April 23, 2025 • 36 mins
And we're back at The Drama Desk for episode 2 to chat about The Valley's most recent episode. Relationships crumble under the weight of unchecked rage and narcissism in this explosive episode and we meet Benji who is surprisingly not a friendly stray dog. Jax is playing victim and Jesse gets played by his OC girlie.
Tune in as Taylor shares her opinions and questions what the real-world implications of broadcasting these intimate struggles, particularly for the children who will one day watch their parents' worst moments preserved on screen.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello and welcome back to the Drama Desk.
I'm your host, taylorCarter-Jones, and today I'd like
to talk to you a little bitabout the Valley, season 2,
episode 2, with a little recapon Season 2, episode 1, because,
well, I haven't talked aboutthat yet.
I know I said I'd only be hereonce a week, but look at you
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getting blessed, let's get itweek.
But look at you getting blessed, let's get it.
So, episode one recap reallyquickly, as quickly as I can.
So we see that Nia and Danyshort king have three children
under three, which soundschaotic.
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I have a not quite two year oldand there's only one of her and
it's quite a lot.
So having three under the ageof three, yeah, no, thank you,
I'll pass on that.
And Nia wants more kids.
Go off, sis, do whatever makesyou happy, but it seems like
y'all don't have any space inthat house and Danny wants to
move.
So, like, move, move, probably,probably move would be my
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choice, but it's not my life.
Jesse and Kristen have called atruce based on their hate for
Michelle, which, okay, you dowant Kristen on your team,
though.
Jesse demon, I think that Jesseis a demon.
That's just my opinion.
I don't think it's actuallyjust my opinion.
I think that Jesse is a demon.
That's just my opinion.
I don't think it's actuallyjust my opinion.
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I think a lot of people feelthat way.
He is an interesting character,but yeah, like I said, demon,
demon from the pits of hell,probably the way that these
fathers on these showsspecifically I was just talking
about the real housewives ofatlanta dads um, not all of them
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, the ones that are goingthrough the divorces right now
um, specifically simon and ralphpityman and mark, whatever.
But now in the valley we seejesse and and Jax.
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No, I would rather Jesse thanJax.
But my question is do you notunderstand that this is a video
time capsule, basically whatyou're doing on this show and
these are the mothers of yourchildren, right?
So, whatever relationship youhave with these mothers, these
kids aren't going to have thatsame relationship likely,
hopefully not.
And one day they're going tosee this and you're going to
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have to explain to them how andwhy you treated their mothers
like absolute garbage.
Now, if you're ready to do that, if you have a plan, if you've
talked to your um therapistabout it and they've devised a
script for you to use when yourkid asks you this sweet, awesome
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, sounds great, but, um, if not,this just seems like a lot of
unnecessary trauma becauseyou're a selfish piece of shit.
That's just how I feel.
I think that michelle'sboyfriend needs to fall back the
way that he was at that partytalking to jesse even though
jesse sucks like, that's stillnot your kid and you're just a
boyfriend.
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So like kind of chill.
But, okay, um, britney, sweetkentucky muffin, I love britney.
I care what no one else says, Ilove Britney Sent a sexy video,
we all know, to Jax's friend,slash unlink.
Unlink your phone and your iPad.
Now, maybe you were takingpictures on this iPad, but I'm
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going to give you the benefit ofthe doubt and say that you took
them on your phone and sendthem from your phone, but you
didn't have the unlink.
So, because you have the sameApple account, it's showing up
on Cruz's iPad and that's all.
I hope that you've unlinkedthat by now.
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And if people out there don'tknow that, you can do that so
that your texts and photosaren't going from Apple product
to Apple product.
You can do that.
That's a thing.
Probably.
Do that, especially if you'regoing to send nudes, um, and
have your child use the ipad,that your apple account is all
hooked up from your phone to theipad, to the, or you get what
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I'm saying.
Um, it makes me really sad toknow that jax has gone from
berating britney um, like justsaying the most awful things to
her and we only know of thethings that we've seen on screen
.
We don't know what he said toher off camera to now throwing
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things like having a childliketantrum.
That's very upsetting that hehit her with something.
He threw something in herdirection enough that it hit her
, and not just something, let menot say something, um, because
this is really serious.
He threw a table, a whole table.
Make it make sense.
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You threw a table at britneynot at her, fine, oh okay in her
direction, but threw it hardenough in her direction that it
hit her and blacked her knee up,and other people saw this, and
now everyone's Jack's doing toomuch.
Jack, you need to pull back,jack.
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This is rock bottom.
Jack, why wasn't anyone sayingthis, I don't know, a while ago?
He's been talking to her likeshe is the dirt on the bottom of
his shoe since Vanderpump rules.
Let's get serious.
People blame Brittany and sayshe could have left.
But look, when you're in love,I get it.
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Sometimes we stay around wehope the person will change.
We think, oh, you get married.
The person will change.
We think, oh, you get married,the person will change.
You know, they don't you have achild.
The person will change, likelynot.
Um, yeah, he's gonna need to dosome deep soul searching
because he's just trash and heonly gets trashier.
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This episode.
Let's dig in.
So we open up into episode twowith Danny talking to Nia about
getting a five bedroom, fivebathroom somewhere outside of
West Hollywood, which I thinkshe needs to jump on that wagon,
and real quick, because in realtime, nia is pregnant, because
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in real time, nia is pregnant.
So there's going to be a thirdchild and two adult humans and
y'all need some space.
You just do.
Kids come with a lot of stuff,they just.
But okay, whatever is best foryou, nia and Danny, I love them
both for now.
So yeah.
And then we move on to Jasonand Janet's home.
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Yeah, janet, not a fan, stillnot a fan.
Wasn't a fan last season.
I know that Kristen is crazy.
I totally get that.
Not a Kristen apologist.
I've seen, seen her do.
We've seen her do some reallycrazy stuff throughout the
course of vanderpump and valley,season one.
However, janet's not giving meyeah, janet's just not giving me
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anything that makes me feellike she's some good human.
So, team kristin, on this one umand her apology question mark.
Um, it just wasn't it for melast episode I it felt like a
fake apology.
It felt like the two of themit's just k.
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Kristen can't apologize andunderstand an apology.
Janet can't apologize, it seems, and ran off crying.
And I feel like she ran offcrying because she knows that
she needed to apologize toKristen in order to try to get
into the audience's good gracesand because Kristen didn't
immediately accept it.
Maybe she thought that cryingwas going to be her way out, and
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people feel bad for a crier.
That happens a lot on thevalley.
Um, the crier is notnecessarily the feeling bad for
them.
But I digress.
Let's dig back into janet andjason's house.
Uh, jasmine is over.
We got the three.
