Wells Adams

This week on the WellsCast, Wells lands his biggest and most famous guest in the history of the podcast. Wells goes deep to uncover the shocking stories and little known details about the early life of this massive guest. This is an episode you won’t want to miss.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is the Wells Cast with Wells, Adams and I
Heart Radio podcast today, seven hundred nine of the Quarantine.
I don't know if that's right or wrong, to be
honest with you, it seems high, could be a bit lower.
I'm not sure what is time anymore, guys, just a

(00:22):
construct that we've created to continue to not go crazy. Well,
guess what we're knee deep in it? Everyone's there? Is
it just me? Or is everyone having the weirdest dreams
right now, by the way, the weirdest dreams, And it's
maybe I'm just watching the most violent on TV. Like
I went from Tiger King, where I'm pretty sure a

(00:42):
meth toteen tiger loving polygamist tried to kill another woman
who's definitely probably killed her husband and fedem tigers, and
then straight into Jason Bateman laundering money than a Varro cartel.
You Ozark, I'm killing everybody, So Wendy, dude, you gotta
pump the brakes a little bit. You know what I'm

(01:03):
talking about? Watch Ozark season one, season two, season three. Alright,
just appreciation post right now for Jason Bateman, just right
off the bat Dude, I don't know what you're doing
right now. I don't know how many other things you
got in the can waiting for later in the year,
but now is the time to release. Okay, because guess
what the Outsider phenomenal Ozark, Amazing, I Digress, Joe Exotic,

(01:30):
Jason Bateman with the None of our Oh Cartel, no wonder,
I'm having the weirdest dreams during this quarantine. Also, maybe
we're all just a little bit stressed, which is why
you come to this podcast to escape for a second
and find out about those celebrities out there and how
they became so well known. Honestly, my producer has been

(01:53):
wanting me to do this show in particular for a while,
and originally Amy wanted me to release this April Fool's
Day where it was just an episode of me interviewing
myself as to my origin story and how I became
quote unquote a celebrity, which I'm not. I'm celebrity adjacent,

(02:14):
all right. Unfortunately celebrity isn't sexually transmitted or else. Yes,
I would be all right, but I'm not. Okay, I'm
recognizable at best. But Amy wanted me to do a
wells cast episode about the origin story of me Wells,
which is so self aggrandizing and so ecocentric and the
most bachelor ship I've ever heard my entire life. And

(02:35):
we're gonna do it as an April Fool's joke. But
guess what. God decided to play an April Fool's joke
on all of us and decided to say, guess what
the world is ending? So hang out and watch Netflix
for a couple of weeks and see who goes crazy first.
So anyways, we're gonna do this episode now this week,
week after April Fools because guess what, we just don't

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have anyone booked, and I mean, how was with you?
I don't know what's the point any more. Guys. I'd
like to have celebrities on, but I don't want to
coming over to my house because coronavirus, you know, So
I'm gonna do myself. Sounds so sexual, but we are.
We're going to do it. And here we are, by
the way, on day seven thousand, eight hundred and sixty

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two of Quarantine, I've grown a beard, Sarah says she
likes it. I have a theory on this. It's because
I look like a different person. And she's tired of
the person that she's having to be quarantining with for
the past three weeks. So now it's like a new
guy's here. Actually she gets another guy and I'm planner.
All right, I look disgusting. Everything about me is foul.

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So anyways, coming up in just a couple of minutes
the episode no one has been asking for, the episode
where I interview myself right here on the World's Guys

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Back in the Wales casts. I'm in my home studio,
which is so nice that I have this built god
not to go anywhere now that I could go anywhere,
because it's definitely not essential for me to do this show.
But I can do this show from my house, which
is cool, and I'm excited. We've got some cool guests
coming up in the coming weeks. I don't really have
anyone lined up this week, but this is a show
that my producer Amy has been wanting me to do

(04:25):
for a little bit, and I kind of wanted to
save this, uh for the book deal that I would sell,
you know, ten twelve years down the line, a memoir
of a douche bag. But um, but you know what,
why not give it to I Heart Radio for the
seventeen dollars an hour that they pay me. I mean,
why not? The world is ending? Of course, try to
figure out how to do this and I want to
run earlier, and I was like, how do you interview yourself?

(04:46):
Oh my god, I just did the ding from my
other podcast. That's so funny. I didn't mean to do that. Sorry,
I won't put that bell away. It's very different podcast.
How do you interview yourself and not make it seem
so weird? And the more I thought about it, the
more I was like, well, because I do a lot
of different voices. You know, I have the Cooking Wells
voice I do on Instagram. I've been doing Jericho James,

(05:07):
which is the country star that I do on my Instagram,
because on board, I do Carl's voice, which is my dog.
He's a bloodhound and so he kind of dope. So
I was like, what if I just do a different
voice and that that person interviews me. What voice do
I do? And then I thought I'd just do radio
voice because radio voice is It's like the thing that

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everyone asked me about my radio career when they find
out that I'm a radio DJ where I was radio dj? Uh?
Do I have a radio voice, and then the answer
is yes and no. Right, you can kind of put
it on a little bit, you know how it used
to sound. You know, it's like that um Family Guy
episode where Stewie and Brian get a radio show Dingo

(05:50):
on the Baby at the seven point one turn on
and rip the knob off? Alright in three two one,
this is the lunch hour with your host. Hey, what's up?
Co Hog from the station that reaches the beaches. You're
listening to Dingo and the baby Baby. What the hell

(06:13):
are you doing? What the hell does that have to
do with anything? They're just racky sounds it sexy girl,
good mo. Okay, so you know what I'm talking about.

(06:35):
That's that like everyone's got a rodeo voice. And I
would have actively say I think I did. I did
it definitely in high school, in high school and in college.
I need to my show and I'm gonna see if
I can find some old clips, old air checks from
high school and college. But effectively, everyone asked the question.
Everyone asked the question, do you have rod of voice?

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And I always say like, no, this is kind of
this voice. But I did when I was doing radio,
Like a lot, I would put a little more traction
on my voice, all right? So like uh and that
at two point one, the new sound of rebel radio
coming at you live from Oxford, Mississippi. You kind of
do that annoying voice. I do that for a walks
out and this That's what I thought radio people sounds like.

