Sex, Love, and What Else Matters - Spooky Season with Brittany Cartwright

Episode Date: October 11, 2024

Episode 131. This week, Kristen is joined by Brittany Cartwright! They discuss the red carpet event they attended (where Kristen did an Irish Goodbye), plans for Halloween, and their trip to Las Vegas! They also open up about a few of their gripes.   Sponsors: So, if you’re ready to take that leap, head to acorns.com/doute or download the Acorns app to start saving and investing for your future today! Get 25% off your first month for a limited time at ritual.com/DOUTE.   Nutrafol is offering our listeners $10 off your first month’s subscription and free shipping when you go to Nutrafol.com and enter promo code Doute Head to Viiahemp.com and use the code DOUTE to receive 15% off + one free sample of their sleepy Dreams gummies. (21+).   Follow us: @kristendoute @luke__broderick Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hi, I'm Vanessa from the podcast Real Moms at Bravo. What happened with Lindsay and Carl or what's going on with the cast of Southern Charm? Find out on Real Moms at Bravo three times a week. Listen to us wherever you podcast. Hi, babes. Welcome back to Real episode of Balancing Act. I'm here for a girls only episode. Sorry, Luke, you're in Colorado.

You out. Brittany, what's up, baby? Hey, thanks for having me. Brittany and I are just really fun and we've been doing some fun stuff lately. And so I was like, let's just... And it's like your, it's your holiday this month. My holiday? It's your holiday, and I'll tell you why I say that.

But I think you're the best person for today. Oh, thank you. So I'm just gonna start off really fast and say that I'm in a shit ton of pain. I just took a little pain pill. I'm feeling fine and not loopy yet, which is good. But today I was, my pop socket broke, which is really annoying.

You know in just the part, oh, you don't have a pop socket. Yeah, you do have a pop socket. I cannot hold my phone without a pop socket. Somebody's like, can you take a photo? And they don't have a pop socket. I'm like, how the heck do you hold your phone? Like it's almost like it's foreign to me. It's like, I have no idea what the heck do you hold your phone? Like, it's almost like it's foreign to me. It's like, I have no idea what the hook that is.

So, does yours ever, I feel like I never see you with a broken one. Does yours ever break where just this, like the peg part just snaps? I had one. So you have to take the sticky part off? I had one that I had made. The cheap ones are always like the best ones

when it comes to pop sockets. But I had one that was made and it was an actual cutout of Cruz's face. Like the part that popped out was Cruz's face. So it had his like chiseled jawline and it was just like so cute. So that one snapped. That one popped off.

So then it was just like a rubber. Yeah. Like. How did you get the rubber off of it? Do you remember? I think I just took like a butter knife underneath of it or something. A butter knife.

A butter knife would have been smarter. I think that's what I actually did. I know what happened to you, so I'm not even trying to... But I think that's what I really did. I was sitting on the couch. It happened. And I'm like, ugh, it's so annoying, but I have extra popsockets. So in my head, I went... I tried to do it with my nails. I'm like, this is never going to happen. I'm going to break a nail, whatever.

I should go get a butter knife. And I went into the kitchen, but I walked on the side where the steak knives happened to be closer to me. I'm like, this is never gonna happen. I'm gonna break a nail, whatever. I should go get a butter knife. And I went into the kitchen, but I walked on the side where the steak knives happened to be closer to me. So my ADHD was just like, ooh, steak knives, this is perfect. Put my phone face down on the counter

and was holding it with my left hand, like my palm down. And then, hi, Cruzy's here, guys. But I put my palm down on the phone, right? And then I had the steak knife in my right hand, and I'm like sticking it in and like turning it, and sticking it in and turning it, and like trying to get the glue to ease up. I could just imagine you doing this. And then it slipped.

And Kristen, you already know you're clumsy, too. Oh, 100%. My mom's nickname for me was Grace growing up because I have none. And yeah, so I'm not, yeah, so phones face down on the counter, my left palm, I'm just like describing this for you guys because you can literally picture how horrific this was and stupid as hell. And then right hand trying to wiggle the damn adhesive off. And then of course, when it gave and the adhesive was no more, the knife just went right into that like webbing between my left thumb and my index finger.

Like the one that moves every time you use your hand. Every time. And the second I did it, it's like, do you remember when Luke stabbed himself with his hunting knife? Do you remember that? It wasn't that long ago. It was like in the fall. No, I don't even remember that. Oh God. Okay. I'll tell you about that too. So Luke stabbed himself. He was cleaning a deer. And he was in Indiana. I was in California. And he stabbed himself with the hunting knife in his thigh.

What? Yeah. And he started... He called me and he was freaking out because he said it got really hot and then his whole leg got wet. And it was was all blood and he had like three layers on. Oh my God. And it went through. But his dad's a doctor and so his dad, he actually, Luke took his belt off, made a tourniquet. Just in case, yeah.

Because he was freaking out and then he's like, okay, I didn't hit an artery and then his dad cleaned it, just like shoved a Q-tip with peroxide and stuff like into the freaking two inch cut and then just, I think he glued it or something. Oh my gosh. Anyway, so when that, so today, when I stabbed myself in the hand,

I looked down and there was no blood, but it was like, I could see in it. You can see the meat. I was like, yes. And I was like, oh fuck. And so I just grabbed a paper towel and like squeezed my hand as hard as I could and started pacing around the house. I'm like, I don't even know what to do. I don't know what to do. And then I just grabbed a paper towel and like squeezed my hand as hard as I could and started

pacing around the house. I'm like, I don't even know what to do. I don't know what to do. And then I pulled it off and looked at it and it started just gushing blood. So I'm super hydrated. You sent me a super doctor. Whenever I give blood, that's what they tell me. Like if I have to go to the doctor, like especially, you know, when I'm at the doctor.

Well, in between all this, she has the, it entered a text me and be like, hey, do I need to put super glue on this cut? And I'm thinking like, well, show me a picture of it because I can't tell anything. And then she sends me a picture of it and you can't tell nothing from a photo like that because the blood was already like up at the top. So you couldn't tell how deep it was. But it was like right there.

So I couldn't tell if it was deep or anything for the photo. I was like, well, at least put a bandaid on it. Like, I've never actually had stitches, so I was like the worst person to know what to do. I've never had stitches. I've never broken a bone other than like one of my fingers. Yeah. It's so crazy.

I broke one of my fingers too. But not like, you never broke like your ankle or your wrist. Never had stitches. Knock on wood. Knock on wood. I fractured my left ring finger doing gymnastics whenever I was growing up. Oh, is that a sign? I'm just kidding. I love you. Oh my God. Oh my God.

