Feline Fantasies

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• 0:00Speaker 00

  Ugh, I hate Mondays.

• 0:01Speaker 01

  King's Hawaiian Cinnamon Swirl Bite?

• 0:03Speaker 00

  Uh, Taylor Hansen? Sure, I'll try one. Mmm.

• 0:09Brooke Averick?

  Hey, let's get back to work, please.

• 0:10Speaker 00

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• 0:15Brooke Averick?

  Taylor Hansen? Nice.

• 0:17Speaker 01

  Try one.

• 0:18Brooke Averick?

  Mmm.

• 0:22Speaker 03

  King's Hawaiian Cinnamon Bites. There's nothing like it.

• 0:30Speaker 04

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• 0:36Speaker 01

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• 0:45Connor Wood?

  How is everything over there, you guys?

• 0:47Brooke Averick?

  I just ordered a bagel.

• 0:48Connor Wood?

  I hope that your bagel is like our bagel last week.

• 0:51Brooke Averick?

  That's what I got.

• 0:53Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 0:53Brooke Averick?

  But I don't, I don't know if it could ever be the exact same.

• 0:56Connor Wood?

  I don't know how to just like... That bagel.

• 1:00Brooke Averick?

  I know.

• 1:02Connor Wood?

  I don't even know, like, I don't even know what to say. Like, I'm so glad you had the same experience as me because I don't have to explain it to you.

• 1:08Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. Oh my God, what a treat. It's so rare that two people experience the same thing the same way.

• 1:37Brooke Averick?

  Why are you so giggly? Is it because your boyfriend?

• 1:40Connor Wood?

  Oh, I was just thinking about that bagel.

• 1:40Brooke Averick?

  Because your boyfriend?

• 1:42Connor Wood?

  Okay, well, but first of all, I just want to say hello from the screen.

• 1:46Brooke Averick?

  Hello from what?

• 1:47Connor Wood?

  The screen.

• 1:48Brooke Averick?

  Hi.

• 1:49Connor Wood?

  Hi, I'm, I'm computer husband this week.

• 1:52Brooke Averick?

  Love my computer husband, happy to have him back.

• 1:55Connor Wood?

  It's so nice to be in this, this form. I feel, I don't even feel like I'm away because I am looking right at you and you at me.

• 2:02Brooke Averick?

  I'm looking right at you.

• 2:03Connor Wood?

  I know, it's special, it's great, um... So I am in New, I'm in New York still. That's why I'm computer husband. Um, and yesterday, I'm so sorry. Yesterday I spent the whole day in my bed, which we'll talk, which we'll talk.

• 2:18Brooke Averick?

  Connor, me too. It was awesome.

• 2:21Connor Wood?

  Yeah, it was awesome. And let's, let's get there. So yesterday, like,

• 2:28Brooke Averick?

  Take us from the top though. Take us from the top.

• 2:30Connor Wood?

  Okay, I'm just gonna start it. I'm just gonna start at my boy. So Saturday, I'm in New York City. I'm walking around and, we were, we were heading out to lunch and who do I see besides my closest and dearest friend, soulmate Matthew Gray?

• 2:49Brooke Averick?

  Yep.

• 2:49Connor Wood?

  And Ray Gubler and I see him and

• 2:55Brooke Averick?

  So this now marks the third affair that you two have had, almost behind my back even.

• 3:02Connor Wood?

  Yeah, it seems that way. It's just like, I don't know. I'm not, I'm not even seeking him out or him, me, but like, we just like, we would find each other in any life.

• 3:10Brooke Averick?

  You, you have an invisible string with Matthew Gray Gubler.

• 3:14Connor Wood?

  I know. And he was like, I was like, Maddie. And he was like, Connor, like, whatever.

• 3:19Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 3:20Connor Wood?

  I'm like, hey. And he's like, no, like before he said anything else, he's like, do you want my other smoothie? I got, they gave me two for no reason. And I was like, oh, sure. Um,

• 3:28Brooke Averick?

  Of course.

• 3:29Connor Wood?

  And I drank it and it was delicious. It was like a creamy.

• 3:31Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. What was it?

• 3:33Connor Wood?

  It was like a creamy almond milk green juice, but like smoothie. Um, and I needed that like in a big way because I, I had my shows the night before.

• 3:43Brooke Averick?

  It's almost like he's anticipating your needs.

• 3:46Connor Wood?

  Yeah, a lot like a guardian angel.

• 3:51Brooke Averick?

  This is, this is insane.

• 3:54Connor Wood?

  Yeah, like it's, it's so funny. I know. Um, I should have honestly just like posted it on the B and C linked thing again, like we did the last time.

• 4:02Brooke Averick?

  Without, without texting me first, I would have had.

• 4:06Connor Wood?

  No, no.

• 4:06Brooke Averick?

  I was getting my, you should have done it without texting me first.

• 4:09Connor Wood?

  I, I know. No, I'm, I'm too scared because comments are always like, you're bullying Brooke. I'm like, I'm not.

• 4:15Brooke Averick?

  It's not you. It's the universe.

• 4:17Connor Wood?

  It's the universe.

• 4:18Brooke Averick?

  I must have done something so foul.

• 4:21Connor Wood?

  I know.

• 4:21Brooke Averick?

  In a past life to be getting this type of, it's teasing and taunting.

• 4:27Connor Wood?

  It is, it is. And I texted you and I said, in that moment, we were infinite because it truly was.

• 4:33Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 4:36Connor Wood?

  It's just so funny to see him alone.

• 4:39Brooke Averick?

  He is, he is literally everything, everywhere, all at once, part two.

• 4:44Connor Wood?

  I know. And it's funny because a lot of people DM me and they're like, I have lived in New York for 20 years, 10 years. Sorry, 20 is crazy. Um, and they're like, everyone runs into him except me. And I'm like,

• 4:54Brooke Averick?

  Me too.

• 4:56Connor Wood?

  Yeah, I don't know what to say. And I, but we had a really, I mean, it was really funny. I, and he remembered Hunter, my friend that I was with. And he talked to everybody. We were like, we had like five people that he stuck chatting with everyone.

• 5:11Connor Wood?

  What did he say? Oh my gosh. He was, oh my gosh, you are, because he complimented my, my outfit last time. He goes, you are always dressed up. I said, you are always dressed up. This, this is something I threw together last minute. But he looked so cool as always. So.

• 5:26Brooke Averick?

  As always. I wonder the next time if like you'll take it a step further and do an intentional hangout.

• 5:35Connor Wood?

  I, oh, there's no way, especially because I keep talking about him every time I meet him.

• 5:40Brooke Averick?

  He doesn't know that.

• 5:43Connor Wood?

  I don't think it's that crazy for him to maybe listen to something or share of something because I think he's online.

• 5:51Brooke Averick?

  Well, it would just be crazy. Like what I'm seeing in my head right now is like, you're just like headed to a night out. You pass him and you're like, oh, come with us. And he does.

• 6:01Connor Wood?

  Nothing, anything is possible in New York City. That's the thing about New York City. It's like, there's invisible strings everywhere. And I'm tripping all over them. It's crazy.

• 6:10Brooke Averick?

  It's like, this is like, the universe has given you, this is the, the third sign that you two are stringing out.

• 6:18Connor Wood?

  Yeah, we are strung out.

• 6:20Brooke Averick?

  You are literally strung out with MGG.

• 6:22Connor Wood?

  I know. And it's funny because I'm like, sorry, I just found a new knickknack that I shouldn't be playing with, but, um. I know, it's really funny. I

• 6:32Brooke Averick?

  It's hysterical.

• 6:33Connor Wood?

  This was like, this was like, I know. And like, when I posted that, like casually, like, it did look like who went and got smoothies together. We did not. He just had an extra one that he gave me.

• 6:43Brooke Averick?

  You are legitimately soulmates with my soulmate.

• 6:48Connor Wood?

  I know. I'm sorry.

• 6:49Brooke Averick?

  It's okay. I really, really like, this isn't your fault. It really is from the universe.

• 6:56Connor Wood?

  I know.

• 6:56Brooke Averick?

  There's nothing that you've done.

• 6:59Connor Wood?

  I know. And I've actually really like, he's one of the only people that I've really had like, great, like overwhelmingly great, like net, a net positive, positive.

• 7:08Brooke Averick?

  Three, three for three net positive.

• 7:10Connor Wood?

  Three for three, just like wholesome, great interactions, you know? It's, it's never when I'm going out or something. It's always when I'm like, having like a wholesome, going to brunch, you know, like, like going to get a coffee, having a can in Little Italy, you know? It's, it's never like, oh crap, I

• 7:27Brooke Averick?

  Right.

• 7:27Connor Wood?

  was leaving half the hour and said way too much, you know? Which I did this weekend.

• 7:33Brooke Averick?

  To him?

• 7:34Connor Wood?

  We can, no, no, no. Said like, many others.

• 7:37Brooke Averick?

  Two others.

• 7:38Connor Wood?

  Yeah. Oh, many others, many others. But, um.

• 7:42Brooke Averick?

  Well, next time you see Matthew, tell him that I just got my pumpkins from

• 7:49Connor Wood?

  Gooberwee.

• 7:50Brooke Averick?

  Gooberland.com.

• 7:52Connor Wood?

  Brooke?

• 7:53Brooke Averick?

  Did you watch Gooberwee?

• 7:55Connor Wood?

  No, I didn't. But someone, someone told me about it the other day. I'm, I, it's on my list, which will be a nice surprise when I finally get cozy and watch it.

• 8:01Brooke Averick?

  It'll be great to watch him, like, having the relationship that you have with him.

• 8:05Connor Wood?

  I know. I'm dragging it out. My stomach, my, my heart just dropped into my, the bottom of my stomach because I looked, I'm looking through, my viewing platform is not, is not what it seems, if you're watching the video. I just looked and I saw feet rested up on the coffee table in front of you. And I said, who the fuck's in the room with you? I was like, who is our guest? Who, who is co-hosting for me and I'm not there? And I thought you guys didn't tell me. That made my stomach drop, seeing his feet out.

