Brooke and Connor Make A Podcast

Homophones, Things That Scare Us, & TV We’re Loving

65 min
Apr 2, 2026about 2 months ago
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Summary

Brooke and Connor discuss homophones and linguistics, play a 20-questions guessing game about Clay Aiken, share fears about current events and media consumption, and discuss TV shows they're watching including a new horror series. They also reveal plans to open a bookstore-cat rescue in a beach town compound with friends.

Insights
  • Media consumption and fear-mongering on social platforms create anxiety even when information accuracy is unclear, reflecting broader digital wellness challenges
  • Nostalgia-driven business concepts (bookstores, cat cafes, beach town compounds) appeal to millennials approaching 30 seeking lifestyle alignment with personal values
  • Commercial content is evolving into entertainment-first formats (horror film-style ads) that blur lines between advertising and creative storytelling
  • Parasocial relationships with celebrities remain powerful (Clay Aiken Instagram follow-up) despite decades of celebrity culture evolution
  • Generational differences in media consumption habits (TV watching as productivity vs. attention span decline) reflect broader digital literacy shifts
Trends
Brands creating cinematic, horror-style commercial content to compete for attention in oversaturated advertising landscapeTeaser culture expanding beyond entertainment to commercial products (Sabrina Carpenter Samsung commercial teasers)Millennial entrepreneurship focused on lifestyle businesses combining multiple service models (bookstore + cat rescue + community compound)Increased skepticism about news sources and difficulty distinguishing between fear-mongering and legitimate reporting on social mediaRevival of nostalgic retail experiences (Scholastic Book Fairs for adults) as counter-trend to digital-first commerceCelebrity-adjacent content (Broadway understudies, reality TV alumni) driving engagement through parasocial connectionAnxiety-driven media consumption patterns among content creators and consumers during uncertain geopolitical periodsCross-platform celebrity collaborations (Matthew Morrison in Solid Core workouts) as micro-influencer marketing strategy
Companies
Bath and Body Works
Sponsor providing candles and home fragrance products featured in episode ad read
Squarespace
Website platform sponsor offering domain, design, and business tools for entrepreneurs
Rocket Money
Personal finance app sponsor helping users track subscriptions and manage budgets
Article
Furniture retailer sponsor offering modern, timeless home furnishings and delivery services
Trader Joe's
Mentioned as source for Passover greeting cards
Instagram
Platform where Clay Aiken followed host; discussed for April Fools features and celebrity teasing
Solid Core
Fitness studio where Kat and Matthew Morrison were photographed working out together
American Horror Story
FX series mentioned for Area 51 season featuring human-alien breeding storyline
City Winery
Venue in Nashville where Matthew Morrison performed his one-man show
People
Clay Aiken
Host's childhood crush who followed her on Instagram; discussed as first love
John Green
Discussed for releasing first adult novel in 10 years, coming September 2024
Stevie Nicks
Fleetwood Mac member; discussed as subject of potential Ryan Murphy Love Story Season 2
Jonathan Groff
Merrily We Roll Along star being replaced by Matthew Morrison for interim period
Matthew Morrison
Replacing Jonathan Groff in Merrily We Roll Along; performs one-man show at City Winery
Jeremy Jordan
Replacing Matthew Morrison in Merrily We Roll Along after Morrison's interim run
Ryan Murphy
Discussed for potential Fleetwood Mac-focused Love Story Season 2 project
Camila Mendes
Stars in horror series discussed by hosts; described as exceptionally beautiful
Adam DiMarco
Co-stars with Camila Mendes in horror series being watched by hosts
Obama
Mentioned as having publicly acknowledged existence of aliens/UFOs
Quotes
"Everything that you create doesn't need to be the best ever. It's a stepping stone to your next thing. Lower the stakes."
Connor~1:45:00
"I think it's really hard to tell like what is fear mongering and what is like an actual news report."
Brooke~45:00
"I wish I knew an exact timeline of how my life was going to play out so I could plan accordingly around my beach town."
Brooke~2:15:00
"What makes a household? Like TV? Yes. Okay. So this person was on TV?"
Connor~15:00
"You're waiting, you have so much happening right now. Maybe wait until you have a little like I have."
Connor~2:20:00
Full Transcript
Did you know? Here, here, you know when they were like trying to sell newspapers? I thought that was like if you're in a courtroom, like here, here. Oh. Here, here. I didn't think you were thinking of extra, extra. Oh, I was. Well, what does that mean? Here, here. Yeah, what does extra? Well, hang on, because like I was about to explain something that like I was I had a complete misunderstanding about. Here, here is like pay attention to me. Here, here is like H-E-A-R-H-E-R-E. Oh. Yes. Here, here, here, here. Oh, oh, oh, oh. How amazing. Oh, yeah. How amazing is that? Yeah. What are those words called that sound the same that are spelled differently? Homophobe. Homophone, yes. Homophobes, absolutely. Because they are all, they sound the same. Do you know what a diphthong is? Tell me a thing or two about the diphthongs. I just remember. Is that from Skims? No, it's from my linguistics class in college. I just remember like no one else was laughing when we were learning about diphthongs. It's like when two letters come together to form a different sound. So like O-I is a diphthong, like oil, like oil, like O-I together, like make that new sound. But all letters put together make a new sound. Yeah, but it's like usually you can separate it letter by letter and like sound it out. In the alphabet. Okay, Connor, you can do kk on or like that makes sense. But like you would not be able to separate oil by it. Or like gash. Yeah, the U-E there might be. It's like a eh. If that's possible. Yeah. All I know is that O-I is a diphthong. Wee-wee. Ah, wee. Bien, bien sûr. I was talking to myself in French today on the way here. Tell me about it. I don't really know what I was saying. Talk to me, talk to me. I said French in high school. A lot of people don't know that. We do. Well, we do know it. And if you listen to the bonus, we learned a lot about that class. Yeah. So I was just talking to myself in French in a big deal. What were you saying? I don't remember, but I was like, I think I was actually just trying to translate a song. I think I could get a few words, which was always exciting when you're when you're able to do that. Hear, hear, listen to my French. Accouté. That's like when the vegetables come out at a restaurant. You can order them separately. Crudité. Crudité. Nice. Homophobe. Hi, homophobe. Hi, mama. Do you want to play a really quick game? Oh my God, right to the game. Three minutes and 11 seconds in. Do you? Yeah, always. Guess who? 20 questions. Follow me on Instagram. Wow. Okay. Is it a woman? No. Are they a boy? Yeah. Well, okay. Are they a musician? Yes. Are they or is he someone that you've been a fan of? Yes. Is he someone that's been talked about on the podcast? Yeah. Is he someone that's been talked about on the podcast frequently? I would say. Okay. Like maybe not frequently, but I definitely talk to him. I definitely speak about this person. This man. Yeah. Is he on Broadway? No. Do I am I familiar with his work? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Oh my gosh. I don't see like this is right. Maybe not, but like you know who they are. Like when I get to artist young man. Oh, I guess is he younger than us? No. He's older than us and he's not on Broadway and he's a musician. Is he a throwback? Yes. Type beat. And it's not Justin Timberlake? No. Is he like a household name? To some people. Okay. I'm not going to get it. I don't think he would be in your household, but he was a household name in my house. In a huge way. A lot of families would consider him a household name. Josh Groban. No. But I like that's a good path that you're on. Is it a musical type of person? The musician? Like a musicals on like Broadway type. No. So Michael Buble? No. Or a dollar name. A man. Man, I don't... Can I give up? No. Is he taller than me? I don't think so. Is he on TV? Not right now. Okay. See like if this person has fallen out of... That's a good question. Has this person fallen out of the spotlight? Yes. Okay. Then I probably wouldn't know. Yes, you would. Maybe he's not a household name. He's currently in the spotlight. He has a household name too. A lot of households. Too a lot of households. Is he Jewish? No. But think about like what makes a household? What makes a household? Like TV? Yes. Okay. So this person was on TV? Yes. Was this person in a sitcom? No. Was this person on the news? No. Was... What is... Okay. Not on the news, not on a sitcom. Was this person on reality television? Yes. And did you... This person is a musical artist and he's on reality television. Yes. And he's out of the spotlight now. But who is a reality person that was on... was in music? I also want you to reframe the way that you're thinking about reality TV. Like I don't know that you would call this reality TV actually. Like I'm not thinking like... I'm not thinking of like... Like I'm not thinking of like... Think about if we were playing that game where we tried to get to the same word and I... and you did reality TV and I did music. What would come out of you? Like the masked singer? Think about it. Yes. In the past. Yes. Like American Idol. Yes. Okay. American Idol. Oh my gosh. Wait. Hang on. And he's not a judge. No. No. He was a contestant. Yes. Did he win? No. Is he gay? Yes. Oh. All right. I'm going to get there. What's his name? What's his name? What's his name? What's his name? What's his name? You know it. I do know it. Ah. Crap. And he was one of your first loves, right? My first love. I know who it is. That was a person. And you had a something for a something, right? It was almost a saying that Clay Aiken. Yes. Yes. Yes. You had an Aiken for Clay Aiken. Yes. Very good job, Connor. Yeah. Okay. Clay Aiken followed you on Instagram. I mean, I screamed. From the rooftops. From the rooftops. Wow. How exciting for you. What a tree. I wonder what it was that he saw. You know? There's no telling. But there's been a number of, he could have seen any. Oh, it could have been anything. My guess is that it was this clip of me and Brittany talking about who made us women. That's the clip that I think of. And I said Clay. Sorry, you yelled. So, yay. Okay, that's really special. Thank you. Have you guys communicated at all? No. But I'm just like, that is like amazing to me. That's so awesome. Happy for you. Thank you. As always. Oh, happy Passover. Oh my God, happy Passover. But there's no point in when I'm like, oh, I got you this, but I forget to bring it. I got you a card at Trader Joe's. That's so nice. It's a happy Passover. That's so nice because I didn't even know it was Passover until you said that. I'm so disconnected. It's so sad. I'm so locked in. Yeah. Thank you for celebrating my culture with me. You know what I think has been happening to me recently is like I am having another era of just like I am taking and consuming so much media like across the board. Like your phone or on the TV or everything. Everything. Like it's really crazy. I think it's because I'm in like a doldrum type beat, not depressed, just like had a busier period of my career. But I'm not like cool with taking it. So I told you yesterday. I was like, we recorded something yesterday and I got, it was like a big drive. And I got home and I was like, oh, I'm already done with everything until we recorded tomorrow. And I couldn't even get ahead on anything because I'd already gotten ahead of on everything. The fact that like that's your like uneasy feeling and that's my like heaven as a place on earth with you. Oh, I texted her like kind of freaking out. I'm, it's like 6pm and I'm like kind of done with my day and she was like, oh, how nice. And I was like, no, I'm going to like walk somewhere really far. That yeah, to me it's just like I can't, I get to cozy up with my boys in my book and what a blessing life is. Yeah. Yeah. But I've been consuming so much media. And then last night I like before, but obviously like everything right now media wise is like really everything I should do. We should do a segment on here like what scared me the worst on Twitter yesterday. Um, which like everything really truly, truly like heart sinking. I'm scared. Which I never used to be like that. I think like it's really hard to tell like what is fear mongering and what is like an actual news report. Yeah. Well, I just don't know anything. That makes it hard to know anything. So I don't get a lot of stuff. Sure. I don't resonate with a lot of stuff. And I guess yesterday was the address, there's an address to the nation. Sure. Like tonight, like there's three countries doing an address to the nation. And it's kind of like, why are you like soft launching the address to the nation? Why are you soft launching the address to the nation? Like how Alex Cooper like teases her podcast, you know? Is that what's happening? Yeah. Like, tell us what you're doing tomorrow. You know, like, should we go to work today? You know, like, is there a point, you know what I mean? Like, should someone quit their job today instead of like, go, go, you know? What are you thinking they're going to say? Like, no, no, no. Yeah. And I think it's going to be lockdown for energy. I think it's going to be like, no. Yeah. I think it's going to be like an energy saving lockdown because Australia just already did it today because we're in a different time zone. Just like preserve energy. Don't drive as much if you don't need to. Don't get too much gas at the thing because they're not in the war, but they want to keep their taxes low for like truckers. They call them truckies. And so that's just, that was what scared me yesterday. Yeah. But I mean, that's not the worst thing that scared me yesterday because I did hear that there's an alien human breeding branch of the government now. Which like that may be. There's always been. Yeah. There's always been. But what's it called this? What? Area 51? Yeah. Now the thing about the alien human hybrids, like if that is a real thing, like I'm going to be upset if they live longer and are taller than me, you know? They did a season. Remember that like it wasn't American Horror Story, but it was American Horror Stories. There was a season about area, like why do I keep forgetting the number? 