It's not. I fractured mine too. So anyways, I go to urgent care, right? So I end up going to urgent care because I call Luke. I talk to Luke. He's like, go to urgent care. Go to the ER. You have to get it cleaned out no matter what. Because I call Luke, I talk to Luke, he's like, go to urgent care, go to the ER, you have to get it cleaned out no matter what. So I'm like somewhere between why the fuck aren't you in town,

which is so not his fault, because now I'm all alone and how do I get to urgent care? It's all your fault! Because I'm freaking out. And then all of a sudden he's like, I'll have this person pick you up, this person will take you. I'm like, no, I can do it by myself. Because I'm just like, so I drive myself to urgent care. There's only one person there, thank

God. Yeah, you got lucky. And I'm like crying and bleeding and just like in so much pain. So they take me back, yay, yay, yay. And then while I'm doing, so they take me back and I'm doing like the intake and whatever. And she's filling everything out for me. I just have to like sign it, even though it's my non-dominant hand. So then Luke had called our neighbor, Jeff and whatever, and she's filling everything out for me. I just have to sign it, even though it's my non-dominant hand. So then Luke had called our neighbor, our neighbors, Jeff and Annie from our old apartment,

and Jeff was out of town, Annie is right down the street. So he was gonna have Annie pick me up. Well, Annie shows up to the urgent care, and they're like, someone's here named Annie, and I was like, you can tell her to come back, it's fine, but I was like, girl, you don't have to be here, whatever. She's like, let me just be here

for emotional support for like a minute. So then they're asking me all these questions. And then I don't know why this mattered now in hindsight, but they were like, you know, what's your, no phone number, what's your this, blah, blah, blah. Okay, what do you do for a living? Like what's your job? And I'm like, I never know how to word it.

I hate whenever I get asked that too. I know exactly what you mean. I don't know how to word it. I hate whenever I get asked that too. I know exactly what you mean. I don't know what to say. So I look at Annie and she goes, entertainment? And she writes down entertainment. And then all of a sudden I'm like, does she think I'm in porn?

Because I never know how to answer this. Oh my God. As if it's that hard of a question to answer. But what am I going to say? I'm on reality TV. I mean, what do we say? I don't know. It's not acting. I just, yeah, I guess entertainment is the way to go.

Or like television. Television and then like social media. I always put TV slash media. Okay. We're like slash influencers. Slash influencers. I mean, I like being a slash influencer, but I don't like the title. Like if we were on The Bachelorette... Love it.

Secretly. If you were on The Bachelorette or The Bachelor, it would say, Brittany, influencer. Oh no. Would it? Just kidding. It probably would. Actually, it's going to be able to say many things. Yeah.

So all of that happened. And then speaking of the porn thing, something I remembered when my... So my nephew is now 19 years old. And when I first started reality TV, that would have been 12 years ago. So he would have been seven, right? Yeah, he would have been seven years old when I started reality TV. And one time he told his teacher when he was in elementary school that his Aunt Kristin was on like adult TV or movies

and he's not allowed to watch it because it's like an adult thing. So they totally thought I was a porn star. Because that's what my brother would say. Like, this is for adults. It's like what you say to kids when they're like, what are you drinking? And you're having a glass of wine

and you're like, oh, this is adult beverage. You're not allowed to have it. So this is adult TV or adult movies. Yeah. So they thought I was a porn star. Oh my God. I've seen so many of those like memes going around Instagram where their kids said the same thing.

Like one kid was like trying to draw a shovel in snow and like people were throwing money at it. And it looked like the woman was a stripper on a pole. And she had her right back. And people were like, I just want to confirm that. I work at Lowe's and I had to sell a bunch of shovels during the snow. And so there was a lot of people buying shovels

and giving me money. I'm not a stripper. That is hysterical. So I've always wondered like, oh my gosh, what in the world is a Cruz Michael? Yes'm gonna say about Bernie Carter and Jack Saylor. Like seriously, like oh gosh. Oh my god, that's just terrible. So yeah, that shit happened.

I have no filter. Kids have no filter. They'll just say whatever's on their mind. Right when I got here, he looked at my hand and I was like, oh, I got hurt today. And he just looked at me like, you're an idiot. Like side-eyed me kind of. And then he just like turned back to like what he was doing. I'm like, yes, I know Cruz. Back to my toy.

Well, I never. Oh wait, so what I wanted to tell you really quick though. So the pain was like excruciating. I told you I was gonna tell you this, but I was gonna wait till we were podcasting. So Annie was like, can you give her something to numb it? And I was like, yes, please, just like numb it, numb it. For Brittany.

Did they put a knife or a needle in there? A needle, three times. Inside. I couldn't even watch it and I'm not squeamish. Oh, I was like biting my knuckle. I was squeezing. I was like, ugh. I was gonna ask you if they, if they nubbed it before they do stitches.

Yeah, and then it was absolute heaven and it was great. So they nubbed it with three needle pokes. Is the first one the only one you feel? Yeah, she said she was being, no, I felt a little bit of the second one, but she said she was being generous with how much she was giving me because I was acting like a baby.

I was in so much pain, I'm telling you. I've never, ever felt that pain before. But I know. Imagine me giving birth one day. No, I don't think you have a very high pain. I do though, normally. Even Annie said that. She goes, you have such a high pain tolerance. And I'm like, yeah, but apparently not.

I don't know. It hurt like a bitch. And I have four stitches now and I have all this wrapping stuff on my hand and I Googled it, but she didn't tell me to take it off. She didn't tell me when I could. I can't believe it was four stitches worth. And there I was like, well, at least put a band-aid on it.

I was gonna, and I was gonna glue it with nail glue. Yeah, nail glue. And I didn't have Derma Bond or whatever. Who just has Derma Bond? Your hand would have been like bright blue tomorrow. Gross, like so infected. Thank God you went. Oh my God. Okay.

Anyways. But that is annoying. Like even the way you're holding your microphone right now is funny. I'm holding my microphone sort of like a martini glass, but not. I don't know. At least you didn't like hit like a weird tendon or something that could have been there. Cause you went right in between your thumb. It's so gross.

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He was like our number two draft pick, I'm pretty sure. He's from Michigan. Like he is the heart of the team. He broke his leg today. His leg? Yeah. Like they didn't tell us he broke it, but he mouthed, it's broken.

And they immediately put an air cast and took him off. Oh, gosh. And he was tackling and I don't know exactly what happened. It was hard. It's kind of hard to tell because there's so many people. But to me, it looks like somebody fell back on his legs. So it's like on his knee, but I'm not sure. But I think it's broken.

That's what he said when he was getting carted off, which means if it is really, he's probably not going to get to play the rest of the season. Hopefully it's something really minor. Does that mess with your fantasy football? I don't have Detroit's defense, but it does mess with my morale. You know, we've never been a good team. This is huge for us.

So from Kentucky, I feel like I know the answer to this and it's going to lay in the fact that you guys are baller at college, like everything, but you don't have a professional football team. Do you have professional anything? No. Oh my God. No, there was a while. You're not Rhode Island.

That's so rude. We should have a professional basketball team because we love our basketball in Kentucky. But there was a while. So who do you root for growing up? Bengals. The Bengals. The Bengals.

The Bengals. The Bengals. We call them the Bengals. Yeah, girl. Like B-I-N-G-L-I-A. No, Bengals. That's what you're saying. Bengals, not bangles.

We say bangles. Oh my God. Hilarious. Okay, so you root for Cincinnati because, oh, it's super close to you. Yeah, that's the closest team. Done. Like an hour and a half away. But do you really care about Cincinnati or do you guys just, if you want to root for someone,

you're like, yeah, they're down the street? No, that was like the closest team. My ex-boyfriend before, Jackie, and I were like, yeah, they're down the street. I was like, yeah, they're down the street. I was like, yeah, they're down the street. I was like, yeah, they're down the street. I was like, yeah, they're down the street. I was like, yeah, they're down the street. Like an hour and a half away. Do you really care about Cincinnati? Or do you guys just, if you want to root for someone, you're like, yeah, they're down the street. No, that was like the closest team. My ex-boyfriend before Jax was like a huge Bengals fan. So I went to like a bunch of the games with him.