• 8:35Brooke Averick?

  This young man's feet?

• 8:36Connor Wood?

  Yes.

• 8:37Brooke Averick?

  Something kind of similar happened to me last week. I was doing

• 8:40Connor Wood?

  What do you mean?

• 8:41Brooke Averick?

  An all day, um, shoot with a brand that I am so excited for you guys to see. I can't wait to talk about it once it comes out.

• 8:51Brooke Averick?

  Um, but this was like hour eight of the shoot and I was like losing it a little bit. And I had turned behind me. And there was a mirror, but I didn't know there was a mirror. So I had thought my sister flew in to surprise me for the shoot.

• 9:07Brooke Averick?

  Because I obviously wasn't wearing my glasses and from far away I looked like her. And so I screamed, oh my God, you guys. Thinking flew out my sister for what? I don't know. But then I had to explain, sorry, I thought that was my sister.

• 9:23Connor Wood?

  Brooke, you know what's scary? This morning I-

• 9:26Brooke Averick?

  Did I drive a car?

• 9:30Connor Wood?

  Oh my God. No, this morning I was doing this podcast and it was in someone's apartment and I, I'm in their kitchen and I turned and said, Oh, I'm so sorry. It was a mirror? It was just, it was just us three and I'm like, I just freaked out. Like, Are, am I a kitten? Like seeing my reflection for the first time. I was like, Sorry guys, that freaked me out so bad. I was like, that guy looks just like me and he's-

• 9:53Brooke Averick?

  The older I get, the more I keep seeing that girl that looks just like me that freaks me the hell out.

• 9:58Connor Wood?

  Oh my gosh, we're like learning about our reflections in our, in our big age.

• 10:04Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 10:05Connor Wood?

  Oh, that's really special. Wow. Um.

• 10:10Brooke Averick?

  Okay. What happened next after Matthew in New York? Was that before or after your shows?

• 10:14Connor Wood?

  That was, that was after my show. So, so Friday were my shows. Um, the shows were absolutely phenomenal. It was like my best, it was like my favorite shows. I, I know I told everybody. Everybody's like worried going to the shows. It's so funny because I, I forget how many, Brooke, you don't know. Until you go to some of these shows, like how many people listen to our podcast?

• 10:37Brooke Averick?

  I've been.

• 10:38Connor Wood?

  I, I know, but like, but now having done sixty, seventy-two of these shows.

• 10:43Brooke Averick?

  Oh, okay.

• 10:43Connor Wood?

  Almost eighty. The room when I'm like, you guys listen to the podcast, right? Like, everyone's like, yes, obviously. And I'm like, crap, how many people listen to the podcast? Like, oh my gosh.

• 10:57Brooke Averick?

  I actually, when people ask me, like, oh, like, yeah, how many listeners do you have? I have no idea.

• 11:03Connor Wood?

  I have no idea. Cause like, I also don't understand how many is a lot and how many is many at all. I don't understand how big a hundred people is.

• 11:11Brooke Averick?

  No, hundred and a hundred thousand. Might almost look the same to me, to a girl like me.

• 11:18Connor Wood?

  I know. I know I'm aligned with a girl like yourself, but I am like, whoa, holy shit. So, but it's weird, cause when I do these shows now, like, they're like nervous for me. Cause I like tell everyone I'm nervous.

• 11:31Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 11:32Connor Wood?

  But then when I get to the show, I forget to be like, you guys know, I got it set up. This is now, we're now at the show. I am prepared, you know? But like, if I do a joke that like, it starts out like, oh my gosh, what's he gonna say? Like, you see everyone like start to sweat.

• 11:44Brooke Averick?

  Oh, that's kind of really sweet.

• 11:46Connor Wood?

  Yeah, yeah. And I've been doing crowd work. I did a lot of crowd work and they were like, that was good. You're gonna, you're gonna do a good crowd. I'm like, oh my gosh, I forget that. I'm like totally transparent. So like, people are like nervous to see how the show goes, you know? But they went really, really well. Um, the venue was awesome. That was obviously, I don't do like a ton of theaters. There are a lot like comedy clubs, you know, where people are like sitting at a table.

• 12:09Brooke Averick?

  Right.

• 12:10Connor Wood?

  This was a theater with like rows that went up.

• 12:13Brooke Averick?

  How many people could it?

• 12:14Connor Wood?

  It was like 500.

• 12:15Brooke Averick?

  Oh my God. And how many shows did you do?

• 12:19Connor Wood?

  We just did two. Um, but it was like, there was like a marquee outside that had like fibs and friends on it. Like New York Comedy Fest. It was so legit and it was so much fun. Um, and the crowd was awesome.

• 12:37Connor Wood?

  And then we had the after party.

• 12:38Brooke Averick?

  I was gonna ask about the after party.

• 12:40Connor Wood?

  So the after party was?

• 12:42Brooke Averick?

  Did you fall under the weather?

• 12:44Connor Wood?

  What do you mean?

• 12:45Brooke Averick?

  Like, did you, did you become under the weather?

• 12:47Connor Wood?

  No. A little bit. Um, no, it was like, cause I don't drink at my shows, you know, so like when after the show is like, oh my gosh, I'm done, like, and so I was like having fun, whatever, and, um, no, it was just like a blast. Like, I have nothing bad to say. Like, I did have to give a speech at some point, which I didn't know I had to do.

• 13:06Brooke Averick?

  Oh.

• 13:07Connor Wood?

  So I was like up on a chair like, alright, well, um, thank you guys. I really appreciate it. And cheers. And that was my speech, which I'm glad I didn't like drag it out, but, um, a lot of people came.

• 13:24Brooke Averick?

  Was it everything you had dreamed it would be?

• 13:26Connor Wood?

  Yeah, it was, it was really interesting. Um, you know, it's, it's, it's kind of something so interesting when like, you are celebrating the end of a show with drinks and then you're meeting people for the first time at your after party. I'm like, oh my gosh, so good to meet you. Tell them the wrong name, you know, cause I've only read their Instagram handle.

• 13:44Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 13:45Connor Wood?

  You know, and that is not my, not my name. And I'm like, okay, well, you're like the 100th person I've met in this room. So, but it was honestly, it was, it was so great. Um, and then we came back and had some nightcaps at, at Hunter's apartment with so many people, had so much fun. It was great. It was a great time. I have a zero compliance. It was like such a successful end. If that were to be the end.

• 14:14Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, I was about to say, you're not done.

• 14:16Connor Wood?

  I'm not done. How do you know I'm not done?

• 14:18Brooke Averick?

  Don't you leave for London?

• 14:21Connor Wood?

  Oh, no, no, no. I'm saying I'm not done with my weekend.

• 14:24Brooke Averick?

  Oh. I thought you were talking about the tour.

• 14:27Connor Wood?

  Oh, no, I got invited to the SNL after party last night or on Saturday night.

• 14:31Brooke Averick?

  No, you didn't.

• 14:32Connor Wood?

  Yes, and I went.

• 14:33Brooke Averick?

  No, you didn't.

• 14:34Connor Wood?

  Um, I did go and it was so cool. They were all there. Um, got, really was a lot, was able to, it's very much like a free for, like, people are literally mingling and having fun.

• 14:47Brooke Averick?

  Who did you connect with?

• 14:48Connor Wood?

  Everyone that you could think of.

• 14:50Brooke Averick?

  Give me a few names.

• 14:51Connor Wood?

  I really don't think that I should because the only thing I, the only thing I said to literally every person I talked to, I am your biggest fan.

• 15:02Connor Wood?

  And so, you know,

• 15:07Connor Wood?

  like, I wasn't very, like,

• 15:09Brooke Averick?

  Was anyone like, oh, I know you?

• 15:11Connor Wood?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. I, I, we, I have a lot of friends on the show.

• 15:14Brooke Averick?

  Who are your friends on the show?

• 15:16Connor Wood?

  Jane Wickline.

• 15:17Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 15:17Connor Wood?

  Like Marcelo is a buddy of mine.

• 15:20Brooke Averick?

  Right. Is he?

• 15:20Connor Wood?

  Um.

• 15:21Brooke Averick?

  Is he now?

• 15:22Connor Wood?

  He's a buddy of mine. Um, like Ben, Marshall was there.

• 15:26Brooke Averick?

  Okay.

• 15:28Connor Wood?

  Sarah Scorm was there. We're not friends. I, I think, like, after I, after my hello, oh, my gosh, I'm like, such an honor to meet you. It was such an honor. On our way out, by the way, like, want to double down? I do love you. Um, I did ask, I did get to ask one of the people, like, hey, you were on my list for my after party, but you didn't show up. So, like, what's going? And they were like, well, I was on SNL tonight, so I couldn't make it to your party last night. Sorry. I am such an idiot.

• 15:52Brooke Averick?

  It's okay. Could have happened to anyone.

• 15:55Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 15:56Brooke Averick?

  That's like, I was, like, pissed off that Bowen Yang wasn't at the Wicked premiere on Saturday. And I was like, what could he possibly be doing right now?

• 16:04Connor Wood?

  Just work.

• 16:05Brooke Averick?

  Just Saturday Night Live.

• 16:07Connor Wood?

  Clocked into their job.

• 16:08Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 16:09Connor Wood?

  Yeah, like me, the narcissist, like, I couldn't help you, I couldn't help but notice that, like, you didn't show to my, my stand-up show after-party? Um, what the hell?

• 16:18Brooke Averick?

  Right.

• 16:18Connor Wood?

  No, I mean, it was, it was very much like, such an honor. The issue book is about the SNL after-party is that it starts at 1:45 in the morning.

• 16:27Brooke Averick?

  That is an issue. That's a, that is a huge issue.

• 16:30Connor Wood?

  But everybody was there. Like, they all went, like, of all ages.

• 16:35Brooke Averick?

  What do you mean of all ages?

• 16:38Connor Wood?

  Like, Lorne Michaels was-

• 16:39Brooke Averick?

  Twenty-one plus?

• 16:40Connor Wood?

