When Reality Hits with Jax and Brittany - Bless Your Heart! Brittany Puts Zack to the Test

Episode Date: July 17, 2026

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So everybody and welcome back to another episode of When Reality Hits. I have my longtime bestie and the Valley castmate, Zach Wickham on this week's podcast. Hi, honey. I mean, who else would it be at this point? You know what I mean? Exactly. I feel like I'm the number one guest on the, I think I've done it the most, right? Yeah.

You're the number one guest of the group. Yeah. I love it. I'm glad that that's finally being realized and recognized. I appreciate you coming out and saying that right away. Oh, yeah. Of course. You know, there is one thing, though, that I wanted to start off by saying I wanted to say hi

to a few fans that are listening. Hi, Lori. Hi, Jacks. Thank you so much for texting people and saying that, like, we need to watch what we say on this podcast because you'll be listening. So we just wanted to start off by saying hi, hi, guys. And all I'm going to say about this at this moment is I will be speaking my truth, the truth, on this matter very soon whenever I'm ready. As of right now, I am focusing on me and the most important thing in my life, which is my beautiful son.

And as of right now, I'm just trying to protect my son and my peace. And very soon I will be telling. And there's no reason to rush it. Yeah. No. I mean, I think everybody kind of understands what's going on. And I am sure we will all be tuned in. And then once you say your piece, oh, I can't wait to say mine.

Oh, yeah. Yep. So. But with that beating said. Yeah. Let's move on. Those people will never live rent free in my mind. Never.

Ever again. So let's go on to some funny stuff, some good, like, questions and like funny stuff to change the mood and just like enjoy. our day. I love it. Positivity only. You know what? I hope that nobody listens to your podcast for negativity because that would be.

I'm always trying to be positive, protecting my peace and giving people reasons and ways that they could help try to live a positive life too, even whenever horrible things have happened to them. Like, I want to be an example of somebody that can help with those things. Also, just being that lighthearted part of the day. Exactly. You know what I mean? Because like there's enough. darkness. I mean, everybody that watches the Valley says, you know, that they know

darkness. So, you know what? We're going to show you the lighter side today, guys. Yeah. We're going to talk about some like weird, not weird, but some fun pop culture stuff. I guess we can talk about some pop culture stuff before I get into these, like, fun games that I have playing for us. Obviously, everyone is talking about Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift's wedding. What do you think about it? I haven't talked to you about this really. I want to know when they're going to draw the documentary on it. It has to be a documentary or something. They,

you don't, because we haven't even seen a photo. I want to see her dress. There's only been three leaked photos. Oh, there's been leaked photos? Well, one guy,

he, this is why Zach is on to talk pop culture, pop culture, because I have no idea normally. I swear, Brittany is like, like,

I don't know, like a pop culture baby. Like, she's a newborn every single week that something in pop culture happens. Like, her entire frame of reference for pop culture,

culture is probably stuff that I've relayed to her. Probably. Like literally. So what were the late photos? There was one of someone's invitation. Okay. And it had, it's what they were all watermarked so that you knew who's invitation. Yeah.

Okay. So like you couldn't, you couldn't like erase that or whatever because it would like then screw up the thing. And then somebody posted like the entrance a little bit. There was like, you could see that there was like clearly they had made some huge. Because it was at Madison Square Garden. Oh yeah. So they transformed it to not look like a basketball gym or a concert video. Yeah, they said it was a castle.

I'm sure. A castle. And you know, that made me think when I saw that. I was like, wait, did she, I know she's a van of Pumper rules fan. I was like, did she have me to watch Jackson, Britney's wedding and take some, maybe some inspiration from that? Oh my God, hilarious. I need to see these pictures ASAP.

And apparently they also made a tiny castle for their cats for Taylor Swift's cats. Oh, how many cats does she have? like three i think oh my god those swifties are going to come after me if i get that wrong though so i don't want to be wrong and we're happy for them we might make some jokes here and there it's just like crazy because it was so secretive and everyone like was thinking it was madison square garden but then people were like why would it be madison square garden so that is what i was like i thought the same thing i'm like that's just such a random venue you wouldn't like even though it is a blank slate like you could build it out to be anything it's you know huge like

they have concerts there whatever it can be anything you want yeah but it's It's still weird. Like, why? So, there's actually some pretty big reasons why it would. One, I didn't know this about Madison Square Garden. There is only, like, basically there's, like, the front part where you enter, and there's only one underground tunnel from another way. There is not a lot of entrances and exits. So that's why they had to cover everything with all those tents.

No, that was just the front where the cars came in. So they, like the... That was just to give the guest privacy. if they wanted it. Some guests just walked in. Yeah, because you saw a lot of photos of people walking in. But other than that, Madison Square Garden doesn't have windows. I didn't think of this. Like, there's so many that you can't get aerial shots. So like, let's say you do it in a stadium. Nope, aerial shots, whatever. Like, there's so many actual security advantages for Madison Square Garden. Makes sense. And it's probably like when she was growing up and never thought that she was going to be famous.

