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• 0:02Speaker 00

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• 1:10Connor Wood?

  A Bengal hates to see this one coming.

• 1:11Brooke Averick?

  Yup. Okay.

• 1:15Brooke Averick?

  Okay.

• 1:16Connor Wood?

  I guess we'll just say, hey, welcome back to Brooke and Connor Make a Podcast. That's always a good place to start.

• 1:20Brooke Averick?

  Okay.

• 1:21Connor Wood?

  You know?

• 1:22Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 1:22Connor Wood?

  So hey, Brooke. Hey, Brooke.

• 1:23Brooke Averick?

  Hey, Connor.

• 1:24Connor Wood?

  I like your shoes.

• 1:25Brooke Averick?

  Thank you. They came with these, um, laces.

• 1:28Connor Wood?

  That's sweet.

• 1:29Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 1:29Connor Wood?

  I have two pairs of those Aloha's.

• 1:31Brooke Averick?

  I thought that it was just something that the website was doing to be quirky. But when I received them, they were two different color laces.

• 1:38Connor Wood?

  That's fun.

• 1:39Brooke Averick?

  And I like it.

• 1:39Connor Wood?

  I like it too.

• 1:40Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 1:40Connor Wood?

  It's very cool.

• 1:41Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. How are you doing, my sweet, precious tiny dancer?

• 1:45Connor Wood?

  Good. It's so good. Fall kind of ca...

• 1:48Brooke Averick?

  No.

• 1:51Connor Wood?

  Fall's here.

• 1:53Brooke Averick?

  Do not cry.

• 1:54Connor Wood?

  I'm not gonna cry. Fall is here, though.

• 1:56Brooke Averick?

  That's fabulous. It doesn't necessarily feel like it in Los Angeles.

• 2:01Connor Wood?

  Mm-hmm.

• 2:02Brooke Averick?

  Cause it's hot. What'd you do this week?

• 2:05Connor Wood?

  I didn't do much. I, um, I've been watching a lot of TV. I don't remember how to do this.

• 2:10Brooke Averick?

  It's hard, cause it's like, we know what we need to talk about.

• 2:13Connor Wood?

  I know.

• 2:13Brooke Averick?

  But it's like, how do we get?

• 2:14Connor Wood?

  Yeah, okay, whatever. We'll just do it.

• 2:15Brooke Averick?

  I think just like, you can just start. Or do you want, maybe I can say something?

• 2:20Connor Wood?

  Yeah, you start.

• 2:21Brooke Averick?

  Um, I didn't make it... Dancing with the Stars was on last night.

• 2:25Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 2:25Brooke Averick?

  Which is one of my favorite shows.

• 2:27Connor Wood?

  Oh, I missed it.

• 2:27Brooke Averick?

  You may have heard of it. You may have heard of it? Um, it's on ABC. 8:00 PM EST, as well as 8:00 PM PST.

• 2:34Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 2:35Brooke Averick?

  Not to be confused with them coming out at the same time.

• 2:38Connor Wood?

  Very funky.

• 2:38Brooke Averick?

  Cause why would they? Um, you know, one of my friends is on the show.

• 2:44Connor Wood?

  Mm-hmm.

• 2:44Brooke Averick?

  And I... He's a good friend of mine. And he did amazing.

• 2:50Connor Wood?

  Well.

• 2:50Brooke Averick?

  And I want him to know that genuinely, and I'm not blowing smoke up his ass because he's a partner of mine. Like, that was a good dance.

• 3:01Connor Wood?

  Thanks.

• 3:04Brooke Averick?

  You are getting choreography that is really challenging.

• 3:08Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 3:08Brooke Averick?

  Because you can do it, because you can move your body in a certain way that is exceptional.

• 3:14Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 3:15Brooke Averick?

  And

• 3:18Brooke Averick?

  you're being held to a really high standard because of how you can move your body in that fabulous way.

• 3:23Connor Wood?

  Thanks.

• 3:24Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 3:24Connor Wood?

  Um, love to move. Yeah, I know. Before we even like, do any of this, like...

• 3:29Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 3:30Connor Wood?

  I feel good.

• 3:30Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, you should.

• 3:31Connor Wood?

  About the show. Like, I feel good.

• 3:32Brooke Averick?

  You should.

• 3:32Connor Wood?

  I posted a lot of stuff last night. I called you, or, no, I called Logan. Um...

• 3:38Brooke Averick?

  I wish Connor would've called me.

• 3:40Connor Wood?

  It was, it was, we stayed after the show yesterday, like, pretty late. Until like 10:00 PM. We were there doing press and stuff. Um, yeah, it was like, it was like a very fun dance. It was a very different dance. You guys... And I also wanna get ahead of it, cause there's like, a lot of stuff. It feels like I am in a different world than the show people are watching, you know? Then, cause I'm like, doing it, and then I see all these things, and it's different, but like...

• 4:06Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, what are you seeing?

• 4:07Connor Wood?

  So I don't watch the, I can't watch the show after, cause it's like genuine PTSD vibes. Um, but two things have come across my desk. One, obviously, everyone sees the TV version, which is the camera version. Um, so they see a different show than what the judges see.

• 4:24Brooke Averick?

  Right.

• 4:24Connor Wood?

  The judges, like, you guys, we can't get mad at the judges. The judges are there and they're sitting at an elevated space, where they can see every step. So, the score's coming in. The show's been around for 25 years. I promise, there's some method to the madness. You know, like, I guess they got, they were booed after my scores were received.

• 4:43Brooke Averick?

  It's not even like a...

• 4:46Brooke Averick?

  Do you mind if I speak if someone's watching?

• 4:47Connor Wood?

  Please. I didn't see the show.

• 4:48Brooke Averick?

  And I know, and I know the judges are your buddies. And, and I like, I definitely like a few of them.

• 4:54Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 4:54Brooke Averick?

  Definitely like a few of them.

• 4:55Connor Wood?

  There's only three.

• 4:56Brooke Averick?

  Definitely like a few of them. Um... Your, whatever, the scores are one thing.

• 5:02Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 5:02Brooke Averick?

  Like, I just like, they're so hard on you, in a way that it's because they know how good you are, and like, they can be hard on you. And they don't, like, feel bad for you in any way. But, um, I, I was like, pretty... Can I, do you mind if I say that I was?

• 5:22Connor Wood?

  You can say...

• 5:23Brooke Averick?

  What can I, can I say how I felt?

• 5:24Connor Wood?

  You are pre-ren.

• 5:25Brooke Averick?

  I was really upset with Carrie Anne. Saying, saying, "That's a shame." I stood up and I, and I said, "Booed." That's a, that's a mean thing to say. You, for the first words to come out of your mouth, "What a shame." No, thank you.

• 5:40Connor Wood?

  I'm like, always curious.

• 5:42Brooke Averick?

  If I got, if I got out on stage,

• 5:45Connor Wood?

  How does that make you laugh?

• 5:46Brooke Averick?

  Performed my heart out, and the first words were, "What a shame."

• 5:50Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 5:52Brooke Averick?

  I, I mean, I, you know what? I would've...

• 5:54Connor Wood?

  I wanna, I wanna raise you this.

• 5:55Brooke Averick?

  Yeah?

• 5:57Connor Wood?

  Before I received, "What a shame," feedback, first words, first person I look, look at, eye contact, Miranda Cosgrove. Second, second person...

• 6:04Brooke Averick?

  She was pretty front and center.

• 6:05Connor Wood?

  Second person that I'm looking at while I say I'm gonna throw up, Snooki.

• 6:08Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 6:08Connor Wood?

  If you can imagine like, that's like, I took melatonin and fell asleep during the day.

• 6:12Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 6:13Connor Wood?

  That's like, the experience I was feeling.

• 6:15Brooke Averick?

  That is like, nightmare. Like, I'm on Dancing with the Stars, "What a shame." Miranda Cosgrove, Snooki.

• 6:21Connor Wood?

  Miranda Cosgrove. I do cuss a little.

• 6:23Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 6:23Connor Wood?

  That's like, what I was hearing in the back. Yeah. It wa, you know what?

• 6:27Brooke Averick?

  I didn't fuck with that.

• 6:28Connor Wood?

  It was a shame because...

• 6:31Brooke Averick?

  You can say that.

• 6:32Connor Wood?

  Yeah, it was a shame.

• 6:33Brooke Averick?

  You can say it. Carrie Anne can.

• 6:34Connor Wood?

  It was a really good dance. I know the whole dance. Two things, two, two, two things really quick. One, I'm getting a lot of the feedback. It's like, "Keep your head up, buddy." Which is very much feeling like, someone that's my age that I work with, calling me butt. Like, I'm okay. We work really hard. I'm naturally bummed because we put hours and hours and hours of practice into it. And then I do a dumb misstep that happened in my head. I'm gonna be upset about

• 7:00Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, of course.

• 7:01Connor Wood?

  not nailing the thing that we've been working on.

• 7:03Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 7:03Connor Wood?

  Like, that is natural. I'm not gonna friggin' kill myself over it.

• 7:07Brooke Averick?

  You recovered really well.

• 7:08Connor Wood?

  Yeah. I knew the dance.

• 7:09Brooke Averick?

  You knew the dance.

• 7:09Connor Wood?

  Luckily, yeah. Um... But there's a, there was a lot of, like, online discourse about like, "This season is so weird. Everyone's so stressed and no one's having fun."

• 7:23Connor Wood?

  That's a, it's a competition, it's a sport competition show. If everyone's hysterically laughing after the show, there would be like, no one's taking this seriously.

• 7:31Brooke Averick?

  I think everyone's having a good time.

• 7:33Connor Wood?

  I'm having a blast up there. I have a ton, I have a ton of fun with the press.

• 7:38Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, you do. You work, you know how to work the camera. My dad said, "You're a showman."

• 7:42Connor Wood?

  Brooke's, Brooke's father's here, Brett.

• 7:44Brooke Averick?

  My dad, my dad's looking at us right now. That's why I wasn't there last night, cause, cause we're doing some, some father-daughter time. Dad fixed my curtains, so thank you.

• 7:52Connor Wood?

  Oh my gosh. That's awesome.

• 7:53Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. Um, but it's just like this, this, the judging.

• 7:59Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 7:59Brooke Averick?

