica, something goes down. So yesterday, I'm out, I go on a run on the beach, I come back, I change, I walk over to Earth Cafe. And I'm trying to get more into cherry tomatoes. I usually would order a salad without cherry tomatoes, because I think it's ridiculous that, like, I'm supposed to put this thing in my mouth.

• 34:48Brooke Averick?

  Aligned, 5,000%.

• 34:51Connor Wood?

  It's just not a realistic ask for someone like me, especially if I'm just dipping my toe into cherry tomatoes.

• 34:55Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 34:56Connor Wood?

  To have this, essentially, like-

• 34:58Brooke Averick?

  Look at the, look at the gooseies that just gave me. You'll notice my legs are also pretty hairy, but if you can look past that, at the goosebumps, at the thought of popping a cherry tomato in, in my mouth and it squirting in there.

• 35:09Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 35:09Brooke Averick?

  I don't like it.

• 35:10Connor Wood?

  And I'm glad that you brought up squirt.

• 35:11Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 35:12Connor Wood?

  The squirt factor. Essentially, you're putting, you're giving me a loaded gun. You, you, on my salad.

• 35:19Brooke Averick?

  In your purse?

• 35:20Connor Wood?

  It is in my mouth. I have a gun in my mouth.

• 35:22Brooke Averick?

  Nice.

• 35:22Connor Wood?

  And, so, I'm like, they gave me some bread, I'm trying to cut back on carbs if I'm not going to the studio.

• 35:29Brooke Averick?

  You need carbs.

• 35:30Connor Wood?

  No, carbs for energy, but not carbs. So I'm trying to do complex carbs before, Tyler Cameron told me this. Okay, so like, this is-

• 35:37Brooke Averick?

  So it is true.

• 35:38Connor Wood?

  This is scripture.

• 35:39Brooke Averick?

  This is science.

• 35:39Connor Wood?

  So I, you do complex carbs pre, and then after you do vegetables and protein.

• 35:45Brooke Averick?

  I got that.

• 35:45Connor Wood?

  Um, so, I am like, you know what, I'm an adult. I got this bread, I'm gonna put some butter on it, I'm gonna put the cherry tomato, that's how I'll eat the cherry tomato. So I put the cherry tomato on, like, a little slice of bread, here. And I, I bite, and I take half the cherry tomato, because it was a big one. And I bite down. Cherry, so I'm like, I'm against a wall on this side, on my left side. On my right side is patrons of the restaurant. I'm sitting, I bite into it. Squirts.

• 36:16Brooke Averick?

  Squirt on the patrons?

• 36:18Connor Wood?

  Back of a guy's neck. To my right. And like, I saw it squirt, but I didn't see in what direction. Luckily, he hit the deck as if there was an active shooter.

• 36:30Brooke Averick?

  Gun.

• 36:30Connor Wood?

  He goes, "Oh!" Like, loud. "Oh!" And I look over my mouth, there's, like, this cherry tomato all leaking out of my face, like this, and so like, I, I was going like this, like, "What, what was that?" Like, "What could that have been?" I'm leaking. There's stuff coming out of both sides of my mouth.

• 36:45Brooke Averick?

  Like, the time that I had farted in, in class and said, "Who did that?"

• 36:49Connor Wood?

  Pretty much exactly, because I wasn't about to be like, "My bad, I squirted on your neck."

• 36:52Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 36:53Connor Wood?

  And I'm going, and like, it's so, he turned to me, and like, I'm like, what could, like, maybe that was a bird, you know? I looked to my left, it had squirted on the wall next to me as well. So like, it was very clear that it came from my plate. And when he turns and looks at me, I look at him, and I go, yeah, he's my old neighbor. And I was like, he did not remember me. And I was like, we're, we were, um, and he's like, getting the cherry tomato off the back of his neck.

• 37:25Brooke Averick?

  He will be fine.

• 37:26Connor Wood?

  Wiping it, and I was like, "We live, I used to live on Franklin," and he was like, and I was like, "Did you use?" And he was like, "I lived, yeah, I did," but he was on a date, and so I just like, kinda let it play off. But I looked like an insane person. I squirt all over the back of his neck, and then I start up a conver, like, it was like a, it was literally like a, like a-

• 37:44Brooke Averick?

  What else could you have done?

• 37:46Connor Wood?

  Said sorry.

• 37:47Brooke Averick?

  Well, you had already, like-

• 37:49Connor Wood?

  You know the nature of a cherry tomato, like, that's-

• 37:52Brooke Averick?

  You'd already kinda denied.

• 37:53Connor Wood?

  It's an unpredictable nature. It's like, you really can't go into, you can't go into the realm of cherry tomatoes and expect to have a grip on the reins right away. I don't know why I would do that in a public place.

• 38:06Brooke Averick?

  What's the difference between a cherry tomato and a grape tomato?

• 38:12Connor Wood?

  I didn't, I've never heard of a grape tomato.

• 38:14Brooke Averick?

  Seriously?

• 38:15Connor Wood?

  I don't think so.

• 38:17Brooke Averick?

  Have you, Izzy?

• 38:18Connor Wood?

  Cherry tomatoes are round, juicy, and thin-skinned, while grape tomatoes are oblong, meatier, and firmer with less liquid. Okay, so maybe I should have opted for a grape tomato.

• 38:27Brooke Averick?

  Part of me thinks that you did.

• 38:30Connor Wood?

  No, it was one of those big, oblong, oh.

• 38:33Brooke Averick?

  I think you.

• 38:34Connor Wood?

  Oh, my gosh, it was a grape.

• 38:35Brooke Averick?

  It was a grape tomato. Grape tomatoes are actually what they typically put in the salads, I think.

• 38:40Connor Wood?

  Yeah, it was meatier, but it was all over this guy's neck. He had a seed, actually, on his neck. That's how much squirted.