J's having casserole, whichJasmine says casseroles are for
white humans, which I don't know.
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Give me your take.
I don't want to say so.
Yeah, janet's talking about herconversation that she had with
Kristen.
So I a little bit got ahead ofmyself and yeah, I mean, janet's
apology was whack, it just was.
And she has a lot of nerve tosay that Kristen needs to grow
up when.
Janet baby, isn't it true thatyou moved to West Hollywood just
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to make friends with this groupof people, specifically the
Vanderpump gals, so that youcould get your slice of the pie?
True or false?
I think it's true.
I think you need to grow up.
I think that I'm proud of youbecause you set a goal and
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you've accomplished the goal.
You're now on the valley.
That's awesome.
Good for you.
But I think that you're just areally fake person and that's
not interesting.
You cry too much, stop it.
No one cares.
But I'm glad that britney hadsome boundaries and was like
look, y'all need to figure thisout because I have just too much
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on my plate.
I can't be in the middle here.
It's just too much for me.
Um, so, yeah, go off, brit.
I love that for you.
Janet, jasmine I don't know howyou're friends with her.
I wonder if it's just for tv.
I would really love to know.
I don't know how jason ismarried to her, but maybe, maybe
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off camera she's just darling.
Now we move on over to jax'shouse, aka jax and britney's
house.
Um, I am going to say the samething that I said in the last
episode about I don't understandhow you fathered a child with
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this woman.
You're married to this woman.
You're not even just baby daddy, you are her husband, divorce
pending, and you are going toallow for your wife, mother of
your child and your child tomove out of the home that they
the only home they know arecomfortable in so that you can
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be there by yourself.
You're going to make the two ofthem leave and you're going to
stay.
Make it make sense.
Where does that make sense?
Ralph and Jax give me a call tohelp me better understand.
Kristen comes over to Jax'shouse.
Yeah, I just I don't understand.
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Jax is trying to justifythrowing a table and chairs at
Brittany, saying that he wasupset.
And I, yeah, you're grown,you're grown, I expect, like a
four year old throwing tablesand chairs.
Good on you, bud, that you wereable to lift the tables and
chairs, but that's a tantrum andthose that's what kids have.
You're an adult man.
You could have walked away.
There's like a million otherthings you could have done
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before you threw things at thiswoman.
So, yeah, and that now you'retrying to make it like, oh well,
britney was hooking up with myfriend and we said we would keep
it out of the friend group.
Sir, I have one word for youfaith.
Faith was in your friend group.
Granted, you guys weren'tmarried when that happened, but
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still Like you've got nerves,sir.
Plus, you were hooking up withpeople.
I'm sure while y'all weremarried.
Brittany didn't throw anythingat you.
She took you back into herbosom and maybe she shouldn't
have.
She definitely shouldn't have.
But again, I get it, it is whatit is.
You're in love, you back intoher bosom and maybe she
shouldn't have.
She definitely shouldn't have.
But again, I get it, it is whatit is.
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You're in love and, uh, you'vegot the rose colored glasses on.
You're praying for the best.
Uh, yeah, jacks.
Jacks is trash.
It's everyone else's fault thatjacks is so sad and he's so
anxious.
Oh, we'll go get help.
Get help, pal, go get help.
I totally you saying thatyou're depressed and anxious.
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Get it.
Been there, done that.
But it's not pleasant.
But when you are acknowledgingthat this is how you feel, do
something about it.
Throwing things at the motherof your child isn't the thing to
do at all.
Um, go and take care ofyourself.
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The nerve you jacks, taylor,liar to be calling britney any
kind of names because you're sodown on yourself and you likely
know that she can do better.
But you probably were justtrying to cut her down so that
she wouldn't leave you, becausethat's what a lot of narcissists
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do.
Yeah, that makes sense.
And Kristen said she saw thetexts and I believe Kristen Doty
in this situation.
I believe her in this situation, not every situation, but I do
believe her here.
I know she loves Brittany and Iknow she loves Jax too, and
it's really sad that now Jaxcan't be around Cruze.
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It's justifiable that Jax can'tbe around Cruze.
I wouldn't want him.
If I was Cruze's mom, if I wasBrittany, I wouldn't want him
around Cruze either, because Idon't.
I don't know you, sir.
I I don't know what you'recapable of.
You're crazy, selfish clown.
You're a selfish clown, jax.
And from what I've heard justin the news recently in the
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Bravo sphere is that even thoughJax has gone and done this
treatment, he's still actinglike an asshole.
You're too old for this, jax.
You're damn near 50.
Cut it out, sir.
All right.
So now we're back back with LadyBrittany and Lady Zach too, I
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like Zach.
I don't care what people say, Ilike Zach.
Um, I feel like what he'd saidabout.
Well, I'm getting ahead ofmyself.
Let me slow down.
So Brittany and Zach areenjoying Chinese outside by the
pool with Cruz cutie patootie,and Jax has sent Brittany a
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message about missing Cruz andlet me tell you the cojones on
this fella.
He is truly in a world where noone else exists but him To say.
All I ask is that you check onme, show me that you care.
If you have time to send thatasshole pics, you can check on
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your husband, who's goingthrough a hard time.
I'm so sorry, sir, I am sosorry.
Are you going through a hardtime?
What about Brittany, who's nowbeen displaced for however many
months that they've beenseparated with your child, while
she's trying to navigate what'sgoing on with your son number
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one and why he's not speaking?
We've found out recently thatCruz is mostly nonverbal and
autistic and thank God that hehas a mother that he has that
has been doing the work andresearch and getting the care
for him and he's going to bejust perfectly fine.
He is well taken care of byBrittany and she seems like an
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amazing mom.
So that's number one on herplate.
And then she's dealing with youand your antics and how you
have hurt her physically,mentally, all of these years.
But she needs to be checking onyou because you're going
through a hard time.
You're going through a hardtime.
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You're going through a hardtime, jacks.
He.
I just, I just, I just can't.
I hope that he's gone for atleast two episodes.
I really do.
His face is sickening to me, umzach's upset because he feels
like he's losing his friendship,maybe losing his friendship,
but the friendship is definitelydifferent between him and
britney, and britney is likeyeah, and the confessional
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talking about yeah, there hasbeen some strain on our
relationship because of what hesaid to janet.
Now, last season we allremember Janet was popping off,
janet didn't like Zach andKristen and I think Zach was in
his feelings and when Michellewas saying if you stress her out
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, this could happen, she'spregnant and Zach said I don't
care.
No, I'm not Zach, but I feellike maybe he was just saying he
didn't care because he was hurtand in his feelings.
I don't know if he genuinelydidn't care if she had a healthy
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end of her pregnancy.