  And like, it's not even the scores that I'm upset about. It's the way that different people are like, being treated that's like, ruffling my feathers.

• 8:08Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 8:08Brooke Averick?

  And it's like, I know why, in my heart. It's like, because they know you're, you have the potential to make it to the top, and they're being hard on you, but like, be nicer to my friend.

• 8:17Connor Wood?

  Yeah. I, for the first time, I'm not...

• 8:20Brooke Averick?

  He's, it's his first time dancing too.

• 8:21Connor Wood?

  I am genuinely...

• 8:22Brooke Averick?

  It's your first time dancing. That's what's crazy. I think they've forgotten that like, you have zero experience. Zero. Like, the fact that you're doing what you're doing with zero experience is unheard of. And they're so hard on you, for what?

• 8:37Connor Wood?

  I, I'm not taking, it's so weird.

• 8:38Brooke Averick?

  I have...

• 8:39Connor Wood?

  You know how like, if, if someone responds to me, and they're like,

• 8:43Connor Wood?

  they're in their car or something, and they're like, in a meeting, and I get a response, it's like, very short. And I'm like, "They hate me, and I thought we were close friends," whatever. And I take that so personally. I make up a backstory about how this person hates me, and and now I'm, I have malice towards him. And that's all made up, and I've taken something personally, completely out of context. I don't want taking the judges' very direct, almost, a little hurtful feedback personally at all.

• 9:07Brooke Averick?

  Oh, I am.

• 9:07Connor Wood?

  That's fine. That makes sense. No, I don't take it personally. I feel good. We're in a really good spot. And what's, what's cool, like, unfortunately, like,

• 9:18Connor Wood?

  the storyline's amazing. Everyone loves a storyline, you know? To be on the receiving end of a storyline is like, not awesome, you know? But, down here, you know, and then to come back, I think Ciara was a really good example of that last week, where she came in and they, they were pretty harsh on her, and then she came in and was like, "Ciara Miller is in the building, baby." You know, like, I, like, that's a cool thing to have. There's ebbs and flows.

• 9:45Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, it will feel really good next week when you like, nail it, and...

• 9:49Connor Wood?

  How boring would it be if I was, I was, right, just like, doing okay the whole show? Oh, yeah.

• 9:54Brooke Averick?

  I, you...

• 9:55Connor Wood?

  Decent dance.

• 9:56Brooke Averick?

  I, like, I have no qualms with you and your story arc.

• 10:00Connor Wood?

  I think, I think that this will be a fun.

• 10:01Brooke Averick?

  It will. And you're amazing and perfect, and like, one of my, like, closest friends.

• 10:08Connor Wood?

  I am like, I'm having like, a...

• 10:13Connor Wood?

  Clarity moments after I post like, ah, like, I'm trying to be like earnest and like give people behind the scenes thoughts before they go away.

• 10:20Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 10:21Connor Wood?

  And I'm using the internet as my journal. I have never felt more like, the thing that we always say when, sorry, I'm very stupid. Hey, you are not. You, don't say that about my friend. I'm like, you guys, I'm okay.

• 10:32Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 10:33Connor Wood?

  I'm gonna be, the girl that's gonna be okay.

• 10:34Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, you are, you are.

• 10:36Connor Wood?

  I practiced right after this.

• 10:38Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 10:38Connor Wood?

  For next week.

• 10:39Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, I'm so excited for next week.

• 10:42Connor Wood?

  It's a really weird thing to do this dance and then go out and like,

• 10:46Connor Wood?

  sorry, fuck it up, you know, like in the,

• 10:48Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 10:48Connor Wood?

  And I'll, to have, to be in the headspace that we were in, basically, like, the part that I messed up, I was very, very aware. And I had messed it up previously, like, not like crazy. Remember last week, I was like,

• 11:01Connor Wood?

  last week, genuinely, I told you, it was as if I had been dropped off on the beaches of Normandy.

• 11:05Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 11:06Connor Wood?

  In terms of heart, pit, heart rate. This week, I was totally cool. I was at ease. I was like, okay, I'm messing this up, this up. The ballroom floor ends, you know? And if you step off the bar, ballroom floor, I think you get seriously.

• 11:20Brooke Averick?

  Disqualified?

• 11:21Connor Wood?

  Yeah, I think you might get disqualified. I think. I don't know. I don't know how, you know? But there's cameras there and we were flying towards these cameras. And so every time I'd be in my head, I'm like, we have to stop, we're gonna hit the cameras. So that's what you see there. When I, when I misstepped, we were barreling at these cameras. And I missed the one step and then I tried to catch up. Luckily, I knew when we had to get back on.

• 11:42Connor Wood?

  Anyways.

• 11:44Brooke Averick?

  Did you know that a few seasons ago, the guy from Coda was on Dancing with the Stars? And he's deaf and he can't hear the beats?

• 11:53Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 11:53Brooke Averick?

  Can you imagine that?

• 11:54Connor Wood?

  No.

• 11:55Brooke Averick?

  That feels pretty impossible. I guess you can feel the vibrations, but like, still, to me, that feels like, like, an impossible feat.

• 12:05Connor Wood?

  Yeah. It's crazy what people can do.

• 12:08Brooke Averick?

  It is what the human spirit is capable of.

• 12:10Connor Wood?

  Truly. Yeah.

• 12:14Brooke Averick?

  Well, I think you did amazing and, you know,

• 12:16Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 12:17Brooke Averick?

  You're my mirror ball champ.

• 12:18Connor Wood?

  Thanks.

• 12:19Brooke Averick?

  Forever.

• 12:20Connor Wood?

  It'll be a fun,

• 12:20Brooke Averick?

  I'm excited for next week.

• 12:22Connor Wood?

  It'll be a fun journey. I'm like, if people like, if nothing else, great TV, y'all.

• 12:28Brooke Averick?

  Oh, yeah.

• 12:29Connor Wood?

  Fun TV. That's what I, genuinely,

• 12:33Connor Wood?

  my apologies for like, taking the competition seriously. You guys know that I can't play fishbowl with my family anymore because it's not fun for anyone, right? I take it too seriously. We have retired fishbowl from my home because if you're doing, if you're acting out the Grinch, like, why are you on your tiptoes? You know, like, that will piss me, you know, this is the same thing. I'm in a competition, I'm taking it seriously. There is going to be spikes, and there's going to be lulls emotionally. And there's gonna be excitement. I might over, I might over celebrate even if I do well next week.

• 13:08Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 13:09Connor Wood?

  However,

• 13:11Connor Wood?

  if next week,

• 13:14Connor Wood?

  if I mess up next week.

• 13:16Brooke Averick?

  There will be no,

• 13:17Connor Wood?

  Baby, there will be no next dance. Baby, you'll never find my body. It'll be far, it'll be gone.

• 13:22Brooke Averick?

  Can you tell us anything about next week?

• 13:24Connor Wood?

  I don't,

• 13:24Brooke Averick?

  There's an under lock and key.

• 13:26Connor Wood?

  It's yacht rock.

• 13:27Brooke Averick?

  Okay.

• 13:27Connor Wood?

  Um, which,

• 13:28Brooke Averick?

  Give me an example of yacht rock.

• 13:30Connor Wood?

  I want to tell you a bunch of examples of stuff that's like, very shocking to me.

• 13:33Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 13:34Connor Wood?

  There is an age gap where like, things are, we've now hit the age gap. I'm obviously like, on my phone, my whole feed now is obviously just videos, it is crazy, videos of me messing up and then videos of, um, people being like, like, talking about Dancing with the Stars and being like, is Dancing with the Stars popular again? Or am I at the age where I watch Dancing with the Stars?

• 13:57Brooke Averick?

  I think both.

• 13:58Connor Wood?

  I think it's a combo piece, but there's a younger audience that doesn't know what yacht rock is, and I'm feeling very confused by that.

• 14:04Brooke Averick?

  I kinda don't either.

• 14:05Connor Wood?

  Okay, it's basically like, I've always done this because like, you know, I love to be on a boat.

• 14:10Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 14:11Connor Wood?

  And I'm always, you know, like, kind of my ears perk up when I hear about someone's parents that have a boat, or maybe they, you know, they have a close friend with a boat, you know, I'm always looking for the person who owns the boat. And when I'm on a boat, I'm like, who, who can, who can I talk to about, who's the manager? I would like to speak to the manager of the boat. Um, because I want to get on OX, because I want to play Hall & Oates.

• 14:35Brooke Averick?

  There are yacht rock.

• 14:37Connor Wood?

  Yeah, it's like, kind of like,

• 14:40Connor Wood?

  let me think, Hall & Oates, some Fleetwood Mac, I would say, Lenny Kravitz would be yacht rock. Brett, you know yacht rock. Who, who else would be? Christopher Cross.

• 14:51Brooke Averick?

  Absolutely.

• 14:51Connor Wood?

  Um,

• 14:55Brooke Averick?

  Oh, Bob.

• 14:55Connor Wood?

  Welsh. Anyway, it's like, kind of just like,

• 15:00Brooke Averick?

  What yacht rock did you play, like, in the house, for example? None? You're not a yacht rock person? I actually listen to yacht rock in the sense that there's a few, there's like, um, a band that, Jimmy Buffett, I love him.

• 15:15Connor Wood?

  The Doobie Brothers.

• 15:16Brooke Averick?

  Oh, listen in the music, is that yacht rock?

• 15:19Connor Wood?

  Yeah, yes, I think so.

• 15:21Brooke Averick?

  There's a band that turns show tunes into yacht rock.

• 15:24Connor Wood?

  There you go.

• 15:25Brooke Averick?

  Which I like.

• 15:26Connor Wood?

  Like Bill Withers. Um, yes, Toto, I think would play. So anyways,

• 15:35Brooke Averick?

  Do you know your song?

• 15:36Connor Wood?

  I don't think I can say it yet.

• 15:37Brooke Averick?

  Okay.

• 15:37Connor Wood?

  Yeah, Hall & Oates, Kenny Loggins, Toto, Steely Dan.

• 15:40Brooke Averick?

  I like all these people.

• 15:42Connor Wood?

  Um, little bit of a fall off, younger audience is not like, getting what yacht rock is. There was a moment last night when we're sitting up there and I was like, oh my God, Snooki's here. And Riley was like, who's Snooki?

