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Do we need to do any warm up? Yeah, I think I could use a warm up. Okay. Say it with me. Ready? Yeah. Wait, warm up's a good idea. I'll say Keith Urban loves Nicole Kidman. We'll say it all at the same time. Ready? Okay. One, two, three. Keith Urban loves Nicole Kidman. Keith Urban loves Nicole Kidman. Keith Urban loves Nicole Kidman. How do we feel? Worse? Ummm. Yeah. Okay. Thank you though. Okay. Great. Hey guys, welcome to Brook and Connor Make a Podcast. Happy Halloween. Woo. Woo. We went all out. We went all out. We have one of our spookiest guests that's ever joined the podcast today. One of our dear pals, Alex Earl. Yay! Alex, thank you so much for coming. Thanks for having me. I'm really excited to be here. My roommate Kristin is always listening to BNC, so it's always been like blasting throughout my apartment. Oh, sorry. No, no, it's great. Really? So I'm happy to be here. Okay, I'm glad. Thanks for having me. This is an episode. This is a Halloween episode, and obviously you came and dressed up and Brooke and I had to go to our costume drawer or costume barrel and dig stuff out. I was stressed out that you guys were going to have prosthetics on and I was only going to have a witch hat. We had that conversation. We were like, I can't be fully, you know, I can't be in a bald cap with all of these like grotesque ears and noses attached to me. And then us just be like staring at you the whole time. And the prosthetics are hard. We talk about prosthetics all the time here and you're getting prosthetics. You just said. I'm getting prosthetics tomorrow and I need to know the process. Well, where can you say like where are the prosthetics going? On my face. Yeah. Like doing the Cheshire cut. Are you guys coming to the party? Here's the thing, Alex. What? I don't know if you know about my personality, but I want to. Okay. I might be tired. Okay. We'll wake you up. Okay. Okay. And I also just had a baby. No, you don't. Doesn't she look good, both part of it? Yes, I did. No, you did. I did. This isn't, this is fake. No, no, I know. This is fake. You're talking. I mean, he's a, he's a, yeah, he's a cat. Oh, okay. But he is a baby. Okay. Yeah. So I am a new mother. I don't know. You can bring, you can bring the cat. I was going to ask like, is there a spot for a litter box at the club? There's an upstairs part. Yeah. Okay. Maybe we could do it like a brand deal with litter robot. Mm hmm. Yeah. Okay. Then I'll think about it. But I do really want to go. It's just a matter of exhaustion. It's Friday, right? Yeah. Oh. Tomorrow. Right? To this. Yeah. Yeah. I got to go to Atlanta, you guys. I got to do some shit in Atlanta. What time? I'm excited about what time? Yeah. In the afternoon. Atlanta's as far as New York City. The flight is just as far as New York City to get to Atlanta. It's across the whole country. Atlanta. Georgia. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Well, now I didn't know either. I'm about it. There's another Atlanta. Atlanta to me. I thought that was a state. No, I don't know. There's another Georgia. I never know. Things are a state. Yeah. Yeah. Not to bring up military, but one time when I heard that there was a war and I was hitting Georgia, I said, that's here. Mm hmm. When, how far away? I'm looking up Georgia. I'm like, that's two states away. I'm in Texas. Like, what's. Is there a country? Yes. The country of Georgia. Yeah. There's a country of Georgia, which I learned because once someone told me that I look like I'm from Georgia, like, Georgia, and I was like, I don't know how to, I've never take that at all because I was thinking the state, but it's, I think it's in the Middle East. Oh. Yeah. I had no idea. Yeah. Like, next to Turkey and stuff. Yeah. I knew I was going to learn. No, think about this podcast. We'll learn. It's okay not to know that Georgia is a country and a state. It's a safe space to learn new things. And we learn things all the time. Okay. Great. But Atlanta. Atlanta, that's an American. That's going to be one we get. We get in trouble for it. Yeah. So yeah. When did you get in? Um, the day before yesterday. Today. Are you jacked? No, I don't usually get jet lagged. I feel like I'm just, do you experience being tired? I do. But like, I don't know it in terms of everyone always asks that with like, I don't know. Things are exciting. Yeah. No, that's a great mindset and I'm someone who like loves to nap and I'm always, I always get a little nervous. I'm like, I'm not even asleep when you're dead kind of thing, but I also love to sleep when I'm alive too. So I don't know. They need to induce like a small undergrad experience, coffin style, just like induced coma. I have always called, called die for a sec. Just a minute. Die for a minute. We're going to induce you in a coma. You're going to take the best nap of your life. You're going to be out like a rock. Yeah. And then we're going to bring you back and do snap time. But would like putting you out like that, catch you up on sleep. I think that you probably wouldn't wake like I don't think we, I don't even know if we have that technology that we do. People get induced in commas all the time. That's called anesthesia. Yeah. Yeah. But do you dream an anesthesia? I think that's a great question. Have you ever been in it? In anesthesia? Have you ever had the anesthesia experience? Um, yeah, when I, when I got my wisdom teeth out, I, are you guys, are you guys both with wisdom teeth? I, I'm with. You're without. I'm without. Okay. Did you pass out? Yeah, they, um, gave me the anesthesia, but they didn't give me enough. So I woke up early. Did this happen to you? Yeah. And like, I was awake and they were in my mouth and I kind of was like, wait, I'm getting my wisdom teeth out, but like I could see their hands and feel them in my mouth. Oh, blown. I was wondering if anyone else in the world didn't give me enough as ever experiences. That's great. I, I literally was sitting there and I'm like, hold up there in my mouth, you know? And then I felt you could feel them in your mouth. You know what I mean? Like the pressure and the thing about wisdom teeth, I know everyone's asleep when they get their wisdom teeth out. And this is going to be a lot. So just like, Constance, my hands are going to be teedubs, teedubs, like, disturbing. Wait, I don't like this time, I don't like this. They don't. They don't just pull the tooth out. Okay. They break it out and piece it. So like I'm watching these teeth come out of my mouth and I'm looked down and they're putting them just right on my chest. And they're like, you're doing so good. Why? Why am I here? Why am I apart? But were you out at one point? I passed out after that's laughing like that's Twilight anesthesia. So you're not fully on. Oh, I think my mom who's just like anti medicine freak was like, give him. And she also never let me take any of my painkillers afterwards. She was just giving me just telling me it was my pain meds, but it was Advil. My mom's like that too. Yeah. My mom's like, let's take as least as possible. It's crazy. I was like, why am I still in so much pain? Because they said these were good. And she's like, I have no idea. Well, do you know, like some painkillers are just like four Advils and one pill? Yeah, but she's giving me one Advil and just the Advil. One Advil is like a damn tic-tac to me. Yeah. Mm-hmm. I always get stressed out about Advil and stuff. Like I'm always apprehensive to take it. Well, like stomach. I'm too comfortable. I don't know. Just I'm always like, I'll just do it without. I don't know. I'm like that. Aren't I? I'm like that. Yeah. Because my mom has absolutely brainwashed me into not taking pain medications. Like stare at the sun for a little bit and your headache will go away. So with you said you don't do jetl- or wait, did you want to talk about wisdom teeth or does you? I was going to say jetlag. Um, I think I'm done with wisdom teeth. I think I've got- I think I've got to do. I appreciate that. I'm like looking around the room and everyone was like this. Stop. Um, are you one of those people that's like jetlags is a mindset. Kind of. Oh no. But like no, not like all the way. I did get jetlagged when I went from Paris to LA. Yeah. And I was kind of out of it, but I mean, I feel like you can adjust pretty quickly with some coffee. Are you a coffee drinker? I'm a coffee drinker. I need like three cups. I'm on my second cup right now, which is why I'm kind of having like a mini heart attack and my hands are sweating, but I wanted to be able to speak one here. You drink through that. I um, slept, not just to make this whole podcast, but I mean, I slept so good last time. I never was wondering, but I was trying to watch this video that's like calm down, fall asleep. Because for some reason I was just like my eyes were just open. And before the, the, the precursor on the YouTube video was, come on down to old Navy and shop our back to school must haves. And I was falling asleep saying that to myself. And I woke up first thing in my head, I don't think I open my eyes. Come on down to old Navy, come back to school must haves. And I can't stop saying in my head the whole rest of the day. And now it's transformed into that TikTok sound. It's like, oops, got your clip, come on down to old Navy, no, I can't stop saying it. Got your clip. Yeah. Yeah. That's a good one. Wait, have you was like ASMR? Um, it was, it's these binaural beats, which is like hurts and it's like frequencies, binaural beats. My roommate that did a lot of shrooms in college really believed in these binaural beats. And then I was like, well, there's got to be something to it. But turns out like, I think he was just fried. Mm hmm. I don't think there's anything to it. I've been doing sleep ASMR recently. What's that? Brooke's doing that. On TikTok? I've been putting on squirrels and birds in my cat. So I've been falling