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Episode #268 - The BookTok Boys

Sun, 23 Mar 2025

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Chapter 1: What are the highlights of Episode #268?

13.121 - 45.661 Kurtis Conner

What's up, guys? Welcome back to the podcast. This is an episode of the podcast. I believe this is episode 268, all right? We got a lot of stuff to talk about. Dude, I'm here two weeks in a row, man. Sorry, I just had a smoothie. I'm getting a bunch of pieces of shit in my mouth. Two weeks in a row, man. Okay. Okay, consistency. Okay, King. Go off with the consistency, dude.

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Chapter 2: Why is consistency important in podcasting?

46.962 - 74.21 Kurtis Conner

Bro's never been so consistent in his life, okay? And it feels good, man. It feels good to be here two weeks in a row. It feels good if you guys... For those of you with the keen eye have realized that finally I... I got a longer cord for my headphones, okay? Yeah, it's true. I got a longer cord for my headphones, so I'm no longer, you know, bound to the short cord that goes along.

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74.25 - 99.553 Kurtis Conner

Dude, it's in the interface looped around my chair, and I still got room, dude. I can move my head, uh, all the way, every way I want. So, um, yeah, um, and it only took me like what, like three years. How long have I been in the studio for? Like, yeah, three, two, three years now. Um, so that's cool. Um, Yeah, man.

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100.373 - 139.231 Kurtis Conner

Dude, speaking of fucking... Speaking of the passage of time, I just got a Facebook memory. Dude, I hit a million subscribers on my main channel six years ago. The fuck, man? Where does the time go? Where does the time go? And... Yeah, it was 2019. And that was 2025. 2019 was six years ago. What the fuck? That's fucked up, man. But shout out. Thanks, everybody, for the support. Appreciate it.

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140.953 - 164.109 Kurtis Conner

Guys. Okay. recommendations. Okay. This is what I do in my podcast. Now I recommend some media. Okay. Cause I did that. I did that recently. I recommended the Mistborn trilogy. A lot of people were freaking out, you know, a lot of the brain and a lot of the brain and Sanderson fans are freaking out, you know, all those frigging nerds were freaking out, dude.

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164.829 - 188.475 Kurtis Conner

Um, but I'm one of them now, dude, I'm fully locked in. Okay. I started, uh, I started reading, I started the stormlight archive. Okay. I'm reading the way of Kings right now. I'm about 250 pages in. And I like it. I like it so far, okay? It's pretty cool. Yeah, I just love a good friggin' fantasy novel, man. What can I say, dude? I have, like, no other desire to read anything else.

Chapter 3: What are the challenges of starting a new book series?

189.588 - 215.885 Kurtis Conner

And I think that's fine. I think there's nothing wrong with that. You know, limit your worldview. Sort of block out anything else that challenges you or makes you think differently than what you want to think about. And just focus on the things that you only think about. That's how you grow as a person. Okay? But I'm liking it so far. The book is thick as fuck, bro. It is thick as hell.

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217.046 - 232.081 Kurtis Conner

it's like, I can't even like hold it with one hand. It was like fucking 1300 pages or some shit. And then I'm like, when I'm, when I start reading, I'm like, how could this be this long? And then I start reading. I'm like, uh, okay, this is actually too short. And then, um,

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234.301 - 255.243 Kurtis Conner

Yeah, it's just tough, though, because with Mistborn, with the Mistborn trilogy, you know, I was three books back to back to back. So I was like, I had that whole world and, like, religion and magic system, like, memorized, right? I was, like, in it. I was like, yeah, this is... this is what they use for that. And this is how that works.

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255.323 - 275.161 Kurtis Conner

And this is how the, how this is how that person is doing that. And then to start this whole new series, I'm like, well, now I got to throw all that out the window. Now I got to memorize a whole new magic system and figure out how that shit works. It's like, my life is a fucking nightmare, bro. There's so much shit. It's so hard. It's so hard being me, dude. Um,

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277.423 - 316.5 Kurtis Conner

Also, I watched Complete Unknown, the Bob Dylan movie with Timothee Chalamet, and it was good. I liked it. I think Timothee Chalamet, I think he should have won an Oscar. I think so. I don't know who won the Oscar. Who won for Best Actor? Who was it? Hold on. Hold on, let me look it up. Best Actor Oscar 2025. Oh, Adrian Brody, dude. Yeah, that guy.