  No, like, like, like-

• 16:42Brooke Averick?

  It wasn't twenty-one plus?

• 16:44Connor Wood?

  It was. I'm, no, there's no children there. I mean, like, like, like Lorne Michaels was there.

• 16:50Brooke Averick?

  Right. I would love to know how much these people sleep on Sundays. Or if they're like, I can't sleep on Sundays. It's my only day to do anything.

• 16:58Connor Wood?

  Well, oh, that's true. Oh, my gosh.

• 17:02Brooke Averick?

  I would not survive the SNL schedule.

• 17:05Connor Wood?

  They do have on-season and off-season.

• 17:07Brooke Averick?

  Right, but I'm talking about on-season.

• 17:11Connor Wood?

  Yeah, I know. That's, that's really interesting because like they're, it's just so late, you know? And I was like, how do you guys do this like at all?

• 17:22Connor Wood?

  So that was great.

• 17:23Brooke Averick?

  Are they required to go?

• 17:25Connor Wood?

  No, I don't think so because there were a lot of people that weren't there, but it was just so great to see them and they were all having a great time and celebrating. Um, I saw Bill. Um, I think it's at a different place. No, I think it's a different place every single time, but um, I saw Bill Burr, who I did a show with a while back.

• 17:43Brooke Averick?

  Right.

• 17:44Connor Wood?

  And I was able to reconnect with him and I was like, remember this? And he was like, no, why would I remember that? That, that small, unimportant, unimportant moment in my life with you? Why would I remember that? I was like, that's like so true. That's a great point. Um, we took a selfie, which I don't like you're even allowed to do so. So Sunday I did spend

• 18:08Connor Wood?

  every, every single moment of the day.

• 18:11Brooke Averick?

  You had fallen under the weather on Sunday.

• 18:14Connor Wood?

  Yeah, you know, and I, I told everyone, I was like, no, I'm just trying to get my money's worth out of the hotel. I, I, I ate every meal in my bed.

• 18:21Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 18:24Connor Wood?

  So that was great. I've actually never done that in my life.

• 18:27Brooke Averick?

  Oh, my God, it's the best.

• 18:29Connor Wood?

  Like straight up watched five Christmas movies and didn't leave my bed.

• 18:34Brooke Averick?

  Oh, you've been missing out.

• 18:36Connor Wood?

  I know. It was really nice and it rained in New York. So it was just like, I didn't need to go.

• 18:40Brooke Averick?

  It hasn't rained in here, inside here for like a year.

• 18:45Connor Wood?

  No.

• 18:45Brooke Averick?

  I've been craving. It hasn't rained since I moved into my new apartment and I've been dying for it with those windows.

• 18:51Connor Wood?

  I know. You've needed a cave day.

• 18:53Brooke Averick?

  Haven't had a cave day yet.

• 18:55Connor Wood?

  Oh, I'm craving a, a, a cave day.

• 18:59Brooke Averick?

  You just had a cave day. Don't be greedy.

• 19:01Connor Wood?

  I want, I want one where I don't feel sick the whole time.

• 19:06Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, but I feel like you won't, if you're not feeling sick, you won't do one.

• 19:09Connor Wood?

  I think if I plan ahead, I think if I tell myself like, listen, listen tomorrow's a cave day. If it's gonna rain, like you have no plans, cave it up. Go caveman mode. I think that I could get myself, I could convince myself to do it.

• 19:24Brooke Averick?

  Okay, I'd like to, I'd like to see you try.

• 19:27Connor Wood?

  I know. I have been doing this thing in New York where I, um, like tell myself like, you know what? You walked all day. Like you don't need to work out or do anything. You can relax. But like, I really need to do something.

• 19:42Brooke Averick?

  No, I agree with what you said first.

• 19:44Connor Wood?

  Oh, yeah. You, you, you had a big weekend, too.

• 19:49Brooke Averick?

  I had a big Saturday.

• 19:50Connor Wood?

  Yeah, Saturday.

• 19:52Brooke Averick?

  I didn't do anything on the other days.

• 19:54Connor Wood?

  That's okay, because the Saturday was big.

• 19:56Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, I went to the Wicked premiere.

• 19:58Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 19:59Brooke Averick?

  Which like, I'm really bad at having like, oh, pinch me moments. You know, like, I feel like it's been really hard for me to like, be joyous and not have imposter syndrome. But this was one of those times where I like, look back on like, the videos of me as a kid, like, putting on a play of Wicked. And I'm like, wow, like, look, look at you now.

• 20:22Connor Wood?

  Right.

• 20:23Brooke Averick?

  So that was giving me gooseies. Um, if you wanted to walk the red carpet for the premiere, you had to get there at 3 P. And the screening wasn't till 6:30, so you had to get there like, pretty early. So for me, I've never done that piece of an evening before, because I don't want to ever get pictures. And I don't want people looking at me on the red carpet. And it's just like, not my thing. But for this one, I was like, you know what? Like, this is, this is such a marvelous day. We're gonna show up at 3 P. Okay?

• 20:53Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 20:54Speaker 00

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• 20:56Connor Wood?

  King's wine and cinnamon swirl bite?

• 20:57Brooke Averick?

  Uh, Taylor Hansen? Sure, I'll try one.

• 21:03Speaker 01

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• 21:04Speaker 00

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• 21:09Speaker 01

  Taylor Hanson? Nice. Try one. Mmm.

• 21:16Speaker 03

  King's Hawaiian cinnamon bites. There's nothing like it.

• 21:24Brooke Averick?

  Going to show at 3P, even though it's also hard to have three hours where you're talking to people and socializing before the film. But I was gonna do it, Connor. I really, I was really excited to walk the red carpet at the Wicked premiere. Showed up at 3P.

• 21:42Brooke Averick?

  It was kind of like a jumbled mess. No one knew where to go, but eventually got onto the carpet. I was with Brittany. Found a lot of my friends to connect with. Started walking the carpet. No one took a picture of me.

• 21:57Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 21:58Brooke Averick?

  I'm looking at, there's hundreds of cameras in front of me, not once going off.

• 22:04Brooke Averick?

  Me and Brittany said, hello?

• 22:07Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 22:07Brooke Averick?

  They did not take a picture. I had thought they were taking a picture of Brittany. They didn't even get one of Brittany.

• 22:13Connor Wood?

  Are you positive they didn't take any?

• 22:15Brooke Averick?

  Positive.

• 22:15Connor Wood?

  You looked it up?

• 22:16Brooke Averick?

  I'm positive because those pictures go on Getty Images. And everyone else's, they made it to GettyImages.net.

• 22:25Brooke Averick?

  I did not have a photo on Getty Images.net.

• 22:28Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 22:30Brooke Averick?

  And I had gotten there at 3P for my photo op.

• 22:32Connor Wood?

  Yeah, no one, no one would know. Like, you wouldn't know this unless you have done these things. Like, learning to go there and then going on the carpet is just humiliating by itself. It's so bad.

• 22:46Brooke Averick?

  That's why I avoid it.

• 22:47Connor Wood?

  Yeah, and then genuinely because of these things, I feel like people don't know, like, it will literally be, I think the last one I was at,

• 22:57Connor Wood?

  I think it was like Sabrina Carpenter and Addison Rae were right before me, and then it was me, and it was like just crazy to hear like the thunderous amount of And then you walk out and it's like, literally feels like...

• 23:11Brooke Averick?

  Well, that's why I'm even more confused because it wasn't that. This was just like the influencer portion. People should be taking pictures of Brittany. You know?

• 23:20Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 23:20Brooke Averick?

  So we were both just like, ee-yay. And that was that.

• 23:25Connor Wood?

  That can be weird.

• 23:26Brooke Averick?

  And that was that, but there were like fans of Wicked like on the side. And I thought some of them were screaming Brooke, but I don't think they were. I think I was mishearing. But one person did scream Lady Ephron, which is, which is good because that I can make out more than Brooke.

• 23:42Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 23:42Brooke Averick?

  Um, and I was like, oh, hi. And they were like, can we take a picture? And I was like, oh, yeah. So I just stood there and smiled. And like posed and they were like, no, like, can you come, can you come over here?

• 23:55Connor Wood?

  Oh.

• 23:57Brooke Averick?

  I was like, oh, God, yeah. Um, so that was horrible. I feel, I'm sorry, you guys. I didn't.

• 24:03Connor Wood?

  I would have been like.

• 24:04Brooke Averick?

  I didn't understand the specifics.

• 24:06Connor Wood?

  I would have said, can you take my phone and take one of me too? Because I didn't get one.

• 24:09Brooke Averick?

  Well, thankfully Kat, Kat, my love had taken a few of me, uh, when I was on the carpet and no one was taking a picture.

• 24:17Connor Wood?

  Um, I've had that happen so many times that, but you literally have to, I have swallowed my pride and been like, I just need one.

• 24:27Brooke Averick?

  I said hello.

• 24:28Connor Wood?

  I just, oh no, I literally have been like, I have said at one of those things, not everybody all at once. And they laugh. It's a lot of the same petarbers at those things. And I've become friends with some of them because I have absolutely just like embarrassed myself by being like, oh, you guys are crazy. Not everybody. Come on. I don't know where to look. Come on. Like nobody. Oh, you guys, not so fast.

• 24:51Brooke Averick?

  That was truly the one time in my life I've ever wanted a picture.

• 24:55Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 24:55Brooke Averick?

  But it's fine.

• 24:56Connor Wood?

  You have, I mean, I.

• 24:57Brooke Averick?

  Because I have the memories.

• 24:58Connor Wood?

  You got the, you got the, you got the pictures that you, that you posted, but no Getty, no Getty.

• 25:04Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. Yeah.

• 25:06Connor Wood?

  Maybe.

• 25:06Brooke Averick?

  Hey, who needs a Getty when you're having fun?

• 25:09Connor Wood?

  Who even is Getty?

• 25:11Brooke Averick?

  I don't know. And to be honest, do not care right now.

• 25:15Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 25:16Brooke Averick?

  Getty is dead to me.

