Bros & Shows - Last Week's The Valley: Persian Style Recap! (Last weeks Episode)

Episode Date: February 18, 2026

What's up Bros? Dont worry, this weeks episode is also available, but wanted to make sure that we're up to speed on our recaps! In this episode, the fall out from the dinner in Palm Springs sets in. Sky wants nothing to do with anyone, including her husband. Bams is in hot water. RJ takes it upon himself to try to reunite Tanin and Sky with an ambush lunch but will they be able to make amends? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Well, it's time to check in with our favorite show on TV right now, the Valley Persian style. I never know what to expect week to week, but I can't expect to at least be thoroughly entertained, or at the very least, if it's a down episode, it's still nice to watch. It's a very weird place to be in right now. I know, it's nice. As there's a drive in a deep left field by Castellanos. Oh, man, it's 8 o'clock. And so that'll make it a...

I don't need the spotlight. I shot. Just fine. Hi, I'm Karma. And yes, I am a bitch. Brov Bros. Good evening, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of Brough Bros.

Your favorite podcast from the Bros. For everybody, for whoever wants to listen. I'm your co-host, Steele Russell, joined as always by the one and only, Palm Scoots. What's up, dude? Not a whole lot. I know we don't like to do this,

especially with, like, VPR, with new people. But for the Valley, I can do it for the valley. Is Sky becoming the Janet of this valley? Is that where we're heading? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, yes, that would be the closest comparison. They're different in a lot of ways too.

But yeah, I would chalk that up to pretty close. I think that's fair to say. I do really think that the supporting cast won't allow Sky to actually be Janet because as soon as Janet started doing Janet things on the other valley, the rest of the cast was like, fuck this, we're not dealing with this. We'll go on different trips with you. We'll talk to you about certain things. But we're not going to try to mend fences right away.

This is why I love this cast. This episode is exactly why we love this cast. They're not going to let Sky just go and do that. They're not going to let Sky control her own group over here and pull people aside and talk about how bad of a friend Tannen is or how bad of a support system bombshead is, whatever it might be that she wants to talk about. We're not seeing any of that because you've got people like Reza Jacks. just stepping in and saying, no, no, no, no, no.

We're going to sit down. We're going to talk about this. I didn't really like how this way. We're going to sit down and talk about it again. We're just going to keep beating it until it eventually falls into place. And that's what I love about it. I don't think it's going to fall into place. That's what I really love about it. It's like we're forcing these conversations, which I love. I love getting to the bottom of things.

I love making people talk it out. I don't think they're going to mend this fence that quickly. And that's like a whole different aspect that's going to be a lot of fun because RJ, he's trying. he's trying to bring these two back together, trying to save the group. I don't know if Sky's going to have it. And I can't wait to watch next week.

That's the other thing with this show. As soon as it ends, I'm bummed. I'm like, fuck, I want to watch more. So that's what I foresee happening next week. I don't think that lunch is going to go all that well. And I'm basing this off of a lot of the things that Sky said in her confessionals in this episode specifically. I don't have a lot of high hopes for her,

like turning the other cheek or you know agreeing to disagree i maybe an agree to disagree is probably the best that we can hope for i think my ultimate test for this show and my ultimate test for a lot of the shows on bravo is will i want to watch when it actually drops because of our recording schedule we typically don't watch this until at least a couple of days afterwards you know there are some times in there where it's the weekend you know maybe you're not doing anything you'll throw in the valley i'll still have to rewatch it before we record but will i will i want to watch this live is like the ultimate test. I'm not quite getting there yet because I don't watch any of these shows live. But will I want to watch it maybe on that Friday morning? You know,

I'm going to watch traders on Thursday night. We're going to record traders. But will I want to fit in some valley in there because I'm really interested to see what happens? We're not quite there yet for me. But if we get there, I wouldn't be surprised. I wouldn't either. I'm kind of on that same threshold as you are. I'm very close to be in like Friday morning, cup of coffee, throw on Shaw's. But not the fact that we're like even discussing that this early on in their tenure is fantastic news. So we're in a good place with this show. I'm just, I don't know what to expect moving forward. And that's also exciting.

So these are all good things. And based on. Yeah, the unknown. Hell yeah, brother. We are pioneers. Lewis, if I'm, who's Lewis and Clark? I guess you can be Sacagawea. Is that the right Native American for you?

Yeah. Yep. Sacchia is the one that helped them out. I would imagine that's the right tribe for you. No. And to assume that, you know, just one.

I didn't assume I asked, buddy. Oh, it seems like you were, it was leading. It's like, oh, is that the right,

probably, you're probably all in the same tribe. You know, that's a problem with society. Now, nobody asked questions. Nobody asked questions. Nobody's curious.

I'm curious. That's why you call me whiskers. That's, I'm curious like a cat. So my friends call me whiskers. Anyway, But let's jump into this episode. And we start out with the end of the conversation between Sky and Gigi, the aftermath of all of this.

Everyone's pretty stunned. Bomsy is at a loss of words. He has been all night, which is not going to bode well for him later. His defense is that I just don't like conflict. It's like, this is a terrible look for you, pal. Yeah, it's a bad look because you can say I just don't like conflict. But when we're watching this unfold and you are shockingly quiet, And I don't even know if shockingly is the right word because I expected him to be quiet.

But when you are quiet and your wife seems to be out on an island by herself trying to fend for herself, you could do a lot of things well if you just interject once. Like, all right, guys, we've had enough. Let's just leave it as it is. We'll see how things go. Maybe you guys can come back together. But right now we're not getting anywhere. You're still not quite picking aside, but you're at least putting an end to it.

And then you have a leg to stand on later when inevitably your wife is going to say, where the fuck were you? You didn't say a word during any of this. I think it's just a little past his bedtime, which, you know, we're not doing the ages and thing. He's tired. It's been a long trip. It's a little late in the night. I imagine it's, you know, nine, ten o'clock at night.

They're eating dinner a little bit later. You know, it's vacation. That's what happens. But I think he's kind of had it. You know, he doesn't really want to venture out there because then he's going to spend a lot of energy. He needs that energy just in case they decide to full bore go home, which, you know, they do. Lo and behold, I took it a different way.

I felt like there was a few times that he wasn't nodding along. Like I think he had to hold back. I think what was happening is they were making a whole lot of sense. And he was sitting there going, you're right. That's also right. I agree with that too. I don't know what to do right now. I'm just going to sit here.

That's what I think happened. I think he agreed too much. And so he was like, you know what? Someone's got to say it. You know, it's over a two hour drive from Palm Springs to the valley? They Uber two hours. just to get out of that house? Oh my God, that makes it so much worse.

I feel so bad for Bombsy right now. He was probably so tired. Why didn't they bring their own car? Like, I know that they're drinking so they probably wouldn't want to drive anyway, but like they didn't, I guess they drove. I don't remember. They probably carpooled, I would imagine. We've been in Palm Springs for like four fucking weeks at this point.

