When Reality Hits with Jax and Brittany - BravoCon Prep, Puppy Drama & Halloween Backlash

Episode Date: November 8, 2025

Brittany is back with a full recap of her epic Victorian Vampire Halloween party — from blood-red pools to edible glitter cocktails. She opens up about celebrating the holidays as a single mom, the online backlash over Cruz’s stroller, and how she’s healing (both physically and emotionally) after her mommy makeover. Plus, she spills on BravoCon prep, her chewed-up Louboutins, and answers fan questions about dating, co-parenting with Jax, and life in LA.Please support the show by checking out our sponsors!Jones Road Beauty: Use code Realityhits at jonesroadbeauty.com to get a Free Cool Gloss with your first purchase!Nutrafol: Nutrafol is offering our listeners $10 off your first month’s subscription and free shipping when you go to Nutrafol.com and enter the promo code REALITYHITS Quit With Jones: Ready to quit for good? Go to quitwithjones.com/REALITY to start your personalized quitting journey and get $10 off with code REALITYHiya Health: Receive 50% off your first order when you go to hiyahealth.com/REALITYHITSTonal: Go to Tonal.com and use the promo code REALITYHITS to get $200 off your Tonal purchaseSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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I just love the holidays, Halloween, Christmas, Thanksgiving, all in a row. So I'm very excited for Thanksgiving, ready to start decorating for Christmas. I mean, it is time. I cannot believe it is already November. Time is absolutely flying. If you guys follow me on social media, you probably saw, and I talked about it a little bit last week, that I had my Victorian vampire masquerade and it was a party at my house in my backyard and it was probably my favorite party that I have thrown so far. It was all red and black and amazing and

bloody and I just thought that it was such a good theme and everyone came dressed to the nines. So I was so proud of everyone and everyone looked amazing. There wasn't one person that did not come to the house on theme and looking amazing. So that was awesome. I partnered again with picnic and petal. They're my party planners and they are amazing. I just have ideas and send them like things that I see and things that I want and they take my ideas and run with them and make them absolutely amazing. It was probably, like I said, it was probably my favorite party I've ever had. I we had my poolhouse covered with like black drapes we had red draped area that was for a photo op we had a bar with a big rose wall behind it um that said gosh what did the sign say

pick your poison the sign said pick your poison on this beautiful um rose wall like a big flower wall that was made by wonder wall oh see they do all my flower walls they did it for the party that I threw for Jasmine and Alyssa for their engagement party as well. We had bartenders. It was just, it looked absolutely amazing. We had these huge candles that were red that were all lining the pool and all around the backyard. I had red light shining into the pool so it looked like blood, especially in the hot tub where it was like boiling. I really, I wanted everything to be bloody because we're vampires, you know? And I just thought it turned out so great. I had to put this little cover on the pool and I can't get in there so I had to have one of my friends with really

long arms try to put this little red light cover over top of the pool so that at night the light would shine through and it made the pool red and then we had extra lights like also shining on the pool and it just turned out awesome the fault that had a fog machine everything just turned out even better than I could have imagined I had this huge charcuttery board over my island on the inside and I always use the same company bone apachease which is such a cute name And it was a huge full-sized skeleton, and the meat was, like, wrapped around the bones, so you would pick off the little meat, the salami or prosciutto, or whatever it was. And there was the cheese, the crackers.

I did, like, a candy bar, so I had all different, like, vampire-themed candies. And I found these, do you guys remember back in the day, there was these, like, wax teeth, and they had big red lips, and they had fangs. And kids, whenever I was a kid, you would just wear them around, and they had flakes. you wouldn't actually eat them, but you would like chew on them and throw them and spit them out. I found those. So I had those. I had like body part suckers. I had like eyeballs. I had brains. I had these little containers that were actually jelly beans, but they said like blood bags or something like that on it. So everything was very on theme and I loved it. At the bar, I had the bartenders

made drinks that were in blood bags. And I had this little like luster dust. stuff, this like edible dust that's red with glitter. So we put that in all the drinks so that no matter what you got, it looked like you were drinking blood, which I thought was awesome. And we made jello shots, red jello shots and these like big syringes. So that was super cool as well. My friend Lindy, she came into town. And then my best friend Kara also came to town and surprised me the day of the Halloween party. I was sitting at the nail salon because one of my nails on my middle finger broke because I was rushing around. and I went to grab something and I hit my middle finger nail on the counter while I was reaching for something on the ground.

