Sex, Love, and What Else Matters - Kristen’s Countdown: Feuds, Friendships, & Big Feels

Episode Date: May 11, 2025

Episode 157. This week, things get real as Kristen nears the home stretch of her pregnancy! She and Luke dive into a whirlwind of updates—from prepping the hospital bag to unexpected trips to the hospital. Luke talks about his first-ever Watch What Happens Live appearance, and Kristen opens up about where things really stand with her and Lala after their feud. They also dish on future baby plans and their shared excitement over Bravo’s spicy new spin-off: The Valley… Persian-style?! Don’t miss the laughs, the drama, and all the baby bump buzz in this jam-packed episode! Sponsors: DraftKings Casino: Sign up with code DOUTE and start playing to get up to $1,000 in casino credits back with a minimum five-dollar net loss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Kristin literally said she's going to handcuff me to this house today. I did. I did. And what did you say? I said, I will drag this house with me. We're going to get into what that was about. Okay, we will. I was going to start this off by giving you a compliment and saying thank you for going what that was about, okay, we will.

I was going to start this off by giving you a compliment and saying thank you for going and getting Froyo today. Well, like you went with a friend, you guys walked to get Froyo, and you brought me back vanilla Froyo with cheesecake bites. And cheesecake Froyo on the other side. Oh, it's half and half. I don't know if you like it. There's more vanilla. I want you to try the cheesecake because you love cheesecake so much. You should try the vanilla. Right now. Right now I do. I'm almost like trying to overdo it so I just fucking hate it.

Like I don't like cake, okay, you guys? Like I hate cake. I don't like cupcakes. I don't care how moist it is. I just, there's something about cake and the consistency that has always really irritated me. And so I'm just like, I'll have ice cream, but I'll eat the frosting, right? But cheesecake, carrot cake,

I don't know why it's just different, especially cheesecake, the consistency. Anyway, this is exciting, Kristen. Super exciting, but really cheesecake. But pregnant me just fucking loves cheesecake. Jasmine brought me a piece of cheesecake the other day, and I was like, oh my God, thank you. And for whatever reason, I just opened it right there and then like middle of the day. And I was like, oh my god, thank you.

It's like, bitch just ate cheesecake. What is wrong with me? Anyway, I was just going to compliment you for that and that you gave me like a 30 minute foot massage last night that was orgasmic. Your face literally looked the same as it does after your orgasm. Fucking porn face. I don't know why I'm cussing so much right now.

Anyway, that's all. Being such a good baby daddy. That's me. It's so great, for reals. But I want to, okay, wait, I want to talk about some other stuff and then we'll go back to my baby daddy. Don't say the Big Apple. Okay, well, first time in the Big Apple. You know how many people said that to me when I said it was my first time there?

Did you hail a cab? No, I did not. I have a driver when we go for work, that's true. When you went for press, I know you were there for like a very short period of time, but just how was it? What did you think? I was a little bit sick and it was like I blinked my eyes and I was on my way home and feeling sicker and then getting ready for the reunion. Did you like that you got to go with Britney? Meaning like you were going to go, do you watch Happens Live?

You were going to travel, you could have gone, and you probably will, you will at some point, you'll be on the show with like just another, like a celebrity, an actual celebrity who's not a cast member. You're saying Brittany's not a celebrity. Brittany is the celebrity, okay? You're gonna be going on with a celebrity who you don't know, who's not on Bravo perhaps.

Did you enjoy the fact that you got to travel with Brittany and like be in the hotel with her? Like, did that make you kind of like feel better for your first time or you just either way, it didn't matter? I don't know what the other experience would have been like, but I mean, considering the cold I had, we didn't do press together, you know, it was like, I don't know, it was cool.

You got to go to dinner with her. Yeah, we go to dinner the first night, and other than that, like, we hung out in the room. I hung out with her and her publicist. I hope she listens to this and she's going to be like, wow, he was thrilled that he got to go to New York with me. No, it was good. No, it was honestly, I feel for the way I was feeling, it was the best case scenario. We didn't go out and party.