I mean, we lived right there. So, yeah. Okay. I went there a lot. But also I love, I always loved the Miami Dolphins. You know, my nephew, Braden, his dad played for the Dolphins for a long time. So... Yeah, poor Dolphins. You know, my nephew, Brayden, his dad played for the Dolphins for a long time. So...

Yeah, poor Dolphins this year, man. Ugh. But I was always like growing up like, I'm gonna be awesome to live in Miami. How do you feel now? And I love their colors. I love their colors. How do you feel now about living in Miami as an adult?

Hell no. Even though it's fun, I need to go back with single Brittany. Yeah. Oh, we should do that. Once everything cleans up in Florida. We love Florida. Yes. Pray for Florida. That's awful. Bless y'all.

What else did we do? Oh my God. So we had an event this week that we got ready for longer than I lasted there. Oh my God. We started getting ready. That's so true. Kristen was freaking leaving before I even finished interviews on the red carpet. They're like still interviewing me and I'm like, bye Kristen.

And we came together. We came together. I'm like on the carpet being like, Kristen's my date tonight. Luke is out of town. So yeah, me and Kristen came together. She's my date. And then two minutes later, I'm like onto like, Left Us Weekly's interview,

onto like E! News interview or something. And they were like, bye, Brittany, I'm leaving. I'm like, okay. And we started getting ready. We had glimpses so early that day. Yeah, we started like, well, I started at one. I started at two. Yeah.

And we were supposed to, we thought we had to be there around seven, but then we found out we didn't have to be there that early. So we went at like eight, 8.30 or something. Yeah. I was making sure I was on the court at the same time as Jax. That was the whole reason. So did you, you went up to the party though?

Yeah, I went up to the party. Did you, like, was it crazy? So I saw the bar area. I just wanted to, I was so parched from talking one interview and I was like so hot and I don't even know. And there were so many people in there and I was overwhelmed and I wanted a water and then I looked over to the sea of people by the bar and I was like, I'm not about to venture through there

by myself to get anything. There was a lot of people there, but there was a lot of people I hadn't seen in a long time. I didn't see anyone that I knew because I didn't go over there. I walked in, I saw Zach immediately. Yeah, I saw Zach. And Zach was too cool for school.

He was not talking to me. He was so popular and so busy with every one of his friends. And I just kept smacking him and I was like, will you hang out with me? He's like, sorry, I'm so popular. I'm like, oh my God, this is awful. So I saw Lindsay Hubbard and she was like, Kyle's here. So we said hi to Kyle and the three of us were chatting. And then I'm like, I saw Heather McDonald and then all of a sudden... I saw all the same people. Yeah, and I was like, that's enough for me.

Tanner, did you see Tanner? No, I did not move past Kyle at the DJ booth. I just left. Janet and Jason were there and I... And there was a lot of people there. There was a lot of like Bravo people. I saw Jessie briefly. Ryan from Bravo that I love.

I'm so sorry you guys. And the worst part was Us Weekly filmed me leaving. They did? And they followed me with someone, whoever was working their social. I did meet her, actually. I did meet you and I was like, hi, oh my God, great. And I loved you until you filmed me leaving, followed me.

Kristin Dodie with the Irish goodbye. It looks like I'm running out of the party. It looks like I'm in like... But you did say goodbye to me, even on the carpet. And whoever was interviewing me turned around to get you, so I wish we had footage of that. I know. But you did say bye to me.

Oh, I was just like, I didn't really feel that well. It's funny because I was literally just saying, oh yeah, Kristen's my date today. And I was like, bye, Brittany. But I... I'm like, you're leaving already? I wish I had given it a little more time. I wish I had...

It was a fun night. I wish Zach wouldn't have been talking to other people and would have been like, Kristen, let's go over here together. Or you would have waited until I at least got off the carpet before you left. I didn't know you were doing an hour worth of interviews. I didn't know I was either. I kept getting tagged along the line. Maybe it were doing an hour worth of interviews. I didn't know I was either. I kept getting, like, tagged along the line.

Maybe it wasn't an hour. Maybe it was 30 minutes. No, it was not even 30. It had to be like 15. Okay. It felt like an hour. Oh, yeah. If you'd have waited for me to get done. I was just being a recluse in a homebody that day. Oh, boy. Okay. So another super fun thing that we did. Vegas! Oh yes, Vegas was all the... Hold on, let me say something really fast. Because every time, like this is normal,

Kristen comes to my house and gets ready with me before events. Because we use the same like glam people. So we always get ready all the time and we always take a lot longer getting ready. Even if it's not something like this. Like this was an extreme case, because this was like five, six hours of us getting ready. Because we just wanted to get ready early and we still didn't get ready early. No, we still didn't.

We were like, we can take TikToks in between because we're old and we're young. Yeah, we're going to have so much time. We're going to, yeah, we can schedule a TikTok time. And we didn't do anything. No. And then we're like, oh, we should leave. And neither of us were dressed. No.

Oh, I forgot my dress. I had to go get my dress. Yeah. And we're like both waiting for the last minute because nobody wants to put their tight spanks on and their dress on before they have to. No, like as I'm walking out the door, you can zip me up and I will breathe, suck it in and breathe like as little as possible.

Exactly. Oh my God. So I'm really excited to talk about that we went to Vegas a couple weeks ago. And what made me think of it was the fact that I still haven't unpacked from Vegas. Unpacked, what's that mean? I'm so bad at it because so I have my bedroom, I have a guest room, and then I have another room and because we moved like barely two months ago, right? That room is just boxes and stuff. And I went in there yesterday to look for something

and like two suitcases just sprawled out and all my Vegas stuff is just everywhere. It was like, oh, I bought that purse. And I was like, oh, Brittany's so fun to go to Vegas with. Brittany's really fun to shop with. Like, I don't know if I would want to go to Vegas with anyone else. You know who's only been to shop with. Like, I don't know if I would want to go to Vegas with anyone else. You know who's only been to Vegas once, very briefly, is Luke.

Really? He went for his brother's bachelor party or birthday, 21st birthday or something. I can't remember, but he didn't really experience Vegas. Oh, yeah. You got to experience Vegas the Brittany way. Yes. Brittany and Kristen way.

We do have a lot of fun in Vegas. I love Vegas. I mean, we had the coolest suite ever, you guys. We got so lucky. But every single time we go to Vegas, it's been fun. No matter where we go, it's super fun. This time around, we went for a job and for fun. Our friend, Lindsay Love, I'm sure you guys have seen her on our social media.

If you don't follow her yourself, you should. And she has kind of a newer company because she's really great at marketing. So it's this Lindsay Love creative. So essentially we got hired to do a job, but we got to go with our friend. It was a blast and it was with Tequila Corrito and The Palms Hotel, which y'all,

I'm so tired of people hating on The Palms. I know that it is an older hotel, but it's redone now. It's redone. You know what, I'm not even gonna lie. I was kind of even like thinking, oh, we're starting at the Palms, because I hadn't been in there in a long time.

And also, I don't even know why I just automatically thought that. Why do we think that? You know? Like, why do you think that the Palms is still like old or whatever? Because we never stay there. We haven't seen it since it's been like all revamped. It is so cute. Like the entire place looks amazing. It looks so awesome.

