156: How Come?
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January 30, 2025
TLDR: Brooke & Connor discuss why we can't microwave metal, prehistoric land dolphins, and where contacts go; also touching on topics like meal kits, apartment hunting, NYC adventures, toxic Girl Scout cookies, Pre-Columbian artifacts, TikTok injuries, Cortisol levels, and dating.

In Episode 156 of the podcast hosted by Brooke Averick and Connor Wood, the duo dives into a variety of intriguing questions, humorous anecdotes, and personal insights. The episode is filled with a blend of lighthearted banter and serious reflections covering everything from health issues to day-to-day curiosities.
Key Questions Explored
The episode begins with Connor and Brooke asking some of life’s most pressing questions:
- Why can't we microwave metal?
- What did prehistoric dolphins look like?
- Where do the contacts go?
These questions set the tone for the episode, encouraging listeners to ponder and laugh along as they share their unique interpretations and stories surrounding them.
Personal Anecdotes and Observations
Mikey's Uber Experience
Connor kicks off the episode with a story about his Uber driver humorously named "Loser" (or was it "Luchasar"?), laying the groundwork for a casual and relatable vibe. This story transitions into discussions about daily struggles and humorous confessions about personal hygiene and cleanliness, including a funny incident involving belly button crumbs and crumbs in bed.
- Belly Button Crumbs: A shared conversation about finding crumbs in unexpected places leads to laughs and the comparison of experiences between the hosts.
- The 2025 Headspace: Both express their feelings about the month of January and how it often feels like a perpetual state of drudgery.
Confronting Customer Service Challenges
The hosts share a hilarious yet frustrating experience with customer service at Anthropologie after Connor received the wrong size sweater. This situation spirals into a deeper discussion about modern customer service expectations and the sometimes absurd outcomes of such interactions.
- Grievances with Customer Service: They discuss how companies should prioritize customer satisfaction, especially for loyal customers.
- Response from Anthropology: Highlighting the disconnect between customer expectations and corporate procedures, they discuss their call where they amusingly noted how disappointing responses can be, leaving listeners resonating with the all-too-common experience of navigating corporate barriers.
Health and Lifestyle Discussions
The Reality of Health Conditions
Throughout the episode, both hosts delve into health-related challenges with relatable humor. They talk about GERD and acid reflux, creating a komic narrative that balances their struggles with digestive issues against the backdrop of their lives spent navigating the complexities of New York.
- Cortisol Levels: A significant part of the episode involves understanding cortisol's role as a stress hormone and its implications on health, framed comically as they tackle various life issues.
- Self-Care Practices: Suggestions for improving health and wellness come into play, emphasizing the need for better sleep, hydration, and intentional living.
New York Apartment Hunting
In his apartment hunting saga in NYC, Connor shares the wild and often comedic experiences, including bizarre apartment layouts and odd encounters with potential roommates.
- Bizarre Apartment Tours: Describing one such apartment with an unnecessarily long hallway, he uses this as a segway to talk about his frustration with the New York housing market. The comedic nature of his recount brings levity to a frustrating situation many can relate to.
Quirky Questions and Fun Facts
The hosts also dive into lighter topics such as:
- Microwaving Metal: They share thoughts on why metal shouldn’t go in the microwave—prompting a discussion on technology and modern safety standards.
- Prehistoric Dolphins: They debate the evolutionary transformations of dolphins and their ancestral links, which stirs curiosity and amazement in both hosts.
Conclusion
As the episode wraps up, listeners can expect to walk away with amusement from the dynamic between Connor and Brooke’s candid interactions. They blend entertainment with genuine topics like health, customer experiences, and daily observations of life, making for an engaging and inviting episode.
- Takeaway Messages: The episode is a reminder that mundane life questions often hold unexpected humor, and navigating daily challenges can be less daunting when shared with others.
Call to Action
Listeners are encouraged to embrace their quirks, whether it’s navigating awkward social situations or encountering ridiculous customer service issues.
This episode of "How Come?" effectively intertwines humor with reality, illustrating how even in our struggles, a light-hearted approach can serve as a medium to connect and share experiences.
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Okay first of all i just want to start with the fact that i you were here today and my uber's name was loser. And i want to have a new driver named surrender. Will loser pulled up to my front door seven i was like.
And I was like hey for Connor and he's like yeah, and he's like a loser and I was like no, like don't do don't be so hard on yourself. It's like eight eight thirty a.m. Are you sure it was pronounced loser luchasar he just said it really fast and also I didn't even read I just saw loser which like maybe that said something about me but I was just like.
Oh, you're not that like fully his name that he was given at birth. That'd be like, I pull up. Hey, Connor, you're not. No, don't call yourself Connor. I've never heard the name Lucha Zari either, so that's cool. Yeah, it was kind of lit. Me and me and Lucha had a great time coming here. I dropped my coffee all over his car Mercedes Benz.
It'll smell nice. So yeah, that's a sense and it would just smell like coffee. It's not like it's puke puke.
I am in like such a once in a lifetime headspace. Like once in a lifetime opportunity for us right now that like this could either be like my best performance or my worst and like it's exciting to see where it'll go. Oh, I have no idea either. I really have no idea. I think it's there must be something in the air or maybe in the water, maybe it's heavy metals. I know that January being January is like the oldest topic in the book.
She is making us feel every one of her days, but it's unacceptable. And like the fact, I think it's the fact that like you can't even look forward to it ending because then just February is coming, which is arguably worse. I had a thought yesterday and so funny you're saying that because I agree it's so played out. I was going to post this on TikTok, but I'm like, everybody's saying this, but I was like, I got to start planning my birthday. Thanks coming out.
Remember, there's nine months away. But I just don't remember a time when it wasn't January of 2025. Like, I was like, when did this start? It is.
I'm getting to the point, and by the way, when I say I'm depressed, it's fine. I feel sad when people are like, it's okay. Yeah, it is okay. This is luchas are not losing. Yeah, this is okay. But I'm getting to the point in my depression where it's like, I'm getting impaled, stabbed by the crumbs in my bed, because I'm eating so much in my bed, and I can't even. I don't even have the strength to wipe away the crumbs.
I'm getting stabbed with every turn and all I can do is go ow, ow. If you're stabbed in your bed and there's no one around to hear you say ow, that's the tree even fall. You're the real-life princess in the pee, but it's princess in like a Dorito. It's a US and a Dorito. That's just how I'm feeling.
I once had a, had a crumb recently in my belly button and I did the same. I turned over and it got my ass so hard and my belly buttons randomly so deep. I like literally had to look at it and be like, hello. Where are you? Um, and a children's book alert. Where are you? The Dorita crumb and in the young man's belly button deep at belly button. Pretty.