I don't remember how this happened. I would imagine carpool scenario and not everyone was leaving so they didn't have a ride back. So, hey, look, she's, she's high society. she can afford a two hour Uber at least based on what she's telling us weren't Amir and Natasha leaving like 10 minutes after? They're going back to I don't know if they're going home home

I thought they were staying in a different spot in Palm Springs. I think they are yeah no that makes a lot of sense now because they're like yeah we have to get back to the kids and then they get back late okay so they aren't going all the way back to the valley you are going all the way back to the valley this is now that I've looked that up this is crazy ludicrous

absolutely wild that you couldn't just bear one more night and not helping your story. It's not helping your story. You can text Dennis and be like, hey, Den. Oh, Jesus. I heard you have a hotel room. Can we bunk up in your hotel room, pal? Buddy old pal, come on, Den.

But as everyone's breaking down what just occurred, Tannen's response is pretty reasonable considering what just went down. She's like, the fact that she brought up the discount is crazy to me. I thought that was nuts, too, because if you go back, that was such a weird way of, it was Sky questioning Tannen's loyalty and support via the discount that Sky

gave Tannen. That's a weird route to take. And everything that I've seen thus far, Tannen has been supportive. Tannin does seem to ride for you. She also had defended you previously. She's not doing that anymore, understandably so. But I thought that was such a

mean little dig to take to throw in there about the jewelry thing. Even to bring up the discount at all. Like, why would you, what are we doing? I'll do you one further. I'm actually really impressed that Tannin was able to just hone in on that and for that to be the reason why she's really upset. That's her full takeaway.

Like there was a lot of things said, you know, we talked about rubbing the serum on the dogs. We talked about whether or not they're being good friends back and forth and whatever might have happened. We find out obviously a little bit later when Tannen's talking about her friendship with Sky that there are some deep-seated issues. There are some other things that she is thinking about when it comes to Sky and their friendship overall. but for her to actually just kind of single that out

and I think that was the main point that is the main takeaway. Usually we see people swing and this. Like they get stuck on stupid shit. We've seen it on this show. It's actually funny when they do it on this show because, wait, I didn't even think that was an issue, i.e. the dog with rubbing the serum on the dogs,

but this is the actual issue. This is the main thing that popped up. I mean, I thought it was an issue, but I thought it was even funnier that this was the main issue. But this is the main issue. This is the main takeaway because the rest of it is, it seems like this. This is all stuff that Tannen's been thinking about before.

Like, yeah, Sky and I have had discussions about this. Is she a good friend? Do I always have to be the one who ends up broaching the subject after we have a bit of a spat? Yes, Sky agrees. So I don't really want to do more of the same. I'm going to have a takeaway. There's new information here. She feels mad at me and she wants to take a dig because she feels like I'm taking discounts

on her jewelry that she's offering to me and I should be paying full price. Like, what is she insinuating? She insinuating that I don't have the money to do this? Is she insinuating that I'm not a full. supporting friends because I'm not paying the full price. Like, where are we going with any of this? I would be just as confused, but I'm happy that Tannen was the one who was like, wait, no, no, no, no.

I'm going to focus on this because this is kind of crazy to me. Well, because it doesn't make any sense. And that's the biggest takeaway from it is like, why are you bringing this up? What is the point of you bringing this up right now? Because clearly there's some intention behind it. What is it? It seems rather nefarious to me. But maybe we'll find out in their conversation next week.

don't know, but Reza tries to go inside to be like, hey, you should go talk to your best friend because I'm not thrilled with you. Yeah? Well, you get the fuck out of my face. Whoa. Whoa. One, this is kind of how I thought this would go. I didn't think she was going to be totally cool.

She doesn't strike me as the person that when things are over, like I, it feels to me like she has a very long cool down period. Yeah. I would think the exact same thing. I also do think that Reza could have gone in way stronger than he did just based off of what I've seen him, especially with conflict resolution. And he's not really involved unless he wants to take offense to the Valley

comments that she was making too, which, you know, that's fine. He did. But at the same time, I've seen him go in way stronger. I've seen him, I've seen him go into a situation on this fucking pedestal looking down at her like, no, no, no, no, we're not doing any of this. And he could actually get into her face. He's standing in the doorway. All he's saying is that's not a way to end the conversation.

That's not a way to end any of this. Take some responsibility, at least go talk to Tannen so that the rest of the weekend isn't completely ruined. She's already packing. She's done. She's over it. She's at least at the very least going to sit over there, which we've seen this move a million times with her packed bags, sitting on a swinging chair, acting like she's waiting for an Uber just so she can draw some more attention. No, she's actually already made her decision. She's going home tonight.

So anything else is scorched her. Yeah, and Bomsey goes out to check on her. And she's relentless on the group. You know, these people are pieces of shit. I'm not snobby. I didn't come from wealth. I had to work hard. And I did.

We're not knocking the hustle. Okay. I want that to be very clear. I'm not knocking the hustle. I'm sure she worked hard to get where she is. She also married Bomsy. And we seem to forget that every single time we bring this whole thing up. Because what she's doing,

when she's bringing that up is again putting herself up here implying that she worked hard to get here what the fuck has Gigi done that's the way I took that which is funny because at the same time Tannen is a CFO or whatever so Tannen's like up here

and she doesn't talk about it ever she never mentioned anything like that she's actually very down to earth considering she has as much money as she does I don't understand where sky gets off and the way that she talks talks because again, if you have to look around the room, okay, and you think that you are

above everybody else, but you're consistently in the same rooms, in the same restaurants, in the same town, what does that tell you? And I'll do you one more. You can't afford to move out of the valley. So what are we doing? That's the big problem there is that she can't afford to move out of the valley, but she thinks she can or she's talking like she can. And I think it's really funny too because we get this weird little like faux ven diagram almost where we're talking about you and how you have come up and you didn't have money but you're acting like you grew up with money you're acting like poo poo i'm not going to deal with any of this because i'm way above all of you guys we're saying the same thing it's just that the way that you're now

taking it is bizarre like yes congratulations you weren't you you were a waitress you did start at the bottom and you've worked your way up. And now you're in a position where you can even consider moving out of the valley, where a lot of people are considering moving into the valley. There's a whole give and take process that you're completely missing here. And everybody else is on your level. We're all on the same level, but you're talking to us like we're not on the same level. Correct. We're not saying that you worked all hard and you did all of these things. And now you're at the point in your life where you can look at other people and say, wow, I'm so much better than everybody else. You just can't say it to us because we all live in the

same area and we all are pretty much in the same demographic. So what are you doing and why are you talking to us like that? It's like she's completely missing the point. And she's saying what they're saying is you grew up with a silver spoon in your mouth. They're saying that you didn't grow up with a silver spoon in your mouth. So you're saying the same thing. It's just at the end of the day, they want you to have a little bit more respect for everybody else that is on your same level and not looking down on them like, oh, you guys live in the valley. You live in the valley. How are we missing each other. I don't know. She needs more cooth. I have a little more cooth. You know what I'm saying? Cuth goes a long way. Don't be all. Uncooked. Look a joint with Gigi and just chill to fuck out.