So don't just automatically be like, oh, the palms is old. No, it's great. We loved it. Yeah. And we got to stay in this like girly suite called the Blush Suite. So cute. And it's like all pink and green and I don't know, just like there's like,

it's like very girly and the gold and like cool. And it was like a bird cage chair. Yeah. And like a little bar. So it's like, it's kind of a place for like bachelor parties or birthday parties or whatever. It's perfect for a girls trip. It absolutely is. He also said they had like men one, like one side that got the guy.

That was like wood and I was like, oh, that's cool. And then, yeah, makes you think of like Anchorman. But what I want to do next time, Brittany, and we was like, oh, that's cool. Like burgundy and gold. Yeah. Makes me think of like Anchorman. But what I want to do next time, Brittany, and we said this, but you're not sure if you're wanting to do this. So the Palms now has, and this is not a freaking commercial for the Palms, you guys. I'm just telling you. From our view, from our window, we could see the Palms Sky Villas. And they're like, they have these infinity pools that stick out. So there's nothing underneath the pool except for the infinity pool underneath it. So as long as you're not at the last one.

Oh God. I don't know. Which has absolutely nothing underneath it. But it like, yeah, so the infinity pool sticks out of the hotel room. From the building. It's so wild. So like we were talking about doing it for my birthday or something, but like, God, I don't know. I think I would be too scared to even like get in the pool

or like even like look at it sometimes would make me scared. Yeah, because I feel like you're out of... So I'm not afraid of heights. I never say that. I'm afraid of falling. Yeah. It's like the thought of falling. Like I get really uneasy and my feet stop working, my stomach drops, but it's not like the height necessarily.

I just don't want to look over the edge. Yeah, I can't look over the edge, but like thinking... You're worse than thinking, thinking that you're going to be out and you can you see underneath you though? Oh, if you can, I wouldn't do that. Well, no, because if you couldn't, because then the people below you are in a pool. Yeah, but like it's Vegas. It's like, people might enjoy that.

It's quite the peeping tom, isn't it? I don't know. It's quite the peeping tom, isn't it? I don't know. It's quite the peeping tom area. But it looks really cool. So I was Googling the Sky Villas today. Like I said, it does not give the price. You can just like put your information and tell them when you want it and then they'll probably come back to you and be like, hmm, this much or whatever. So anyway, one of them though is called the Empathy Suite.

And I was like, okay, I need to see what this bad boy's all about. Yeah. It's over 9,000 square feet. It has mariposa, little butterfly pillows all in the living room. Oh my gosh. It has two of the sharks. And what is it called? They're like, you know what I'm talking about?

Oh, the sharks like they had over the bar. Yeah. Oh yeah. It's like a dead shark. They have them in formaldehyde or something. I don't know if that's... It's really weird. It sounds gross. It is really weird.

It's super weird. But still, sharks and butterflies? Yeah. So I'll show you. I'm going to show Brittany a photo of you guys. So it has like a pool table. Is that the pool? Yep. Okay, so the bottom...

Oh, so we can see the infinity pool. So the bottom is still covered, it looks like. Okay, good. That's great. But yeah, anyway, it's like this huge 9,000 plus square foot. Oh my gosh. Look at those butterfly pillows. You guys need to Google this.

This is huge. It's absolutely crazy. But I'm like, you know what? Empathy Suite? Mariposa? Might need it. I don't even like Vegas that much, but that's gonna make me like Vegas a whole lot. But Vegas was so fun. We had a blast. We got to go shopping.

Yeah. Which is always so fun. Just like, even if you don't really buy a bunch of stuff, it doesn't matter. We bought a little bit. It was really cool. Vegas shopping is really, really good. Yes. And so you guys, I don't want to... It's all really close to each other. I don't want to sound like, oh, Lincoln bought a purse.

But it's like, I want everyone to know, I do not buy expensive things for myself. I'm like an Amazon girl tried and true. As you are. Yeah. I will splurge on purses and shoes, but that's like all I... You give yourself gifts. Yeah.

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I have never shopped at Dior, which is where we went. One of the places we went and I did end up buying myself a purse that was not crazy expensive. It was, I haven't bought myself a bag in forever. That perfect classy purse. I get texts every three or four days. You do? Hi, this is, sorry.

This is Nicole from Dior. Do you want to buy this? Do you want to shop? I'm like, are you fucking kidding me right now? You're spamming me, Nicole from Vegas? I don't even know if her name is really Nicole. I've never had spam come from one of those stores before. Oh yeah.

You do? Oh yeah, it happens to me all the time. It's not really the person though, right? I think it is really the, yeah, because they make a... Commission. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. It happens to me all the time. It's not really the person though, right? I think it is really. Yeah, because they make a... Commission. Yeah, they make a commission. So like they want to like reach out because I get it from the guy from Rodeo Drive on Gucci. Like he'll text me sometimes whenever like a new Gucci line comes out or something. Yeah, that's like normal.

Wait, I hate that though. I'm like, no, don't stalk me. This is this was like a once in a while. This was a one-off situation. I'm not buying like a matching scarf and like some luggage and like a pair of sunglasses to match my one bag that I bought. No, no, no, no, no. Yeah, and it's like your number comes from... Because I just... Yeah, of course.

Because you're like, bought. Yeah, for sure. But it's between like political text messages and Dior. I'm like, y'all, like enough is enough. I'm not giving either of you my money right now. And you're making me want to give it to you less. Okay? Although I do support both of these things. It was really annoying.

I do support Dior. I do. I do. Now, yeah, that's a thing. That's a thing. I think it's because, you know, I mean, obviously, yeah, that's a thing. That's a thing. I think it's because, you know, I mean, obviously it is because they're salespeople and it's from commission, but I think they can do it to everybody. That's really annoying.

I almost typed unsubscribe and I'm like, what if it's a real person? Yeah, like who knows? Maybe it's not. It's like an automatic thing that goes out to the list, which also could be a thing. Okay. Maybe I'll write something back into it. Yeah, see what happens. Just so I know. So you like, you don't hurt somebody's feelings.

Yeah, I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings. That's the last thing I want. I am not hurting my Dior friend's feelings. Absolutely not. Okay. If it's a robot, maybe then I'll be like, I'll see you when I'm in Vegas next time. Yes, exactly.

Listen, robot. No, for sure. Okay, so let's talk about Halloween. I've been waiting, dying to talk about this my whole way here, knowing that, like, I was going to walk in your gate and then see all your decorations at your front door. And I'm excited that I get to decorate this year because in an apartment, you don't decorate.

There's enough stuff that was in my apartment anyway that I didn't want. It was, like, cluttered. I don't want to add more clutter. You want to add more. Woop woop! I'm going to have trick-or-treaters. I get to have pumpkins outside. So I feel like, again, I know the answer to this, but I'm going to ask you anyway,

do you tell the general public, Jen Pop, do you tell Jen Pop what your Halloween costume is going to be? Or do you keep it a secret? I keep it a secret until it's time. OK. Yeah, I haven't talked about them yet. OK, so how many do you keep it a secret? I keep it a secret until it's time. Okay. Yeah, I haven't talked about them yet. Okay, so how many do you have this year? I personally have three.

You have three? Yeah, Cruz has two. I think I only know two of them. I have three because I have a trick-or-treating outfit with Cruz, and obviously that's not gonna be sexy. Like, that's gotta be mom's own. That's not the slutty one. Yeah, that's not the slutty one.