Um, I got it out, but obviously it took a little bit of elbow grease. Sure. Could never be you. No. Putting in the work and you're in your BB. My BB is too tiny. So if something got lodged in there, could you get it out? Can I see your BB or no? Um, I like maybe not on. Could you show it to me like a secret? I don't really want to lift my top. Why? Check out my top though. It's cool. I like it. It looks like a blanket. You see what it is. It's a scene from Sex in the City.
When they're at the baseball game. Oh my gosh, my fat ass out that was the godfather. No, it's sex in the city. No, it's sex in the city. They're all wearing glasses. I thought it was something mafia related. No, it's from this company. I think it's called Knitworth, where they had this really intricate knit things.
I ordered a tote bag with sheep on it because I've been so obsessed with the sheep recently because I have this gorgeous portrait of a sheep in my bedroom with this beautiful gold ornate frame and I've decided to make my whole personality sheep. So I ordered, I have that sheep painting, I have a sheep blanket that I got that's really cute, and then I have this sheep tote bag.
But I was looking at the sheep painting the other day. I said, wait a minute. That's a cow, which kind of prompted me to look at the blanket. So I said, cow polar bears, which then prompted me to look at the tote rabbits. Maybe just like animals.
Looches are get your hat out of the belly button. So my nearest resolution is going to be to be more observant because I could also walk in your house and be like, I love that painting isn't new. And it could be the very first thing that you've ever put in your, in your house. Yeah. No, I get that. That's a good, that's a good rezzo. I want more clarity, which I guess is a cousin of the word clear. And I want more intention. Oh, yeah. One or the other, a relative. Yeah.
Intention, I don't know what I meant by that, but clear, I'd love to have clarity, but I don't know how to create clarity in my life. What do you mean by clarity? Like I just like would like to see things more clearly. Is that something that you can know? It comes and goes like waves. Like sometimes I just have this like stroke of. I mean, how can you like intentionally do that? Like sit down and be like, okay, it's time to see things clearly right now. Hey, let me sit down and see things more clearly.
Like what things stuff. Okay. Does that make sense? Starting to I think honestly, I'm trying to think about it making sense.
I have concepts of making sense. I think that if I drink more water and exercise more and get better sleep, like things will become more clear. So I think that maybe brain fog are you saying? Yeah. Okay. Perfect. Thank you. I knew we'd get there, but I wasn't seeing clearly at that time. Yeah. Yeah, no worries. Now I'm seeing a little bit more clearly. By the way, great. Hand them on to Anna song. It's called clear. I don't know it.
You have not known it every time I've brought it up on the podcast. I think you're right. And I've shown it to you every time I've talked about it. I think you're right. And it was on some me and my sister shared an iPod shuffle. I do know that. And so obviously it was just, and it was a shuffle. So you couldn't like, I think that you couldn't, you can only skip so many, there was only 25 songs on it. I know every word to this song clear by Ann Montana. That's awesome. It might be my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my,
But nice. Yeah. So that's my goal, but clear and kind. I like to, but I think that you got me all fucked up because I wasn't talking about like being clear with other people. I was talking completely about my. I didn't see it. I didn't. That wasn't clear to me. No, no, you're saying more clearly. Yeah. I got my contact stuck on my eyes last night, so you can go see more clearly.
I wouldn't, I really wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. I would. Connor, I was gonna say every single time that I say I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy, take a step back. Of course I would. Of course you would.
I would like go out of my way to wish it on my worst enemy. Every single time I've ever said that. There's nothing I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. I pray my enemy gets their contacts. Yeah. Contacts stuck in my stomach. Contacts stuck in my stomach. But that really was the worst hour of my life. There was nothing I could do to get them out. And it's like such a panic attack moment. Children's book, where did the contacts go when they get lost? I'm seriously. No, they were, I saw them. They were in my eyes. How do you just get them out? Get out. My fingers are slipping.
They couldn't grasp, so what I had to end up doing was sticking my T-shirt in my eye because my fingers wouldn't grasp one of the contacts, but my T-shirt. I didn't have anything other than a T-shirt. I couldn't, it was in panic mode. I would rather the T-shirt. Q-tip, like the stuff could come off, you know, your cotton.
But you're what is your teacher do you think? What do you think that is made out of Q tips like maybe? No, you know what I'm saying. Q tips have residue of like that will come off. Yeah. Like fuzz. Yeah. Yeah. I just like that's more sterile.
I'm sure it is. I literally, it was like, I didn't have time to think of what's more sterile. Connor, you don't understand. When these contacts are stuck in your eyes, it's like literally like a saw is coming at you like slowly and you have seconds. Like it's so panic attack inducing. Does it hurt or does it? My eyes hurt so bad. There's still slits right now. I have so much loomify in my eyes because my eyes were so bloodshot. Loomifies bad for you.
Okay. Well, sorry, I just found that out this weekend too. Because I'm getting contacts looking at your eyes and then having to shove your t-shirt in them isn't for you either. But here we are. You're not supposed to put a t-shirt in your eye, Brooke. That here we are. Just letting you know. Here we are. I can't believe we live in a world where you have to put something into your eye to see. And I was so excited to have my contacts today because I got a higher prescription, so I would be able to see the screen without glasses.
Well, you, we make a plan. And now I'll never put them in my eyes again. Thank God I got a two year supply. You can eat them. If you can do a dumb spot, I don't know. Oh, we got a great episode for you today.
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Think about that for one second at that phrase. How come? What? Break those words and how come? How you come, Purse? How you come, Purse, Papa?
How come? Look, it literally is caveman talk. How come? Are you just boring? Like what are you talking about? How come? Look, I took an edible or something. Literally, what you mean is why. How come you? How come?
I completely agree. Brooke, look at the front end of my note. Look at the first thing in our share note. I agree. Brooke, look at the front end. Connor, give me a second. Read it out loud and read it out loud. Okay. Okay. You're going to shit your pants. Okay. Okay. Okay. Metal? No, first thing.
How come? I'm holy. Because I thought about it because I was like, how come? And I'm like, am I from like a cave? It was so weird. I was like, how come? And then I was like, I can't say that in any professional settings. Like how did this come to be shortened? How did this come to be? So in other words, why? Why? We have a word that's so much shorter. And we choose to say, how come? Yeah. It's so funny. Okay. I'm so glad that came out. That's awesome.