We didn't do anything like otherwise. Yeah, you just felt like shit, so what can you compare it to? She wanted to rest too. So it was like, I went to bed before she did both nights. Yeah, that's okay. To be fair, because you guys went, what, like Monday through Wednesday, then Brittany went to Boston and came home Thursday, you came home Wednesday, and then we filmed the reunion on Friday. That's a lot. It was a lot, and I was sick.

Yeah. We're not allowed to talk about the Valley It was a lot. It was a lot and I was sick. So. Yeah. We're not allowed to talk about the Valley or the reunion or anything. You know what I am going to say though? That we're pushing the limits already. Yes. Yeah. But I loved my look for the reunion.

I can't wait to share that. It was interesting to do it so early. Obviously, Andy has told everyone that we had to do it early, because Nia and I are going to give birth, and that's just that. So that was, I think, something that was really different for everyone. No, it was the first reunion for all the three people there. So it wasn't different from anything for most of us. That's our first experience.

And I was thinking more like me, Andy, Brittany. for most of us. three years from now, it still wouldn't matter. Oh, goodness gracious. That's all the stuff where I talk about the valley. That's pretty much it with the valley. I'll address the elephant on the radio waves here. And I feel like people are waiting to hear what I have to say about Lala and I. So I actually have not listened to her podcast,

but sorry, Lala, but I did, you know, I've read it that we've reconciled, I've done some press and people are asking me like, Oh my God, what happened? You guys are following each other again. So yeah. And Lala talked about it, you know, and she did say like she blamed herself for the falling out that did happen like a year and a half ago, which I really appreciate, which she did say to me in a text message, so that wasn't new to me. But it's also true. We haven't spoken at all, and it did really come down to that our mutual friend, Meredith, was having her baby shower, and Lala was hosting baby shower at her home.

And Meredith and Lala have been going through their pregnancies, or not their pregnancies together, but like going through Meredith's pregnancy together because they both are solo parents. Like they both had a donor. And Meredith really wanted me to come and her mom. And they were a little emotional about it. And Meredith and I have gone through our whole pregnancy together. We're only two weeks apart.

So it was really difficult for me because not only am I stubborn and I have pride and maybe partially ego, but I was still like, I don't know if angry is the word, but I was just kind of like fed up with Lala. Like I'm just like fucking over it is how I felt. At this point in my life, it's how I've just been feeling. So Lala had reached out a couple of times, just wishing me well in the pregnancy.

She then offered like some resources that she had that she thought might be helpful to me. And I kind of ignored her for a couple of months and then started giving a little here and there. And finally the day before the shower, I was like, shit, I don't know what to do. So I reached out to Lala and I just said, it does feel really inappropriate,

essentially for me to welcome myself into your home, even though I had heard she said, you know, I could go. And she wrote back and just said, like, you're more than welcome, of course. So I was like, you know what? This isn't about me, this is about Meredith. It is the only first baby shower Meredith will ever have.

We are so close. I can be not prideful and Lala is not being prideful I guess is the way I'm assuming it. So I go for like an hour. We don't really talk about, we talked a lot about like mom stuff. We didn't talk anything about like our beef in the past or if we were past everything. It was just very like kind of like, this feels very peaceful. And that's what I really wanted is like, I'm so tired of like letting someone take up that much space in my brain if I'm angry about it.

Like I was so angry at one point that like people would even just bring Lala up or maybe she was filming for the Valley Show. And I would get so pissed off and it was just like, why am I allowing like I think there's so many more important things, especially being pregnant, I think has a lot to do with that. So I just decided I wanted peace. So then we started following each other and it is also really nice to have another mom,

like in our group that I can reach out to or my, when I run into her, we're like at Brittany's together, like it's not hateful and that does feel really nice. And so that being said, like there are a lot of things that she and I still need to talk about, and she knows this and we text about that recently, that I still have a lot of feelings of things that are unsettled for me.