I think that would do wonders, honestly. I think that would solve all of the problems that we're having. And I forgot to mention Reza's line, which is my favorite line, you're obnoxious, stuck up and bougie for no reason. You are a waitress at Sham Shiri. Don't forget that. Mike dropped. I'm leaving now. And he goes back outside and then apologizes to the table. You know, he's like, I'm sorry I got so amped up. Sorry, I escalated everything. But the way that she makes me feel about where I live, where I eat, she makes me feel like shit. And I think that's how bombs he feels too, which is why he didn't say anything.

Yeah. But as we know, bombs shit in the sky, they bounce. They're going back to the valley. Everyone else is hanging out. A lot of good comes from this, though, that we weren't foreseeing, mainly in the Tannin and Greg space. because Greg stepped up. He defended not only Tannen and he kind of defended everybody and the Valley. I'm from the Valley.

So what does it say about me? What are you saying? That's big points for Greg. Because Tannin's like, you know what? I did feel supported by Greg. I felt like we were more of a team now than we were before. Awesome.

If that's what we can take from this, that's a big win. I'm thrilled that we had some couples therapy. We were having discussions about whether or not they were fully separated and they were using the Valley as their platform. to actually get divorced. That's where I was thinking this was heading. Instead, we might actually get some good from this.

This might be a full 180 where we've gone from, we're going to use this show to get divorced because we're clearly not happy to, do we like each other? Can we make this work? What is this? Is this performative? No. This is real.

And yes, he was standing up with the Valley, not necessarily his wife. But the takeaway is he interjected. He defended his wife. He defended the Valley's honor. And she likes it. And you can tell she's a little attracted to that.

Like, this was crazy. I've never seen us be such a good team. Good. Run with that. I want to see more of that. Have more date nights and talk about it. And then do more things just like that. So that you're not, you know, six, seven months down the line where you're on your like 15th date talking about.

Look at us. We're on a date. Look at this date. This is so much fun. You remember that time I defended the valley? Remember that time that I defend every back in Palm Springs? Wow, that's great. Keep doing more of that and build off of that.

And we might actually have another budding romance, which I know you guys have been married for a while, but it doesn't seem like you guys were really married. Now we're starting to see there might be something here. You guys can just save that marriage. Do you maybe want to sleep in the same room tonight? You feel like a little same room together? Hey now.

It's the opposite of stepbrothers. They actually deconstruct bunk beds. Yeah, they move them back next to each other. We need more room for bedroom activities. Hey, now. Yeah. That's, hey, If that's the takeaway from this, yeah, who cares? That's great.

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wherever you get your podcasts, and hit follow, unless you want the show to follow you. We get to the next morning, not before Adam and Gigi were watching RJ have sex. That was weird to me. That was,

I get it like, oh, funny, wacky, like, oh, they're banging. The first, the first part of this was fine, like walking past the bedroom, you know, doing that little goofy, oh, do you hear that? Do you hear that? Yeah. Walking around outside and trying to peek through the curtains. That's where we have to cut this off. Nope.

I know you guys are, who's having a good time, you know, things get a little wild, especially if, you know, Adam's bringing in all of his famous dishes, if you know what I mean? Then, yeah, sure, everything's going to be hunky dory. and you guys are going to be cool, but don't be looking through the, we'll be looking through the blinds. What are we doing here? Yeah. Talking about how you can see Courtney going down on RJ, like, oh,

vice versa. Reverse that. Was it? I don't know. It may be uncomfortable. I didn't really listen. Yeah, I listened to it like 10 times. Anyway, um, did you hear anything?

No, I didn't. But we're at the next morning. And I love that once again, the house is an absolute fucking mess. Hell yeah. That's the sign of a good night. We got hangovers everywhere. They're spilled wine everywhere. Good job, team.

This is what I want to see. Did they clean it up, though? I want to see them clean. I don't know. Or did they just eat the fee? Yeah, because it's something that I watch on TikTok a lot is Airbnb owners. Like after the waste management open just ended, they're like, oh, yeah, let's see how this looks. Actually, the ones that I've seen look pretty clean.

People are cleaning up themselves. So that's just, you know, I want to see it. I've heard horror stories about that stuff. Yeah, no thanks. But before we check in with the Palm Springs crew, we check in with Bomsy and Sky, seeing how they're doing. RJ, Resa Jacks, reached out with a text. Then you can tell, like, he just wants everyone to get along. That's all he cares about.

He wants everyone to be cool. Doesn't matter what the fight was about. He wants to smooth this thing over. So he texts her right away. And now we get to see Sky's reaction to all of this. She's had a night to sleep on it. So let's hear her out. Maybe she had a little bit of an opinion.

Tiffany, maybe she can figure out where she went wrong in this whole thing. No, no, no, that's not going to happen at all because she felt like she was in a cage with hyenas. And then I walked away. And then you stayed bumps. What the fuck? And his defense sucks. And like, I feel bad for him. But at the same time, like, you could have done anything.

I know. But, like, he has no ill intentions by doing these things. It's not like he, like, I didn't, as much as I wanted to, I didn't get the vibe from him that he agreed. with the rest of the group and that's why he stayed out of it. Oh, I did. You think he agreed in some, I think he agrees with. Ever so slightly, not all of it. The only thing I think he agrees with is there's no reason for us to move out of the valley.

Like everything Reza is saying about interest rates and property and all of these things do go in line with his thinking. I do agree with that. But when it comes to defending his wife's honor against Tannen, I do think he wants to have his wife's back. He just didn't speak up. And when he was sitting there while she walked away, maybe he's like, all right, she just needs a moment. I'll go check on her in a couple of minutes.

Again, he didn't do himself any favors here, but I don't think anything was of ill intent. He just did not do himself any favors. And he leaves himself open to these comments like, wait, you stuck back what was going on while I walked away. And he was honest. He told him, he told Sky everything that they were saying, which nothing was really that bad.

It was just a continuance of what was being spoken about anyway. and if I don't know, I think that she wanted him to step up, but he's just kind of doing this to himself. And he's putting himself in a bad position. Yeah. And, you know, as they're talking back and forth and she, like you said, she asks what was talked about when I left. He talks about the jewelry thing and the discount.

Why was that brought up? Now, to see Sky's perspective was genuinely fascinating to me. And I will just say this. like people with this kind of vibe, I actively avoid like the plague. I cannot stand this kind of shit. But it's fucking wild to listen to her sit there and talk about the same scenario that we watched with a totally different takeaway. Because she's recapping in a scene that we believe she was the one in the wrong.

She's recapping that day at her house. Tannen comes over. And it's these little comments. you know, she gave me her skin serum, which is only one bottle, by the way. What is that? Why do we take shots everywhere? And then she tries to defend wiping it on the dog because Tannen should know how I feel about my dogs. Do you hear the like the stepping stones that you are laying out for her to agree with you?

