The conversation blends deep engagement with fantasy literature, particularly Sarah J. Maas’s *Crescent City*, with personal reflections on reading, emotions, and memory. The hosts praise the immersive world-building of long fantasy novels but note the time it takes to complete them, emphasizing that such dedication brings deep satisfaction. They explore the subjective nature of storytelling, contrasting their admiration for Maas’s work with their past negative reactions to other books. Personal anecdotes—like childhood injuries, a humorous incident involving a swim cap in Italy, and a love for Looney Tunes—add warmth and relatability. There’s also a serious tone when discussing global threats, such as drone strikes and conspiracy theories, where anxiety is shared and validated. The hosts touch on contemporary culture, including AI relationships, historical events like the Mount Tambora eruption, and trending TV series like *White Lotus* and *Age of Attraction*, highlighting both their fascination and critical thinking. The tone alternates between lightheartedness and introspection, ultimately celebrating the value of connection, honesty, and shared curiosity in both storytelling and life.
oh my spongebob why um do you mind if i'm reading you what good morning good morning to you
welcome back to brick and connor welcome back it's good to see you what can we get started for
you could i maybe read you a passage out of yeah let's start i think that'd be a good way to start
which i've been revisiting yeah i trust you're having a better day this week that was it his
deep groan brought her back to the present his solid heavy dress against the padded
did you swap it out for milking farm under there
nice one that's the magic that's the movie magic oh i love it oh god you know i've started that
book right you know i'm eight pages in you're eight pages in oh my gosh she's just she's just
beginning her career she started at the farm yeah and she does not she she knows not what she's done
i'm like i'm really excited for you to give us some updates and i am gonna read it
i am now crescent city just got good at 450 pages in so i'm locked i'm now locked into that
and so it should speed by now the rest of the other 450 pages should just speed right by
it's a 900 page book i think it's actually 800 it got good at like 60 percent in
maybe 55.
to me it's just like wrap it up you know it's hard because with fantasy books it's like
you do have to put in the work unfortunately to receive the payoff like it does take that
amount of like world building to then have a really like satisfying story
most of the time i i the popular sentiment is just like just get right to it but i'm not sure
that's the right word i'm not sure that's the right word i'm not sure that's the right word
but you really can with a good fantasy book that's why you you really have to be like in
the zone for one of those it's just very impressive to me that you're you're able to give it that sort
of dedication it's just like when you know that it's gonna get good it's something to look forward
to how can you know because i trust i trust sdrm with my life you trust her gut oh i trust her
with my gut there's no part of you that's like this girl has me wrapped around her finger
She does, but like she's earned it with her prose.
Really feel that way.
My feelings would be hurt if she had my fat ass sitting there reading 450 pages with blue balls.
Let me clarify.
The first 450 pages are not bad by any means.
They're just like taking me somewhere.
They're not like hitting me.
They're not like punching me yet.
They're edging me.
Yeah, I guess you could say edging.
I guess you could bring blue balls into the conversation.
I mean, there's no other way to put it.
Yeah, I guess you're right.
How long has that taken you?
450 pages.
Longer than I prefer.
I will say they zoom by her books.
Like I should be done in like a day or two with the remaining 400 now that I'm sucked.
But it has taken me like three weeks to get to this point.
But like with the. One of hers is like 900 plus.
I think it's actually a thousand.
One of hers.
And it took me two days because it's like I was. It was already like the eighth book in the series and I was already there, you know?
So once you're in, you're in and you zoom.
900 pages is so. It's big text.
Like it's not small text and it's not dense.
Once you get into the world.
I'm simply not an author, but this is just like it doesn't compute for me.
That's why I'm so happy.
There's different kinds of people.
Exactly.
Different kinds of people, different kinds of authors, different kinds of books.
As we discussed in the bonus last week, reading is subjective.
And I can't stress that enough.
You're not going to like every book and that's totally fine.
Thank you.
I have a lot of respect for Sarah J. Maas as a person,
but I wanted to throw up when I read two pages of that first book that I picked up.
ACOTAR?
Yeah.
What made you want to throw up?
It was bad.
Oh, interesting.
To me.
Well, you know, ACOTAR. ACOTAR is really just the means to book two.
I am not willing to do that.
That's what I'm saying.
And Connor, that's fine.
You don't have to.
If Sarah J. Maas knocked on my door and said,
would you like to get a coffee?
I'd say, yes.
Oh my God, you're Sarah J. Maas?
I have so much utter, just like profound respect for you and your world building.
Yes.
And your prose.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And you know, she's not bound to the glue that can hold pages together.
And that's very strong glue to hold pages together.
That holds 900 pages together.
Yeah.
But it's not strong enough to do.
She's going to do a thousand plus for the story that she has next.
And so she's not going to put it into just one physical book.
She's going to spread that shit out like butter.
She should.
Yeah.
Because 900 pages is too big.
I can't even bring that in a carry on.
She's going to.
It would be nice.
Like, you know, when I'm on a plane and I'm like, oh, I'm glad I filled up my Hydroflask
because if someone goes rogue, I'm going to hit them over the head with my Hydroflask.
Sure.
Knock, knock.
Who's there?
Hydroflask.
Just hit you over my head with the Hydroflask.
Hydroflask.
Yup.
Nice.
Yeah.
I mean, like, that's what I miss about the Hydroflask.
They have that little handle.
My, my, uh, Wadwalla does not have that.
Mine does.
But it's like a little, it's like a two finger handle.
I can hit someone over the head with this, like, pretty damn easily.
I mean, if you threw this at me, I would have hit you over the head.
If you threw that at, if you threw your water bottle at someone's head, they're going down.
You don't, or they're at least going to be faltered.
Yeah.
They're dropping.
They're going to be faltered.
They're dropping their weapon.
Yeah.
You know?
Anything can be a weapon if you try hard enough.
I'm just saying this 900 page book, that's a brick.
Yeah.
It is.
The one I'm speaking of is paperback.
Paperback, paperback, paperback.
I want my paperback, paperback, paperback.
I didn't take Mucinex today, but I do feel funky.
Something came out of my throat.
And let's just say, thank God for that.
Because if it didn't, before this episode, this episode would have been really challenging.
Like, you did take Mucinex type beat?