• 38:45Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 38:46Connor Wood?

  Like, that's how much force.

• 38:47Brooke Averick?

  I think that was probably a good tomato to those that enjoy those types of tomatoes.

• 38:52Connor Wood?

  It was clouded by the rest of the experience. I was pretty, I was pretty horrified, but my new mental state is like, I'm on an SSRI. I'm so calm, I think, because of how tired I am.

• 39:02Brooke Averick?

  Are you on an SSRI?

• 39:03Connor Wood?

  No.

• 39:03Brooke Averick?

  Oh.

• 39:04Connor Wood?

  I said, it's, it's probably of that elk. Like, I'm just kind of like, oh, my gosh. Surely you understand that was the cherry tomato that squirted on you, and nothing that I did intentionally.

• 39:13Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 39:15Connor Wood?

  But that was kind of, that was fun. I don't know. It wasn't my worst Tuesday.

• 39:20Brooke Averick?

  It sounds like, it sounds like a good time.

• 39:23Connor Wood?

  I'll take it.

• 39:24Brooke Averick?

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• 39:32Connor Wood?

  Yep.

• 39:32Brooke Averick?

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• 40:15Brooke Averick?

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• 40:43Connor Wood?

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• 41:14Brooke Averick?

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• 41:47Connor Wood?

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• 42:22Brooke Averick?

  Honestly, it's kind of rare these days to find a meal that leaves you full without making you stare at your bank app afterward with regret. The $7 Sonic Big Deal Meal delivers everything you want. Burger, side, drink, dessert, done.

• 42:36Connor Wood?

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• 42:50Brooke Averick?

  What?

• 42:51Connor Wood?

  I'm just so sore. There's no way to sit where it doesn't hurt me.

• 42:54Brooke Averick?

  You're, it sounds like you're on your way to DOMS, but you don't quite have DOMS yet.

• 42:58Connor Wood?

  No, it's old injuries from like when I played soccer in high school.

• 43:01Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 43:02Connor Wood?

  And that.

• 43:03Brooke Averick?

  Some inflammation.

• 43:04Connor Wood?

  Yeah, it's stuff that like, my knee, I hurt my knee, and then I was like, well, I don't need to get it fixed. I'm going to college. I never use my hip flexor again. And then what you don't see, if you're in, if you're in your early twenties, or if you're even younger than that, somehow listening to this podcast, if this podcast came across your desk, and you have an injury or something that you're like, whatever, like, I'll never use my hip flexor again, please.

• 43:29Brooke Averick?

  Your life's not over.

• 43:30Connor Wood?

  You might be on Dancing with the Stars in six years.

• 43:32Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 43:33Connor Wood?

  Take care of your injury, ice your knee, stretch. Oh, I can't emphasize that.

• 43:38Brooke Averick?

  Like, you'll still need your body in your 30s. Life is not over.

• 43:42Connor Wood?

  Yeah, because what happens when you get that dream job in the city? And you're sitting there the whole time, and your only escape is your coed kickball team. And guess what? You hurt yourself now, you don't ice it, you don't take care of it, guess who's sitting out the first six games? Because you strain your hip flexor. And you've already paid the $175, and you have this stupid t-shirt, and you have to go sit there and watch your team win or lose. Not fun. Have some foresight.

• 44:15Brooke Averick?

  Well said. Very well said. Want to hear something crazy?

• 44:20Connor Wood?

  Yes.

• 44:21Brooke Averick?

  Um. The first class.

• 44:24Connor Wood?

  Jeez, nipples out.

• 44:26Brooke Averick?

  Nipple out. The first class of preschoolers that I taught, once I graduated college.

• 44:32Connor Wood?

  Ooh, I don't want to hear this.

• 44:32Brooke Averick?

  It's pretty bad. If you had to guess what grade they're starting without like doing the math or anything, what would you say?

• 44:39Connor Wood?

  Seventh grade?

• 44:39Brooke Averick?

  Sixth.

• 44:40Connor Wood?

  Yeah, that's not cool. 12 years old?

• 44:42Brooke Averick?

  They were three when I met them. They turned four throughout the year.

• 44:47Connor Wood?

  Naturally.

• 44:48Brooke Averick?

  As, as any three-year-old would. And now, how old are you when you're going into sixth grade? 11?

• 44:55Connor Wood?

  11, 12, yeah.

• 44:57Brooke Averick?

  That's horrible. That's like really, really bad.

• 45:01Connor Wood?

  Okay, I have, I have two things.

• 45:02Brooke Averick?

  And they probably, they don't know who I am.

• 45:04Connor Wood?

  No, not only do they not know, if you were to remind them, they would not give a shit.

• 45:09Brooke Averick?

  No.

• 45:09Connor Wood?

  Well, maybe they would because of you.

• 45:11Brooke Averick?

  No, preschool's unfortunately like too young to remember.

• 45:15Connor Wood?

  No, I'm saying, they might not care, but those, that level kid to be like, my, my, that's my preschool teacher, and she's like, she has a podcast.

• 45:24Brooke Averick?

  I don't know if they would care.

• 45:25Connor Wood?

  I think they would. I don't know about that age anymore, because Kat was telling us the other day when we went down, we went down to see the babies.

• 45:37Connor Wood?

  And Kat was saying that she went to a wedding. She was sitting there, and it was her, and then there was like, this high school girl, that someone of her fam, like her cousin or something, and all the like little, the young kids, the 11-year-olds, 12-year-olds, were like flocking to this 18-year-old high school girl that was like so cool to them, and she goes, that was the first time I've felt that like, because she's like, I feel like the cool older girl that like all the young kids like flock around, and she goes, oh, I'm just like a, I'm just like an adult to them.

• 46:06Brooke Averick?

  I'm just a woman.