Like nobody's going to go through all those hurdles to agree with you, Sky. They're going to go, hey, I just. launched this thing I'm excited about. I used Bravo as my own commercial and you wiped it on your dogs. That's disrespectful to both me and the product. No, you don't get that. You're actually mad because after you were rude to Tannen, Tannen went and talked to Gigi about it. And your takeaway is like, what a snake. What a backstabbing snake. Well, I think it's actually like, because I've been trying to wrap my head around it. One, it is a little scary that she, this is not like, some spin zone. This is how she actually

feels. I do think the Tannin should understand how much I love my dogs. I wouldn't just put anything on my dogs. I love your serum so much that I put it on something else that I love. And now it's just love compounded. That is actually what she thinks. And that is a little fucking frightening. But at the same time,

that's the type of delusion that I absolutely love. Oh yeah. It's great. It makes no actual sense. But because she feels so strongly about it, it gets me excited. Like there's got to be some more crazy just going on in your brain. I would have known all of it.

Like, I would have cracked it open like an egg and I would read it all. And of course, obviously, as we're talking about all of this, we bring Gigi into it too.

Who also sent her a text? And it was more of a novel. I could not make heads or tails of that because the first couple of texts that come through, I'm reading, I'm reading, I'm reading. I'm like, okay, maybe it's just Gigi

trying to like prove her point. But it's not really. It's really just her apologizing for popping off. Yeah. And the thing that comes out of this the most, which I think is so funny, is at the end of it's like, hey,

I just, you know, I hope that we can all get along. That's not how Sky sees this. Gigi pops off. Gigi's got anger problems. Just a month ago, she got caught attacking somebody in a parking lot. Like, where did we get here? I don't know. She texted you to apologize.

And you're just like, no, you've done too much damage. I'm not getting this. I didn't expect, you know, later when she's talking about Tannen for it to be the same thing. But you can tell what kind of person's sky is. Like, no, my mind's already made up. What you did last night is unforgivable. You showed your true colors. I gave you an opportunity.

You smoked weed in front of my kids potentially. How dare you? I gave you an opportunity. I showed a little bit of friendship there. And this is what you do to me. You stab me in the back because I'm not off. I don't want my friends to take my discounts when I offer it to them. How dare you?

How dare you take a discount for me for my jewelry? You scoundrel, you scallywag. It's crazy. It's absolutely nuts. It's so goddamn funny. 100%. Like this is the kind of delusion that we need on shows like this. I'm not mad at it.

But trying to understand. understand it gives me a headache because I do not get how she gets there. And these standards that she has for how she is to be treated compared to how she treats people. Like she straight up treats people like shit. Like everyone there she treats as scum on the bottom of her shoe. But she expects the same people that she treats like shit to prop her up on a platform. Awesome. Hell yes.

That's what we mean. Check in with the Palm Springs crew. I love what Gigi's trying to do. I think this is fucking hilarious. And she knows what she's doing too. Hey, Courtney, get out here, girl. We got to hang out with her back at home, don't you, Reza? Come on.

And he's like, ah, ha ha. Well, she's still here. Okay. My two favorite ladies. What's up, everybody? I love that Gigi's trying to drag it out. I think that's fucking hysterical because she knows. She goes the confessional.

It's like, what do you think Reza Jacks wants? She's like, we'll see. Yeah. Absolutely. And Reza echoes that. Because in his conventional, he's like, look, let's just, we'll break this down real quick. Courtney's a grown girl. She knows what this is.

He says she's strong. She'll be okay. Do I expect to see her again? Like, we had a lot of fun last night. Do I want to see her again? I don't, do I expect? No, no. You know, it is what it is.

She'll be fine. She's strong. She'll figure this whole thing out. We're good. Everything's fine. Yeah, no, I'm good. I'm fine. The way that he does it, the way that he just kind of spins it into.

whatever. We know what it is. You don't really have to explain it, but the way he explains it is fucking hilarious. Yeah, I love Reza-Jax. I think he's an absolute star. And this is where we get the line from Tannen, where apparently this has been addressed in the past, how she treats her and her being Sky. And that's where it's like, when we get in a fight, I always have to go get her. And she never meets me halfway. And Sky agreed. That's huge. That means that somewhere in there she can understand what's going on. There are people, and I'm not even kidding when I say this, there are people with that kind of delusion that cannot ever get to that point.

So that for me was a small silver lining that, okay, maybe we'll be able to remedy this whole situation because she's willing to give in at least a little bit. But the minute I think that, we go back over to Sky and bombs and what they're talking about. And now she's going in on him and pretty much, chalk it all up to fuck all of you. I want nothing to do with any of you. You are beneath me. And you are a spineless coward of a husband. Tud. Tuh. She's like friendship over.

Done. And it's funny too because you had that reaction to Tannen saying that. It's like, okay. So you've had this discussion before. And typically, you know, I didn't view their friendship as they ever got in any fights. I figured it was just, you know, we kind of like, the same things. We like to hang out with each other. We like to travel with each other. There's never really any problems because there are adult friendships like that where it's like, yeah, you know, we don't really talk about deep things like emotions or we're not talking about our marriages or anything. We're just having fun together. Completely fine. I didn't expect them to ever have been in a fight before. And when Tannen's talking about this about how, you know, we've been in a

fight before. We've been in a couple of fights before. And the last time that we were in a fight, we had a discussion about how we're going to resolve this. And I pointed it out. When she points it out to Sky and Sky agrees. I did not have the reaction of, oh, so maybe there is something going on here. Maybe she can figure it out and she can understand. I had the reaction of, oh, no, she's just admitting that she has that problem, but she's not going to fix anything. This is always going to be on Tannen to fix this.

Yeah, clearly. I had a little sliver of hope in there, but yeah, it was very quickly gone. But let's keep trucking. Let's go house hunting with Gigi. the minute that we walk into this place, the second the door opens, I'm like, what are we doing here?

You can't afford this. I know this to be true. You're in California. This place is gorgeous. It has one of those cliff pools outside. The walk-in closet's bigger than my bedroom. You can't afford this. Why are we doing this,

Gigi? Why do you do this to yourself? You've set their standards too high. This whole, the whole house hood for her is just stepping stones to get to the real thing, which is, I need to fix things with Dennis. That's all this has ever been. Yeah.

This was an immediate, this episode really just solidified it. That's what we've been doing this whole time. We've been talking about her finances. We've been talking about where she wants to live. She keeps showing us these fucking extravagant houses. She has conversations with Reza about how she wants this really expensive house. And he's saying you can't afford it. It's all an ends to a mean just to get to this point, which is a means to an end.