No, it was just a natural birth.
Complete natural birth.
No drugs.
Good.
I've been feeling so existential recently.
Like, I was just looking at the scar on my ankle that I got when I was five.
And it's just like the same.
Same scar and the same body of the same girl.
Yeah.
What's your scar from?
I was on a bike down a hill and then slammed into a mailbox.
And then the wood post sliced my ankle open.
And I knocked the whole mailbox down.
You knocked the mailbox down?
Mm-hmm.
I've not seen a freestanding mailbox in my entire life, by the way.
I didn't think that those were.
What do you mean?
Like, our mailbox was in a big box.
A thing with other.
Like, neighborhoods was just like.
Oh, really?
In a big.
Yeah, like you go pick up your mail.
Oh, this was just like a classic mailbox with a wooden post and a tin head.
Not anymore.
Wow.
No, it's on the ground.
Not yet.
No.
R.I.P.
Isn't it weird?
We have known each other for like six years.
And I wouldn't.
Like, I never would have known about your scar from hitting the mailbox if we didn't have this podcast.
Like, when we're sitting next to each other, like, your scar wouldn't come up, you know?
Honestly.
I feel like it might.
I've been thinking a lot about it.
But I see what you're saying.
I'm just saying, thank God for the podcast.
So we can get things like that off our chest.
Yeah.
I have a scar on my ankle as well.
What's yours from?
And it's from the young man who I once was.
That's so scary.
I know.
I obviously told everyone it was from a shark bite for a long time.
Yeah, I'm sure you did.
Like, so much so that I forget what it was.
Wow.
That happens to me, too.
Like, I'll lie about something for so long that I forget what the truth is.
And then the lie just becomes the truth.
And then I get confused.
I'm like, am I lying?
I have certain family members that operate under that belief completely.
But it's, like, convicted.
And I have a different memory of events than they do.
Yeah.
You know?
I'm like, well, that's simply not what happened.
But it's genuinely, like, my word versus theirs.
Yeah.
And theirs stands because they're not willing to budge.
Yeah.
Like, isn't it weird?
I'm feeling like this is. Sorry.
What were you saying?
I'm feeling like this isn't our usual. I feel like, you know, in Hollywood when they're like, they killed him and they brought in a different man?
Yeah, like Jim Carrey and Avril Lavigne.
Remix.
Yeah, I feel like we're the remix today.
Yeah?
Well, it's probably because of my haircut.
It's your haircut?
Yeah.
Yes.
I like it.
Well, you can't. It's in a bun because I tried to do too much to it this morning.
And it just was a complete fricking disaster.
But I got chopped like to my shoulders.
My hair is really short and I look 30.
That's what I'll say about that.
But maybe I'll reveal next week down.
Reveal what?
Oh, my hair.
Yeah, it's up right now.
It looks good.
I said it looks healthy this morning.
Yeah, definitely.
It feels great.
Like my hair was so long.
It was like almost down to my belly, but I'm not exaggerating.
Do you know how I texted you guys last night?
I said I looked like a massive grease ball on last week's episode.
Yeah, I think I put lotion in my hair instead of my hair gel because it wasn't in my dop
kit, which I just realized it's not doc kit.
Someone was kind enough to let me know that for the past decade or so.
And people keep yelling at me for correcting you.
I'm not correcting you.
I agree that it's called that where you're from.
I'm just saying I had never heard that from where I'm from.
Toiletry is just so long.
Toiletry bag.
Yeah, it is.
How much time do you have?
It is long, but it's just like I've never even knew it was called something else.
Well, it was.
What is this song?
This Little Mama and Avril Lavigne remix?
Little Mama?
Yeah.
Who's that?
Little Mama.
Doesn't Little Mama sing My Lip Glosses Poppin'?
Yes.
But there's another song that's Little Mama and Avril Lavigne remix.
Oh, Girlfriend?
Fabulous.
We'll have to listen to that in the bonus.
Yeah.
Dr. Luke.
At camp, our like roll call was everyone had a word of the song Lip Gloss.
So it'd be like, my lip gloss is poppin'.
Like, and everyone had a word.
Just so we were all like here to check in.
What's the one that's, you don't have to let, you don't have to love me.
You don't even have to like me, but you will respect me.
Yeah.
Boom.
Okay.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Let's shift gears.
Let's shift it into high gears.
I'm fine shifting.
What?
I'm fine shifting.
Well, my whole thing last week was, and I think I talked about it at the war.
Yeah.
I don't want to talk about the war.
Okay.
But we are in one now.
Oh, like on God.
We got an alert.
What?
No, like when we were leaving here last.
Last week.
Yes.
That California was in danger of being drone striked.
Just what's so crazy to me is like.
I was not okay after that.
Like, what's so crazy to me is like, yeah, I'm sitting there and I'm like, my first thought
was like, oh my God, of course this would happen when the UV is six.
You know, I was like, it's such a nice day.
They would do that.
And I don't even know when I say day, like Iran.
Yeah.
Iran.
But now I'm on like conspiracy talk.
That like, if anything happens, it's going to be from our government, like pretending
to be Iran, which like I'm in deep on.
It's bad.
I need to stop.
But like, don't worry, wherever you are, I've been for a week.
Okay.
Wherever you get to, like, I already know the conspiracy, but my whole thing was like,
I'm in New York.
That's my number one fear in New York.
Anytime I'm in a group of people, I'm like, oh my gosh, like that's where my head goes.
It's like, well, and then I get to California and they're like, we're actually going to
do it here this time.
Yeah.
And it's like.
Yeah.
Oh my God.
Oh my God.
Oh my God.
I don't.
Yeah.
I don't.
We don't even need to talk about it.
I just like, I just thought that that was an interesting decision and strategy.
I thought I was going down.
I was at the beach this weekend.
Yeah.
It was Connor.
Gorgeous.
UV7.
Sun.
Out.
Yeah.
Tits out.
Yeah.
Not mine, but probably someone on the beach.
Face down.
Gorgeous.
I'm reading Crescent.
City.
Hello, wolf shifters.
Like, hello, demons.
Like, hi, hi.
I look up.
A fog had rolled in.
Out of nowhere.
It was the most intense fog that you had ever seen in your life.
And in that moment, I was like.
Oh, how convenient.