I wonder if like Madison Square Garden was like a dream. Now, I don't think Taylor Swift ever thought she wasn't going to be famous. But you're right. You know what I mean? But she was like, yeah. Nobody knows for sure they're going to be like a pop star. Right. And I'm sure she is. Right. And I'm sure she was like her dream would have been to play. That's what I'm saying. Right. And now she's getting married there. That's insane. Yeah. I wonder how much it cost. Oh my God. Well, she also, I love, I will say, She get everything for free because it's her wedding. I'm sure they paid for a lot. But I wonder like how that worked with people that are that rich. I feel like for her, she would have paid because of the security. But she probably got discounts or like I'm sure some people would have like gotten because when the documentary

comes out we're going to see everything that went into it hopefully that's the other thing I'm like we're just guessing a documentary I just wish that Taylor would tell us there's the documentary coming because I just want to know I just want to see it yeah but they're so good at what they do and that's why everyone wants to know well and she's just I mean I don't think there's another creative mind out there like Taylor's yeah she's just so she's so strong and like able to like I can't keep a secret for more than 10 minutes. And she's over here keeping Easter egg secrets for 10 plus years for her albums. Wow.

Yeah, that's so true. You know what I mean? So, okay, so don't attack me, Swifties, because I'm so happy for them and I think they're great and all this stuff. One thing, I was like, what is that? Whenever I first saw the Just Ante married, I thought it was AT&T collaboration and they made like a billion dollars with AT&T having like an AT&T logo in their wedding announcement. I like that's what it looked like

I think it was one of those things where they were like let's draw our names together and they were like this is cute and then they kind of ran with it but like it was just and T like I get there trying to use the T from just as like Taylor or Travis but like why not put just T and T married or like T and T like I don't know it just doesn't make it didn't make that much sense like with all the creativity

why was that what you just expected a little bit better yeah yeah I actually had that said because I just thought it was AT&T and I was like they just paid for everything with AT&T but the end is so much like yeah yeah and I know a lot of other people saw that it's almost like um not to switch so but like it's almost like when um because the world cup came and none of the stadiums could have branded names way you were telling me about this explain that really fast because that was wild so everybody in case you don't know when FIFA was here which I think it still has one last game. But when FIFA was here, all the stadiums like Gillette Stadium, you know,

you know, city, whatever the name of the brand is that's sponsoring the field, if they were not an official sponsor of FIFA, their name had to be covered up everywhere. This also included, like, in the suites of, like, the sweets that you would watch it from, the Heinz ketchup had to be covered. Anybody, any label that, and the workers could not even have Nike on their shoes. Even Nike? Even Nike because Adidas is the main sponsor. Exactly.

So a worker had accidentally worn like a small, like their Nike shoes that had a small check. They had to cover it up with tape. Oh, wow. And there was this one. Tell about the stadium thing. But the best thing. The best thing was Levi Stadium and Gillette Stadium.

So Levi's, they had to cover it up. And whoever's on their marketing team, geniuses. because can they work for me for a little bit i know right like i'm like i will i don't think i can pay more than them but like please help us the valley could use um a new theme song if you could help us because as everybody keeps telling us we're not all right so maybe we need another upbeat one with more accurate lyrics but um what they did was they covered it up with they had to cover up all the logos so they covered up the main big one on the outside with a sheet and it is but it was pre like the sheet was shaped exactly like the Levi's logo so the marketing team was like who's

know nobody's going to know and did like that meme or whatever or whatever that um tictox sound and then that went viral because obviously like you can cover it up all you want we know the shape of it exactly and then jillette ran with it and they covered up their jillette stadium with uh with shaving cream over it so it's like clearly it's jillette yeah which makes those things go even more viral. Exactly. And I thought that was so creative and so funny. Zach even bought a t-shirt from Levi's.

Yeah. With the sheet. By the way, I've never bought anything from Levi's before and I bought the sheet shirt because I was like, it worked. Y'all got me. So imagine how many other people did if you did. You know what I mean? For sure.

It was like, and I don't even care if like nobody understands it. It's the one, the people that get it, get it. And that's all I care about. Oh, yeah. I love it though. When you were telling me about that, I can only imagine how many hours and days and weeks or months, however long it took, how many employees it took to cover up every hind, every little thing that couldn't be shown. And there was one, so not all stadiums have like

the name in the stadium on like the seats and stuff, but there's this one stadium in Boston. I don't know what stadium it is, but it has the name, the brand name on every single seat. They had to go around and cover 61,000 individual seats with a little piece of tape. And then uncover. And then uncover it. Oh, I would hate that job. Your back would be killing you at the end of that. I'm like, I quit. I quit. I quit. I don't care that much.

I really just don't. I'm so sorry. That's take forever. Hopefully they had like those like little label guns that they can just go jupe instead of like having to individually do tape. I don't know how you would do that. Like yeah. Like would you roll it over?