I'm not sure that.
Uh, that's what he meant, soI'm going to give him the
benefit of the doubt too.
It was still the shittiestthing to say, and he should
apologize, because if it wasn'twhat he meant, he can apologize
and be like look, that came offwrong and maybe he did and I
totally missed it, and if so,let me know I guess.
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But whatever, even though Janetis a hard woman, that's not a
nice thing to say, but I digress.
So then we find out about Benji.
Benji and Zach broke up.
Who is Benji?
Who is Benji?
Oh, benji.
Benji, he's married Benji, he'sCanadian and getting deported.
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Benji, he's married Benji, he'sCanadian and getting deported.
Benji, I've never heard of you.
Maybe I need to follow Zach onInstagram and I would know who
Benji was.
But okay, and then thatconversation ends.
So All right.
So we move on into Jesse's house.
Michelle comes over.
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They're talking about theschedule for their daughter.
Jesse has redone it, whichreally rubs me the wrong way,
because, regardless of if you'regetting along or not, like
you've got some nerve telling methis is the schedule and this
is what we're going to do.
I put my little foot down.
Boo, jesse sucks.
Allegedly he's taken four tripsand Michelle has gone nowhere,
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and so she's upset because shefeels like they're not.
It's not fair between them.
This, the scheduling, um, andjesse won't tell michelle who
then annie is.
And I'm on michelle's sidebecause, look, why wouldn't you
want to save money and just haveone nanny that you share, like
that makes more sense.
But Jesse chooses mentalwarfare instead.
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I don't like Jesse.
I don't like Jesse.
He's like a major gaslighter.
And for him to say that it'sokay if Michelle comments on his
parenting, because whatever shesays is just a reflection of
who she is as a person, hold thephone.
I'm gobsmacked.
What do you mean?
Her comments on you are areflection of her.
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Oh, okay, I just don't think so.
Not at all.
Um, and then he does this thingthat I've seen in real life
before, where he's making theholidays about him and he starts
crying.
But he doesn't think he shouldbe alone for thanksgiving and
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christmas, which is why heshould have isabelle and
isabella and not michelle.
What?
Because you don't want to belonely, I don't know.
Maybe you should have thoughtabout that before you did
whatever you did.
That got you all in thispredicament that you're getting
divorced if you didn't want tobe lonely or call your little
girlfriend from orange county.
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Call her, then you won't belonely.
You have malibu the dog.
How could you be lonely withmalibu?
Sounds silly to me.
And the tears, I just the tears.
I can't.
Jesse, you're very, veryclearly crying for the audience.
You want people to feel bad foryou.
Michelle calls him out on that.
I totally.
I think that she is correct andhe is wrong and that he could
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say anything about.
He doesn't care if he, ifmichelle is the mom of isabella
or not.
He's just gonna treat her likeshit.
Jesse, let's call a spade aspade.
You are a man.
You were unhappy in yourrelationship and instead of
leaving you, let it keep on.
You just let it keep rocking.
You're not alone.
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Like michelle could have leftyou and eventually she did right
.
But you're mad that you thinkmichelle cheated and your ego is
bruised, baby boy, I thinkthat's really the problem here.
So because your little ego isbruised, you want to start
bruising michelle.
Leave that woman alone, leaveyourself alone.
Y'all raise this child togetherin a peaceful, separate
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environment and just stop.
Stop it.
Like I said, isabella is goingto see this one day and I hope
you have a good script for her.
It kills me that Isabella sawthis woman in bed with Jesse.
There's been a short amount oftime.
I think I could be wrong, butyou can't wait to have her over.
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Spend time with your daughterand then have this lady over
when you don't have yourdaughter because you don't have
her all of the time, but go offwhatever.
Very funny that Sheena.
Shea has entered the chat.
Y'all I was.
I've been waiting for sheena.
I hope that she comes on.
I know that we see her in um,the teaser for this season, that
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she and lala are gonna bearound.
I couldn't care less about lala, but glad that sheena is gonna
be here.
They need to make her apermanent cast member.
Sheena a little bit gets on mynerves, but she drives story and
I think that she would make aperfect addition as like a
permanent resident in the valleyof the show, because I think
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she actually lives in the valley, so you know what I mean.
But Shanz entered the chat andshe's spilling the tea she is
talking about, because Michellesaid your girlfriend is sleeping
with other people.
Jesse said no, you're wrong.
Michelle said Sheena told meand Jesse says well, let's call
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Sheena, as if now he's going toget the upper hand and really
stick it to Michelle Wrong,because Sheena corroborates the
story and says yeah, old girltold me she's sleeping with the
guy from Baywatch.
That's very embarrassing forJesse that you didn't know that.
Number one, number two well, Idon't know what your
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relationship is like.
Maybe it's an open relationshipand that's fine, and probably
it's not from the way thatyou've been talking about this
woman that you're gonna move toorange county and be with her,
but it seems like that's notwhat she wants.
So you should be reallyembarrassed, jesse.
You just should be.
Michelle is winning in thisconversation because sheena had
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her back.
Not only had her back, but shewould have said no, it was a no
and she said yes.
So you just look like a stupididiot.
Um, they're just a mess.
Just as talking about howMichelle is so angry, I don't
see that.
I think I see Michelle justtrying to hold it together and
not fall apart with this littlebitty man.
Little bitty man.
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Um, yeah, for Jesse to say thatI was a shitty husband but I
never hurt Michelle, that issuch a cop out.
You're saying that becauseyou're saying that Michelle,
cheating on you, hurt you andyou never hurt her.
Cheating isn't the only waythat you hurt someone, baby,
it's just not.
You can hurt people in amultitude of ways and you know
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that, jessie.
You know that Cheating is aterrible thing, but it's not the
worst thing like in comparisonto probably what you did
throughout your marriage.
But I'm sure we'll find outmore as we go on, because it
seems like Michelle's ready totalk.
So now the boys are doing thisstupid thing where Jason and
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Danny show up to check on Jax.
This is, this is okay.
Fine, we had to have this partin the episode.
I'm going to make this quick.
Fine, we had to have this partin the episode.
I'm going to make this quick.
Jason's talking about how Jaxneeds to make a drastic change.
He's at rock bottom.
Everybody keeps talking abouthow Jax is at rock bottom.
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I wish Jax knew he was at rockbottom.
I feel like he's got a few moreleagues to dive in his mind,
but you're at the bottom, okay,okay, mr Jax, jason Calci.
Jax has an attitude, of course,because someone's telling him
about himself and he doesn'tlike that.
And then he's talking about how, you know, he's going to go to
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this mental hospital clinic.
He's frustrated because hedoesn't hear anything from
anybody and his own sister toldhim that he gets manic and goes
crazy and jack's only concern ishaving fomo.