I do that every time just to get to this point where we can have a, just with Dennis about starting the company back up because he's got a whole warehouse full of sex toys. I didn't see that coming. That was the most jarring thing of this episode. That's what we were getting to. $14,000 a month to rent this house, $2.5 million straight up if you want to buy it. She's like, yeah, that's a little out of my price range. I need to have a discussion with Dennis. All right. Thank you. We're good. We can finally move forward with what we actually want to talk about and what we actually want to see out of Gigi and what she wants us to see, which is repairing that business. this relationship with Dennis. By the way, if you just showed me a picture of Dennis and said, what kind of warehouse

this guy own? I would probably say a sex toy warehouse. Like that tracks very much for me. He's an only fan's manager. That, yes, that's the vibes he gives. He's a glorified pimp. Yeah, fair. Anyway.

We haven't seen Moe on this show yet. So bring him in because he's. making the right he's been on every bravo show in the past six months so mo pops up because mj works for the agency i don't i must have missed this i'm sure they said it before i i knew it's funny too because i remembered seeing something about that before this show and like when they were doing the breakdown of what's been going on with the cast since shah's ended and it was mj is now working for the agency and it was in one ear out the other but it was still stored somewhere in my brain this actually makes sense. For all the times that we've seen Mo on shows, we typically see him in

Aspen doing what, God knows what with Potomac. We've seen him on Salt Lake City. Yeah, he's doing Kimosabi stuff. So this one actually makes the most sense. And this was probably the most like, okay, I get why Mo's here that I've had pretty much the whole time. Yeah, it's your boss. He owns the agency and you're working for him and you guys have connections. And this makes a lot of sense. And you're actually having a conversation about work. You're not having a conversation about how Mo is going to show up at a party that you're going to throw later, which is what we've been seeing. This would actually make sense.

I know a lot of people online, which I've seen, you know, obviously just rumor mills and things on Twitter about like what Mo has been doing. This one makes sense. People are pissed off about seeing Mo again. This one's okay. I'm all right by this one. Why?

I've never once seen me like, why is she doing here? Why are people pissed about it? Yeah. That's such like, who cares? The Potomac one, I think, got under people's skin. The Potomac. Okay, that one I get. Yeah.

now Potomac what I understand that was random as shit but yeah yeah I don't know they got other things to worry about yeah Mo popping up no but let's get back to our favorite couple Greg and Tannen they're headed out to a little dinner date they're getting some sush

apparently this fixed everything they are in a wonderful place it's like our communication is significantly better Tannan's like I fucking know I see the improvement babe I've been watching you you've improved so much for me I've improved I've improved for you too, haven't I? Hell yeah.

High fives, everybody. Give me a kiss. No, too soon. All right, that's fine. I'm going to sleep in the bed tonight. No, okay, cool. At least we're talking. It's legitimately all this scene was.

It was just more of like, oh, we took this back. This didn't just stay in Palm Springs. We're going to continue to build on this. Good for you guys. Look at you guys figuring out marriage like 10 years into it. Hey, better late than never. Yeah, whatever works. They lay the groundwork for we're going to get a girls night and a boys night later.

So they're talking about that. the big takeaway in the Tannenns, Sky debacle is I haven't talked to Sky and she hasn't reached out to me, which tells me she's not going to take any accountability. Now, what I would like to see from Tannen, I want her to hold fast in this. I want her to stay strong and force Sky to take the first step. I don't think that's going to happen. And as we know, Resa Jack sets up a little ambush meeting, but I don't want her to budge. I think that she is at a point now where it's Like, all right, you've called out the behavior. It's repeat behavior.

You've watched it happen again. She threw you under the bus when you weren't even really involved in that conversation until Sky decided to throw you out. Stand strong. Stand your ground. Don't give in. I can support that. I can definitely support that.

And leading into these nights, I figure in the grand scheme of episodes, the way that these things are actually structured, we're going to have a full 20 minutes of girls night, guys night, right? no this these two scenes that like added up to two minutes what happens where where do we go wrong with this because i thought we were going to spend the whole time at girls night talking about this the whole time at guys night talking about this we ended up focusing more on the guys night and it was bombsy and gregg talking but i'm like all right cool this is the structure of the episode we're just going to have this something's going to spill over maybe a little come together at the end not even

remotely i was so surprised by this yeah no and like girls night and boys that's not even till later in the episode but to your point nothing really happens it's more of the same momsy gives his stance of the evening yeah as he's disappointed in the guys but like the funniest part is they're like well you didn't say shit he's like i know i'm disappointed in myself too like okay like the whole scene is just very funny i love watching this group talk about shit because it's never to the point where they're going to rip each other's heads off. They can say things like, hey, you were wrong here. And remarkably, you'll get some of them going, yeah, you know what, you were right. But you were wrong here. Yeah, you know, I wish I

handled that differently too. What the fuck? This is so healthy. I also love Tadden talking about like the guest list. And she's like, we'll invite Adam, I think, to Girls Night. We'll figure out that. And as we find out later, like Reza wishes that he went to Girls Night because the spread was definitely much better. So I love the idea of Adam and Res is just kind of of flipping like every time they do a girls and boys night side by side you'll just get them flipping each you have to go to boys night this time you have to go to boys night because we have to do it for filming you're not going to get good food though i'm just telling you right now depending on who's house if you're at ameer's house i imagine a mirror probably puts together a bit of a spread

we know gregg can't cook because we talk about it every single time and we see tannis mom come in greg cannot cook unless tan he would cater gregg would cater gregg would cater gregg Mike Cater. Yeah. Yeah, we also disprove that because we thought he was broke his shit in the beginning of the season and apparently he's got his own money. That's what he said. I know. That's going off of what he's talking about. Then he pulls up in a pink Porsche

that I still think Tannen Tate for it. Yeah. It was through the LLC created by for the serums. Oh yeah. Here we go. That was the whole point of that. Yeah. You start to put things under a trust. That's when you know you're really rich. Now let's sit down with RJ and Sky. This is the first sit down.

And again, Reza-Jack is trying to smooth things over in the group. So let's sit down and have a quick chit-chat. Let me remind everybody, Sky's stance currently is that she's not snobby or pretentious. Okay, so we just need to get through one scene without her doing something snobby and pretentious. And maybe we can give her a little room to try to convince us. Sound good? Are you on the same page here?

Okay, great. I can't eat steak here. Okay. Well, you're off the list again. What the fuck? You can't even get through ordering food without saying something pretentious. It's the same thing later, which is so funny. Which is like immediately, wow, now we're talking.

You actually took me to a nice restaurant, which I have such a funny issue with that. Where again, in the grand scheme of filming, you just had to sit down with RJ and you did it again. And you're like, maybe he's trying to make it better by bringing me to a better restaurant. So we can have this whole conversation again. What did you think was going to happen, Sky? How did you visualize this going? But yeah, this first scene between the two of them was very funny because you can see RJ's just trying to make amends. Like, all right, let me sit down with you because you probably feel a little isolated.

Nobody's really reaching out to you. I know Gigi reached out. I know I reached out. I don't know if Tannen has reached out, but let me try to get that off like immediately. Have you talked to Tannen? No, I haven't talked to Tannen at all. Friendships over. Never going to be my best friend again.