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But then I realized that's just what douchebag sound like.
So I just stopped doing that later on in my career.
But I thought that that guy should interview this guy?
So can that guy get the intro? Do you like
how I'm I'm asking? I used to do this all
the time on my shows. I would ask someone a
question like that, but as if I had a producer
that could do it for me, but then I would
be the one doing it all the time. I used

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to do that, Can I get that intro? Real quick?
Hold on? Yeah? Okay? By the way, when I say like, yeah, okay,
that's but as if I'm talking to someone in a
different room, there's no one else there. It's just me
buying time so I can get to this stupid thing.
This is the Wells Cast with Wells Adams and I
Heart Radio Podcast. Welcome into the Wells Cast. I'm your

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host douche bag wells, Adam's excited for our guests today.
Do you know him? You love him? He's serving up
the beach and the sea every summer on Bachelor in
Paradise on ABC Monday and Tuesday nights. Hopefully that happens
this year, but who the hell knows. You also might
know him from not Capturing the Love of Joejoe Fletcher

(08:21):
on season twelve of The Bachelor. Atte welcome into the podcast.
Me oh, thanks for having me. Uh, it seemed like
a bit over the top in terms of an intro,
but all right, appreciate you. How are you doing. I'm
doing great well as thanks for asking. I don't know
if anyone explained the show to you, but basically I'm upset.
This is what I always say. It's so weird. I

(08:41):
don't know why always says it's true. Basically, I'm obsessed
with the origin stories of people and how they became famous.
Like how the hell did you get that blue check
mark on your Instagram account? Tell us the steps that
you took to get from nowhere to here? All right,
it was a late spring night and I emerged from
my mother's vagina at seven forty five PM, seven pounds

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seven announces. Anyways, um, I was born in Monterey, California,
which is where they filmed Big Little Lies. It used
to be acclaim to fame was the was the aquarium
in Monterey, California, and like golf courses in Pebble Beach
and stuff. But now it's just where Reese Witherspoon hangs
out and films Big Little Lies, which, by the way,

(09:28):
just so everyone knows, that show is filmed in Carmel,
which is a part of Monterey, affects the town over
for Monterey, but it's not filmed in Monterey, Okay, so
it should be called the Carmel Killers, not the Monterey Five.
Just thrown that out there. So I was born in Monterey,
and listen, I wish I had something like cool story
to tell you about how I fought and clawed my
way through and this rag sturch of story, which is

(09:51):
not true. If you've ever been to Monterrey, it's it's
a it's a rich people town, so it just is
what it is. I came from an affluent family and
my father is a ober g u i n So
we were really well off. I'm the youngest of five kids.
I guess that's why I kind of do what I do,
because I was always like fighting to get a word
in edgewise, you know, like, and I was always trying

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to impress my older siblings. And by the way, the
youngest by a lot, so everyone in my family is
like two years apart, and then there's a huge six
year age gap. My mother will say I was a surprise.
My father will just straight up be like you were
a mistake for many reasons. But also he's an ob
g a N So what the funk are you doing? Dude?
That's your one job is to know like menstrual cycles

(10:34):
and when your wife may or may not be like ovulating,
that's your one. That's that and like Pep Schmir's Pep Schmir,
Pep smir whatever. Those are your jobs and infertility and stuff.
He specialized in infertility, you think he would also know
a thing or two about fertility. But now, so, Bob Adams,
you've did up bro, and then you got me, and

(10:54):
I'm such a disappointment. Do you understand how hard it
is for my father to understand what the hell it
is that I do for living a guy who works
like med school, you go to college. After after college, kid,
do you go get a job at a flaugh And
after a laugh, M yeah, you go in turn at
the big company. I said, yeah, work your way app,
you know. And then he's like, what what do you do?
You tell jokes on the radio? How much do they

(11:14):
pay you? Thirty dollars? You shouldn't do that. That's stupid.
So anyways, I wish you had this rags richest story,
but I don't. I came from a nice family. I'm
very close with all my siblings. I've zoomed face time
with them of the multiple times during this quarantine. Weird
name growing up? Alright, my name is Wells. Do you
know how much I hate that name? Growing up? It
immediately made me different. Here are my best friends growing

(11:35):
up names Okay, Ryan, Paul, Alex, Matt another Alex, and Wells.
I'm immediately the weird kid. Everyone's normal. And then there's
what is your name? The plural form of a deep
hole in the ground used for fetching water. How much
weed is your parents smoke? Way too much? Apparently actually none,

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They're very conservative peop. It's one of those things of
like I hated it growing up, and then like, I
love it now because it just makes me. I'm different,
just off the right off the bat. I'm not like
everybody else, and that's awesome. I love it. It's funny.
My name like spiked in popularity after The Bachelor at
and Bachelor in Paradise, and I have a lot of
people that like reach out to me being like, hey man,

(12:19):
we're thinking about we really like your name. We were
thinking about naming our kid Wells. What do you think, dude?
I loved that. I hated growing up because it made
me different, and I love it now that I'm older
because it made me different. You know. So anyways, superstory,
So Wells, what was your childhood Like? My childhood was
totally freaking normal, dude. I played sports, I was a goofball.
I built forts. ME and Ryan PALATCHI got a polaroid

(12:41):
camera once and we took pictures of our butts. We
pulled our pants down and mooned the camera and took pictures,
and then we put those pictures into a I don't
know why we do this, but we took I took
the pictures and we put it in a zip block
bag and then we built it. We we dug a
hole right by the fort, and we buried the pictures
because we thought for sure our parents were gonna ground
us for doing that, and they probably would, actually, they

(13:03):
probably should have. That's so weird, but that's what you
do when you're like eleven years old, you do weird stuff.
I just normal childhood. Also, like growing up, late eighties,
early nights. We built a tree fort. I'm not I'm
not kidding you. We built a tree fort that was
at least a hundred feet high. And guess who built it.
Me and my siblings built it. Not contractors that know

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anything about would and nails and levels and stabilization. My
parents were like, yeah, do whatever you want to do,
go build a ford. I don't care. We built this thing.
It went so high up in the air. The and
then dude, it was so dump. Dude. We had a four,
and then from the four we had a balance beam. No,
this is no joke. We had a balanced beam. They
had to walk across over to the to a tree.

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So right off the bat that's like a ten ft
off the ground balanced beam over to a tree. Once
you get to the tree, then you lift yourself up
a little ledge. There on that ledge, that's where we
had our zip line down about maybe twenty five yards
that ended in a tree. Okay, so what did we do.
We got a comforter and we wrapped the comforter around

(14:09):
the tree so when we smacked our faces directly in
the tree, we didn't die, okay. We also from that
point we took a this is not a joke. We
took what is it called a curtain rod, and we
nailed it into a tree branch and we used that
as the fire escape pole. I just remember hammerings many
nails in there as possible, just so we'd hope it would.

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And then we got a rope and we tied the
rope around the nails in the tree, so like if
the nails broke through, the rope might hold it up. Okay.
So if you didn't take the zip line down, you
could go up to like the next level, which was
so wonky all right, that it was just like plywood.

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By this time, you're like forty ft in the air, okay,
and it was just like plywood. That was just like
I don't know, man. And then you go a little
bit higher to around six defeat now their level, and
then wait at the top of the tree of a
pine Tree in Monterey, California. We had the quote unquote
lookouts nest. And this is how we didn't live anywhere

(15:13):
near the beach, probably like a fifteen minute drive down
to the beach. We built a crow's nest up there
all right, at least a hunter feet tall that you
can see the ocean from. And our parents were like, whatever,
Now I see my sisters with their kids and they
can't go anywhere. The fact that I'm not dead is
absolutely beautiful. Wow, I've done twenty three minutes on and

(15:34):
I haven't even gotten out of like middle school. Okay, alright,
So then what happened? Um? Straight up, I was a
normal kid, was like a preppy kid. I went to
private Catholic school, and then I went to an all
boys Catholic school for high school, and that sucked. I
mean I I ended up liking it, but it's sucked
in the beginning so hard, okay, because I didn't know anybody.