Basically, now he says herethat he's afraid of missing out
on, like the goings on in theweek.
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Later on he says it's Cruz, butat this juncture in time he's
talking about missing out on onwhat time at Jax's.
Jax's will be fine, honey,jax's will be fine.
Yeah, he's sickened me.
What's wild?
Is that, then, the clinician?
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I guess we'll call them theclinician right now.
No, let me back up that.
Danny said that Jax is a greathuman.
Where, when Is this great humanhidden?
And he was hidden for several,many seasons of Vanderpump Rules
, last season of the Valley andthese two episodes Find me this
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great man in Jax.
Please do, please do.
I hope that he is a great mansomewhere else, because I've
watched all of Vanderpump Rulesand all of last season and all
of the one and two episodes thisseason and I don't see it.
I just don't.
But yeah, so the guy from theclinic that Jax is going to
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calls up, so then Jax kicks theguys out.
This is such a fake conversation.
It's ridiculous.
I really feel like neither ofthese guys want to be Jax's
friend and they both think thathe's a fucking idiot.
That's what I think.
But hey, his friend, and theyboth think that he's a fucking
idiot.
That's what I think.
But hey, that's just mewatching the show.
Um, this place is thirtythousand dollars for 30 days.
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That's a thousand dollars a day.
That's wild, but I don't know.
Maybe compare it to like howmuch you're spending on your
cocaine addiction and see, like,if they weigh out like
addiction's not a funny thing.
Don't get me wrong, I've beenthrough it, right, like it's not
funny, it's an illness, it'sterrible.
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This man is not ready to admitto the fact.
I know that he's come out andsaid that he has a cocaine
addiction, but I don't thinkthat in real life he's really
ready to admit to the fact thatthis is a real problem.
And yeah, I just don't.
It just doesn't seem like it.
Everything seems reallyperformative so far to me, and
that's just my opinion.
Um, you might have anotheropinion and that's totally cool.
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Keep yours, I'll keep mine.
And I also think that himcrying about the 30 days and
what if I don't do the full 30days?
Sir, I feel like 30 days isnothing compared to the years of
abuse verbal, mental,potentially physical abuse that
you've doled out to not onlyBrittany but the people around
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you.
Like hello, as I said, I'vewatched all of Vanderpump that
you were on, sweetie, I feel sadfor him.
I truly hope him the best,because Cruz seems like an
amazing little kid and hedeserves better.
He just does Okay.
So if you, like me, didn't knowwho Benji was, we get a little
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more insight on Benji on aFaceTime call in Zach's
apartment.
And yeah, zach, my boy, readthe room.
Let's not be talking aboutdeportation so freely.
Hello, do we not see whatAmerica we live in currently?
Anywho, do we not see whatAmerica we live in currently?
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Anywho, benji doesn't thinkthat Zach is serious, but he's
still now made the decision thathe's going to move in with Zach
for the summer.
So I guess we're going to see alot more of Benji and Zach's
going to have a little morestoryline.
That has nothing to do withdisparaging comments toward
Janet or her pregnancy.
Just kidding, I'm sure there'llbe more disparaging comments
toward janet or her pregnancy.
Just kidding, I'm sure there'llbe more disparaging comments
toward janet, just not thepregnancy of it all.
Um, so yeah, but I like benji,and let me tell you why because
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in the two minutes maybe lessthat we get to experience him
for now he already called zach acheeto, which is hilarious
because zach's tan, zach's spraytan, be tan, and by tan I mean
orange and said something abouthis wig.
So he's got a good sense ofhumor.
So I'm looking forward togetting to know little Benj,
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benj a little bit more.
Hey, benji.
So the end of this episode is alot.
We're at Jax and Brittany'shouse that Brittany's been
kicked out of to live in severalAirbnbs, which you know how I
feel about that.
She pulls up with Cruz.
They're in the house bythemselves at first and we see
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that Jax has a playing cardcovering the camera in the house
.
Okay, because I guess britneystill has access to the cameras.
I mean, there's other ways tofix that, but uh, okay, and the
photos are flipped around in thehouse.
It's really sad.
Um, britney's looking for somemilk for their son and finds a
(31:20):
cup with lipstick on it in thefridge.
Part of me feels like jackleaves.
Jacks leaves these thingsbecause he's just a dick and a
child, but whatever.
Then jacks rolls up and it'sweird to me that when jacks is
approaching cruise, cruise islike crying.
It makes me wonder how oftenjacks does see cruise and what
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that is like.
But because we we don't see,always see his Cruz is upset.
Maybe he's upset because ofsomething completely different
and it's not his fatherapproaching him.
But whatever, brittany asksthat he not kiss Cruz on the
face because she saw, she sawthat woman leaving this morning
from that house and she doesn'tknow where Jax, she can only
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imagine where Jax's mouth hasbeen.
And now you're going to kissthe face of our cherubic son.
I feel the same way, you, dirtybird.
She doesn't know if he's takena shower, brushed his teeth,
he's foul, from what I remember,and she knows better than me.
Then we cut to the camerafootage, of course, so that you
can see this woman walking outof the house, which is hilarious
(32:26):
.
Hilarious that the camerafootage gets queued up, not that
it happened.
But then Jax wants to have thenerve to ask if Julian was over
last night.
You are so jealous.
You are so jealous because youknow that Brittany can do better
.
You know it and that's why youkeep trying to beat her down.
Let her go.
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Let her go, jax.
Let her be free.
You go ahead and be miserable.
Let her be free.
Fly, brittany fly.
That's my takeaway.
But things get worse.
Things get worse.
Excuse my English.
Thank God for Zooli worse.
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Uh, things get worse.
Excuse my english.
Um, thank god for zuli.
Zuli takes crews to the park,so he doesn't have to see any of
this.
It just it's all really sadbecause it makes you think like
if the cameras weren't here,would zuli have taken crews?
How much has crews seen?
Probably more than his littlebaby eyes need to have seen,
like overall.
That makes me the most sadabout their situation.
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But yeah, jacks is still indelulueville talking about
britney, destroyed his life andthis is why he has to go to
rehab.
This has nothing to do withbritney.
This has everything to do withyou and your baggage and your
addiction and your anger andyour depression and your anxiety
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.
The sooner you claim thesethings as your own, the sooner
you'll be able to fix them andbe better.
And that's just the truth of itall.
But because Jax is Jax, he'sblaming Brittany and saying
everything is her fault.
And we found out thatBrittany's been paying the bills
still at this house, or atleast I found out.
Maybe you knew she's beenpaying the bills still, even
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though she's bed hopping fromAirbnb to Airbnb just trying to
find a safe space for her andher son.