And then I'm having a Halloween party at my house. Nobody ran a Better Show at my house. Invite only. I'm having a Halloween party at my house. That one's obviously an adult Halloween costume. And then I have an extra one just in case because my party's a whole week before. And I was like, there's a good chance that I'm gonna get invited to a different Halloween party

that I'm gonna wanna go to, and I don't wanna wear any of the same costumes I've worn before. Exactly. I'm not a twice wearer person. No, you're not. I might restyle an outfit and wear something that like, again, I've done that before,

and I'll wear like my day-to-day stuff over all the time, but like if it's a statement thing or like a costume, I don't rewear. Yeah. I don't know's a statement thing or like a costume, I don't rewear. Yeah. I don't know if I've reworn a costume to be fair, but I keep them all. I keep them all too. Like why? But it's not like if someone needs a last minute costume, like a friend.

I'm like, oh, I have this. I have Snow White. I have this. I have a hat. I'm like, I've got the mask. I have wigs. I have a chair and pet detective. Like what?

I saw it actually one of Tom Schwartz's. I have Tom Schwartz's like blonde mullet wig from like five, eight years ago. I have no idea. I have so many in there. I've got like Mickey Mouse and just all these different ones from like way back in the day. We should just have a party where we go through your Halloween costumes and like random drawing and you have to like put on whatever you choose. Like number them.

It'd be so fun. Oh my God. That would be kind of... That would be a good party idea. Everybody has to bring in an old costume and it just goes into a pile. And then you have to close your eyes and pick it up. Or we like number them and then you draw a number and that's the one you have to wear. Look at us. We're so fun. That is a good idea. Okay, so let's talk. The favorite thing is the Halloween house decor.

As I'm looking around your living room right now, it's like everything's so perfectly trickled in. Like you didn't take any of your stuff away. No. You just added a little Halloween flair. Actually I did take some things away. You did? Yeah, but it's like very...

You're gonna swap them out? Yeah, swap them out and I put them in the bag. Wait, but when are you gonna swap them up? Because Thanksgiving is next. And I know you turn Halloween into Thanksgiving, and then you have Christmas. And all hell will break loose if your house isn't, whatever the theme it is that year, to perfection. So you just put, like, your own stuff away.

Your everyday house decor basically goes away for the whole fall winter. It goes into the same book, the same storage bin that the Halloween stuff was in. So that way it's there whenever I switch it over. So whenever I put this stuff down for Thanksgiving, then I'll know like, oh, I can put all this stuff back because I don't have as much for Thanksgiving.

Like Thanksgiving, I'm just gonna keep pumpkins out and have like cute fall stuff around. And like, I think I got like a turkey and like stuff like that, but majority of my decorations are Halloween and Christmas of course is just like beyond. Christmas is ridiculous every year. But yeah, I take some things down because like I like to add like pumpkins

but I don't want it to be like overwhelming but you know, who knows, maybe it's no, it's really cute. So your house reminds me like if I were a little kid like if I were one of Cruz's friends, right? Maybe if we were a little older, your house would be like the house where I'm like, I want to go to trick or treat at Cruz's mom's house. Cruz's mom's gonna have the...

She'll have full size candy bars. Yeah, she'll have full size candy bars and everything looks so cool. And like what if Cruz, like you know in Hocus Pocus part one, obviously, where I can't remember her name, but Max, the girl, Alex. Yeah, I can't remember. Whatever her name Max, the girl, Alex. Yeah, I can't remember. Whatever her name is. Her parents have the party. That's like you.

Yeah. You're like her parents where like all of Cruz's friends are going to be like, is your mom going to have a party for like parents and kids? Because can we go to that one? Yeah, because my party this year is adults only. So Cruz is staying like... Yeah, with his nanny. Yeah, he's staying with the nanny that night.

But yeah, your house is always just... Thank you. And it smells like bath and body works. Pumpkin pecan waffles is my scent every fall. And also like all year round, I love it. I'm going to bring them to your funeral. Yeah. I told Kristen, this is kind of morbid,

but I did tell Kristen this. And I think I've said it to a couple other people like my mom and Zach. To your mom. I was like, if I die, make sure that you burn pumpkin pecan waffles at my funeral, because my friends will instantly think of me when they smell it.

Yeah, it's true. Because I think like your sense of smell is connected to memories so much. A hundred percent. And like what, like of course that is going to immediately make everybody think they're coming to my house. Pumpkin pecan waffles. Yeah. And it puts a smile on my face. I'm saying that now too.

I know it's weird, but. Bath and body works? Send her some damn pumpkin pecan waffle. Send her like 17 paces. It'll last her like a month and a half. Like I've had people come over and they're like, you could smell it from like, as soon as you walk through the front gate, like not even your front door. Oh, a hundred percent.

I've told you that before. I'm like, wow. From my car, Brittany. Wow. I mean, tis the season. I just, I like think that celebrating like holidays are so important, especially like, it's just always been important to me.

My mom did such a good job whenever I was growing up with it. So like, I just want to do that for Cruz and- And for us. Yeah, and for my friends. I'm such a host. Yeah, you are. Like I love having people over. And you don't like leaving, really.

Yeah, I don't like leaving my house. I'd rather everybody come to me. Like, I could, like, just stay in my house 24-7. I mean, yeah, I love your house. And now that I'm in a house, back in a house, I know what you mean. Yeah. I'm like, no, I'm good. I have everything I need and want right here.

Yep. I'm like, it's me and Cruz and my dogs. Yeah. So happy. My friends come to me. We're good. Don't have to clean up after no man. I'm good. Whoop whoop. Whoop whoop.

Tis the season. Have you, oh wait, you saw Teacup. I was gonna say, have you watched any scary movies? Oh, I did. I went to... Was it terrifying? It's like, you would actually be able to watch it. It's not so terrifying where you couldn't watch it, but there are, I mean, there are some gruesome moments,

but they're 30-minute episodes. Oh, okay. So it's not like, like you're not gonna like slip out. No, it's a series on Peacock. I went with Zach and Jasmine and Melissa to Universal Studios and we saw the first two episodes of Peacock with the actors and stuff. I love whenever you get to do that and they get to... The little boy was sitting like two people down for me, the little boy actor in it.

It's a really good show. Okay, cool. Yeah. There's a couple parts you're going to cover your eyes for. Yeah, I cover my eyes a lot. For sure. But it's interesting. That's why I think you'll be able to handle it because it's also like super interesting.

You like horror nights. Yeah. Haunted houses and like mazes. Oh, yeah. I mean, they freak me out. They do, but like I'll do it because... You also like super interesting. You like horror nights? Yeah. Haunted houses and like mazes? Oh yeah. I mean they freak me out. They do, but like I'll do it because... You're not scared at all? I'm scared.

Yeah. But the adrenaline is such like an adrenaline rush. And then like I remember doing it with a bunch of my friends from back home. And we all took off running in a maze and like one of us ran into the wall and then we're all so close that we all ran into each other and fell backwards. Like stuff like that. Like when chain stalls come at you, it's like you know that there's not the chain

actually in there, but the sound is just so terrifying. So no matter what, like I know this is fake. I know this is like the guy who bags my groceries at Kroger's wearing a freaking clown mask or like the teacher that's teaching theater arts in high school, it's just like random people doing it. They're acting and they're really good. But it's scary, it's so scary.