Yeah. Oh, I don't even. The mind. Taking it off would be even worse. And how many people like how. Probably we're pulling it off anyway. There would have to be a hot. I don't even know.

Wild. Wild. Oh my gosh. Okay. let's do some fun little games unless there's anything else pop-cultory that you think we should hit on right now um i would like to say so um the only other thing was that ariana grande you know went back to her ex now oh is that okay so i did say that she changed the she saw that she changed the lyrics in her song ricky right and ricky was in the audience and he like high-fived her dad they're actually back together

he's pretty cute you know they're never gonna let's be real they're never gonna like fully say yay or nay, but like they always, they have gone back to each other a few times. He's always, how nice. How nice. Not like, saying. The last time you went back to somebody, it didn't work out. Oh, no. I'm never going back to anyone from my past ever again. I'm glad we learned that lesson after this time. But you know what? I've learned that lesson in the past too. Yeah. We all learn it. Yeah. But I think they're back together. And I think it's really cute because I think it's someone that she has known forever. And he's cute. He's hot.

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The last one was just like, what are you doing, girl? So I think that's what we- They just bonded over like the musical stuff, I think. The last boyfriend. Because whenever I saw that too, I was like, huh? What? I don't know. Even with his shirt off, I'm like, I don't know. Like, I'm not, there's got, maybe there's something hidden. You know what I I mean, hidden that, like, is the prize, but... Yeah, maybe he's packing. The things that aren't hidden, I don't see the prize. Yeah.

So... Well, I mean, obviously, talented. And they had the musical stuff together. Yeah, I guess. You know, they bonded over. I mean, you know, I, you know, I remember there was this guy that I dated. We ended up dating for three, like, almost three years. But six months into our relationship, I was going to break up with him.

But I broke my foot and then got really depressed and then got fat, like two months. later because I was working from home. And so then I was just like, I'll stay with him because I'm like, my foot is broken and I'm fat. Now I don't want to like go try to find a new boyfriend. So I just kept him for three years until I was finally like, yeah, I'm going to move to Los Angeles. I think we should break up.

Oh my God. You know what I mean? Like I get it. You know what I mean? Sometimes we just, you know, situational. Yep. Relationships. Yep.

But I'm glad that she got out of that because Ricky is hot. Yeah. he is and I thought that was cute how she did it like just barely changed the lyrics and he was there watching oh god it's just like that's when um taylor did that too and her yeah yeah remember she did that i'm like uh it's i wish i wish i could sing so then i could do that for somebody in my life but we wish we could sing so bad we sing anyway whether unfortunately to other people's like but that's only like in my backyard or in the car i unfortunately got drunk the other day and and did it in front, like, out of karaoke things.

No. I won't even do karaoke hardly ever, unless we have, like, a private rented room with, like, just your close friends. Yeah, like that, of course. But I, I don't know how, I don't know how I, yeah, I just, unfortunately, I just, the, the spirit, as they say, came over me. And I was like, I need to be on that stage. And I got, and I was like, oh, no, why?

What song did you sing? Oh, I sing a musical song that has high, high, high notes. And Brittany, when I say I belted every single one of them. What song? I know you guys can't see it, but listen to Britney's reaction when I show everybody's face in the audience. No, and you saw it while you were up there? No, I didn't. I was drunk.

Of course I didn't see it. They were all clapping and cheering for me for all I knew. It was a very unsatisfying face. They were like, oh, geez. It's like that emoji with all the teeth just showing. Yeah. What song, though? You never said.

It's from, it's called, I think. So you didn't even do it like a popular crowd pleasing song? No. Oh, Lord. And it's a really hard song. And I'm not sure. And I was singing two parts. Because there was two, it's a, it's a duet.

Please, what's the name of it? It's from the music. I think it's from Tick, tick, boom, and it's called therapy. Okay. And if you guys hear it, it's like not an easy song. I don't even know what it is off the top of my head. Because nobody should.

Because that's how deep of a dive it is. It's not, it's not really funny that you never. seen karaoke, but the fact that you chose a song that like hardly anybody would know. And that it like has notes that I cannot hit. I love it. You were just living your best life. Oh, I was. Your best life.

Okay. Let's do some fun little friend games. Who's most likely to? Okay. Okay. Oh, I love this. Who's most likely to accidentally start drama? You.

Me? You. Oh, and you know what? Everybody on this podcast will be like, duh. I like how you're like, you're like, you're like, oh, why me? Because you accidentally do it all the time. I intentionally do it.

Right, true. I would be the one who accidentally does it because I have good meaning behind it. I do. Yeah, you do. But then it's like, but you should know better sometimes. But you're like, what? No. But I said that to help.

And I was like, well, you didn't. Well, actually, I did. We can't talk about the valley. But I did kind of help a relationship move on there for a while. Oh, okay. You know what I mean? Without going into too much detail, you know? Tune in.

Yeah. But you know what I'm saying. I know what you're saying. Right now it's like, good. Well, you know, I always say there's nothing like a, there's nothing like a, what would we call it? Like a, you know, an issue or a conflict or whatever to like bring people together. What? What? Oh my God. See, this is my concussion coming in where I can't think of a word for.