It hurt so bad. It hurt like a bitch, but I like went to the nail salon to get it fixed and all of a sudden somebody taps on my shoulder and it was Kara. I was so excited because she did not tell me that she was coming. So it was awesome to have Kara and, um, and Lindy there from back home. Of course, Kara lives in Vegas now, but Lindy still lives in Kentucky. So it was just amazing to be able to spend that time with them. And the party just went awesome. I thought it was so cool.

And, of course, trick-or-treating. I had, as I talked about before, I had made Cruz this bag, and it had three different little buttons on it so that he could press them whenever he goes trigger-treating, since he is nonverbal, one that says, happy Halloween, one that says trick-or-treat, and one that says thank you. And he used it for a couple times, and it was great, and everybody liked it and thought it was like so creative and sweet and everybody was very like nice and very it was it was very it was taken very well so I was very happy about that but Cruz only made it like three or

four houses and fell asleep and then I just walked around with Janet and Jason and Cameron and they were so cute Janet was a nurse Cameron was a little doctor and Jason was the patient in the wheelchair because yes a lot of people asked but Janet and them talked about it on their social medias and everything as well so I can't too but yes jason heard his knee so he really was a patient me and him were in um recovery at the very same time we were texting each other every day what shows are you watching while we're like laying in bed 24-7 so that was just such a cute little costume and we had a great time got i had these little light up skeleton lights all over cruz's outfit or all over cruz's stroller and him and i

both were skeletons and i put white hair gel in my hair and his hair and that just made it look a little bit cuter and where Cruz has sensory issues with his autism I had two different costumes so I had a costume skeleton costume for him that matched mine completely it was like if you saw it on instagram mine was a full body zip up black skeleton costume and I had one for Cruz too but he hated the zipper because it went up the front and like kind of almost like a turtleneck and he just did not want to wear it. So I had a backup, which was a black t-shirt and black pants and then his little black and white Nikes. And he just looked so cute. So I'm glad that I had that. He did have a great time. The day before trick-or-treating, he wasn't feeling great. He swims every day.

So he had a little bit of swimmer's ear that he was dealing with. So I definitely wanted to take his stroller whenever we went trick-or-treating because even though he wasn't contagious, didn't have a fever, anything like that, I knew that he still wasn't one. 100% and I posted the photos of Cruz and I on Halloween and we got so many good comments, so much support. And then there was a lot of haters on there, which I was so surprised about, that kept saying to me that they couldn't believe that Cruz was in a stroller. And why is Cruz in a stroller?

He's too old to be in a stroller. You baby him too much. No, no, no, no, no. All these different things. And I was like actually shocked by that. I've been very open and honest about our journey and cruises. Cruz's journey and him being on the spectrum and everything like that. And I guess a lot of the comments were from people who have never experienced that,

which I understand. A lot of people won't know what it's like until, you know, you have a family member or a child or somebody that you know very dearly that is on the spectrum. I guess you're not really going to understand. And a lot of other people and parents who do have children on the spectrum were chiming in and, you know, responding and everything like that. it was kind of shocking to me of how much how many comments I got about that so I just think that

people need to understand that he was very tired um he gets overstimulated very easily so I wanted him to have a safe space and his stroller is a safe space also I think people are forgetting that I'm still recovering from a huge surgery and I can't lift over 15 pounds so if crews wanted to take off running it's very common for kids to want to run away or to elope or just run to have fun and it would be hard for me to catch up with him also i can't pick him up if he is feeling overstimulated and wants to just sit down so the stroller was a necessity for me and it was something to make him comfortable so i hope people listen to that to this like understand that because yes he is four years old but it is a safe space

and it was definitely needed and he ended up falling asleep because he was overstimulated and I'm very, very, very glad that I had it because I was still able to walk around again with Janet and Jason and Cameron. But I was definitely, definitely, definitely shocked about that. But anyways, he still loved it. We still had a great time. I made sure that we watched Halloween movies all day and we came back pretty early to the house. So we had like Halloween cookies and, you know, just did different little cute stuff. And he got to eat some of his Halloween candy and everything.