• 46:08Connor Wood?

  A woman to them. Oh, that's.

• 46:10Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, that, it's, it's definitely, you know, we're getting older, like, because like, we could be the parents now.

• 46:16Connor Wood?

  Don't say that to me.

• 46:17Brooke Averick?

  We could.

• 46:20Brooke Averick?

  Which is what's hard.

• 46:22Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 46:23Brooke Averick?

  I will say, like, something about being 30. Like, when I was in my twenties, I like, I think I, or like anytime, like, high school and college and twenties, like, you're focused on like growing up and being a quote-unquote adult, you know? And now, I like want to collect as many stickers as I possibly can. Like, there's part of me that's now like giving up on the whole like, I need to be an adult thing. Because like that was what my twenties was about, and now I'm like really connecting with my inner child in a way that's very liberating. I can't stop ordering stickers. All kinds of stickers, animals,

• 47:04Brooke Averick?

  stamps, jewels.

• 47:07Connor Wood?

  Those aren't even stickers.

• 47:09Brooke Averick?

  No, like stickers of stamps.

• 47:11Connor Wood?

  Stickers of stamps?

• 47:12Brooke Averick?

  It's like stamp-like stickers.

• 47:14Connor Wood?

  Jewels?

• 47:16Brooke Averick?

  Like little like gems.

• 47:18Connor Wood?

  Do you have a stapler that I could staple my shirt shot with? Oh, I'm gonna do this.

• 47:23Brooke Averick?

  You don't have a stapler.

• 47:25Connor Wood?

  Well, that's, whatever, it's, I don't even want to like, I don't want to agree with you because I want it to be like your thing. But I did watch cartoons the other day, and I was like, oh, like, I can, I can relax.

• 47:35Brooke Averick?

  That like is really feeling amazing.

• 47:39Connor Wood?

  Yeah, no, I get it, and I'm there with you.

• 47:41Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 47:43Connor Wood?

  It's just really weird that like in my adult life, I'm dancing and I'm watching cartoons, you know? Someone, someone.

• 47:48Brooke Averick?

  You can do that if you want. That's what your 30s is about.

• 47:51Connor Wood?

  Posted on my Snapchat story, and I was like, on my way to dance. On my way to, on my way to dance, practice, and someone said, me in fifth grade.

• 48:00Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, exactly. Thank you. Before, when I was in my twenties, I would have been like, that's an insult. Now, thank you for saying that.

• 48:09Connor Wood?

  No, I'm very blessed that my current full-time job is dancing and talking.

• 48:12Brooke Averick?

  And mine is playing with my stickers.

• 48:18Brooke Averick?

  Oh, my God. I have got to take you to Sticker Planet in the Grove now.

• 48:21Connor Wood?

  I would love to. I didn't know that they had their, they didn't know they had a brick and mortar.

• 48:25Brooke Averick?

  They have a brick and mortar in the Grove, in the farmer's market.

• 48:28Connor Wood?

  They're doing really well.

• 48:29Brooke Averick?

  It is, and like stickers are like, this, all this like stationary sticker, like planner stuff, is in now. People are celebrating it as it should be celebrated. Sticker Planet is constantly hustling and bustling. It's the size of this, of our set, but smaller.

• 48:47Connor Wood?

  Oh, it's in the, like farmer's market.

• 48:49Brooke Averick?

  It's in the farmer's market. Connor, for whatever reason, Sticker Planet is 48 degrees warmer than the outside temperature.

• 48:56Connor Wood?

  Uh, yeah. So is the, by the way, so is the hot sauce kiosk area.

• 49:01Brooke Averick?

  Like, you can't help but faint in Sticker Planet, but it makes the experience like that much more intense. It's an intense.

• 49:09Connor Wood?

  Get it and get out.

• 49:09Brooke Averick?

  Get in and get out, get as much as you possibly can, as quickly as you can. Oh, I have got to take you here. It's the most.

• 49:16Connor Wood?

  Oh, I'll go with you today. I have the day off, by the way.

• 49:19Brooke Averick?

  It's too hot to go today, I think. It's 100 plus today. You want to go tomorrow?

• 49:24Connor Wood?

  Um, you know what? I can't.

• 49:27Brooke Averick?

  You've danced? But like even on your break, we could go.

• 49:33Connor Wood?

  Well, tomorrow is the event.

• 49:34Brooke Averick?

  Tomorrow's the event. Let's go Friday. Hey, fuck it. Let's go Friday.

• 49:37Connor Wood?

  Well, you know what happens Friday?

• 49:38Brooke Averick?

  What?

• 49:40Connor Wood?

  I don't know how much I can say. Whatever. I'm gonna say it. So Friday, we go into the physical room that we'll be dancing in on premiere night and

• 49:49Brooke Averick?

  And you can see that's public knowledge where that is. You can, I can say that it's right next to sticker planet.

• 49:54Connor Wood?

  Yeah, but I have the whole day blocked off because I don't know when they'll need me and we do camera blocking. So like when we dance, we move this way. That's why I gotta have my swail down and I'm gonna do some winks in there. And they're gonna block it for like, we need a camera here for this part, camera here for this part. They turn this way. One thing Riley's really good at before we keep moving is using the whole floor. So what you'll see is that we are moving and touching almost every corner. So if you're sitting there, it doesn't matter what side you're on. At some point, we're walking towards you. Which is gonna make me throw up on you.

• 50:21Brooke Averick?

  I want you to.

• 50:24Connor Wood?

  Oh, wow, that's freaky.

• 50:26Brooke Averick?

  It's gonna be amazing.

• 50:26Connor Wood?

  Um, but yeah, if I have a second, I would like to do that.

• 50:29Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, I can just literally, I can make that happen.

• 50:33Connor Wood?