Sickening, sickening.
Jax is completely off of hisrocker, calls Brittany and the
situation, their conversation,toxic.
Jax, you are the most toxichuman I've seen on television in
my 37 years of life.
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Truly, madly, deeply.
You just absolutely are.
I don't know how I feel aboutthe sending of the pictures of
Cruz.
That's not bad.
I mean, look, you're sendingthem to someone you know you're
not sending them to like.
I don't know how I feel aboutthe sending of the pictures of
Cruz.
That's not bad.
I mean, look, you're sendingthem to someone you know You're
not sending them to like I don'tknow.
It's not as bad as having womenover in the house that Brittany
still pays the bills for.
You cannot equate the two, jax.
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That's not fair.
But you're going to pullwhatever you think you can
because you are like you're in acorner.
So you're in a corner, soyou're just scratching,
scratching, scratching, tryingto get what you can.
Sicko jason comes to take jacksto rehab which okay, I guess so
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and it's having a weird littleconversation with him about.
Now he's saying that he's gonnamiss out on time with cruz.
Listen, you miss out on thistime with cruz so that you can
have the rest of your life withhim.
If this was really important toyou, you would be able to see
that and understand that these30 days are nothing in the grand
scheme of life and the timethat you can have with your son.
And if then he starts cryingand we've seen Jax cry before
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it's his Hail Mary I'm not herefor the tears.
I just can't.
Like I said earlier, I reallyhope that we don't see him for
at least two episodes, becausehe completely drained me in this
one episode.
I feel so bad for Cruz.
I feel so bad for Brittany.
I hope that she is happy, ashappy as she can be in real life
(36:00):
, in real time right now,because she that jack's trash.
I hope he gets better.
But yeah, I don't have any newnews.
Um, brothel's love hotel iscoming up this sunday.
I'm interested in that becauseI love nissim, giselle.
Um, I love shannon, but we'llsee.
(36:22):
And countess, louis and I, yeah, whatever, that's fine, um, but
yeah, we'll watch that thissunday and I'll be back to talk
about that and real life vibesof atlanta next week.
I think this really will be thelast episode of this week.
I'm not going to talk aboutsummer house because, though
it's been all right it, it'skind of boring me.
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We'll see.
We'll see, maybe I'll change mymind, but thanks for listening.
Hope to see you back here.
Bye.
Hello and welcome back to the Drama Desk.
I'm your host, taylorCarter-Jones, and today I'd like
to talk to you a little bitabout the Valley, season 2,
episode 2, with a little recapon Season 2, episode 1, because,
well, I haven't talked aboutthat yet.
I know I said I'd only be hereonce a week, but look at you
(00:21):
getting blessed, let's get itweek.
But look at you getting blessed, let's get it.
So, episode one recap reallyquickly, as quickly as I can.
So we see that Nia and Danyshort king have three children
under three, which soundschaotic.
(00:44):
I have a not quite two year oldand there's only one of her and
it's quite a lot.
So having three under the ageof three, yeah, no, thank you,
I'll pass on that.
And Nia wants more kids.
Go off, sis, do whatever makesyou happy, but it seems like
y'all don't have any space inthat house and Danny wants to
move.
So, like, move, move, probably,probably move would be my
(01:06):
choice, but it's not my life.
Jesse and Kristen have called atruce based on their hate for
Michelle, which, okay, you dowant Kristen on your team,
though.
Jesse demon, I think that Jesseis a demon.
That's just my opinion.
I don't think it's actuallyjust my opinion.
I think that Jesse is a demon.
That's just my opinion.
I don't think it's actuallyjust my opinion.
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I think a lot of people feelthat way.
He is an interesting character,but yeah, like I said, demon,
demon from the pits of hell,probably the way that these
fathers on these showsspecifically I was just talking
about the real housewives ofatlanta dads um, not all of them
(01:48):
, the ones that are goingthrough the divorces right now
um, specifically simon and ralphpityman and mark, whatever.
But now in the valley we seejesse and and Jax.
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No, I would rather Jesse thanJax.
But my question is do you notunderstand that this is a video
time capsule, basically whatyou're doing on this show and
these are the mothers of yourchildren, right?
So, whatever relationship youhave with these mothers, these
kids aren't going to have thatsame relationship likely,
hopefully not.
And one day they're going tosee this and you're going to
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have to explain to them how andwhy you treated their mothers
like absolute garbage.
Now, if you're ready to do that, if you have a plan, if you've
talked to your um therapistabout it and they've devised a
script for you to use when yourkid asks you this sweet, awesome
(02:54):
, sounds great, but, um, if not,this just seems like a lot of
unnecessary trauma becauseyou're a selfish piece of shit.
That's just how I feel.
I think that michelle'sboyfriend needs to fall back the
way that he was at that partytalking to jesse even though
jesse sucks like, that's stillnot your kid and you're just a
boyfriend.
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So like kind of chill.
But, okay, um, britney, sweetkentucky muffin, I love britney.
I care what no one else says, Ilove Britney Sent a sexy video,
we all know, to Jax's friend,slash unlink.
Unlink your phone and your iPad.
Now, maybe you were takingpictures on this iPad, but I'm
(03:50):
going to give you the benefit ofthe doubt and say that you took
them on your phone and sendthem from your phone, but you
didn't have the unlink.
So, because you have the sameApple account, it's showing up
on Cruz's iPad and that's all.
I hope that you've unlinkedthat by now.
(04:10):
And if people out there don'tknow that, you can do that so
that your texts and photosaren't going from Apple product
to Apple product.
You can do that.
That's a thing.
Probably.
Do that, especially if you'regoing to send nudes, um, and
have your child use the ipad,that your apple account is all
hooked up from your phone to theipad, to the, or you get what
(04:32):
I'm saying.
Um, it makes me really sad toknow that jax has gone from
berating britney um, like justsaying the most awful things to
her and we only know of thethings that we've seen on screen
.
We don't know what he said toher off camera to now throwing
(04:55):
things like having a childliketantrum.
That's very upsetting that hehit her with something.
He threw something in herdirection enough that it hit her
, and not just something, let menot say something, um, because
this is really serious.
He threw a table, a whole table.
Make it make sense.
(05:15):
You threw a table at britneynot at her, fine, oh okay in her
direction, but threw it hardenough in her direction that it
hit her and blacked her knee up,and other people saw this, and
now everyone's Jack's doing toomuch.
Jack, you need to pull back,jack.
(05:36):
This is rock bottom.
Jack, why wasn't anyone sayingthis, I don't know, a while ago?
He's been talking to her likeshe is the dirt on the bottom of
his shoe since Vanderpump rules.
Let's get serious.
People blame Brittany and sayshe could have left.