So at Halloween Horror Nights, I've only been once. So you guys, Halloween Horror Nights is at Universal Studios and they like make haunted houses and mazes. And then the main thing is as you're just walking through Universal, they have people that just run and like try to scare you. I don't know where, like you're just walking through Universal, they have people that just run and like try to scare you. Yeah. Out of nowhere. Like you're just minding your own business. I pretend I'm on my phone the entire time.

And so then if they startle me, I like, yeah. And then I'm like, I like do the thing where I'm mouthing and I'm like, I'm on the phone. Or I'm like, excuse me. Like with my hand up or my waving my finger, like, I'm sorry, I'm on a call right now. Phone's on silent. You're like the Karen of Halloween. Oh, I hate it.

Haunted houses, I just have my eyes closed the entire time. Yeah. Like I told Luke that he was like, what would you go? Like you can hold on to me. I'm like, I'm gonna have my head buried in your back. Yeah. I'm gonna have my eyes closed the whole entire time until we get out. Yeah.

Seeing like a scary movie with you or Zach is like the worst. Like the way y'all grab me and like pull on me. I'm like, yeah, I'm like, chill out. You're going to be fine. Zach's a big grabber. My thing now when we watch scary. You're the hider. He's the grabber. Yes. Yeah.

I like start playing like a fun game on my phone, like my Wizard of Oz, like Candy Crush type game. It looks like, what are you doing? I'm like, I'm watching. He's like, no, you're not. I'm like, because I'm scared. This isn't fun for me. Like put on 27 dresses or something.

Like, no. I love getting scared. Oh my God. I hate it so much, but it's so fun. Yeah, it's like the adrenaline is fun. I like Hocus Pocus. I'm like the Disney vibe, the kid movie. Oh, I love that stuff too.

I love Halloween Town. That's probably my favorite. I love the Halloween Town series. What? You've never watched Marnie in Halloween Town. That's probably my favorite. I love the Halloween Town series. I've never seen Halloween Town. What? You've never watched Marnie in Halloween Town? Is that actually for kids or no? I mean, it was for kids.

It was made for me when I was a kid. Oh, maybe because I'm older than you? It's freaking... It's everybody that's amazing. Gwad, I can't think of anybody's names right now. The main woman, the main witch, she's... I'm gonna look it up real fast. The lady that played Princess Leia's mom.

Carrie Fisher? Yes, her mom. I'm gonna sound like such an idiot, because I can't think of... No, it's Kimberly Brown. No, that's the main actor. That's Marnie. But her grandmother is Princess Leia's mom. I can't think of her name.

Oh, my God. Debbie Reynolds! Oh, my God. Debbie Reynolds! Oh, my God. I was gonna say Debbie Fisher, and I was like, that's not right. Why am I blinking? I'm so bad with people's real names. Why am I blinking? Yeah, she's the Cromwell witch.

It's awesome. It's not scary at all. It's like really cute, like, aw, everybody's gonna turn into monsters because you make fun of monsters for Halloween. Do you remember the Witches movie where they turn into mice? Yes! Oh my God. I love that movie. It was like Angelica Houston. Oh my gosh. I love that movie.

And they had to like go around the hotel. Like the, oh, I love that so much. All that makes me want to cry. It makes me think of my sister. It's so good. Oh yeah. I want to watch that. I want to watch that too.

Yeah. So those are my jams and you know, God bless, like God bless you for just being like the best host and such like a mom when it comes to Halloween. Like, but then also you're like, mm, give me the weird mazes and scare the shit out of me. Yeah. I'll do all this other stuff with crews. And then at night I'll be like,

turned into the scary Halloween lady. It's amazing. Scary Halloween lady. No, it's amazing. Whenever I was with Jax, like, the month of October, it was the only month he would watch scary movies with me. So... Jax hates scary movies like I do. So, I would have to like, wait for the month of October

for him to actually watch it with me. Other than that, I was like, watching scary movies by myself. Like a weirdo. Luke had never seen... Luke had never seen Beetlejuice. And so we watched the first one together before we went and saw part two in the theaters. What'd you think about part two? I didn't like it. I didn't either!

Luke fell asleep twice. I fell asleep and I never fall asleep! I mean, like, I liked parts of it. And I liked parts of it. There were scenes that I really loved. Yeah, for sure. But as a whole, there was... Number one, there was...

The first one was way better. There was just so much going on in the second one. There were so many I really loved as a whole. There was number one. The first one was way better. There's just so much going on in the second one. There's so many storylines that it was like, wait, she's getting married to Justin Theroux, but then the girls with the kid and then Beetlejuice. I went with Zach and like I never. Tim Burton's wife is Beetlejuice's ex-wife. Yeah, it was crazy.

I've never fallen asleep in a movie ever. And I don't think I fell asleep for very long, but there's like whole chunks that I don't remember. Like I don't even know about all these marriages that you're talking about. Oh wow. Yeah, you missed it. So yeah.

So like, but I was just in there with Zach and but we were both like, oh. I feel like we do have the popular opinion unfortunately, but I'm sure the movie. Oh, other people are saying the same? Okay, I haven't really been. That's everyone that I know that has seen it was not very impressed by it.

But rewatching the first Beetlejuice, which I've seen 40 million times. I think I know the whole transcript. But watching that back again with someone who had never seen it before was so cool. And all of a sudden I remembered that like there were parts of that movie that used to like not scare me, but like frighten me. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I loved Beetlejuice growing up. I was like, oh my God, I actually was like, oh, close my eyes during that part. Like the graveyard and that, and now you look at it

and you're like, it's obviously like a tiny little graveyard sculpture. Yeah. Like it's not even real. No, it's wild. But like that's what was scary back then. Cause like now. They did such a good job with that movie considering

what year it was. Oh my gosh, for sure. Cause now they can make anything look real, which is also freaking scary. So scary. That's actually terrifying. Like, it is so scary that anything can be made to look real. They can take us and, like, have us, like, punching each other in the face or doing whatever they wanted.

Don't get any ideas, guys. We'll debunk it if you do it. No, it's terrifying. You know what I hate the most is when I'm on social media and I'm like, "'Luke, look at the baby sloth.'" He's like, "'That's not real.'" I'm like, "'Oh and I'm like, look, look at the baby sloth. He's like, that's not real. I'm like, oh. I'm like, the baby sloth has a sucker. And he's like, no, it's fake.

Yeah, they'll do like really sad, like, or really cute animals. And then you're like, aw. Yeah, like a baby owl that looks like a cartoon character basically. But I'm like, look how cute it is. It's a mini. Like as if it's like your dog Monroe. Like it's a little, it's a toy owl. Like, no, it's not, it's fake, idiot.

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and I don't wanna be like complainy, but it's a gripe. Tell me about it. So I did not have any bagels at home although I had cream cheese. So I ordered myself post-made breakfast and I got a bagel with cream cheese and like a latte and whatever, whatever. And my bagel comes and there's like

a tablespoon of cream cheese on it, if that. What am I supposed to do with all this bread? Oh, I said I didn't have bagels. I lied. I didn't have cream cheese. I had bagels. That's why it's my grape. Because I didn't have enough cream cheese to like fix it. Duh. I'm like, wait, that doesn't make sense. Anyway, I'm like, this? Like half the bread's not even covered. You basically just put it on when, you smoosh them together and they were hot, so it looked really good. Did you not learn anything from me

whenever we flew to Vegas? Yes, that's true. No, I didn't even think about it. I'm sauce queen. You had like 20 things of cream cheese, Philadelphia's cream cheese for like two bagels, but it was necessary. It was necessary.