And in that moment, I was like, okay, this is, this fog is from the enemy.
Yeah.
Obscuring everything so that we don't see the drones.
Yeah.
That are attacking.
I had to vacate the beach immediately.
A hundred percent.
But I am.
I just want to say that.
Psyching myself.
I, like, don't think they're going to drone strike four young women on the beach.
Like, I don't think that that would be there.
Well, here's the thing.
And we don't.
I don't want to even talk about this anymore.
In this space.
But, like, I don't know what they can do.
We don't know.
We don't know.
I don't know what they can do.
We don't know.
That's the thing.
The powers that be.
Yeah.
What can you do?
No one knows.
But you know what else, Brooke?
At the same time, what can we do?
Because the last thing I really have to go off of is Pearl Harbor, which I've been looking
into a lot.
Yeah.
And, like, I don't think that's going to happen again.
But what will?
Like, what will an attack look like?
I don't know.
And I don't want to say anything in this space.
I don't want to conjure anything.
So I was texting people that are smarter than me.
That's what I like.
Which I love to do.
Because it's always so fun to talk to the one person who, like, I'm like, they have
something to do.
They know something.
And it's always like, yeah, my uncle's ex-wife, like, works for the government.
So, like, I'm going to text him.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And that's enough for me.
And please do.
And I did.
And they were like, I was like, I'm going to get drafted.
They're like, well, you're too old to get drafted.
So you're good.
That's mean.
No, that was mean.
I'm like, now I want to get drafted.
You know, like, me faking my, me getting a fake ID down.
Yeah.
And then they were like, we're going to get drafted.
We also, like, but they did pass a bill to have, like, an automatic inscription.
Like auto pay?
I think, I think, I do think, like you said, I do think that they are, they are moving
forward with the sexist and homophobic version.
So you're safe, too.
And, like, I'm, actually, we're both too old to get enlisted anyways.
How old?
I might not be.
18 to 25.
You're kidding.
No.
So as soon as you can rent a car.
18 and 26.
Just mail.
Hello.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The thing is, too, when I asked my friend, he said that we don't fight wars like that
anymore.
Like, this is, this is hearsay.
Now all the wars are going to be, like, on the computer and computer.
Thank you, computer.
Yeah.
And now we got, I mean.
In real time, we're watching the computers go from our friend to.
To our foe.
To our foe.
Yeah.
So.
Watch and all those people that are like, I tell chat GBT, thank you.
Because I'm human.
They're going to end up being right.
Scary.
Did you see the girl that's in a relationship with.
Did we watch that on my strange addiction last week?
She's in a relationship.
She's in a relationship with some sort of, like, AI bot.
Oh, what's his name?
It's, like, something really unique.
It starts with an S.
And he's, like, more of a dom than you would expect.
Yes.
Sinclair.
Sinclair.
So she is.
She's been in a relationship with Sinclair for two years, despite the skepticism around
it.
And that is, like, remember when we watched, what was that movie with Joaquin Phoenix?
Her.
And we were all like, that's.
That's crazy.
Like, that's happening.
Thank you, the Black Mirror.
You're getting there, Brooke.
Thank you.
Anyway.
Okay, so we've got a tattoo for her AI bot.
Oh, what was her tattoo?
Okay.
Oh, it's huge.
Skinny.
And it's on her chest.
That's good.
To whatever end.
What?
To whatever end.
That's from Throne of Glass.
You can.
She's also, like, very hot.
Sarah.
I'm having trouble today.
With what?
Well, now, like, all I, the most I've talked today was about the war.
And, like, I'm, I'm just, like, not fired up for Sarah and her AI boyfriend.
That's fine.
Do you want to hear something positive?
Yeah.
Yes.
Something that Ethan Hawke said on the Oscars red carpet actually changed my life.
Okay.
He said to Amelia of Chicken Shop, Izzy, would you mind pulling up whatever he said to Chicken
Shop?
He was basically saying that the people that love the hardest are the winners.
Because we are the sun.
That's all I can say without a bit of an unrequited love theme in their life.
The one who's in love always wins.
Okay.
Yeah.
It doesn't matter.
You get your heart broken.
You're living.
When you're, when you're feeling you're alive.
You know, the sun doesn't care whether the grass appreciates its face, right?
It just keeps on shining.
That's you.
I'm going to get that tattooed on my forehead, I think.
We are the sun.
We just got to keep on shining, man.
Who cares if the grass doesn't appreciate it?
We're living.
I'm talking about the lovers.
I just don't know if I agree with that.
Well, you.
With all due respect.