(15:55):
There's just a lot of like macho dudes. It was
the fucking Bachelorette all over again. But for so it
was the batch Light before I had the batch Light,
and it was known for a sports and I was
a good athlete. But everyone was just so like going
through puberty and I wasn't, and so I just had
to be like funny and witty and like make people
like me that way. As bullied a little bit by

(16:16):
Nick Trebino. It was such a bully to me. Nick Trebino,
you're you're all right. We're friends now, and I do
love him, but he was such a to me. Why
would you be a bully? He drove the most bully
car in the world. He drove a lifted, bright yellow Yukon.
If that's not the biggest bully car you've ever heard of,

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you don't know bullies, all right. And I'm not talking
about like lifted three inches. It was a good fifteen
inch lift because his dad was a mechanic or something,
and like they did it together or like, I don't
even know. Anyways, Nick Trebino, I love you to death now,
but you were a dicknant. Here's the deal. All my
other friends they went to the rich kid prep school
in Pebble Beach called RLS. And by the way, I

(16:58):
went there because I was so stupid and I couldn't
get into the nice prep school. Just so everyone knows,
I went to the all boys high school because your
boys done. But all my friends went to the nice
prep school, and so I was like, really friends with
all those people over there. And over there at that school,
Robert Lou Stevenson RLS, they had radio class. That's how
rich that school was. They had an actual class. They

(17:19):
taught people how to do the radio, and they had
an actual live radio station, and they shared time with
the BBC, so you could do a radio show like
in the morning or in the night, or like on
the weekends, and then the other time it was the
BBC and it was called Radio Stevenson KSPB ninety one
point and I still remember the call it, or still
remember the dial position, know everything about it. And my
buddy Alex Branton, Paul Huish and Jim Lyndz, they all

(17:42):
have their own radio shows and I would go on
watch them do it, and I was like, this is
the dopest thing in the world. Why can't I do this?
I want to do this. So I begged my my
buddy Alex to let me be on his radio show,
and we did a show on Sunday nights. And basically
what we would do is it was it was my
buddy Alex Brandt. It was myself, it was my buddy Ryan,

(18:03):
and then my buddy Matt, and we all had different
We had radio names. So Alex had a huge nose,
so we called him to can stand so mean but
high school kids whatever. And I was Papa Smurf. I
don't know, that's what I came up with. My buddy
Ryan Palacci, who's the most Sicilian guy ever. He was
whopping with Cheese Royale because we called him a whop
because we were so racist then, but he thought it

(18:25):
was funny, like I can't believe, how did we do this?
And then my buddy Matt, he was the Polar Bear
because he was so pale white that we called him
polar Bear because he looked like he looked like a
polar bear. He looked like the Coke Christmas mercials. Okay,
that's and he still looks like that, by the way.
So yeah, we would do a radio show every Sunday
night and we would like have bands on and we
interviewed them, and we would like put on twelve minute

(18:48):
fish songs and go out in the back and like
smoke cigarettes and we like drink and stuff like I
can't like the stuff that we got away with It
was crazy one bit I do remember, which I thought
was so funny and like, looking, I can't believe that
we did this. But my buddy Matt, he got caught
drinking or something, so he was grounded for like three months,
and so he was not to come to the show.
This was pulled by the way we would call his

(19:09):
house and try to get him on the show, and
we would try to trick his parents, and we one
time called his parents and told I told him that
I was the dean of Notre Dame. Peop, want to
go to Notre Dame. I was the dean of Notre Dame,
and I had some really exciting news about his admissions
and I need to just talk to Matt. And his
parents were so excited, so excited that the dean of

(19:30):
Notre Dame was calling, and uh, we got Matt on
and Matt was so excited and then it was us.
Oh no, he saw on the stupid radio show and
he applied Notre Dame and didn't get in. Oh my god,
you know ended up being fine, but whatever. So I
did a radio show in high school. So then here's
what happened. So I realized I really liked that. That
was fun. I come from this big family, right, So

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my father made a rule that we all had to
leave the state of California to go to college. All
my siblings went to school in the South. My sister
went to Vanderbilt, which hard to get into. It's like
Harvard of the South, what they call it. I couldn't
get in there. I looked all around the South. I
looked at s m U, I looked at Old Miss.
I looked at u g Ad called to Charleston and
I ended up going to Old Miss one because the
girls there were so hot. And why you let an

(20:14):
eighteen year old kid choose what college he's gonna go
to is so dumb because there, of course you're gonna
make the terrible decisions of like there was I saw
seventeen hot girls today, so you know three, you know,
like the dumbest letting an eighteen year old kids decide
that's stump. But anyways, I really liked Old miss It
was cool because Eli Manning was the quarterback there. That

(20:36):
was Pete Manning's brother, and so it was in the
SEC and there's like football games and hot chicks, and
the South seemed cool to me. And they had a
really good journalism department. I will give you that. The
claim to fame was that Shepherd Smith came from Old
miss And at the time, my parents loved fox They
still love foxes, but they were like, oh, Shepard Smith
went to school here and they had a radio station.
I was like, I want to do radio. So I

(20:56):
went to college. I had so much fun of college.
I was still a terrible student, but had a great time.
I did everything. I was a fraternity bro for like
two semesters and then they kicked me out because they
caught me smoking pot. On the pledge retreat, we went camping.
You go camping to like learn more about your pledge
brothers or whatever, and so we went camping, like in

(21:17):
the smoky mountains, and uh, someone brought pot and I
went and smoked weed. And the older douchebag brothers were
they caught us and they were like, they sent us home.
Put me in front of a panel of guys who,
by the way, like like a smoked pot with before.
They were like jastising me, and I was like, I'm
so confused, guys. They're like, what are you confused about?
I was like, I I kind of thought that this

(21:39):
is what this was was. First of all, we were
camping saying, oh, this is a fraternity. When I watched
Animal House, like this is what Belushi did? Like what
are you talking about? And they're like, are you sorry?
I'm sorry I caught and I'm so sorry. I chose
this fraternity because you guys are douchers. I thought you drink,
you throw parties, and you smoke pot in fraternities. That's
not Is this not what this is? So then what
happened was my dad used to send me the checks

(22:01):
for dues, which is so much money. Back then I
should have known it was. I didn't need to do
it when I saw how much money it was to
be a part of the club. He wrote the checks
in my name. So for like two semesters, I didn't
pay for my dues. I just lived it up. And
one day the fraternity treasurer his name, what was his name?
I hated him so much. He was such a nerd.