51? Yeah. There was a season about area 51 on human alien breeding. I'm just so out of the loop. There's a human alien breeding. I don't think that there's a loop to be in there for the general public. I think there's a deeper dive that could be done. But yeah, but then it's like you enter conspiracy theorists. Oh my gosh. What isn't a conspiracy? What is it now? Because now when I'm going to go and do another conspiracy theory, I think tonight might be either the lockdown or we're launching this space again and we're going to the moon, which is the first time since we went to the moon the last time. Everyone's like, oh my gosh, it's so dangerous. We're so worried. We hope they make it back safe. It's like, wait, didn't we do this before Color TV was invented? It could also literally just be Trump is renaming the Palm Beach airport. Or he finished the ballroom. Yeah. Which would be huge news for us. We'll see. Yeah. No, it's true. I like a lot of people are like, it's just going to be him being like we won. I'm sure. Yeah. Anyways, that's my fear mongering essay of the day. Let me make sure there was no more fear mongering to be done. That we should have a fear mongering segment that people can skip. Like from like 10 to 25, we're doing fear mongering. And then we're doing pop culture. Yeah. And then guess who fear mongering pop culture. We're starting with homophobes. Homophobes. Guess who? Fear mongering. TV I'm watching. I'm watching. Milking farm. TV. Milking farm. Moon launch. The Kit Kat Heisen Europe. I saw that. The draft. More news on homophobes. Here. I haven't planted my flags yet. I'm going to do it during Pride Month. You're going to do how many flags? You just said plural. Well, I have 50. Well, now I have 49. Because once here, and if you all are coming to our shows, I'm going to be giving out some pride flags. Cool. Um, but yeah, I don't know how many I'll plant. But now I'm starting to get scared of this person, the neighbor. Because now I've noticed she's parked her car in a way that's like blocking me and my gay neighbors. And I think she's trying to get us to hit it because she has cameras lined up everywhere outside of her car. So I think she's, she's got something up her sleeves. You don't have like a higher. You don't have like a higher power that you could reach out to, right? I have my landlord who's like on it. Could you be like my neighbors trying to get me to hit her car? I don't have the concrete proof. It's just a theory based off of the way she's. It's like just like our two driveways. It's so hard to explain. Like are separated by a massive drop off that I've dropped down off of quite a few times and then have to press all of my weight on the gas reverse back up. Does that make sense? There's just like a drop off. Yeah. That if I dropped off, I'd be in her driveway. But she's parked now like right up against the drop off so that I couldn't drop off, which is like ideally I would never drop off, but like sometimes I need to drop off to wiggle my way out of her driveway. So it's hard to explain. Like she's technically within her limits, but she's pushing, she's testing me. I see. She's testing me. Like I have to do it like an extra 55 point turn to maneuver because like the front of my car usually enters into that space without me fully dropping off, but now it can't. I like how you're like she's blocking us in and you're like fully able to get in and out of your driveway. It's harder. It's harder. You've seen my driveway. It's really hard to maneuver and she's making it extra difficult. What do you say? What can you say? Nothing. I want to, no. What do you want to? Put a pride flag on her car, but she has cameras all around it. You write a note on the pride flag. Happy pride. Move your car or else. And also the way she's parked, like it's very hard for her to get into that position. Like there's no reason for her to be parked the way that she is. What I like, you know, you have to be pretty unhappy to be parking like that. Yeah, for sure. That's what I'll say. This episode was brought to you in part by Bath and Body Works featuring their white barn, neutral's collection. 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I'm here for so long, and I'm worried because I think when I get back, I have to move. Why? Because that's like how long I'm going to be here for the stretch of time. My hair fell out of my clip. Does it look weird? Mm-mm. I can't see the back of your head. Okay. Is there a day you have to be out? What day do you have to be out? I don't know. That? I'm going to ask. No, you need to ask. Are you months to months now? No, they wouldn't do that. So you need to find out the last day that you can be in your apartment? Yeah, that's a good place to start. My guess is at the end of April? It's definitely May, like the beginning of May. Okay. So you'll be back in time? Yeah, it's not April yet, right? It's April 1st. Oh my God, we didn't do any April Fools. I don't fuck with April Fools. To be honest, there should be years where you skip it. Like it should be a leap year thing? Yeah, because maybe I need to get on meds because I'm not cool with people doing jokes right now. No, I rarely like pranks. Especially not like if they're directed towards me. Especially right now if a brand is like, let's do this insane thing, it's like, I'm not buying a product for me for a little bit. None of us are in the mood for an April Fools. You're clogging up my airspace. I haven't really opened my phone this morning in an amazing way. So I haven't gotten pranks yet. Oh my gosh. You probably don't have that thing. I guess my old job was so bad. I've said this before on here, but my old jobs were scary because they were all startups. So I would just have to not ever turn my phone on, do not disturb. And so like my vibration of my phone getting a text like wakes me up in a way that like, if someone broke into my bedroom, like that's, it feels the same. I feel like I literally this year just got out of the, if my dad texted me, I'm in trouble phase of my life. Like I always used to think if I got a text from my dad, I was in trouble. I just always think someone died. I would love to be in trouble. Oh no, I have like a fear of getting in trouble. By your papa. I just feel like he would mostly like, he would always like in high school, like if I left like something out on the counter, just send a picture of it with no text. And so I think I've always, I'm expecting like to get a picture of like the cereal that I left out or something for the AC that I didn't turn down. There's going to be an age that your father gets where he's going to just send you a picture of cereal and it's going to re-trigger this whole thing, but he's just going to be like I'm busy eating the cereal today. I have something I want to say, but I can't. I have something I want to say, but I can't. Oh, I'll tell you, I could talk about the fact that I have a huge black eye. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I hit my face on the ladder, which like is so funny that that's like we kind of manifested that I'm always talking about ladders on here. Yeah. And how that's my favorite icebreaker. Yeah. Oh, I kind of love that for me. I wish it didn't happen where like I have other, like I wish I just would have gotten the black eye. Right. I get that. I'm so intrigued by the way that you scab because you didn't, you were saying you weren't bleeding. No, I just, I get like a strawberry and it scabs in a way where it's like I have a big open wound, but like- It doesn't make any sense to me. There was hours for the day where like it wasn't even noticeable, not even noticeably bleeding and then it just scabs. I don't get how you can have a scab without any sort of open skin. Oh, I didn't like open skin. Well, then you know what? You're not going to like that new show. Something very bad is going to happen. Oh, I want to see that. Is it too gory for me? Yeah. I also started watching it last night and I had the like the weirdest string of evil dreams, like not even like scary, just like weird as hell. Who's in that show? Camila Monroe and Adam DiMarco. Oh my God. She is the most beautiful person that I have ever seen in my life. I've just learned like how to properly use camp. In a way, like- I'm still working on that. Everything's a little bit over the top theatrical in this show. Like it's a little bit, you start watching it and it's like, OK, if the first thing, I'm just going to give you the premise because I've only watched one episode. She's basically getting married to Adam. And he's part of this rich family. Everyone's bizarre. I'm talking about one small inconvenience on an eight hour road trip. Going to get like we're calling it off, you know, like I'm not someone who has something bizarre happened to me where I'm like deeply unsettled and you just keep going with the trip, you know, like and then to. Yeah. And this is like a thing where like there's a string of things and it's like she always has this gut feeling. Yeah. There's thing after thing and it's like bizarre thing. That sounds good. Yeah. And it's like then the family's weird and they're really kind of just like bizarre and mean to her and like. In a crazy way. It's just like, no, we're calling it off. Yeah. I guess that's the point of the show that you're just like on edge, on edge. And there's a lot of like, you know, I'm laying in my hotel bed and there's jumps. I'm excited. Yeah, it's it's good. Like, I mean, I don't know. I'm not like a horror movie watcher and there is like a lot of bleeding. OK, I that I don't know. Like, do you see actively like them like slicing? No, just like a woman running into a mirror and then like a nose bleed. OK, those are fine for me. Like what I can't watch is like stabbing. Or like I can't watch doctor shows because of like surgery. Yeah. Hey, when I see like skin be sliced up. Yeah, I can't do that. I can't do that. But like if you're already bleeding, like I can look at a bloody body. Does that make sense? I just can't watch it happen if I'm seeing active piercing. You don't want to see how the sausage is made. Yeah. So like I couldn't watch someone be put into a meat grinder, but I could see the meat. I don't think I could see that. Watch any of that. Yeah. I'm sure there's someone out there that could. Watch someone be put into a meat grinder. Yeah. Oh, absolutely. There's so many people who don't have a problem with that. I couldn't eat. I couldn't eat meat for like a full blown week after watching the Jeffrey Dahmer thing. That no, that was hard. There was a truck. I just got chills in my body. Where I don't remember. I think I lived here when we watched that. And there was a truck that was always in my neighbor because there's a restaurant and it had this like huge slab of raw meat on it. And I was like, move that truck. Move that bus. Yeah. No, it's just like it looked like human. Yeah. Yeah. Uh-uh. And then I'll just keep going with TV because I feel like weirdly brain dead and all I've been doing is consuming media. Connor, I told you like I've been proud of myself for how much TV I've been watching because that means my attention span is growing. Mine's getting small. I feel like I'm getting dumber. Oh, my gosh, I'm getting dumber. I need to finish the book I've been reading for six months. What book? Stoner. Oh, I love the cover of that one. Do you? Is it the one that kind of looks like a classic? It's very it's very like unsettling. Yeah. Wait, but when did that come out? Like it's not a classic, right? No. I love that. Yeah, I love that cover. What's it about? Oh, it's old. Never mind. 1965. Yeah. It is old. OK, never mind. I thought it was like a modern book that like took on an old timey cover. So I like that, but now I don't care for it. What's it about? Do you know? So I think I on the front and he's just like. He would like it. He's just like so in love with like reading and writing, like literature. Why are you reading this? Like takes over his life. Why do you do this? You know what? There's this series that boys are reading. It's like a boy book and it's called Dungeon Crawl or Carl. Dylan was telling me about it. Literally just told me I need to watch like Bob the Builder book. No, this is literally Captain Underpants for grown up. Carl's doomsday scenario. Like people know boys are loving it. It's for grown up boy. It's meant technically grown up boy. Dylan is reading it. I'm not watching. I'm not reading Dungeon Crawl. Dylan is reading it. No, this looks. It's good, apparently. Like my friend like Thompson is reading it like grown up boys. I'm not reading something. I'm just done. Why are you reading Stoner? Why are you reading about a man who's love for literature is overwhelming? Like that is not for you. Oh, Dungeon Crawl or Carl's for you. The Butcher's Masquerade is for you. I am not reading the Butcher's Masquerade. I think that you should. What in the no, I'm not doomsday Carl. I I'm these are all over Barnes and Noble. Like this is what boys are reading. Like if you read the like if you were a young boy reading Captain Underpants and shit like that and you liked the Hunger Games, it's like Captain Underpants meets the Hunger Games. I don't even know what it's about, but I'm just guessing. I wasn't. You know what? I never read Captain Underpants. You think you're better than Captain Underpants? I probably did think that. Yeah, I probably said you guys are here. Yeah, I was in gifted and talented classes. Yeah, I moved forward with AP. Who's AP? Advanced placement. Oh, wait, look at my book. I brought my book today. Look how thick this is. Yeah, that's not going to work. Do you see that? Yeah. I'm loving these Carson City books, you guys. Say eight hundred five pages. That's yeah, that's can't. But wow, just wow. Let me think what I was reading when everyone else was reading Captain Underpants. What grade was that? Young. There was goosebumps. So when people I never. I did a mystery magic tree house. I was reading magic tree house. Gregor the Overlander was my favorite. And boxcar children. Then there was Warriors. So none of those. You're doing boxcar? Boxcar and house. I didn't like boxcar. My mom liked boxcar for some reason. I feel like it's very wholesome. Yeah. And it was like, I loved like Goonies vibes, you know, like these kids are like, well, I think that they were like orphans. There was also this one, not Tale of Desperode, you know, Tale of Desperode. That was about a mouse. Then there was these other ones about a mouse named Geronimo, I think. Do you know? I knew Geronimo. Is he would you mind looking up Geronimo chapter books for kids mouse? I loved this guy. No, maybe his name was. Carl the Darkest. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no. Geronimo Silton. Loved loved his ass. Yeah, I loved him. What else was around that time? I think we got we got most of them, but I love, oh my God, I mean, what I would get. That's what I'm going to do. Sorry, I didn't say my sentence out loud. I didn't get there. We need, I guess we kind of have them, but we need like a mainstream Scholastic Book Fair for adults. Yeah. That would be nice. That would be nice for people. It would be just so awesome. So what's like, like I'm wondering, like. What are you wondering? And I'm going to I'm going to raise my concern. I was going to say, I guess I'm wondering, like, what is the difference between a bookstore and a Scholastic event for adults? There's none. No, there is. I want authors to come in. I want like Coachella for books. I guess there's book con, but like, I don't really understand what that is. I. Yeah, well, because like it was fun for us because we're getting out of class, you know, there was like novel. No, there was so much more. We couldn't drive to a bookstore and elementary school. That was our that was our like big event. But it was like the Scholastic employees would come in. I don't know if you had this. They would come in a few days before the Book Fair. My dad didn't. You had a booklet in front of you with all the new books. It was like a little Scholastic magazine and they would go through and they would explain the synopsis of each book. And you could like take notes on if you like them or not. Oh, my God. Thank you, Rich, Dad. That must have been a really nice school. Thank you, Rich, Dad. I actually didn't get any money for the Book Fair. I had to call my mom and pop up and ask for a credit card number. Thank you. I guess that's not helping my case. Thank you, Rich. Rich grandparents. No, but everyone had cash and I didn't get cash. I had to call. I had to get my credit card number for the phone. So. Oh, I hate that. I know. I know. It was so sad. I mean, I just want to. I'm just thinking of like if you made it adult vibes, which I guess what you're yearning for is pretty much the same energy. I like to know what the adult version of like those animal shaped erasers would be to put on my wooden pencil. I mean, I mean, adults love. I love cool bookmarks. I love erasers. Any bookish merch, like post post it notes, like annotation notes, bookmarks, as I already said, highlighters. Just I love all that stuff. You know, I said I have like no memory. Yeah. I do remember specifically like this, the music that was playing. And I remember what the bathrooms were like in my elementary school. And like I remember kind of the route of my elementary school, which is weird. Does it? Yes. It was just so long ago. Did you ever have this blue hand sanitizer that was kind of foamy? I don't know. OK. Yeah. We had this blue sanitizer, hand sanitizer that was kind of foamy. And if I smelled that right now, I think I would actually teleport. Like a bath. Like that's a rain. I think I would actually tell. Yeah. Exactly. I have this one memory, awesome memory. I think I told it before, just like one of our teachers cars exploded in the parking lot and we got to all spins like the entire half the day. Just like watching it burn. That's all that is off. And then at some point, all the tires popped from the heat and it went up in the air for a second. She started crying, but like I remember everyone else was like, what like fireworks show, you know? I literally like I loved elementary school. So much. Like I was one of those kids that's like if I had to miss school, it was like I was beside myself. But I also like my school was really like camp. Yeah. It was such an amazing place. I wish everyone middle school, not so much. High school, not so much. There's like a very like evil couple of years for me to that I just like, oh, kids just suck. I my ninth and 10th was evil. Kids just suck. I worry about kids. I know. I can't imagine it to any better now. And they're mean. And now they have phones. I know it must be far worse. Oh, Jesus. H. Like I can't imagine. Thank you, teachers. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you to kids. I don't think any kids listen to this, but oh my gosh. You just have to you unfortunately just have to like keep going. One time you remember form spring, of course. I don't know. Oh, form spring. Yeah. Anonymous. Like you could post anonymously on someone's ask FM. Yeah. But it was form spring before ask FM, I think. But there was this when I was a freshman, there was this senior girl who I thought was just like the coolest, prettiest girl in the world. And I wanted to be her friend so badly. And we like were developing a kind of friendship. Did you hear my stomach growl to send? That was mine. Oh, well. And then I wrote on her form string, who's your favorite freshman? And I forgot to make an anonymous. It's just me. So that said that. That was really hard. What did she answer someone out? She said you exclamation. Oh. Which was all. Her twos were. But like I didn't want that's not what I wanted. That wasn't how I wanted that to go. Oh, bro. That's humiliating. Connor, try and lift me up instead of putting me back down. 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I am gonna run my own bookstore out of Beech Town. Like that's something that I'm gonna do. Great goal. But I'm starting to, as I come upon 30 soon, it's like, let's start to really think about doing that. Yeah. And Kat's gonna do it with me and we're also gonna make it a cat rescue. So we're gonna foster cats in the bookstore and people who shop can adopt them. So kind of cat cafe, ex bookstore. And there will be a catio attached for our cats as well. And we're gonna have this Beech Town and some of our other friends are also gonna start their establishments there. So it'll be like a compound. So I think like Tristan and Miles are gonna do like Bar X, like music. Fun. Record store. And SOTY's gonna be in charge of like the gift shop and like crap that's like at the bookstore. What will you do? And by the way, we're thinking Carmel by the sea right now if that works for you. That's really lovely. I really want you to watch Prolandi a little bit. You want me to do Oregon? No, it just like it feels like exactly, it feels like so up this alley of this once get they do. Oh, okay. Well, basically I'm in the market for a Beech Town. Yeah. That's willing to kind of rent their whole city to me. Carmel by the sea would be perfect cause it's so tiny. It's so tiny and looks like it's right out of track. But I've never been. But I kind of wanna go to the East Coast. I just feel like you wouldn't have like as much of a vibe there. Like you could do like a Rhode Island type situation. Yeah. Newport. Yes. Like a, yes. But then it's like then you have off seasons, which is hard. That's what I was thinking, but you might like an off season. I might. When else would you go to like Europe? True that. True that. But anyway, what do you wanna do in the town? What would I wanna do in the town? See like I have always wanted the coffee shop. You can do the coffee shop. Yeah. I think, I forgot who you, I think someone else is doing the coffee shop that you might have a co-owner. That would be lovely. Cause I don't wanna be fully in charge of something. Okay. Yeah. I forgot who's working that with you, but someone. I had, oh my God, you just reminded me. I had the best idea of the weekend. What? So I'm sitting at a restaurant and I'm looking at this other table and I'm like, God, they were having so much fun. It's hard for me not to be like. What restaurant were you at? This place in New York, Cafe Clooney. And we've been there. Yeah. We went there together. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'm sitting, we lucked out and we got an outdoor table. Yeah. Which like by the grace of God, cause I didn't even have a reservation and it was like, cause it was like a Thursday night. It was, it's just now getting very nice out. Everyone's putting the tables back inside. And I'm sitting outside and I'm looking like from the outside looking in at this table, co-ed table, they're laughing. I can't hear how loud, how loud they're laughing, but I can tell that it's like with their chest. What was the age demographic? Mid twenties. It's just like, you know, that's your prime. And I'm just like, I want- Don't say that. It's part of your life. And I like, I'm like, oh, what are they talking about? You know what would be amazing. What? A silent disco. You put the headphones in and you look around at different tables having conversations and everyone signs a waiver coming in. You can tap into different tables, conversations and listen in. I don't think anyone would like consent to that. If you're willing and able and like you want to go in and tap into other people's conversations and like listen in and it wouldn't be a spy thing. You're signing a waiver going in. But the like, the listen in cafe. The biggest ick I've ever gotten from a guy was during a silent disco when my headphones were off. And he was- Why'd you do that? I mean, just dancing. I think I had an itch on my ear or something. But like I just had to take my headphones off for a second. You can't take yourself out of the- No, it was really hard. But like if anyone needs the ick, just like try to put yourself in a position where your headphones are off at a silent disco and his are on when he's dancing to the beat that does not exist to you. Yeah, that sucks. That's the most fun I've ever had was at ACL and we went to the silent disco and we accidentally, we were gonna stop there on the way to the killers, which was my one and only chance to ever see the killers. Not that I like really need to, I guess. Like I'm not massive. You know, the strokes, different story, the killers, not so much. And we stopped at the silent disco and I was with like some of my best friends and we danced and we danced and I had never laughed harder and that's like one of my most special memories is the silent disco. That's sweet. Yeah, it was very fun. I really wanna go to the Renaissance fair. That reminded me. Yeah, me too. We need to, we should go. I know. I wanna wear a corset that's comfortable though. I wanna need a turkey leg, which I just learned is fully ham. No. Turkey legs? We've had this discussion before about turkey legs. It's not turkey, it's ham. It's a turkey leg. What kind of massive turkey legs that they have. No, turkey legs are not ham. They are 100% poultry. No, obviously no, turkey legs are not ham. I know that, but at the Renaissance fair they are. No, they're not. A fair turkey leg is a massive smoked turkey drumstick. Likely from a male to turkey, priced for its tender, juicy, raw and savory ham-like flavor. I mean, there might be a ham-like flavor to it. You're talking about the smokiness? Maybe I was talking about the juicyness. Like where do you confidently, where do you get the information that makes you 100% sure that a turkey leg at the Renaissance fair is ham? I guess being a man, I guess. One of my downfalls. But I really didn't, I don't consider turkeys juicy. Dark meat can be juicy. But is it dark meat? I thought it was like pink. Dark meat is just like certain parts of the body. No, I know what dark meat is. I thought it was ham, y'all. That's ham. No, it's a turkey leg. It is pink, yeah. Multiple things can be pink. I see that's the name. I love the way your brain works. It's pink, so it must be ham. Ham, pink, or white. This turkey leg is pink, must be ham. Oh my God, I've been telling everybody hamgate. I think you've said it on this podcast before. I haven't, no one corrected me. I'm sure I must have tried. Okay, well cool, I'm cool with that. Nice. The thing is like be open to learning new things and not being so dead set. You are, yeah. Convicted in something that you know nothing about. True. Yeah. I have exciting news, but it will mean nothing to you. And everyone already knows there's no point in me really saying it. Same to me. But I'm just really excited because John Green is coming out with a novel for the first time in 10 years. I saw it on Instagram. Or something, and it's his first ever adult novel. Like smart? No, just like not young adult. So like the Fault in Our Stars was young adult, like it's about teenagers. And I read it when I was a teen. And so this one is for and about adults. That's cool, cause his fans are like growing up and they're adults now. Exactly. Yeah, and it was like, he was like, I don't know if I'll ever write a novel again. So it's really exciting that he's writing one, that he has written one and it's coming out in September. I do feel like that's an H.U. Don't Sub-scratching. It's like psoriasis. No, I think like you would like, if you're really good at that, you keep creating bangers. Like why would you, like what would make you want to stop? Well, I think he's really like gotten his head after the Fault in Our Stars. Like it's really hard to have something that is that successful and then have to keep writing after that. He wrote one novel after the Fault in Our Stars. And I think he's spoken a lot about how it's like, there's like a really big pressure of like, will it ever measure up? That's my favorite saying thing. What? Everything that you create doesn't need to be the best ever. It's a stepping stone to your next thing. Lower the stakes. Yeah, but then it's hard when it's like, you did make your best ever and then like probably nothing will ever be as good. Well, you don't, like you just never know that. You never know. You never know. Here's what I'll say about John Green. Fault in Our Stars, he did the Fault in Our Stars and then he did something called Turtles All the Way Down. The Fault in Our Stars was my favorite, but Turtles All the Way Down like changed my life. Turtles All the Way Down? Turtles All the Way Down changed my life. What does that mean? It was about a character with OCD and that's how I learned that I had OCD. So even though it wasn't my favorite, it still like changed my life, you know? Mm-hmm. So that's cool. Anyway, I'm really excited. That's gonna be great. Thanks. I am excited. Maybe he'll do a press tour. He might. He might. That's something I'm excited about. Tell me. And this one kind of hurts me. Like this is something that I feel like you about, you will resonate with this part of me. Yeah. Is it like I've always been like a huge Fleetwood Mac