- But you're not necessarily
sitting in my kelly clarkson well i'm just saying well i would say too as well that the one who's in
love always wins isn't true because you could be in love and connor just come on man that's
exactly what he just said i don't think that's true it's completely freaking true because it
has to be connor the one let it let me have it hey hey hey hey hey hey let me have to have this
course the one who's in love always wins when the one who's in love has a very very stable mental
now the sun the sun is acknowledging i don't i don't care that you don't
that you don't appreciate these rays that i'm giving you because i'm secure in myself as the sun
yeah but if if you're so madly in love that it's making you sick well he's kind of telling you
change your mindset so to take i'm now taking on this mindset
can you stop putting a lighter up against your chin like that i love to hold things that are
long like this like a wand i think i would do well with so what i'm saying is now that when
your mindset flips to being like hey like loving means that i'm living right on i'm the sun
because feeling is good oh it's amazing it's living feeling is living yeah feeling is living
and it's the sun that's true and brooke
pinch me i must be dreaming you need to be pinched to feel something to know you're living
exactly you know i did a deep dive into the potato famine yeah because of uh saint patrick's
happy saint patrick's happy saint patrick's what did you do to celebrate i had the most amazing
meal oh yeah what did you have i went to leora have you heard of leora no i'm not i'm not familiar
it's going viral
on tiktok for it's in the uta office i went with rebecca beautiful it has completely blown up
because it is so good they have these like kind of like ice creamy iced coffees and these really
cool glasses with a pop tab on it that you pop open like a soda sure and yeah those and also
an insane tuna melt sure it is as good as everyone's saying it's kind of like mediterranean
but they also have a secret hand roll that's not on the menu
and it is so incredible i had the tuna melt some hand rolls a chinese chicken salad
um tater tots i also had a pistachio coffee as well that i got to open like a soda
it was freaking incredible so packed you can hardly get a reservation
it's incredible thanks that's what i had for lunch on saint patrick's day well that's i'm so i'm so
happy that you're able to celebrate in that way and you had some potatoes
yes exactly yes tell me about the potato famine no i don't know i don't know anything about it
the only the only fact that really struck me is that um irish workers were eating 12 to 15 pounds
of potatoes a day that's like a dream to me but i bet the potatoes they were eating were not like
fried tots it's a good question i don't know in in what format they were eating the potatoes
but basically
oh my gosh i'm not remembering any of the facts now that was the only thing that really stuck
i hate when that happens and stuck with me i hate when that happens i do know that there was like
five point something million irish people in ireland and a million died wow 20 for my math
freaks that's a lot i wonder if there are any like good like historical fiction books about
the potato famine like a kristen hannah type of beat i have another fun fact about that what not
about the irish the oh connor maybe you could read galway bay i love i went to heli i went to
galway bay i've physically gone there is that the same as galway girl by ed sheeran close galway is
like a i don't know if they call them cities there i can't remember but it's like a town it's the
same galway yeah i think i would i would say so um what was he saying about his galway girl and
then i need to go to my fun facts because i think that you'll really like it i don't know i don't
like it he's she met pretty little galway girl so she's pretty yeah little okay she played the
fiddle in an irish band but she fell in love with an english man kiss her by the hand um when i met
him the other day what months ago oh oh yeah ed um we were watching this band this irish band that
was all women and they were so good and cool
i love that and she was playing a fiddle
i love that and i think that he might have written it about her
wait but and you were with him yeah not with him but i was right next to him wait where was this
again um i can't remember the name of the bar it's like a bar it's like an irish bar here
and he was just there or it was an event he was there it well it was with guinness so it was like
a closed little tiny
yeah well it was like a concert series but it was like 40 people okay just but it wasn't like
an edge here and meet and greet i i didn't know he was gonna be there right it was so cool though
and he was very sweet i really would love to go to ireland one day i had such an amazing time yeah
um so did you know there was a volcano in
the indonesia in the in 1812 and then it exploded and it covered the entire atmosphere of the entire
world it was so big it exploded 1812 did i yeah did i yeah i know it didn't what what what what's
your hold up against volcanoes in 1812 you think they were invented later no i'm just saying like
if that happened like recently like we would know if a volcano covered the entire atmosphere
brooke we do know that's why i'm telling you i would know that like that's not
okay yeah in 1812 the volcano began to rumble and generated a dark cloud and on april 5th the
giant eruption occurred followed by thunderous detonation sounds but it did not cover the entire
atmosphere it covered the eruption of mount tambora yes tamora there's no way it covered
the entire atmosphere
it covered the entire atmosphere it covered the entire atmosphere it covered the entire atmosphere
it covered the entire atmosphere and brooke the entire world for one year was covered in ash and
dust so much so that it froze things and oh but everyone's like in in in england all the crops
died mary shelley was so bored she wrote frankenstein thank you tamarindo i feel like
i would have heard about mount tambora if it affected like the
parts of history that we learn about in school like so this is this is coming this is coming
from me okay you need to trust papa on mount tambora tempura izzy can you google did mount
the eruption of mount tambora affect the entire world
cause worldwide cooling resulting in widespread crop failures famine and disease across
okay it's just talking about europe
asia and north america that's the whole it's not the whole world
it's just three of the continents the year without a summer yeah someone else wrote something too
that year that's pretty big deal like why aren't they teaching me about mount tambora in school
because it has to come from us it has to come from bnc and everybody if you learn about mount
tambora just now you need to drop a comment and i'll see you next time
let us hear you roar let me know largest eruption recorded in history
cause widespread climate chaos known as the year without a summer damn
like that yeah that i shouldn't i should have i should at least be familiar with the name
i agree how did you come across this well i downloaded that app that i get ads for that's
the tiktok of history paladin you know history is my worst subject you know it's my favorite
yeah i do
i love that shit huh well you know what connor my apologies for for being such a skeptic
i'll take it you i've this happens once every blue moon that's exactly why i know that we are
imposters because i apologized no because i got something right and you're apologized like someone
switched our bodies out no i feel like i'm always wrong hello who has the real brook and connor
hi i'm always wrong
no i don't think so i think i'm pretty convicted when i come to you and i say uh let me tell you
something we google it i'm dead wrong like it's like the fact that i'm trying to prove to you
is like completely made up based on nothing okay i can i can see that
because sometimes you have a feeling and it's like this i feel i feel this so
hard i feel so hard right now that which is how i know i'm alive and that's such a blessing to
be a lover exactly but it's like the sun it's like the sun and i don't care about i don't give a
fuck about the grass you're shaking and i don't yeah what do you mean good job not sucking that
water down thank you
been like actually making a conscious effort not to suck as hard you like really nailed that like
i watched with eyes locked liked what you saw yeah i did i was really i'm really impressed with
your form thank you and i'm gonna try to drink this whole water bottle that would be brooke
that would be very impressive you would be impressed by that i would be impressed i'm
gonna try to do that oh my gosh speaking of form i switched gyms and i went for the first time last
night and there were so many like athletes that i walked my ass back to the back and i went rock