So I am excited, dare I even say, to like work those things out. And that's one thing I know about her, is that if it's just the two of us face to face conversation, there will be nothing off limits. And it will be like, we need to hear each other out and see where it goes from there. So that's pretty much where I'm at.

All I want is peace for you. Only comment I'll make is that I don't hand out trust easily. That's where it is. Yeah. So there's work to do. But it is very nice. It's nice to start wiping the slate, you know, just to start doing that and to let go of anger and to welcome peace. And it does fucking feel really, really good. So that was my long-winded story about that. The Great Rewards Hunt is on,

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Physically present in Connecticut, Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia only. Void in Ontario. Eligibility restrictions apply. New customers only. Luke, I have a question for you. Okay, so I follow on Instagram this page that I love. It's called, I don't know why I'm laughing because you're just going to be like, where are we going with this? It's called the Anxiety Healer. It's a page that I love very much. And I saw this post today that was like,

it said childhood traumas that fuel adult anxiety. And then there was like this big list, right? Do you ever fall, I know you don't follow accounts like that, do you ever fall upon those within your algorithm where it's like tips and tricks or like therapeutic lists on how to blah, blah, blah? Or no? No, I'm not interested in, there's not things I flashback to from my childhood that are negative memories. they've been wiped. Okay, well, I always read them, and I will save them, double tap a heart, I'll send them to my siblings even. But it's from this stance of like, oh, that's why I can blame my parents for this,

that's why I'm the way I am, kind of a thing. And today when I read that list, I was like, oh my fucking God, I hope we don't traumatize our daughter. I hope our daughter isn't like an adult looking back Kind of a thing. Yeah, I know where it's coming from. I think she'll be embarrassed and funny and laugh at me simultaneously. Are you going to purposefully try to be embarrassing? Of course I'm going to embarrass her. Come on. Yeah, that's exactly who I am.

Okay. Do you think you're going to be like the intimidating dad at times? First boyfriend, absolutely. Okay. And I feel the opposite. I want to be her friend. We'll be friends, but she's also going to want my approval of someone she's dating instead of wanting to do something to spite me. That's how, maybe that's my ego. It's definitely ego talking.

We're going to have to figure out how to get good at that. We both want to be like really good parents. Just like, how do we do it? Don't overthink it. Yeah. I know how to raise a little me. Like, I really know how to raise me. I know exactly what works and what doesn't work

and what was done, you know, said or like the way I was raised or disciplined that like didn't work for me and like what would work. But I don't know how to raise a little you and she's going to be like a little bit of both of us plus like her own self, you know. Yep, we'll have to, I mean, you can't just make a plan. I'm not good at disciplining.

That's where I'm like, can't do it, can't ground her. We just have to be on a team. We have to be on a team though, as far as that goes. I'll do the dirty work. I know there's so much time to think about stuff like this, but it's, that's, this is the stuff that actually gives me anxiety now. I'm like almost past labor birthing this human being out of my

Vigine. Like I am almost past that being my anxiety. Because I feel like we're getting so close now that I'm like, look, it's got to happen. So like, people do it all the time. My friends have been giving birth the last few weeks nonstop. And I'm like, they're all fine. But now I'm jumping like 10, 15 years ahead. Like. Oh, I've told you, I'm not concerned until she's a teenager. And then my anxiety will go up with a teenage daughter. Yeah, interesting.

We'll just see what the world looks like at that point. Who knows? Okay. Another thing Luke and I have been talking about just like the last couple of days. So I've been trying like all hell to pack my hospital bag because a couple of my friends, like one went two weeks early, another friend went five weeks early.

Both babies are thriving and doing wonderfully. No one's in the NICU. But I'm like, now I'm having dreams that I'm going into labor. Every night I have at least one to like probably four or five because I can remember little pieces of them, dreams about going into labor and making it to the hospital on time. That's always what it's about.