How come? What do you mean by metal when you wrote that? Is that all I wrote? Oh, how come do you think? Well, I'll get there. I know what I meant. But here's how come because so I go to New York and I meet with my realtor and it's our first day and I had landed the night before kind of late and I
woke up the next day and had to go straight to film a video with Delaney Rowe. And we can go on tangies if you want to.
that her Gucci ad you in it was like giving me almost goosebumps. Even it was so good. I like she's so brilliant. And every single like the storyline thing was so crazy. And it's it's funny because like we're shooting a video the same way you and I would we have the same job. You know that right. Like we have the same job as 90, but like she was like, okay, I want to kind of. I want to be a director. I want to kind of punch in here on this shot. And I was like,
You want me to punch in? Oh, you wanted me to punch in? Yeah. It was like crazy the direction. And I'm like, Hey, y'all, there's a crumb in my belly button. And then that's my whole video. And hers is like, we shot this whole thing. Yeah, it was really good. So woke up to that. Was that the video you were filming? Yeah, the Gucci one. Woke up did that. Went home change had a Pilates class. The Pilates class was sales. Uh huh.
Busy boy. I can will never do that again. I didn't realize what Pilates is really hard. It's on a machine. Pilates is a workout class for people who are already in the best shape of their lives. It doesn't do anything for people who aren't, in my opinion. It does do things. You know what it did to me?
But I'm saying you can't see the results. If you're not in good shape, it tones you and it firms you up. I wouldn't be able to see that on my body. So I obviously couldn't do it. And when I heard it's a 15-minute class, I go, I can do 15 minutes, 50, five zero. So I'm sitting there and obviously giving up halfway through every workout. And they're on a mic, the Connor, you're supposed to be in plank. I was like, I wasn't plank.
before this before I laid down. But the machine that you're on, I'm sure everyone can picture the reformer. This is what is called the reformer. It's a sex that it looks like I would be strapped there and wearing a full leather suit. And I don't know what happens when people are strapped down to the thing and wearing a full leather suit, whip there something probably or like oil or what stabbed. I have no idea what they do in those sex acts, but
No, you're on it and it's not attaching anything. So when you have your foot on a stagnant piece, a piece that doesn't move, but the whole middle part moves. So you have to hold it in place so that it doesn't slip out. If you slip back, I'm surprised there's not serious, serious Pilates injuries.
I was former scary. I was having two. I like matte Pilates. Yeah. And when I say, I like, I mean, I preferred the one class of matte Pilates I took. I'll never go back. Yeah. But I liked it better. I liked berries when I did it too. And I think there was a little bit of... Really? Yeah. I had fun because I run a lot and there are a lot of it's cardio. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It was the hardest thing I've ever done. I want to show you really quickly, and then I'll send this picture in just so everyone can see it after I show Brooke. I want to show you, first of all, what I looked like in that class, and then I want to show you the other young men that were able to join the class. Here's what I looked like doing my best, holding myself. That's Connor. That's a pretty picture. Thank you. Here's right after that picture when I gave up.
I wanna show you the other young men that were part of the class, but that was every other young man I was able to join the class. Why didn't you take a photo with them? So I really sat that one out intentionally. There's just not a world where I would ever take my shirt off nice to them. I would have liked that. I weigh as much as every other man that came to that class, I weigh as much as their forearm. I bet we weigh the same. You and I? I weigh more than my grandpa.
Always have. Well, that's different because you lose a lot of weight when you get older. Even in his youth. He's never reached my weight in his lifetime. Well, that was the hardest thing ever. And then I left and I went straight from that to go tour. So you say you weren't in the headspace?
No, I was ready. I'm just saying that this is what the day brought me. I go to the first apartment, go up. It is like almost like I'm in a dream and the dream I'm having, I've walked up five flights of stairs and when I open the door thinking I'm home, it's just the longest hallway you've ever seen. You can't even see the end of the hallway and that was the apartment. It was just a long hallway and I go, oh, is this?
like a corridor to like the apartment and it's like, no, this is the apartment. It was like, you could put like a putt putt course, like haunted house putt putt course. And the rooms were just like all off of this hallway.
And I was like, no, this is not for me. So we left pretty quickly. Um, we go downstairs. The order's an Uber. The Uber pulls up. It's like an SUV and he gets in the side and I go to walk around the car and a city bike goes by me on the other side of the car. And then I hear boom. And then I'm like, what was that? The bike hit my door of the Uber and flew like the, the driver had like gotten out and opened my door. Biker hit it, flew off.
And I look at you, okay, well, here's that's the rest of my day. He's laying on the ground, I go, hey, you good? And I was like, okay. Let's get, I find his glasses, his two lenses of his glasses. Oh, it's breaking my heart. He gets up, he lived down the street, so his dad came right away. He was probably in his mid 20s. Yeah, he's like an adult. Yeah, like a good looking guy. You almost got me at the two lenses.
two lenses underneath a car, like getting his lenses out. And then he's like bleeding a little bit, but not like, it's not like he's not like coughing up blood. It's just like he scraped his face, you know? So I like set him down and, and he's like, I'm waiting for my dad. And I was like, yeah, you wait for your dad. Are you good? And he's like, yeah, I'm good. I'm like, okay, no, no, no. It's like Uber lawsuit money. Like don't tell anyone else that you're good. You know, I'll be like, I don't know, you know?
like really just keep some things close to your chest right now. Like, did you call the cops or called an ambulance and then the ambulance came and his dad came and his dad was like, yeah, you guys can go. And we were like, okay, be sure. So we go to the next apartment and we walk and up to the next apartment. I'm like, this is a cool area. This could be it. We go up to the door and someone opens the door and it's like,
It is the oldest man that I think is alive right now. 150 at least. Anyways, he weighs as much as a penny, 40 pounds. He looks so much like a ghost that I looked at the realtor. I was like, can you see him too?
And he was the current resident. I didn't know who he was at first. I was like, are we? And then the landlord was like, oh, that's, or the realtor was like, all right, here we are. And I was like, and he didn't say anything to the dude. The dude just like sat down. Are we not going to do it in his, out of his, the operation sat down on the couch in the living room. And it was just like, and it was all carpet and it was pitch black in there. And so I was like, the realtor right away was like, I'm sensing that I was like, I don't need to walk through this place. And he's like, you all sat and I was like, yeah.
And then we left. And that was the last part when we toured the first day. And I was just like, Hey, so just to help narrow it down, like I don't want anything that looks that resembles even anything like what we saw tonight. Like if that helps, just no hallways, no like ghostly hollows. Like I'm good with both of those not being. So.
I don't know why I didn't believe people so much when they were talking about the New York apartment hunting situation. I am so humbled. I think you just need to get lucky, which I'm sure you will. To date that has been the case, but I'm putting in the work. This is not like a get lucky situation. I toured 16 places. They were all horrible in their own way.
Like the last day, I toured six and I was like, okay, this one's pitch black. This one, I just hit my head on the ceiling. It's like I'm an eight-feet tall. Like that's not too low of a ceiling. So when you moved to New York in a few weeks and you don't have an apartment, do you have somewhere to stay? Yeah, but it's not a long time. I will be signing a lease by February 16th because I'm not going into this dark night of tour without a home. Yeah.