fan? Oh, absolutely. Huge Stevie Neck's fan. That's gonna be someone who, yeah. Like it's really gonna be any of those. I think it's like mom is like such a huge fan. You know, like I've been like indicted into this like fanship and I've been like, it's on my number one artists every year too, like or not number one, but like in my top five. Love Story Season Two by Ryan Murphy is gonna be about Fleetwood Mac. Is that confirmed? Yes. Is he shaking your head now? Wait, it was posted yesterday. I just saw something on Twitter that said, cause I was gonna put it in this. That said it was April Fool's. Fool's. Oh, damn. Got my ass. Stevie has been in American Horror Story. So that's not like out of left field that she would be tied to a Ryan Murphy project. Yeah, no, but it was Billy Lord and Connor Story hasn't been written. No, we're not Connor Story. If Connor Story was a fast shooting project. So bizarrely weird to post something like that. Maybe it will, maybe, well, yeah. I'm like, oh, like I'm gonna, I'm putting a boycott. Yeah, yeah. You're mad. I see that. Oh my gosh. Like it got so much traction. Oh, I'm so disgusted because that is, that would be like such a great love story. I mean, there's so much time to it. And especially because of how much traction like, like with the like, That is disgusting. The like leather and lace of it all. What is that? Never get away from the sound of the one that loves you. Oh yeah, yeah, no, you won't. Oh no, that would be, Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie next story would be beyond. Wow. We'll see. The AHS zone on Twitter. You're on my list. Yeah, I'm sorry. That is hard. Dominic Sessa as John McVeigh, great casting. Actually met him the other night. They have Connor story is Lindsay Buckingham. Thank you. Oh yeah. M. Lucy Boynton as Christine McVeigh. I don't know. Yes, you do. She was in Bohemian Rhapsody. Who's Boynton? Wow. Did you see Connor stories were eyes in commercial? No. Really? We can watch it in bonus. They made like a feature film of it. It's like five minutes long and it's like a horror film. It's it's insane. It's a completely new way of doing commercials. Well, this new era of doing commercials. Like I saw something the other day when there was like super bulk commercials coming out and someone was like Sabrina Carpenter teases her Samsung commercial and it was like the concept of Sabrina Carpenter teasing her commercial. Yeah. We're reaching a point of like consumerism where we're teasing commercials. Well said. Yeah. Like I'm having dreams of products in my brain. It just it sucks because like. They're when that's horrible. But like on the other hand, if like Connor story was teasing his Verizon collab, I'd be like sitting at the Verizon store with faded. Right. He's going to fuck the flip phone. Wait till you see what happened. It was really good. I've watched it like three times. Oh, I'm excited. Yeah, it's like a horror movie. Let me try to like try to guess. Are there Verizon Verizon? Are there devices president? Kind of. Yeah. Yeah. Is it device the president? I guess I'll just see. I really don't like have any creative bone to spare. It's a really good. You want me to tell you the concept here? He like he's at this like really secluded kind of scary house and like things keep happening like the alarm goes off. Something else happened. I don't. Shit keeps happening. And then it turns out it's because his ass is so fat that he kept activating his his phone in his back pocket. Interesting. But it was scary. That's really creative. It wasn't it? To make the concept of a Verizon. To tie in his piece. The concept of a Verizon commercial to be centered around his huge ass. Yeah. Isn't that amazing? That's what I'm like. Maybe we're going in a good direction, but then it's like six. Something else comes out and that's 16 steps back. Yeah. I think that's fun. Yeah. It was really fun to me. That's fun. I enjoyed myself and I was like, oh, this is scary. I really liked it. Oh, yeah. And he felt really creatively fulfilled by the project. Did he share that? Yeah. Oh, that's really great. Yeah, it really is. Love when things come together in that way. I do. I do too. Oh, well, now I'm really upset. Why? This is about the Fleetwood Mac thing. I know. I saw it. So it's like all like the life go out of your eyes. It's really hard for me to like get back into what we were talking about. Joe made it give you a few options. Well, I have one right here. Okay, talk to me. Talk to me. Oh my gosh, unless this is an April Fool's joke too. Like, I don't know. Like I could be. No, it is like I'm just feel stupid as hell. What was it? Like there's no point in me sharing anything like this. We should have skipped. Oh, everything, everything I have on my notes today was fake. What? Tell us what they are. The alien breeding program. Like I don't think that's real. Okay, now I'm like, okay. And did they actually steal 16 tons of Kit Kats in Europe? I'm assuming not. I believe the Kit Kats because that was yesterday. Is Instagram. It's not kosher to do April Fool's on March 31st. Is it is Instagram launching a feature paid feature to stock people's stories? Unseen. You can already do that. Paid. Unpaid. Anonymous something. Anonymous viewer.com or something. I already do that all the time. Yeah, Kit Kats real. Oh, this is real, but like not really. Well, like what we believe Matt Gaetz. No, I don't think we do. You think Trump could keep that a secret? We're breeding aliens. They're the. It would be crazy. Amazing. Actually. Obama said they do exist. Okay. Well. And they do, but. It's just like, did you see that him say that it was kind of like, whoa, I saw him do it on the same day that something else huge happened. I'm like, oh, bummer that it got buried, buried completely. That would be such a bummer if like you really something that was massive. And then. Someone did something else. I think Trump did something that day and it was just like, OK, that was on purpose. Yeah, that's like when like people come out with an album the same day as Taylor Swift. And it's like, you have to just move your album. I think like Taylor Swift would usually come out with an album the same day as that meant that would be an intentional move. Oh. Oh. You know, Matthew Morrison is replacing Jonathan Groff in just in time today. I can't believe she was he was at the same Pilates classes. Is that not hysterical? Just like crouching. I literally just texted this is like this. Speaking of things that are April Fool's. Oh, do you think it might be? No, it's not really second tired of April Fool's. That's it's nothing's not April Fool's. Nothing's very funny. It just doesn't make sense. And I'm confused because here's why I'm confused. Jeremy Jordan is replacing Jonathan in a few weeks, who's like fabulous. But why are we doing this like three week interim of Matthew Morrison? Just like, let's just go right to Jeremy Jordan or extend Jonathan or close down the show for a little. I wish I could tell you that Matthew Morrison is bad. It's just like. Not it's not a match. You know, like he don't. I'm sorry. It's just just trust me when I say it's not a match. OK. So cute, not a match. That's what someone said to Tristan on Grindr. So cute, not a match. Less is hard. But yeah, Kat texted me last week when we were recording and it