So we need to get this damn hospital backpacked. And in talking about this, I was thinking like, I'm packing stuff for Luke too, just like sheets and pillowcases and a blanket and then he'll pack his bag. But I was like, huh, does he get to like leave? You said something about the gym. Is that how it started or I said something?

No, I wrote the gym after. I just started with the question of like, am I, no, I started off asking if there's like a route I can walk laps because if we're in there, I've got to do something physical. I can't sit in a box for three days straight if that's how long we're in there. It's like PTSD from the first apartment. Kind of. I mean, I will walk laps around that floor if I have to to get a little bit of movement.

But I said as far as getting off of like stepping off the property, I don't know what is right, what is wrong. I know that there are absent dads, or clearly you have friends that have had children without a man there with them. However, it's more about comforting you than necessarily helping you. It's not what the baby needs. It's more about comfort than anything

because you don't need assistance every minute of every day. Yeah, so this is how we started the conversation. And at first, I'm like, I feel like you could leave. Like, I'm not going to be moving or going anywhere, you know, doing laps. Yeah, I mean, I could go get food. Yeah, and then he said like, oh, do you think I could run to the gym for like an hour? And I was like, yeah, I think so.

And also, oh, like you Kyle Chan's stores right there, like you guys could probably grab lunch or something, so you can kind of just, you know, get out of the hospital and breathe. And that's where my brain was at first, and I was like, I feel like that would be fine. Like, I have help. The nurses are there to teach me. Hopefully I'll get to sleep. Whatever, whatever.

And then I just had to Google something dumb, like, should the dad stay in the hospital all the time? And Reddit pops up. It's just all Reddit. And my favorite response was someone wrote, there would be a Dateline special if my husband tried to leave me for even five minutes or something like that. And I was like, oh shit. And I start reading and it's like this slew of endless mothers and wives being like,

no, I need him there with me. Like emotionally, feeling very like stage five clinger with love, you know, like just wanting that intimacy and like that closeness of having you there after I give birth. And then also they were like, I can't get out of bed without help. I can't like use the bathroom. I can't take a shower. Like I need him to help me get dressed. Everything's really hard.

So then all of a sudden I'm like, fuck, sorry. I'm sorry that we just fantasized about like all the lunching and gymming you were going to do, but you don't get to leave my side. I mean, honestly, in my head, it was like, if it's going to be, if it's two, three days, if we're not the first 24 hours, I assume I'm going gonna be with you entirely.

Obviously, once the baby's born and the baby's healthy and you're in recovery and doing well, there'll be times where you're both napping, you showered, you're taking a nap, change the baby's diaper, she's sleeping. I feel like, do I need to sit here and play on my phone for an hour, or try and read a book or a couple hours

while they're doing that, can I like leave for a minute and come back? Or are you just going to be so tired that you want to sleep? I mean, I know we're just, we're like hypothesizing. We're imagining what this world is going to look like, you know, in a few weeks for these days at the hospital. But I don't know.

So now my point is then I kind of went like, man, I totally just shifted from like one side to the other. You know, like, yeah, you should go do your thing, babe. I'm a cool girl. I'm not a regular mom, I'm a cool mom. And then I was like, absolutely fucking not. I will handcuff you to the hospital as well. So we called my friend Paige.

This is Paige Peck, Josh Peck's wife. You guys know, she's the best. And she and I had had this conversation not that long ago because she is pregnant with her third. And she was like, oh, second baby is different than the first. Like, he doesn't have to be there with me all the time, yada yada. So we just called her right before the podcast, and I was like, what do you think about this?

Because, not because I'm trying to prove myself right, which is normally what I'm trying to do, but because I'm honestly like, I don't know. And not like, look, we don't have to make a decision about this right now either. You know, it's like we can decide in the hospital. But I just think it's like really interesting. And she was just kind of like, you know, no.