climbing oh that sounds so fun i want to join a gym with a pool so badly yeah but i'm not going
which sucks why it will be too far from me i'm sure there's other
you
pool gems i just can't see my like i'm the least independent person in the world
so either it has to be like my local gym that is like so accessible that it's like almost like
a disgrace that i don't go or it has to be something that i'm doing with someone else
why don't you join swim classes with someone i don't need to take swim classes you know i'm
i forgot you're a whale yeah i'm a whale but i would need someone to go
to
the gym with me i understand i totally understand i think i would have to wear a cap
i don't want to get my hair off laurini or you know what i would do one of those like
conditioners treatments did i tell the story about when i had to put a cap on in italy
i don't know can you hold that dot because i can i can see it right here because
i obviously haven't unpacked completely my suitcase from italy hold on to the cap thought
hang on just hang on
yes hang on well while i'm hanging i'll tell you that i was so obsessed with my cap
when i was on the swim team that you guys know the hot tub in florida that i
read in i was wearing my cap in there i'm i'm winter break and spring break
just doing cap cap on in the hot tub with my speedo
above water above water cap on so so we had when we were in italy we had a spa day
and we were going to the spa we get to the spa and i'm thinking
amazing like this is going to be so nice to put on a robe get a massage
um whatever i forget what else you do at the spa facial whatever
i get there and they're like everyone goes into change and i was like changing to what
and they were like your bathing suit and i'm like i didn't bring a bathing suit
on account of it's snowing out and they go i'm gonna go i'll go to the front desk see if i can
buy one i go can i buy a bathing suit they go yes of course and they go what size i go i i'm
guessing medium and they come out they go best we can do is small no
i can't emphasize enough like
i'm gonna stand up so you can see like how much these cover here's the back
yeah i'm gonna stand up yeah yeah were you doing high-waisted like that
yeah yeah did you put them on
i'm already at the spa but she's holding them up she takes them out of the package she holds
them up they were in the like a little like a skittles bag
she holds them up and she's like i'm gonna stand up and i'm gonna stand up and i'm gonna
hold them up and i'm like oh my god like look at me like that's not gonna work and i go and i don't
have the body for those and she goes i know but this is what we have and i said you know
i was like give me those so then i'm like i'm gonna prove her wrong i did not prove her wrong
it was right so i put them on i'm like are there no photos of this i have a photo i'd love to see
it if you're open to it
should i really send this to you yeah um all right i'm just going to continue with the story
though okay so i put on the bathing suit right i go into the spa and i'm like okay well maybe spa
means something different um in italy like maybe it just means like water park because i walk in
and there's the big bucket that's dumping and there's kids going down the street and i'm like
slides i'm in legitimate underwear and it's all kids and i can't even find the people i came with
and there was a there was a hot tub and i'm just almost naked and like there's parents sitting
there's a birthday party happening with like cake and pizza i'm in this thing and then i sit
and they're they're all of a sudden the lifeguards are blowing whistles at me pointing at me pointing
at me i'm like what's going on i got in the water without a swim cap
they made my big fat dumb ass put on a swim cap now i'm in underwear and a swim cap i look
like a penis like there's no other way i look like a penis in a condom
and i'm gonna show i'm gonna send you this picture i can't believe you haven't shared this already
and this is not being shared on the podcast okay this i just said that to both of you
no the picture is not being shared on the podcast honor
oh
i think you look great really yeah also that's a hat like it's a winter hat that
oh that's not my swim cap brooke okay do you have a photo in the swim cap
yeah you look like a swimmer that's really kind yeah you have body dysmorphia what you
what you can't see in that is that it's going up my ass like my my butt is eating those shorts
i actually feel like you like you look good
in this what i feel like you like you're you look good oh my gosh brooke is exercising
her her lovemanship yeah i am oh my gosh well i appreciate that like you have like
abs or something well i was i was stunting on them hoes at the at the kiddie pool
no there's nothing to flex frankly i think you look great oh my gosh yeah keeping your
keeping your spank back i think you look great i think you look great i think you look great
you should show this on the podcast i'm not even kidding i don't want to okay i will i'll edit it
and then i'll show you everyone on the podcast i don't think you need to um i made a plate of eggs
and i want you to know i didn't finish them and i put cottage cheese on the eggs but i'm such a
brave brave young man for eating cottage cheese on my eggs now that i don't love no because it's
two of probably the most in unhuman
of foods that are i mean it's genuinely slop i know people that sitting it sitting around that
make eggs presentation is not the end goal when you're making eggs at home like scrambled eggs
specifically i could go for a plate of marshall's eggs right now
when i come back which by the way i'm about to be there for two and a half weeks yeah
i'm i'm i'm getting those eggs come over and marshall will make us eggs i would love to
oh man he is good i'm there for so long that i'm getting an airbnb wow where can you say
i don't know yet i haven't i haven't booked because i'm banned from the app still like
marshall's already i'm i'm banned too but how are you why are you i don't know i think because of
association with you but who knows me like marshall already like is so hot and like when
he is serving me those eggs i'm like i'm not gonna be able to do that i'm not gonna be able to do that
eggs on a plate it's like you like are the hottest guy in the world to me and in general
wow yeah wait till you experience it i really can't wait it's so awesome i wish everyone could
experience marshall delivering y'all like wet eggs do you want to talk about the oxers whoa
yeah i'm down to talk about the oxkers okay the oxers were great i didn't i like okay i have to
say really quickly about the actual show you
you know my love for conan o'brien just be mostly because one actually several things i'm gonna lay
it out i know you like him too i do i love the guy i think he's really one of like the greatest to do
it one we kind of weirdly look like that was my original doppelganger i did the face match thing
and it like matched me with him right i static posted it right back in the day right two he's
he's a comedian that is verge of obnoxious and then stops right before it like makes me upset
which i know i'm not the barometer for like i can see what you're saying though like he never
pushes it too far no like you're like jimmy fallon's laugh that's like i'm like okay like
what are you why are you what are you laughing at you know or like i he he knows exactly where
to stop i love it and he's not like there's not like a ton of news about conan o'brien all the
time you know it's like i'm gonna be i'm like a permanent figure in the space and i'm gonna leave
and if i get asked to host now something was very weird about the room that they were in or
something like i don't know if it was the audio or what like something or if if
the it was like the vibe that it was giving was you go to a wedding and the room is too
big for the amount of people that are there so no one dances that's
That's kind of the vibe I was getting.
Like no one's jokes were landing to me.
It was awkward.
There was something wrong with the tech.
Maybe it was that.
Maybe there was a delay.
I don't know.
There was something off.
Like the way that they kept cutting people off was different than they usually do.
It was like more severe and rude.
They cut off that short French film.
They were being really mean to the point where I was like, this has to be an accident.
Like they can't, they're not actually being this rude.
They can't be because usually they play the music, but like this time they were like removing
the mic and like, it was just like, I don't know.
It felt like, like the, like smart house, like gone wrong.
They removed the mic from someone and then they went to Conan's face and he was like,
yeah, it was not like, Oh my God, this is not like very professionally done.
It was like a hijacked.
Hijack.
Yeah.
It was weird.