asleep to like chewing on nuts and chewing on nuts, if you will, and birds chirping. Oh my God. Yeah. I kind of like like it. The chewing, that would drive me a wall. Like you have miso phone. Yeah. Mm hmm. So does he. Really bad, but not with animals. Like I think that people who slurp or chew, even with their mouth closed, like if you have a cavernous mouth and like it echoes, even with your mouth. Who doesn't have a cavernous mouth? A lot of people don't. A lot of people have little petite mouths and you can't hear when they chew. Does cavernous mean big? Yeah. Like they're chewing and I'm like, I can't even tell you to chew quite her because your mouth's shut. Like you're doing your, you're doing your bad day and best, but don't mind me scooting to the other end of the table. Yeah, no. Out of putting myself first, you know, like I have to protect my piece. Now when a person does that, or when they squeeze a water bottle or like when they're drinking at it and they go like this. So you're describing three of my three, three of my three friends. You don't got to sip it. It's coming. Gravity works. No, the crunching of a water bottle. The crunching of a water bottle. I know. I'm talking. I'm not talking about you directly. You are. I was just, I had the weekend with my dad and he does all that. I think he does it now because he knows it bugs me. Now when you're talking about chewing nuts and it's a squirrel doing it, preparing for a long winter, or if it's my dog eating watermelon and it's like, I'm not even gonna do it. I want that. I want that to be 60 minutes long. You can't get that. I will say it doesn't bother me as much with like dogs and chewing. I think it's a little bit cuter. It is. It is cuter. It scratches like an itch. Like who, like people that watch Trisha Paytas and it's like it scratches an itch on my brain. 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No family dinners are brutal or anything. I need a beta blocker to have a meal with you, you know, like I know it shouldn't bug me. I hate that about me. And you know what's really bad is I'm probably the worst, like I do it myself. It's very much it's very much what's it called when you don't like when someone else does it but you do it? Recret? Yeah. I was trying to think of that but I couldn't think of that. I was stuck. I had that word right away. Ready to eat. I almost said heterosexual. Speaking of heterosexual, are you bi-coastal? Wait, you kind of, I got a place here. You got a place here. Yay. Oh my god. Do you like LA? I like have been so obsessed with it but I think it maybe it's my commitment issues now that I have a place here. I'm like like New York would have been so much better. Well, okay. But I do like it here. I just think it's like I'm scared to be lonely because all my friends are in Miami and New York. Right. Well, luckily LA has some of the most. Well, now you have the friends here. LA has some of the most real down to earth trustworthy people that in the world, they're so real. That is the, if that ain't the damn truth. Yeah. Yeah. Like, yeah. Do you guys think it's hard making friends here? I think that I think the issue is that people like, I think it's, no, I think you can make really good friends here. I think the issue is that it's so spread out. Like people call, this is a Robbie Hoffman quote, what LA is a city because it's big. It's not a city at all. Right. Are you eight years old? It is like five separate cities that they call LA. So if you, I live in Venice and Brook lives in West Hollywood, that's 45 minutes away. We're fully long, but it is huge. And that's with no traffic. So if I like need to go there for a dinner or something, I need to be in an Uber or driving by 430. Yeah. If it's at seven. I'm going to get there and park, which is just your whole day. So people talk about like, if you have a, if you have a doctor's appointment or dentist appointment or a meeting at two, go ahead and cancel all your other plans for the morning and the afternoon because you're not going to be able to make anything. No, but like, that doesn't bother me as much because I feel like I grew up, my high school was 30 minutes away from me and then Miami's not as big as here, but it also is like going out to the clubs would be like 30 minutes away when we were in college. So I feel like I'm like pretty used to a drive. So it doesn't bother me as much, but some people you, they hear 30 minutes and they're like, I can't go. 30 minutes. What? Yeah. Is that another sign? You know, you have 30 minutes. Nobody? Let's move on. Yes. No, I got it. So good. I got it. Thank you. Yeah. I know. But is it hard? I don't think I initiate. I don't think I had the right enunciation on the sound. I don't think it's the tone. You're all good. Is it hard to make friends in LA? You know, you have 30 minutes. You know, you have 30 minutes. Okay. Sorry. You know, you have 30 minutes. Is it hard making friends in LA? Really? Yeah. Yeah, I don't. A little bit. I think it is. Because well, I don't know if it's hard making friends in LA or it's hard making friends as an adult. Because like. I think making friends as an adult. You can't do. I mean, I guess you can do play dates, like go and get a coffee, but it's just, it's not the same. Yeah. I think about that all the time. I'm like, if I didn't have my friends from college, like how would I make friends? Like I moved here with like, I knew Connor, like we move, we live together. So like, I knew him and then through him met a lot of people. And if I didn't know him, I don't know how I'd have one friend. Yeah, truly. No, but it is weird. And people ask me all the time or write into my podcast and they're like, how do you make friends? And like, I feel like it has to be more so like you're going to like, work out class together. Yeah. It's like you can't be out with someone and be like, want to hang out? I mean, you can, but like. And it's scary. People do that. Like people will do that to me all the time and they'll be like, so friendly and kind and be like, let's get coffee or like, let's do this and I'm just like, oh, I don't want to. Yeah, but I really have respect for what you're doing right now. Yeah. So I think that that's what you have to do. Like I really respect your hustle right now, but unfortunately, I'm all hustle now. I can't make it. I'm not in the market. Right. I already hustled. It is hard when you like have your friends to make new friends. I thought about that too. I was like, should I be making more friends? I think when you feel content with a friend group you have, like you're not closed off to making new friends, but like if the right person comes, huh, the person is striking. Yeah. It's like a spark on impact. I'm like, and it's also fun when you're like, I could see this person hanging out with my friends, you know, until they started hanging out with your friends without you and then you have to find it. Yeah. You have to kill them with a gun. Yeah. Okay. I have an LA question too about friends because this is just like the craziest concept to me. But like, do you ever get people that are just like, oh, do you want to collab? Like not like hanging out. It's just like collab. When I first moved here. Yeah. That was really tough. So I've seen like, I don't know, you see people like making TikToks or videos together and like I'll hang out with someone that like also is on social media. If I feel like we'd be friends and I like them, but like I would never hang out with someone just to like make a video on this girl DM me the other day. And she seemed so sweet, but she was just like, Hey, I'm in LA, like, let me know if you want to collab. And I see her like making videos with other people and I'm like, this is weird. Like this is like, do you just hang out and you're just like, Oh, okay, like, yeah, but like you don't like what do you, you just, you're not hanging out. You're just making video. Right. So work. It's a work opportunity, but that's so weird. I agree. And I don't think I could do it. I don't want to collab. I don't want to. No, yeah, I don't want to collab. Like a general. No, we're not looking to collab right now. Thank you for your interest. I also think that those videos, like when you see those people doing those videos in comparison to people hanging out with their genuine friends, it, you can tell that it's personal. Yeah. Yeah. Totally. Yeah. You just be too awkward to collab like that. Like, what do you do when the camera turns out? Like, I, I also would never be able to say like, would you want to collab with me? Like sure, there's some people I'm like, would love to make a video with you, but like. Let's hang out. Yeah. And then if the camera comes out, it comes out. Yeah. I had a similar situation to that that we can, we can offline about. It's really funny. I've started using just the word collab to reference like hooking up and having sex. Like, did y'all collab last night? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That feels better to me than using it for its original collab. Having attention. Body on body collab. Yeah. You don't even have to. You can just say collab. Yeah. Yeah. I want to know if you guys can see how much I'm sweating. I'm just kidding. Well, you're wearing leather. I'm wearing something that's totally breathable and I'm soaked. The scarf is really not. No, I'm still clamming. Adding a layer that I wasn't prepared for, deodorant was. I want to know about EDM. No, of course. I want to know about EDM. And that's going to sound stupid. But I saw that you were talking, oh, someone reposted a video you made about dubstep and was like, I scared the girls last night because in dubstep and EDM, this is a lesson, Brooke is going to learn as we talk to each other. So Brooke is staring as if we have now started talking in French. No, I love learning new things. My friends are laughing because I'm the wrong person to ask about this. Like, I love this stuff. Really? I don't know where I am for a lot of things, movies, actors, anyone famous. I feel like I'm out of the loop listening to music too. I don't really listen to music a lot of the time. I see you listening to music and I see you're wearing this go lamp behind me. I love going to a festival, but if I'm driving in the car, I'm usually in dead silence. But EDM is the genre and then dubstep is a sub-genre. Yeah. Okay. So it's a type. Right? I went to, I've gone to a couple of shows. I go through phases where I'm like, this is my new life. I went to Snow Love. I went to sleep and I'm not even like, I'm not even like, I need to go to sleep right now. I need, it's too late. I was like, oh, I don't, these are like people. These are special ops. These are Navy seals out here and they're going to stay up till 8 a.m. in this forest. At 1 a.m. I go, oh, no, my legs are, I can't feel my legs. I have to go home. But then John Summit has entered the chat with Subtronics. And Subtronics made a video with, I have a person, they made it, yeah, he made it. That's so cool. And he played it at, what's the Miami Music Festival? Ultra. Ultra. He played it, Ultra. I was like, this is a joke because it was just this huge audience. And I was like, that's my voice, you know? Are you there? You're on site? No, I wasn't bad. You guys should come to Ultra. Yay, yay. It's actually the best time ever to change your life. I'll hold Brooke in a baby Bjorn and her legs and arms will be out like this and we'll. I'm telling you, even if you don't like this stuff, you'll like it. It's just like the most friendly environment and you'll feel so safe. Yes, totally. I'll be there. No, no. You have to go. I will. I've been recruiting people all year. I will go. I'm so open. Yes, man. I just said yes too. Me too. Me too. I'm holding you to this. I came out to that new song that Subtronics and John, I was a John Mayer in Subtronics. Subtronics and John Legend, what's his name? Summit. Summit. Summit. I'm doing it again. Holy shit. Subtronics. What's his name? Subtronics. And... Hunter's been having a... Summit. Summit. What are those like little... TBI. Was that... It's a TMI or something. TMI. No, something in the brain... We need to call it. We need to call it right now. We're not going to get anywhere. What? I was like, "He's glitching." I'm like, "I'm having like signs of early onset stroke." Yeah. So don't worry if he glitches. It happens. One guy commented, "Everyone laughing. He having stroke." Wait. The stress is me. Finally I have an ally. That's me anxiety. I'm fine. I just like... I'm getting tired of some people like passing out and freaking out. So I always have to bring food with me. Like I have hard-boiled eggs in my purse right now. Oh, that's a girl after my own heart. Just in case anything goes wrong. So if you need a hard-boiled egg... Let us know if you need a hard-boiled egg. I'll swallow it whole like a hungry, boa constrictor. Hey, guys. We'd like to take a quick break to the next sponsor of today's episode. Better help. There's been a couple times recently where I feel like I couldn't be my full self. Sometimes when I'm meeting people... I'm going to a meeting right now where I need to remind myself that I was invited to come here because of my personality. I don't need to hide myself. I don't need to put on a mask. And October is the season for wearing masks and costumes. 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I was coming out to my last show when John and Subtronix came out with slow down grab the wall. Gas pedal. And I'm like, I'm going to switch it up. I usually come out pretty chill because I know I'm like, I don't want to like, I come out to that one. I'm feeling really good. Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, I'm coming out and I got on station and go. I'm so sorry. I don't want to set the expectations in this room. Like, I'm going to somehow be able to live up to that song. I don't have a single joke that's going to, that I warranted that song to walk out to. Do you know what I mean? Wait, you were on stage? I walk. Yeah. For my, I'm on stand-up floor for stand-up for. Oh my God. For some reason, I thought you were still talking about a show or something and I was like, I was actually at a comedy club with 350 people in it and I came out to that song. Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop. Actually, like, a lot of people were like, what? Has he... And you chose that song? I chose it because I was like, let's like, let's like really kind of like come out and have fun and like get the crowd. You know, they're sitting and they're having cab or nay and, and, and, and tiramisu. Like, they didn't really need to hear Subtronics right then with the bass all the way up. So like, lesson learned, you have to try new things. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That'll never do that again. Coming out to John Mayer, like, waiting on the world to change. So what's your song now? Then Subtronics. Um, it changed. I've been coming out to dare the dare girls by the dare. What's that? I like the girls that do drugs, the girls, the cigarettes in the back of the club. I'll tell you. Yeah. That kind of makes more sense for me. Yeah. Mm hmm. Yeah. Do you like any songs that have words in them? Like, what's your go to? I know I prefer for them to have words. Yeah. Or a little bit of words. Slow down. It's supposed to like... Oh, I guess EDM has words to sometimes. Sorry. It's nasty with my water. No, it's okay. Sometimes there's some that are more like house music that's just the beats, which I feel like you really have to be in a vibe for personally. I like words though. I like when I'm going out to sing and dance. Yeah. Yeah. What about like a song that would be on like hits? Hits one. Radio-fation. Like Sabrina Carpenter? Yeah. Like, do you listen to just the background? I love Sabrina Carpenter. Yeah. I love Sabrina Carpenter. Yeah. She's really good. I know I want to go to her to work. I like her. I do too. It looks really good. And then I was like, "Oh, I know every word to this song." I wouldn't be a pop star. I was like, "Do you really?" You could. You totally could. You totally could. I can't sing. You don't need to. You don't need to. You'd have to do like the tall and like... If I could lip-sync the whole thing, I would do it. You could. You could. It's totally good. It's been done. Okay. It's been done. I lip-sync all my jokes on tour. I just say watermelon over and over and over again. You could do it. You totally could. You totally could. Do you dance? Yeah, she does dance. I used to dance. I used to dance. Sorry. I used to dance. I used to dance. Try to keep up with Alexandra. I will try. I have been keeping up with Alexandra. I've been obsessed with your... The great thing about you is a lot of things, but your ads, like I'm genuinely so dialed in. Is my ads? Yeah, your ads. I've been watching your Armani ads because you're so good at using concealer, which is a really specific compliment. But whenever I need to cover something up, it gets more red and flaky, not to use the word flaky right now, but you're just so good at it. I just don't know. Thanks. I've always had really bad skin, so it's like a master. It's like a master. I'm a master at it now. You're a master. Fine. Yeah. I used to have really bad acne all over my cheeks, and when I would try to cover it up, I would just draw attention to it. That's also how I went to makeup, and probably my bad skin and then dance competitions. You had to put on a lot of makeup. I put lotion on for the first time in some months, some time, because you were coming on. You reminded me to put lotion on my face. And I use some concealer. So thank you. You're impact. Yeah, you do. I'm so proud of you guys. Yeah, but you'll notice there's a little flaky red dot. That's where the concealer is. Like your skin looks amazing. It's really sweet, Alex, but there's a flaky red dot, so. But I bet there wouldn't be with Armani. Luminous silk concealer. Silk concealer. I was on my walk this morning, and first of all, I'm a little shaken out because I used to almost get hit by cars a lot, like a lot more frequently than I do now. And last night, I had to run in with a vehicle, and no, I was on a run, and I was telling everyone on my story, I was like, so there's a run club, and I'm like vehemently against run clubs. Did I say that right? Not really. But it's fine. But it's vehemently. You know, I think it's vehemently, but we totally knew what you meant, and that's what words are not. Be him. I did not know. Okay. You know what? I'm really against run clubs in my heart. I don't know why. There's something guttural about them. Everyone's way too. Like I feel like everyone's way too horny, and I'm just like, I kind of want to do that by myself, not being horny by myself. Just like. Run clubs. Not I want to run by myself. Run clubs are scary. They're scary. And it's like you will get run over if you're like on the sidewalk. It reminds me of the Lion King that when they drop, when they drop his dad and he just can't. Can you even run with this many people around you? Just do it alone. My thing is like, if I want to slow down or stop, like I don't want a group of people to pass me or like know that I stopped. So I run, I know their route. I run one block. I run in the alley and I can see their pace. So I keep up with them. Then I almost get hit by the car. So I think I'm going to start running on the path with them. But the guy yelled, I yelled and I was like, really, bro? You know, he almost hit me. I was not looking, wearing all black at night. My fault. And he goes, I'm sorry, man. Oh, that's the worst. Oh my God. I'm still going to think about that for a week. That's like, if you all get an old person, I feel bad that he almost hit me. It's not his fault. It's my fault. I wish he would have hit me. I deserved it. That goes to show you