But look, when you're in love,I get it.
(05:59):
Sometimes we stay around wehope the person will change.
We think, oh, you get married.
The person will change.
We think, oh, you get married,the person will change.
You know, they don't you have achild.
The person will change, likelynot.
Um, yeah, he's gonna need to dosome deep soul searching
because he's just trash and heonly gets trashier.
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This episode.
Let's dig in.
So we open up into episode twowith Danny talking to Nia about
getting a five bedroom, fivebathroom somewhere outside of
West Hollywood, which I thinkshe needs to jump on that wagon,
and real quick, because in realtime, nia is pregnant, because
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in real time, nia is pregnant.
So there's going to be a thirdchild and two adult humans and
y'all need some space.
You just do.
Kids come with a lot of stuff,they just.
But okay, whatever is best foryou, nia and Danny, I love them
both for now.
So yeah.
And then we move on to Jasonand Janet's home.
(07:11):
Yeah, janet, not a fan, stillnot a fan.
Wasn't a fan last season.
I know that Kristen is crazy.
I totally get that.
Not a Kristen apologist.
I've seen, seen her do.
We've seen her do some reallycrazy stuff throughout the
course of vanderpump and valley,season one.
However, janet's not giving meyeah, janet's just not giving me
(07:40):
anything that makes me feellike she's some good human.
So, team kristin, on this one umand her apology question mark.
Um, it just wasn't it for melast episode I it felt like a
fake apology.
It felt like the two of themit's just k.
(08:03):
Kristen can't apologize andunderstand an apology.
Janet can't apologize, it seems, and ran off crying.
And I feel like she ran offcrying because she knows that
she needed to apologize toKristen in order to try to get
into the audience's good gracesand because Kristen didn't
immediately accept it.
Maybe she thought that cryingwas going to be her way out, and
(08:26):
people feel bad for a crier.
That happens a lot on thevalley.
Um, the crier is notnecessarily the feeling bad for
them.
But I digress.
Let's dig back into janet andjason's house.
Uh, jasmine is over.
We got the three.
J's having casserole, whichJasmine says casseroles are for
white humans, which I don't know.
(08:47):
Give me your take.
I don't want to say so.
Yeah, janet's talking about herconversation that she had with
Kristen.
So I a little bit got ahead ofmyself and yeah, I mean, janet's
apology was whack, it just was.
And she has a lot of nerve tosay that Kristen needs to grow
up when.
Janet baby, isn't it true thatyou moved to West Hollywood just
(09:13):
to make friends with this groupof people, specifically the
Vanderpump gals, so that youcould get your slice of the pie?
True or false?
I think it's true.
I think you need to grow up.
I think that I'm proud of youbecause you set a goal and
(09:33):
you've accomplished the goal.
You're now on the valley.
That's awesome.
Good for you.
But I think that you're just areally fake person and that's
not interesting.
You cry too much, stop it.
No one cares.
But I'm glad that britney hadsome boundaries and was like
look, y'all need to figure thisout because I have just too much
(09:55):
on my plate.
I can't be in the middle here.
It's just too much for me.
Um, so, yeah, go off, brit.
I love that for you.
Janet, jasmine I don't know howyou're friends with her.
I wonder if it's just for tv.
I would really love to know.
I don't know how jason ismarried to her, but maybe, maybe
(10:16):
off camera she's just darling.
Now we move on over to jax'shouse, aka jax and britney's
house.
Um, I am going to say the samething that I said in the last
episode about I don't understandhow you fathered a child with
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this woman.
You're married to this woman.
You're not even just baby daddy, you are her husband, divorce
pending, and you are going toallow for your wife, mother of
your child and your child tomove out of the home that they
the only home they know arecomfortable in so that you can
(11:04):
be there by yourself.
You're going to make the two ofthem leave and you're going to
stay.
Make it make sense.
Where does that make sense?
Ralph and Jax give me a call tohelp me better understand.
Kristen comes over to Jax'shouse.
Yeah, I just I don't understand.
(11:28):
Jax is trying to justifythrowing a table and chairs at
Brittany, saying that he wasupset.
And I, yeah, you're grown,you're grown, I expect, like a
four year old throwing tablesand chairs.
Good on you, bud, that you wereable to lift the tables and
chairs, but that's a tantrum andthose that's what kids have.
You're an adult man.
You could have walked away.
There's like a million otherthings you could have done
(11:51):
before you threw things at thiswoman.
So, yeah, and that now you'retrying to make it like, oh well,
britney was hooking up with myfriend and we said we would keep
it out of the friend group.
Sir, I have one word for youfaith.
Faith was in your friend group.
Granted, you guys weren'tmarried when that happened, but
(12:13):
still Like you've got nerves,sir.
Plus, you were hooking up withpeople.
I'm sure while y'all weremarried.
Brittany didn't throw anythingat you.
She took you back into herbosom and maybe she shouldn't
have.
She definitely shouldn't have.
But again, I get it, it is whatit is.
You're in love, you back intoher bosom and maybe she
shouldn't have.
She definitely shouldn't have.
But again, I get it, it is whatit is.
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You're in love and, uh, you'vegot the rose colored glasses on.
You're praying for the best.
Uh, yeah, jacks.
Jacks is trash.
It's everyone else's fault thatjacks is so sad and he's so
anxious.
Oh, we'll go get help.
Get help, pal, go get help.
I totally you saying thatyou're depressed and anxious.
(12:56):
Get it.
Been there, done that.
But it's not pleasant.
But when you are acknowledgingthat this is how you feel, do
something about it.
Throwing things at the motherof your child isn't the thing to
do at all.
Um, go and take care ofyourself.
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The nerve you jacks, taylor,liar to be calling britney any
kind of names because you're sodown on yourself and you likely
know that she can do better.
But you probably were justtrying to cut her down so that
she wouldn't leave you, becausethat's what a lot of narcissists
(13:37):
do.
Yeah, that makes sense.
And Kristen said she saw thetexts and I believe Kristen Doty
in this situation.
I believe her in this situation, not every situation, but I do
believe her here.
I know she loves Brittany and Iknow she loves Jax too, and
it's really sad that now Jaxcan't be around Cruze.
(13:58):
It's justifiable that Jax can'tbe around Cruze.
I wouldn't want him.
If I was Cruze's mom, if I wasBrittany, I wouldn't want him
around Cruze either, because Idon't.
I don't know you, sir.
I I don't know what you'recapable of.
You're crazy, selfish clown.
You're a selfish clown, jax.
And from what I've heard justin the news recently in the
(14:21):
Bravo sphere is that even thoughJax has gone and done this
treatment, he's still actinglike an asshole.
You're too old for this, jax.
You're damn near 50.