(22:22):
He came up and he was like, you like four
thousand dollars and I was like, oh yeah, or no.
I wrote a check and it bounced and he like,
your check bounced and I was like, oh yeah, man, sorry,
about that, and so they kicked me out and they're
like you can be in UM or you can leave.
And I was like, peace out, guys, and so then
that that. So I did that. Then I left. I
was still doing the radio thing. I was like working
for the Daily Missibian, which was the newspaper that they

(22:43):
put out every day. So I wrote for that. There
was a television show that the journalism department put on
called News Watching. I was like the weather guy and
I did sports, and then we did like little magazine
style television show called um Southern Exposure where I'd go
around and I'd do I wanted to be like the
funny E. S p. N anchor, and they didn't get
my humor or whatever. But I still have that somewhere.

(23:04):
It's so bad. I do an expose on the grove.
Everyone played like, uh, frisbee golf and whatever. And then
I was also doing my radio shows, and I was
doing a bunch of different radio shows. I was doing
the Request launch that I would take calls, and then
I was also doing specialty shows which I thought were
so cool, and I would do especially show every Saturday
night and I called the Old Coast road Show and
my name is Dave Garber because there's a famous um

(23:26):
Cleaastwood movie taking place in Monterey, California, his directorial debut.
I talked about it with Freakin Scott Eastwood a couple
episodes back, called play Misty for me, and he said,
radio DJ and his name is Dave Garber. So I
did a show called The Old cost Road Show where
I had played jazz music and my name is Dave
Garber on it, and no one got No one got
the joke unless you are seventy five years old listening
to my station what you weren't? And I played jazz

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music way late at night, and I thought to myself,
all the college kids are just just boning down to
this music. And then I realized no one was, because
they were just listening at that time, listening to like LimeWire.
I played rugby. I thought that I was really that
that I was fun. I also played soccer in college.
I loved it. It took me five years to do
it because Victory Lap and I'm done. So once you
graduated college, what did you do? So At the time,

(24:10):
my thought was because my sister went to Vanderbilt and
I liked Nashville I was like, I'm gonna go try
to get a job in Nashville doing radio and if
that works great. If it doesn't, I'm gonna go to
New York and tribe to New York. If that doesn't work,
I'm gonna go uh West, and I'm gonna go to
San Francisco, go closer to home and see if I
can get a job in San Francisco or like Seattle.
I was like thinking of like where I thought, like

(24:32):
music Mecca's were. That was my like kind of just
my thought process, and I always I would never move
to LX. All my friends that moved DELI was so fake.
That's so funny. That's foreshadowing, by the way, guys. So
I go to Nashville and my sister still living there,
her husband is in grad school there, and she's like, Hey,
there's this super dope little in the radio station called
Lightning one hundred. You should go apply. So I went

(24:54):
and applied. They were surprised that I had so much
radio experience because I had done it in high school.
Like my resume looked great. I done it in high school,
obviously I did it in college, but didn't have any
DJ spots open there. Was a secretary job open, and
I was like, listen, guys, I just want to get
back in the radio, Like this seems like this is
an opportunity. Can I just can I be the secretary?
I met with the program director, a guy named David

(25:17):
Hall rest his soul, and he was like, you know what,
you are not qualified to be a secretary, but you
are qualified to be a board op in a weekend DJ.
So we'll put you on a ten dollars an hour
for board opping. And board opping is like in radio
they do things called remote and when you do a
remote and that means you're doing a radio show live
remotely from somewhere else. So I'm live from Big John's

(25:39):
car lot and they're selling cars half off today. Come
on down and get yourself a sticker and uh magnet
and a couzy and maybe you can win the Dodd Fighter,
you know, like that's what that is. But you need
someone back to the station to be like pressing the buttons.
I mean like, all right, you can talk now, okay,
put the button to go to commercials that kind of stuff.
So I was a board op and I would do
that for motes, and then we did a live remote

(26:01):
called Nashville Sunday Night, which is a live broadcast from
this bar called Third Lensley, which is still in Nashville.
It's a great place. You could check it out. And
then I would do like two shifts on Saturdays and
like two shifts on Sundays. But that didn't pay the bills.
So I waited tables at a place called Brick Tops,
which is still a nashal and it is delicious, and
I got nothing but love for that restaurant. And if

(26:21):
you go to Nashville, you should go to Brick Tops
because it's so good. I waited tables there, and at
the time, it was just so interesting because everyone there
was a musician. I mean everyone Nashville is a musician
just in general, but everyone there was in it. Looking back,
there there was some really really good ones, like my
buddy Gabe, he's the bass player for Lono Royale, which
is a phenomenal soul band that you should look into.

(26:44):
My buddy Ben Ringle was the lead singer of a
band called the Delta Saints, which were a great Cajun band.
Devin Dawson, who's like a country star. I think I
got him the job there weirdly enough, everyone was just
creative there, so it was it felt like a really
safe space. And then I was like the radio DJ
how in the industry as well. And the time I
lived in a house in Hillsboro Village that was owned

(27:06):
by Buddy Miller. And Buddy Miller is a really well
known session musician in Nashville who was also the band
leader for Robert Plant's band of Joy. Robert Plant is well,
he was the lead singer of a band called led Zepplin.
Ever heard of it? Okay, So Buddy Miller lived across
the street from us, and we lived in this amazing
house in Hillsboro Village and we would have these like
long shifts at brick tops and then all my friends

(27:27):
would come over, and we had built this. We had
a front porch that was kind of like closed in right.
We put a couch out there at a record player
and at a kigurad from college and I put in there,
and we call it the parlor. All my musician buddies
would come over and we would drink off my k greater.
After our shifts we get wasted, and they would all
play music and I would and I'd throw on records.

(27:49):
It was so much fun. And then we lived across
street from Buddy Miller, so we would be like smoking
cigarettes on the stoop at like two in the morning,
and Robert Plant would walk in the or next door
across the street, and then like Jeff Bridges and t
Bone Burnett and Emmy Lou Harris and Brandy Carlyle and
Dan Hour back of the Black Keys, and like we

(28:11):
would be It was a what a weird time to
be alive. It was so cool. I would work doubles
at brick tops. I'd come home, all my friends would
come over. Everyone we playing music, were playing records, We're
talking about music. We'd be seeing our heroes walking across
the street. And then I wake up do it again.
And then I would like go to the radio station,

(28:32):
burn at both ends, do overnight shifts, board up. It
just hustled, it just hustled super hard. And I did
that for a long time. I think I did it
for two and a half years. And I remember when
the week night DJ at seven to ten give or
take generally, or seven at midnight, depending on how much
your program director sucks, when she'd left the radio station

(28:55):
I was working for, and they offered me the job.
I was the happiest person I've ever I've ever been,
maybe second to like getting engaged in Sarah. But and
it was thirty thousand dollars thirty dollars a year, but
I had I went and worked this dope radio station,
had my own radio show professionally from seven to ten
than it was seven to ten every night, and I
was also the promotions assistant, which that job sucked, by