like whenever someone is rude to you, kill them with kindness. Yeah, because when you yourself are killed with kindness, that really is the only thing that works. Yeah, so true. Yeah. But I was on my walk this morning, almost got hit by a car and I go, I'm going to wait this one. I'm not going to say a word. But I was walking, and I was looking at Halloween directions to correct decorations. Sorry. Behemoth decorations. Behemoth decorations in LA. And I was like, some of these are cute. There's scouts and kind of like with a macaronis. Maracas. I didn't even know. There's scouts in with maracas. I was like, that is fun. And now that is fun. And then the next one is like a bloody half corpse climbing up someone's second balcony. Like, I was like, where do we draw the line? Also, how do people with decorations that are that are grotesque? How do you sleep for the rest of the year knowing you've got half a corpse in your closet, like in on Easter, like, oh, we've got to walk past the closet with the corpse in it. You can sleep in your house knowing that. That's a good question. It's a good question, right? It's a great question. I appreciate the people though who decorate. Okay. So that's the question, decorate over the top grotesquely, like I'm having a morning coffee, kind of just like listening to Tom Mesh thinking about my devotions, focusing on breathing, and then seeing a corpse, I'm like, that kind of throws me off. Like not what I want to see in the morning. It depends. But I do appreciate people being in the spirit. Me too. Me too. I like it. Because in Miami, I feel like it doesn't feel as Halloween there, just because it's like the palm trees. I mean, kind of same thing here. It's like you don't really have all the leaves and stuff. I'm from Jersey. Where are you guys from? Texas and Philly. Oh my God. Yeah. Love. But anyway, there was a, I was driving to my boyfriend's house the other day and there was a Halloween decoration, but it was like a bald man in a suit, like holding some basket or something and I almost crashed the car. Like it was so, but it didn't even look like Halloween. It just looked like a scary, creepy man. A man. But with a basket. Yeah. It's not when it's warm out. It's scarier because it's like, yeah, it's like the Halloween dragons don't like play in Miami. Yeah. One thing about New Jersey that I don't have a bad word to say about New Jersey, all my friends that I met from, like every one of my, I have so many close friends from Jersey. Because we're the best. What? Because you're the best. I literally have not met up. I have nothing bad to say about Jersey one. Nothing bad to say about people I know from Jersey two. Nothing bad about any experience I've had in Jersey three. Nothing about people from Jersey. They say, oh yeah, I'm going to move across the street from my parents when I get older. Like they all want to move back to Jersey. They all do. It's crazy. I've never, I've never experienced something where like people are like, yeah, I'll be moving back. Like my plan, my heart is set. I'm out of the city. I'm out of LA. I'm out of, actually they only live in New York or LA. Maybe Florida. But they're all moving back to Jersey. It is perfect there. I was a home maybe two weekends ago and just like being back, I was like, I could see myself moving back here. And I'm the person that's like, I want to move out. I don't know if I would because I don't like the winters, but it just says like the best for like a hometown vibe. So damn true, Halloween in Jersey must be so, so my God, I was, I went home a few weekends ago and I was feeling the same way with the leaves falling. I was like, I think I'll, yeah, no, it's so comforting. It really is. I'm going to miss both the Halloween weekends because I'm going to go to Boston after my Atlanta shows and do Halloween with my baby cousins. Oh sweet. I think like it's a decision that I'm making now and then I'm going to see all of y'all's Instagram stories at like some sick, freaking wrist bending, fun thing. 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There was a black aura that came out of my body under my bed. That dry cleaning had to, dry cleaning had to experience my black aura. I'm going to help like walk off. The black aura was within us all. Some of us, it came out of on the cabin the way home. I'm sorry. I went through that. I mean, I was there when Hunter fell on the table. I was there when Hunter fell on to an extra large basil pizza. And then it was funny because I was like, did Hunter get a basil shirt? Because it looked like he had been, did Hunter get a pizza shirt? Because he had muscle form. It's like Hunter's like the biggest guy ever. I actually wasn't even there for this part, but I just heard about it so many times. I feel like I was there. You know what's weird? I was like, why do I smell basil? I look at Hunter's back. I'm like, what the hell? It was on his back. Yeah, he felt like completely flat back on to it. And he's a big, big guy. The surface area that Hunter's back covers is like, it would crush us to Dan. What was the context leading up to it? We can't. That's the part I don't want to know. No, I wasn't there. You're a Snapchat story. The photos you chose. No, I don't know. That included me. I don't know. Jail for you. I reported them on Snapchat. Really? It wasn't my most. Harassment and bullying for Alec Drew. It was my most viewed Snapchat ever. I'm sure because it included the black aura. I was like this. I was like this. On her Snapchat story, I was like, maybe she doesn't have that many followers. God. It's me, Margaret. It doesn't have many followers. Please pray that she doesn't have that many Snapchat subscribers. No, that night was really scary. And the thing is, we got up the next morning. It was one of those nights where we were like, oh, we can't go out that much because we're like that hard because we're getting up to go to Mika-Nose the next morning. So it was such a dark night. And I was like, that was like the worst vibes ever. But like in a fun way. And it was incredible meeting you in person that night as well. Yeah. That was your first time. Did you think we had black aura? No, I thought I brought that with me. Someone else in our group, not our group, but like someone else. You might have brought it. No. I went in there with the best of intentions. In fact, I met you guys at the door. We went in together. Yeah. And then up in that area that we're in with NR10 foot radius, brought that in. And I think it might have been Cuba getting junior because he was living there. It's always Cuba. Hey, all everything comes up Cuba. You know what's funny is when I met him in that area, I go, I go, what's your name? Because I sat down because I always need to sit every 10 minutes. I sit down and I sat down and next time he's like, sit, sit closer to me. And I was like, why? I sat closer to me. He's like, well, my name's Cuba. And I was like, that's a cool name. And then I was like, I know another Cuba, good in junior. Wept. It was him. I said, you are one of my favorite actors, me lying, me lying, me when I lie. Cool runnings. Right? Yeah. Oh my God. I wish he had asked you to name one of your favorite Cuba piece. Imagine me saying cool runnings from 2002. Oh, that's a Cuba. I mean, I have never heard of it. I thought that this was a saying the whole time. Yeah. That it was like, oh, Cuba, good in junior. No, he. Oh. Like I thought you had. Cuba, good in junior. It wasn't crazy. It was pretty Cuba. Did you do? Did you do? Oh, cool. Well, we had. He was there. He was there every night. It was almost like he slept there and just reincarnated every day, every night. He was a lot of places that night. Him and Chris Humphries, I saw every single day. I saw Chris Humphries every, I saw Chris Humphries in my sleep. I wake up, I go to round swamp, get a lasagna. Round swamp. He's ducking his head because he's so tall trying to get into that grocery store. Well, I can't. I placed Chris Humphries. He was the one that was married to Kim Kardashian for 11 minutes. Oh, yeah. I do know. I do know. Yeah. Looks like Frankenstein's creature a little. Can I say that or not? Really? Just because the shape of his head. No, you're totally fine. Okay. Frankenstein's creature. Oh my God. It's a bear. Do you know Frankenstein is actually the doctor? Frankenstein's. And Frankenstein's monster is the monster. Frankenstein's monster, Yassafud. Yeah. I've been doing the Disney channel thing the entire. I've been watching it. Sorry. Okay. We got some submissions that I want to run by you, Alex, but really quickly. Should I do my poop thing or no, Connor? I think you should do your poop thing. I feel like we've established enough rapport that it's okay if we talk about poop. Oh, sure. Well, we weren't going to because that is something that ends up coming up on this podcast. Like we try to like put it off a little bit, usually ends up coming around the 16 minute mark prepared for this. Okay. Okay. That's good. But I was talking to Connor this morning and I was like, I'm going to tell you this right now because I don't want to talk about it with Alex because maybe I shouldn't bring up poop right away with a new friend, but he was like, no, save it. So here it is. Make us closer. Yeah, it will. I think so. Why do dogs and cats have to wipe? It's a great question that you go out because my baby Jonathan had his first explosion last night and I was like, Oh, you're not, you're not putting that butt on my pillow. Yeah. So I went and got like a wet paper towel and like to wipe him off. Why was there nothing on the paper towel? Brooke, I can't. That's a good. I don't know. Like I was going to say, I feel like some owners, my wife, like we let our dogs and cats like come right back onto the couch after doing something so ungodly. Maybe it's like their sphincter. Maybe not of me. I was wondering when we had buzzword sphincter. I was like, I'm