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So it hit me really hard, and it's actually in terms of work stuff now, people are like, hey, how's this going? I'm like, I really need to be honest with you guys. It's actually taking up so much mental space in my head, worrying that the move without a place to move to, that I have not gotten to that yet. So apologies. Yeah. Well,
Well, I'm going to make sure before we move on from New York that I didn't have any other pieces that I needed to share with you. Oh, I do. Okay. Let me know. Okay. So then we had an event for the wildfires on Friday hosted by Kyle Cook of Summer House and
Are you going to join Summer House? That's the question that everyone that on the tip of their list. Everybody's lips and all the main fans being no. That's the answer. We do not. We're good there. Not joining Summer House. Just friends with everybody. But so we go to this event and it was really funny. And the bachelor started on yesterday, wait Monday, the new season. I haven't watched yet. I want to do the reviews that I was doing last year for Joey's season.
The thing about Joey's season was it was so funny to me and everyone was so individual that it was like really easy to do recaps because everyone was like such an individual so much so that like I came on this podcast three weeks and around. I was like, Maria is insane. Maria is insane. So I get a tap on the shoulder at this event and it's obviously Maria G. Hey,
You keep talking shit about. Yeah. No. And I was like, my bad. That was only three or four times, five times max in a public space on a podcast. Did not mean it. She's like, you clearly did. And I was like, well, now you hang out with all of my friends. We share a bunch of mutual friends. So like, I know that you're not insane. And I know that the bachelor can edit people in a way that makes them seem crazy. She goes, were you clicking in your boots?
No, we're having like a really funny it was funny. And I was like, I know that the bachelor can like edit things in certain ways to make people and she goes, I'm crazy. So I was like, I was right. But she's so cool and so normal. We had like a great night, but I was like, the calmness on this, this, this young woman for her to come out to me and be like, Hey, you called me crazy on your podcast three times. I'm like, I did.
Frankly good for her. I like that she she stood her ground on the bachelor at or the bachelor and in person I'm like you have to take your hat off which is the reason I'm not wearing a hat today just getting my hair looks good kind of but
I'm like, wow, that was impressive. And then we follow each other on Instagram and the rest is history. Wow. Love that. Yeah. It was really like that was like such a refreshing experience, not like seeing someone over there and being like, oh, like I talked about that person on the podcast and like they obviously heard it and they obviously share mutual friends. Like I'm going to have to go over there and be like,
Hey, like full blown, nipped it in the bud, conversation done, moving forward. That's fabulous. Yeah, it was really great. And she was really fun to hang out with and looking forward to nurturing that relationship. That's great. Yeah. How was your weekend since the last time we chatted? I don't really think that I did anything, Connor.
Just just because of the, I'm just like waiting for January to pass. Yeah. Me by. I've decided to be engaged by Valentine's Day. So that's exciting. So then I look forward to. 14 days or 18, depending on how you look at it. Yeah. 18 days. So exciting. I'm doing something on, oh, I'm getting a stomachache. Oh, no. Just talking about it. And maybe from the case of the idea I had this morning too. I'm doing something on Friday, this Friday.
a work opportunity. I was, I can't say anything yet, but you'll see it because I have to post it eventually. I was reached out to and they said, do you want to do this? And I said, I can't. Thank you so much though. Holy moly, wait, I want to know what it is. I said, I can't. Can you tell me so that we can have a conversation about it right now? Can you just? It was on my close friends yesterday. Did you see it? Still on. Yeah. Well, it's almost feeling like he didn't look at my close friends.
Maybe it didn't come across my desk. Probably did. I don't know. There's not a close friends that I would skip. I watched it. Well... Oh, wait. So I read the second half of what you posted. Okay, okay. Because it was a chat GPT screen and I was thinking you were working on... I was basically asking chat GPT like, how would you handle this situation? Oh my God. So basically an opportunity represented to me and I said,
I don't think I can, like I don't think I have the capabilities because you guys know like there are so many people that can't be in a room with and this opportunity that I was presented with includes, I would say a person who would probably be number one on that list that I don't necessarily speak of as being number one on that list but it just kind of is implied.
Okay. And I was like, is there any way to kind of reshape this opportunity in a less interactive way? And so they were like, and I'm sorry, I'm talking about this so vaguely, but it will become clear. And they're basically like, no, and I think you should do it. And I was like, okay, I'm going to because I would obviously really regret not doing something like that.
What do I do? Do you know what I mean? In a situation like this one? I think it will come to you like how God used to deliver messages to prophets. Do you really think so? Yeah. Okay, I'm really looking forward to experiencing it and then talking about it next week. Yeah.
when I can talk about it, but just know that something's happening. I want you to be thinking of me on Friday and just knowing that something's happening that shouldn't be holding space for you. Hold space for me. Lord have mercy. I am about to bust. So you might bust. Oh, I'm going to bust on camera. There's so much money in that right now. Busting on camera.
Awesome. It's the final frontier, so it might say manifest as the name. We're going west, a bust. You know that trend that's like, you're so funny. Thanks, but I blank. Yeah. What's yours? I don't like, I had gird growing up. You're so funny. Thanks. I threw up in my mouth every night when I fell asleep and then I grinded my teeth.
at right after. So now I have cavities and I have eight root canals and I'll be at the dentist for the rest of my life. Okay. I wanted you to bring that up because I knew that was going to be yours. Yeah. You're so funny. No, I owe you an apology. You're so funny. Thanks. I had GERD. I owe you an apology for minimizing that. I had acid reflux for the first time in my life. Oh my God. No one's talking about it. No one's talking about GERD. What's the difference between GERD and acid reflux and heartburn?
Like you can get acid reflux can be- I think I had heartburn. Yeah, it usually goes hand in hand because it's just the acidic. If you eat something acidic, you get heartburn. But if it's coming up the other way, you still get heartburn. But you also, you can have acid reflux. You could be a one off situation, but like GERD is like something like almost like chronic that you have for like a while. Did it hurt? I would have heartburn every single day. Oh my God. I thought I was literally inches from calling men when I thought I was having a heart attack.
Mine luckily happened in my sleep, so I was just like, fuck it, we ball, you know? Yeah, because of the nights and stuff. And the nights are hard. Yeah. The nights were hardest for me because of GERD. Yeah. So I owe you an apology. I love this wig on this pot. Like it literally is like having a third guest on the podcast. I keep looking over and being like, do you agree? I like him too. I like how he has like nothing to say, but everything. Hush, hush.
Well, yeah, no. So that, that was tough. I actually, you reminded me, like I'm, I found a dentist in New York, which is so weird to find a dentist before you move somewhere. Is that would you say dentists are like your number one, like healthcare professional that you need? No, I need a full body scan. I convinced myself that the place you find yourself at most, that was what I'm saying. The dentist? Yeah. Like for me, I need probably like more of like a mental health professional wherever I go. I need that too.