• 15:58Connor Wood?

  And then I said, oh.

• 16:00Brooke Averick?

  Ooh.

• 16:01Connor Wood?

  Okay. And then I looked and I said, oh my God, Miranda Cosgrove's here.

• 16:05Brooke Averick?

  No, stop.

• 16:06Connor Wood?

  From my, she goes, who's that? I go, from Mike Harley. She's like, what's I Harley?

• 16:09Brooke Averick?

  No, no, no, no, no.

• 16:12Brooke Averick?

  That's really, really, really scary.

• 16:14Connor Wood?

  It's all right. But it is crazy. There's like, a lot of, things are really happening.

• 16:19Brooke Averick?

  I honestly think Dancing, like, this season is bringing in a new generation.

• 16:22Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 16:23Brooke Averick?

  Because as we're so young, you have, we have a young fanbase. Um, I don't remember who else is on the show, but I'm sure that.

• 16:33Connor Wood?

  Ezra's just crushing too.

• 16:35Brooke Averick?

  Oh, I mean, the guys.

• 16:37Connor Wood?

  That's, I mean, like,

• 16:38Brooke Averick?

  I mean,

• 16:38Connor Wood?

  We knew, we knew.

• 16:39Brooke Averick?

  He's good.

• 16:40Connor Wood?

  I, I, I knew he was trouble when he walked in.

• 16:42Brooke Averick?

  When he walked in. I think I did too.

• 16:44Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 16:45Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 16:45Connor Wood?

  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 want to make our money work a little harder.

• 16:57Brooke 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.

• 17:06Connor 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.

• 17:16Brooke Averick?

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

• 17:20Connor 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.

• 17:30Brooke Averick?

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

• 17:36Connor 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.

• 17:46Brooke 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.

• 17:57Connor 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.

• 18:09Brooke Averick?

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• 18:39Connor Wood?

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• 19:23Connor Wood?

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• 19:57Connor Wood?

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• 20:24Brooke Averick?

  And you know who else is good, who they were hard on in the same way that they were hard on you? Julia Stiles. So that, like, to me, you two are like similar skills.

• 20:36Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 20:36Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 20:37Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 20:38Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 20:38Connor Wood?

  It's great.

• 20:39Brooke Averick?

  It's fabulous.

• 20:40Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 20:42Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 20:42Connor Wood?

  So good. I, I, I think that what I, what I need to do is like, I've never, I'm done talking about it after this.

• 20:49Brooke Averick?

  No, you know, I never want you.

• 20:50Connor Wood?

  I want to talk about the age thing again for a second.

• 20:52Brooke Averick?

  Okay.

• 20:52Connor Wood?

  But, um, just like the level of like, you think of like Amber, who was phenomenal. She did all the things she said.

• 21:00Brooke Averick?

  Really good.

• 21:00Connor Wood?

  Yeah, it's phenomenal. Amber didn't land her triple axel, I think, in the, in the Olympics. Like, I can't imagine how devastating that must have felt. Me being bummed about misstepping during my rendez.

• 21:12Brooke Averick?

  You can still be bummed.

• 21:13Connor Wood?

  Yeah, but that was my, dropping my, my triple axel. I want you guys to know, sorry, I just realized something. My goal was to feel vulnerable. Um, I did it.

• 21:24Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, uh, check.

• 21:25Connor Wood?

  Yeah, check. I felt vulnerable, never wanted, I like feel good about where I'm at in terms of putting myself out there. Kind of want to go back into my shell a little for a little bit. Um, messing that up, messing that up and being like, and then Alfonso being, this is the most viewers we've had ever. And I'm like, yay.

• 21:42Brooke Averick?

  But you know what? Your post-interview was like really, really good.

• 21:45Connor Wood?

  It was earnest. I had a different one ready, assuming we.

• 21:50Brooke Averick?

  You had something else planned?

• 21:51Connor Wood?

  Something really good.

• 21:52Brooke Averick?

  Eight last minute?

• 21:53Connor Wood?

  Yep. And I was like, I really want to show off this dance. It's a very different and I, you know, being out there, there was challenges, but obviously we overcame. We didn't quite overcome.

• 22:01Brooke Averick?

  Uh huh. What did like Riley say to you after? If you, like anything that helpful or?

• 22:08Connor Wood?

  She showed voice of, she's just like, you're not a dancer. Like, what do you want? What do you expect? And I'm like, I expect to do the dance that we nailed 45 times.

• 22:16Brooke Averick?

  Right.

• 22:16Connor Wood?

  Like we did it. Kind of. I want to ask her if we can do this. Um, go do one run of this week's dance, just like at the Grove in the middle of the road. Before we do it.

• 22:28Brooke Averick?

  I love that.

• 22:28Connor Wood?

  And then just be like, that is,

• 22:32Connor Wood?

  there must just be some like performance anxiety that happened because I'm not, I'm not even nervous when we go out there. I'm not. I'm just like, there's little parts every, every time we do a dance where I'm like, okay, don't mess up that part. There's like a little thing. It's like, you're gonna though.

• 22:46Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 22:47Connor Wood?

  Bitch.

• 22:47Brooke Averick?

  Oh, I'm sure everyone has that.

• 22:50Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 22:50Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. Here's what, here's something, maybe a question you can answer.

• 22:55Connor Wood?

  Okay.

• 22:55Brooke Averick?

  For, you know, the first dance you did, I would describe as like very sexy.

• 22:59Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 23:00Brooke Averick?

  Last night's, I would actually describe it as more romantic.

• 23:02Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 23:03Brooke Averick?

  If you, if you could give us one word for next week.

• 23:08Connor Wood?

  Light.

• 23:09Brooke Averick?

  Light.

• 23:10Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 23:10Brooke Averick?

  Cute. I love that.

• 23:12Connor Wood?

  Yeah. I think it'll be really nice. It'll be a good, another good change of pace.

• 23:15Brooke Averick?

  Nice and light.

• 23:17Connor Wood?

  Nice and light. Slow.

• 23:20Brooke Averick?

  I love that.

• 23:21Connor Wood?

  Anyways, feel good. Next week's going to be awesome. Storyline vibes, character arc vibes. Um, in terms of technique and dancing, like the trained eye, we are do, like, we are doing the dances. So like, that is something to be proud of, you know, like, I don't really have.

• 23:35Brooke Averick?

  You're not relying on stunts and shock value. Some people are, you're not.

• 23:42Connor Wood?

  I wish I, I wish I.

• 23:44Brooke Averick?

  You're doing, you're doing really hard dances.

• 23:48Connor Wood?

  The dances are really hard. My goal was to learn the, the style of dancing and the, and the things and to have fun. And so to anyone thinking I'm not having fun, I'm just like, really competitive. But trust me, when I say I'm competitive and I look sad, when I shut the camera off, I'm fired up. I'm competitive in a fun way. If you're on my team.

• 24:09Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, competition is fun.

• 24:10Connor Wood?

  You're not. Have we played any board games together ever? Or like?

• 24:15Brooke Averick?

  I feel like every time it's gotten to fishbowl at a party, I have gone to bed.

• 24:18Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 24:19Brooke Averick?

  So.

• 24:20Connor Wood?

  I love.

• 24:21Brooke Averick?

  How, no, because you don't like, like games.

• 24:24Connor Wood?

  I like, um, I like group games that are, that, that people are aware are going to get heated, you know?

• 24:31Brooke Averick?

  Like what games do you like?

• 24:33Connor Wood?

  Fishbowl, I guess.

• 24:34Brooke Averick?

  I've never played fishbowl with you. Yeah. Like I feel like you wouldn't play like, like I would play backgammon. Like you wouldn't play stuff like that. Or like categories.

• 24:43Connor Wood?

  We have to play fishbowl this weekend.

• 24:45Brooke Averick?

  Okay.

• 24:46Connor Wood?

  Cat texts me, sorry. Sorry.

• 24:50Brooke Averick?

  Do you want to hang out? Are you guys going to hang out or something?

• 24:52Connor Wood?

  Sure.

• 24:52Brooke Averick?

  I'd like to hang out.

• 24:53Connor Wood?

  Okay, cool.

• 24:54Brooke Averick?

  I love that.

• 24:56Connor Wood?

  That's cute. Um, I, yeah, I, I, we should play fishbowl and like have a good group and I want to get really competitive. I think that maybe having something that's not specifically dance might, help, help me ease my mind.

• 25:09Brooke Averick?

  Channel that energy into something else. Yeah. In the fishbowl. That could be pretty and good.

• 25:13Connor Wood?

  That could be pretty. Maybe I'll really like let my hair down at fishbowl.

• 25:19Brooke Averick?

  I think you could.

• 25:20Connor Wood?

  Tie it back.

• 25:21Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 25:22Connor Wood?

  Um, um, oh, the age thing. I was going to tell you something so, so weird. Do you have that thing of where you think about ages and things happening and you're like, wait, this was never supposed to happen. Me, I thought I was, you know, like things happen and it's like, oh wait, oh my God, I don't know how to explain it.

• 25:38Brooke Averick?

  Try a little harder for me.

• 25:39Connor Wood?

  Okay, I'm, I'm, I am like really putting brain into this, but do you have that thing of where you get to a point and there's like a canon event and you're like, oh my God, I'm.

• 25:51Brooke Averick?

  Um, it's happening to me too.

• 25:53Connor Wood?

  It's happening to me. And then you're like, wait, this, things just like start to happen and like play out and you're like.

• 25:58Brooke Averick?

  Can you explain an example of a canon event that might happen?

• 26:02Connor Wood?

  Kind of like how I said.

• 26:03Brooke Averick?

  Like, like if your eyes start getting blurry?

• 26:05Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 26:06Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 26:07Connor Wood?

  Or like my knees hurt?

• 26:08Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. And you're like, wait, I wasn't supposed to be aging.

• 26:11Connor Wood?

  Or like, yeah, yeah. I wasn't supposed to be aging. About how like I've already passed, like the example I used last week, that's not great was like, I, I passed like my Mamma Mia age because I was not raised in Greece.

• 26:23Brooke Averick?

  Yes.

• 26:24Connor Wood?