  And then, uh, Friday's my birthday. Which is fun. So I have to, well, so I made a particle last night. I've never made a particle. It actually was very, very frustrating.

• 50:45Brooke Averick?

  It was actually very earnest, your invitation, which surprised me.

• 50:48Connor Wood?

  Well, cause do you know that I was about to cry when I was making it? Cause I couldn't figure out how to crop the picture?

• 50:52Brooke Averick?

  No.

• 50:54Connor Wood?

  The title of my particle is Connor's birthday.

• 50:56Brooke Averick?

  I know, it was very earnest.

• 50:57Connor Wood?

  Well, I didn't know how to do it. Like, I don't know, like, cause then I started looking at other, so then I

• 51:01Brooke Averick?

  I would have made it for you. I would have done it.

• 51:03Connor Wood?

  I keep looking at other peoples and every time I'd click out to get inspiration on other peoples, it would make me start over the thing. And so it was Connor, but like everyone else is like, mean mama's mamajam in 40.

• 51:12Brooke Averick?

  Right.

• 51:12Connor Wood?

  And I'm like, what are you, it's like Dylan's drunk ass fif- like fifty, I almost said 15th, but it's not, wouldn't be Dylan's drunk ass 15th. But it's like all these like very fun puns and mine was Connor's birthday. And then I was like, should I do a lot? And then I was like cringe that like, I'm sitting in my room like making like a pun for my birthday title. And then I was like, no.

• 51:31Brooke Averick?

  I hate when you have to zoom out and look at yourself.

• 51:34Connor Wood?

  When I look at other peoples and then I'm like, how do I make a thumbnail? And then none of the thumbnails like felt earnest enough for me to be like, I don't wanna put like a bottle of like, let's go out, girl. Or like, you know, like it's happy hour. I don't know. So then I was like, I'm just gonna get a picture of me like having fun. And I did it and then, and then I was like, ugh. And then I was like, I'm inviting people that like, you know, I'm gonna invite the cast, the dancing, my coworkers now. And so I was like, I should probably explain like what this place is that we're going to.

• 52:05Brooke Averick?

  Will you invite all of the cast members?

• 52:06Connor Wood?

  Yeah. You know that I only invited seven people on the particle?

• 52:10Brooke Averick?

  I do know that because I had a few people reach out to me asking, why am I not invited to Connor's birthday?

• 52:14Connor Wood?

  Everyone's like, why?

• 52:14Brooke Averick?

  Cat being one of them.

• 52:15Connor Wood?

  Yeah, Cat texted me, he was like, why the hell wouldn't you, I go, Cat, I invited seven people? And then I wanted to cry cause I couldn't, I figured out how to invite other people. And so the seven people I invited, all, well, all of them except Matt King. Matt King said no, but

• 52:27Brooke Averick?

  He'll, will he be out of town?

• 52:28Connor Wood?

  He'll be out of town. He'll be at a bachelor party. Matt King and Patricia are like POV, I'm invited to every wedding.

• 52:36Brooke Averick?

  POV, Matt is truly like my, one of my closest friends. And the way that we have connected over stationery and stickers.

• 52:46Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 52:47Brooke Averick?

  And this new hobby has been so profound. And I get sad when he's out of town.

• 52:55Connor Wood?

  Oh, that's true.

• 52:55Brooke Averick?

  Truly.

• 52:57Connor Wood?

  Well, he can't come.

• 52:57Brooke Averick?

  And that's so sad.

• 52:58Connor Wood?

  Um, but yeah, everyone was like, it's just like, I can't believe particle is the new standard for inviting people to stuff. It's, it's really, really crazy. I was like, this feels like no offense, particle, like

• 53:10Connor Wood?

  little

• 53:11Brooke Averick?

  Impersonal?

• 53:12Connor Wood?

  Impersonal, kinda tacky. And everyone's doing like AI invites, you know, it's like a picture of them. It's like they're

• 53:19Connor Wood?

  I just like, I'm just like, this is kinda, but I guess that is like

• 53:21Brooke Averick?

  What else are you gonna do?

• 53:23Connor Wood?

  It's like the new Facebook pa- you know, Facebook invite.

• 53:26Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, you have to have a particle.

• 53:27Connor Wood?

  It works, it works. I didn't mean like tacky, like weird. It's just like, I can't believe there's not another option. They have cornered the market and it's still hard to use. You know?

• 53:35Brooke Averick?

  Well, the other option used to be like an e-vite via email.

• 53:40Connor Wood?

  Okay, well, that was really hard for me, particle. I just like, don't really know what to say. And I didn't wanna do a big thing. And it's funny that you read the, the e-vite and you were like, it was very earnest. Like, I was just trying to explain the venue to people who, it would be cool if the cast came, but I don't see a lot of them like really endeared to come. Cause it's like, not like a fancy place, but we'll see. They might wanna have, they might

• 54:07Brooke Averick?

  They might, hey, they might wanna let loose.

• 54:08Connor Wood?

  Who knows?

• 54:13Connor Wood?

  And that's that. And then we'll brush right past my birthday and go right into

• 54:18Connor Wood?

  the premiere.

• 54:20Brooke Averick?

  Wow.

• 54:20Connor Wood?

  I'm so excited.

• 54:21Brooke Averick?

  What a big week.

• 54:22Connor Wood?

  I know. I'm so excited for it to be over. Once I, once I do my dance.

• 54:27Brooke Averick?

  Then you have another one the next

• 54:28Connor Wood?

  No, then I'm like, I'm not worried. I think this dance is pretty good. I think that we are so dialed and we're really in sync and it's really fun. And then I feel like I can start having fun because people are like, okay, he's taking it seriously. Like he nailed the dance. Now I can like really like, cause now I'm still feeling like I need to prove to the people that don't know me. I feel like for the people that listen to the podcast, you're very aware that I'm working on it and I'm doing all the stuff and blah, blah, but like people that don't know me, they will see and then I'll hopefully win them over. I was gonna say something else.