• 25:19Connor Wood?

  I remember the first, the first couple of times I was in Getty. I know the first time you were in that, you didn't realize, but you had that turkey leg.

• 25:27Brooke Averick?

  Yep.

• 25:30Connor Wood?

  When I first started arriving on Getty, on the scene at Getty, I was just like screenshotting them and posting them because they cost like $500 to get the rights to.

• 25:39Brooke Averick?

  You can just download it.

• 25:41Connor Wood?

  You can, yeah, you can download it, but, but then someone texted me from Getty and they're like, hey, by the way, like if you don't get usage rights for those photos, like you can get sued for thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars.

• 25:56Brooke Averick?

  Everyone posts their Gettys.

• 25:58Connor Wood?

  I'm just saying, I don't know.

• 26:02Brooke Averick?

  They're wrong.

• 26:03Connor Wood?

  I don't know, girl.

• 26:05Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, I don't think that's the case.

• 26:08Connor Wood?

  I don't know. I worry, I worry about being sued every day.

• 26:13Brooke Averick?

  I mean, you would just delete it. Worst comes to worst.

• 26:15Connor Wood?

  I know. That's what you would think, I guess. Yeah, that's true.

• 26:17Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. But then there was a three hour socialization piece, which was pretty. Guess who was there? Who I didn't say hi to, but was sitting right next to me.

• 26:30Connor Wood?

  Who?

• 26:30Brooke Averick?

  Steven Pommelhorse.

• 26:33Connor Wood?

  Oh dang, why didn't you say hi?

• 26:36Brooke Averick?

  I was shy.

• 26:38Connor Wood?

  Gosh darn it, you.

• 26:39Brooke Averick?

  Being a shy girl. And then Trisha Paytas was there, who I had connected with at the other Wicked screening. So Kat and I went up to her and we're like, hey, I had no, I had no recognition in her eyes whatsoever, which is fine.

• 26:55Connor Wood?

  That's someone who definitely meets like a billion people at those things, I feel like.

• 27:01Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, I thought, I had thought we had had like a unique intimate moment at the last screening. All good. And then that brings us to the film. It was in like a huge theater, so I was in like the third row of the balcony. So the only way I could see the cast, specifically Jonathan Bailey, was through through my phone. Which is for the best, because like if I had been any closer, like I would have to be escorted on a stretcher.

• 27:32Connor Wood?

  Wait, what do you mean through your phone?

• 27:33Brooke Averick?

  Like I couldn't, they were so like far away, I could only see them through my phone when I was zooming in. Yeah.

• 27:42Brooke Averick?

  Ooh, but also the producer of Wicked, Mark Platt, Ben Platt's dad, was introducing every member of the cast.

• 27:52Brooke Averick?

  And when he got to Ethan Slater, he could not remember his name. And it was literally, I have it on video, so brutal. The crowd had to start screaming Ethan Slater. Because it was literally like a full 30 second pause of him looking around being like, fuck, I don't know this guy's name.

• 28:11Connor Wood?

  Is Ethan Slater in it?

• 28:13Brooke Averick?

  Yes.

• 28:15Connor Wood?

  Oh, wow.

• 28:15Brooke Averick?

  That's where him and Ariana met.

• 28:18Connor Wood?

  I thought that was on Broadway.

• 28:19Brooke Averick?

  No, he's Bach.

• 28:22Brooke Averick?

  Remember Bach from when you saw Wicked?

• 28:24Connor Wood?

  I remember Bach.

• 28:25Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, he's Bach.

• 28:26Connor Wood?

  Because guess who did my show this weekend?

• 28:28Brooke Averick?

  Natalie Ortega, who played Nesta.

• 28:29Connor Wood?

  Natalie Ortega.

• 28:30Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 28:30Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 28:31Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 28:32Connor Wood?

  She got one night off of Wicked and did my show.

• 28:34Brooke Averick?

  She's a sweetheart.

• 28:38Brooke Averick?

  But I had, was worried that you know, I have a habit of seeing films and saying, that's the best thing I've ever seen in my life. And then seeing them again and saying, wait, what?

• 28:48Connor Wood?

  Yes.

• 28:48Brooke Averick?

  This, I mean,

• 28:51Brooke Averick?

  I didn't think it was possible to like it more than the first time that I saw it, even better than I had remembered. It is literally, this film is a masterpiece. I cannot wait for everyone to see it. I can't get, like, I can't wait for you to see it. Ariana Grande, like,

• 29:08Brooke Averick?

  she, she want- The talent of our generation.

• 29:13Connor Wood?

  Hit it out.

• 29:13Brooke Averick?

  The talent of our generation and Cynthia too, like usually like when you're such a good dramatic stage actor, it doesn't translate onto the screen. But boy, boy, does she translate. Boy, did she plug out Google Translate for her role in this film. Oh my God, it's so incredible. And Jonathan Bailey's Dancing Through Life. I can't believe this is going to be something that's gonna, I'm gonna have access to like on my personal device that I can just rewind. That is what's feeling crazy to me. The way that I feel watching Jonathan Bailey perform Dancing Through Life is the way I felt the first time watching High School Musical. It's that type of fluttering pit in your stomach.

• 29:54Connor Wood?

  Is it the same?

• 29:57Connor Wood?

  The whole movie is the same?

• 29:59Brooke Averick?

  There are some differences and usually like those differences are annoying when you're like so obsessed with the stage production. And it gets changed. It's like, I hate that. Every single thing they did differently, I'm just like, wow, that's awesome.

• 30:13Connor Wood?

  That's good.

• 30:14Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 30:14Connor Wood?

  I didn't see one, I didn't see one, obviously like I saw everybody's stories. That every single story was like, I'm in disbelief about this film.

• 30:24Brooke Averick?

  It's Connor, it's so remarkable. And they made like Dancing Through Life is like nine minutes and Defying Gravity is like seven minutes. And it's, they're just like epic, they're epic. Like they added like moments in them that just like elevate the songs and the plot so deeply. Oh my God, you guys, it's, I'm not overselling it. And I feel confident saying that I'm not overselling it.

• 30:52Connor Wood?

  I can't wait to see it. When does it come out for normal people?

• 30:54Brooke Averick?

  The 22nd, but there's an advanced screening. Like it comes out on the 20th in LA, I think, so I'll be there. For my third viewing, I'm going, I'm using, this will be the most I use my AMC A-list ever. I'm going three times a week.

• 31:09Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 31:10Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 31:10Connor Wood?

  I know. It's like movies you do, that's, I feel like that's how it should, I feel like movies should only come out in the, in the fall.

• 31:17Brooke Averick?

  My 2025 Spotify wrapped is fucked ass out.

• 31:22Connor Wood?

  Oh yeah, sorry.

• 31:23Brooke Averick?

  It's okay. I mean, I'm, I'm not upset about it, but it is going to be.

• 31:29Brooke Averick?

  Cypress sorries.

• 31:31Connor Wood?

  Yeah, that's gonna be overpowering.

• 31:35Brooke Averick?

  It's gonna be overpowering.

• 31:36Connor Wood?

  Do you not get nervous that you're gonna listen to a song so much that you're gonna hate it?

• 31:40Brooke Averick?

  I do overdose on songs all the time.

• 31:43Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 31:44Brooke Averick?

  I don't hate them though. Like 3090, I overdosed on. And it's like, it's still like my favorite song in the world, but like I do have to skip it now.

• 31:52Connor Wood?

  Yeah, it's actually, I hate that my entire running like workout playlist now is like all skips because I'm like, I don't want to listen to this. And so like the whole thing is spent skipping to the most recent song that I added to the playlist.

• 32:04Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 32:04Connor Wood?

  And I'm like, I can't even start working out. I'm like sitting in there for the first like eight minutes, just like, doop, doop, doop, doop. And then I have 60 seconds to record out to and then I have to stop for another eight minutes and skip 20 more songs.

• 32:19Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 32:19Connor Wood?

  And then I go home.

• 32:21Brooke Averick?

  The best is when you overdose on a song and then you don't listen to it for a really long time and then it has its renaissance.

• 32:26Connor Wood?

  I need a song to go on, come on on the radio for me to enjoy it again. Like it needs to be like not my choice, you know?

• 32:32Brooke Averick?

  Totally. When I'm listening to, I could be listening to my playlist that I've been skipping on somebody else's car radio. And it's suddenly the best thing I've ever heard.

• 32:41Connor Wood?

  Yes. I'm back in my, I know, I never kind of left, but I'm back in my Tom Mish era and I feel like,

• 32:46Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, wouldn't believe.

• 32:48Connor Wood?

  I mean, I kind of, I told you, I went through a phase where I just like, wasn't listening to music for some reason. And I was like scaring myself because I was like, maybe I'm dying. You know, I legit was like, what hap- what happens within a person that like really truly listens to music all day? Like I hate, I hate not having noise playing in the background at my house. What happens to a person like that? What's going on internally? What's going on in my heart that I can't listen to music or podcasts? I was like, I want to hear the wind. I don't want to hear like, like a bird's wings flapping lightly.

• 33:20Brooke Averick?

  Oh yeah. I sit in complete silence.

• 33:23Connor Wood?

  Yeah. No, I'm back to listening to music. I don't know what, I don't know what era I was in in my life where like I was just like cool in silence. But I'm not anymore. It feels good to be out of that. But I do know that like, I think I was kind of put on this earth to spread the good word of Tom Mish.

• 33:41Connor Wood?

  And I'm like campaigning.

• 33:43Brooke Averick?

  Oh, it's good to find your life's purpose.

• 33:45Connor Wood?

  I'm on this crusade to like get people to listen to Tom Mish. This, this individual man that just like absolutely, I know in my heart I'll never meet him or connect with him. And that's okay.

• 33:56Brooke Averick?

  What does he look like?

• 33:58Connor Wood?

  A man, literally, if you were to draw like a-

• 34:00Brooke Averick?

  Like Google man?

• 34:02Connor Wood?

  A British guy.

• 34:04Brooke Averick?

  Oh, he's British?