  So that one was out of my hands, but like in terms of,

• 26:28Connor Wood?

  hmm.

• 26:30Brooke Averick?

  It's just like you are.

• 26:31Connor Wood?

  Having high cholesterol, like huh?

• 26:33Brooke Averick?

  My dad said something really upsetting recently, which was that when he.

• 26:38Connor Wood?

  Brett? You would not say anything.

• 26:39Brooke Averick?

  When he looks in the mirror, the, the person he sees looking back at him is not the person he feels like.

• 26:47Brooke Averick?

  Like how, what do you, how old do you feel you are in your, in your soul?

• 26:52Speaker 04

  No, I feel, the, the, the thing is, the person looking back at you is not what you expect to see.

• 26:58Brooke Averick?

  The person looking back at him is not what he expects.

• 27:00Connor Wood?

  Is that a somber song?

• 27:02Speaker 04

  It might be, but.

• 27:03Connor Wood?

  The person.

• 27:05Brooke Averick?

  Happen, it happens quick.

• 27:06Connor Wood?

  What's, you know what sucks? You look so young. Yes. And I'm saying that with my chest.

• 27:14Connor Wood?

  And for us both, I do fear that there will be a day when it's just like boom, you know? I, I want to look in the.

• 27:23Brooke Averick?

  Like you go to bed one day feeling like I'm still young and then you wake up the other, the next day and you're like, I, I'm old. I asked you, I've been like talking about age a lot with, with him this trip. I asked him like, what was the exact age that he was like, oh, I'm old.

• 27:38Connor Wood?

  What was it for you?

• 27:39Brooke Averick?

  Few different ones, few different ones.

• 27:40Speaker 04

  When you're 40, you start losing your vision and your hearing.

• 27:43Connor Wood?

  When you're 40 and you start losing your vision and your hearing?

• 27:48Connor Wood?

  And your hairs are falling out?

• 27:51Brooke Averick?

  Good thing we are not even remotely close to 40.

• 27:56Connor Wood?

  When am I going to study abroad?

• 27:58Brooke Averick?

  Right. You've studied abroad.

• 28:01Connor Wood?

  For like a week. I really need to like do an immersive study abroad trip. Why are we putting ages on studying abroad? I really want to go learn like, so, um, thing.

• 28:13Brooke Averick?

  Oh, our brains like at some point shut off to like learning a new language.

• 28:17Connor Wood?

  Huh?

• 28:18Brooke Averick?

  Like, I think at like 25, when your brain is full, I'm making, I'm talking out of my.

• 28:22Connor Wood?

  I hope, I hope you are.

• 28:23Brooke Averick?

  But like, I really do think at like some point your brain is like less malleable and that could be the wrong word to like learning new things. Like a language. Like it's much easier for you to learn a language when you're younger.

• 28:37Connor Wood?

  Cause you're more of a sponge. I wish that, yeah, I feel that way with the dance too. And then I want to be done. We can be done telling you about Dancing with the Stars, but.

• 28:43Brooke Averick?

  We don't have to, to.

• 28:45Connor Wood?

  I think you should. Oh, here we go. Oh my gosh. Children learn a new language mostly recently. What? Children learn a new language most easily and can reach, I can't even learn mine, can reach native like fluency at age under 10, 10 to 18, they build it.

• 29:01Connor Wood?

  The ability to learn grammar and remains, oh my God, I'm adding words.

• 29:04Brooke Averick?

  So why do we start learning a language in high school? That's dumb. We should be learning it under 10.

• 29:12Brooke Averick?

  When, when a new language most, is most easily.

• 29:15Connor Wood?

  Due to neuroplasticity.

• 29:17Brooke Averick?

  That's the word I was looking for instead of malleable. Plastic.

• 29:20Connor Wood?

  It worked. It both worked.

• 29:21Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 29:23Connor Wood?

  Uh, well anyways, I'm going to like canon events at this specific time. Really need to like hold back on what I'm posting and what I'm telling people I'm.

• 29:32Brooke Averick?

  No, you're in your vulnerable.

• 29:33Connor Wood?

  I'm in my vulnerable era.

• 29:35Brooke Averick?

  I've been loving, like, I actually, your video, your vulnerable post dance video came across my desk last night. I was like, I mean, I freaking love this guy.

• 29:44Connor Wood?

  Oh my God.

• 29:46Brooke Averick?

  I was like thinking of something to comment and I was like really like, usually I would like say something like jokey, but I was like, I don't want to. And I was about to comment like, I love you and you're my friend.

• 29:59Connor Wood?

  No, literally.

• 30:00Brooke Averick?

  I just was like sitting there for like 30 minutes, like trying to think of something.

• 30:04Connor Wood?

  No, it, but like.

• 30:06Brooke Averick?

  What did you, what did your mom and dad say?

• 30:08Connor Wood?

  Oh my God. Well, I'll tell you this. Here, great segue. I will tell you that when I finally saw my mom at dinner, because I told you we got there late, I sat down, she goes, nice job. Pete, order the Uber. They had, they, my mom's like, I need to go to bed like right now. So it was like hard to get feedback from her, but she did text me this morning. Let's read it. So now this is kind of like, the feedback I get from my mom in terms of Dancing with the Stars, um, really the only feedback I should be getting is good job.

• 30:38Brooke Averick?

  Right. Different, something a little bit different came through this morning.

• 30:43Connor Wood?

  Able to write a, a, a feedback at length.

• 30:46Brooke Averick?

  Let's, let's hear it.

• 30:49Connor Wood?

  Was Riley leading last night or you?

• 30:55Brooke Averick?

  Okay.

• 30:56Connor Wood?

  Leading what? Uh, because you know, when you're like, no, I want to hear, I want you to get there, even though like it's an easy answer.

• 31:02Brooke Averick?

  Say it out loud. Yeah.

• 31:03Connor Wood?

  Yeah. Like in the dance.

• 31:08Connor Wood?

  Okay.

• 31:12Connor Wood?

  And then this, this one like shouldn't make me mad, but because it's from my mom, like, I had to shut my phone and do some breathing. Good morning, it's a new day.

• 31:24Brooke Averick?

  Thank you for letting me know. Did you respond?

• 31:27Connor Wood?

  No. I felt it was better for me not to respond because when you act on emotion.

• 31:32Brooke Averick?

  Oh, totally.

• 31:36Connor Wood?

  To get to dinner with my parents and then sit there in my frustrated state and still be like, what a blessing it is to feel frustrated that I didn't nail a dance that I know so well, but I'm, I'm in a place where I'm on Dancing with the Stars and I'm frustrated with my performance and it was on live TV. But I'm gonna be okay. And then my dad be like, I can't figure out where my lift is. And I look at his phone and it's upside down in his hands.

• 32:08Brooke Averick?

  Tough state of mind to be in, huh?

• 32:09Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 32:10Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 32:10Connor Wood?

  And then receive a text from my mom that says, it's a new day, heart. And it was like the 2D heart, not even like the red bubbly heart.

• 32:21Brooke Averick?

  Take some space today.

• 32:22Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 32:22Brooke Averick?

  Recharge.

• 32:23Connor Wood?

  Yes.

• 32:24Brooke Averick?

  Not that you need to, but if you want to.

• 32:26Connor Wood?

  Sure.

• 32:26Brooke Averick?

  Recalibrate and we'll see you on that dance floor later. At your earliest convenience. And let me just say, if you don't mind before, unless you have something else to say.

• 32:41Connor Wood?

  No.

• 32:42Brooke Averick?

  What do you want to say?

• 32:43Connor Wood?

  No, I want you to, I want you to like close, like close out where I.

• 32:47Brooke Averick?

  I have closing statements.

• 32:48Connor Wood?

  Yeah, close out the.

• 32:49Brooke Averick?

  Also, wait, before my closing statements, the commercial, you spilled your water all over your card again just now.

• 32:53Connor Wood?

  Nothing matters anymore. Nothing matters. And this, this specific can?

• 32:59Brooke Averick?

  Flat.

• 32:59Connor Wood?

  Cardboard box taste.

• 33:00Brooke Averick?

  Love that. The commercial that you were in.

• 33:03Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 33:03Brooke Averick?

  Before Dancing with the Stars, how did like that happen? Were you just like, I want to do it or they picked you?

• 33:08Connor Wood?

  They picked me, yeah.

• 33:09Brooke Averick?

  You're.

• 33:09Connor Wood?

  Me and Tati.

• 33:10Brooke Averick?

  That was really good.

• 33:11Connor Wood?

  Thank you.

• 33:12Brooke Averick?

  I mean, the way you acted, incredible. I believed everything that you did and said.

• 33:16Connor Wood?

  I don't really understand.

• 33:18Brooke Averick?

  You looked great.

• 33:18Connor Wood?

  Thanks.

• 33:20Brooke Averick?

  And you have star power.

• 33:21Connor Wood?

  Thank you.

• 33:22Brooke Averick?

  And everyone's been saying that you're gonna get some acting roles after this.

• 33:26Connor Wood?

  Well, pay.

• 33:26Brooke Averick?

  That's what the internet is saying, by the way.

• 33:28Connor Wood?

  Pay close attention to the space as we walk out of. You know what? I'm just gonna start saying stuff because like I'm in a space. I have an announcement I've been sitting on, but I literally can't say it.

• 33:39Brooke Averick?

  How about you just say it?

• 33:40Connor Wood?

  No, I can't because I, I want it to be like a buzz.

• 33:44Brooke Averick?

  Is it the announcement that I'm thinking of?

• 33:46Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 33:46Brooke Averick?

  Oh, fabulous.

• 33:47Connor Wood?

  Yeah. And it's just like, I'm gonna hold on to it because like, I don't want to like blow my load now and then like I have so much left of other stuff. I'm gonna save it for when like I really need it, but like.

• 33:57Brooke Averick?

  P O P me trying to leak.

• 33:58Connor Wood?

  Y'all know I play too, y'all know I play too much. Y'all know I love an announcement.

• 34:03Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 34:04Connor Wood?

  Oh my God.

• 34:04Brooke Averick?

  I know. It's really hard to sit on them. I totally get that.

• 34:07Connor Wood?

  Nothing makes, yeah. You, I mean, like, how fun, isn't it? How fun is being like, I'm so excited to announce?