You need it more, but I need it as well, too. No, I would love that for you. And I think you would be a therapist wet dream. I know. Because you are such a good talker. They don't have to pull anything out of you. There have been so many therapy sessions where I haven't said anything. Oh, I should record mine and release it as a bonus episode of this podcast.
I just wonder if it's hard in therapy because I have not been frankly, so I wonder if it'd be hard for me not to turn everything into a joke. Because I'll be at the doctor's office and literally shooting this shit with a medical professional. And then by the end, they're like, fuck it, man. The other day, I was like, wait, hang on. You're not supposed to be coming down to my level. I am just trying to... Well, the right therapist will call you out on it.
Yeah. What wall do you have up where you can make everything a joke? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know, man.
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Are you sure or read like a headline? Can we Google this? Because it just came out that it just came out that Girl Scout cookies have a bunch of toxins in them, including like aluminum in the sum of us. And so like obviously Google AI is saying no, Girl Scout cookies don't have metal in them. Yeah. I can't remember if I dream this. Can we check the news tab?
Cardi B's multi-pack deodorant is giving girls cat vibes. Is that what you could have seen? No. All right, I made it up. So what? Sue me. I thought that I saw this somewhere because I was like, it's not fair that everything can be not good for you.
Well, I would assume they're not great for you. Well, like, I don't know. They probably don't have metal in them. 100% of girls got cookies contained concerning levels of heavy toxic metals. Okay, what is this website? And this is on LilSinker.com. And so this is my- What were you doing on Lil Stinker? LilStinker.com. So I was kind of messing around. January 11th, 2025, I saw this on LilStinker.com when I was browsing.
100% of the cookies contained at least four out of five heavy and toxic metals, aluminum, arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury, the peanut butter patties were the most contaminated ranging from the lowest level of mercury to the highest levels of lead and aluminum. This looks like a mommy blog, Connor. I don't care because I'm taking denance to the grave, like aluminum and all, whatever. And who's to say that metal isn't good for you?
Right, your body has metals in it. Your body needs more metals. I have no room to talk about anything with the amount of raw fish that I consume. Yeah. You know? Yeah, I guess you're right. Like there's no reason. I guess some of those aren't healthy for me.
But I didn't think that they'd be like cancerous. I don't think they are. I think that you found like the most random mommy blog out there. Okay, whatever. But speaking of metal, so me adding two things about metal in the notes. Oh, that's one thing. Oh, yeah, the bottom one.
The metals in a girl's got. Oh, I see metal and then a separate toxic girl scout cookies. Yeah. Yeah. Taking them into the grave. Well, yeah, that was the one note I wanted to make. Like that's okay. Like I understand.
I don't, so I saw this tweet about this girl that was like, we just got a new coworker at her office, and she just microwaved her food with a metal fork in it. And I had to be like, hey, you can't do that. And she was like, sorry, it's my first day. And she's like, this bitch isn't an idiot.
But I am on her side because what with all of the scientific advancements we're putting people were talking about putting someone on Mars, but we can't put metal in a microwave. I can't, I can't reheat a breakfast burrito. I always said confused on if you can put tin foil in the microwave. That is metal bed. It's aluminum foil. Yeah, and I put it in the microwave. Yeah, and it's in my denments too. Because you can put it in the oven.
and the air fryer. Yeah, it's different. Those are different beasts. I don't, it doesn't make, it doesn't, it's not intuitive. It's actually completely different. It's not intuitively. It's not intuitively. Wait, not utilities, appliances. Yeah, it's not intuitive to me. So sometimes I do get confused about them. How come, how come you can't put metal in the microwave? How come Donald Trump? Radiation?
Yeah, I guess radiation are people still like there must be people out there that are like, I don't use microwaves because of the radiation. Yes, there's so many. So I don't think that like microwaves aren't something. Microwaves aren't going into your hot pocket and now you're eating a wave, right? Personally, I don't know. And that's the end of the sentence. Like you can't eat an x-ray. I'm sure it's not like great for you, but a lot of things aren't.
Almost nothing is. Yeah. I'm sure it's no different than like sleeping next to your phone. I stopped doing that. Okay. I didn't. I stopped because when my phone vibrates on my mattress and it goes throughout the whole mattress. That is frustrating. That makes me want to punch a hole in my drywall. Yeah. And it goes, and it's like wakes me up out of the deepest sleep. Yeah. Okay. I have like a string of events that happened to me. Okay.
So last night I had a dream. I'm looking at the lake that I live on, which is toxic. The lake. What? Another dream about a body of water. Yeah. The water's toxic, but I always, when I was a child,
I always wanted to like make, like absorb all of the brownness of the lake that I lived on and make it clear. Which like you probably wouldn't want to see within that lake if it was clear. What would you absorb the brownness with? There's like muscles and clams that are able to like filter water and get like stuff out of them. But because it's the lake that I'm from, it comes from a river, the river like deposits a bunch of soot and stuff. And then the lake that I live on is low key a dam.
a reservoir, if I may. Yeah. And so then it flows back out, pass it. But because of the sediment deposits, it will never. It's just cloud. It's not fixable. So I had a dream last night that there were dolphins in the lake, and I was like, this is so cool. But then the dolphins came to shore, and they were seals.
So that was the dream. And then I wake up this morning and I go down. I walked down to the, to the ocean and there's like a million dolphins. And then I open my phone and the first thing I get served on Google is this. If I may, dolphins and orcas have passed the point of no return in evolution to live on land again. Which I don't even know. Like I guess at one point dolphins and orcas were just living on land.
How were they getting around? Like, I guess kind of just like walking. Lithering? No, like probably like, Oh, okay. Like, imagine you go to backup and there's just like a dolphin, a naked dolphin man back there being like, don't hit me. Yeah. Do we have like, are there any images of like prehistoric dolphins with legs?
A recent study from July of 2023 in the journal proceedings of the Royal Society be sheds light on how marine mammals like dolphins and orcas have hidden evolutionary point of no return. Oh my God. Yeah, they were they had arms and legs. Well, that's like a crocodile. Okay. Right. That's what it would look like like long snout legs watch. Yeah.
Damn, I was thinking they would be standing upright like a human like ordering a coffee. I know. I always get confused about evolution because like it's so easy to think of it as like it started as this and then this and then this and then this, but it's always about that like least common ancestor thing and then my brain starts to hurt. Oh, I don't know anything about what you're talking about. It's just like how these are all blobs and then they get like little arms, you know, because like a dolphin is just a round blob. The fins, they got lucky with those, honestly.