Never ever going to be my best friend again. I don't trust her. Why would I trust her after that little charade that she just pulled down in Palm Springs? Crazy. But I know what RJ's doing. And this first one, I feel like truly was RJ realizing like, all right, let me look around the group and try to figure this out. I know Tannen and Greg have their feelings about it. Reza, the other Reza is not going to be the one to sit down with Sky and try to talk her through because he had that big blow up at the end of the night.

I was the first one to text her. I feel like maybe I'm a good middleman. Let's at least try to feel what Sky feels. Maybe she's had enough time to think about this. Maybe there's a way in here. Let's try to figure out a way to get her back into the group. Maybe I can be that middleman that has those two sit down and they both willingly sit down to discuss these things. I don't even have to be there.

I just want to see, put out some feelers. Just try to get the temperature of everything. No, not even remotely did this conversation go healthy. He thought it was going to go. No, it was brutal. Because again, you get a little glimpse into the psyche of sky and it's baffling. She's like, well, maybe if she's, She had reached out.

Why would she reach out to you? In what world you brought her into the argument? Tannen wasn't saying shit. Greg was. You've had a problem with Greg. That's one thing. Your best friend didn't say anything until you weirdly brought up the friend discount. And you asked her questions.

Well, I've ever made you pay for my jewelry? Yes. Yeah. Right, right. But full price? No. What are we doing? What happened?

It's so funny. Well, that's why I love that we got that little tidbit that Sky and Tannen have discussed what they do when they have a little bit of a falling out and how Sky did admit, yeah, I don't reach out. It makes it so much funnier because the beginning of that conversation is, well, no, of course I didn't reach out to her. She should reach out to me. Why? Like, why? She explains this way. I know, but like why do you?

Yeah, she explains. Did you understand it? If I feel like I'm right and the problem started with you, I'm not going to initiate. But the problem didn't start with Tannen. I know. That's the whole problem. It doesn't make any sense. It's just I think I just do this with some people on reality TV.

If I realize that I'm never going to understand your way of thinking, I don't try. I just don't try. You have a really hard time with this. Yeah, I can't do that. Because you always want to understand people. I need to know it. But then that's when I start laughing. So when she's talking this entire time to RJ, I'm just cracking up at her line of thinking.

I'm still laughing at it. Like, this is a level of delusion that I can laugh at, but I'm still going to try to figure it out. Like, why do you pick this way? Like, I don't get how you can look at this scenario and still stand 10 toes down like you are. And not even that, but to take it a step further, mind you, these two have discussed this topic of fighting and meeting each other halfway. Sky, in that conversation, agreed. Then she goes and says, Tannen is the reason. for every issue that we've ever had. It's always been her fault. That's why I've never reached out to her.

Statistically speaking, even without the evidence that we currently have, statistically speaking, that seems very far-fetched. Given the evidence that we have of watching this last one, you are definitely in the wrong, probably more times so than Tannen. I haven't seen a lot of evidence from Tannen to think that she acts that way. I've seen a lot of evidence from you. So the everything about Sky while not making sense also makes so much sense given what everyone is said about it. It's like, okay, well, now I understand why they think she's so snobby, why she's so pretentious. I don't know why she can't hear herself talking and be like, oh, maybe that's what they're

referring to. But it's an enigma. She's an enigma. This is, it's also. The person that's closest to her in Bombsy has no leg to stand on because he's, didn't defend her. And I feel like if he had at least interjected and defended her a little bit, he might be able to come from an angle of, all right, but like, do you get why maybe Tannen's a little upset with you? RJ tried to do that. Why? Yeah, I know, but RJ didn't really defend her either.

I feel like it would have made more, at least it would have given us a full scope of things if her husband was coming from that angle. Like, all right, let's try to understand why people are a little upset with you. But because Bomsy didn't do any of those things, he's also catching the heat. So he can't step in and say any of these things. No one's willing to say, and RJ says it, but it just falls on deaf ears because she just already thinks that she's right and she's not going to hear anything else. The war is over and both sides lost. Kingdoms were reduced to cinders and armies scattered like bones in the dust. Now the survivors claw to what's left of a broken world praying the darkness chooses someone else tonight.

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So you can see how like that could be taken. No. Oh. Oh. Okay. Okay. You don't see how wiping this serum that she's trying to sell people, wiping that on an animal, might, might be taken as disrespectful to the product and to her. Oh, you don't.

Oh, fuck Tannen. Okay. Yeah. Anyway, what he does do a good job of is not getting stuck in moments like that. He just, he's like, all right, I'm not going to solve this one. Let's move on. Let me make a funny food joke. She's going to say something pretentious.

I'll just laugh at that. And she does. But, yeah, man, it gives me a headache trying to understand. I will say that. Like, it's just wild. She's funny as hell. She is. She is.

But let's check in with our actual favorite couple, arguably the healthiest couple on all of of Bravo, on all of reality TV, perhaps. Natasha and Amir. And they're talking about the trip, obviously, but most importantly, they're talking about the medium. This was such a grown-up conversation where Amir was very cognizant of how Natasha could potentially be feeling about this. He's asking her the right questions. Natasha, who's in a very difficult spot, says all of the right things. Now, of course, I don't feel that certain way about it.

I get sad. This broke my heart. She's like, I get sad for you. I'm like, oh, you guys. Like, you love each other so much. It's so nice. But they're able to discuss this, this difficult topic and get everything out because we watched the conversation that Amir had and all the questions that he had for her.

We also watched Natasha talk in the kitchen and all the questions that she had. We watched them take all of those questions and say them to each other in a healthy conversation. guys, this is like, this is the Great White Buffalo. You don't see this. This is a myth. It's a unicorn. No, this is like you just roll the tape and you play this for like everybody in marriage counseling.

Like, hey, how about this crazy situation? They can get through it and they can communicate their feelings to each other. Did they need the BDM? I mean, we did talk about this last week. Like, would they have had this discussion? I still think they would have. I think they would have gotten there at some point. Yeah.

Yeah, but obviously this just kind of accelerates things. And they get to the point of. Well, I know that you go and, you know, you visit her when it's her birthday. You guys have the same birthday or like similar month for the same birthday. So, you know, I just feel like I don't really know. Like, are you still in love with her? Like, are you still in love with me? And his response is, I'm in love with you.

That's really all that matters here. But it's not like she did anything wrong. And Natasha comes to that realization. Like, she didn't do anything wrong. I can't be mad at you for still loving her. This is just how these things played out. So, you know, I'm not mad at you for going to visit. And he even says, would you like to come visit her with me sometime?

Like, I would love that if you could come visit her with me. Yes, I will. I will come with you. How easy was that? And obviously it was a very hard conversation, I'm sure to have. But to us, the viewer watching, and we're like, how the fuck? Yeah, that was easy as hell. How did you do that?