• 34:13Brooke Averick?

  No, the best days of my, of my life, the things that I've been most excited for have been the night, like the announcement days. Like even like more so than like my book coming out, the night before like announcing it was the best night of my life.

• 34:26Connor Wood?

  Christmas morning?

• 34:28Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. I couldn't, I can't sleep. Night before my book, slept like a baby. Night before I had to announce my book, up all night. So excited.

• 34:35Connor Wood?

  Just like, let me, it's so funny.

• 34:39Brooke Averick?

  What?

• 34:40Connor Wood?

  When you post something, you go, I'm just gonna post it really good. You know that shit hit like so hard.

• 34:49Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 34:49Connor Wood?

  Oh yeah, I love you. Just like, oh yeah, something's, I'm sure something's happening on my phone, but I don't need to look.

• 34:55Brooke Averick?

  I need to be on my phone.

• 34:55Connor Wood?

  Who cares at all?

• 34:56Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 34:57Connor Wood?

  Oh, that's a good feeling.

• 34:59Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 35:00Connor Wood?

  God, we're sick.

• 35:01Brooke Averick?

  I know that. I know that. Um, but before, you know, just my closing remarks are just that I'm just so, I'm just so proud of you.

• 35:09Connor Wood?

  Well, thank you. I appreciate that.

• 35:10Brooke Averick?

  I really am so proud of you. It is a joy to watch you every week. Like it is truly like, I've never been this like happy and excited and looking forward to something every week. And you've touched my heart and the hearts of America. And I'm just like, just so proud of you. It's crazy.

• 35:27Connor Wood?

  Thank you.

• 35:28Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. And I can't, I can't wait for next week.

• 35:30Connor Wood?

  It's extremely nice. And um, let's move right along. I could, we could obviously talk about this forever. All my interactions with each individual people. Obviously I have to do my little brother Ezra talk again. The guy is.

• 35:41Brooke Averick?

  Maybe I could meet him next week if, if there's, if time permits.

• 35:44Connor Wood?

  The guy is so wise beyond his years. He like truly. I can't ask him enough to run for a play, like a political seat. Like he is perfect in every way. He's just the best person in the world. And then you see his dance and it's like, let me like, like I was shot, he was chaser big time. Just like that was, thank you for chasing me. So to, to, to flow me right out of the minds of, and hearts. But um, just the best guy in the world.

• 36:16Brooke Averick?

  Hey guys, we want to take a break to thank a sponsor of today's episode, Jones Road Beauty.

• 36:21Connor Wood?

  Hmm.

• 36:22Brooke Averick?

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• 36:54Connor Wood?

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• 37:15Brooke Averick?

  You always tell me when you prefer my feathery.

• 37:18Connor Wood?

  The soft feathery look? You know, that's my favorite look.

• 37:20Brooke Averick?

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• 38:05Brooke Averick?

  end up reaching for it constantly. One of my favorites is this Skim cotton jersey straight leg pant. They have the perfect amount of stretch and somehow feel like true lounge pants without looking sloppy. I can wear them around the house all day, then throw on a cute top and sneakers to run errands without feeling like I'm fully out in pajamas.

• 38:21Connor Wood?

  Cute top.

• 38:22Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 38:23Connor Wood?

  The cotton jersey fabric that she was talking about in general is just so soft and easy to wear. And Skims really knows how to make basics that you actually want to live in. What were you saying?

• 38:37Brooke Averick?

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• 38:50Connor Wood?

  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 want to make our money work a little harder.

• 39:01Brooke 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.

• 39:10Connor 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.

• 39:20Brooke Averick?

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

• 39:25Connor 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.

• 39:34Brooke Averick?

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

• 39:40Connor 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.

• 39:50Brooke 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.

• 40:01Connor 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. Now.

• 40:14Brooke Averick?

  Sometimes the shot lingers more than the chaser, man.

• 40:17Connor Wood?

  I don't want to, I don't want to linger.

• 40:19Brooke Averick?

  Ooh, maybe you could do linger one night.

• 40:20Connor Wood?

  Maybe.

• 40:22Brooke Averick?

  I'd like that.

• 40:24Connor Wood?

  Um.

• 40:26Brooke Averick?

  Okay, well.

• 40:27Connor Wood?

  Right before I went out to dance, Jenna Dewan came up right after her dance. And we're really good friends, like we're friends. And I'm like right in the zone. That's like the first person you hug. And so like, I wanted to hug her and obviously I'm right in the camera shot.

• 40:45Brooke Averick?

  That was a good viral moment.

• 40:47Connor Wood?

  I'll ta, I'm not having trouble with the viral mo, like I'm doing okay, you know? The dancing I'm struggling with randomly. They, I wish they would, I wish that it was just like.

• 40:57Brooke Averick?

  The show really is only half about the dancing.

• 40:59Connor Wood?

  I wish that it was press with the stars.

• 41:01Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 41:01Connor Wood?

  Nailing the press. Having a great time with the outlets. Um, yeah. Um, yeah, I went to hug her and her, her, her mic was underneath her thing. And so Jenna Johnson stepped up and fixed it. But I got, uh, yeah, I got, um, another missed hug. That's my second since the show started.

• 41:19Brooke Averick?

  What, remind me the first one?

• 41:20Connor Wood?

  Riley in practice. And that was in my package.

• 41:22Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 41:24Connor Wood?

  And that's kind of, oh, and then the last thing was I'm getting sponsored ads from Kelsey, the sports betting app.

• 41:30Brooke Averick?

  Oh, yeah.

• 41:31Connor Wood?

  Betting on me, you guys.

• 41:35Brooke Averick?

  I never thought of that. But one of our friends.

• 41:39Connor Wood?

  It's making me.

• 41:40Brooke Averick?

  It's in a Dancing with the Stars league, like fantasy league. Like those.

• 41:45Connor Wood?

  On Kelsey?

• 41:46Brooke Averick?

  No, no, no. Just like, I think it's more of just like a bracket she has with her friends.

• 41:50Connor Wood?

  Maybe I should get into sports betting.

• 41:52Brooke Averick?

  I don't think you need to.

• 41:54Connor Wood?

  Okay, I agree.

• 41:55Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 41:59Connor Wood?

  That would be like me being like, maybe I should start smoking cigarettes.

• 42:02Brooke Averick?

  No need. That was like when I was like, I'm gonna start smoking cigars.

• 42:05Connor Wood?

  Bro, deep cut.

• 42:06Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. It's like, there's like something that's like, actually, no need. No need to pick something else up. No need to pick up another vice.

• 42:15Connor Wood?

  Speaking of.

• 42:16Brooke Averick?

  What?

• 42:17Connor Wood?

  I got, I bought a GameCube.

• 42:18Brooke Averick?

  A GameCube?

• 42:19Connor Wood?

  I bought a GameCube last week.

• 42:21Brooke Averick?

  I thought those were obsolete.

• 42:23Connor Wood?

  Completely.

• 42:24Brooke Averick?

  You bought, did you get it from eBay?

• 42:25Connor Wood?

  I was scammed to the gods.

• 42:27Brooke Averick?

  Where did you buy this?

• 42:28Connor Wood?

  It's a hollow box.

• 42:30Brooke Averick?

  No.

• 42:30Connor Wood?

  There's no wires in it.

• 42:32Brooke Averick?

  No.

• 42:32Connor Wood?

  Yeah, $100 down the drain. There's no return address.

• 42:36Brooke Averick?

  Where did you buy it?

• 42:37Connor Wood?

  eBay.

• 42:39Brooke Averick?

  You can report the seller.

• 42:41Connor Wood?

  I did.

• 42:41Brooke Averick?

  Good.

• 42:42Connor Wood?

  I did.

• 42:43Brooke Averick?

  But what made you buy a GameCube? You did, you also bought an iPod.

• 42:48Connor Wood?

  I bought an iPod. Did I talk about the iPod?

• 42:50Brooke Averick?

  I don't remember.

• 42:51Connor Wood?

  Yeah, I bought an iPod. Wow. What's happening to me? I bought an iPod. Oh, I know what's happening to me. I'm just on my phone watching me mess up in slow motion 600 times in a row and then I go, time, ah, time for bed. You know, I need like to play Super Smash Brothers and Crash Bandicoot for an hour to decompress. Sorry, reading before bed is not gonna work for me because I'm gonna, I'm gonna fall asleep on page one and there's gonna be drool on my book.

• 43:22Connor Wood?

  Can't do that. So I do need to have some blue light before bed as a treat. As a treat for my blue light all day.

• 43:29Brooke Averick?

  I, I think you have me muted on Instagram.

• 43:31Connor Wood?

  What do you mean?

• 43:32Brooke Averick?

  I think you've, my story is muted.

• 43:34Connor Wood?

  I don't, no.

• 43:35Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. I'm being honest.

• 43:37Connor Wood?

  I'll look after.

• 43:38Brooke Averick?

  Because there's been like four things I've been like.

• 43:40Connor Wood?

  I saw it today. I saw it this morning, driving here.

• 43:44Brooke Averick?

  No, I don't think you did.

• 43:45Connor Wood?

  Are you gonna look up if I saw your story?

• 43:46Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, because you know, I purchased that feature.

• 43:49Connor Wood?

  I did too, Brooke.

• 43:50Brooke Averick?

  Of needing to search.

• 43:53Connor Wood?

  Oh, I did too.

• 43:54Brooke Averick?

  No. You, you haven't viewed any of my stories and I checked about a week ago because I posted something of us and I was like, hi, has he not seen this yet? It's like really sweet. And you hadn't. And I was like, that's weird. And then ever since then, I've been checking on you.

• 44:09Connor Wood?

  I, I saw this. I saw all this.

• 44:16Connor Wood?

  I saw all of this.

• 44:19Brooke Averick?

  And then there's, no, Fibula viewed, who viewed the story? Fibula 20 seconds ago.

• 44:26Connor Wood?

  Oh, maybe she saw it on B and C.

• 44:27Brooke Averick?

  Have you been, are you the one posting everything on B and C?

• 44:29Connor Wood?

  No. Thank you to whoever is though. That's very kind. I'm sorry that you're seeing everything twice.