His concussion is still working against him. No, I'm serious. I forget words all the time that are simple words. What are you going through right now? Like you, like not an emergency, but like you're going through like a crisis or whatever to pull people together. You know what I mean? I guess. That's what people are. Well, I mean, and it's not really a crisis because like you're like, have fun people. But you know what I mean. Like, okay, we'll digress. Okay, next question. But we were talking about a different situation. We were talking about me accidentally starting drama. Who is my, I already know the answer to this one.

Who's most likely to be late? Yeah, you better just sit over there and laugh. Definitely me. Yeah. No, not late. Four days late. I'm that person, though. Like, I put it on my story recently.

And it was like Patrick Star, or Patrick Star, is that his name? Yeah. From Spongeball? he's sitting on the bed in a robe and his hair and his little starhead wrapped in a towel and he's just sitting on a bed staring at his face and it's like me waiting around so I could rush at the last minute to get ready um I think his name is just Patrick but Patrick Star because he's Starfish I thought Patrick Star was the makeup person I think that is a makeup person too oh okay but isn't Patrick Star the character oh I thought his name was just Patrick?

It probably is just Patrick and I'm saying Patrick Star because of the yeah either way I know exactly Everybody knows exactly the meme you're talking about. Because literally I can see it right now. And for anybody who's ever wondering, that, like, I have been an executive assistant for many, many celebrities, millionaires, whatever. Now, most of them do the same thing Brittany does. And I... It's anxiety.

I have... Okay. But I have had... It's anxiety for me, too, when people won't go. So the thing is... No, but I think I have gained over everything that's happened to me in the... like especially over the past couple of years, I've gained a lot more social anxiety that I ever had in my entire life.

Oh, no, I will, you know what I mean? No, I 1,000% agree that it is from a place of like... And then like, I can't focus. Like, I'll start getting ready. It's almost like ADHD too. That isn't, that isn't diagnosed. Like, I'll be getting ready. And then I'm like, you know, I can't just sit there.

Like, if I sat there and did my makeup, I would probably be ready in 30 minutes. But I sit there and then I get up and I go get a coffee or I go outside or I go play with a cruise or I play with a dog. or I start organizing something on the countertop that does not matter. It took us eight hours to get Kristen and Brittany to do. Yeah, if Kristen was here, it'd be a tie. Well, no, you guys are, you guys are the worst. But we admit it.

We admit it. We live with it. Yeah, but like, but I live with it. You guys are it. I live with it. But that's why you come over and help me get shit done. Like today, he was over. And even though I can get stuff done by myself,

but like sometimes I just need somebody to come over. and be like, okay, let's focus. Everybody needs that. You know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, so I'm thankful for you. But I will say, I will say, the other funny thing with that is, like, with you and Kristen, or if you guys were here and I was like, hey, okay, I just trick you all.

I just lie to you. Yeah, people are doing that to me now and I've already clocked it. People start being like, the movie's at 530 and really it's at 630 and I'm like, wait a second. Yeah, but stop clocking it. It's for your own benefit. Stop trying to see that we're lying. we're trying to help you be on time to things see this is the fresh because I've had so many people do that in the past

when I've tried to trick them and then it's like they catch on and I'm like stop talking to other people then I have to lie to other people tell Britney to come 20 tell her it's 20 minutes earlier everybody has to be in and the lie yeah that's hilarious okay who's most likely to cry during a movie I would say me but I would say both of us we're both yeah kind of a tie we're both because if it's an animal you're I'm done.

Oh my God. Did you watch Wild Robot? I don't know if, is that a new one? It, like three years old? Oh, actually I took cruise to the movie theater, but it was a, he wasn't, he was a lot younger then. So you were more focused on. Yeah, and we didn't get to stay the entire movie.

But I did watch that. Wild Robot is the saddest. It's one of the greatest, it's one of the greatest animated movie, but it's one of the, I cried, me and Benji watched it. Like, it's like a, like, like we were hungover on a Sunday. and we're like, oh, let's watch this at like 1 p.m. in the afternoon. We are sobbing multiple, not just like once like the, you know, the Lion King, oh, like Mufasa dies or oh, like, you know, whatever happened.

No, not just like one or a couple tears, sobbing multiple times. Yeah, like for Cruz even, because Cruz is a little impasse like me. And anytime Frozen, like Elsa, I have a video of him whenever he was a baby, baby, watching Frozen and Elsa was doing like, do you want to listen or whatever that is in like the sad parts, you know? And he just is like looking at the movie and little tears were in his eyes and he was like his little bottom lip was puckering. It's a really cute video just because it shows he's such an empath, but it was so sad.