318.761 - 337.033 Kurtis Conner

The guy who did his famous Jamaican accent on SNL, dude. Why did he do that? You guys seen that video? You guys seen that? On SNL. I guess he got banned for doing it.

340.247 - 343.349 German Speaker 2

Was du aus deiner Zukunft auch machst?

343.389 - 345.05 German Speaker

Wir können alles, was kommt.

345.07 - 345.451 German Speaker 2

Das Handwerk.

Chapter 4: Why did Adrian Brody get banned from SNL?

689.775 - 724.213 Kurtis Conner

This fucking jerk, this jerk has 1.3 million views. Millennial Burger Place, what about millennial hats? And then it's just a slideshow of me wearing a bunch of, you know, those hats, those wide-brimmed hats that were very popular in the early 2010s and mid-2010s, okay? And yeah. Yeah. You know, looking back now, I'm like, God, you shouldn't have been showing off that forehead so much.

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724.713 - 748.256 Kurtis Conner

That's a lot of real estate up there. All right? You could throw a football between one side of my head and the other, dude. There's so much space there. You could play a full-on... The Super Bowl could actually, if they're announced that one year, in 2014, they could have been like, yeah, the Super Bowl is actually taking place on Curtis Connors' forehead, okay? There's a lot of room up there.

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749.236 - 779.791 Kurtis Conner

So, yeah, get the fucking tickets, man. The Chiefs are going to play on Curtis' fucking forehead, all right? 50-yard line is right there, okay? But that was the look, man. Oh, shit. That was the fucking, that was the fashion, bro. That's what was in. That's what was cool back then, okay? So I'm not okay with this, man. And I'm all for poking fun at the frigging past, right?

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803.334 - 803.313 Unknown Speaker 2

20... 2030?

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806.896 - 842.21 Kurtis Conner

I think that style is going to be back. I honestly do. There's a loop. There's loops in fashion, okay, and trends, okay? History repeats itself, all right? Now, you know, actually, you know what? No, it might be a little later. 2035, it'll be back in full swing. Another 10 years, it'll be back, all right? Because right now, what's back? You know, the Y2K, right? Like 2000, 2005 era, you know?

842.831 - 871.304 Kurtis Conner

That's in right now with fashion. So if we just move up a little bit, Next couple years, 2010s, you know, maybe Jersey Shore shit is going to come back, right? Twee stuff, right? Like Zoey Deschanel and like 2012 hipster stuff. And then we're going to start getting into the, we're going to bring the fucking hats back. There's their comeback. And man buns. I had one of those too. Fuck, man.

872.684 - 911.076 Kurtis Conner

Man buns were sick, though. I was like, that was also the style, man. I'm getting old. Guys, I'm getting old. I'm getting really old. I'm feeling it. My body's feeling it. My brain's feeling it. But, you know, fuck it. Fuck it, we ball. That makes me laugh every time. All right. But no, all jokes aside, that TikTok was funny. And it's funny that they only use pictures of me.

911.096 - 948.971 Kurtis Conner

And I can take a joke, man. My whole career is fucking making fun of people. I can take it. It's all good. I thought that was very funny. Okay, what did we talk about first? No, that'll be the title. So I'm going to leave that. That was fucking scary. I'm going to leave that for later. We can talk about... Oh, this is funny. This is a little article I saw. Isn't that funny?

949.251 - 990.763 Kurtis Conner

Aren't articles hilarious? All right. Article... No. Okay. So this is... Interesting... Interesting app that I found that I am very confused. Well, I'm not confused. Let's read the title. This app makes you literally touch grass before you can use social media. So let's see how they do that. If you're an avid doom scroller, you've likely been told to touch grass. Right.