• 44:35Brooke Averick?

  What do you mean I'm seeing everything?

• 44:36Connor Wood?

  Like it's, it's going on our account, I'm sure.

• 44:38Brooke Averick?

  Oh, I don't care.

• 44:38Connor Wood?

  Okay.

• 44:39Brooke Averick?

  But.

• 44:39Connor Wood?

  But thank you to.

• 44:40Brooke Averick?

  I think you've, you had me muted.

• 44:42Connor Wood?

  I didn't have you muted.

• 44:43Brooke Averick?

  Okay. I just, I could have done something that, you've had me muted before.

• 44:49Connor Wood?

  The people that are muted

• 44:52Connor Wood?

  are sadistic.

• 44:53Brooke Averick?

  Okay. Just, just like try and like view my Instagram.

• 44:57Connor Wood?

  I know. That is, I don't know why that would be because lord knows all I'm on my phone for is to see.

• 45:02Brooke Averick?

  Not asking for too much.

• 45:04Connor Wood?

  Pictures and videos of myself.

• 45:05Brooke Averick?

  Just wants your attention. Not asking for anything except your undivided attention.

• 45:11Connor Wood?

  I wanted to include this in my conversation about like going to dinner with my parents last night. Just like, you know, there's, that trend of like my dad when I'm already overstimulated.

• 45:22Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 45:23Connor Wood?

  Can you, you wanna hear what he said last night after my dance?

• 45:26Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. You see, this is normal, dad.

• 45:34Speaker 05

  I said, do you know Tom Brady threw four interceptions one week? Best quarterback ever. And the next week he threw five touchdowns. So you come back.

• 45:45Connor Wood?

  Am I Tom Brady in that situation?

• 45:49Brooke Averick?

  No, I think Tom Brady is Tom Brady. Oh, wait, say it again.

• 45:52Speaker 05

  I think I made that up. I think you did too, but I'm not Tom Brady, but I like it.

• 45:56Brooke Averick?

  Wait, what did he say?

• 45:57Connor Wood?

  He said, Tom Brady threw, Tom Brady threw five interceptions one week and then the next, the following week he threw four touchdowns.

• 46:04Brooke Averick?

  So it's, it's bad to throw an interception?

• 46:07Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 46:07Brooke Averick?

  Okay. Yeah, that's a good lesson.

• 46:09Connor Wood?

  It was a good lesson and I don't think it's, I don't think that even happened, but I do take, I will take placebo.

• 46:14Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. Take placebo. Take placebo and run with it.

• 46:18Connor Wood?

  I told you last week, before my dance last week, I was at lunch with my parents and I'm trying to really calm down.

• 46:29Connor Wood?

  And a lot of people are like noticing that I'm strung in high stress. You must be new here. That is how I, that's my baseline. It is good. My stress is good for me. You know, like if I'm not stressed, I would be stressed. It would freak me out. I'm sitting there at lunch with my parents. Nice. It's great to see them. They're in town. They extended the invite to about, to about 10 or 11 other people. So now there's babies.

• 46:51Brooke Averick?

  Their friends?

• 46:52Connor Wood?

  Just like our family. It's like babies running around and everything and we're in a, they switched the restaurant last minute to a sports bar because there was football on and so it's jam packed and there's babies running around, whatever. I looked to my dad, he's giving me advice. His mouth is bleeding. He's bit his tongue. There's blood coming out of his mouth on both. He's like, listen, it is just fun. You know, like it's, I'm like, you're bleeding pretty heavy.

• 47:14Connor Wood?

  I catch my mom at the end of the table. She's going, I can't even hear her. She sat at the end of the table. She's like,

• 47:21Connor Wood?

  I'm like, that's pissing out, you know, like that's making me mad. Shouldn't make me mad. Babies are in a different booth. And there's like silverware setup. That's a table that the servers are going to seat someone at and they're playing with the forks and the knives. And I'm like, okay, this is, this has to wrap up pretty immediately. We go to head home. My mom has that mom gene in her where before on a hike, she needs to be pretty much like completely in front of us so where you can barely see her. She does that on the bike too. We're biking on the way home. I can't see her. I'm like, you know, whatever. She's probably already home. Turn the corner. She's on the ground and on completely, she's fallen off her bike, laying on the sidewalk. Car is pulled over. She's laying on the ground, talking to the car and I can actually hear her saying,

• 48:05Connor Wood?

  yeah, I don't know what happened. The curb was higher than I thought. And I was like, okay, like this is just like too much. So I thought my parents being here would be like a, I can like revert and depend. It has been, my mom called me, bless her heart. I'm so excited that they're here. I love them, but my mom calling me right before I got to dance, we need early checking at the hotel. Baby, call the hotel.

• 48:27Brooke Averick?

  Baby, you have, you have their number.

• 48:29Connor Wood?

  Baby, you have the wrong number.

• 48:32Brooke Averick?

  Hey man, I get it, but you're doing great and you're managing your stress levels the best that you can.

• 48:38Connor Wood?

  The best.

• 48:38Brooke Averick?

  With the tools that you have and um, your toolbox is, is overflowing.

• 48:47Connor Wood?

  What does that mean?

• 48:48Brooke Averick?

  I don't know. It's just you have the tools.

• 48:50Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 48:51Brooke Averick?

  And you're using them.

• 48:51Connor Wood?

  To navigate.

• 48:52Brooke Averick?

  To the best of your ability and that's all that, that you can do.

• 48:55Connor Wood?

  Did you see Grace where Edger got SNL?

• 48:56Brooke Averick?

  Yes.

• 48:58Connor Wood?

  We are on the precipice of something magnificent.

• 49:02Brooke Averick?

  We might be.

• 49:03Connor Wood?

  I do.

• 49:04Brooke Averick?

  With her and Veronica.

• 49:05Connor Wood?

  Yes. Exactly. I do feel like something happens when you get to SNL where they water you down from something incredible and then this ice melts in your cup and you become like leftover lemonade in your car from earlier.

• 49:21Brooke Averick?

  Mm-hmm.

• 49:21Connor Wood?

  In terms of like jokes and.

• 49:22Brooke Averick?

  Well said.

• 49:23Connor Wood?

  I don't feel like you can do that to like a Grace.

• 49:26Brooke Averick?

  I agree. No, her and Veronica kind of remind me of like.

• 49:29Connor Wood?

  Or Veronica.

• 49:30Brooke Averick?

  Kate McKinnon and like 80 Bryant, like that type.

• 49:33Connor Wood?

  Or like Tina Fey and Maya Rudolph.

• 49:35Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. I, I've.

• 49:37Connor Wood?

  I mean, sorry.

• 49:40Connor Wood?

  Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.

• 49:42Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. I have a good feeling about what, what's to come. Do you still wanna be on SNL?

• 49:50Brooke Averick?

  Not right now.

• 49:51Connor Wood?

  I mean, if they invited me to be on SNL, obviously I would say yes.

• 49:54Brooke Averick?

  Okay.

• 49:55Connor Wood?

  It's not, I mean, like that would never, yeah.

• 49:58Brooke Averick?

  You could open a whole new pipeline of Dancing with the Stars to SNL. That's a pipeline that hasn't been tapped yet.

• 50:03Connor Wood?

  Could you imagine how I would feel if there was feedback from a performance on SNL?

• 50:08Brooke Averick?

  No, I actually can't.

• 50:09Connor Wood?

  I would, I would drive my car off of the Santa Monica.

• 50:11Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, I know that. Best to stay away.

• 50:14Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 50:15Brooke Averick?

  For now, until you're invited on. Speaking of pipelines,

• 50:20Brooke Averick?

  did you see the new Traders cast?

• 50:23Brooke Averick?

  First of all, so many

• 50:24Connor Wood?

  Mm-hmm.

• 50:25Brooke Averick?

  Um, Dancing with the Stars people. Whitney. Who else? There was another.

• 50:33Connor Wood?

  Um, Joey, Griselda.

• 50:34Brooke Averick?

  Whitney, Joey. I am watching the civilian one. And I'm really loving it and I will apply for that one.

• 50:41Connor Wood?

  Cody Simpson being on this is such like out of left field.

• 50:44Brooke Averick?

  And Kristen Chenoweth, oh my God, if I was on her season, I'd be following her around like a puppy dog.

• 50:49Brooke Averick?

  That's awesome.

• 50:50Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 50:51Brooke Averick?

  But I'm so excited. I'm loving the civilian season.

• 50:54Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 50:55Brooke Averick?

  You should watch. There was something at the roundtable that was just.

• 50:58Connor Wood?

  I need, I need to be watching.

• 50:59Brooke Averick?

  Had me screaming at my, at my four inch Samsung plasma. But.

• 51:06Connor Wood?

  Four inch, oh, and Craig Conover. He's also.

• 51:09Brooke Averick?

  I got a really small TV by, by accident.

• 51:11Connor Wood?

  Really?

• 51:12Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 51:13Connor Wood?

  Where?

• 51:13Brooke Averick?

  In my, in my living room.

• 51:16Connor Wood?

  I've seen your TV. It's not small.

• 51:18Brooke Averick?

  I got a new one because my other one broke. You might not have noticed, but it's fairly small. It's not, it's like one step above like Michael Scott's plasma.

• 51:28Connor Wood?

  No.

• 51:29Brooke Averick?

  Just in relation to the space. It's like a large mantle space and the TV doesn't take up much of it. So it just looks very small.

• 51:37Connor Wood?

  Oh.

• 51:38Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. But I'm excited to watch you on Traders.

• 51:41Connor Wood?

  Stop.

• 51:42Brooke Averick?

  And I'm gonna be on the civilian one at the similar time. So it won't be like an issue of us like butting heads on the show.

• 51:49Connor Wood?

  Oh my gosh.

• 51:50Brooke Averick?

  You know?

• 51:51Connor Wood?

  Yeah. We wouldn't butt heads. We might butt heads.

• 51:54Brooke Averick?

  I don't know.

• 51:54Connor Wood?

  That's scary.

• 51:55Brooke Averick?

  I don't know. I don't know what it would be.

• 51:56Connor Wood?

  I don't know who any, can I?

• 51:57Brooke Averick?