just, I'm wondering if she's going to slip in sphincter here. You slipped it in. Yeah, I think it has to be something within. It's able to. Like it's maybe like just the way it is and it's just like, yeah, wait, do you know, one time I had a goat that died because it didn't have a butthole. Oh my. Oh, that is a. No, I did not know that. It was. Did he not have a colossomy back? It was a little baby goat and we didn't know what was wrong with it. Like it, I mean, we just didn't think. You don't immediately. You don't immediately. I don't know. I wasn't there. It was just like a domestic goat or you had like, we have some, we have like a little farm and the goat started to like get sick. So we brought it to the doctor and, you know, we noticed it didn't have a butthole and it ended up, it was too late because it had been so worked up in there that. Oh my gosh, toxic show. What happened? I mean, this morning. I'm familiar with the goats pain. That sucks. That was that. It was really sad. It was really sad because I wanted to go home and meet the goat. Oh, you never got a chance to meet him. No. Oh my God. He exploded beforehand. That's so sad. I'm sorry. I know. He, in a way, imploded, that's so devastating. What a way to go. That poor momma goat that what I've never heard of anything being born without a buttholes kind of like a X, Y, he was like the run of the litter. Oh, he was the run of the litter that's so sad. I know. Okay. Let's move on to our submissions now that we got that out of the way. I have one question. Yeah. Alex, right before we go. This is one that I added in late. When's the last time you were on a ladder? No. Brooke hates when I ask this question. It's a great question. I don't hate it. You said, no, it's not a trick question. That's the thing. I just saw the ladder over there and it reminded me to ask that question. It's a great, by the way. That is a great question asked if you're just like, you know, like, what are we doing here? Like when's the last time you're on the ladder? I can tell you mine. How about you started us off? My grandma got her spatula stick on her roof because she was throwing it at a squirrel that had been stealing her stuff, her berries from her plants. She drew a spatula at it. So that was in Michigan. I had to go and get spatula off the roof. And I guess that conversation really ends there so we can go right to the submissions unless you want to, unless the ladder question is really burning a hole in your pocket. I don't have any ladder stories. Did you just want to tell us that? No. I don't have any ladder stories either. Okay. Okay. You ready? No. My Uber is almost here. It has to go. I'd really thought the ladder question was going to be larger than that. He genuinely was talking about the ladder question before you got here. Like, really. You know what? As a comedian, you do have to try new things like walk out to Septronics. Yes. Thank you. So that was me really putting myself out there and really bearing it all. Thank you. We love it. I'm surprised that she was strong enough to get like the spatula of that shit. I know. She has an arm. It really does. Yeah. 98. Wow. Yours young. Aging is a blessing. Exactly. Okay. So we asked people about their worst ghosting stories, which a lot of people took to me and like, oh, ghosts, like spooky, but we meant like dating. And then also hot takes. Okay. The hot takes also were like kind of struggle with the definition of hot take. The hot takes were like pizzas better cold or they should bring back the death penalty. Like it was really like, yeah, to spectrum, so I tried to pull some down the middle. Okay. I got there was one I saw that was like, dishonning water is bad. Oh, like, babe, where have you? So my friend Sally, who's sitting over there, she's going to freak out about this, got this water app that she's paying for. And it tells you like the ranks of water. I'm already on your side, by the way. No. It tells you the ranks of water, like if it's good for you or what it has in it. So she was like, Poland Springs, like the worst. What? This is where it gets ridiculous. She said Fiji is like also really bad. We had this water today from the Aloe Gym. And it was it had like a warning sign on it. It was like so bad. And like she was like, these are bad water. So she won't drink them. But I'm like, it's water. What is the good water? What does the app do? What do you scan the water bottle? You just type it in and it gives you like, if there's like tap water in it, how much plastic is in it and just like everything and there's this big scale and Poland Springs is my favorite water. Because it has it has it has it. So now she's now she's really stressing me out about water. And I was distraught when I went out for like, only good water is like Saratoga Springs and like I've got water and even more water. Everything's bad for you. Everything's bad for you. Everything is bad for you. I'm I don't even care. I just have to start drinking water because I don't drink water. I will go a day and have like this much water. The app is called Oasis. Wow. I'll be down in the app. No, you don't need to pay to like and then I never feel that it's bad. You know what? You know what's funny is. And I just discovered that sparkling water has the same hydrating effects as normal water and so I've been housing sparkling waters. Someone's told me like you're going to get Kenny's sounds. So it's just like, should I just kill myself now or like is the water going to kill me too? They're like you drink too much water. You can drown. I'm like no shit. You can't get water poison. Water poison. I could probably survive the longest without water because your body's not used to water. You know what I'll say. If I drink a bottle of water, I have to pee maybe 50 times. That's good. That means you're healthy. Unhealthy. Maybe because I don't drink water. Water never serves. Could be good. Yeah. Good and good for you. I'm stocked up. I will say about the water in LA, if you buy a plant from somewhere in LA and it has that thing that they put in the soil, it's like, it's this kind of plant, put it in this much sunlight, this much water, they say do not give this plant tap water in Los Angeles. It will kill the plant. Fully, they don't tell us. I've been drinking tap water. Look at me. Yeah, I only drink tap water, so. I think tap water is fine. I do. I'm not picky. On the east coast, New York has the best tap water in America, which people don't know. Do you ever feel like when you go to restaurants, though, and they ask you for a bottle or a tap, they make you feel like a peasant? Yeah. Do you get the tap water? Yeah. But why would I pay for the bottle of water? Exactly. Well, I think in LA, I need to get just because that thing on my plant scared me on my cactus. I'm like, cactus is grown in places with no water. You're telling me, I can't give this, this, this cactus is a, is a beggar and a chooser. Yeah. Really? Oh, let's do the submissions, Brooke. I'm sorry. Okay. No, you're good. Okay. This is a ghost. I'm excited already. So we just react. Yes. Okay. Yes. Exactly. Whenever you feel called, the chime. You feel called. Okay. I was dating a guy and I ghosted him because we drove past the road where he had a car accident, and he shuttered and it gave me the ache. Thoughts. I get PTSD about stuff like that, so. I feel like she's kind of a bitch. I would really like that because it shows that he's in tune. With his emotions. Yes. Yeah. Great. He's having an emotional response. Yeah. And I would want to comfort him. That would be the opposite of an egg for me. Maybe they just weren't close enough to where she wanted to see that. Or maybe emotional vulnerability scares her and she should think about that. Yeah. I feel like eggs have become this thing where it's like, are we okay? They just throw it out too much. Yeah. It's like, no, you can't have an egg about everything. That's going to be the end of our civilization. This was a really stupid, hot take, no offense at all to the person who sent it. I'm no offense at all. I'm sure you're great. I know you're great. But it was hot take. Water tastes different depending on the brand. It does. Yeah. But the fact that was a hot take, it's like. Some people, that's just the point of water having different brands. It tastes different. Some people think it doesn't taste different. Oh. Okay. Maybe I'm stupid. And I want to send my apologies to this, to this individual. Hey guys, we'd like to take a quick break to thank a sponsor of today's episode, Twisted Tea. It's Halloween and we wanted to do something special this year. So we're going to share some of our Halloween Twisted takes. We have this handy dandy mug of Halloween, Connor has this handy dandy mug of Halloween Twisted takes and we're going to let you know our thoughts. Okay. I'm going to pull like a complete random. Actually, we didn't even make these. So I don't know what these Twisted takes are. You freaks. Definitely. Okay. Here I go. I'm going to pull one out. Okay. Do you need help? No. This one I completely agree with. So. Well, let me see if I do. Candy corn is the best Halloween candy. Absolutely not. You were about to cost me out. Sorry. I do not like candy corn to put it politically correctly. I love CC. Not for me. Candy corn is the best. We really don't like it. I'm going to be the biggest, uh, the biggest, like, taker, upper of, I don't know if there's probably a better word for that advocate of like when they put it at the counter, I'm like, give me that bag. Give me that sack. I'm almost tempted to use the D word when describing it. Do you? I would never want to yuck someone's yum. You're yucking my yum right in front of me. Okay. I'm going to do another one. Yeah. Oh. Good question. It's a nightmare before Christmas at Halloween or Christmas movie. You know, I've never seen it. I haven't either. Perfect. So like, that's just a question for, I