So now I fast for it. Like he never has seen Mufa Sida on the Lion King on live action or animated. And I can't even watch it. I didn't need to see it when I was a kid. That's another thing. You want to talk about like why millennials are the way we are. look at blame Disney yeah because every Disney had a dead mother so it starts off with a dead mother or the mother dies or like then then it had they had a mother but then the father dies there's always death and like a thousand things that is why we are traumatized as adults don't blame anything out don't blame video games no but it's Disney's and okay I you know I love Disney so I'm not hating at all but until recently all the princesses I like my trauma all the princesses had a prince that's save them. So I always believed in love and the fairy tale and all that stuff. And it's just

recently. Disney lied to you. Disney is a liar. They're a dirty, dirty, lying corporation. I love them. Okay. I love this next game. We could go on for hours about that one, but this one is late. We could go on for hours about anything. Anything. Okay. So this next game I want to play with you because as most people know, Zach and I are both from Kentucky. Okay. And we've been best friends since way longer before we moved to LA. We've talked about this many times. It's on a show, blah, blah, blah, but some people listening.

Might be new listeners, who knows. But we've been friends for years and years and years before Zach ever moved to L.A., before I ever moved to L.A. And people, a lot of the times, will tag me or Zach or anything. And we were talking about this the other day. Like, why is Brittany's accent so thick

and Zach doesn't have an accent? Like, they're both from Kentucky. And I responded and tagged Zach, and I was like, we're from different parts of Kentucky. He's from Louisville, which is the very top of Kentucky. And it's a huge. It's like our biggest city. It's the biggest city.

Yeah, the biggest city in Kentucky. I'm from a freaking tobacco farm in the middle of nowhere. Yeah, I'm like, yours has like 20,000 people. Mine has 1.3 million. Yeah. So vastly different. And it doesn't even matter how high or low or to the west or to the east of Kentucky you are. There are people who have such thick accents because they're like in the haulers or they're like a different.

places. It really doesn't matter, you know, because it could be people from all over Kentucky that have different accents. Kentucky has a lot of different accents. Yeah, yeah. But I feel like a lot of states. But my whole family has my accent. So when people try to act like my accent isn't real or something, I'm like, go back and watch Jacksonbury to Kentucky. Watch my entire family talk. And every time I come home back from Kentucky, my accent is like even thicker sometimes because it's like I'm being back around the fam. Well, I will say like sometimes when like we're drinking like later or whatever, like late at night or whatever and then like my my like I can pull or when I go home sometimes with my other friends like it pulls yeah yeah but like in general yeah but mine's never gonna go

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And you did not grow up on a farm. You've been to my farm. But we lived very different childhood. I was very, you know, city oriented. Yes. And you were very country oriented. Exactly. So I'm going to say some sayings. I want you to guess what they mean. Some will be obvious. Some you might have to think about. But I want to know what your honest opinion of what these country sayings mean. Okay.

Okay. First one's an easy one. Bless your heart. that means fuck you but it means oh you think you cute that's exactly what that means correct i'm gonna give you points for when you get them correct okay perfect so correct that one deserves a lot of points for that extra yes so that one can be sweet or a very polite insult polite insult okay i've never seen that be sweet in my life unless they're calling you like Well, I've, like, talked about, like, a little cute baby, like, oh, blizzard whore. Like, so cute, you know, like, or a little dog or something. Like, we definitely say it in nice ways in the country, too.

I guess it's just because I only use it in shady ways. Exactly. But you did get it right, because it could be either one. Okay. I'm finer than a frog hair. Well, I mean, mainly because frogs don't have hair. So that means you're so fine. It should just be, like,

non-existent, well, or it's like, yeah, like non-existent or like, existent, but like you're so fine. It's like the finest of fine. Easy answer. I'm doing great. Okay. You know what? I need to stop thinking so hard. Yeah, yeah.

Just like, yeah, because you were trying to go like out there. It's non-existent. I'm so fun. My city brain. I'm so fun. It's not existed. It's just being like, I'm doing great. That's hilarious.

This is fun. That dog won't hunt. That means like that whatever that statement is, it holds no, no ground. No grounds. Yeah. Because it's like, yeah. That idea isn't going to work. That idea ain't going to work because that dog is lazy.

He's all hat and no cattle. Okay, well, I'm assuming because a hat is made of hide. So he killed all his. I don't know That was Just think about it He's all hat and no cattle Oh

Oh He's a cowboy But he doesn't know how to like lasso So he's all talk You're taking it too serious No It is someone who talks big But can't back it up

Right But that's what I meant Like so you can't actually lasso the cow But you're taking it like Instead of it being like broad You're being like very specific Like he's claiming to be a cowboy But he don't know how to lasso

But listen, I like science and I like facts, okay? So I have to see, okay, how are we getting from A to B? I just like to be more scientific. Okay. She's as happy as a dead pig in the sunshine. I feel like a dead pig and sunshine is not happy and smells very bad. So I'm going to go, she ain't happy at all. For some reason, because I would agree with you, very happy is what that means.