Chapter 5: How does TikTok influence trends among millennials?

1108.799 - 1143.488 Kurtis Conner

If you're trying to, you know... If you're trying to collect as many... As many fucking... you know, feet pics as you can for whatever reason, nefarious or otherwise, that'd be the way to do it, right? That'd be the way to do it. Yeah, touch grass. And like, how does it know? Is it just like with AI or something? Because what if it's just like a dude?

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1143.728 - 1163.526 Kurtis Conner

What if it's just like a dude who gets sent a bunch of pictures and he's like, yep, you're touching grass. Yep. And then there's people who are, like, some guy who, like, dug a hole, who, like, drilled a hole in the ground and, like, stuck his wiener in. A video of him, like, frigging, like, fucking the ground, right? Sends it in. He's like, yep.

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1163.546 - 1179.772 Kurtis Conner

He's like, why are you making direct eye contact with the camera? You get a sick, you get, like, are you get, is this, like, doing something for you? Why is he saying, yeah, can I touch grass now? Dipping his balls into the earth.

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1180.828 - 1187.37 Unknown Speaker

Is this touching grass? Can I use my app now?

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1187.95 - 1220.142 Kurtis Conner

Can I scroll on threads now? It's like, why threads? Who uses threads that much? That poor bastard. That'd be the worst job ever. Like, yeah, you're touching grass, dude. Yeah, got it. It's like, no, that's a picture of you shitting on the ground. I don't know if that counts. Yeah, I just thought that was a little silly. And yeah, so go send your feet pics to that guy.

1220.162 - 1250.127 Kurtis Conner

Dude, my eye keeps fucking twitching, man. What the fuck? Ever since Australia, man. It's like once a day, my eye is just like. Oliver, Oliver. It's just like fucking twitching like crazy, dude. And it's like, okay, yeah, some days I'll have a lot of caffeine, that's probably why, but some days I won't have that much and I'll drink a bunch of water and still.

1276.373 - 1276.353 Unknown Speaker 2

2021?

1276.393 - 1295.485 Kurtis Conner

Okay. Okay, we got, dude. We've got a lot of TikTok cringe, man. And I'm going to call it Pootube. I'm going to call it Pootube, okay? This is, actually, you know what? No, this will be shitty TikTok of the week. And we got a few of them.

Chapter 6: What is the new 'Touch Grass' app about?

1296.155 - 1302.137 Producer Sean

so yeah i haven't got to use that one in a while dude and that made me feel good man it's been a while

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1322.461 - 1347.63 Kurtis Conner

okay we got tiktok cringe man get this fucking laptop out of my life um oh yeah also guys there's i think i mentioned this on the last episode but if there's probably not going to be a main channel video for a uh a while probably another month because uh

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1349.571 - 1361.661 Podcast Producer

Dude, every time I'm on tour, every time I'm on tour and I got to do videos, I get like so stressed and it's not fun.

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1362.041 - 1373.41 Kurtis Conner

So I'm going to try to do one tour, like one leg of a tour where I don't have to worry about a main channel video. And I'm going to see how it goes. And I'll update you because maybe it'll be bad. Maybe I'll be like stressed out the whole time. Who knows?

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1376.464 - 1384.772 Podcast Producer

Oh, this is not the video. Okay, we got, dude, we got how many? There's one.

1384.792 - 1411.794 Kurtis Conner

I swear I downloaded more of them, dude. Oh, yeah, here we go. Okay, this is a classic, the bottomless well of fucking YouTube content, but we got some alpha male content to talk about today because we found, Sean and I, my podcast producer and I, we found a bunch. And there were some really, really good ones. And alpha males, dude, they're just so silly.

1411.814 - 1461.121 Kurtis Conner

It's such an interesting way to live your life. The only alpha male I fuck with is Alpha from Power Rangers, dude. That guy was a fucking alpha. Or was his name Beta? Was his name Alpha? Or Alpha Alpha? Alpha... Power Ranger. Is that his name? Yeah, his name is Alpha, dude. I know my shit. Go, go, Power Rangers. Okay. Let's watch this guy. Let's see.