I dip little pieces of bagel. I have more cream cheese than like two bagels, but it was necessary. It was necessary. I dip like little pieces of bagel. I have more cream cheese than the bagel. Yeah, because if you don't have enough cream cheese, that just can ruin your entire thing. So it did. And it's a major gripe because listen, I'm in a server and I've also worked at restaurants where I had to make the food. I worked at like a pita place before. I've worked at like bars where I did like, you know, a lot of the basic appetizer

stuff. I would never do that to someone. That would be like, here's all your french fries, ketchup. Here's a squiggle. Yeah. Here's one. Or yeah, like a little half of a Dixie cup. Like no, no, no, no. Yeah. So that's my gripe. Like, please, if you work at a bagel shop, if you work at a breakfast place and you're putting the cream cheese on said bagel, put more of it. It can always take it off. Well, I'll say if it's for delivery, the cream cheese should always be on the side, because it'll be warm and it'll, like, melt.

So it could have had enough on it, but by the time it got to you, it's, like, melted away. Maybe she did a good job. I don't know why I say it's a she, but I just think that it was. Oh, man, maybe she did do it it right and I'm over here griping. Yeah. But it did not taste good. It wasn't like wet enough.

It was just like there. And so I only ate the part of the bagel that had the cream cheese and then I had to throw the rest of the bagel away and I was still hungry. So that was my gripe. I get it. I hate that. Like give me enough condiments to go with whatever I order. I am a sauce person. Yeah. Cheese person, mayonnaise person. I love it. I hate that. Like give me enough condiments to go with whatever I order. I am a sauce person.

Yeah. Cheese person, mayonnaise person. I love it all. You do. Hot sauce. You're like give me all the sauce. Ranch, give it to me. So that was just my tiny little grape. I have one more little grape.

Tell me. That I want to tell you about. And I don't know if you're familiar with this or not. So do you know who Erin Foster is? David Foster's daughter, one of his daughters, and she has this podcast with her sister and amongst many other things. Okay. Anywho, she was on Watch What Happens Live. I think it's now about two weeks ago. Okay. And the only reason I know anything about this, that my name was brought up, which is obviously on Andy,

cause he's like asking her questions and she has to give an answer to them. I don't fault her for that, for saying something that I might not agree with or love about my own relationship. But the reason that I know about it is because I get Google alerts on myself. And-

How do you still have those on? Because I wanna know if there's something being said about me that I didn't already hear about. Oh Lord, I can never, Kristen. Oh no, I am, if I don't see it, it doesn't exist. I wanna know. I don't wanna know about anything. I just wanna read the headline

or where my name is mentioned, especially because like, what if it's not correct? It's mainly- They gotta come correct. It's mainly not correct. That's why I don't wanna see it. And because then I'm like, okay, they just said blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,

whatever, that's not even really what happened. And now these people are commenting on my life about something that's not really happening. And now I'm in my feelings being like, why would these people think I would do this? Something that really didn't happen. You know what I mean? So it's like, I can't even look at it. So my gripe is a little, it's like a gripe because I'm not actually mad and I'm not actually upset. So I get this Google alert and it's that Erin Foster had said something about my relationship

with Luke, about my engagement. So I'm like, oh my God, what did she say? Like, I used to love her podcast. I haven't really listened to it lately, but I love her. Yay. So I click on it and the segment was called Relationship Happens. And Andy brings up like the valley and is like, oh, you know, Jackson and Brittany filed for divorce. What are your thoughts?

And she says, I forget exactly how she worded it, but she was saying kind of deserved in her opinion, right? Okay, yeah, we get it. Cool. Good job. Good job. Good job. And then he's like, oh, and even the tone of Andy's voice is like, and Kristen and Luke got engaged. And she's like, oh, and even the tone of Andy's voice is like, and Kristen and Luke got engaged. And she's like, hmm. And she goes on to say that our relationship

needs an overhaul. An overhaul? An overhaul, because the reasons that she listed were small apartment, too many dogs, and something about we always like are getting dirty. And I'm like, what is she talking about? Getting dirty? Like how? I don't know. And I was like gardening.

Like sexual? Or I mean, love it. Not wrong. She's very corrupt then, not upset. But it's like they don't really show. They don't show anything on the show of us like in Colorado or like actually like being out. That's what I, what would you mean by getting dirty? And also all those dogs, like I think on the show we've had three at the most, right? Yeah, Bowie, Jill, and...

Gibson. Gibson, yeah. And now we have two. And you know what? I'm sorry, not everyone lives in a mansion right away. Yeah, we lived in an apartment and it was like a nice apartment. It was too expensive, but it was an apartment. And I feel like Luke and I are actually like really great together that we could stand each other to live in that apartment together. Especially Luke, when he's used to having nothing but land, 70 acres of land. He's like me coming from a big old farm.

And then when you first moved in with Jax, the very first time. That studio apartment, yeah. That studio apartment, you know? And it's like if you can stand something like that and you can get past it together without killing each other, that means more than I putting together IKEA furniture. Oh yeah, for sure. Which Luke and I can also do.

So it's a gripe because it didn't make me mad, but I don't know why I cared, why I do care enough to say it on this podcast. I don't know. But it, why I do care enough to say it on this podcast. I don't know. But it like bothered me because I'm like, girl, I don't know, like on your podcast before your husband, you were such like a women empowerment, like girls girl, and like, you know, talking about like kissing all these frogs before you find your prince and like going through dating before she actually met her husband and stuff, you know?

So I'm like, wouldn't you just, why not just lie then? If you don't have anything and I say, don't say anything at all. She didn't have to like go into the details of why she thinks we need an overhaul. Just be like, I don't know, or whatever. Or just be like, yeah, that's great and move on. Yeah, because I mean, it is so great. You guys just got engaged.

I'm so happy. Yeah, like we're trying to have a family. I'm just confused about the all I get. The dirty part, that's so strange to me. Erin, will you just tell me? Just tell me what that means. I don't... Because I don't know. Did she say something about Jax too?

Because I, like, you know, obviously Jax and I still have our podcast. And like, we don't do them together right now or anymore, probably, but we'll see. Never again. But he said something on ours about that too, and I was like, what's going on? Cause like, I've never heard anything. Yeah, that was the only thing I heard cause I only listened selfishly to those two little minutes of that clip on YouTube.

The Google alert was about me, so I listened to my part. Exactly. Self admittedly, I did not watch the whole episode. Maybe it was something from Watch I Have One's Live then that Jax was referring to as well. Or it was just that it was well deserved that you divorced him and that made him mad. Oh, well, I agree with her on that part. But I disagree with her on that you guys are dirty in an apartment with dogs. Yeah.

Anyway, our relationship does not need an overhaul. No, you're good. You're good. Erin, just curious what that meant because it kind of hurt my feelers a little bit. I'm very sensitive these days. Don't know if you guys remember, I was pumping myself full of hormones. Yup. Yup.

Don't take it too seriously because you guys are happy and that's all that matters. Yeah. That's why it's a great... Maybe you two need to gripe it out on a podcast together. Yeah. I think you were going to say like it out on a podcast together. Yeah. I think you're going to say like in bed or something. In bed. Finish every sentence in bed.

Remember that? Yeah. You guys should go, gripe it out. In bed. Okay. Kristin, you told me that you wanted me to have a gripe. So. Yeah.