• 55:03Brooke Averick?

  What?

• 55:04Connor Wood?

  Oh.

• 55:06Connor Wood?

  I'm gonna be posting, I guess when this comes out tomorrow, I'm gonna have a, um, a, a, a ma- a donation matching post tomorrow, working with Matthew McConaughey's foundation.

• 55:18Brooke Averick?

  What does his foundation do?

• 55:19Connor Wood?

  Just Keep Living Foundation.

• 55:20Brooke Averick?

  What does Just Keep Living do?

• 55:22Connor Wood?

  It's, it's kind of a catch-all that is for inner city kids, high school kids, students. For like across, it's like a kind of overarching, it's what I was looking for. To get involved in it. It's so awesome. That's Matthews. Um, but Matthews.

• 55:36Brooke Averick?

  M.

• 55:37Connor Wood?

  Matthews, Matt's. Um, but keep an eye on that too. I need to figure out how I'm gonna

• 55:44Brooke Averick?

  It's like their birthday?

• 55:45Connor Wood?

  Yeah, for my birthday. I think it'll be really fun. It's like a big, it's a big week, but and then my parents will be here.

• 55:51Brooke Averick?

  When are they coming?

• 55:53Connor Wood?

  They're gonna come in, um, the day before the show. They were gonna come in early, but it's too hot in LA.

• 55:59Brooke Averick?

  It honestly is.

• 56:00Connor Wood?

  Yeah, I was like genuinely, I don't even want you here.

• 56:02Brooke Averick?

  I was gonna clean out my car today and now I, I guess

• 56:05Connor Wood?

  No, Brooke, that's not possible.

• 56:06Brooke Averick?

  I'll never be able, I don't know when I'll be able to do that ever. So.

• 56:10Connor Wood?

  No, you can't. Um. Okay.

• 56:15Brooke Averick?

  I, I do wanna mention Nathan Fielder's new documentary.

• 56:22Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 56:25Brooke Averick?

  With Elizabeth Holmes.

• 56:26Connor Wood?

  You know, did, was it us that we were talking about? Like what is Nathan Fielder up to? Like he was like a couple of episodes ago, not recently, but I remember us talking about Nathan Fielder and we were just like, he's been weirdly quiet.

• 56:37Brooke Averick?

  I'm just surprised, like, I thought this was gonna be, you know, he was pictured like something with, was he coming out of jail? I think he was coming out of jail from visiting her, like a, maybe like a year ago, he was pictured doing that. So this has been suspected, but I always figured it was gonna be for the next season of the rehearsal. Not for a documentary that's gonna be in theaters now.

• 56:57Connor Wood?

  Can I also really quickly, I have a lot of trouble with Elizabeth Holmes and remembering what the evil part of what she did was?

• 57:03Brooke Averick?

  She, I, I know it.

• 57:05Connor Wood?

  She lied about, she inflated number, some numbers, but I forget which numbers she inflated.

• 57:11Brooke Averick?

  Basically lied about like the tech. She, it was like the, what was it called? Theranos, it was like a blood

• 57:19Connor Wood?

  Blood test.

• 57:19Brooke Averick?

  Blood test where you could like get a lot of like info from just a prick. And she just, they didn't, they didn't have the tech. Nice. They didn't have the tech, but she lied to the investors and then just got a fuck ton of money from them.

• 57:34Connor Wood?

  Okay, so my question is, I get that like lying is bad, but like, why didn't they double check? Like that's as much on them as it is on her. She just says, I have really good company. And they go, here's money? Why didn't they double check?

• 57:48Brooke Averick?

  You're thinking of Anna Delvey. She's not the one with the accent.

• 57:51Connor Wood?

  No, the accent that I did is just like, I do that accent all the time.

• 57:54Brooke Averick?

  Okay, I didn't realize.

• 57:55Connor Wood?

  Okay, Elizabeth Holmes, I have really good tech. And they're like, okay, here's the money. Why, why aren't they running background checks on this woman? Like she was Anna Delvey in a way because like who are these people giving her money? Are they going out and golfing and getting drunk? And then they're like, here's the money?

• 58:08Brooke Averick?

  Like what was she arrested for? Like what, like is it perjury? No, that's fraud. That's it.

• 58:15Connor Wood?

  No, I get that fraud. I'm just saying, why didn't they double check?

• 58:18Brooke Averick?

  Was perjury lying under oath?

• 58:19Connor Wood?

  There's, she's not under oath.

• 58:20Brooke Averick?

  No, I know.

• 58:21Connor Wood?

  Raising a round of money. How do you not, before you give people money, unless you're, unless you're writing it off or like you're trying to move money around illegally? Like I really, like, I could be so wrong, but

• 58:32Brooke Averick?

  I think she had like really elaborate, like false data that she was pumping out.

• 58:38Connor Wood?

  You're flubbing the nu- I just

• 58:40Brooke Averick?

  Oh, she was flubbing everything.

• 58:42Connor Wood?

  But if you're giving someone money, if I'm giving someone money, I wanna see, I wanna do my own research. I'm like, you have people that do that. I just can't believe that

• 58:51Brooke Averick?

  You, I feel like you're victim blaming.

• 58:54Connor Wood?

  Who was the victim?

• 58:56Brooke Averick?

  The people who were conned out of their money.

• 58:58Connor Wood?

  The mass, like BlackRock? Who, who gave her money? Like I'm, I'm sorry. It's like

• 59:02Brooke Averick?

  I don't know.

• 59:03Connor Wood?

  It's hard to feel bad. It kind of

• 59:05Brooke Averick?

  I feel like

• 59:06Connor Wood?