(29:20):
the way. I hated being the promotion assistant, write newsletters
and like ordering more couzies and stuff. That jobs sucked,
but it didn't matter. I remember getting to go put
my two weeks into Bricktops and it was the greatest
moment of my life. And I made so much more
money at Bricktops. I mean so much more money waiting
tables than I ever did in radio ever did. Sorry,
but it's true. So then I just hustled there and

(29:42):
I was a good employee and people like my show.
And then what happened was the afternoon drive post. David
Hall who hired me, David Hall Rocks, y'all, that was
his call line. He passed away, and it was like
very sudden, and no one knew it was going to happen,
and it happened like on a weekend. We found out
on the Saturday he had he had a show it's
called voice tracking, when you record a show into the

(30:03):
future that was gonna air the next day. It was
gonna air, and he was going to have already been dead.
Found out the news, and I was like, that's funked
up if that airs. So I took it upon myself
and I went in and I retracked his show because
I was like, that's just super weird to have a
dead man's voice in the air, Like that's just bad mojo, right,
And everyone was like, what are we gonna do going forward? Well,
in the time being, I'll just track his show. I'll

(30:25):
just do his show live, and then I'll also do
the night show. Great, then we were gonna we were
gonna hire some like big name to come to the
afternoon dractor like that's a big show. But guess what,
your boys got a radio and people love me. And
so I did that show for a couple of years,
all right, And then what happened was the morning show
became available. The morning show host was fired from Lightning
that show became available. I was one of the people,

(30:47):
and I talked about it when I when I did
Chris's interview, I talked about with him. I was only
people that was helping the program director find the candidates
for that morning show. But I threw my name in
the hat. And at the time, my program director, his
name is Dave Rossie. I think you'd be good at this.
Why don't you give a crack? Not a morning person
at all, But you know what, everyone in the radio
world wants, the morning shows, and it's the time in

(31:08):
which everyone's freaking listening. So I did it, and they
gave the job to me. So then I was a
morning show host in Nashville, Tennessee. If there's cool little
any radio station that I was winning all these awards
every year. It was. It was like the best radio
DJ every year. I was in the top three at least,
and I was going up get some big names. I
was doing great. I think my rays got to forty
tho dollars a year. I was doing a morning show,

(31:28):
getting up at four thirty every single morning, prepping my
own show, producing my own show, editing my own show.
I had no producer, I had no help, all right.
I was the one bringing in all the guests. Okay,
my only ghost that I ever had were interns, So
listen to this hustle. Okay. I used to do a
morning show. I would get up at four thirty in
the morning. I would go down to the station, prep

(31:50):
my show on air at six, do that show until
ten in the morning. At that point I go back
up to my office get my lunch. Generally we would
have music meeting or we'd have to deal with record
label reps. I'd go home, take a nap, take a shower,
and then on Monday nights, me and my boy Justin
Hamill hosted the local show the six one five starting

(32:11):
at six fifteen going to seven fifteen. So's every Monday night,
so it's back the station to do that, or we
were doing it live from a bar. On Tuesday nights,
I hosted beer bands and bingo. That was from seven
to nine, I think at Tin Roof in Nashville. On
Wednesday nights, I hosted a cornhole tournament at Fat Bottom
Brewery on the East Side, which that was really fun. Actually,

(32:32):
Thursday head off, no night show, nothing on Thursday night,
and then a Friday I did Friday Afternoon Live where
I do a live broadcast from Soulshine Pizza where the
local artists of the week that we started the six
one five Local show with on Monday would play a
free set on Friday night. Okay, so I just didn't sleep.
We're the local indie station, Triple A station. So every

(32:53):
cool show that's happening at the Rheman or Mercy Lounge
or Canary Ballroom or the Basement or the Basement East
wherever we're putting on, which means for the most part,
I'm there bringing the bands on stage, hanging out, drinking
my buddies and then all my friends are musicians. Literally
was out almost every single night seeing live music, burning
the candle at both end, hustling that I could never

(33:13):
do that now looking back, what an amazing time. I'll
just give you one week and my brother always brings
up that was a very cool weekend. Jacob Dillan came
on my show. I Think I'm not a Wednesday. He
was playing an Exit in that night, so he came
on my show. I interviewed him. Then we went to
Exit and saw his show. Didn't love it was kind
of sleepy. So when we went across the street to

(33:33):
to this divy bar called The End. This is with
my brother so a band called a Patchy Relay play
which they were my buds and I love them so much.
They went on tour with Mumford and Sons. They were
good friends with the Mumford and Sons kids. The next
day we went to go see Grace Potter and the
Nocturnals at I think that was an exit in as well.
That was Halloween, so Grace was dressed up like Dolly

(33:55):
Parton and she had these big fake boobs and she
couldn't see the keys because um because the big thig
boot were in a way. The night after that we
went and saw the Avia Brothers at the Rhyman Auditorium.
And then the next night after that, Mumford and Sons
played at war Memoral Auditorium, which was so weird. And
there's a secret show at the Station in at the
Station and it was so hard to get in there,

(34:15):
but oh because big Mike from a Patchy really was
the door guy there. So me and my brother go
in get seats. Old Crow Medicine shows on stage, Mumford
and Sons is on stage, Dirk s Bentley is there
for some reason. Darius Rutger jumps on stage. Literally everyone
is on stage. That was at a four Nights ban.
It was just a crazy time to be in Nashville.

(34:36):
So anyways, I just hustled super hard and at some
point I Heart Radio came along. They said, hey, dude,
you're freaking sucking a bunch of our ratings away from us.
Come over to the you know, the big corporate radio
station will pay you a lot of money. I took
the gig and I went and worked for I Heart
for three years in Nashville, Tennessee and listen. To be fair,
I enjoyed my time there, but it became a job.

(34:59):
Whereas at the indie station, it was like we were
the cool kids telling you about the cool music. When
I went to my Heart, it was corporate. It just
was I love the people I work with their I
loved everything about it, but it just felt different. In
any corporate setting, they're gonna get every last drop a
shift out of you, and they did that and I

(35:20):
It's also, to be fair, I allowed it because I
was such a go go goer and a go getter
that I allowed them to do it. But this is
your boys day. I did a morning show on the
all station that we had a couple of hour break.
Then I did the afternoon drive show on the Classic
rock station. Then I had a couple hour break, and
then I did the night show on the River, which

(35:42):
is the pop station. I literally was on the air
all day long on three different stations. It was so
confusing for the audience members because they were like, what
station do you work for? I was like, dude, I
worked for all of them except for the country station
and the urban station. You know what's funny is that
there was a day that I met with like the
big wigs off My Heart and They're like, do you
want to do country? And I was like, no, I don't.