Fear of the fact that you're luck. Yeah, that the fans are pure a dorsal fin pure luck. Fin is always a trigger word for me. Why? I told you that story went in 11th grade bio. My teacher was like.
Um, like what makes a whale a mammal or something like that. Well, ma'am. What makes well, how come? Well, ma'am. How come? Well, ma'am. And then I was like, Oh my God, they're fins. No, sorry, they're gills. I said other gills. And then she wrote Brooks idea on the whiteboard and said, what does everyone think of that?
And then like no one, everyone was doing really sweet. Like no, I wanted to say like is the exact opposite. So like everyone was quiet and then she just put a huge X through Brooks idea and then it just sat on the whiteboard for the rest of the class. I can't believe it. Which is sweet. We share the exact same thing with that. I remember there was one time in college or maybe high school when my teacher was like, hey guys, like what kind of it was a math question, but it was like shapes. What kind of shape is this? Geometry.
Yeah. And I answered, and then after I answered, she was a reminder there are no dumb answers. Yeah. There are no stupid answers here, but it was after I answered and I was wrong. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. It's tough. Yeah. How's your headspace right now? It seems like fun. It's changed. It's definitely changed from the beginning of the episode now. What?
It's leveled out a little bit. I'm more calm, but also I preferred it the other way. I felt like I had more to say. I've just been a little bit unpredictable in my moods. You've been crazy. You've been crazy. Well, which is why I had no choice but to get in the most heated fight of my life. With who? Anthropology support, customer support. Those bitches had a comment. I'm not sure. You can tell me. I don't know if I was in the wrong or they were in the wrong.
I think usually if you specifically are considering if you may have been wrong, I think I'll hold your hand while I say this. No, I mean, they just like, it wasn't good customer service on their course. I have spent an obscene amount of money and anthropology since I moved on like, obviously I needed a new wardrobe because I moved and also just like house stuff and like anthropology has been my go to.
Um, so like an obscene, obscene amount of money. Okay. I ordered a sweater in an extra small cause I wanted to be a little bit more snug. They sent us me an extra large. Okay. This is Connor. When I say obscene amount of money that I spent, I say obscene. So I reached out to support and I said, Hey, you sent me an extra small. Can you please or an extra large? Can you resend the right one? They never answer me.
week goes by, I reach out to the claims again, never answer me. Finally, I call. Okay. And you know, I never call. Yeah. They don't answer me. Finally, I get an email. Okay. Um, that they will refund me if I return like the original sweater.
And I was like, well, I don't want to return the original sweater. We're turning things to the hardest thing for me. You guys made an error. I'll be honest, I already gave the sweater to my friend. Can you just resend me the sweater?
And they were like, we don't have it anymore. And I was like, okay, great, you can just refund me then. And they were like, nonetheless, you send back the sweater. And I was like, I want to keep the sweater and I want you to send me my money back. And they were like, we can't do that. And I was like.
Okay, because every other experience I've had with any other customer service, they've just recent or refunded without making me send back, like no problem, especially if I'm like a valued customer, which I am at anthropology. So at this point, I'm just like in such a mood. And I was like, this, okay, that's disappointing. And they were like, we physically like from the back end, like can't offer you a refund unless you send it back. And I was like, I just kept saying, okay, that's disappointing. And they go, we can give you a 15% refund.
And I said, I thought you just said from the back end, you couldn't give me any refund. And they said, we can give you a 15% refund only. We cannot do any more refund from the back end. And I said, okay, that's disappointing. And they said, we can give you a 20% refund, but we cannot give you anything else just because of the back end. And I just kept saying, okay, well, that's really disappointing as a valued customer.
They could give me a 25% refund from the back end. Nothing else. And it just kept going on like that. And then I think we got to 30. They could refund me without me sending the original sweater back. And then that was the cap. And I just kept saying that's really disappointing. Thanks. Have a good day. You just have to eat it at that point. I obviously am going to eat it.
But what do you think? Well, I think that's disappointing. Oh, my God, it's disappointing from the back end. I'm just speaking from the back end. But don't you think like ask like the customer service would just be refunding me for the error that they made? Well, I think when you're anthropology, you're just like also like you're anthropological. You're not a small boutique. No, you know, I spent a fortune there. Just refund me. I'm not asking for much. I bet you'll get a 35% discount after this goes live.
So which is something you look forward to. But then I was like, then I kind of thought about it and I was like, okay, I'm asking for them to refund me while I keep the product. Like maybe that's wrong, but I honestly don't think it is.
because they made an error. Well, this is their nightmare. They forget that they know who they were doing. Their valued customer as a podcast. Yeah, I think that they probably are going to be, you'll probably be hearing from corporate soon to offer you. I'd be happy to. To offer you up to up to 40. You guys can do on the back end. Up to 42% for the back end coming your way. They cannot do refunds just because of the back end issues. I know a thing or two about the back end issues. Do you?
Don't we all yeah well i would think so but anyway that's the only thing i did this weekend yeah well no i. I historically speaking i don't know if this has been always a case but like i think and i do think that we've we've gotten like a little bit entitled but that is the new norm to just be like we messed up. We sent you the wrong size and we're out of the sweater.
I have never had an issue before with that, with places that I shop at far less. Like, good customer service has always been like, oh, are bad. Let me resend or refund. No, you were dealing with employee of the month of the customer service counter from the back end. I just got, and I said, this isn't good customer service. Well, if you come pry this sweater out of my hands from my house,
then you can get there, but I'm not- I didn't want to say I already gave it to my friend. No, but like they're not gonna like, have you go ship it out of the post office? I don't even know where the post office is. And that's the thing, like that, you're really, like, and I'm not speed dramatic, you're putting me in a really tough position asking me to go return that.
You're putting me in an almost impossible position. So many crumbs in my bed right now. I'm covered with land mines all over my bed. That's the last thing that I'm capable of. My friend already has the sweater. That is the last thing that I can suck it up on the back. You made a mistake. And now you're asking me to do something that is way out of the realm of possibility. Okay. I was, I mean, I was seeing seeing red, truly. And it's just the principle.
Amen. I'm on your side. Are you? Yeah. Thank you. Feels nice. Yeah, that's like genuinely the first one. I'm like, okay, suck it up. Corporation. Anthropology. Well, they are owned by urban outfitters. Or I think they are urban outfitters. Yeah, one of the other. They're doing fine. Urban outfitters makes a lot of money. And urban outfitters has rectified a situation like that.
with no problem. I'm telling you, I think you were dealing with an individual who is running customer service like the Navy. She just kept saying one moment, please, so she could go check in with the back end. Well, the back end is here with us today. The back end is the friends we made along the way. The back end might not be the destination but the journey.
Um, I want to say something. So I speaking of trends, which we hadn't, um, remember the, do you know the elevator trend? Like I'm going to stop the elevator more nonchalantly than you know, do you know that? Does anyone in the room know that? Okay. I don't see that many trends.