  Like it's a, I, I, I'm saying that I don't have all the information. I'm just saying like

• 59:12Connor Wood?

  and she's rightfully in jail for frauding people out of their money, but I don't know, like, I'm confused.

• 59:17Brooke Averick?

  I get that. Elizabeth Holmes raised roughly 900 mil- I was kidding when I said

• 59:21Connor Wood?

  She's not like Bernie Madoff that like

• 59:23Brooke Averick?

  No, it was like Betsy DeVos, like it's fine. But

• 59:26Connor Wood?

  Yeah. Like she, like there wasn't like an, like a lower class, lower middle class group, people that like lost their homes and had like

• 59:35Brooke Averick?

  But I don't think so. I don't think so. I think she was scamming like millionaires and billionaires.

• 59:40Connor Wood?

  Former US Secretary of Education and her family contributed a hundred million dollars. How did they have a hundred million dollars, by the way? Like, I feel like there's more stuff to look into on this.

• 59:48Brooke Averick?

  I, can I be honest? I don't like really know. I wish I did.

• 59:53Connor Wood?

  She conned Robert Kraft.

• 59:55Brooke Averick?

  Of Kraft Mac and Cheese?

• 59:56Connor Wood?

  No, of the New England Patriots and yeah, Mac and Cheese.

• 59:59Brooke Averick?

  Is it the same person?

• 1:00:01Connor Wood?

  Mm-hmm. I've met him a couple of times.

• 1:00:04Brooke Averick?

  So

• 1:00:05Connor Wood?

  He's old as a sponge.

• 1:00:07Brooke Averick?

  You've met him?

• 1:00:08Connor Wood?

  When my cousin was the

• 1:00:10Brooke Averick?

  Oh, I forgot about that. Um, yeah, I don't really know. Like I don't think

• 1:00:17Brooke Averick?

  I feel like she's not the kind of criminal that people are like

• 1:00:19Connor Wood?

  Please look at, please look at these investors. Can we scroll up a little bit? I'm dumb. Okay. I'm very stupid.

• 1:00:23Brooke Averick?

  I'm very stupid.

• 1:00:24Connor Wood?

  Oh, my gosh. Rupert, Rupert Murdoch, okay? The Walton family from Walmart, Betsy DeVos, Robert Kraft, Tim Draper. Angel investor, put in 500,000, which is

• 1:00:39Brooke Averick?

  No, I think people look at her in a similar way that they look at Anna Delvey where they're like, not like super pissed.

• 1:00:45Connor Wood?

  High-profile media moguls, wealthy families, venture capital firms and prominent politicians.

• 1:00:52Brooke Averick?

  No, people, I think, people have the same sort of like, okay, girl boss attitude towards her, I think.

• 1:00:59Brooke Averick?

  Even like, she asked, she's a criminal.

• 1:01:02Connor Wood?

  She's a businesswoman.

• 1:01:03Brooke Averick?

  But like, she, she definitely didn't.

• 1:01:07Connor Wood?

  I don't want to get in trouble for this, what I'm saying, and I'm essentially relearning this, but like, this kind of feels like, to me, if you were to be learning about this at the beginning, she conned politicians and venture capital firms and wealthy families out of money. Maybe, if you just, okay, say if you, if you'd switch the words to like, she's putting this money towards research to create this company that does amazing things with blood testing, like, that's a, that's a martyr.

• 1:01:38Brooke Averick?

  That's what I was gonna say. In her defense, I think she was planning for the tech to work.

• 1:01:42Connor Wood?

  I'm confused. It kind of feels like they, I don't know what her intentions were besides fraud, but like, and she, she's willingly admitted to being, like, to doing all this stuff, but like, if, say she was who she said she was, then it kind of seems like they're putting someone behind bars that had the capability to help people in the healthcare field.

• 1:02:04Brooke Averick?

  I think there was like, a little bit, something a little bit more sinister.

• 1:02:08Connor Wood?

  There must have been.

• 1:02:08Brooke Averick?

  Like, she was definitely like, it got to a point where she was like, really like, woke up every day, like, how can I get the most money for my fake tech?

• 1:02:20Connor Wood?

  I mean, that does sound fun, but, um, I mean, how does, like, Capital Blue Cross, AmeriHealth, Cart, Paratoss?

• 1:02:29Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, how did she make it this far?

• 1:02:31Connor Wood?

  Sorry, like, you do look into.

• 1:02:33Brooke Averick?

  How did she make, how did, how did she make it as far as she did?

• 1:02:43Connor Wood?

  You need to double check. I'm sorry, if I'm, I'm not an investor, but if I'm an investor, I'm, I value my money, you know? These people, like, when you look at like a Betsy DeVos.

• 1:02:54Brooke Averick?

  Why did no one double check?

• 1:02:57Connor Wood?

  Was looking for a quick turnaround on her money, like a quick investment turnaround?

• 1:03:04Connor Wood?

  Huh, okay, I'm sorry if I'm wrong, just like heads up.

• 1:03:07Brooke Averick?

  You should use intense secrecy, high-profile political backing, and the unique trust-based culture of Silicon Valley.

• 1:03:14Connor Wood?

  Okay, so it was, it was Annadelle.

• 1:03:15Brooke Averick?

  She was shielded from technical standard review.

• 1:03:21Brooke Averick?

  She claimed her blood testing technology was a proprietary trade secret, which allowed her to refuse independent laboratory testing. So, yeah, at some point, you do have to blame the investors.

• 1:03:30Connor Wood?

  Yeah, but I'm sure it was kind of like a.

• 1:03:32Brooke Averick?

  You do have to victim blame.

• 1:03:34Connor Wood?

  I'm sure it was kind of like, and I'm, I'm sorry to bring this up too, but like.

• 1:03:38Brooke Averick?

  Intimidation and control. This is the bad part.