These things are very difficult. We just watch Sky try to just do mental gymnastics about how much she loves her dogs and how that should portray as her loving the serum. I love your serum. I love my dogs. Here we go. This is what we're doing here. No, you don't understand that.

These two are going through something much, much more difficult and they're able to come to some sort of common ground, which I would even say was higher. It's more of a higher achieved moment than we've seen on any reality TV shows. I would agree. When she says, I will come with you. I was like,

this is beautiful. This is a beautiful moment. And I agree. Play this in marriage counseling for every time a Bravo, Leb wants to bring their fucking, quote unquote, life coach on TV or these awful therapists that just want their 15 minutes of fame

that do nothing but enable. Just play this. Yeah, that's all we do. Watch this on repeat until you guys figure it out. Or you figure out that you're not going to be able to do this with the person you're with and leave them. But I don't want to see another fucking Bravo therapist on

any shows. No. Just Natasha and a mirror. And this is when we get to girls and boys night. We've already discussed that whole thing. RJ's house apparently has a scent to it that I won't repeat, but that was a very funny moment. But goosey.

What did you say? Bugissy. No, but docy. I'm pretty sure it's baguzy. I'm pretty sure it's baguzy. He said, but I had the captions on it said, but this see. Yeah. No, I don't know what you had this conversation.

Yeah, the word is bugsy though. Oh. Okay. Yeah. I don't care. I don't like the way that where it sounds if we're being totally honest i'm going to say that word a lot more often now that's right now that's now the one thing i do want to just quickly touch on with the the girls talking about everything that was going on because obviously we know boys night was all about the situation girls night's about sky and her relationship with everyone moving forward now

sky said to natasha we had a secret meeting i don't know why we didn't see this meeting i was actually kind of bummed i don't understand why we didn't get to watch that but sky's very hot. is too nice, maybe. I think that's my takeaway. Natasha is just too nice and she just let Sky talk and it was just like we already had this discussion with Bomsy. We have this discussion with RJ.

It's the exact same copy and paste now with Natasha. Natasha just let her talk and then maybe had like one interjection. And that's what we got in the clip. All right. We'll just, we'll just copy and paste this bad boy in there. Okay. All right. See, we can even defend stuff like that on this show.

That doesn't happen. This show, what a show. What a great. show. But they're talking about this situation. Sky said to Natasha, I'm actually very open to hearing her side. Oh, good. And then as only Sky can do so well, hammer it back into the ground. But trusting her, no, never, not once. Never as long as I live. I wouldn't trust her with my dogs because I love them so much. I know. Yeah. As soon as I said that, I was like, that doesn't work. Well, yeah, of course she wouldn't. But Tannen's not surprised. She's like, yeah, more of the same. No

accountability. I'm glad we're on the same page. And that's when the Gigi comments come up. You know, this woman's not safe and she's dangerous. And this is not her first time. She has a history. She attacked someone two months ago in a parking lot. She's playing dirty pool, man. She's playing dirty pool. And here's the thing. You don't want to do that with Gigi. No, one and two, you are actively alienating yourself from everybody at once. That's not easy to do. Natasha is trying, right? Bomsy is going to be the same no matter what the fuck's going on. I'm convinced of that.

RJ's only going to try to smooth things over so many times. I think he'll always be neutral. He'll be Switzerland. But you are currently out on an island and you are pushing yourself further and further and further away from everyone. Yeah. I don't know. It's not a good look. it's not honestly when she made that comment about gji my mind immediately went to in the dark night

when the one guy the accountant is trying to call out christian bale's batman he's like what do you make it for him now i'm gonna blackmail like you want to blackmail the guy who you think is batman that's pretty much what sky's doing right now like you really want to bring this up to somebody like gji like you've got it made right now you can probably deal with tannin for the rest of this season for the rest of your life if you really want to and do it how well you're however you want to do it. Once you bring somebody like Gigi in who's chaotic, you don't know what's going to happen.

You just called her out for potentially assaulting somebody in a parking lot two months ago. Yes, we do understand and we've had a lot of conversations with Gigi about how she's changing and doing this and that and whatever. I don't think that it's going to come to an assault. But do you really want to provoke that person? The person who texted

you and apologized in only a way that Gigi could with seven paragraphs. Do you really want to bring that into the fight? It doesn't seem like a good call. No, and it doesn't make a lot of sense. And that's, again, if we want to talk about that she's holier than now and better than everybody, well, you're not taking anyone's apologies. Again, you're in the wrong right now.

I agree. Like some people went a little too far, went a little off the rails, Reza, Gigi. Sure, fine, Tannen doesn't fit that description at all. But they have apologized. I think, and this is the vibe that I'm getting, I think she's been done with this group for a while. I think she fucking hates the Valley. She hates. I don't even think she hates them individually. I think

she hates what this group embodies. Yeah. Because they are the Valley crew and she's lumped into that crew. And I think that she's took to I can't be part of this or I'm going to be stuck here forever. I think that's what we're seeing. But to not even have one moment of

you know what? Maybe maybe I shouldn't have brought that up. Maybe I shouldn't have brought up to nothing. Zero zip, zilch. Well, if she doesn't realize it already, she'll realize it soon. Well, why don't we go to the sex warehouse real quick? And again, this is simply Dennis and Gigi smoothing things over. I love that she goes with Amir, also a quote unquote numbers guy.

Amir's looking at the deals that Dennis is drawing up. I would have him double and triple check. That guy seems slimy. But I thought it was hilarious that we go in there. and Dennis, who again wants to be the quote unquote master hustler, according to the nameplate on his desk and all about business, nist that, the other.

All he can talk about when she gets there is how he got his feelings hurt because he got ambushed. I'm like, are you fucking kidding right now, dude? Like she made it very clear. This is, like you really have to get this out there that bad. He does. He really does.

Like he wrote up these, all of these business deals. He probably had somebody come in to help him out with the percentages. is, yeah, chat GPT, to help him out with the percentages and what potential deals she can have and he's got a different deal for owning it versus doing some sort of marketing dealership, a licensing agreement. So between those two things, yes, but I'm going to hold them over here until you apologize. That's what I need the most because I went all the way down to Palm Springs.

You invite. That is, I think, the funniest little caveat about this whole thing. Everybody was up in arms like, holy shit, Dennis, you ambushed us. Gigi invited him. Like, did he really ambush? Like, yes, there were things that he did while he was there. That was the thing. Yeah.

But if you're going to say he ambushed you by showing up unannounced, Gigi actually did that. It's kind of her fault, not really Dennis's. I don't really care. I'm not going to make any excuses for him. But this was very clear to me. It's like, I've got all of these deals over here. You see this?

This is money that you can use for a house. All I need from you, just admit that you were wrong. Just say sorry. Just say sorry. All you got to do. You threw me into that bear trap. I had to deal. with a lot of those people, but it's all because of you.