1461.201 - 1470.287 Kurtis Conner

This one is about how to, you know, stay productive. Okay. Oh. I fucked up.

1470.807 - 1471.708 John Smith

Yeah, okay. Oh, I fucked up again.

Chapter 7: Why cooking at home is often overlooked?

2021.734 - 2044.747 Kurtis Conner

It's like fucking chill, man. Car salesman's very important, right? But, like, fucking relax a little bit. You know what I mean? Insane, dude. Like, you shouldn't even be that amped up if you're in the Army. Like, if you're about even, like, medieval times, you shouldn't even be that amped up to, like, run into battle.

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2045.628 - 2055.216 Kurtis Conner

During a battle, that would have been way better if there was, like, that scene in Braveheart instead of him being like, Oh, my fucking God.

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2055.737 - 2060.001 Audience Member

Oh, we're going to kill him. Man, you rise up and you fight back.

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2060.54 - 2077.727 Kurtis Conner

Instead of that, if there was a guy like Michael Cera type dude who was like riding a horse like poorly at the front of the army and was like, guys, just try to be safe. I don't know. Just like trying to get hurt. All right. What's this next one? This one's great.

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2077.747 - 2086.151 Unknown Speaker 11

I'm going to tell you this. My entire company, my entire team, if you don't have a six pack, you don't work for us. No, I know. I know. It's called, everybody say standard.

2086.791 - 2087.191 Kurtis Conner

Standard.

2087.592 - 2108.943 Unknown Speaker 11

How about we raise him? How about we raise them? How about we raise them? How about you guys quit getting civilized and you guys quit settling? You know, there's some people in this room that said, I would sue my company if they told me I had to have a six-pack. We know you would. That conversation was for the one percentage. That wasn't for you.

2108.963 - 2156.691 Kurtis Conner

Get out! Dude. If you don't have a six-pack... then you're not working for me. If you don't have a six-pack, brother, you're not getting hired. Imagine sitting down for a job interview and the guy was like, yeah, lift up your shirt, though.

2157.692 - 2160.273 Podcast Producer

Let's see. See what you're working with, bro.

Chapter 8: What makes alpha male content so cringe?

2880.45 - 2885.293 Unknown Speaker 3

His was fucking dog shit. Strong. I got to follow that up. Very smooth.

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2887.219 - 2916.438 Kurtis Conner

his was more like a snake good thank you so much thank you and this guy pissed me the hell off alright what else we got hmm oh yeah this is another one from the the dude from the other video hmm it's always what are you doing and never what are you reading beautiful what are you reading

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2917.312 - 2918.412 Content Creator

Beautiful.

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2918.973 - 2974.235 Kurtis Conner

Is that a sexy voice? What are you reading? Beautiful. Dude, if anybody did that to anybody ever, whoa. Jail, bro. Calling the cops, man. What are you reading, beautiful? Holy shit, I've got to start saying that to my wife. When she's reading her books, I'm going to come in and say that. What are you reading, beautiful? Like, when could that ever work? What are you reading, beautiful? Beautiful.

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2974.761 - 2997.254 Kurtis Conner

You know this guy wants to have a deep voice so bad, dude. You know it. He's not as good as his contemporaries. He's not as good as his contemporaries at the purring. And it's just like, quit trying to make it happen, man. It's just not going to happen. I actually haven't watched this full one yet.

2997.534 - 3002.059 John Smith

Growl after growl. Let's be two cringy men on the internet just growling at each other. Alright.

3002.959 - 3006.843 Kurtis Conner

Just because you're pointing it out doesn't make it okay, dude.

3006.863 - 3010.387 Content Creator

I'll go first or are we going at the same time? I'll go first. Okay.

3024.813 - 3032.637 Kurtis Conner

Okay, Loki, this is me on the toilet after a farmer's rap and a double-double from Tim Hortons. This is what you hear in the bathroom.

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