• 1:03:40Connor Wood?

  Okay.

• 1:03:40Brooke Averick?

  Inside there, no, it's Holmes and her partner Sunny, used aggressive legal threats, surveillance, and employee firings to silence internal whistleblowers.

• 1:03:48Connor Wood?

  But like, that's not why she got fired. She got, or that's not why she's in jail. She's in jail for the fraud, not even her internal policies.

• 1:03:56Brooke Averick?

  What were Elizabeth Holmes' charges?

• 1:04:04Connor Wood?

  They hate to see a girl boss winning.

• 1:04:05Brooke Averick?

  Two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and nine counts of wire fraud. Wait, what's the wire fraud?

• 1:04:11Connor Wood?

  Them probably transferring the money, $100 million into her

• 1:04:19Connor Wood?

  offshore account.

• 1:04:20Brooke Averick?

  Oh, understood. Understood. Wait, what was she actually using the money for? I figured she was just using it for the campaign.

• 1:04:27Connor Wood?

  Wait, yeah, what was she doing? Why do you need that much money?

• 1:04:38Connor Wood?

  Hi.

• 1:04:41Connor Wood?

  Elizabeth uses the over $700 million she raised from investors to build, operate, and market for her blood testing service, rather than a functional prototype and market. So she was marketing it to, I guess, outside people. So then that's when you start like, losing the trust of.

• 1:04:59Brooke Averick?

  Money went, I forgot about the Walgreens of it all. Money went toward rolling out commercial wellness centers inside Walgreens stores where consumers could walk in for blood tests.

• 1:05:07Connor Wood?

  Okay, this is where you lose it. This is where you lose it. This is where you lose it. Were people giving blood, like proprietary, were they giving like DNA samples to her?

• 1:05:15Brooke Averick?

  What were they doing with the blood samples? If the.

• 1:05:18Speaker 03

  That's what they were saying, is like, they were just sitting in a lab, like she wasn't ever like using the technology.

• 1:05:23Connor Wood?

  Oh, that's very funky.

• 1:05:26Brooke Averick?

  Funky.

• 1:05:26Connor Wood?

  Well, so people are just sitting around like, I need the results of my blood test. So, there were, there may have been lives lost because they put trust in her company that wasn't operating.

• 1:05:37Brooke Averick?

  How long is she in for? 11? That's like, not a lot. And I feel like she'll get out early.

• 1:05:42Connor Wood?

  I think she'll get out in good behavior, because she's pretty.

• 1:05:46Brooke Averick?

  So, I'm definitely curious as to what Nathan Fielder is gonna do here.

• 1:05:51Connor Wood?

  Marry her.

• 1:05:54Connor Wood?

  He, she looks.

• 1:05:55Brooke Averick?

  Honestly?

• 1:05:57Connor Wood?

  Kind of a, I ship.

• 1:05:58Brooke Averick?

  I could see it. I think she's married.

• 1:06:00Connor Wood?

  I ship Elizabeth Holmes and Nathan Fielder.

• 1:06:01Brooke Averick?

  I think she's married.

• 1:06:03Connor Wood?

  I have like a really fun conversation to potentially have with you if you have anything to contribute, and this does seem up, up your alley.

• 1:06:09Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 1:06:10Connor Wood?

  It's a shift away from where we are right now.

• 1:06:12Brooke Averick?

  That's fine.

• 1:06:13Connor Wood?

  Do you remember when bands used to make music for movies?

• 1:06:18Brooke Averick?

  Yes.

• 1:06:20Connor Wood?

  Did you know that Accidentally in Love was made for Shrek?

• 1:06:23Brooke Averick?

  We've had this conversation.

• 1:06:25Connor Wood?

  It just came up across my desk again.

• 1:06:27Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 1:06:28Connor Wood?

  Can we look up classic songs that were made for movies?

• 1:06:31Brooke Averick?

  Iris, uh, Iris was made.

• 1:06:32Connor Wood?

  No, it wasn't made for a movie.

• 1:06:34Brooke Averick?

  Connor, we've had this conversation too.

• 1:06:36Connor Wood?

  I don't recall.

• 1:06:37Brooke Averick?

  The, the lyrics of Iris are, are the plot of the movie that it's made for.

• 1:06:44Connor Wood?

  We, we'll look into that. Okay, so Over the Rainbow by Judy Garland was Wizard of Oz, I knew that. Moon River was from Breakfast at Tiffany's? Okay, these are all like.

• 1:06:53Brooke Averick?

  Mrs. Robbins.

• 1:06:54Connor Wood?

  These are all like, unk. I Have the Tiger by, was by Survivor from Rocky. Don't You Forget About Me, Breakfast Club, classic. Take My Breath Away, Top Gun. I Have Nothing by Whitney Houston.

• 1:07:06Brooke Averick?

  Also, My Heart Will Go On.

• 1:07:08Connor Wood?

  No, that was Titanic.

• 1:07:09Brooke Averick?

  That was written for Titanic.

• 1:07:13Connor Wood?

  Well, I think like Accidentally in Love was like, you play that and it reminds me of 2008, you know? Accidentally in the.

• 1:07:20Brooke Averick?

  I was gonna do that for karaoke.

• 1:07:23Connor Wood?

  Iris by Google Dolls was written specifically for the 1998 film of City of Angels. I don't know that one.

• 1:07:29Brooke Averick?

  It, but it's about, it's the lyrics of the song are about an angel who is giving up his life in heaven to, for this woman. Can we pull up the lyrics to Iris?

• 1:07:43Connor Wood?

  Is I give up forever to see, to touch you.

• 1:07:46Brooke Averick?

  Wait, it's like, it's like, the plot is actually like deeply upsetting. Like, he gives up to.

• 1:07:50Connor Wood?