I don't actually, I've never heard this one, but some of these are, I've heard all of these. Do pigs like to die? That's what I'm saying. The fact that it's dead pig in the sunshine is a little weird, but I still wanted to hear what you thought it meant. Maybe if it's like big pig in the sunshine, I'd be like, okay, I guess they like heat maybe, but yeah, that's weird. You can't make a silk purse out of a salsier. You can't, yeah, you know what's so funny is some of these I could use without knowing how to explain them, but it would be used properly. Right.

So I guess if I was explaining this, I'd be like, you know, if you're going to. gonna, like if you're gonna build a building, you have to be an architect. You can't not be an architect to like, you know what I mean? I think that's it. I would count that. It means you can't make something fancy out of something with poor quality. Right. Yeah.

Okay. If the creek don't rise. What does that mean? That saying. If somebody's talking in, they're like, if the creek don't rise. Creeks always rise in my, in my opinion. Well, and they just rose in West Hollywood today. We have now a sinkhole in the middle of.

Oh, Lord. Sunset Boulevard. I don't know what the... Say it again. Do it again. Okay. If the creek don't rise. If the creek don't rise, then Jesus ain't real.

I don't know. It's like that. Like, I can't... What is it? If everything goes as planned. Really? Like, if the creek don't rise, because if you, like, are on the farm and the creek rises, that could, like, mess up your plans of, like, cutting grass or something with your cattle or anything.

If the creek don't rise, everything's going on. Everything's going as planned. Well, see, and that's, but in my thing, I'm like, creeks always rise, so it's always a problem. Yeah. But, okay. You better get this one, because I've said this many times. He's slower than molasses in January.

Oh, I mean, molasses doesn't, yeah, that means they stupid. They're very slow. They don't. Well, I'll be. I'm shocked. Yes. See, I could do, okay. Yes.

Lord Willing. if the if the great lord above will shine his light down it will happen hopefully everything works out yeah that'll put a hair on your chest i think i said that same thing right that'll put a hair on your chest well i hate hair on chest but i like to drink as much as hair would be on my chest so um but yeah it's like yeah what do you think it means like you'll become a man if you drink that. Yeah, like if you take a shot of bourbon or something, a strong salt or something spicy or something. Or if you do something like quote unquote masculine or manly, it's like that'll put some hair on

your chest. Like, I don't know, driving a tractor or something. I say this all the time. I'm fixing to. That's actually one of my, that's one of my pet peeves is I hate the word fixing. But it means I'm like going to. I'm thinking about. Yeah, I'm about to.

Okay. Don't get above your raisin. Don't get above your raisin. I'll try to say them in the way they would be spoken. I have, I actually can't even. Okay. I would assume above a raisin is the sun. So don't get above the sun.

So you're the devil. Why do you think the sun? I don't know. Because raisins in the sun like grapes become raisins. Oh, you're taking it literal like a raisin like that you eat. Oh, you're saying how you were raised. Yes. Don't get above your raisin.

So don't forget where he came from. Got it. Don't get above your raising, y'all. He's got a hitching his giddy up. He's horny. He's walking funny or isn't feeling his best. Oh, really? Yeah, he's got a hitch in his giddy up.

Yeah. I think I actually think I've used that wrong. I think I'm always like, oh, he's got a hitch in his giddy up. Not me. I totally have always used that one wrong. I've definitely said this one. Colder than a witch's tit. Oh yeah.

You say that all the time. I guess because witches have cold hearts and then they only, you know, they're usually associated with dark places and cold things that their tithas are always in, you know, the erected position. So very cold. So very cold. Matter than a wet hen. I guess hens getting wet is bad.

So you're just really fucking mad. Okay, good. Ain't got no pot to pee in. You're poor. Yep. So I don't know why sometimes it takes me so long to think about like what. Well, when you don't go too like literal with the words, you do. You get it better, I feel like.

Well, also the thing is I, with some of these phrases, it's like I know it. But then I'm like, I don't know how to explain what it is. I just use that phrase. But that's why I wanted to hear what you think of that. That's hilarious. Y'all come back now, you hear? That means never come back. Thank you so much.

No, it's a friendly goodbye. No, I know, but that is what I mean when I say it. Y'all come back here. That means get the fuck out. Don't you ever step foot on my property line again? Oh, my God. Okay. More nervous than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.

That means you have an anxiety disorder and go to the psychiatrist immediately. Extremely nervous. Uglier than a homemade. sin. I like all sins, so I don't know. What's ugly? Like, so really, like, you're doing something real bad. Like you're an ugly person.

Uglier than a homemade sin. Very unattractive. Okay. That's a weird one. I've never heard that. Have you heard that? Yeah. Oh, I don't know.

Here's a just, we're going to do just words now instead of sayings, okay? What's a cat, a catty wampus? Oh, my God. I know. Or what does catty wampus mean? Yeah, it means like, oh my God, I've used this before. It means, I'm just going to say, wonky. That's good enough, crooked or a skew.

Yeah, like. A hissy fit. It's all catty wampus. You better know hissy fit. Yeah, it's what I do every day that I have to deal with certain people. A tantrum. Tump over. I would assume just tip over

Yeah mash the button I don't know that one Just another way to say press the button Okay well some of these are stupid Kind of like how a lot of people say scoot over But I would say scoge over You know?