(36:03):
I can't do country, and they're like why not? And
I was like, I guess I could be like, hey,
guess what coming up? Nixt Jason now Danes coming. Yeah,
I guess I could have done it. In the middle
of all this working at I Heart Radio, I get dumped.
My brother, who I told the story a million times,
was approached by the Bachelor casting producers to be on
the show. He turned it down, but he's one of
those people that like just his friends with everybody forever

(36:27):
because he's the best, and he was like, hey, he's
got dump. Did you want to do? You wanna go
be on the bachelrette At the time, I was doing
these bits where I would go audition for commercials and
I would bomb intentionally so i'd have something to talk
about the next day about how I didn't get them
on mixed commercial or how we didn't get the China
plate commercial. But I guess what, I did the China
peper commercial because actor so, I think it would be

(36:48):
so funny if I go do this and I'm gonna
I'm gonna do shut up and I'm not gonna get
cast on the Bachelorette, and it'll be such fun radio fodder.
I so big time did so. They were like, hey, man,
so the castings at this hotel downtown on this one day,
and I was like, well, I got a herd out.
And for those of you that who don't know in
in like the industry, if you say you got a
hard out mean you've got you got like another gig

(37:09):
you gotta get to and you gotta leave early. So
that means that you have to go first. So I
was like, well, I got a heart out at noon,
which I did. I had to go do um the
afternoon drive show for the Classic Rock Show, so they
made me go that. I I got to go first,
and I remember getting to the hotel that that day
for casting, and every dude is in a suit and

(37:30):
I'm wearing a T shirt, a band T shirt and
a jeans jacket and I'm like this, I fucking funck
this up. Not even close to what I'm supposed to
be wearing. I guess you're supposed to we like what
you'd wear getting out of Villamo, but I didn't do that.
They take me up there first and they're like who
are you and I'm like, yeah, nay, as well as
my radio DJ. And you're like, hey, do you do

(37:51):
your radio thing? So I had already done a morning show,
if you, if you like, think about the timeline I
had done the morning show, I had wrapped my my
morning show. I had come down to this ation in
between my morning show and my afternoon drive show. So
they were like, do you do some radio bits? And
at the time, I think it was right when when
Justin b we repeating a bucket for some reason, and
I did have like this like long, like five minute

(38:12):
diet tribe about Justin Bieber peeing in a bucket and
how like a lot of people would pay good money
to be that bucket, to be said bucket, and how
that buckets like on eBay right now, and I did.
They had this whole radio bit about Justin Bieber being
in a bucket and I was doing it for I
was like, I had it memoried. So I just did
it for these these two women and they were dying
laughing about it, and all of a sudden, forty five
minutes went by, and like they loved me, and they're like, hey, man,

(38:34):
what are you doing in March? And I was like,
what am I doing a March? Just by the way,
this is like an October November. I was like, Mark,
I don't know what I'm doing a March, And they're like,
well might I want to keep your calendar open because
you're great. Then I get cast for the Bachelorette and
say quick break, when we come back, I'll tell you
about the casting process. And then the weird world where
we are today back of the Wealth Gast. On today's episode,

(39:04):
we're interviewing these most self aggrandizing doucher in all of
podcasting world. Me I'm interviewing myself. This is very weird,
but you know what, Quarantine's messing with all of our
brains and listen, uh, we just couldn't get a guest today,
so this is as good as it's going to get. Wells,
welcome back into the show. Thanks dude. Um okay, So

(39:27):
where was I? So I go do the first round
of auditions in Los Angeles? They fly you out to
Los Angeles. You stay at the Sheriton. You could spit
on l A X see the Sheridan, and they just
going over really with a fine toothcom They got a
p I going through all your rest records, like digging
up all this dirt on you, which just should obviously
it's television show. You're taking STD test. You need to

(39:49):
take a five hundred questions psych evaluation, which is the
weirdest test. By the way, I've done five of these shows.
I think they test every single time because they gotta
make sure I'm not crazy, which I obviously I am
a bit crazy, but they're poking and proud of you.
And then then get you dressed up and then you
go do all these interviews like you know when you
watch the Battery and just like you sitting on the
couch talking or sitting on a a chair, like talking about

(40:10):
what's going on. Basically, they go make you do that,
and so they made me do one of those and
they were like, hey man, your radio d like do
radio bit. By the way, this is still like me
being like there's no way I'm gonna get this, but
let's just see how far down the rabbit hole weekend
go Alice. So I sat down, I did a radio bit.
I think I might have done the same just meeber
bit because I was like, well that worked before, I'll
try it again, So you go do that. I had

(40:31):
the person I was interviewed me. I thought it was funny.
They thought whatever, and then hey, come with me. Want
I want to introduce you to some friends. So then
they take me through that room into another room and
there are about twenty five my age people sitting on
couch staring on television with a chair and for the television,
and like, what's up, guys, Hey, I have a seat.
So I sit down and I looked behind me and
there's a television and oh, you guys were watching the
whole thing and they're like yeah, we were oh cool.

(40:53):
And then the real audition starts and it's all my
age people. Now, granted, I'm older than most the Bachelor contestants, right,
I was thirty one when I went on the show.
Everyone else is like around like twenty seven. So I'm
looking at this like see if producers who are all
about my age. Like the EP of the show, this
guy named long Gale. He was he's like a year
older than me. I had all these buttons on my

(41:15):
Jeane jacket. They're like, what the folks on your jacket?
These are my fourteen pieces of flair. I was told
that this was the required amount of flare that I
needed to work at John And that was a rip
off from a movie called Office Space. And so everyone
started laughing and they're like, well, what's that one? And
so then I got like annoyed that they're like kind
of ripping on my buttons. I had one button that
was a Wilco button, and Wilco is a band out

(41:38):
of Chicago. They're amazing. Jeff Tweedy shout out, that's a
band called Wilco, which you guys probably don't know about
because I don't know, you guys are all living in
Los Angeles and it's not justin Bieber's pea buckets, so
you guys probably don't know about it. And this is
a taco because tacos are awesome. Oh that's a bottle
of saracha because I feel strongly about hot sauces. And
oh and that's a cassette because I like music. And
I got really defensive and that they're like laughing at

(41:59):
me because I got I I took it too far
with don't push my buttons. For whatever reason, they like me,
and then they asked me to go on the show.
My heart allowed me to take a leave of absence. Listen,
it went fine. Jo Jo wasn't into me if you
watched it. Problemly is that I was good at that show.
I was very good at doing reality TV. And I'll
tell you why. Because as long as you don't say

(42:20):
anything stupid, you're fine. And as long as you used
to be like somewhat entertaining and kind of like playball,
help tell the story in those interviews, then you're fine.
And that's what I was. I had been in radio
since I was seventeen years old. I had the FCC
like screaming down my back ever since I was a kid,
so I was able to self edit on that show,

(42:40):
and I was able to just get through the show
very easily. The problem was that was just hard for
me to make out with her because never was a
round her, because I didn't have cool quoft hair and
I didn't have abs down in my taint hole. Okay,
so I was just a skinny radio hipster guy. But
I like became really good friends with the crew because
I was I identified with them so much more than

(43:02):
the cast. Even though I was friends with the cast,
I was the radio guys. I was into the mics
and I wanted to know about like what mikes they
were using, and like what they were editing on. And
I also when I was worked at the radio station,
I used to edit all the in studio videos like
I've got a bunch of time, really actually very proud of.
So I was like, what are you guys editing on?
Like pro or it's like is it Avid? Now? Like

(43:23):
crew became my butts. When I got kicked off the
show and I knew that they wanted me to be
on Paradise, I really didn't want to do the show.
They fought me tooth and nail to do Bachelor in
Paradise and I was like, listen, guys, I don't want
to do that show. I'm a little raw after feeling
like a dip shit on that reality TV show, Like
I think I'm done, and they really want to do
on the show. And I was like, well, hey, listen, man.