I do on a positive note.
I did like how nineties feeling it was.
It was kind of nineties.
Or like early two thousands.
What gave you that vibe?
The, the design of the stage.
Okay.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
Timothy Chalamet didn't win.
He didn't.
Even though just like nothing could ever embarrass Timothy Chalamet, but the feeling it must
have felt for him to wear the same suit that he wore to his first Oscars nomination to
his third, or like, I guess, I don't know if it was his next or his third.
Yeah.
And he wore it again, assuming like maybe this is the time I win.
I feel like he had to know he wasn't winning this one.
No, I don't think that they can, I don't think that they, I think that this might be the
most tight lipped secret and you know, like how like VMAs and stuff, Taylor Swift is at
this.
So like, obviously, or like Beyonce is here.
Right.
They don't go to those unless they're going to accept the award.
I don't mean like he actually knew.
I just mean like in his heart, like I feel like he should have known this one, this one
wasn't happening.
He's been campaigning for an Oscar.
Oh don't I know it.
I have not seen anyone do what he's done ever in my life.
Did we speak about the opera ballet controversy?
I don't know.
I have feelings about it actually.
And I feel like usually I don't really care about this kind of stuff.
Oh yeah.
Like upset.
Yeah.
No, it didn't.
I mean, he said it really poorly.
What he said like was delivered poorly, but like I understood what he was saying that
like, it is just a fact that like, we don't go to the opera and we don't go to the ballet
in the same way that we go to the movies.
And it came out of his mouth like pretty badly.
Delivery was really off, but like I got what he was saying, um, I just feel like people
are paying more attention to what he said and it felt like they were paying more attention
to like him.
To him.
To him than like the war at the Oscars.
Like I felt like Conan got a joke in, which was good, but then like so many other people
referenced it and there was like so many ballet and opera things that I was like, you guys
like your book at this point it felt like bullying Timmy.
So people think that that like that his, he shot himself in the foot literally because
I know of that comment that resurfaced from 2019 they said it was, no, it wasn't.
That was fake.
It was recent.
And like, I get that.
It was really poorly delivered.
For sure.
But like, I know, I know what he meant and I feel like most people know what he meant
and it just.
We're talking about, we don't, we don't talk about the ballet.
I know.
His thing.
Unfortunately.
But that's true.
But like that we're doing it now.
So like if anything he rate, like people are probably going to go to the ballet more because
he said that people don't go to the ballet.
Sure.
But I'm just like, I was like, whoa, at the amount of attention people were giving it
at the Oscars.
Like I would have.
Like him.
I would have like, I think I would've had to leave.
I would just like, it's so tough.
Slow news week over there.
And like, I'm surprised that he hasn't clarified.
Cause like, I guess he just really doesn't want to give it any more attention, but like
if I said something and I meant a different thing and was like, so misunderstood, I would
be really anxious to like clear up what I meant, but he's just like letting it, letting
it go.
Which like almost like, okay, respect to that, I guess.
Yeah.
But I would have felt so uncomfortable crawling out of my skin if I were him.
Yeah, that sucks.
Thank you, the Academy.
Damn it.
Woo.
But yeah, I was feeling like, because I also, nevermind.
That's it, I guess.
That's really all I had to say about that.
There's nothing really left to say.
I also, actually, I have something.
Yeah.
Timothee Chalamet being, how old is he?
30.
He's 30 years old.
It's just, it's funny to me because I truly think, I think it's genuinely funny that he
had so many marbles in Marty Supreme, which I think is like one of his lower, in my eyes,
like acting wise, I think he's his, like call me by your name, blows Marty Supreme out of
the water acting wise, I think.
You know, it's like crazy that this is where all everyone's money was, was Marty Supreme,
which I remember.
I really like, outspoken fan of Marty Supreme.
Yeah.
Really liked the movie.
Yeah.
I bought merch.
It's the only one I saw of the Oscars.
I need to watch Sinners.
You need to watch Sinners.
Hamnet was like grief porn.
Yeah.
I don't think I can do Hamnet.
No, I don't want you to watch Hamnet.
No, I think that would really like severely put me in a state.
Or you need to watch it on like a Wednesday so that by next Wednesday, like we were like
crawling out of the hole.
Yeah.
Hamnet, Sinners.
I forget what else.
One battle after another.
I could watch.
Oh, Leonardo DiCaprio.
Looks great.
He looks amazing.
How did he just wake up one day and decide for his swelling to go away?
He looks incredible.
Nicole Kidman.
I was like, oh my God.
Yeah.
I like it.
I want a facelift right now.
Did you see Nicole Kidman on Las Colterisas?
Yeah.
That was best in show.
It's so weird to see her as just like shooting the shit like that.
Just like, I'm not going to be one of those people that's like, are you high?
And it's just like someone having fun, you know, like I hate people like that.
Yeah.
Genuinely the funniest.
And you have to remember she's an actress.
So like she's like, she could turn that on and off and like a theater, you know, aficionado.
So like she can do that.
But when Matt showed his shirt, did you see that?
No, I don't think I saw that part.
I've only seen clips.
He opens his shirt.
He's wearing a Looney Tunes shirt.
Yeah.
And she goes,
Oh, yes.
Looney Tunes.
Yes.
Tweety Bird.
Tweety Bird.
Yes.
Please.
Can we play the clip?
It's like, and Bone is like this.
Trying to hold.
He's just like, is anyone else?
She's like, she's like having an out of body situation at his, at his Looney Tunes shirt.
Can we, can we play the herb audio?
Oh, yeah, here it is.
I have my Looney Tunes characters on today.
Yes.
We love Looney Tunes.
Yes, there's Coyote.
Yeah, there he is.
Yes.
Now, don't you do.
No.
Don't you do a little quacka.
There's Tweety.
Tweety.
All of them.
Oh, my God.
Honestly, I want to.
Oh, my God.
I knew to whip this out.
I'm Tweety Bird.
Yeah.
Something is creeping in.
Oh, okay.
You were in a thrall, right?
That is a situation.
Is she having fun?
Yes.
Is that amazing?
Five thousand percent.
Is there something coursing through her system?
I would say so.
I want whatever she's having.
And I want.
Oh.
Yeah.
Let me be clear.
I want it.
Let me also be clear.