• 34:06Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 34:08Brooke Averick?

  Oh.

• 34:09Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 34:12Connor Wood?

  Did you know?

• 34:13Brooke Averick?

  I didn't expect, I didn't expect that.

• 34:15Connor Wood?

  What are you thinking right now when you see Tom Mish's face?

• 34:18Brooke Averick?

  Almost my, almost my like like him.

• 34:19Connor Wood?

  Oh, wow. Well.

• 34:21Brooke Averick?

  But he looks like someone that I can't put my finger on.

• 34:24Connor Wood?

  No, that's what I'm saying. He looks like a man.

• 34:26Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, that might be it.

• 34:28Connor Wood?

  Yeah, because he does, he looks like a hundred people combined into one. And then like erased a little bit to where like it's just the vague parts.

• 34:38Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, well said.

• 34:41Connor Wood?

  Yeah. Um, like nothing super remarkable, but something I like, like string cheese.

• 34:48Brooke Averick?

  Something I like about it. No, string cheese is remarkable. The polio cheddar and the mixed one swirl.

• 34:55Connor Wood?

  Oh, no, I'm, I'm going classic mozzarella. I also, do you know what I used to do with string cheese?

• 35:02Brooke Averick?

  Make an octopus?

• 35:04Connor Wood?

  No, I used to make a woman with a hula skirt.

• 35:07Brooke Averick?

  It's probably the same as my octopus.

• 35:09Connor Wood?

  It could be, but also it could not because I start from the top and go down.

• 35:13Brooke Averick?

  What's the other, what else would you do?

• 35:16Connor Wood?

  I feel like an octopus, you would go from the bottom up.

• 35:18Brooke Averick?

  You just flip it upside down after.

• 35:21Connor Wood?

  Well, no, it's about how you oriented it from the start because I'm, I need my hula skirt to be covering, covering my girls under parts.

• 35:32Brooke Averick?

  That's sweet of you.

• 35:34Connor Wood?

  Just looking out for my girl. Oh, my gosh, I gotta get some street cheese today, some string cheese.

• 35:41Brooke Averick?

  String cheese.

• 35:43Connor Wood?

  Yeah, I had a life changing grilled cheese in my bed yesterday with tomato bisque.

• 35:49Brooke Averick?

  Oh, shut the up.

• 35:51Connor Wood?

  I can't.

• 35:51Brooke Averick?

  From like room service?

• 35:53Connor Wood?

  From room service, but the room service for the hotel I was staying in was a restaurant.

• 35:59Brooke Averick?

  That's awesome.

• 36:00Connor Wood?

  That was like at the bottom of the hotel, the bread book was each piece was like the thickness of a small novella.

• 36:12Brooke Averick?

  Wow.

• 36:12Connor Wood?

  Novella and the cheese.

• 36:16Connor Wood?

  You're sadly mistaken if you're guessing anything besides a Monterey Jack cheddar blend.

• 36:21Brooke Averick?

  I don't think I was guessing anything besides that.

• 36:24Connor Wood?

  Oh, well, then, sorry. You were wrong.

• 36:29Connor Wood?

  Wait.

• 36:29Brooke Averick?

  Wait, what?

• 36:30Connor Wood?

  Congratulations, you were right, is what I meant to say.

• 36:32Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 36:35Connor Wood?

  Oh, my God, just thinking about it. Wow, maybe I'm hungry.

• 36:39Brooke Averick?

  You might. What'd you have to eat today?

• 36:41Connor Wood?

  Um, I had, oh, it was really good.

• 36:45Connor Wood?

  Oh, my gosh, it was really good. It was, um, I've kind of been like, like I've been on this this thing since my stomach ache.

• 36:54Brooke Averick?

  Oh, how's that, by the way?

• 36:56Connor Wood?

  It's good.

• 36:57Brooke Averick?

  Is it done?

• 36:58Connor Wood?

  It's really, it's really done. I really think it was stressful for the New York shows, which is just crazy.

• 37:02Brooke Averick?

  How insane. What your mind can do to your body.

• 37:07Brooke Averick?

  Limitless.

• 37:08Connor Wood?

  No, I know. And like a lot of, a lot of people were able to diagnose me with a lot of stuff.

• 37:13Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, they sure were.

• 37:15Connor Wood?

  I'm here to tell you that, that the, the couple of you that came into my DMs said, first of all, you need to see a gastroenterologist. I'm still going to do that when I get home. But the way that after my show, I didn't have a stomach ache at all. And then the rest of the weekend, I didn't have a stomach ache at all.

• 37:33Brooke Averick?

  Even after the tomato bisque?

• 37:37Brooke Averick?

  Okay.

• 37:38Connor Wood?

  Um.

• 37:39Brooke Averick?

  Okay.

• 37:40Connor Wood?

  That was unrelated, by the way, so.

• 37:44Connor Wood?

  Watch him out. Um, uh, even after the tomato bisque that I eat horizontally, which is just like, you're asking for it.

• 37:52Brooke Averick?

  Don't victim blame.

• 37:54Connor Wood?

  I wouldn't victim blame. You're right. I was naked though, in my bad eating tomato bisque. I like, just need to tell everyone the details of how good the sandwich was. It was just like in my cold ass hotel room while National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation is playing.

• 38:07Brooke Averick?

  National what?

• 38:09Connor Wood?

  Lampoon's.

• 38:10Brooke Averick?

  Oh, I've never heard of that film.

• 38:13Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 38:14Brooke Averick?

  Did you love it?

• 38:15Connor Wood?

  Mm hmm. It's so good. It's such a classic. It's like when movies have like a joke a minute, you know, like every, every joke was either like some funny, physical comedy thing or like the way something's delivered, like a line. I miss when comedies like really didn't care if you caught the joke or not. You know what I mean? Like there's so many.

• 38:36Brooke Averick?

  There was no over explaining?

• 38:37Connor Wood?

  No, it was like, we're, we're moving past this joke so fast that like, if you didn't get it, you didn't get it. Like this is for you. I feel like jokes now are almost like joke coming up punchline and then hold up a laughing sign, you know?

• 38:50Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. Have I spoken about the film Shallow Hal here? I think I have.

• 38:56Connor Wood?

  Why do I feel like recently I talked about Shallow Hal, but I have not seen it. So I don't, I can't remember.

• 39:01Brooke Averick?

  I'm, I'll just talk about it again because I watched it this weekend. This was the first PG 13 movie that I had ever seen. It's Jack Black and Gwyneth Paltrow. And it is like, if you watch now, like it's horrible. Like so, the message is terrible.

• 39:19Connor Wood?

  Talked about Shallow Hal.

• 39:19Brooke Averick?

  I, I think we have. The message is so, so bad, but at the time in 2003, it was like, wow, that's deep and profound. Basically, Jack Black is like the most shallow guy in the world. And he gets hypnotized in an elevator by Tony Robbins. Is that his name? Tony Robinson or Tony Robbins? Doesn't matter. That life, that life coach guy. And he starts to see women for who they are on the inside. So like, he sees Gwyneth Paltrow, this like kind, selfless woman as Gwyneth Paltrow, when in reality, like she is like, they put her in a fat suit. Okay. That's what she looks like in real

• 40:02Brooke Averick?

  life, but Jack Black is seeing like the Gwyneth Paltrow that we know.

• 40:07Brooke Averick?

  And so eventually, like at the end of the movie, like he finds out that he's been seeing

• 40:13Brooke Averick?

  a different version of her and that's not actually her. And then he's like, oh, I realized that I that I love her anyway. Like even though she's not skinny, I can love her anyway. And at the time, everyone's like, oh, it really is what's on the inside that counts. But now watching it, you realize like, oh, the message is that this man actually had to be hypnotized to find this woman attractive. So it is horrible, but it is like such, it is such a case study on early, the early 2000s. And it is, I like, I feel horrible saying that I enjoy it, but like, it's just like, it's such a case study. It is anthropology, watching that film. It's horrible. Really encourage you to watch it. So, so bad.

• 40:58Connor Wood?

  Yeah, I feel like all of that, all of that era is pretty tough, unfortunately.

• 41:04Brooke Averick?

  It's just like you watch it and you're like, I, I can't, I can't, I cannot believe. I cannot believe that this is where we were.

• 41:13Brooke Averick?

  Not only that I don't believe this is where we were, but I literally was, how old was I in 2003? Like eight, seven? I was watching that and I was like, oh, like that's what's crazy. Honestly, Shallow Hal being the first movie, PG 13 movie that I had seen, could be the reason for a lot, lot of my neurons misfiring. Could be the reason for a lot of the issues that I have.

• 41:36Connor Wood?

  I guess if your canon event for romantic comedies is, is one based on hypnotism.

• 41:43Brooke Averick?

  It's on the outside that counts.

• 41:45Connor Wood?

  That's hard.

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• 42:09Speaker 00

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• 42:17Connor Wood?

  Um, also, I love that trope of, I feel like this like doesn't get talked about ever. And I'm gonna try to find a way to phrase it where like I don't get in trouble. But like, I love, yeah, I love when.

• 42:32Connor Wood?

  Like in Seinfeld, for example.

• 42:38Connor Wood?

  Like. What's the bald guy's name? I forget now.

• 42:42Brooke Averick?

  Jason Alexander or George?

• 42:44Connor Wood?

  George, like George Foreman.

• 42:46Brooke Averick?

  He's in shallow how?

• 42:48Connor Wood?

  Oh, okay. But for example, back then, like, that was like a bachelor. That was like an eligible bachelor that like the girl like the girls he was dating, I wouldn't peg him to be able to.

• 43:02Brooke Averick?

  They're so far out of his league.

• 43:04Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 43:05Brooke Averick?

  That you can say that.

• 43:06Connor Wood?

  Okay. So like, I mean, as shallow as it is, like, how was George for?

• 43:11Brooke Averick?

  Pulling?

• 43:12Connor Wood?

  What was his?

• 43:13Brooke Averick?

  It's not George Costanza.

• 43:15Connor Wood?

  Costanza, how's George Costanza?