(43:44):
You know I was a bartender and a waiter when
I first was getting going in Nashville. Let me be
the bartender. And they were like, no, you can't because
we have a bartender. And I said, okay, well if
I agree to this and that position ever becomes available,
will you offer it to me first. Here's my big thing.
I think that my big point for this this this show.

(44:04):
Guess what The answer is always no a hundred percent
of the time if you don't ask. So I asked,
and I said, yeah, well if that ever becomes available, sure, okay,
do the show. I still want it was open fighting love.
I wanted to go to Mexico. You know, That's kind
of how I negotiated that. It was just like, hey, man,
if it ever becomes available, I want to do that,
and they're like great. Shout out to n z K Production,

(44:26):
shout out to ABC, shout out to a Long Gale
and all the other producers over there because they honored
it because the next season happened. Jog originally was the
bartender for that resort and so he was just working
there and somehow he kind of like got brought into
the show and then he left that job to go
start his tourism company. So when that happened, it wasn't

(44:49):
like they fired Jorge. For me, it was that he
left to like have a better life, and so they're like,
you know what, We're gonna bring Wells in. He's gonna
he's gonna instrumental for the show for us because he's
gonna be able to actually speak English. That was the
problem with Jorges is English was bad. He's been here,
he's done the show. He can give everyone advice on
what to do and what not to do. He can

(45:11):
be a confident and that's what a bartender really is.
Right Like the first ever therapists in the world where
bartenders and hairdressers. So that's what my role was. And
I make a mean margarita, So I did that show.
Why I'm valuable to Bachelor in Paradise is because everyone
that comes on that show trusts me because I've been
there and I've seen it, and like, listen, I don't
want anyone to look bad on TV. I really don't.

(45:33):
And so if you're doing something stupid on that show,
I'm gonna tell I'm gonna be the first to tell you.
And like he got to see like a little bit
in this last season where I was like, John Paul Jones,
you look so dumb, bro, because you're going after the
guy that looks so nice. He was totally cool about
getting dumped by Demi and then her bringing her girlfriend
from not the Bachelor world on the beach and you're

(45:55):
making like all this stuff. Like I was like, dude,
you just look bad. And I think a lot of
people saw that and they're like, you know, Wels is
on our side. That's good. And of course also like
I think things are funny, and so like if things
are funny, I'm going to help them be funny, you know.
I mean, I'm a little bit of pot steer, but
for the most part, like I help people out on
the show. The rest is history, right, Like my fiance
Sierra Highland, it was a huge fan of the Bachelorette

(46:16):
and The Bachelor and Bachelor in Paradise that first season.
To be doing puppets, and everyone thought that was so funny.
I was like a showcased a lot on that first
season The Bachelor in Paradise. You know, she tweeted out
to me and I shot my shot and you boy
made it because guess what, you missed the shot you
don't take, just like the answers always know a hundred
percent of the time if you don't ask. And I've
done a bunch of different shows now, and I've worked
a bunch of different venues. The point of this show

(46:38):
is is how do you get successful? And for me,
because I'm not the best looking guy, I'm not the
funniest guy. I'm not the smartest guy. But I tell
you what I am. I'm on time. I'm always in
a good mood. Even when I'm not in a good mood.
I'm in a good mood when I'm at work. I'm
easy to work with and I get you done. What
is the saying like nine of success is just like

(46:58):
showing up. It's so true taking a step further, like
the show up on time, if not early, be super
pumped to be there, make everyone's day a little bit
better because you're there, you know, like they're on the smile,
be fun, and be like, yeah, whatever you guys need,
let's do it. Do this thing this week, right, be
pumped about it. Be annoyed when you should be annoyed, Like,
don't be like the douche bag, yes, ma'am, but be
a joy to work with. It all goes back to

(47:19):
my when I was doing my own morning show, and
I was talking about this on Justin Sylvester's podcast to Sip.
When I was doing my morning show, I was having
to do all the booking, and so I was having
to deal with a lot of artists and a lot
of comics, and a a lot of actors, and I was
having to deal with their managers as well. I came
across so many managers and so much talent that was

(47:40):
tough to deal with. That. When the next year came
around and they came back through town or there, another
movie or television show came up and they wanted to
come do an interview with me, and they were a
pain in my ass, I'd say, no, I don't I
don't care. You're a pain in the ask to work with.
I do not need to work with you. No, thank you.
But I'll tell you what. The people that came in
that studio that were a joy to work with. I remember, dude.

(48:03):
I remember Ingrad Michaelson coming in and being like, wells,
what's up. Do you know how fucking cool it is
to be twenty five years old Ingram Michaelson come in
and be like, dude, I remember you, Wills, how's it going? Yeah, dude,
last last time I was here was a year ago,
and I was like, what do you want to play?
And she was like, well, last time I was here,
I played this song on this song. And then the
time before that, you were interviewing me, but I was

(48:23):
another guy and I played this song on this song,
So I think it'd be fun if I played this
song on this song. What do you think? And I
was like, yeah, dude, that sounds dope, and she was like, okay,
let's do this thing. Man. I remember being like, oh,
I totally understand why Ingrid Michaelson so famous because she's
so awesome to work with. That was amazing. She came
in here, she remembered my name. Do you know how
much that that made me feel so good? And then

(48:43):
all of a sudden, the energy in the interview is
amazing because I'm like, yes, dude, I want to interview
INGR Michaelson. I mean, I like her her music anyways,
but like now, I'm a huge fan of yours. You know, dude,
Ryan Bingham I remember would write me at Christmas card
every year? Do you know how dope it is? And
I'm sure it was like this publicist or something, but
you know how who it is just being a music fan.
And I don't even know if you know who Ryan
Bingham is, but he's an amazing singer. He's the one

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who wrote the song for that movie Crazy Heart with
Jeff Bridges that I think one of an Oscar. He's
one of the roof of that song, and he's in
that movie actually. But anyways, I remember Ryan Bingham after
he'd come in on my show, he'd write me a
thank you know, and then every year for Christmas he
would write me a Christmas card. And I probably probably
was his producer or whatever, but you know how far
that went from me, dude? Every time Ryan Bingham was