  But I do, some part of me does wanna find out. But I do think it's like Raya where it's like, if I keep talking about it, it's not gonna happen. So I'm not, I'm gonna stop talking about Traders.

• 52:07Connor Wood?

  I don't know who any of these people are.

• 52:09Brooke Averick?

  Have to be on it. Um, yeah, you do. Kristen Chenoweth.

• 52:12Connor Wood?

  No, I, yeah.

• 52:13Brooke Averick?

  Cody Simpson.

• 52:14Connor Wood?

  Yes.

• 52:14Brooke Averick?

  I don't know.

• 52:15Connor Wood?

  I know Whitney. I don't know anyone.

• 52:18Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 52:18Connor Wood?

  I'm gonna go down through the, I'm just gonna skim.

• 52:20Brooke Averick?

  Bowman, Craig.

• 52:22Connor Wood?

  I'm, I'm telling you like that full second row, I do.

• 52:24Brooke Averick?

  Joey.

• 52:24Connor Wood?

  Oh, Chloe. I do know.

• 52:26Brooke Averick?

  Where's Chloe?

• 52:27Connor Wood?

  Snowboarder.

• 52:28Brooke Averick?

  I don't know Chloe. Yeah, I feel like this is how it always goes for me though. I only know like a handful because I don't watch reality TV except for Dancing with the Stars, which is one of my favorite shows. So that's all I would know. That's why I know Whitney.

• 52:42Connor Wood?

  Whitney.

• 52:43Brooke Averick?

  And Whitney's the only one I know. And I only know Craig because of your connections to Summer House. And I know Joey because of Dancing with the Stars. And just knowing them.

• 52:53Connor Wood?

  Looking forward to it. I'll be tuning in.

• 52:55Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. I love Traders. There's also so many movies coming out that I'm really excited about, Connor.

• 53:01Connor Wood?

  Tell me.

• 53:02Brooke Averick?

  Let me, I wrote them down in my hope.

• 53:06Brooke Averick?

  Okay, first of all,

• 53:09Brooke Averick?

  the trailer for the Elizabeth Holmes documentary.

• 53:13Connor Wood?

  They put it out?

• 53:14Brooke Averick?

  Came out this morning.

• 53:15Connor Wood?

  Is that one part where she's like this?

• 53:17Brooke Averick?

  Yes, that was like the like trailer teaser, but the full trailer came out this morning.

• 53:21Connor Wood?

  You know, she was breastfeeding when she was doing that. She had a baby. That's why she was like shaking.

• 53:24Brooke Averick?

  The baby's in the trailer.

• 53:25Connor Wood?

  Oh, okay.

• 53:26Brooke Averick?

  Like.

• 53:26Connor Wood?

  I was just like, they kind of did her wrong. It looked like she had Parkinson's.

• 53:29Brooke Averick?

  Oh, I didn't notice that.

• 53:30Connor Wood?

  She was like this.

• 53:31Brooke Averick?

  Oh, she was, oh, like in that moment, she was breastfeeding.

• 53:35Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 53:35Brooke Averick?

  Okay, I didn't know that.

• 53:37Connor Wood?

  Did anyone get, did we get any, sorry to, I want to go in there. Did we get any feedback about like, I texted Brooke after, I could be dead wrong. I'm sorry if this is just the dumbest thing I've ever uttered. But did we get any feedback about like our seemingly hot take about Elizabeth Holmes?

• 53:53Brooke Averick?

  Oh, people, I think, I got one DM of someone being like, you don't get it, which is true. And I said the words, I don't get it. So no need.

• 54:02Connor Wood?

  I don't, like, I'm pretty much standing my ground.

• 54:05Brooke Averick?

  You know what the problem was? It was not the like investors that she conned, but like the actual like real life people whose data she took. And were depending on her.

• 54:15Connor Wood?

  Can I say something about taking data?

• 54:16Brooke Averick?

  Sure.

• 54:18Connor Wood?

  They have it.

• 54:19Brooke Averick?

  She took their blood and like they were like depending on her for treatment.

• 54:23Connor Wood?

  That part, obviously, the people that like, this was their one stop shop. But what I'm understanding is that like everyone backing this, like Walgreens should be held accountable for putting this unfounded business in it before it was founded. You know, like, there are so many people at fault besides the one woman who was actively using the money to research and build the company.

• 54:47Brooke Averick?

  Maybe this is, maybe Nathan will like explain this.

• 54:51Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 54:51Brooke Averick?

  Cause she was saying like in the trailer, she was like, I did not do anything wrong and like standing on that business. So like, maybe she's gonna blame Walgreens and you know, and Nathan will, will bring light to that.

• 55:05Brooke Averick?

  He's the perfect person to do it. He was asking like questions that like I don't think a neurotypical person would ask. Like he just has no fear. So I think it'll be really good and it's in theaters.

• 55:18Connor Wood?

  Good for him.

• 55:19Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, I'm really excited.

• 55:20Connor Wood?

  Time for a win for Nathan.

• 55:22Brooke Averick?

  For once?

• 55:23Connor Wood?

  For once.

• 55:23Brooke Averick?

  I'm really excited. Also primetime.

• 55:27Connor Wood?

  What's that?

• 55:27Brooke Averick?

  Which is Robert Pattinson and it's about Chris, why do I want to say Hanson? Is it Chris Hansen?

• 55:34Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 55:35Brooke Averick?

  Chris Hansen who did Dateline. How to Catch a Predator.

• 55:38Connor Wood?

  Yes.

• 55:39Brooke Averick?

  So, and so it's that one. So I'm really excited about that. I genuinely think Rob, Bert Pattinson, Rob, if I may.

• 55:46Connor Wood?

  Yeah, you know him.

• 55:47Brooke Averick?

  Is the most talented actor of our generation.

• 55:51Connor Wood?

  Uh, yeah, I would say so.

• 55:52Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 55:53Connor Wood?

  I like that he's like.

• 55:54Brooke Averick?

  He's the cool.

• 55:55Connor Wood?

  Goofy.

• 55:55Brooke Averick?

  I can speak from experience. He's the coolest guy in the world and goofy. He, he jokes around with me.

• 56:03Connor Wood?

  You guys are, but you guys have like your own little language.

• 56:05Brooke Averick?

  I know that.

• 56:07Connor Wood?

  Um.

• 56:07Brooke Averick?

  And I know that.

• 56:08Connor Wood?

  I just see the way he like jokes around with Zendaya. I'm like, that's cute. That's so, that's so us.

• 56:15Brooke Averick?

  Drama?

• 56:16Connor Wood?

  No, I want to.

• 56:17Brooke Averick?

  Really good.

• 56:18Connor Wood?

  Oh.

• 56:19Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 56:19Connor Wood?

  God knows, I, God knows I, I'm not really, I don't really watch much besides TikToks.

• 56:26Brooke Averick?

  This is gonna be really good. Really excited for this. Also Verity.

• 56:31Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 56:31Brooke Averick?

  Have you heard of that one?

• 56:32Connor Wood?

  Anne Hathaway is putting in the work to retire. No, I really truly think we will not see her and it's gonna be like a Meryl Streep thing. She's gonna come back and be like, hey, I'm still here.

• 56:43Brooke Averick?

  This book, like this is something that like everyone has read and like even the people who are like so mean about Colleen Hoover, like have read this book and enjoyed it, like. This book is scary. Like I was scared when I was reading this.

• 56:56Connor Wood?

  What's scary about it?

• 56:57Brooke Averick?

  It's a scary book.

• 56:58Connor Wood?

  What's scary about it?

• 56:58Brooke Averick?

  Basically what it's about is this famous author, Verity. And I read this when it came out. Verity is a person. I think I read it like.

• 57:09Connor Wood?

  One name, like Beyonce?

• 57:10Brooke Averick?

  It was maybe like seven years ago that I read this. So take my summary with a grain of salt. But this famous author has an unfinished manuscript and she is in a coma or paralyzed. And so her husband hires Dakota Johnson, this new woman, to finish her manuscript. And so she finishes the manuscript in Verity and the husband's home. Verity, meanwhile, is in the attic, like in a coma, paralyzed. And like the house is like being haunted by this like paralyzed woman. And it's like, is she moving? Like, is there a ghost? Like, what's going on? So like, obviously Dakota Johnson starts having an affair with her husband. And like they're being like haunted while that's happening.

• 57:54Brooke Averick?

  But then at the same time that that's happening, Dakota Johnson discovers another unfinished piece of writing by Verity, who was paralyzed, that was basically like, I killed my daughter, because they have a dead daughter. And so it's like, is that true? Or is that just like fiction? There's like a lot going on and it was very scary.

• 58:16Connor Wood?

  What a fabulous piece of work.

• 58:17Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 58:18Connor Wood?

  That sounds really, really good.

• 58:19Brooke Averick?

  It genuinely is entertaining.

• 58:22Connor Wood?

  Yeah, that sounds really good. I do want to say like Dakota Johnson

• 58:27Connor Wood?

  and, uh, Anne Hathaway, perfect people. That's a perfect wife in a coma and mistress collab.

• 58:34Brooke Averick?

  Completely agree.

• 58:36Connor Wood?

  Anne Hathaway, shame she's in a coma, but I guess she's, she's moving around like a ghost. Oh, what a shame.

• 58:41Brooke Averick?

  You know what? There's gonna be flashbacks, I bet, because in this like additional uncovered manuscript, like she, I think, she's like writing about herself, but it's like, is she writing true events or a fictionalized version of events?

• 58:55Connor Wood?

  Dakota Johnson's such a.

• 58:58Brooke Averick?

  The casting is pretty damn perfect.

• 59:00Connor Wood?

  Sorry, you're in a coma. I'm gonna fuck your husband.

• 59:01Brooke Averick?

  That is like pretty much.

• 59:03Connor Wood?

  Someone's gonna fuck your husband, lady. You're upstairs asleep.

• 59:06Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. So that will be good.

• 59:09Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 59:10Brooke Averick?

  And then there's this other scary movie called Other Mommy.

• 59:14Connor Wood?

  Not liking that so far.

• 59:16Brooke Averick?

  Have you seen the trailer?

• 59:16Connor Wood?

  No, I don't know.

• 59:17Brooke Averick?

  So it's Jessica Chastain.

• 59:19Connor Wood?