I see the like, you're so funny, thanks, blah, blah, blah. But I, there's a, okay, I'm glad I didn't post this on TikTok yesterday, but there's a trend that came across my desk called like we stopped, who couldn't stop the elevator more nonchalantly and it's like about to close and someone just like puts a finger out and it like opens back up. So I was doing that this weekend and I'm like, oh, I'm gonna like do like one large like grew type step into the elevator. That elevator didn't stop as nonchalantly as I would have expected it to.
Taking my pants off again on the podcast if you're listening on audio. No. Yeah, I have to. So it wasn't able. Oh, they're coming all. They're coming down. Oh, my God. Shut up. That's a really bad one too. Shut. Are you able to? Are you in pain? Yeah, it hurts so bad.
Oh, Connor, I'm sorry. No, it's okay, but that was the end of the video. Like it just like, boom. And then the video just cuts because I was like, boom, boom. Like I'm surprised I'm not here with like a half a leg right now. Damn, that's, I'm really sorry about that. No, honestly, it's just. But you probably could have sued TikTok. I might still. For trend purposes. I might still shoot TikTok.
Pop off, Kim. It's so swan and it's so bruised. But that's why I don't do trends, because you never know what injury I'm going to get any time I try a trend.
You have actually like gotten a lot of injuries from doing trends. Yeah, I know. A trend is not a friend of mine. No, it's not. But one good thing that came out of the New York trip was the billboard in Times Square, which was very pleasant. I have a billboard. That was the same spot. Yeah. The B&C billboard was. It was such a perfect spot. It was me and Heidi Montague.
Oh my God, that's fabulous. Yeah. Right in between the Olive Garden and the M&M store. I don't want to be anywhere else. No. You physically went to the billboard. Yeah, I did.
I didn't realize it's literally on the part of Times Square that is like Times Square. It gets like at the thing. I don't know what you call it. But before that, we went to Keynes, me and honor went to Keynes in Times Square. And we had a big night the night before, and it was just like, let's get Keynes today. And then we'll go see the billboard.
The canes, first of all, you're in Times Square, and I'm definitely going to pick pocketed or stabbed, and then we go into canes, and it's like everyone. Every time you say canes, it's giving me complete full bodies. It was so divine, except for the fact that they had a DJ. They do have a DJ at that canes. A DJ playing like...
The DJ has a residency at that game. Jack Harlow Remake is, it was like, um, vanilla baby, boom. It was like, I was like, whoa, and, and there was a woman. He started playing, hang on, let me do my bell. Sure. He started playing, um,
like dancing clean type song and there was a woman with her all her kids, she was probably in her like early fifties and like her and she's like feeding her hand feeding her kids and she has a birthday crown on or just maybe a crown and she's going
like fully dancing and I'm like, oh my God, like I'm watching, I'm like putting, it was just like not an environment that I wanted to like, I was like, people forgetting this as a restaurant. Well, it's time, it's time square too. Oh my gosh, but time and play. Like just because it's canes doesn't mean it's not time square. But just because it's time square doesn't mean it's not a restaurant. You can't take the canes out of time square. But you can't take, there is a second canes and it's not time for me. You can take the time square, hold on. You can take the canes out of time square. You can take the canes out of time square, but you can't take the time square out of canes.
I don't know about all that, because I have to do with cans and it's a great dining experience. When it's in Times Square. How come? Huh? So I woke up early enough because I'm still on Times Square time. And so I woke up pretty early this morning and I was like, I have time to do my stretches, which I'm trying to get into stretching.
Well, first of all, I listened, I started listening to Mel Robbins on accident because all, all, all of you that she is like a Brene Brown type type beast. Brene Brown is who said clear is kind. Wow. Nice. Yeah. That's connecting the dots. Well, Mel Robbins, I think it's like a life coach, ask person. And she, she's like, uh, there's like a five second rule or something, but she's not getting out of bed. Like when your alarm goes off, you just count down five, four, three, two, one, you get to one, you just get up.
Easier said than done. Right. Well, I think that's the whole thing. Get up and you make your bed. But she also said, I don't know where we are on cortisol levels. Are we going to move past that at any point or is that fact now? Which piece about the cortisol level? Are cortisol good? How come cortisol? Is cortisol high good or cortisol? High cortisol is bad. I think that's just true.
What about low cortisol? Awesome question. Yeah, we don't know. Do we? Can we look up cortisol so we can get to the bottom of it? That's the stress hormone. Okay, so you don't want it high. Right. That's fine. He got in my cortisol tested. The doctor said that he had seen similar levels on PTSD patients.
Cortisol is a hormone produced by the adrenal glands located at the top of the kidneys. It plays a viral role in the body's response to stress and maintaining very, yes, physiological functions. I hate Google AI because that doesn't help me at all. Thank you, Google AI. Cortisol is an essential hormone that affects almost every organ in your body.
Okay, so basically. What happens when you have low cortisol? So yeah, so I have high cortisol, so like my metabolism is slow. I'm tired. I mean, see, you don't want low cortisol. What is low cortisol? I wish cortisol would just like pick its battles. Oh, it's Addison's disease. At Ray. Ooh, you might like that. The adrenal blend. You like like Addison's disease. With Addison's disease, the adrenal glands make too little of the hormone. But what happens when you have Addison's?
Man, can we just like have one disease? Addison's disease. It starts slowly. Tell me. Addison's is our extreme tiredness, salt cravings and weight loss. Oh, okay. Body hair loss almost. Yeah, that makes sense. This is everything I have. No, you don't have Addison's Addison's. It sounds like I do. I'm tired right now. Because you sleep because it's January.
My favorite thing was like, I have Catholic guilt. I was like, I have a lot of Catholic guilt, which is where, because I'm not Catholic and Caleb here. And was like, that's just anxiety. I was like, oh. I know. I would love for you to get that. Lock in. Yeah. I need to get an assistant to do all of the things that I've been talking about doing for. You need to hire Sodi. Yeah. And I'm not even kidding. She has literally Brett hired Sodi and she has gotten him so many doctor's appointments.
Just like his car registered like so much shit. She hasn't, she's gotten in like trash can, like literally. You got him trash can. From the city. That kind of trash can. Like literally just that shit that like you don't want to do. Like it sounds like I'm being. That feels like the end of the world and saying with the parking tickets. Like she will literally just like be an assistant for like life tasks that feel impossible. She's so good at that. Yeah, I needed at this point. Okay, but cortisol.
You, everyone has it. Oh, do we just want medium quarters? I think, yeah. Okay. I think with everything, we just want standard levels of it. With love, if there was just like a life, like genuinely, if someone had like a life thing, like, hey, here's everything that you could do every day to just like, Mantan, and then it, what?