• 43:18Connor Wood?

  What? How's George Costanza like even getting in touch with these women?

• 43:21Brooke Averick?

  Well, I think like in general, that's just like how the world works with like men and women. Like usually the women, the woman is much hotter. Because unfortunately.

• 43:34Brooke Averick?

  We, I think we have to lower our standards and men have really high standards.

• 43:38Connor Wood?

  Wow.

• 43:40Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. Can you believe?

• 43:43Connor Wood?

  No.

• 43:45Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 43:46Connor Wood?

  You have to lower your standards.

• 43:48Brooke Averick?

  Larry David like based George off of him. So I'm sure. He was like, let's give him all the gorgeous women.

• 43:56Connor Wood?

  Larry David based George off of him? Larry?

• 44:00Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 44:01Connor Wood?

  Like a?

• 44:02Brooke Averick?

  That's like Larry David.

• 44:04Connor Wood?

  Who is Jerry?

• 44:06Brooke Averick?

  Jerry.

• 44:08Connor Wood?

  Oh, oh my God, cuz his name's Jerry Seinfeld.

• 44:13Brooke Averick?

  Connor, you're scaring the shit out of me, dude.

• 44:15Connor Wood?

  Wow. Why did I think that Jerry Seinfeld was supposed to be Larry David in that show?

• 44:20Brooke Averick?

  No, George is Larry David.

• 44:23Connor Wood?

  Why wasn't Larry just Larry?

• 44:25Brooke Averick?

  I don't think that uh he was an actor per se, but also Jerry isn't. So I'm honestly not really sure.

• 44:33Connor Wood?

  But also he made Curb Your Enthusiasm where he plays Larry David.

• 44:37Brooke Averick?

  I agree. Maybe he regretted towards the end of Seinfeld.

• 44:43Connor Wood?

  The success of Jerry Seinfeld and him being left in the dust like Judd Apatow vibes?

• 44:48Brooke Averick?

  Judd is left in the dust?

• 44:50Connor Wood?

  Well, Judd like tried to be an actor and then just found out that he really excelled in writing and directing and producing and everything and.

• 44:56Brooke Averick?

  You know that from his book, right?

• 44:58Connor Wood?

  Yeah. And all his friends, like he was roommates with Adam Sandler. And Adam Sandler like got this awesome acting gig. And he was trying to do acting for the longest time and then finally had to like give up.

• 45:07Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. But look at back to your earlier point about like the women that George can get, like, look at the women that Adam Sandler

• 45:18Brooke Averick?

  plays opposite of in his films.

• 45:20Connor Wood?

  I know.

• 45:20Brooke Averick?

  That's just the way the world works.

• 45:23Connor Wood?

  But he also is playing like a goofy like, I know.

• 45:26Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, that's the way the world works.

• 45:29Connor Wood?

  Yeah, goofy goofy man.

• 45:33Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 45:34Brooke Averick?

  Just.

• 45:34Connor Wood?

  We've, I mean, we've had.

• 45:35Brooke Averick?

  We'll just do Jennifer Aniston and Drew Barrymore for Adam.

• 45:41Connor Wood?

  Who do you think should play alongside Adam, Brooke?

• 45:46Brooke Averick?

  I mean, I unfortunately like I like, I like, like it, I like, like these films. I'm buying into it.

• 45:53Connor Wood?

  Wait, when is Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston?

• 45:56Brooke Averick?

  Just go with it. Right after he's with Brooklyn Decker.

• 46:00Connor Wood?

  Oh, right. Yeah.

• 46:01Brooke Averick?

  You know?

• 46:02Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 46:03Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. And I'm not saying, I'm not saying Adam Sandler is unattractive. I love, I love Adam S, but it's just like, obviously him and like Brooklyn Decker and Jennifer Aniston is like a different type of situation.

• 46:17Connor Wood?

  Maybe you, maybe for your next book, you write a rom com screenplay instead.

• 46:23Brooke Averick?

  No, maybe I write about an average looking girl that ends up with the hottest guy in the world.

• 46:34Brooke Averick?

  Because where do you see that?

• 46:35Connor Wood?

  It doesn't work for me.

• 46:37Brooke Averick?

  Where do you see that?

• 46:38Connor Wood?

  For me.

• 46:39Brooke Averick?

  Because we don't see it.

• 46:40Connor Wood?

  No.

• 46:41Brooke Averick?

  There's that formula hasn't been successful before.

• 46:46Brooke Averick?

  Which is so sad.

• 46:47Connor Wood?

  Is my misogyny showing? Lays my zipper down is my misogyny showing?

• 46:51Brooke Averick?

  Your misogyny just flopped out.

• 46:53Connor Wood?

  My misogyny is like sitting on the table right now because I

• 46:56Brooke Averick?

  You're sitting with your, sitting with your misogyny in your hand.

• 47:04Brooke Averick?

  Oops, your misogyny in your hand.

• 47:06Connor Wood?

  Oh my gosh, is that my misogyny or are you just excited to see me?

• 47:11Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 47:12Connor Wood?

  Oh my heavens, this misogyny. I literally can't even wrap my head around a rom com that, that focuses on like a five and a 10 in terms of women and men.

• 47:25Brooke Averick?

  No, but that's the way it is reverse always. You can't think of one.

• 47:32Brooke Averick?

  I don't, I don't know if they exist.

• 47:34Connor Wood?

  I can think of one.

• 47:36Brooke Averick?

  But you don't want to say it?

• 47:38Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 47:39Brooke Averick?

  Just say it.

• 47:40Connor Wood?

  Because then I would be, no.

• 47:41Brooke Averick?

  Because it might be okay.

• 47:42Connor Wood?

  No, let me think on it a little bit.

• 47:46Connor Wood?

  Let me think on, let me put on my big boy misogyny and then I'll get back to you.

• 47:50Brooke Averick?

  Okay.

• 47:53Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 47:53Brooke Averick?

  But maybe that will be my next book.

• 47:56Connor Wood?

  I think that that would, that would bode well with, with the economy.

• 48:01Brooke Averick?

  Something bad has happened to me in the writing process.

• 48:07Brooke Averick?

  Uh, I created a character

• 48:11Brooke Averick?

  that I am so addicted to.

• 48:16Brooke Averick?

  Like a fictional character that I've fallen in love with them before. I'll do it again. But it's been different falling in love with one that I've created. Because I can literally just like make him do whatever I want. I have complete control over the narrative. And I feel like it's like a Frankenstein in his monster situation. I feel like I'm Frankenstein, like an evil, like scientist. And I've created something so powerful that it will destroy me.

• 48:47Brooke Averick?

  I feel like I'm being destroyed.

• 48:50Connor Wood?

  Being destroyed by your own character?

• 48:52Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, cuz I'm too addicted to the character that I that came out of my own head. I think he's been sitting dormant within me for a real long time and he just busted out onto the page. And now he might ruin my life and he's not real. He's just in my head, which is scary.

• 49:14Connor Wood?

  Have you talked to your therapist about that?

• 49:17Brooke Averick?

  No, why?

• 49:18Connor Wood?

  I'm just curious to see like what they would say.

• 49:21Brooke Averick?

  Um, I've definitely talked to therapists before about the celebrity thing. My mom actually forced me to go um, once Blaine became a character on Glee, Darren Chris. Once he entered the Glee zeitgeist and he formed a relationship with Kurt, I had lost uh, touch with reality a bit. And then my my mom came to a new therapist with me to explain the situation. I remember sitting next to her and her talking about Kurt and Blaine.

• 49:54Brooke Averick?

  To the therapist.

• 49:56Connor Wood?

  Oh, good.

• 49:58Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, but it's been 14 years since to the day almost since Darren appeared on Glee. So I have, I've been insane for 14 years. Well, I guess before that too, but this particular type. 14 years now, going strong. Happy anniversary.

• 50:13Connor Wood?

  Yeah, truly.

• 50:15Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. So yeah, to answer your question, I have spoken about this specific type. Type of um, mental with therapist. I haven't spoken about the Frankenstein mons Frankenstein's monster yet.

• 50:31Connor Wood?

  I'm curious to hear like you need to update us, okay?

• 50:34Brooke Averick?

  I'm not, I'm currently not in therapy.

• 50:38Connor Wood?

  Oh.

• 50:40Brooke Averick?

  That doesn't sit right with you?

• 50:42Connor Wood?

  No, you've just always been in therapy.

• 50:45Brooke Averick?

  Well, I had, yeah, I had um,

• 50:50Brooke Averick?

  that life coach or the emotional intelligence coach recently who I ghosted, who's very, very hurt.

• 50:57Brooke Averick?

  By that.

• 50:57Connor Wood?

  You ghost?

• 50:59Brooke Averick?

  Um, I didn't feel like it was doing anything.

• 51:03Brooke Averick?

  So.

• 51:06Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 51:08Brooke Averick?

  I had to go. I had to go.

• 51:12Connor Wood?

  That's okay. Sometimes I feel like that's totally fine. How do you know that their feelings are hurt if you go sit?

• 51:16Brooke Averick?

  Blowing up my phone.

• 51:19Connor Wood?

  I. I'm so wary about who listens to the podcast now, so I'm just, we just need to like.

• 51:25Brooke Averick?

  I don't think the emotional intelligence coaches.

• 51:28Connor Wood?

  I never know. My.

• 51:31Brooke Averick?

  I really, really don't think so.

• 51:33Connor Wood?

  My phone, the only notifications that I get anymore are that they keep seeing coyotes outside of my house. And, um, different places to get cookies and cream milkshakes near me on Reddit. Like, I don't know who signed me up, those messages, and then I'm still getting spam texts. Do you know I just got a spam text from a store I shopped in one time online? One time they said, I can't believe what you did this weekend, dot, dot, dot. And then that's all I saw.

• 52:03Brooke Averick?

  Text them, stop.

• 52:06Connor Wood?

  I know.

• 52:06Brooke Averick?

  I'm always texting, stop.

• 52:08Connor Wood?

  I'm so burdened by the weight of a simple task, like texting it, stop.