So it ended up being a great day. He just didn't make it very long, trick-or-treating. But I love going up to all the houses that are so decorated and so cute. There was a couple different ones, and one was like a fisherman theme. And they had like mermaids and they had like Davy Jones from Pirates of the Caribbean and all this different stuff. And the people that were passing out candy that lived there, they were wearing, you know, those yellow fisherman outfits and everything. And I just thought it was so cute. So I really appreciate whenever people go all out for Halloween.

I wasn't able to decorate that much this year for Halloween until the party. Obviously, my party was awesome and, you know, over the top, which I loved. But normally I have so many decorations outside, inside. But this year with my surgery, it was impossible for me to be able to go through all the stuff and get it out of the garage and get to carry all the boxes and put everything up and do all that stuff. I didn't get to decorate that much this year, but don't worry, I will be back with it next year. And now that I am starting to feel better, I'll be six weeks next Wednesday, or this coming Wednesday, so that that'll officially be six weeks from my surgery. And after that, I can start working out again.

I could start lifting things. I could start doing more, like, normal everyday things. And I'm definitely going to start the Christmas decorations. I'm one of those people who loves having the decorations out before Thanksgiving. because I do so much, and I put up, like, I take so much time and I really enjoy it. I really love it. It really, it's something that eases me and helps with my anxiety and stuff whenever I'm decorating the trees, and it just really excites me, and I love it.

So I just really want to have the decorations out for longer than just a month, you know, because Christmas is the 25th of December. So if I waited until December, or if I waited until after Thanksgiving, it would only be up for a month and that's not long enough so i'm going to start as soon as possible and i can't wait i can't wait to show you guys what i'm going to do this year i'll do a bunch of videos and stuff because i missed again i missed halloween so i really am going to go in even more for christmas oh my gosh guys bravo con is coming up i've been so busy lately but now it is time to head to vegas and go to bravo con and i'm so excited i've been getting

looks together trying to figure out what I'm going to wear and what shoes I'm going to get what shoes I'm going to wear I ordered a bunch of dresses some that way too many I'm going to be there I need like three daytime outfits two night time outfits and I think I ordered like eight dresses or something like that so I've got a few extra and just trying to decide what shoes I'm going to but I'm so excited about BravoCon it is such a unique experience having all these different bravo levities from all these different shows under one roof I get to participate in a bunch of different panels and get to do a bunch of different interactions and meet so many people and I'll be able to meet new Bravo liberties who I haven't met before this will be my first time

ever going to the bravos so I'm excited about that I think that's going to be like such a fun a fun night so I am looking forward to it big time bravo con gosh in Vegas I've been to let's see how many robocons have I been to two because I went to one in New York and then COVID happened so we didn't have any for a while and then me Jackson Kristen went to the one in Vegas the first year because we were promoting that we were coming back to bravo and the valley was coming out and I don't think that they had actually announced the valley yet but they wanted to bring us back so like to get everybody ready like hey we're returning get ready for this so that was a lot of fun um so I guess this will be my third time maybe my fourth time but still

it was in new york first and now it's in Vegas and Vegas is so fun my best friend caro lives in Vegas it's my oldest brother Wes's birthday while we're going to bravo coin so my brother west and my sister-in-law militia are coming to Vegas too, and I got them backstage passes and V-I-P passes, and I can't wait to see them and spend time with them because I miss them so much. So it's going to be a very fun experience, so I'm extremely excited about that.

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And I had a pair, my favorite pair of black Christian Lubiton heels. I guess they were on the top of the bag. So I woke up this morning and I saw a bunch of like little black patent leather pieces all over the floor. And I was like, what is this for? I lifted it up and Dolly had completely chewed all the stuff. straps off my Christian blue baton, my red bottoms, and the heel completely off of my shoe. I about had a panic attack, but I love her. She is just still in puppy phase, so I'm trying not to freak out. But it was one of my favorite heels, and they're so expensive. And I don't