guess, everyone. I think both. What is that? I think both honestly, because I've seen the young man, the skeleton, the young man. That screams Halloween, but the music screams Christmas. Also, there's lights, right? There's definitely lights. Maybe it's a toss up. Yeah. You could probably watch it. Why not? Why not both? Like the Grinch too, I guess, could technically, cause he's a monster, could be Halloween. He's not a monster. He's a hoot. Kind of like a hoot, but... Oh, hey. He's made out of hair. What's... I guess it depends how you define monster. Let's move on. Writing a word on your shirt is not a costume. I agree. I think a costume is whatever you want it to be. Oh. Brooks for the people. Brooks for the people. You're lazy. Um, no. I think that's lazy. Depending on like, if you're wearing a costume and there's more to it, like if you're a costume of someone on a sitcom or someone that like wore the shirt because they were being lazy and you write the thing on their shirt, it's like like how people have birthday parties and they're like, "It is your birthday." I'm like... Yeah. Yawn. So that's where my... I have no problem with it, honestly. I have a problem. I'll say something if you're out there and I see you. Trick or treating should be allowed for all ages. No. I think some moments are just like special to have in your childhood and that's one of them. I think that they could revamp trick or treating to make it work for adults because I think it's fun to walk around. I think it's an active thing to like go down the street and you see people in the middle of the street. I am actually going to go trick or treating with my like little cousins this year. Right. I'm excited to do that because that's more magical than adult Halloween is what you're in a costume and you're just like bopping or like you're just like, I don't know. Right. Being able to go with your kids or like kids in general is so powerful that if you make everybody able to trick or treat, it kind of diminishes that experience. Yeah, they could section it off adult section and then kid section. No adults. Okay. I'm I'm pro adults. Last one here. Okay. I have not made one of those. You have you did make one. Did I? Yeah. Oh, thanks, Brooke. Halloween should be a national holiday. Princees, people have work and school off. A hundred percent. I agree. Off the day after. Yeah, the day after because I used to be like really strict about my bedtime when I was younger, if I had school the next day and it always got in the way of my Halloween, like needing to go to school the next day, I think like Halloween is for nighttime and like, like the sun goes down like seven and so now you're commencing and I agree the bedtime thing. It's like once it gets double digits 10 p.m. Yeah. You gotta get home. I gotta wash paint off my face. You should not have school the next day. You should not have school in November 1st or work like in Halloween when Halloween falls on like a Wednesday say and then now you gotta decide is it this weekend we celebrate or next weekend? No. Let's make it easy. Give us a day. Let's make it easy. Like we can afford to get a couple more days off. Yeah. I'm so aligned. Stingy, stingy. Yeah. So those were our twisted Halloween takes and let us know who you guys agree with. You always do. And you guys don't already know, Twisted T is a refreshing hard iced tea made with real brewed tea and 5% alcohol, it's the perfect drink to keep the good times going all day long, especially this Halloween season. We love Twisted T, obviously. And it's what I'm bringing to all my Halloween parties this year and I know I'm going to be the life of the party. Everyone's going to come to Connor. Connor, give me a Twisted T. So whether you're hanging out at a friend's house or passing out candy as Halloween or go no costume party, Twisted T is there to turn your day up a notch and make a good time a great time. Grab a refreshing Twisted T today and keep it twisted. Everything I said, yeah. This is also ghosting, but it's long. So buckle up. Unbuckled sisters. Ghosting story. Last winter, I went on three hinge dates with this one girl. One day she texted me at like 11 and asked if I wanted to come over and watch a movie. She mentioned snacks. This is important. I'm not completely stupid. So I assume the invite meant not just a movie, but we hadn't even kissed at this point and we barely touched. I was kind of feeling like maybe it wasn't going anywhere or she wasn't really into me. So I took the snack offer at face value. I said, yes, walked over. I live in New York. She was 15 minutes down the road. She met me on the corner. I could see from a block away, she was like bopping up and down as she walked. And I hate to be that kind of person, but it gave me the egg. Then we got to her apartment and there were no snacks. And she conveniently had chilled a bottle of white wine in the fridge. It was a setup. And then I opened it. I offered to open it. She said she insisted to do it herself. She would do this thing where she felt like she had to be the man. So a lot of the time, I feel like I was just kind of standing there while she did things for me. And she fumbled so hard with the corkscrew. It took her like 20 minutes to open it and it was so awkward, but she wouldn't let me help. So I just stood there while she was like, I swear I'm usually better at this. We're about to get to the story. Then we went on her couch to watch a movie. And it was like Nicole Kidman, the interpreter, which was horrible. That's a movie where she's like a terrorist or trying to, I don't know, kind of catch a terrorist or something. The whole time the movie was on, I swear to you, she kept farting. And they were so quiet. So I couldn't hear them. But every 20 minutes I would smell one that was actually so unbearable. Not because of the smell, but it's not because of the smell really, but just because of the fact that she probably knew that I knew, but neither of us were acknowledging it while Nicole Kidman was on screen fighting terrorism or something. I don't know. Anyway, after the movie, I was like, I should probably go and she was like, no, you should say it's really cold out and it's late, baby, it's cold outside. But I peeked into her room and it was such a boy room, like no duvet or bed frame. I left and then slowly stopped responding to her text. I don't feel great about it. I do think about it her every once in a while while I have nothing else going on. Oh, well, it's like super unpleasant to me. I'm sorry. Farti McFart pants is sitting inches away from you. She had, she had gas. Crop dusting. Are you like during that horrible moment? I do feel like if you're hanging out with someone for one of the first times, like, and I feel like you've got to like do whatever it takes to not let that happen. Yes. Yes. Like you have to like go another room and be like, Oh my God, like someone just died. Like I have to go. Someone died in her colon. It seems I wasn't talking about the farting for Faye just like the nitpicking on like her wanting to open the wine bottle and her bopping up and down and over him. He doesn't seem like a happy camper. He did. He seemed. Yeah. So on his side, but yeah, I see that. Yeah, I'm sure you were. But he's I guess the farting is plain. The farting was the end. End thing for me. Yeah. The farting is it's only you two in the room, but what if it wasn't her? She wasn't making a sound. You know, she's just like a drafty apartment coming from the sewer. You of all people, you know, smells come from all sorts of places. Pardon? Pardon. What is the meaning of this? It's just like it could have been geological. Is there a fault line in New York City that I don't know about? It's over a sulfur offspring. I mean, like things like, you know, how like things can just like come out of your apartment. Do you think Alex's purse was sitting in there with her hardboiled eggs and they were just sitting there? I mean, I could have been that kind of situation. I would. There's a likely scenario where it wasn't her farting because like I just wait. I disagree because I think she would have said then, Oh my God. What does that smell? Right. Unless she thought it was him. I bet she thought it was him, but she wanted it probably. If that was me, I would have been like, sorry, I've been farting just to like clear the air. Literally. You have to. Yeah. You have to address the elephant in the room. I have a question. Yeah. No. I can't ask that. That's good. Just try. Just like on a plane, when someone like is obviously farting over and over and over again, like, do you say out loud? Like, can you can whoever's farting? Can you stop? No. That's bioterrorism to me because it's so like you can't do anything. You're just sitting there and you're stuck. It's like literally being in an escape room, but you're in the air. I just tell myself, someone just cracked open an egg salad sandwich and that's just started digging in the purse. Yeah. It's just Alex and our hard-boiled eggs. It's no biggie. Yeah. I don't know. So they probably feel trapped too. Yeah. You're right. Because you do get really bad gas on the plane. You bring up a great like counter argument. Yeah. I'm so against the farters. I hold it. Think of how bad they feel. It's too. It's so painful. It can be so painful. I unplug my mic. That's fine. Hey. That's fine. Well, maybe while you plug your mic back in, I can do another spin. Is it working? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. This is my favorite one. This actually made me laugh out loud. Oh, did it? Yeah. Okay. This is a hot take. It's literally fine that I parenthesis 21-year-old female and parenthesis, I'm in heat for my professor parenthesis 103-year-old male and parenthesis. I may or may not frequent his office hours. He no longer applies my emails. Renthesis also pairs nicely with the ghosting prompt and parenthesis and other parenthesis. Also due to his age, he may be in operation. So this really is a versatile answer and parenthesis. I just love one of you. I didn't listen to for you. Okay. You said 100% challenging. Okay. No, no. I just was. I was thinking about the age. So basically, yeah, her hot take was that it's completely fine. Yeah. She emailed him 103 male. Agree or disagree? Whatever works for you. Bill Belichick is doing it. Who's that? She I started and I got to relate that to something else. He's like the coach of the Patriots. I was and he's dating a 22-year-old? How old is he? 70. Well, he's not that even dated. There's no way that this professor's 103. That's a lie. Right. That would probably be. I don't even think people get that almost stand beside your grandma. No, someone was just 116. The question is, could they be an active professor? Yeah. If they have tenure, I'm pretty sure they can be an active professor until they pass. Yeah. Maybe that's like a weird kink she has. But I also like I can understand. I guess the phrasing in heat is a little tricky because I could understand her having romantic feelings like the way I have her Stephen King. But she's saying she has a very sexual. She's in heat. So that's yeah, that's tough. Well, you would kill him. You would kill him. She acted on it. If you acted on it. Like that SNL skit with Bill Hader in the chair. Yes. That's too good. That is so good. Yeah. I also think that there's some sort of like very, very real dynamic between teachers and students where you're like, I am so attracted to this teacher. I'm not saying the teacher's like, I'm so attracted to the student. But the other way, it's like, I'm attracted to my teacher. Yeah. And then you see them. Not supposed to power to say to me too. Yeah. And then you see them outside of school and you're like, oh wait, no, I'm not. You see him at Trader Joe's. Yeah. Wait, no. Yeah. Talk about it. Yeah. You know. And I think that the same thing goes with coworkers. And someone just said, someone actually wrote in. I don't know if I'm going to be able to find it fast enough. But someone wrote in and said basically her and her coworker both married, hooked up with each other, broke up both their marriages. They're moving out of state together. And she's like, I actually don't even like him anymore. Oh my God. So I think it was the coworker thing. It's the thing of like, you're not supposed to. Yeah. Yeah. But also it's the thing of like, have you ever in elementary school when you got a role of like smarties, you're like, I'm eating these right now. I'm so excited to eat these smarties. But then if you were outside of school and someone offered you smarties, and this is just an example that I had, I'd be like, I don't really want those right now. But in school, you're like, I'm going to eat this dumb, dumb. It's like the lack of options. I think that's an excellent example. Yeah. Maybe it's so much, you know? So it's like the lack of options when you're in an office, like this is the hottest person in this office, this coworker. And I'm going to get them, you know, versus like you see them out somewhere at a bar or something. You're like, ew. That's why social media is so tough. Because people think the options are endless. Yeah. Yeah. And instead, they don't just like settle what for what's in front of them, which I would advocate for for me. I advocate for me. Yeah. Someone said, just like, if I was in an office, which I would, I do want to be one day. I know. We were actually talking about that. Oh, yeah. Wait, I wanted to ask you. So I had a job before we started doing this, like, I don't know what we're doing. What? Sorry. I don't know what it is. We would call it. You were a teacher. She never had the office experience. I was fully working in her office. You went straight into it. Yeah. I worked in an office, though, for a little. Okay. I had a marketing internship. It is fun. I feel like, I don't know. There's a fun dynamic. It's funny. Not every day. Yeah. But now I work, like, from home, obviously. And I wish that I had somewhere to go into, to like separate, like life, my life, personally, from like work. Because I'm just like, even my podcast studios in my apartment, like what you guys hear, I'm like, this is like universal studios when I was walking in here. I was like, this is really professional. All these big buildings out here. This is really cool. Thank you. But all these, I don't have this many things going on for mine, which is probably by the production. It's not as good. But it's like in the corner of my room. So I do wish or aspire to one day have like an office where I can go in and do these things. That's a real thing because you can only go to so many coffee shops and when you have to do what we're doing, like, I'm not going to go record myself being like, Hi guys. When I'm at a coffee shop, it's like, you get, that's illegal kind of. So it's just like, you need to get, you need to have somewhere to go. It's like nice. Have a routine. I think for a while I didn't have this routine where it's like, yeah, I lack and then you don't have coworkers really. So like, you don't have. I went through the same thing this past year of like, you don't have your, your own boss. And that was hard for me to like comprehend because I was just like, I don't know. And then I was like, Oh shit, like I'm the only one that's going to tell myself to like do work. And it took me like seven months until I was like, okay, like we have to like get up and do shit right now. And now I love it. But it took, it's just like a weird thing to comprehend because you don't like have to necessarily. Yes. It's you have to have a count. But without it, you go like crazy. Like, I don't know how people like don't do anything. When I lived the first place I moved into post pandemic, when I went, when I moved back to LA, I moved in by myself and there would be three days where I just didn't even talk to a person. Because I could totally do everything from home. Yeah. Food. I felt like a snake and like an enclosure at like the reptile exhibit at a zoo and like, I got everything I need right here. Why would I leave? And then I saw something or read something that was like, you don't have a traditional job, but unless you treat this like a traditional job, you know, book out your day, schedule your things, then you're not going to advance at all. Just like you would in your career. Like you have to set goals. You have to set KPIs, you know, like per quarter, treat it like a job put in the hours of work. And then you'll see. And that helped so much. Yeah. I got into that mindset. And what is the KPI key performance indicator? And you set it to be like, this is where I want to be by the end of very, very much. At the end of March, I want to check in on my KPIC, if you made it or not. That's where like, if you're in an office, you go to your supervisor, but like manager and be like, okay, here's, I accomplished these things here, eventually you get a promotion. Can I get a promotion for myself? I don't know. I don't know yet. Keep going. I don't miss about an office though. A guy in the cubicle next to me was a chomper. Was that a chomper on his snacks? And every day around lunchtime like I was, no, that's headphones in. No, that's, that's really, really bad. My boss and my old job had the worst breath. She loved one on ones with me. She also pulled me aside one day and was like, she'd breathe. Oh my God. I pulled me aside one day and was like, it's so nice to have a work crush, it makes coming to work so much more fun. And I was like, we're in an office like little room alone and you're telling me how much fun you like come, you like to come to the office because you have a work crush and telling me I should get one. I'm like, I feel like I could sue you. Ooh, that's giving me like goosebumps in a bad way. Yeah, it was really like, I don't want to, this is crazy that we spend so much time on one on one. You have a work crush that you look forward to coming to the office to see, but you spend most of your time with me. Isn't that interesting? Yeah. I have a question. What's it like working with your sister? Yep. It's fun, but we're starting to get to the point where we're fighting a little bit, but like in a good way, but I feel like my, so my dad and his brothers have their own company. So they have always, this will make sense in a minute, we grew up kind of going to these like meetings with them on like how to work with family because working with families like a little bit different, obviously because you're like closer and you can fight and whatnot. And so now I'm working with my sister and my dad's also our manager. So my dad has to like keep us and check a lot of the times. And yeah, and it's obviously easier to be like moodier with each other. And he had a check in with us recently and was like, you need to treat this like as a job, like you can't be just like, you can have the moments where you're sisters, but then you need to like be good. But I mean, we're fine, but honestly, I'm the problem because every time we set a time to podcast, I'm like, I change it. And she's like gets mad at me because she's in college right now. So she's like, Alex, like I have class, like I can't just do this, whatever time she also lives with like five other girls. So she's like, I can't do it when there's like a party in the house. And I'm not good at like sticking to a schedule. So it is my fault. Well, it's fun. I wouldn't have a family anymore. If I try if we were, I don't think I would either like you're a really big person. Do you guys have siblings? Yeah, I have a younger sister, any younger brother, but I did a podcast episode with my younger sister. So yeah, so I did a podcast episode with my younger sister and she's eight years younger than me. So she's like, so sweet. And the whole time I was like, why is she like talking like that? Like her, her voice, I was just like, what? She was doing recorded voice. What is like going on with her voice? I listened back indistinguishable from my voice. It was the exact same voice and I was like, God, this is grating, like wish she would cut it out. Same exact voice as me. Yeah. Yeah. So perfect. Love it. I hate hearing my own voice. I can't. It's terrible. Watch yourself. No. Really? Like even the editor sending me podcast clip cut downs. I like I struggle to watch it and they're like, Hey, like, can you give us the mean back? And I'm like, Oh my God, like watching I'm just like, I hate myself. Yes. But on the standup tour, like they're like, we recorded your set and I'm like, I, I pay someone $20 to watch my set. Tell me if it's good. I'm like, I killed that. I watched one clip. I'm like, did I just hear someone like an actual cricket? I thought I killed it the whole time. I can't watch those. And that's really unfortunate because, you know, I'm always like, I need to have two drinks and then I can watch my sandups at horrible because as soon as you start recording, I recorded with my mom the other day video and I went from like having a conversation like this. So like, I'm with my mom today and I'm like, what is that voice that I do? Why do I keep going into blogger mode? I don't even talk like that. I've been really this past year. I've been really trying to set myself down and get myself out of the like, my friends would be like my, my tone of voice changes a little bit. It's like teachers voice. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, it's, it's more like chipper. Yeah. When I call him in class, like why am I, what am I so happy about? You have a good, very casual conversational recording voice. I feel like when you're talking, I'm like, it's almost like you're talking, you're telling my story the whole time, obviously, but like, yeah, it's almost like you're just telling it to me. I try. Yeah. It's, it's very good. Obviously where I'm learning a lot, you know, that's a cut so much of my shit when I'm doing a story. I'm like, why did you tell them like 15, 18 seconds of stuff that doesn't, is not even important? Yeah. That's how I am when I talk though. That's very true. That's very true. I'm like, that's such a good thing. I have to tell you. And then I'll get to the end. She's like, okay, so you just wanted to say that last like four seconds. Yeah. Like the latter. That's the recipe for your success. Well. Yeah. Waiting. In summary, I actually have never seen an episode of this podcast. Really? Yeah. Or like, I can't watch it. Like, makes me who, yeah, gives me the shivers, but, Constance, you want to do one last? Okay. I'll just do a hot take. Hot take. I love getting into a hot parked car. It feels like being in the womb. Ooh. That's a good hot take because it's a hot take. Yeah. It's a hot take. Literally. I love that. I love that. Is that the feeling? I love the feeling. Are you looking at the hot take? I like getting out of like a cold, like the cold mall and your cars parked outside. You guys are mall-free. No, but I think what the hot take would be is that the car is hot from it being hot outside. So it's like you're coming from the beach and then you know when you have to like work out in the windows right away. Yeah. And that's what they mean. That sucks. It's a hot take. Like the womb problem. Well, they like it. They like getting into the hot car. No, they like it. Yeah. Which is why it's a hot take. I think it's nice when you come out of into cold building and you get in your hot parked car. Yeah. I haven't actually hacked for that. Let us know. If you open it. You open all the windows and you open and shut the door a bunch of times. It like is like squeegeeing or those those things. What's that thing, old? This thing like when you it's like got air in it and you got it. Oh, an accordion kind of in a way. Wait, I'm sorry. What are you? Huh. You squeeze it and it's got air in it and you push it. Yeah. And accordion. Yeah, accordion thing. And accordion seems like an old-fashioned. Oh, a bellow, of course. Yeah. Wait, didn't one of you say bellow in the beginning of this? No. Bellow. Wait, yeah. Yeah. Someone did. Bellow? Wow. Kiss your brain. That was really good callback. Yeah. It's that thing. That's what I was talking about. Yes. Wow. Is you well done? And I remember because I remember being like, what the fuck is a bellow? Well, I didn't, if we said it, it was an accident because I just learned that's what that's called. I need one of those. I haven't seen one of those in real life. No, but I like to. I would love to use it. Yeah. Let's get one for the set. Yeah. I want that and I want sea monkeys. Yeah. We got to get some sea monkeys. Yeah. Did you ever have sea monkeys? No. They're like a powder that turned into like sea bugs. But brine shrimp. Brine shrimp. The things that grow, they're like little tiny, there they are. They're like actual creatures. No. But the pool is dried. I thought that was a picture. They come alive. They come alive and dried creatures. Yeah. They were. So they're in an induced coma. Yeah. They want to. I wonder if they're drinking. Did you hear that, Connor? Sorry. They're in an induced coma. They are. Wait, maybe. Do you think you can freeze dry? Maybe we should powder ourselves. Maybe we should dry. Maybe we should get them. With Georgia or Amani luminous blush cover up. Yeah. Um, or do you think you're going to get a pet with you? You have your family form. I wish I could get a dog, but I can't because I feel like I travel so much, it would be a bad thing, but I'm trying to get my boyfriend to get one. Yeah. I'm going to have the have the dog waiting for you at home. Yeah. So nice. I'm going to kill myself. I need to stop saying that, but I like the fact that my dog is with my parents right now, because I've been on tour and fully like my parents think that I'm going to let them keep it. Like I think that they're like, they think I'm soft launching him continuing his life with them. I'm not. I'm going to go get it. Maybe you should be firm about that and kind of like just nip there. You know, I went to the dog park with my Mimi and one of the old women, older women aging is a blessing at the dog park was like, Oh, aren't you excited for Max to go home with, with your grandma? And I was like, what story are you? What narrative are you guys spreading at the dog park while I'm away? So everyone thinks they're going to say he's moving and I'm getting rid of him. I'm not like that. No, Max is, Max is mine for life for Elle. I honestly like I have a vendetta against people who get animals and then give them away. Me too. Like I just don't understand like, have one of you done this? Not. I also have that and I was like, no, no, I also have that and it was a really challenging experience. I got a guinea pig. I got a guinea pig. Oh, but that's because I really wanted like a companion. I wanted a companion and I was like, Oh, I don't know if I'm ready. No, I know, I know, I know, I know. And then I have this very year and a half and she never like ever wanted to be picked up and we just never kind of connected. So now she lives in with somebody who like really loves and cares for guinea pigs and I got a cat and we're kind of more aligned. But I like really struggle. Okay. But that's because I also have that vendetta. But yeah, obviously that was very hard because I had that same experience, but it really like it was what was best for her and me because I wanted to. Okay. Well, under some circumstances it's okay. Yeah. But I agree with you completely. Like I can't imagine ever giving away Jonathan. Yeah. Yeah. I feel terrible now. No, don't, don't, don't because I also didn't need to say that because people are always like, where's Frankie? Where's Frankie? Now, you know. She's one of the better place physics. She's in a better place. Yeah. She's in a better place. Okay. I think we're wrapping up. Okay. But Alex Earl, thank you so much for gracing us. Thank you so much. Thanks for having me. This is so much fun. This is so much fun. Like eight times. No. It's a new tech. Sorry for shutting on you. No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no. It's sometimes you need to be shit on. Obviously everyone listened to Hot Masks. So stoked for you and Ashton with, with, yeah, season two. Season two with Ashton. I had it backwards. Yeah. Yes. Yep. Yeah. So sick. Well, thank you so much for coming on. Thanks guys. We love you. It was so much fun. That was like, I can't believe I looked over the clock and I was like, did we mess something up? We, no, we, we talked over. Yeah. That was easy. I can keep going. I'm glad when you're having fun. Fun. Fun. Well, thanks for joining me. Thank you guys. And you're watching. Happy Halloween. Broken corner makeup podcast featuring Alex Earl. Dana, Dana. Bye guys. I'm sorry. That would not it at all. Ta, ta, ta, ta. Bye guys. This week I'm close friends. 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CHAPTERS
0:00 Keith Urban Loves Nicole Kidman
0:40 Intro
0:59 Spooky Season With Alix!!!
2:18 Alix’s Halloween Party
4:38 Die For A Sec
5:48 Waking Up During Surgery
8:50 Sleep ASMR
10:03 Misophonia Struggles
11:38 Embark Vet
13:10 Becoming Bicoastal
16:07 Making Friends As An Adult
17:58 Hanging Out vs Collabing
19:45 Alix Explains EDM
23:40 BetterHelp
24:52 Setting The Wrong Vibe
26:34 Becoming A Popstar
27:52 Alix’s Ads
29:19 Killing With Kindness Works
31:13 Scary Halloween Decorations
33:04 Fall On The East Coast
34:35 State Farm
35:59 The Black Aura
41:04 Butthole-less Goats
43:59 Connor’s Ladder Question
44:55 Sally’s Water App
48:49 Getting The Ick
49:48 Water Hot Take
50:16 Twisted Tea
55:14 Crop Dusting Your Date
1:00:13 Crushing On Your Professor
1:02:48 Office Crushes
1:07:55 How To Work With Family
1:12:00 A Literal Hot Take
1:13:50 Raising Sea Monkeys
1:14:40 Getting Pets
1:17:00 Thank You Alix!!!
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