Cut it out, sir.
All right.
So now we're back back with LadyBrittany and Lady Zach too, I
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like Zach.
I don't care what people say, Ilike Zach.
Um, I feel like what he'd saidabout.
Well, I'm getting ahead ofmyself.
Let me slow down.
So Brittany and Zach areenjoying Chinese outside by the
pool with Cruz cutie patootie,and Jax has sent Brittany a
(15:05):
message about missing Cruz andlet me tell you the cojones on
this fella.
He is truly in a world where noone else exists but him To say.
All I ask is that you check onme, show me that you care.
If you have time to send thatasshole pics, you can check on
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your husband, who's goingthrough a hard time.
I'm so sorry, sir, I am sosorry.
Are you going through a hardtime?
What about Brittany, who's nowbeen displaced for however many
months that they've beenseparated with your child, while
she's trying to navigate what'sgoing on with your son number
(15:51):
one and why he's not speaking?
We've found out recently thatCruz is mostly nonverbal and
autistic and thank God that hehas a mother that he has that
has been doing the work andresearch and getting the care
for him and he's going to bejust perfectly fine.
He is well taken care of byBrittany and she seems like an
(16:13):
amazing mom.
So that's number one on herplate.
And then she's dealing with youand your antics and how you
have hurt her physically,mentally, all of these years.
But she needs to be checking onyou because you're going
through a hard time.
You're going through a hardtime.
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You're going through a hardtime, jacks.
He.
I just, I just, I just can't.
I hope that he's gone for atleast two episodes.
I really do.
His face is sickening to me, umzach's upset because he feels
like he's losing his friendship,maybe losing his friendship,
but the friendship is definitelydifferent between him and
britney, and britney is likeyeah, and the confessional
(17:04):
talking about yeah, there hasbeen some strain on our
relationship because of what hesaid to janet.
Now, last season we allremember Janet was popping off,
janet didn't like Zach andKristen and I think Zach was in
his feelings and when Michellewas saying if you stress her out
(17:25):
, this could happen, she'spregnant and Zach said I don't
care.
No, I'm not Zach, but I feellike maybe he was just saying he
didn't care because he was hurtand in his feelings.
I don't know if he genuinelydidn't care if she had a healthy
(17:45):
end of her pregnancy.
I'm not sure that.
Uh, that's what he meant, soI'm going to give him the
benefit of the doubt too.
It was still the shittiestthing to say, and he should
apologize, because if it wasn'twhat he meant, he can apologize
and be like look, that came offwrong and maybe he did and I
totally missed it, and if so,let me know I guess.
(18:07):
But whatever, even though Janetis a hard woman, that's not a
nice thing to say, but I digress.
So then we find out about Benji.
Benji and Zach broke up.
Who is Benji?
Who is Benji?
Oh, benji.
Benji, he's married Benji, he'sCanadian and getting deported.
(18:28):
Benji, he's married Benji, he'sCanadian and getting deported.
Benji, I've never heard of you.
Maybe I need to follow Zach onInstagram and I would know who
Benji was.
But okay, and then thatconversation ends.
So All right.
So we move on into Jesse's house.
Michelle comes over.
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They're talking about theschedule for their daughter.
Jesse has redone it, whichreally rubs me the wrong way,
because, regardless of if you'regetting along or not, like
you've got some nerve telling methis is the schedule and this
is what we're going to do.
I put my little foot down.
Boo, jesse sucks.
Allegedly he's taken four tripsand Michelle has gone nowhere,
(19:13):
and so she's upset because shefeels like they're not.
It's not fair between them.
This, the scheduling, um, andjesse won't tell michelle who
then annie is.
And I'm on michelle's sidebecause, look, why wouldn't you
want to save money and just haveone nanny that you share, like
that makes more sense.
But Jesse chooses mentalwarfare instead.
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I don't like Jesse.
I don't like Jesse.
He's like a major gaslighter.
And for him to say that it'sokay if Michelle comments on his
parenting, because whatever shesays is just a reflection of
who she is as a person, hold thephone.
I'm gobsmacked.
What do you mean?
Her comments on you are areflection of her.
(20:02):
Oh, okay, I just don't think so.
Not at all.
Um, and then he does this thingthat I've seen in real life
before, where he's making theholidays about him and he starts
crying.
But he doesn't think he shouldbe alone for thanksgiving and
(20:22):
christmas, which is why heshould have isabelle and
isabella and not michelle.
What?
Because you don't want to belonely, I don't know.
Maybe you should have thoughtabout that before you did
whatever you did.
That got you all in thispredicament that you're getting
divorced if you didn't want tobe lonely or call your little
girlfriend from orange county.
(20:44):
Call her, then you won't belonely.
You have malibu the dog.
How could you be lonely withmalibu?
Sounds silly to me.
And the tears, I just the tears.
I can't.
Jesse, you're very, veryclearly crying for the audience.
You want people to feel bad foryou.
Michelle calls him out on that.
I totally.
I think that she is correct andhe is wrong and that he could
(21:08):
say anything about.
He doesn't care if he, ifmichelle is the mom of isabella
or not.
He's just gonna treat her likeshit.
Jesse, let's call a spade aspade.
You are a man.
You were unhappy in yourrelationship and instead of
leaving you, let it keep on.
You just let it keep rocking.
You're not alone.
(21:29):
Like michelle could have leftyou and eventually she did right
.
But you're mad that you thinkmichelle cheated and your ego is
bruised, baby boy, I thinkthat's really the problem here.
So because your little ego isbruised, you want to start
bruising michelle.
Leave that woman alone, leaveyourself alone.
Y'all raise this child togetherin a peaceful, separate
(21:54):
environment and just stop.
Stop it.
Like I said, isabella is goingto see this one day and I hope
you have a good script for her.
It kills me that Isabella sawthis woman in bed with Jesse.
There's been a short amount oftime.
I think I could be wrong, butyou can't wait to have her over.
(22:20):
Spend time with your daughterand then have this lady over
when you don't have yourdaughter because you don't have
her all of the time, but go offwhatever.
Very funny that Sheena.
Shea has entered the chat.
Y'all I was.
I've been waiting for sheena.
I hope that she comes on.
I know that we see her in um,the teaser for this season, that
(22:43):
she and lala are gonna bearound.
I couldn't care less about lala, but glad that sheena is gonna
be here.
They need to make her apermanent cast member.
Sheena a little bit gets on mynerves, but she drives story and
I think that she would make aperfect addition as like a
permanent resident in the valleyof the show, because I think
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she actually lives in the valley, so you know what I mean.
But Shanz entered the chat andshe's spilling the tea she is
talking about, because Michellesaid your girlfriend is sleeping
with other people.