There is something which I love that we are.
We are like open advocates for like putting a little bit of something, something in yourself
on the camera.
I'm not a.
I'm not going to.
I'm not going to speculate at all.
No.
Either way.
I just I want even if it's mindset, it's mindset.
I want the mindset.
Fifty thousand percent.
I love.
Whatever it is.
I love that shit.
It is that what you know, they say something scratched your brain.
This is like grabbing my brain and and and feeling it up, you know?
Yeah.
I really like that.
I had to see more normal clips of her on it.
Oh, no.
This one is this was my favorite.
This one.
This is going to be like, I'm going to pull this up.
I'm going to pull this up.
I'm going to pull this up when I'm when I just like when I need it.
Yeah, that's like that's supremely fabulous.
Can we watch that again?
Yeah.
I was going to ask if we could.
I really love that.
OK.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
There's Coyote.
Yeah, there he is.
Yes.
Now, don't you.
Tweeber.
Yes.
Yes.
All of them.
Oh, my God.
Honestly, I want to.
Oh, my God.
I knew to whip this out at the right moment.
Something is happening.
Yeah.
I know.
See, I think I think that I think she's doing a bit, but I want to know what her relationship
is with Tweety Bird for her to be like my my Tweety Bird, my Tweety Bird.
I would listen to a like an obsessed episode of Nicole X Tweety.
Brooke, Brooke, I want to get into this.
mindset and go back and forth with you for it.
I want an episode of like a Nicole Kidman episode.
Oh, my God.
Nicole came in on why she loves Tweety Bird.
Whoa.
This is awesome.
Tweety Bird, Tweety Bird, Tweety Bird.
Why do you love Tweety Bird so much?
I love Tweety Bird.
I don't know.
It's just cute, right?
I had no idea.
I never know.
I never know.
I love that.
Go.
Oh, that's awesome.
Yeah.
She hasn't been on White Lotus, right?
No, you're thinking of every other miniseries that's existed on HBO.
Oh, like Every Little Liar Down the Street?
Nine Perfect Strangers, Big Little Lies, The Undoing.
Nine Perfect Secret Wives of Mormon Ladies?
Yes.
Okay, I have a couple things to run through TV-wise, if we can.
Me, too.
One, I'm very confused.
So they obviously, like, released, they keep doing waves of White Lotus castings.
And you know how, like, there is some, like, big ones that come through and you're just like, whoa, this is going to be great.
Yeah.
I need Jessica Lange.
You know, like, I need, you know, I need someone like that.
Lange?
What is it?
Lange, yeah.
Okay, I always say Lange.
That's fine.
It's way more American Horror Story to say Lange.
Go ahead and keep saying Lange.
I'm going to walk through the most recent casting.
Yeah.
And then I want you to stop.
Okay.
Run through it.
Okay.
Okay.
Alexander Ludwig, A.J. Michalka.
Michalka?
Okay.
You know what I'm saying.
Of course.
Of course.
Helena Bonham Carter, Vincent Castle, Steve Coogan, Sandra Bernard.
She's going to be good.
Dylan Innes, Caleb Jonte Edwards, Nadia T, Chris Messina, Chloe Bennett, Max Greenfeld.
That's going to be great.
Yes.
Ari Graner, Charlie Holt.
Kumail.
Um, Corinton, Fila.
I don't, I don't know her.
Marissa Long and Jared Paul.
I wonder if Chris Messina, Charlie Hall and Max Greenfield are going to be like a family
of like brunette, white hair, white people, white boys.
They all like, cause they all could be similar if you tried.
Where is this one?
Where is this one?
France?
I don't know.
I wanted to say France too.
Yeah, it is.
Okay.
I could see some of them.
I could see some of them like studying abroad, like the younger people because like there's
a group of very similarly aged, good looking young folk.
Yeah.
Like Alexander and Charlie.
Yeah.
And then that other young man that.
Oh, the other young man that I said is going to be a pretty big problem for me and some
of my peers.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And Marissa.
Um, yeah.
Yeah.
So I could see that.
My question for you is, is there usually every season?
Let me see.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 cast
members on every seat.
Like this might be the most, but it's not like that far off.
Especially when you think like maybe they're not all like, uh, what are they called?
Like patrons of the hotel.
Like maybe they're just like some are like.
Like they're just like working and stuff.
He's definitely going to be a man from France.
Like this is going to be.
The third is 20 was 20.
And now what?
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
I'm very wrong.
Like I, it's hard for me to grasp it.
How many people would be.
And by the way, there's recurring characters too.
I think three of the characters, the massage, the masseuse woman.
I wonder if Greg is coming back.
What?
The pop-up lookalike.
Greg is a troublemaker.
And I want him gone.
I'm serious.
Well, I kind of need something like him to be the thread.
Yeah.
Well, I'm excited for that.
I really need something like that.
It's I'm, I'm losing my marbles.
Actually.
I started watching rooster with Steve Carell.
Oh, very cute.
You need to watch it, Brooke.
Like I, I'm, I'm rarely like, I really think that Brooke would like this.
This is one that I don't need to like, it's cute.
Steve Carl's the love of my life.
And by Brooke, he plays like he plays some version of.
Michael, Michael Scott.
Like it is an offshoot, but a little bit more mature, but very, very sweet.
You need to watch rooster.
Okay.
Highly recommend.
I think it's HBO.
I can't remember.
I'll do that.
There's only two episodes out, but it's just, it's very good.
30 minute comedy.
Oh, perfect.
That is perfect.
I love him.
Fabulous.
And it's so funny.
Oh my God.
Amazing.
You need to watch it.
I love him.
And the writing is really, really, really good.
And it's set on a college campus, which, you know, I love.
I do.
I've been watching age of attraction.
Is that the reality one?
Yes.
The age gap dating show.
It's got me in.
It's.
Clutches.
It is so good.
Let me just tell you the premise.
Yeah.
Basically, all these people are thrown into like some sort of like, not quite a villa.
I don't know.
Maybe some sort of resort and people of all ages.
And they're kind of just like.
Speed dating each other.
And the only thing you can't talk about is how old you are.
And so then once you kind of like make a match and you're like, okay, I want to do this with you.
Then you go to the promise room.
Where you like give each other these promise rings and you're like, okay, I want to like go through this experience with you.