Oh okay Just like another way to say it Oh yeah okay Carry me to the store Get in my car Yeah just like give me a ride Yeah Write smart

Like WR or RI Like if I was saying it, I'd be like, he's right smart. Oh, he's very smart. No, he's a lot. Like a lot to handle. I guess I'm right smart then. You better know this one. Reckon.

I reckon I'm gonna. Yeah, of course. What does it mean? I mean, I want to hear like an actual answer. The vocabulary B that I'm going to that I haven't been through since eighth grade, I think I'm going to. Yeah, I suppose I think. I suppose I think.

Yeah. Okay, last one before we move on to something else. Thank God. Plum wore out. Yeah. You're, you're wore out. You're too much. You're completely exhausted.

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Things we're officially too old for. Number one. Because we're going to have different takes on this. We're going to have vastly different takes. This is a great one because I'm too old for absolutely nothing. Okay, here we go. Clubs until 3 a.m.

My clubs stay up until 6 a.m. So I don't understand what clubs. Like, I'm, I'm too young. Us in Mexico. You still got a concussion, like, got stitches and everything and still wanted a party. In case people are wondering, I got eight stitches. Oh, wow, eight, yeah.

But he's doing great now other than sometimes I can't remember stuff. I did have a concussion for five months after. Gosh. Yeah. That was wild, but I'm glad you're okay. I'm glad it wasn't worse because it could have been worse. So that was scary. Oh, and in case anyone else is wondering because a lot of people were like, why'd they let him drink?

I didn't. Yeah, you didn't drink after. If they wouldn't, like, some people don't pay it. attention. Like, every time we're out, like, the whole season before we got to Mexico, I never had one drink. I had to be sober because of my surgery. But I guess people thought I was drinking because I had like a Diet Coke or like, you know, something in my hand. But it's like, well, hold on. Yeah. Like, just because we're out and like, even if we go to dinner, that doesn't mean everybody's drinking that day, you know? And Jasmine brought you a Diet Coke. I know we can't

talk about too much, but this is just something silly. Yeah, but they did say that. But also, it's just like, I wanted to make that clear. Like, Benji did not let me drink. I tried to drink. I tried to pull a Daniel and tried to drink under the table. Benji was not having it. Oh, my God. I'm just kidding.

No, that's hilarious though. Okay. Well, for me, Club still 3 a.m. is not really in my life anymore. It was never in your life back of the day. You'd always be like, I'm ready to go. Back in the day, day, though, before L.A., before kids. Even, like, sir days.

Like, we would be out all night. The sur days. But since I've been a mom, oh, my God. Me and La La La, I went to Vegas for like 12 hours the other day because she wanted to whisk me away from all this crazy drama in my life. And we stayed out until 4.30 in the morning. Oh, my God. I'm so proud of you.

I cannot believe it. What club did you go to? Omnia. I love Omnia. Yeah. But just wild. We were like, what is our life? Like, she was just trying to make it.

Also, you two are the both, like, you both are very large grandmothers when it comes to, like, time. Lala's always like, okay, I've done my duty of being your friend and being here. We did a great job. We were so proud of ourselves. I'm proud of you. Okay. Uncomfortable shoes. What about them?

Well, the thing is, is we're officially too old for, so we have to say, are we too old or are we not too old? Oh. Uncomfortable shoes. No. Absolutely not. I will wear uncomfortable shoes until the day I die if they're pretty. Me too, and I love my red bottoms, my lubitones, and they are the most uncomfortable shoes

ever, but what I will do in my 30s now is I bring my slides and then I put them on whenever they're going to be seen. Instead of going to the club and taking them off and going barefoot, you have the slides, too. I love that you're talking about the club and I'm over here talking about like, if I go to press, I will wear my slides and then put them on whenever I got on camera. But no, I love shoes. I have so many shoes in my closet. And Cruz has so many shoes.

I love shoes. I always have. Yeah, me too. And also, like, a lot of my shoes, like, because they're not as uncomfortable, obviously, as heels. But my shoes, I can't, like, I won't be able to get that addition or that special one. I'll have to get it in a different size on eBay. Yeah. And so I'll just have to wear a smaller shoe size because I'm a 13.

And so it's like, I can barely get shoes in a 13. It's like, I'm stuffing it in there. And I've stuffed my feet in 11s before. Oh, my gosh. And just like toes, like, curled, like, do not care. Oh, my gosh. Sharing hotel rooms. I mean, yeah, absolutely.

No, I mean, no, because we're very much like, we like to be around. Yeah, I'm like half and half. I don't mind it. I don't mind it. Like, me and Law, I went to Vegas. We shared a hotel room. Like, it was one night. I would, I do, though, like my own space because whenever I am on vacation and I'm not with

crews for a change and don't have three dogs and crews crawling all over me all night long, then I would love to have my own space. but I'm definitely not above it or anything like that. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like Santa Barbara when Kristen put us in the Harry Potter Servant's Quarter room without air conditioning. And you spilled the French onion dip in the bed and just put a towel over it. And then just slept on it because, you know, yolo.