know. Like, now I'm like, do I go buy another pair? Do I try to get them fixed? I don't feel like that they can be fixed, because this certain pair had a strap over the toe and then had like two different straps that went up around your, like on top part of your foot and then it wrapped around your ankle and all the straps are completely gone. And then she chewed on the hill too. So I have no idea if those can even be fixed. I'm going to see. But that just means I'm going to have to go shoe shopping, I guess, for another black pair of heels because BravoCon is coming up. So let's see what happens. Oh my goodness. Oh yeah. Whenever we go to BravoCon, I'm also going to bring my equipment so hopefully i'll get a bunch of good little interviews for you guys with

some bravo liberties who i wouldn't normally get to see i think that's going to be a lot of fun i hope there's some haughties there too i really need to see some haughties that would be amazing i'm excited to be at bravo con after my mommy makeover i think it's going to you know i think i'm actually going to feel confident in my outfits and with my body and that makes me so happy um I'm still very swollen. You know, it's going to be at least two or three more months before my swelling goes down, maybe longer, but I still look so much better and I'm feeling better every single day. So I'm not even taking Tylenol or ibuprofen or anything for pain, you know,

just a little bit of tenderness on my sides and my back. But like my stomach isn't hurting, my breasts aren't hurting. Everything is feeling so much better. So I'm just excited to go and just feel that calm. confidence and, you know, show my sparkle, because that's going to be so much fun. And I can't wait to get dressed up. And, of course, I'll be there with all my besties, you know, all the cast of the Valley is going to be there. I've got so many other friends from different shows that are going to be there who I don't always get to see, who don't live in L.A. Other people live, you know, in all these different cities or New York's whenever I see people all the time. So Bravo Con is always such a fun time to get together and see everybody. And you never know what's going to happen. I mean, there are so many wild stories over the years but trying not to even go into that because I'm not trying to get anybody in trouble but I'm definitely excited to see everyone it's going to be such a fun time oh I also went to Disney this week I love going to Disneyland Cruise absolutely loves it and my friend

Lindy was in town so we wanted to go to Disney so me and Lindy and Cruzy went to Disney and I had not walked that much since my surgery. So the next day, I was in so much pain. I was just so sore everywhere. And, oh, my goodness, but it was such an amazing time. It was completely worth it. And I think it was good for me to get all those steps in and stuff because, like I said, I can't work out or anything until after the six weeks is up.

So that was, like, a lot. I was, like, wanting to go to the zoo or the aquarium or something right after that the next day. And I was just too sore, too sore to go. But Cruz had an amazing time. I had an amazing time. I love going to Disney. If you ever go to Disney and you're not in a good mood, something is wrong with you.

You can't go to Disney and be mad at Disney. You know? Gosh, I remember going with a certain someone a couple times and still happen to be in a bad mood. And I'm like, how is this even possible? We'd separate and go our separate ways for a little bit and then come back. I just think, like, how in the world is somebody ever mad at Disney? It's the happiest place on earth, and I truly believe that. It has just been so much fun.

The weather was amazing. It was, you know, I think like 75 throughout the day, and then it cooled down at night. So that was really good. It was a lot of fun. We got to do so many rides because we did go, like, on a school day, so that the daytime wasn't that busy and it got packed at night. But we got to do, like, every single ride that we wanted to do. I absolutely love Disney.

it is so much fun and I can't wait to go back whenever they have all the Christmas stuff up because we I think they're putting it up on the 14th is what all the signs said but whenever we went you could definitely tell they were starting to like they were starting to get the Christmas stuff ready and starting to get ready for the season and everything so I'm definitely going to go back in December I think me and La La La are going to go and take the kids and then I'll be like completely healed and able to do more so that will be great oh goodness all right let's go into some questions thank you guys always for writing in i really appreciate it it means a lot so i'm going to answer some of these from you guys this is from stop it christin um are you happy with the

boob size you ended up with you look great thank you so much and yes i am so extremely happy i am so happy with my decision my breasts are definitely smaller a lot of people are like i've actually got a people are hating on me on that too i'm like i can never do anything right they're like, that's how she got a smaller size, blah, blah, blah. I did, guys. I'm still going to be swelling for a while, but they are a lot smaller. If you saw me naked in the comparison, because, you know, I would try to make them not be so big, and they were humongous before, and now I just loved the size.