Why is it not that simple? Test on my levels, tell me which ones are high, and then tell me exactly what to do to get them back on track. Obviously, I'm not a doctor, I'm sure it's a lot more challenging than that, but let's just do that. But why is it that challenging? And how come? Is it that challenging? Because it's not putting, we need to just give up on Mars. Mars isn't going anywhere. My cortisol levels are. I really want to get in that full body scan.
I do and I don't. I know. I'm definitely scared of it, but I want to know. Yeah. But you have to be in there for a minute. No. You really do. You don't if you don't go. You're totally right about that. But if you do. If you do go in there for a minute, how come? It takes a minute. Okay. Here's the thing. So Mel Robbins. Yes. Sorry.
You know, I love getting sidetracked, my bad ass. But I, she told me, you can't, you shouldn't drink coffee in the first two hours of waking up because it messes up, but it's like, that's a privilege. But then like, how do you go, you know? Right. No one can just like sit and like do yoga for the first two hours of waking up to get ready for their own coffee. I think if you wake up earlier, I'm not, no one can wake up before I am and let you tell the tale. If you, if you use her five, four, three, two, one,
No, I'm honestly starting to get pissed at Mel. Mel can. I'm almost really starting to get pissed at Mel. This is a Brene Brown space only. About the Brene Brown. No, I like this is like we are Brene stands in this space. Not listening to Mel right now. Listen, listen, listen, listen. I am willing to try the coffee thing. Like I'll have a Celsius instead.
That's worse for you. I don't know about all that. I really do feel that way. Coffee is at least somewhat natural. Like Celsius, to me, tastes no different than Lysol. Oh, I F with C so bad. I get it, but I do think that it's just so artificial that there's no way it could be better for you than coffee. We have to pick our battles. I say if I put like six pounds of French vanilla creamer into my coffee,
It's just hard to believe that something called Dunkin Donuts is like, oh, that's natural. No, it's not. Black coffee from Dunkin. Good and good for you. Okay, listen. Yeah, I'm on your side still. Well, but Mel.
is a new follow of mine. So if I come in looking and acting a little bit put together and maybe more clear and maybe more intent, Sean focused. Oh, oh.
Then yeah, maybe Mel has had her way with, maybe Mel has jumped my bones at the end of the day, or at the beginning of the day, when I've skipped my coffee. I would love for her to introduce an alternative to like, okay, if you can't have coffee, and it's like, we're like fighting Mel right now, and Mel does not care if we live or die, truly, like does not know we're here talking about her. It's almost like she wants us to die. She wants us to pass on for sure.
Yeah, so let me know if you end up doing that. Do what? Pass on? No. Mel's advice. Mel has so much advice, though. Okay, getting out of bed after five, making your bed and not having coffee for two hours. I did it this morning, but I was at 7.30, 7.15. It was at seven. And you had your drinking coffee, right? You came in without coffee. I ordered this coffee at 8.15, but I got a green juice with it. I don't think that Mel said that that's an alternative.
She didn't. She said, the first thing you put in your body should not be coffee. You should wait two hours after waking up. The first thing I put in my body was a glass of water at seven. And then I walked and I got a green juice and I drank that on my walk back. And then on the Uber here at 830, I had my coffee. Okay. That seems like a more reasonable approach. Yeah, because I needed to be turned on for this.
horned up for this podcast, but then like, I'm hoping not to have as much of a cortisol spike and crash. Do you feel a difference? My cortisol is really not like yanking me around by the pigtails right now, but who knows what could happen at right? When you say yanking you around by the pigtails, what do you think of? Like chicken little for some reason, but the movie. I'm thinking of that scene from Matilda.
Matilda too. Yeah. Where she's literally yanked a little girl around the pigtails, throwing her into the chokey. Here's one thing I'll say.
Oh, yes. I was writing something the other day. Yeah. I was writing something the other day just like this like in consequential scene about like, you know, Phoebe. I'm familiar with Phoebe like seeing mistaking a celebrity thinking she sees a celebrity who's a young man and then it turns out like it's actually just a lesbian woman.
And I'll probably cut the scene because it's actually not even funny at all. But I really was like, at first I put in like John Mulaney as the man that she saw and then realized after that it was just a lesbian. But then I was like, I don't think you can see John Mulaney and be like, and get confused if that's a lesbian. And then that really got me thinking like, we're so quick to be like, oh, he looks like a lesbian. Listen.
we're so quick to be like oh he looks like a lesbian and i feel like we're always saying that but when push comes to shop i couldn't think of one celebrity to use that instance that looks like a lesbian i sent you to so i said john malaney i took a poll on my snapchat and everyone was like not really no and then i was like okay how about michael sarah. And then everyone was just like no i think you're just thinking like little boys.
Yeah. And I was like, yeah, maybe. So who looks like a lesbian? Like Owen Wilson. No, Owen Wilson does not look like a lesbian. Completely. I'm looking around. Everyone agrees. I have a good read- Justin Bieber in 2011. I have a good read on this because I look like a lesbian myself. I didn't want to say how many responses. Me. Said Connor would, but it was over 600.
I know. I know what I look like. I know what I look like. And it's a good thing. I like literally. Connor, it's a great thing. I know. You look young, which is really good. I want to see who else I sent to you because it was good. You said, Ellen Wilson. And I said, not Bill Hader.
No, no, I did not say Bill Hader. I said not Bill Hader. Crap, who am I thinking of? Who am I thinking of? I can think of it. I can think of it. Hugh Grant and like, and like that, I understand like a Catholic woman Hugh Grant and let me look like a Bridget Jones diary. No, I was going to say,
not 100% Hugh Grant and Bridget Stone's diary looks like a total lesbian woman. I see that like completely completely. Yeah, like on the right there on the right, on the right, the picture on the right. No, one more to the left. Like the like nice, swoopy hair. Yeah.
Yeah, I just it. Yes, but it was interesting because when push comes to shove, I really couldn't think of anyone, but I feel like in the past, I'm so quick to be like, Oh, he looks like a lesbian. Anyway, anyway, I think that's a good thing to end on.
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Oh, even I'm starting to get a little antsy. Oh my gosh. Let me look. I'm almost there. I'm so close. I'm almost there. 98. Come on, y'all. Connor so close. Almost there. I'm so close. I'm finna bust on cam and I would love to get the plaque, you know, so they made them. They're making them smaller by the day. The YouTube blacks.
Help us help you out so that we can get a plaque before a miniature. What should we agree before it's a shrinky dink? And then we have to put it on our key chain. Please help us get that plaque. But what should we do at 100k subs on YouTube? It'd be funny because we'd be like, we'll kiss on camera. It's like, we always do that on camera. So let's think about it.
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