Yolo. Hilarious. Okay. Okay, let's do this one. Kentucky versus Hollywood. What was some of the funniest culture shocks to you whenever you first. moved to L.A. Oh, funniest?

Yeah, or just like culture shops in general. For me, none of them were funny. Yeah. Like, the worst one was parking. Well, also, I remember when I was officially decided I was moving here and whatever, I had a map and I put your address on. I put... Like a handwritten, like a map that you draw on.

No. Hilarious. No. I did it on Google. You can like put people's at, so there was a star. Yeah. So it was like you and one other person. person I put there. And so I was like, okay, let me look in this vicinity. I had like a five mile radius in

park it was so hard. And I remember, especially whenever I first lived in Korea town. Exactly. And I lived on Hollywood Boulevard, the stupidest decision I ever could have made. And I was only like three miles from you. And it would still take 30 minutes. And it was just such a nightmare. Parking, not even so much the how bad the traffic is. It's how bad when you get to whatever destination is that the parking is. Parking was so bad at that first apartment that I moved here into in Korea Town that my car got towed and I, like, it was $1,000 to get out and I didn't even have $1,000. And I took out a loan instead of asking my partner at the time to help me because I am that independent and I always have been. And in case anyone was wondering, she never did a payment. People say that about me all the time that I like sought after him and I tried this and I did all this for money and all this stuff.

I'm like, I literally have always paid for myself. The entire time. Like, Lord. I know. So stupid. But we just talked about parking. That's the only reason I thought about that. For me, which that was crazy, the parking.

I think a lot of it, too, that was so different because like in Kentucky, especially in the country. You drive down the road, somebody's on their tractor. They wave at you. Wave, yeah. You let somebody in front of you, they wave to thank you. You always, if somebody has their blinker on, you let them over. No one does that. no one will let you over.

You have to drive like a bad out of hell and just do it. And I hate driving in L.A. because of that because it is scary as heck. And I'm not saying everybody's mean because, of course, LA is a lot of transplant. Well, we're here, so we're nice. Yeah, it's not everyone. But that was something I really noticed. And also, nobody talks to each other in the elevators.

Nobody talks to each other in the grocery lines. Like, when I first moved here, I was like, this is so weird. Yeah, I will agree with all those things too. Like, a lot of my biggest shocks were, like, from, like, politeness standards. Yeah. And then, um, also all of them have to do with, like, driving. And knowing your neighbors. Oh, yeah.

Like, oh, absolutely not here. It's so strange. Even in my, even in apartment complexes, some, some are a little bit better, but even, like, you're, you might have friends. Like, I don't know any of my neighbors. I do. But you don't know everybody on your street. Yeah. Those were like big differences to me.

Okay, well, I thought that was so fun. Thanks for making me laugh and being a wonderful friend like always. I love you, Zach. Duh. I love you. I love you more. Two questions. I always ask everybody before they get off.

I've asked you a million times. Let's see if they've changed. If you could be on any reality TV show, what would it be? Every reality TV show that exists because my presence would lighten and brighten every single one of them. Pick one. But if I had to pick one, obviously, until I, I'm on it, it's going to be traitors. Yeah, you've said that many times.

But I will be on it. Okay. We're going to manifest that for you. Man up. Man up. Manifest it. Okay. And then who is your favorite reality TV start at the moment?

At the moment. Actually, I'm going to go with Ariana Berman from NextGen. Yeah. NYC. I love her. I love her mom, Kim. You know, she's my girl. And Ariana, I've met her many, many times, FaceTime with her.

All these things. She's great. She's actually doing Watchravens Live with Kristen. Oh, fun. And I'm going with Kristen. Yeah. But I met her at BravoCon. She's so sweet.

But then I just like watched the first couple episodes. I haven't seen them yet. But I know a lot of the cast. I mean, I met them and stuff. Yeah. But she just is like, she's just so much.

She's just so mature but also funny. Yeah. And that's a really hard combination to have. Yeah. I can see it. Awesome. All right. Zach, tell everybody where to find you.

Zach Wickham on Instagram, Z-C-K. And then on TikTok. It is the Zach Wickham because some stupid Jinzier got my name first. Same exact thing you say every time. Because I'm still mad about it. Oh my God. It's so funny. Okay.

Well, and of course, make sure you guys are tuning in to the Valley and watching Zach and I every Wednesday at 8 o'clock and next day on streaming on Peacock and, of course, the after show as well. Because the after show is honestly so good. It's so, so good. I do my best work there. All right, guys. I love you all. again, thanks everyone for all the love and support.

Please keep, like, having my back. And I promise, you know, I will be talking soon. She'll have yours too. Yes, yeah. I just appreciate so much of the support. It's been very good. And me and crews are just, you know, having the best time and enjoying life and just taking care of each other.

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