was just a picture of her and cross fit. Solid core. And her and Matthew Morrison, like under a sign that was like girl boss, girl town or something, just working out together. And she said, is this Mr. Schuster? Absolutely. Why wouldn't it be? Apparently they were knuckling the whole time. Which I. Oh, yeah. Like, is that not crazy built by women, powered by women? Yeah. Solid core is so hard. That's really cool that they're doing it together. Yeah. No, I like to me like I'm talking shit, but like if I were doing solid core with Mr. Schuster, I'd be knuckle knuckle punching him as well. Like. Can you imagine like having a free second during solid core to knock someone. Unless I was laying. Kat is so strong. On my ass, on the ground. I'm obsessed with his look at the way he's crouching his feet or like sticking it back out. I don't look like that. I did a solid core class with. I think it was with Celsius and we all went in and there was a moment where I was asked to join in with the other young men that did the solid core class. And I passed. Out. No, I passed on the picture. Okay. I would love to show the other young man as a photo. I said, I'm going to sit out for the photo because it wouldn't be. I don't think it would be so cute on a match. Yeah. For me to be in that photo. Yeah. I love when I get invited to do like a branded event with that is like a workout class because it's like. What that I put out like gave you the idea that I would be like be a good. Oh, I've been invited to I've never gone. Match for this. I like to work out completely alone so much so that I've told you before. If I just start, oh, Brooke. What? Hangnail. Uh-huh. Leave it alone. Oh, that was huge. I ate it. Oh my God. It looks like a second finger coming off of your finger. Holy moly. Did that not hurt? No, it was like the skin was so dead that it wasn't like attached to my skin. Worried. Hey. Oh, y'all, this is bad. No, I have. I think here's what I think will help you understand is he can we look up Matthew Morrison, one man show? He's been doing this one man show and this is what he's leaving to do just in time. And like if we, if I can just get a tick tock of this for you, I think you'll start to understand. Yeah, let's just give this one a whirl. As it's best. Is it dance? You bring your steps, your heart, your truth. So I expect others to do the same. But sometimes that dance takes an unexpected turn. This is. And this is a real. This is real. This is exactly my set. I disappeared from my feet. The call stopped. The door is closed. And one by one, the people around me turn their backs. I was left sitting in the silence. Ask him the questions you asked yourself. Okay, I get it. No, I don't know if you do. No, I do. I think I got like that was like a good tidbit enough for me to like grasp. You would have liked his telling of his 9-11 retelling as well. Why do you think I would have liked that? It's it's it's an unique perspective. You think I would have liked Matthew Morrison's unique retelling of the 9-11 experience? I do. His 9-11 experience. Where was he? But you'll have to watch the clip. Okay, I'll watch it in the in the bonus. Okay, well, why not? I'll hit I'll hit it here. I think I get it. The concept of Matthew Morrison getting cheated on on 9-11. And that's what he's speaking about here. Yes. Yeah, here's my 9-11. I was I was being cheated on 9-11, though. He's talking about his experience 9-11 rushing home to his girlfriend, open the door and bad with another man. But like he told it like in his Matthew Morrison way. Oh, and that was at City Winery. He was at City Winery. Nashville. Oh, cool. Oh, he's there right now. Yeah, I wanted to go see him, but no one would go with me. I would go. Would you? Yeah, I told you that. But now he's doing just in time. Oh, so it's not a problem. That's the freaking problem. So anyway, he is like to follow Jonathan Groff. That's what I'll say about that. Do you think I'll ever really meet Jonathan? Groff? Yeah. Yeah, there's been several individuals like very close to him. I just feel like I keep like getting close, but never close enough. In time. And I know I technically met him that for a brief moment at Funny Girl, but that didn't count. In time. Okay. Just take a breather. Pretty girl. You think I'm pretty? Yeah, very pretty. Oh. Happy Passover. Happy Passover, my Buddha. I'm not your Buddha, I'm your Papa. Oh, Papa. I need to get into like a good zone of like Papa Elegium again. I need to like, that's like a lock-in, but it just has to happen, which sucks. You can't force that. Oh, that was so fun. I know, you can't force. We should have Catback on. Yeah, we should. Yeah. I do need, I want to go, we're going to do, I want to make a business plan with her. To move to Carmel by the sea? I'm really like, I want to do that as soon as possible to move to my beach town. I don't want you to do that. I don't want to move to my beach town. I don't want you to move to your beach town. I really like, I'm like freaking out. It's like the 30 of it all. It's like, I've got to get started on the rest of my life. You have, you're well beyond that. But like at what, like when do you start your beach town? I'm talking about the whole town. Okay, I love- I think I should move to the keys. I don't know a thing about the keys. Then I'm like, should I wait till I like, get married and it's like, I might not. You know, so it's like, maybe I should just do it. Alone with Kat. I'm going to show you this Portlandia bit in the bonus. It's so funny. I'm just like, I wish I knew an exact timeline of how my life was going to play out so I could plan accordingly around my beach town. There's several movies about that and it never works out in the way that you think. I know. So that's why I'm like, then I should just do it now. Cause it's like, what am I waiting for? I know. I don't know. You're waiting, you have so much happening right now. Maybe wait until you have a little like I have. Maybe I should start a beach town. I think maybe I should just play tiny bookshop again. But I, I've got to crank up the volume. Turn it up a notch. Let's turn it up a notch. Okay. So I'm between the keys, Carmel by the sea. Newport, Rhode Island. Newport, Rhode Island. And I could do like a Nicholas Sparks type of like Carolina. Yeah. I've never been to any of these places. You've never been to Carmel by the sea? No. I know I need to go. I. Monterey is also very nice. Where's that? Near Carmel, I think. But yeah, that's like big little lies, right? Yeah, it's so I just went to a wedding there and it was great. Yeah. I've got to go to these places if I'm going to move there, which I am. At least go do some on the ground field research. It is crazy. Also, Carmel by the sea, like looks fake. This looks fake too. Yeah, it does. But then I also want to get out of California because of the taxes. OK, on the note on the taxes, let's wrap it up. But thank you guys so much for listening. I hope you enjoyed the black guy and the Carmel of it all. We love you. And we'll see you in the bonus. Bye, everyone. We'll see you hopefully at our live show if you're listening on Thursday. It's tomorrow. We'll see you tomorrow. We're coming to San Diego. Irvine is next week and then Sacramento is also next week. Next weekend. 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