I mean, you guys might want to be together with the first baby, you know? Like you may just both be like, we want to sleep and just stay together. And she's like, but he might want to leave and you might be cool with it. So I feel like that's maybe where I'm at now. But I want you to have time with the baby too.

Like the baby has been with me. Babe, I'm not talking about leaving for any significant amount of time. Don't leave me, you bastard. I'm going to sleep there. I'm going to put in all the time, but when they're... I will Amazon Prime you. Like a mattress pad. I'm going to put in all the time, but when they're... I will Amazon Prime you. Our times. Like a mattress pad.

I'm going to make it so cozy. Babe, I'm sleeping there. There's no concern about that issue. There's not even an issue. I just was asking what your thoughts were if there was a possibility. Oh, fine, babe. If you don't want me to leave,

I'll stay there the whole time. It's fine. You're like, I won't do it. I won't. It's fine. Have you ever heard of the labor test with an ice cube? Because I would like to try that today. Is it one minute or five minutes? One minute doesn't feel like very long. Oh, it is only one minute. Practice for labor pain. One minute doesn't feel like very long.

Oh, it is only one minute. And this is for both of us, just so you're like aware. Well, it's like 95 outside, so I would love to hold ice cubes in my hands. that you are capable. What can I not handle? I know you told me. and I'm like, sorry, I'm being the honest side of it that doesn't mean I don't want to be a mom or I'm not going to be an awesome mom. It just means this was way fucking harder than I thought it was going to be. And I could just, I feel like I have a, I don't have a high tolerance for like being,

like I'm a very impatient person, right? But I feel like I have a high tolerance for pain. And emotional pain, physical pain. Like all of the pain, I feel like I do. And then pregnancy taught me that I'm a big fucking pussy and none of that is true. Or it is just really hard and for some people it's harder, right? However, now that I'm almost done, I look back and I was like, if I were to do this again, which we would like a second child if I'm capable of that, if I were to do this again, if you would've asked me a month ago, two months ago,

I would've been like, I cannot fathom the thought of being pregnant again right away. I don't know if I can ever get like truly just be a pregnant person again. Like I think I'm too miserable, made people around me miserable. Like I don't know if I can do it.

And now I'm feeling otherwise. Now I'm like, this physical pain that my body is going through is so fucking annoying. It is so irritating more than anything. It does hurt, but it's more like, cause I can't do anything about it, that I'm now forgetting about being moody in the beginning and how hard that was.

Cause now I'm like, I know what to expect. So if I know going into my first trimester, this is gonna probably be really, really difficult on my psyche, on my emotions, but it's hormones. And if I know that going into it and I can sort of like come up with ways, like if I start feeling like this, I need to, here's the five things that I can sort of like come up with ways, like if I start feeling like this, I need to, here's the five things that I can do.

Like I want to go in the bedroom and this is what I want to eat and snack on and I want to watch this kind of movie. You know what I mean? Or something like that. Like I have these things I can do. I feel like I would be not that bad at it anymore. So what did I say the most annoying things were?

There's only three, now I can't remember. Your moods. My moods, the physical pain annoying things were? There's only three. Now I can't remember. Your moods. My moods. The physical pain of third trimester. Your libido. And my lack of libido. That is something that has really irritated me as well. But I'm only now realizing how much it bothered me because I was so overpowered by the other things that I was kind of like, I don't care that I don't want to have sex.

Or like, I don't care that I don't want to be like touchy or whatever. And now I want to be, but I'm in so much pain and I'm so huge, it's like kind of annoying. So I'm really looking forward to not being pregnant so we can be intimate again, you know? But I'm like, that is something that really irritates me about pregnancy.

Why did that happen to me? But I feel like I could get ahead of it now. I think you could too. It definitely took both of us by surprise, whoever the first person was in the first trimester that I was cohabitating with. It took us both by surprise. Yeah, whoever the hell that Kristen was.