• 52:14Brooke Averick?

  Oh, I love texting, stop.

• 52:16Connor Wood?

  I'd rather complain for ten minutes on the podcast.

• 52:21Brooke Averick?

  Wait, do you remember last week in the bonus, I told you my dream?

• 52:24Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 52:24Brooke Averick?

  About, um, you guys surprising me with MGG?

• 52:28Connor Wood?

  Oh, yeah.

• 52:29Brooke Averick?

  Uh, that was, uh, do you think that was a manifestation of you running into him?

• 52:33Connor Wood?

  Do you think?

• 52:33Brooke Averick?

  Again. Yeah, I do.

• 52:35Connor Wood?

  It's also funny because it's like so not even near the last place I saw, but it was completely different.

• 52:40Brooke Averick?

  People go different places sometimes.

• 52:42Connor Wood?

  I know, I always forget that.

• 52:44Brooke Averick?

  You were in a different place, too.

• 52:45Connor Wood?

  I alw- I always feel like very different place, too. I always feel like people that I, like, especially like famous people are.

• 52:53Brooke Averick?

  Oh, okay.

• 52:54Connor Wood?

  Are like, are like Sims that are, that are like in their little neighborhood and like they, like I go walk over there and they'll be there. If you, did you ever play The Sims?

• 53:01Brooke Averick?

  No, I never did.

• 53:03Connor Wood?

  The Sims was so addicting for no reason, but it was like, I'm gonna go over here and talk to Daddy Warbox. Um, and The Sims is so interesting because The Sims was just like, you make your own world, which like, I want to talk to other people that played The Sims and see like why people were so addicted to like, living genuinely, it was just like life, like you're just.

• 53:25Connor Wood?

  You're just like, living. Like, you could do that.

• 53:28Brooke Averick?

  It's life, but better.

• 53:31Connor Wood?

  But it's like, kind of monotonous. It's like, you need to still go to the bathroom in the video game.

• 53:36Connor Wood?

  It's like, I don't, why, you could have taken that part out of this game.

• 53:39Brooke Averick?

  But can't you like, make the Sims have sex with each other and stuff?

• 53:42Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 53:43Brooke Averick?

  So that's probably why people were playing.

• 53:45Connor Wood?

  Yeah, but they just go into like, a cloud of dust, and then they come out and one's pregnant.

• 53:50Brooke Averick?

  I'm sure, that sounds fun to me.

• 53:53Connor Wood?

  But it's not even like, it's not even like, something you could do for pleasure. It's like, they're in a cloud of dust.

• 53:58Brooke Averick?

  You just like, it's implied.

• 54:00Connor Wood?

  Okay, so for the same reason, why were people making their Sims drowned or die in a fire?

• 54:06Brooke Averick?

  They, those are probably serial killers, almost.

• 54:12Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 54:14Brooke Averick?

  I didn't know people did that.

• 54:15Connor Wood?

  Yeah, everybody did that.

• 54:17Brooke Averick?

  Oh, that's really scary.

• 54:18Connor Wood?

  Yeah, and you could also make it pee its pants.

• 54:21Brooke Averick?

  Oh, that's horrible!

• 54:22Connor Wood?

  I know. Like, a part of me, remember when I was like, all the things you create in AI, all those messed up AI images are like, in another universe, they're like, alive, and just like, miserable. I like, I feel like, another universe, like your Sims, that is peeing its pants, like, is somewhere like, with a wet pair of jeans, now that you did that. Like, you should feel disgusted with yourself.

• 54:43Brooke Averick?

  That's making me very sad.

• 54:45Connor Wood?

  I know, how sick in the head is that?

• 54:47Brooke Averick?

  Very.

• 54:48Connor Wood?

  I know.

• 54:49Brooke Averick?

  Did you make your Sim pee his pants?

• 54:51Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 54:53Brooke Averick?

  That's really sad.

• 54:55Connor Wood?

  I know, but it was kind of like, when you were in school.

• 54:56Brooke Averick?

  I'd like to think I really, truly would not have done that.

• 55:00Connor Wood?

  It's kind of like, when you were in school, and you are playing like, a game, you know, with the teacher, and you were like, can we just see what happens when you get one wrong?

• 55:09Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, that's, yeah, it's, it's like, impulsive. But, then why, did you make your guy pee his pants repeatedly?

• 55:17Connor Wood?

  For what?

• 55:17Brooke Averick?

  Did you make him pee his pants more than once?

• 55:21Connor Wood?

  Whoa, I thought you said for pee-didly. I was like, what?

• 55:26Connor Wood?

  You sick freak. What did you just say?

• 55:28Brooke Averick?

  Pee diddly?

• 55:30Connor Wood?

  Pee diddly. I was like, what is that? Little concoction you just made up? Um, I don't know. I do know that I have done that. Like, I seriously feel like I'm gonna get in trouble for like some, somebody that like is on a Sims like help team is gonna be like, are you admitted?

• 55:51Brooke Averick?

  Pee'd up for Sims?

• 55:52Connor Wood?

  Yeah, you know, like you made your Sims pee its pants. Like, by the way, I don't remember myself doing that, but I do know that people did that. Like, I'm sure that like,

• 56:01Connor Wood?

  it's also kind of hard because like there's other characters, like you need to take care of more than one person and you, you like, don't, I can't remember. I can, I hate getting up to pee. Sometimes I wish that someone could pee for me, you know? So like, God forbid, I didn't get everybody to the bathroom on time. That was hard.

• 56:17Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. I, I was more, I was busy with my Tamagotchis.

• 56:21Connor Wood?

  Tamagotchis were just like not realistic enough for me.

• 56:24Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. See, I loved, I needed more like fantasy.

• 56:28Connor Wood?

  Did you do Neopets?

• 56:29Brooke Averick?

  No.

• 56:30Connor Wood?

  Oh, so.

• 56:31Brooke Averick?

  I did Tamagotchis, Webkins, and Club Penguin.

• 56:37Brooke Averick?

  All with no moderation.

• 56:39Connor Wood?

  So were you making your Club Penguins?

• 56:42Connor Wood?

  Go to Plowtown?

• 56:43Brooke Averick?

  No, but you know, I was Lady Ephron on Club Penguin.

• 56:46Connor Wood?

  That's funny.

• 56:46Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 56:49Connor Wood?

  Oh, my gosh. There's coyotes in my neighborhood again.

• 56:53Brooke Averick?

  Who was texting you that?

• 56:54Connor Wood?

  Citizen app. Do you not have the Citizen app?

• 56:56Brooke Averick?

  No, I don't.

• 56:58Connor Wood?

  I downloaded it when Max got out, like escaped. And, um, I've had it ever since. It is the number one way I get local news. It's actually insane how much like I know now about places that I visit.

• 57:15Brooke Averick?

  I almost don't want to know.

• 57:17Connor Wood?

  No, you don't want to know how many sexual offenders live right next door to you, by the way.

• 57:22Brooke Averick?

  I can just, yeah, assume.

• 57:25Connor Wood?

  My thing will be like, hey, there's two sexual deviants that live 800 feet away from you.

• 57:32Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 57:33Connor Wood?

  I'm like, what? How far is 800 feet? Like, that's across the street, right?

• 57:39Brooke Averick?

  That's, no, I think that's in your apartment.

• 57:45Connor Wood?

  Well.

• 57:48Brooke Averick?

  What have you been playing with this whole episode?

• 57:51Connor Wood?

  Okay, it's stuck to the, it's magnets and it's blocks that like go in and out. It's legit a baby toy.

• 57:58Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 58:00Connor Wood?

  But it's sitting on his desk and it's, it comes off and then these are opposite magnets. I've already told you I love magnets.

• 58:06Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, no, if we know one thing about you. Um, my cat is broken.

• 58:12Connor Wood?

  Oh my gosh, I forgot about Jonathan.

• 58:14Brooke Averick?

  Are you serious?

• 58:16Connor Wood?

  Like when you said my cat, no, because if you don't say his name.

• 58:19Brooke Averick?

  Jonathan.

• 58:20Connor Wood?

  What?

• 58:21Brooke Averick?

  My Jonathan is broken.

• 58:23Connor Wood?

  Why?

• 58:24Brooke Averick?

  He's, oh, he's obviously perfect. Um, and he was such a good boy at the vet the other day. He's perfect, but he, um, the sucking on my neck got to be such a problem. I was literally like walking around with like, I'm so sorry, like it's disturbing, but like I had hickies all over my neck.

• 58:42Connor Wood?

  Wait, what?

• 58:44Brooke Averick?

  For my cat.

• 58:47Brooke Averick?

  He was, because he was biting and sucking, waking me up every hour. I, there was nothing I could do. I would try to pull the covers over my head. He would go to the bottom of the bed, find a way to, an access point, an entry point from the bottom of the bed and he's just like biting. He's like nursing. So now I'm going to order a neck brace.

• 59:08Connor Wood?

  Um.

• 59:08Brooke Averick?

  So last night I slept with a blanket wrapped around my neck because the vet said that, um, a lot of cats like to suck on blankets. So I was trying to put the blanket in the place where he gravitates towards and the past few nights he's been sucking on my cheeks and my forehead.

• 59:26Connor Wood?

  Who am I?

• 59:27Brooke Averick?

  Jonathan.

• 59:27Connor Wood?

  Let me, let me kiss your neck. Come here.

• 59:31Brooke Averick?

  He's vi, he's like, it's literally like violent almost. He like has to get, he has to get to it. And it's every hour I haven't slept in a month.

• 59:41Connor Wood?

  Like, I'm so sorry, Brooke. That's such a, such a huge issue for me and that's disgusting.

• 59:47Brooke Averick?

  It's really not like he's just like a kitten who needs

• 59:51Brooke Averick?

  that type of stimulation like it's either like teething or like nursing or whatever. But like it's not work. It's really not working for me.

• 59:59Connor Wood?

  It's so funny because I think a couple of episodes ago, I was like cats kind of creep me out because I feel like they're really sexual the way they rub on you and and they show you their buttholes all the time and they're like, oh, let me, let me get up next to your body and inch you. And I'm like, I've always been like a little bit like wary of cats. And now you're telling me that your cat gave you a hickey?