If you just say, I'm sorry, Dennis, I'm going to start siphon in these bad boys out. Look at this money. Look at this money. We can get back in. But because the mirror's there, it doesn't last that long. And I do genuinely believe that having a mirror there was the best call. I don't know if it was Gigi's idea or if a mirror, I could see a mirror stepping in and being like, yeah, if you really want this to work, bring me along, I'll help out. I'll look at this.

I'll just do this. All of this shit pro bono. I don't need any money. I just want to make sure that you guys don't get into a huge fight in a sex warehouse. because there are a lot of, yes, they are sex toys, but they're probably weapons too. And I don't really trust any of this. So let's just figure this whole thing out.

And I'm happy that he was there because it didn't last that long. Gigi held her cool. It seems like she's okay. She finally got it through her head. I just need to have a good relationship with them. I just need the money and it's not worth it for me to actually pick and choose these things. Yeah. Yeah.

And hopefully we get to that point. I mean, they seem to at the end of this conversation. But yeah, I thought that was pathetic that he was like, say sorry first. It's like, fuck off. Just give her the contract. Yeah, and then the tour of butt plugs and whether or not we can put this in our butts. Oh, the butt stuff box. Very funny. That was very fun. Yeah, the butt stuff box was very funny. That cracked me up. Does this go in butts? That probably. She could. Anything can go. Why not? You put anything in? If you're brave enough.

Just making a mirror as uncomfortable as possible. You would take that box? You want a little to go box? You want a little to go box? I could throw a couple of things in here. You do anything? I'm good. I'm actually all. good on that. I don't need any of those things. What about your way? You want to have another kid? Come on. I want to have another kid. Nothing says having another kid like intimately Gigi. Come on. Let's just do. Nope, we're good. I'm done with kids. I want to get the fuck out of here. Why are you sweating? Anyway, let's finish this bad boy off because we get one more RJ attempt to smooth things over. They invite Sky to another lunch. The second that they sit down, as I've said, we're going to be on the lookout for pretentious things. And as you already brought up, I'm glad you picked a nice restaurant.

Damn it. Just one scene. Try your best. That's why it's so funny to me too, because what did you think this was? You thought, and immediately we get the announcement from the waiter. We're waiting for one more? We wait for one more? I hope not.

I hope we're not waiting for one more. Well, we are waiting for one more. Going into this sky, did you really think that RJ just invited you back out to make amends for picking a shitty restaurant the first time. Like, oh, you invited me to a good restaurant. Now we can have this discussion. We now, and again, when you throw in the Natasha thing, what did you think was going to happen?

You were going to have the exact same conversation now four times, twice with the same person. We were going to film that? That doesn't make any sense to me. Of course, this is an ambush. Use your brain. Yeah, you would think. But the only thing she says upon 10 and entering the restaurant is, why the fuck is she here? I'm like, okay, off to a hot start, everybody.

and we get scenes from next week and the only line that we get from that lunch is you think you're better than everyone. I am. Great. It's going to go well. This conversation is going to go really well. It's going to go fine.

Everything's fine. What we do need to recognize is like you said, though, this level of delusional and crazy on a show like this, we need that person. It's like the Valley Valley, as you brought up in the beginning. We'll bring it back. We love bringing it full circle.

Janet, necessary evil on the valley. Is she insufferable to watch sometimes? Absolutely. Did we need her on the valley? Absolutely. So we need this person. We sure do. Let's get to some questions.

First up here from makeup, LAB. Okay, love Reza-Jax. Do we think he may just be the voice of reason for this group? I think he's trying to be, and I think he actually had to be. I think he's probably the most Switzerland out of anybody in this group that will actually continue to be Switzerland. I would like to see what actually does set him off because at some point somebody's going to say something or do something. That's going to piss him off.

I do want to see him take aside at some point. But right now that is exactly what we need. From H.M. Faulkner, is Maricio the new Tom Schwartz just popping up at every show? I mean, yeah, that's insulting to Maricio. But, yeah, very different lives, though. to live. billionaire real estate agent, bug owner.

Here's a long one from out of office, Mama. There's something so off about Tannen and Greg. How did they go from such major issues to all of a sudden being in a much better place three episodes later? It's almost like they're following some sort of script of how it should play out. Yes. I mean, to be honest,

I think the script is now. out the window. I don't think it's like a, it's a rom-com. Like, they set this whole thing up. They decided like, hey, it's our time. We'll just do this. It gives us a good built-in storyline for this new TV show that we're in. We've seen this happen before on reality TV. It always works. Look at Tommy and MJ, which we're not seeing any of Tommy recently. I wonder that's just them phasing him out slowly. But with Tannett and Greg, it's like they fell back in love. This show caused them to fall back in love. And who doesn't love a good love story? Yeah, quit asking questions.

Yeah. Let it just let it happen. Knock it off. Oh, see, Joanne Beach. Shooter posted a picture of Sky as the question. She needs to go. Ugh, no, God, absolutely not. No, we can't have her leave.

What do you mean? No, she stays. She has to stay. From Petravan, not knowing Gigi before this is really hard to watch her flip with her emotions. She's over 40. We don't age shame here, Petra. Nope. But also she's on a reality TV. If you're over 40 on a reality TV show

it makes you 30. So she's fine. This is great. No, and again, like, you know, we need this kind of stuff on reality TV. So I'm not mad at it. And another thing, she is trying.

You know, she's had a couple of better reactions than she would have had in the past for sure. That's all we have. Do one more? Last one here from Amanda Rocky's mom. This show is so good it has me watching old shaws. I think that's the intent, honestly. And you'll be able to see pretty quickly, obviously,

because I actually have also been watching a lot of early shaws. At some point, you're going to realize, like, oh, they are getting a little off the rails. They did need a break. And that's what happens. But if we can just, maybe they're a little older, a little wiser, we can last a little bit longer on a show like this. You can kind of pick and choose who you want to be on the cast.

You know, if people like Sky and Bombsy go by the wayside because they move out of the valley and she finally gets her way, we can plug and play somebody else. Oh, you mean when they get divorced? Yeah, that too, you know. Yeah, I don't, I don't know. I don't see Bobsey. They get divorced and they're off the show. Tannen and Greg get divorced and it's just, uh, it's just, uh, which we call it,

Michelle and, uh, what do I. Oh, Jesse. Right. Jesse. Yeah. Wow. That's your, that's your like your man crush. She can't even remember his name.

Yeah, it's been a while since Valley's been on. It's been a lot. I know. We got a lot coming up. Southern hospitality drops in March. You get the straighter for that. You know, yeah, we're not going to watch until the day before, probably still. But hey, we got it.

Correct. In the inbox. I'm not going to watch it until the day after it airs, actually. I might pop that one on early. I'm curious what this season is going to be like. But I am loving this current season of Shaw's. Sorry, the Valley. Persian style. This show absolutely

rocks. If you're still listening to this right now and you're not watching this show, I do not understand what you're doing. It is phenomenal. I'm not going to say it's not going to jinx it, but if we get to the end of this season, it's still as good as it is, I'll have a lot to say. How about that? How about that?

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