I really wanted them to be, like, back to whenever I first got them done. You know, I had a child, and I breastfed and everything like that, my weight fluctuating, all of that stuff. So they looked completely different, and now they're perky and beautiful, and I feel so good about them. I'm so confident about it. But yeah, I'm definitely still swollen. So they will go down some within the next couple of months. But I am very, very happy. Dr. Lakey and Dr. Daniel Pore at Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery Group did amazing on everything. And I just can't wait in a couple of months to do like a reveal and just show like how much better I feel. Because it's really,

it really was about confidence for me. I feel like I was torn down for so long. And I just really wanted to do something for myself and put myself first for once and it was something I wanted to do for years. So I'm very, very happy with my decision. This is from Shannon Vandertorn. How is your current co-parenting relationship with Jacks? Um, it's, it's going. It's going. Um, there's a lot that I can't talk about right now that's happening. Um, you know, maybe Jacks will speak on some things one day, but it's not really my place to talk about certain things. But, you know, I'm very much a full-time mom, and I love it, and I appreciate that. I love, you know, everything.

And, you know, I think Jackson is trying to work on himself. So I hope that, you know, we can continue to work on our co-parenting relationship and just get better and stronger all the time. And hopefully one day it will be a very, very successful co-parenting relationship because that's what really matters. Cruz is always going to come first. But as of right now, I'm definitely a full-time mom, and I wouldn't change it for the world. Been very, very busy, and that's good. I love being busy, both being a mom and with work and everything else. So I'm feeling very blessed right now, but still working on that co-parenting relationship.

So stay tuned. We'll see how it goes. This is from Emily Ramos, 22, favorite stroller. My favorite strollers and car seats have always been up a baby. I think they are amazing. I have used them ever since Cruz was an infant, the strollers, the car seats, everything, and then gone up with size. Right now, he has the Vista, and it is so great.

It moves around so easily, and Cruz loves it. It's very big, so it's big enough for him to lay down if he wants to, sit up if he wants to, and Cruz is a big, tall boy, so the Vista, we've had it for, you know, over a year now, and it has been incredible. It's a very nice stroller. so up a baby has always been my go-to for car seats and strollers and we have just went up and used every single size even his car seat right now is an up-a-baby as well this is from jacklin lee do you ever plan to move out of l.A. I'm not really sure as of right now I have no

desire to move out of L.A. I am loving where I'm at. I am very busy and very you know you know, there's a lot of great things happening in my life that I'm very happy about and very excited for. And L.A. is where I need to be right now to keep providing for my son and for myself and everything like that. So definitely not leaving anytime soon. Maybe one day down the road, years and years and years, I would move to Kentucky, maybe Lexington. But I'm not sure. I'm really not sure it's not in my plan right now not even in my five-year plan right now i love where i'm at cruz is doing amazing in his school and his speech and his occupational therapy and everything that he has he is thriving and i don't really want to change anything up for him right now either but

as long as i'm being successful and everything is going great for cruise then i definitely want to stay here this is from a gin you found a man yet you found a man yet no I am still single girl what the heck I am still single in January I will be single for two years you know I've dated here and there and whatever nothing like serious or anything like that but yeah still single and I'm not talking to anyone right now I'm extremely like extremely single so if you all know anybody tell them to hit me up DM the new way to meet people I still not ready for a dating app I still have never done it I don't think I will ever do it I don't know it's just not my thing I'm really just trying to focus on me and Cruz and my career and everything right now and just you know I've got a lot of healing just like still to do but I'm in such a better place I you know almost healed for my mommy makeover so that's going to be great really working on my confidence and you know I'm just I'm just doing a lot better and I'm really just focusing on myself and on cruise at the moment but if something comes along it comes along I'm just not trying to

rush in anything at the moment so we'll see where God leads me we'll see what happens this is from Phil Garcia 25 favorite ride at Disneyland oh my goodness I've okay I have a couple I love soaring um soaring is amazing it's like a huge screen in front of you and you're like on these chairs and you feel like you're flying like over L.A and you go to all these different parts of the world and the sense change and it's just beautiful and amazing and you know every single time that you go to a different place you're smelling different things you really feel like you're there and you're flying over all these beautiful areas it is awesome so if you have been to Disneyland and California Adventure definitely check out soaring because it is a

very very very awesome ride um I also love the haunted mansion especially right now because they have it um decked out in nightmare before Christmas and I love the haunted mansion ride originally, but decked out for Nightmare Before Christmas is even better. I mean, it is awesome. So definitely check that out right now around Christmas because you will love it. And then, of course, The Little Mermaid Ride. The Little Mermaid was always my favorite movie growing up. I had Little Mermaid Wallpaper.