• 1:00:18Brooke Averick?

  No, not a hickey like my, I look, it was, I'm wearing so much concealer right now.

• 1:00:26Brooke Averick?

  It's so scary.

• 1:00:27Connor Wood?

  Like to the naked eye, if you didn't have a podcast with, by the way, we just talked about how many people listen to this. You would go to a coffee shop and someone's like, wow, this girl has like a bunch of little goblins that suck on her neck like who she's hooking up with a small, small.

• 1:00:41Brooke Averick?

  No, yeah, it looks like a, I'm straight out of like a romanticy, human ex goblin.

• 1:00:51Connor Wood?

  Like little twol, man, like lives in.

• 1:00:53Brooke Averick?

  Just like those are, they're love bites. They're love bites. But yeah, it's not good. He will not, he will not suck on anything else besides the skin from my neck and above.

• 1:01:06Connor Wood?

  We gotta, we gotta move away from this topic. I'm so sorry. Like, it's really like sending me to.

• 1:01:13Brooke Averick?

  Huge part of my life.

• 1:01:15Connor Wood?

  I know. It's just like, I can't. Like you keep saying sucking and it's really like throwing.

• 1:01:21Brooke Averick?

  Should I say nursing?

• 1:01:26Connor Wood?

  I don't know, man. I just.

• 1:01:29Brooke Averick?

  You're acting like I want this.

• 1:01:33Brooke Averick?

  I'm miserable.

• 1:01:34Connor Wood?

  It's not like, it's not like the cat is this, it's not a mountain lion that's sucking on.

• 1:01:38Brooke Averick?

  Connor, you don't know how ferocious he is.

• 1:01:41Connor Wood?

  Oh, oh my gosh, I'm sick.

• 1:01:44Brooke Averick?

  He's a baby.

• 1:01:45Connor Wood?

  Maybe get him like a nipple thing to suck on, not your nipple, but like get him something to suck on.

• 1:01:50Brooke Averick?

  He's got everything. I cover it in catnip.

• 1:01:55Connor Wood?

  Cover your neck in catnip and see if like maybe

• 1:01:57Brooke Averick?

  No.

• 1:01:58Connor Wood?

  Catnip that he doesn't.

• 1:01:59Brooke Averick?

  No.

• 1:02:01Connor Wood?

  What would happen if you wore?

• 1:02:02Brooke Averick?

  I'm getting a neck brace.

• 1:02:04Connor Wood?

  Okay.

• 1:02:04Brooke Averick?

  And a ski mask.

• 1:02:06Connor Wood?

  Ugh.

• 1:02:07Brooke Averick?

  To sleep in.

• 1:02:08Connor Wood?

  Oh, my gosh. Is it just your neck? Has he tried on anyone else?

• 1:02:12Brooke Averick?

  My neck and now my face because I've been covering my neck with a blanket. So like my, the corner of my eyes, like it's the, it's like sick. I obviously that's my son and like, I have never felt this type of love, but yeah, he's going, he's definitely going through something and the vet said it should stop within a year.

• 1:02:36Connor Wood?

  Oh.

• 1:02:37Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 1:02:38Connor Wood?

  Nope.

• 1:02:40Brooke Averick?

  Mm hmm.

• 1:02:42Connor Wood?

  I'm sick to my stomach about Max. Like it literally is just like, I haven't seen him in so long. Like, I'm sure my parents are gonna try to steal him from me still, so.

• 1:02:51Connor Wood?

  I just like freaked out.

• 1:02:53Brooke Averick?

  You freaked out or you are, you are freaked out?

• 1:02:55Connor Wood?

  I am freaked out. I am freaked out because they're just like, oh yeah, like we got him a new bed. And I'm like, well, don't, don't invest in him. He has a good bed.

• 1:03:04Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, Mimi wants some bad too.

• 1:03:06Connor Wood?

  Yeah, she just called me while we were recording. Um, also, um, I am almost on my tour.

• 1:03:14Brooke Averick?

  What's left?

• 1:03:16Connor Wood?

  Indianapolis and St. Louis.

• 1:03:19Brooke Averick?

  Oh, my God. Guess who's in Indianapolis?

• 1:03:22Connor Wood?

  Who?

• 1:03:24Brooke Averick?

  Gabby A.

• 1:03:25Connor Wood?

  Oh, no way. Why? Is that where she goes to college?

• 1:03:28Brooke Averick?

  That's where she goes to school.

• 1:03:29Connor Wood?

  Oh, I didn't even know you. Yeah, she should come.

• 1:03:32Brooke Averick?

  Should go to.

• 1:03:34Connor Wood?

  Go to Connor's. Show on Wednesday.

• 1:03:39Brooke Averick?

  On Wednesday.

• 1:03:41Connor Wood?

  On Wednesday. Um, I'm so excited because I feel like the, the shows that I was really nervous for were, um, New York and they went so well. And now I'm just like, now we can just have fun, you guys.

• 1:03:51Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 1:03:52Connor Wood?

  So much fun. And then it's London and Dublin.

• 1:03:57Brooke Averick?

  When is that?

• 1:03:58Connor Wood?

  I leave next Tuesday.

• 1:04:03Brooke Averick?

  Whoa.

• 1:04:04Connor Wood?

  When, just kidding, Wednesday.

• 1:04:07Brooke Averick?

  Okay.

• 1:04:08Connor Wood?

  Is he stepping in? Yes, is he, is he knows my, my dates better than I do. Um, and luckily I made all these plans and then my parents bailed, so I don't think my parents are coming anymore.

• 1:04:19Brooke Averick?

  Seriously?

• 1:04:20Connor Wood?

  Yes, so that'll be a fun solo travel experience for me to spend Thanksgiving alone in a pub in Ireland.

• 1:04:28Brooke Averick?

  Well, at least they don't celebrate Thanksgiving there.

• 1:04:31Connor Wood?

  That'll be perfect because it'll truly be like American abroad alone on Thanksgiving, like Brooke, write that, write that rom-com. Except that would imply that I'm a gorgeous man. Hang on.

• 1:04:47Brooke Averick?

  You are.

• 1:04:49Connor Wood?

  No, just like, but, but you, we need, we need a Jennifer Aniston, Aniston.

• 1:04:55Brooke Averick?

  You want me to write you in a book with Jennifer Aniston?

• 1:04:58Connor Wood?

  No, I need the male version of a Jennifer Aniston.

• 1:05:01Brooke Averick?

  Oh, okay, understood.

• 1:05:02Connor Wood?

  Studying abroad, studying.

• 1:05:03Brooke Averick?

  Like Jacob Elordi studying abroad?

• 1:05:05Connor Wood?

  Yeah. It's gotta be Jacob.

• 1:05:08Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. I could play opposite him.

• 1:05:11Connor Wood?

  Yes.

• 1:05:12Brooke Averick?

  Oh, really?

• 1:05:13Connor Wood?

  Sorry.

• 1:05:14Brooke Averick?

  Really, Connor?

• 1:05:15Connor Wood?

  I'm sorry. No, I did, I honestly would just like to see the height difference because the last time you two were in a room together, I looked at you like I was cross-eyed, so.

• 1:05:23Brooke Averick?

  Oh, that was. Oh, I, I have to redeem myself with that young man. Unfortunately, he's too famous now.

• 1:05:30Connor Wood?

  I know, we, we, we.

• 1:05:31Brooke Averick?

  Lost him.

• 1:05:32Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 1:05:33Brooke Averick?

  We lost him. All right, man. You ready to head over to the bonus?

• 1:05:38Connor Wood?

  All right, woman. Yeah, I would love, all right, woman. Yeah, I'll see you in the bonus.

• 1:05:42Brooke Averick?

  Okay, love.

• 1:05:43Connor Wood?

  Love you guys.

• 1:05:44Brooke Averick?

  See you in the bonus.

• 1:05:45Connor Wood?

  Thanks for listening, seeing the bonus. Please come over. Please subscribe to our YouTube channel.

• 1:05:49Brooke Averick?

  Please do. There's a, um, there's a video coming out next Tuesday on the YouTube channel.

• 1:05:55Connor Wood?

  Yes. Oh, good thinking, Brooklyn. Yeah. Um, there's a video coming out next Tuesday on the YouTube channel and it's really fun.

• 1:06:03Brooke Averick?

  This is a thing we've been teasing for like eight months.

• 1:06:06Connor Wood?

  It's been done and it's been completed as well as finished, so we are ready for, we are so ready for it.

• 1:06:13Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 1:06:13Connor Wood?

  It's, it's so fun and it's so different.

• 1:06:15Brooke Averick?

  I still have my acrylics on in that.

• 1:06:18Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 1:06:18Brooke Averick?

  In that video.

• 1:06:20Connor Wood?

  I wore blue light, light glasses.

• 1:06:24Brooke Averick?

  Eee.

• 1:06:26Connor Wood?

  All right, you guys.

• 1:06:27Brooke Averick?

  All right, we'll see ya.

• 1:06:28Connor Wood?

  Soon. Bye.

• 1:06:29Brooke Averick?

  My bagel's probably here.

• 1:06:34Brooke Averick?

  This week on Close Friends. You know who I'm obsessed with looking at? Michelle Yeoh.

• 1:06:39Connor Wood?

  Do you want to suck on her neck?

• 1:06:40Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 1:06:41Connor Wood?

  I am not having one more cocktail this trip, this, this trip around the sun.

• 1:06:46Brooke Averick?

  Me neither.

• 1:06:47Connor Wood?

  God has a plan.

• 1:06:48Brooke Averick?

  That ain't that the truth.

• 1:06:49Connor Wood?

  And yours didn't include orangutan. Diet culture is, is eating me alive.

• 1:06:54Brooke Averick?

  Get your mind out of the gutter.

• 1:06:56Connor Wood?

  Kind of bananas. Sign up on TMGstudios.tv to watch a full bonus episode.

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