  I love Jessica Chastain. Everyone knows that.

• 59:21Brooke Averick?

  The, the trailer's just her like blinking in a really scary way.

• 59:27Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. And like being upside down and like her head like kind of turning. But basically it's like she has this daughter who keeps seeing another version of her mommy around the house, Other Mommy. But this is a book that I read and the book is called Incidents Around the House. Other Mom, and it's about this little girl seeing somebody that she calls Other Mommy. So Other Mommy is a pretty good and accurate title change for it. Um, really, really scary book. The ending was, I literally was like, this could be like a five star book. I'm like genuinely scared shitless and can't read it for bed. Ending was so bad that I ended up giving it like two stars because it just ruined the whole book. So I would bet since they changed the title of the book, they're fixing to change the ending as well.

• 1:00:11Brooke Averick?

  So I'm actually really excited to see it because.

• 1:00:13Connor Wood?

  I know you read scary books.

• 1:00:14Brooke Averick?

  I do read scary books. I like scary books, especially.

• 1:00:16Connor Wood?

  The scary books, when you're reading, are you like, ooh?

• 1:00:19Brooke Averick?

  I would say it's rare. So it's like, I would, Incidents Around the House and Verity were two where I was like, I'm genuinely spooked, but it's hard for me to get genuinely spooked. Because I read a lot of thrillers, which aren't like, oh, this is scary. It's more just like, what is, what will happen next? I'm excited for this twist. These two were actually like, oh, that, I'm spooked. If you want to read spooky books for, for.

• 1:00:44Connor Wood?

  For Halloween.

• 1:00:45Brooke Averick?

  For Halloween. But unfortunately, Incidents Around the House, which is Other Mommy, like really, it, it, it bungled at the end. They really messed it up. By they, I mean the author, unfortunately, even though he's one of my favorite authors. He wrote Bird Box, which was such a good book. Josh Mallerman. Like this is, it like was such a good book and then the ending just like didn't work for me. Cause writing is subjective. Um, but yeah, those are two really scary books. If you're interested in reading some scary books over spooky season, which I'm sure you're not.

• 1:01:17Connor Wood?

  Trying to read the damn salt book still. So whoever, I'm gonna read it. I'm gonna read it. Cause I'm gonna be spewing facts about salt. It's called A History of Salt.

• 1:01:28Brooke Averick?

  I just like, okay.

• 1:01:30Connor Wood?

  It's like kind of interesting. I wish I could repeat some of the things that I read, but unfortunately that's just not in my. It, uh.

• 1:01:37Brooke Averick?

  But if the whole point is like you wanting to spot facts about salt and you can't even repeat what you've read so far, like it doesn't bode well. Just put it down. With love, you know, I have so much respect for you and I'm so proud of you.

• 1:01:48Connor Wood?

  Sorry, 484 pages? Oh, wow.

• 1:01:53Brooke Averick?

  Do you not own it?

• 1:01:57Connor Wood?

  Oh, what? Oh, I own it.

• 1:01:59Brooke Averick?

  And, okay, you didn't see how long it was?

• 1:02:02Connor Wood?

  I try not to look.

• 1:02:05Brooke Averick?

  I'm like, so anti you reading Salt of World History.

• 1:02:09Connor Wood?

  Well, basically, salt is good for you.

• 1:02:12Brooke Averick?

  No, I know that.

• 1:02:13Connor Wood?

  So that's one takeaway that I have. And it had become, like, salt of the earth is a saying.

• 1:02:23Connor Wood?

  Salt can be used anyways. And it's been around forever.

• 1:02:29Brooke Averick?

  Did they talk about how it, like, got a bad reputation at some point?

• 1:02:32Connor Wood?

  I'm not there yet. I'm excited for the twist.

• 1:02:35Brooke Averick?

  I bet they will speak about that.

• 1:02:37Connor Wood?

  I think Tanner was talking about, like, when he's watching something, he was talking about, like, when he is watching or reading something that has happened, like, it's not historical fiction, it's actually a story that happened in the past, and he gets to the big thing, he's like, "Oh, what?" Like, when OJ put on the glove and it didn't fit, he's like, "Huh?" You know? When salt, when they get around to salt, them deciding salt is bad for you, I'm gonna be like, "No! It's not salt!"

• 1:03:02Brooke Averick?

  Well, I don't even know if that's something that Mark Kralansky will be covering. It was just something I was asking you about as the expert.

• 1:03:11Connor Wood?

  Well, I'm looking for-

• 1:03:11Brooke Averick?

  Is that Mark Kralansky?

• 1:03:14Connor Wood?

  No, he's the young man. This is the young man that made the book famous. Because this is what I saw, and I really thought this was coming across my desk as, like, someone who reads books that aren't enjoyable reads.

• 1:03:24Brooke Averick?

  Oh, that's actually Mark Kralansky.

• 1:03:26Connor Wood?

  Ooh, Brock.

• 1:03:27Brooke Averick?

  I like him.

• 1:03:30Connor Wood?

  You know what my favorite compliment is?

• 1:03:32Brooke Averick?

  What?

• 1:03:32Connor Wood?

  "You're being so funny."

• 1:03:34Brooke Averick?

  From me or from anyone?

• 1:03:35Connor Wood?

  Just anyone.

• 1:03:36Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 1:03:36Connor Wood?

  Someone said it yesterday, and I was like, "I get bone bones."

• 1:03:40Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 1:03:41Connor Wood?

  "You're being so funny."

• 1:03:43Brooke Averick?

  You have been being really funny recently.

• 1:03:47Connor Wood?

  That was just, like, something that I was thinking about.

• 1:03:50Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, I like that compliment, too.

• 1:03:52Connor Wood?

  Did you see Harry Styles is doing a tour, and did you see who his openers are?

• 1:03:57Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, I did.

• 1:03:58Connor Wood?

  Did you see who his openers are?

• 1:04:00Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, do I forget?

• 1:04:01Connor Wood?

  This was like a shift for me. In, like, understanding where, like, how big certain people are.

• 1:04:10Connor Wood?

  Can we-

• 1:04:10Brooke Averick?

  Oh, Kylie Minogue is the one for here.

• 1:04:12Connor Wood?

  I'm gonna go to Rome.

• 1:04:14Brooke Averick?

  What's in Rome?

• 1:04:15Connor Wood?

  LCD Sound System.

• 1:04:19Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, I guess these are, like, not people that I know super well.

• 1:04:22Connor Wood?

  And, like, you know, no offense to

• 1:04:27Connor Wood?

  some of these folks, but, like,

• 1:04:30Connor Wood?

  LCD Sound System and Tinashe, like-

• 1:04:33Brooke Averick?

  Is Laney Wilson-

• 1:04:34Connor Wood?

  Laney Wilson's big in country.

• 1:04:36Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, wait, doesn't he have a band?

• 1:04:42Connor Wood?

  Shee.

• 1:04:43Brooke Averick?

  Oh, I don't know Laney Wilson then. I was thinking of someone else. I was thinking of Catboy in L.A. What's that? Who's that? Laney? Lanny?

• 1:04:51Connor Wood?

  Lanny, yeah.

• 1:04:52Brooke Averick?

  Okay. Genuinely, my mistake.

• 1:04:55Connor Wood?

  Laney Wilson is, uh,

• 1:04:58Connor Wood?

  "I got a heart like a truck that's been drawn through the mud."

• 1:05:04Brooke Averick?

  I don't know that.

• 1:05:05Connor Wood?

  It's kind of fun.

• 1:05:06Brooke Averick?

  Sounds good, though.

• 1:05:07Connor Wood?

  Easy to remember.

• 1:05:09Brooke Averick?

  Okay, well, it was really nice talking to you.

• 1:05:11Connor Wood?

  Yeah, it was great to talk to you. I don't, like, really-

• 1:05:15Connor Wood?

  Something's happening to my memory recently where I'm just like, I kind of don't even know what we talked about besides-

• 1:05:20Brooke Averick?

  Best to forget.

• 1:05:23Connor Wood?

  Okay. Well, you guys are welcome to join us in the bonus. I know we had a lot of signups.

• 1:05:31Connor Wood?

  But, oh-

• 1:05:31Brooke Averick?

  Oh, merch!

• 1:05:32Connor Wood?

  The merch is out. Our merch is out from last week.

• 1:05:36Brooke Averick?

  Shout out to the young woman on TikTok who, like, kind of coined that joke. That was really smart, and we, um, just took it and ran with it, and your merch is on your way, my love.

• 1:05:46Connor Wood?

  Yes. Um, and we have her name, and I-

• 1:05:49Brooke Averick?

  I have everything, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:05:50Connor Wood?

  So, shout out to her. Thanks, Molly. And, uh, your friends have been very vocal about making sure we credit you. That was our plan. And we love Molly. And, uh, all the people, like, onboarding people for, like, inside jokes and stuff, thanks for doing that, and welcome to all the new people. And, uh, if you're watching next week, Dance with the Stars, um, if you'll have me next week, looking forward to seeing you.

• 1:06:15Brooke Averick?

  I feel like I'm gonna watch.

• 1:06:16Connor Wood?

  You think you will? Oh, that'll be fun. I think it'll be a fun one. Connor, C-O-N-N-O-R, to 21523. And, uh, if you like an adventure, tune in. It's adventure time.

• 1:06:30Brooke Averick?

  Love you.

• 1:06:31Connor Wood?

  Love you, bye.

• 1:06:32Brooke Averick?

  This week on Close Friends. No, I'm so thankful for those two things.

• 1:06:37Connor Wood?

  Why do I keep choking today?

• 1:06:39Brooke Averick?

  Could be a few different things. You remember that one?

• 1:06:42Connor Wood?

  Nope. Oh.

• 1:06:43Brooke Averick?

  "I do not believe your eyes."

• 1:06:45Connor Wood?

  I hate that song. If I was friends with Hannah Montana, and I had, like, two drinks, I'd be like, "Wait, I have to tell you something." That's crazy to me because it's like-

• 1:06:53Brooke Averick?

  What a shame.

• 1:06:54Connor Wood?

  What a shame.

• 1:06:55Brooke Averick?

  Oh, what a shame.

• 1:06:56Connor Wood?

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