I legit said, I don't know who you are. And you said, neither do you. You were like, neither do I. Yeah, like a crazy person. And really that's when I started talking to my therapist, I literally was like, all those things that I didn't like about myself before, and not using any of my coping mechanisms,

like just letting the whole world fall apart because one small thing happened. Like all those things that I've worked so hard since, you know, my 20s, like to be better at to overcome, to build tools for, it was like they were all gone. And I called my therapist and I was like, it's gone. Everything I've ever learned out the window. And she was like, no, it just feels that way. But I feel like now,

and maybe I'm just being really optimistic because I'm like so happy and she's almost here, but I feel like now that I'm aware of that, like couldn't I get ahead of it? Yeah, and you'll have the awareness like, oh yeah, last time. This is just, these are fucking hormones, not like I'm actually falling apart.

Right. Yeah. I also would start working out earlier, earlier in the pregnancy. These are fucking hormones, not like I'm actually falling apart. I also would start working out earlier, earlier in the pregnancy. Now granted, there was a lot of unknown for us. We did IUI. I was really afraid of even taking long walks. I didn't want to have another miscarriage. We had just gotten over a miscarriage and I was so scared. And now I know what my body's capable of and what it can handle. And when the times are to be cautious,

I just feel like you go through it once and now you're like, not that the pregnancy would necessarily be the same, but I feel like it couldn't get any worse. LAUGHS Baby can always be worse. Don't say that. No, let's not say that. I hate that. That's like such a, what do you call it, like putting that out into the universe. Baby can always be worse. I hate that. It's like putting that out into the universe.

How could this situation ever get worse? There's a way things can get worse. I feel like that's me being optimistic, saying it can only get better from here. It's all up from here. That's definitely true. You have the experience. You know what it's like. Yeah. So we'll see once I actually give birth and stuff. So I did go to the hospital last week. Everything ended up being fine. Basically, the day after the reunion, Luke saw that I had this big swelling pocket on my foot, on my ankle. And I can't really see my feet my foot, on my ankle,

and I can't really see my feet, so thank you for that, babe. Of course. I can't see my feet and knees or vagina at this point. I was rubbing your feet, not like the massage last night. That was full of lotion and everything. But you were rubbing my feet and you were like, oh, it's this.

It didn't hurt, but I had this swelling little bubble situation. So I take a picture of it, send it to my doctor. I'm like, it doesn't seem like a bug bite. It's not itchy, it's not irritating, it's not nothing. And he said, well, it's probably nothing, you're right. However, anything with the lower extremities at this point in your pregnancy,

we have to be very cautious about, because if it's a blood clot, that's a big deal. We don't want that. And of course, just like week 13 when we had to go to the hospital, it's on a Saturday. Of course it's on a weekend when I can't go to my doctor's office. And he's like, we need to get an ultrasound.

We need to make sure everything's okay. Because I felt totally fine, Luke unfortunately was like sick as a dog. And, but like I felt totally fine. So I'm like, I'll just drive myself to the hospital. No big deal. Just go check it out. And it was actually like, what I wasn't expecting

was for it to be like kind of cool to go get to see the maternity ward because we haven't done a hospital tour. And I was like, oh, now I know where to park. Now I know where to go. The ladies are so nice and lovely. The whole staff was like, I was so emotional because they were just so freaking nice to me.

So I'm laying there so that the resident doctor comes in and she's communicating with my doctor who is not at the hospital. And it ended up just being a cyst, just a fluid-filled cyst, no big deal. They call it a ganglion cyst. That sounds awful. Gaglion or ganglion.

Yeah, I don't know. It's a terrible word. But yeah, it ganglion cyst. Gaglion or ganglion. I don't know. It's a terrible word. But yeah, it's just a cyst. They were like, you can go get it drained if you want or it should go down. So that's all it ended up being. But what was so crazy while I was there too is that they had my belly hooked up to monitors. And my doctor texts me because he's watching my monitors from, you know, like on his phone or his computer. And he was like, do you feel those contractions?