If you have one. Because you're not a gripey person. I'm not, but this one really grinds my gears. You know, Peter Griffin. Yeah. Oh. Puts the panties in a bunch. Yeah, so whenever we went to Vegas and stuff,

there was like a, and you even responded back to one. So this is why I thought you'd be perfect to bring this part up too. Cause there was a lot of people that were like, she should be with her son. Like, I feel like anytime I go to dinner or I go on a two night vacation somewhere, or do anything, that people in my comment section are like, why is she not with her son?

Why is she not posting only photos of her son? Why is she blah, blah, blah? Her son, she should only be with her son. And it is... You literally accrues like 24 hours. It is so unfair because I... You leave literally only like when you have to. Yeah, it's like for a job or something, mainly.

Or like, I think too, you're getting like glam at the studio for the show. People are like, oh, she's going to get ready and like look all cute. No, you know what I'm doing? I'm a mom 24-7 who finally is getting to get glammed up to do something. So I like to document whenever I'm actually getting glam

because I'm majority of the time running my son around 24 seven to 50. Running after him. I'm running after him, but not only running after him, running him around and doing all of his appointments and schools and sports and all these different things. Like 24 seven. No, you are with Cruz all the time. And when people act like, like, oh, she's in Vegas.

I'm like, I was there for two days. Two days. And I FaceTimed him three times a day, both days. And he got to be with his dad. And he has one nanny that is literally been with him, who is like all... It's like his aunt, basically. Yeah, she's with him.

It's like family. And those are the only two people that I ever have... Why do y'all do that? That I ever have help with, you know? Not all of you listeners, but why do... If you are one of those people, or you have a friend that is one of those people, who feels it's necessary to go online and like comment on someone you don't even know's

like Instagram page, something negative about her parenting and her son when you really don't know. Why guys, why? Tell me why I need to understand the assholes. It's Instagram. We like show like the fun parts and we show like, you know, like I'm in Vegas with my girl. So we did a highlight reel to show that. And because we were working, that was like a job for us.

That we are also like we do things for social media. Right. And we do collaborations. Like that's part of the way that I'm making money to support my son. Right. Like what do you want me to do? Stay home 24 seven and never do anything. The reason you're not posting when you're just at home and your sweats with Cruz is because you're with Cruz. Yeah. reason you're not posting when you're just at home in your sweats with Cruz is because you're with Cruz.

So you're not filming yourself when you're just being his mom. And then whenever I do that, I get said how horrible I look or anything like the paparazzi gets me and it's just like, oh, she looks horrible. She's not all done that. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So it's just like you can never win. But that just drives me crazy whenever I will, I'll literally be with him.

As soon as he wakes up, take him to school, pick him up, take him to speech, take, spend all day with him, play with him, have the best day ever. And then I'm like, oh, I'm gonna go have dinner with Kristin and I'll take a video of us at dinner. And then all of a sudden I'm never with my son. And I'm like, I'm literally going home

and he's gonna be there as soon as I get home. Like, it's just crazy how people just automatically assume that that's what your life is like. Like, I'm not a jet setter. I'm not flying around and going somewhere every night. Like, it's actually rare for me to go out places. I'm like, Vegas once in a while, you go to Kentucky mostly. But I take him with me. Yes. Right. That's what I'm saying, though. I'm trying to think you don't really travel. Like, we filmed in Hawaii for the show.

But like parents deserve that too. Like you deserve to get to go out and like have fun every now and then. Like you need a break every now and then. Especially because he's at an age where you can. Yeah. Because when he was a baby, you're not leaving him like that. Exactly. But now that he's...

And I miss him after like one second without him. So it's like, I don't know. You FaceTime him the whole time you're gone all the time. That's just something that like that really, that's my biggest gripe is like, I don't know. You FaceTime him the whole time you're gone all the time. That's just something that like that really, that's my biggest gripe. It's like, I don't get why people think that. Cause like in honesty, I'm not out all the time. Like I'm really not.

No. So I don't know. It's just weird. That's a good gripe though. Yeah. You do get to gripe about that. And then we light the gripe on fire. That's right.

And we send it off into the universe. Light the gripe on fire. That's right. We send it off into the universe. Light the gripe on fire. Light it on fire. Moral of the story is don't be an asshole and be nice. Yeah, don't always spread kind and be positive. But also, like Instagram is not everyone's entire life. It's not reality. Yeah. You show like Alexa Cruz in the background. He's like, Cosine mama. Yes.

Yeah, Cruz. Yeah. But yeah, just because I'm not showing I'm with him 24 hours a day doesn't mean I'm not because I am. Also, I'm not going to show him 24 hours a day. There's a difference, you know, like I want to go have fun and like take pictures with my friends. That's what you show on Instagram. Exactly.

Majority of the time. You post photos of, yeah, you're not gonna film with your son all day long. I do a balance. For the whole world to see. Yeah, exactly. Y'all be nice, spread kindness. When Brittany posts things, show her all the love.

Love only. For everybody, not me. For everyone, but especially parents. I want everyone to go much easier on parents because I totally agree with that. You never know what they're dealing with every day, either. Exactly. And especially when parents do it to other parents,

that just, that really grinds my gears as your friend. I'm like, I turn into like your security guard. I know, well, that's why I brought it up, because you responded back to somebody and was like, Britney is with Cruz 24-7, she's a great mom. I was like, thank you, because if I said that back to somebody, majority of people would be like, don't respond to haters. They're mean.

There's so much more love out there, and thank you for the people. There really is. There really is. We're just talking about our grapes right now, because there's so much more love out there. But somebody would either say, don't worry about it, don't respond to these people,

they're just trying to get you upset. And then there's other people that would be like, well, why aren't you with him now then? Or like continue on trying to make me feel guilty. And like mom guilt already sucks anyway. So it just is like, geez, like what is going on? So it's hard to even respond to people and like stick up for yourself. Yeah, for sure.

Oh, God, I can't even imagine. I mean, one day Luke and I have a baby. You experience it on different things. I do. It's anybody. But I think parenting is where it like really. Yeah, it like hits a knife in twist. Right in the heart.

Right in the web of my hand. Yeah, I mean, that's the most important thing I do in my life. So, you know. And this is the happiest boy in the world. Yes, perfect. Well, thank you for working and doing this with me. Of course, I love you.

While you're being a mom. And Cruz is the cutest little thing ever. Cruz, I love you. His little surfer boy hair right now. You guys, you wanna talk about dogs? We have three dogs in here, but Brittany has a big ginormous house. So there's that.

And- Maybe I should get more dogs. I was grateful for my apartment, but I'm much more grateful for the house. I know, you're in a house now too. Woo woo! It's like, oh my God. I was grateful for my apartment, but I'm much more grateful for the house. I know you're in a house now too. It's like, oh my God. I was telling Luke that the other day, I was like, I had so much gratitude

from after just traveling so much and going on all these small trips, like over and over, back to back. And then I get home and I'm at a house and not going into that small apartment. And I was like, oh my God, I need to thank you universe. Thank you God. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Yeah. Very blessed. Yes. Very much. Yeah. And for less, I'm happy for you to bless me. And on that note, thanks for listening. I'm

ready. Thanks so much for doing this. I love you. And listen obviously to Brittany's podcast when reality hits. Thanks, girl. Love you, bye. Love you. 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__rodrick. Be sure to click the subscribe button so you can stay up to date with new episodes. Thanks for listening. See you next week. with new episodes. Thanks for listening.

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