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He is doing awesome. I'm going to be posting more and gathering more stuff so that I can also do more stuff with Cruz's crew as well. We've already raised almost $10,000 to go to help with the autism community and different things like that. And I really want to continue being involved and just really help out however I can. And he is doing amazing. He's going to, you know, occupational therapy, speech therapy and everything all the time. And he just gets better and better and better. He's, you know, doing things that are making him more independent. He works on things like that all the time in in his classes and he's just he's just thriving he is such a happy amazing little boy and i'm

so proud of him and i love him so much but yes i will continue to post more about his journey and i just want to help other people that are going through it because i'm learning as i go now too i'm learning as i go so and i know that there's so many other people who are just getting their diagnosis or you know just feel lost and don't know what to do and i really want to be somebody that they can see the things that I've done and early intervention is so important and I really want to help however I can but he is doing amazing.

This is from Meredith Luan, Louine, Meredith Loewen. Can you tell my ex-husband to rot in hell please? Meredith's ex-husband, rot in hell. All right, I got you, girl. I don't even know what he did. But rot and hail ex-husband. I love how many.

people love that because for me rot in hell like coming from a religious family and being a religious person rotting in hell is the worst thing that you could ever do so I just couldn't believe how big that that got and you know it is it is pretty funny it is pretty funny but yeah rotten hell this is from Colleen RC do you think you try special forces again oh my gosh my special forces was whack. I mean, I tried. I really did. And I, you know, it is so embarrassing to watch back and everything like that. It was just such a hard time in my life. And I said this many times, like the DS, they're doing their job and they're so good at it. But at that point in my life, men yelling at me was not motivating to me. It was triggering to me. You know, there was just a lot

of things that I wasn't prepared for and I thought that I would be. So it was a lot harder than I imagined. Would I like to do it again? Yeah, maybe down the road I would like to be more repaired. I would like to be more fit, which I'm already on this like health journey and already I can't wait to get in the gym again and I already have lost so much weight. I've already lost like 20 pounds, 15 pounds probably, hopefully 20 soon. But yeah, I think like maybe I could go back and try again. And, you know, it was, but it was still something that, it was still an experience that I I never thought that I would ever get to do and I would never change it for the world.

You know, I got to be in Morocco. I got to meet a bunch of amazing people. I got to jump out of a freaking helicopter and face my biggest fear of all time. Like, the physical part was too hard for me at that time, but maybe if I'm in better shape, I could definitely try it again. But watching what they've been doing,

like having to fight each other and wrestle each other and go underwater. Like, they are killing it. So kudos to everybody else that's, you know, on the show and how far they made it and watching and everything. Like, they have been doing absolutely amazing. And I'm like, oh, my gosh, I don't know if I could have done that.

So, yeah, good job, guys. Y'all are killing it. This is from Ash XOXO. Do you still have the house? Yes, I have the house. I own the house. It is mine. And being Cruz love living here.

Again, I just had a big Halloween party in my backyard. I just love this house. It feels like home. And Cruz needs to be where he's happy. He loves his swing set. he loves his pool he's in it every day he loves his backyard so um this is just where we need to be it's our happy place and i definitely still have the house and i'm not selling it or doing anything anytime soon this is from emma l harris 1985 what's my favorite perfume

my favorite perfume at the moment and i have so many perfumes i love so many but if i had to pick one it would be burberry goddess that is amazing it is so great good. This is from Celeste Maria. How to date as a full-time single working mama. Let me know, girl. I mean, I'm working on it myself. I think that as single moms, we need to realize that we are allowed to have fun at times as long as everything at home is perfect and okay and our kids are happy and we deserve to be happy too. We have to let ourselves have fun and enjoy things. and do things as well, because being a happy parent is only going to make our kids happier. So the mom guilt is real, but we need to be allowed and actually allow ourselves to feel joy

and to feel love because we deserve that. Everyone deserves to feel loved and to be in love. And it will happen for us one day. All right. All right, Celeste, we got this. Okay. All right. Thanks everybody for tuning in to another episode of When Reality Hits.

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