And I was like, K-PASA, what did you just say? Do I see, what? Contractions? No, I don't even know what a contraction feels like. So I don't feel differently. And I was having Brexton Hicks contractions and he sent me a little picture of it. And I was like, this is so wild.

So I'm like, maybe I'm just going to have the easiest labor ever. I hope so. And I honestly, because of the way she's measuring already, I hope you're at least two weeks early. Yeah, me too. And it goes smooth and easy and she's great and everything's best. I truly don't feel like I can get any bigger. Like there's no room left. Half pound a week, babe, right now. It's crazy.

Anyway, so I know it's a lot of baby talk, guys, but that's what's going on right now. The nursery is officially like started and will be finished within like a week or so, a week and a half, which is awesome. And then yeah, back to the nesting. So I'm like, now I want to do this to the patio. We're gonna finish this, the play area and the living room. And then we're gonna want to do this to the patio.

I'm going to finish the play area in the living room and then we're going to do some more stuff to the living room. And I'm just like in a redecorating psycho phase right now. Psychotic interior designer, call me HGTV. Get a bunch of pregnant ladies in their third trimester redecorating their homes. That's a show I want to see. redecorating their homes. That's a show I want to see. The nesting experts or something like that. It's my IPR right now. My intellectual property rights. for the next however many weeks. We might go on a second little like, I don't want to call it a baby moon, a little trip maybe.

We're thinking about it. We're thinking about going down to San Diego and just kind of like staying at a hotel and having just like one more little staycation just the two of us. Yeah, nice little spa, casino, resort trip. That's three hours away. Sounds fun to me.

Me too. We deserve it. We do. And you know who else deserves something? Reza and the Valley Persian style. Yes. Thank you for bringing that up. I am so freaking excited for the Valley Persian style.

I have been waiting for Reza and MJ to get back on my screens for so long. I loved Shots of Sunset and I didn't even know, like, before I really knew them, knew them as, like, friends. I love that show, and this is going to be even better. And I love that the Valley is a franchise now, and I'm so excited for you to see it, to watch it, because, like, you know Reza. You've only met MJ, I think, once or twice,

but she's amazing. And Gigi, I'm not friends with her, but she was great on Shaw's as well. So it's gonna be, I'm super stoked. I'm super excited for him too. I mean, Reza was the realtor that found this house for us. Seeing him, every time we see him, he's just like a ball of energy and light.

He's a happy dude. He's fun. He's invited us over. We haven't taken him up on it yet because Kristen doesn't want to leave the house for anything. I do want to go over there and I want with him and his husband, Adam, and go through their garden and make fresh tabbouleh. And yeah, I do want to do that.

Do all the things. That'll be really fun. He's invited us to do that. So I'm so, so stoked because that man deserves, and MJ, I mean, they deserve to be on television. They're stars. It's just such compelling TV. They're just such interesting people,

and they're so opinionated and hilarious and dramatic. I mean, oh my God, when I did The Goat with Reza, he was like the drama king of the house, but like in the best way ever. And that being said, the last thing I'm going to say about The Valley is, you guys please keep watching. I know it's been a little dark at times on our show, The Valley. There's so much more to come though. I mean, it's just the ebbs and flows, the ups and downs of life. And obviously, all of Jax's stuff is like pretty heavy, but there's a lot more to come that's really fun.

And you get to see my engagement, our engagement. You get to see our engagement. But there's a lot more to come that's really fun. And you get to see my engagement, our engagement. It's a great freaking season. And drums. Is there anything else, babe? I think that's it. The Pacers are on. So game three. Go sports. Take them down. Go sports. All right. Well, we love you guys so much and thanks for listening. We'll talk to you next week. Make sure to follow us on social media. You can follow me on all platforms at Kristen Doty and follow Luke on Instagram at Luke double underscore Broderick. Be sure to click the subscribe button so you can stay up to date with new episodes.

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