  Touch you, because I know that you feel me somehow. You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be, and I don't want to go home right now. We need to close this, we need to close this.

• 1:07:58Brooke Averick?

  But then he ends up becoming alive and then he gives up her life, and then she dies or something? She die, I, I, I was trying to make it to the end of the episode, have a bite of this cupcake, and I can't.

• 1:08:09Connor Wood?

  Go ahead, have a bite of the cupcake.

• 1:08:10Brooke Averick?

  You're watching me like, lose self-control.

• 1:08:13Connor Wood?

  It's okay, have a bite. Wait, what is a TikTok sound? Have a bite of the cupcake.

• 1:08:20Brooke Averick?

  Whoa, look at.

• 1:08:20Connor Wood?

  Oh, we're gonna have to look into this in the bonus.

• 1:08:23Brooke Averick?

  Wait, I really quickly, what's the plot of City of Angels, or whatever it is?

• 1:08:33Brooke Averick?

  What is that?

• 1:08:34Connor Wood?

  An immortal angel named Seth. Why would they name an angel Seth?

• 1:08:40Connor Wood?

  Sorry, you lost me.

• 1:08:43Brooke Averick?

  No.

• 1:08:44Connor Wood?

  An immortal angel named Seth who falls in love with a mortal heart surgeon named Maggie Rice. Who wrote this? And decides to give up his wings to experience human life. Hindsight is 2020. Seth watches over Dr. Maggie Rice, a dedicated surgeon who becomes devastated when a patient dies on our operating table. Their eyes meet during surgery and Seth becomes deeply captivated by her man and vulnerability, humanity and vulnerability.

• 1:09:12Brooke Averick?

  There's a, there's some sort of romantic irony though, because something about him giving up his immortality.

• 1:09:19Connor Wood?

  Just as they finally unite and experience physical love, tragedy strikes and Maggie is struck by a truck while riding her.

• 1:09:24Brooke Averick?

  Oh, because she doesn't have her angel anymore.

• 1:09:27Connor Wood?

  Oh no, Seth is left heartbroken, yet he does not regret his choice because even a brief moment of feeling human love was, so it's worth killing her?

• 1:09:35Brooke Averick?

  It's basically worth, like, being immortal isn't all it's cracked up to be, but like, that's the romantic irony of like, he gave up being an angel, like, maybe he was her angel.

• 1:09:45Connor Wood?

  Oh, but he kills her.

• 1:09:46Brooke Averick?

  And that's why she died. Basically, because he stopped, he gave up his immortality for selfish reasons. To be able to touch her, because he gave up forever to touch her.

• 1:09:58Connor Wood?

  Ew.

• 1:10:01Connor Wood?

  Yeah, that's a Seth move.

• 1:10:02Brooke Averick?

  Seth, the angel.

• 1:10:04Connor Wood?

  The audacity of you to come down and touch her, and then she gets hit by a truck. That worst first date ever.

• 1:10:10Brooke Averick?

  Be like.

• 1:10:13Connor Wood?

  And then Iris is playing, and he's like, well, guess I'll download Bumble.

• 1:10:17Brooke Averick?

  Crazy concept, concept.

• 1:10:19Connor Wood?

  Conthap.

• 1:10:20Brooke Averick?

  It's a concept.

• 1:10:23Connor Wood?

  Stupid as fuck. Okay.

• 1:10:25Brooke Averick?

  All right.

• 1:10:27Brooke Averick?

  Well, it was nice talking to you.

• 1:10:28Connor Wood?

  It was a dream.

• 1:10:29Brooke Averick?

  I'll see you.

• 1:10:30Connor Wood?

  I have to save, well, I'll save it for the bonus.

• 1:10:32Brooke Averick?

  What?

• 1:10:32Connor Wood?

  Save it for the dons.

• 1:10:33Brooke Averick?

  Save it for that.

• 1:10:34Connor Wood?

  Save it for the, what now?

• 1:10:37Brooke Averick?

  You want to remind everyone to use code?

• 1:10:38Connor Wood?

  Oh yeah. If you're new here and you were somehow able to stick around until this moment to watch Brooke eat her cupcake.

• 1:10:44Brooke Averick?

  Sorry.

• 1:10:45Connor Wood?

  She's balls deep in those sprinkles right now. You can use code DWTS to get a free month of bonus content at TMGstudios.tv/BNCMAP. And also, bonus content for those who don't know, is like this, but kind of we let our guard down. If you can imagine this, but with our.

• 1:11:03Brooke Averick?

  Look, this with our guard down for once.

• 1:11:05Connor Wood?

  Us, us, us like, maybe saying Elizabeth Holmes is like, is awesome. And like, if you can imagine that, but a little bit like, more free.

• 1:11:14Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. It's like girl boss.

• 1:11:16Connor Wood?

  We're kind of girl bossing in the bonus. Also, I didn't even mention my hobby, honest. If you have one negative thing to say about my flip flops, shove it, shove it. Because guess what? I don't care. I do care and it hurts my feelings, so just keep it to yourself.

• 1:11:31Brooke Averick?

  And we'll see you in the bonus.

• 1:11:32Connor Wood?

  Later.

• 1:11:34Brooke Averick?

  This week on Close Friends.

• 1:11:36Connor Wood?

  So, the whole rest of the college experience was, this test is coming up, and I have to study all night. I'm gonna kill my frog.

• 1:11:43Brooke Averick?

  Came out in 2026. Hello? It came out yesterday.

• 1:11:48Connor Wood?

  Wait.

• 1:11:51Connor Wood?

  I'll be in town.

• 1:11:52Brooke Averick?

  I hope not.

• 1:11:54Connor Wood?

  Movies. It, Saw, Halloween.

• 1:11:57Brooke Averick?

  And Microbrewery.

• 1:11:58Connor Wood?

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