And then you reveal your age.
And then after you reveal your age, you're then you move into in with each other and see like if it works or not.
Some of these ages had my jaw.
On the floor.
Like they pick people.
They pick people intentionally that you're like, okay, this person's like 40 tops and it's like I am 60.
It's really wild.
You should watch.
Wait, can you pull up the 2754?
Can we zoom on that?
Yeah, but if you don't want to be spoiled, then don't watch this part.
But there's one girl that's 27 and one guy that's 60.
I love them.
They are like the they are the favorite.
They're the what's the what's the word I'm looking for?
They look like the crown jewel.
Maybe they're the crown jewel of the season.
They have they're the only ones with any sort of potential.
But no, this is not the the guy is 60 and the girl is 27.
Yes.
Jorge is 60.
They look great, too.
Yeah.
I love them.
I like this.
Yeah, you should watch.
They better use age is just a number.
In this show at some point.
Is it a song?
Is that a song?
It's a saying.
Oh, yeah, obviously.
But here's everyone.
This that brought me genuinely to something that I don't know anything about, but I just want to, like, throw it out there.
I don't have anything to say about this.
I'm wondering if maybe you do.
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, which seems to be shooting 24-7 every Sunday.
Every single day.
I've never watched an episode.
Neither.
Don't necessarily care to, even though I know that everybody in the world watches and I'm very out of the loop.
I'm OK with being out of the loop with this one.
But the young woman has now been cast as the bachelorette.
Right.
And it just came out in press that, like, she had a domestic situation happen with her ex.
And so it's, like, very obvious that she doesn't stay with anyone in the bachelor that that she's it's not even out.
It comes out on Sunday.
And it's just like, oh, my God.
Like.
Oh, I am dumb.
I didn't realize that was current.
I thought it was like something from the past that was.
No, no.
That happened like last week.
Oh, so the show's completely ruined.
And also.
That's tough.
To all.
I will be watching because it does look interesting and she looks like it's going to be very good TV.
Bachelor's just like, so they need an element in there.
Like, maybe.
Maybe just make everyone gay or like something a little bit more like less vanilla.
They should lock everyone in and turn the lights off or something.
They need an added element.
Like, you have so many dating shows that, like, have that, like, OK, these people are like 58 years apart from each other.
OK, you can't see each other.
OK, you guys can't touch.
So like to do one that's just like regular.
It's not working for me right now.
One of you is a killer.
Yeah.
Something like that.
Yeah.
OK, champ.
Well, much to discuss.
A lot of TV to watch.
Much to discuss you late.
And I got to get these eggs out from my my line of sight really quickly.
OK.
If not sooner.
Sounds good.
OK.
Thank you guys for everything.
Seriously.
You mean the world to me.
I'm going to take my huge, huge wellness pills and Brooks going to finish her bottle of water.
Cheers to that.
Halfway through.
I'm going to finish my vase because I'm out of cups again.
Thank you guys.
Thank you for listening and watching.
If you're listening, maybe consider watching.
Throw us a bone.
OK.
Thank you, guys.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
The host is deeply engaged with reading Sarah J. Maas’s *Crescent City*, having completed 450 pages and expressing admiration for its world-building, though noting it takes significant time to absorb.
The conversation highlights the subjective experience of reading fantasy fiction, with the host acknowledging that slow, immersive stories require patience and dedication to fully appreciate.
A discussion arises about the structure and length of long fantasy novels—particularly the 900+ page books—suggesting they are so extensive they may need to be split into multiple volumes for better reader experience.
The hosts share personal stories, including scars from childhood accidents, and reflect on the emotional value of open, honest conversations facilitated by the podcast.
They express concern over global threats like drone strikes and conspiracy theories, while also discussing how such fears are amplified by media and personal anxieties.
A humorous and heartfelt moment occurs when they discuss a romance with an AI bot, referencing *Black Mirror* and the emotional weight of love and connection in modern times.
The hosts explore historical facts, such as the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora and its global climate impact, and share personal experiences like a memorable meal at a viral restaurant in Utah.
There’s a lighter, celebratory tone around TV shows, including *White Lotus*, *Rooster*, and *Age of Attraction*, with the hosts sharing their excitement and critiques of casting, plotlines, and emotional dynamics.
Summary:
The conversation blends deep engagement with fantasy literature, particularly Sarah J. Maas’s *Crescent City*, with personal reflections on reading, emotions, and memory. The hosts praise the immersive world-building of long fantasy novels but note the time it takes to complete them, emphasizing that such dedication brings deep satisfaction.
They explore the subjective nature of storytelling, contrasting their admiration for Maas’s work with their past negative reactions to other books. Personal anecdotes—like childhood injuries, a humorous incident involving a swim cap in Italy, and a love for Looney Tunes—add warmth and relatability. There’s also a serious tone when discussing global threats, such as drone strikes and conspiracy theories, where anxiety is shared and validated.
The hosts touch on contemporary culture, including AI relationships, historical events like the Mount Tambora eruption, and trending TV series like *White Lotus* and *Age of Attraction*, highlighting both their fascination and critical thinking. The tone alternates between lightheartedness and introspection, ultimately celebrating the value of connection, honesty, and shared curiosity in both storytelling and life.
FAQs
It can take several weeks to read a 900-page fantasy book, with one person noting it took them three weeks to reach 450 pages, and the remaining pages feeling like they 'zoom by' once fully immersed.
Some readers find her books challenging due to extensive world-building and the pacing, which may feel slow or deliberate, especially in the early chapters, before the story fully engages.
The 450-page mark represents a significant milestone where the story starts to build momentum, with readers describing it as 'edging' them rather than immediately 'hitting' them, indicating a slow but steady progression into the narrative.
Slow-paced fantasy books require more dedication and world-building, while fast-paced ones feel like they 'zoom by' once the reader is fully engaged, suggesting that the reader's investment in the story is key to the experience.
The hosts believe that a 900-page book is too large to fit into one volume and suggest it should be spread out, comparing it to butter, to make it more manageable and accessible for readers.
The conversation about potential drone strikes and conspiracy theories reflects a personal anxiety that the hosts experienced, which they use to illustrate how real-world fears can influence their mindset and reactions to media and events.
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