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in town. Dude, you gotta be kidding me. If he's
not on my show, you are kidding me. If he's
not on my show, of course he's on my show
me and my best friend. Now, come in there. What dude,
high five, let's take a picture. He didn't give two
ships about me, but he made me feel that way.
You gotta take that mentality into everything you do, because
you affect everyone every single day you walk into a room,
you really do, even with like your close friends and stuff. Dude,

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energy is so transferable, it's crazy, especially positive energy. Positive energy. Man.
So anyways, right, thank you. Notes the common denominator of
successful people. Just think you know I'm telling you that's crazy,
but it's true, handwritten, typed whatever not an email sent
through the mail or given to them, show up like
pump to do it. People don't want to fire the

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guy that everyone likes in the office. Do you know
what they want to do. They want to give that
guy a raise. So that's my whole thing. Also, just
don't leave your house right now during this quarantine. That's
that's my other thing. So after the Bachelor in Paradise,
I met just like a quick thing. I met Sarah Highland.
We got engaged. I moved out to Los Angeles. I
stopped doing interestial radio to do podcast. Now I'm filming

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a television show. It's not Bachelorrated, but that's got stopped
because freaking Corona. Oh and by the way, they just
announced it. I did uh Food Networks Mark's first Cooks.
So I'm gonna be on that celebrity edition with Johnny
Bananas and Dave Cooyer cut it out from Full House
and Brian Possane. He's a stand up comedian who's amazing.

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He's also on the New Mandalorian show. Who Robin Gibbons
she was in like Coming to America. I think some
Eddie Murphy movie. She's amazing. Oh, Sonya Morrigan who's on
like one of those housewives shows and she's just a headcase.
But anyways, that, yeah, it's me coming out and May
that's exciting And I was a want to be respectful
of your time before I let you go. I want
to do rabid fire questions on the Wells Cast with

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Wells Wells Adams. First kiss, Oh, Maggie Finnigan underneath the
FOURT that I was telling you about, and we had
a kissing shirt. I remember taking a knife out there
and we would mark how many times we kissed underneath
the slide by like Tally marks pizza tapping hot sauce
and ranch dressing. First cutcert. I think it was Dave

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Matthews Band at Shoreline Amphitheater. I can't remember who opened up.
I think it was definitely a Dave Matthews band show
at Shoreline. First job, dude, I had a bunch of
good first jobs. I was a bag boy at a
golf course, the carn Valley Ranch. Shout out love that job.
That was so much fun. My buddy Alex brand Dad

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was a contractor, so I was a roofer and I
had Gucci glasses. This is how douchy I was. Had
Gucci glasses and another guy that Alex brother, Tommy, also
Gucci glasses. So we dubbed it Gucci roofing. And I
remember it was not safe at all and we would
just tied a rope around the chimney and then tied
it around my way sauce. That was the littlest, like

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the thinnest, and I could go like the highest up
on the roof. That was really fun job too. Uh.
First car. What's really interesting is I'm kind of a
car guy. My first car ever was f J sixty
two land Cruiser. Okay, we sold it. We bought it
in Sun Valley Idaho in for eighteen thousand dollars. We

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sold it probably um for I don't know, four thousand dollars,
maybe not even that much. But I loved that car,
and so much so that before I ever made money,
I was going to buy that car back. And now
I didn't buy the exact one, but I bought mate
model a year so I to this day have the
first car that I ever had. I have a night
Mine Toyota land Cruiser f J sixty two and it's

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the dopest ride you've ever seen. Also terrible gas mileage. Celebrity.
You get mistaken for dude. I don't know Ben in
the Jet Rodriguez from sand Lot, the Karate Kid. I
do get the kid from the five A good bit,
especially when I wore Beanies and other jackets. A lot.
Favorite podcasts other than this one, my other one, your

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favorite thing podcast Brandy Cyrus. You shouldn listen to it.
First record cassette or CD? What was it? Dude? Okay,
So I stole a lot of CDs from my sister Marisa.
I remember stealing Grateful Dead's greatest hits Skeletons in the Closet.
Great album, by the way, The first record that I
bought my soci. I don't know if you remember this,
but you could buy singles on CD or on cassette.

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I bought the single for R. E. M. What's the Frequency? Canneth.
The first full album LP long play that I bought
was Green Day's Dukie at the Delmini shopping center and
I left it on the fountain in like the middle
of the shopping center, and I had to go back
and buy it again. What was your high school yearbook superlative?

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I do remember. I don't know if we had him
in high school, but I remember going to tennis camp
and we did superlatives for that year book and I
got most likely to be on SNL And that's one
that to this day I'm very proud of. If you
could eat one food for the rest of your life,
what would it be? Tacos or sandwiches? Tacos probably, though,
because they're very versatile. You have barbecue tacos, you have

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shrimp tacos. You know, you have veggie tacos. Literally could
be a new thing every day, but it's still in
the same thing with sandwiches. You know, what is the
most expensive thing you've ever purchased? For someone else, um
an engagement ring. What's a nickname you go by? How
did you get it? Okay, so bub is my nickname?
Really only my family and like really really close friends,

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we'll call me bub or it's really wellsy bub. And
how I got it was my father name me that
because another name for the devil is b el z Bub,
and so he started calling me Welsy Bub because apparently
I am the devil. Thanks Pop, it's probably a good
place to stop. There you go, there's my Wells cast

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on me. Wells, You've been great at doing this interview.
I barely have had to ask a question, so thanks
so much. Everyone out there, please stay inside because seriously,
the coronavirus is real, and take it seriously. I know
that I'm doing that and like kind of like my
joking radio voice, but seriously, stay inside, all right, Love
you guys. I think that's it right. If you like

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this show. When I look at the reviews and stuff,
it seemed like you guys are digging on it. If
you like the show, tell a couple of friends. I
guess so like tweet to us. If you tweet to
me about the show, I will respond. I will retweet
for sure, bro, But tell your friends on Instagram and Twitter,
on Facebook and whatever. Also rate and review if you
haven't done that, like in the Apple or Google play stores.
That helps because when you have a lot of reviews

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and like a lot of positive messages and stuff, people
see that and like, oh, I'll give me a shot,
you know. So, anyways, do you do that'd be cool
if if you If you don't want to do that,
then don't do that. I don't live your life, but
that I'm just asking if you like that. So anyways,
I'm gonna I'm gonna make a drink. I guess that's
what That's what I do now. Dude. You wake up,
you watch the news, you eat breakfast, you decide, am

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I gonna eat a second breakfast? I don't know, and
then you it's basically you're just like waiting to like
when's the right time to start drinking again? Is what
quarantining it's all about. But this is really fun. I
have so much more tell in my story, I guess,
but I didn't play any of my old air checks. Man. Whatever.
Al Right, I love you guys. Subscribe to Wealthcast on

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