Jesse said no, you're wrong.
Michelle said Sheena told meand Jesse says well, let's call
(23:26):
Sheena, as if now he's going toget the upper hand and really
stick it to Michelle Wrong,because Sheena corroborates the
story and says yeah, old girltold me she's sleeping with the
guy from Baywatch.
That's very embarrassing forJesse that you didn't know that.
Number one, number two well, Idon't know what your
(23:48):
relationship is like.
Maybe it's an open relationshipand that's fine, and probably
it's not from the way thatyou've been talking about this
woman that you're gonna move toorange county and be with her,
but it seems like that's notwhat she wants.
So you should be reallyembarrassed, jesse.
You just should be.
Michelle is winning in thisconversation because sheena had
(24:08):
her back.
Not only had her back, but shewould have said no, it was a no
and she said yes.
So you just look like a stupididiot.
Um, they're just a mess.
Just as talking about howMichelle is so angry, I don't
see that.
I think I see Michelle justtrying to hold it together and
not fall apart with this littlebitty man.
Little bitty man.
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Um, yeah, for Jesse to say thatI was a shitty husband but I
never hurt Michelle, that issuch a cop out.
You're saying that becauseyou're saying that Michelle,
cheating on you, hurt you andyou never hurt her.
Cheating isn't the only waythat you hurt someone, baby,
it's just not.
You can hurt people in amultitude of ways and you know
(24:52):
that, jessie.
You know that Cheating is aterrible thing, but it's not the
worst thing like in comparisonto probably what you did
throughout your marriage.
But I'm sure we'll find outmore as we go on, because it
seems like Michelle's ready totalk.
So now the boys are doing thisstupid thing where Jason and
(25:14):
Danny show up to check on Jax.
This is, this is okay.
Fine, we had to have this partin the episode.
I'm going to make this quick.
Fine, we had to have this partin the episode.
I'm going to make this quick.
Jason's talking about how Jaxneeds to make a drastic change.
He's at rock bottom.
Everybody keeps talking abouthow Jax is at rock bottom.
(25:38):
I wish Jax knew he was at rockbottom.
I feel like he's got a few moreleagues to dive in his mind,
but you're at the bottom, okay,okay, mr Jax, jason Calci.
Jax has an attitude, of course,because someone's telling him
about himself and he doesn'tlike that.
And then he's talking about how, you know, he's going to go to
(26:02):
this mental hospital clinic.
He's frustrated because hedoesn't hear anything from
anybody and his own sister toldhim that he gets manic and goes
crazy and jack's only concern ishaving fomo.
Basically, now he says herethat he's afraid of missing out
on, like the goings on in theweek.
(26:24):
Later on he says it's Cruz, butat this juncture in time he's
talking about missing out on onwhat time at Jax's.
Jax's will be fine, honey,jax's will be fine.
Yeah, he's sickened me.
What's wild?
Is that, then, the clinician?
(26:45):
I guess we'll call them theclinician right now.
No, let me back up that.
Danny said that Jax is a greathuman.
Where, when Is this great humanhidden?
And he was hidden for several,many seasons of Vanderpump Rules
, last season of the Valley andthese two episodes Find me this
(27:09):
great man in Jax.
Please do, please do.
I hope that he is a great mansomewhere else, because I've
watched all of Vanderpump Rulesand all of last season and all
of the one and two episodes thisseason and I don't see it.
I just don't.
But yeah, so the guy from theclinic that Jax is going to
(27:31):
calls up, so then Jax kicks theguys out.
This is such a fake conversation.
It's ridiculous.
I really feel like neither ofthese guys want to be Jax's
friend and they both think thathe's a fucking idiot.
That's what I think.
But hey, his friend, and theyboth think that he's a fucking
idiot.
That's what I think.
But hey, that's just mewatching the show.
Um, this place is thirtythousand dollars for 30 days.
(27:53):
That's a thousand dollars a day.
That's wild, but I don't know.
Maybe compare it to like howmuch you're spending on your
cocaine addiction and see, like,if they weigh out like
addiction's not a funny thing.
Don't get me wrong, I've beenthrough it, right, like it's not
funny, it's an illness, it'sterrible.
(28:14):
This man is not ready to admitto the fact.
I know that he's come out andsaid that he has a cocaine
addiction, but I don't thinkthat in real life he's really
ready to admit to the fact thatthis is a real problem.
And yeah, I just don't.
It just doesn't seem like it.
Everything seems reallyperformative so far to me, and
that's just my opinion.
Um, you might have anotheropinion and that's totally cool.
(28:37):
Keep yours, I'll keep mine.
And I also think that himcrying about the 30 days and
what if I don't do the full 30days?
Sir, I feel like 30 days isnothing compared to the years of
abuse verbal, mental,potentially physical abuse that
you've doled out to not onlyBrittany but the people around
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you.
Like hello, as I said, I'vewatched all of Vanderpump that
you were on, sweetie, I feel sadfor him.
I truly hope him the best,because Cruz seems like an
amazing little kid and hedeserves better.
He just does Okay.
So if you, like me, didn't knowwho Benji was, we get a little
(29:24):
more insight on Benji on aFaceTime call in Zach's
apartment.
And yeah, zach, my boy, readthe room.
Let's not be talking aboutdeportation so freely.
Hello, do we not see whatAmerica we live in currently?
Anywho, do we not see whatAmerica we live in currently?
(29:48):
Anywho, benji doesn't thinkthat Zach is serious, but he's
still now made the decision thathe's going to move in with Zach
for the summer.
So I guess we're going to see alot more of Benji and Zach's
going to have a little morestoryline.
That has nothing to do withdisparaging comments toward
Janet or her pregnancy.
Just kidding, I'm sure there'llbe more disparaging comments
toward janet or her pregnancy.
Just kidding, I'm sure there'llbe more disparaging comments
toward janet, just not thepregnancy of it all.
Um, so yeah, but I like benji,and let me tell you why because
(30:13):
in the two minutes maybe lessthat we get to experience him
for now he already called zach acheeto, which is hilarious
because zach's tan, zach's spraytan, be tan, and by tan I mean
orange and said something abouthis wig.
So he's got a good sense ofhumor.
So I'm looking forward togetting to know little Benj,
(30:35):
benj a little bit more.
Hey, benji.
So the end of this episode is alot.
We're at Jax and Brittany'shouse that Brittany's been
kicked out of to live in severalAirbnbs, which you know how I
feel about that.
She pulls up with Cruz.
They're in the house bythemselves at first and we see
(31:00):
that Jax has a playing cardcovering the camera in the house
.
Okay, because I guess britneystill has access to the cameras.
I mean, there's other ways tofix that, but uh, okay, and the
photos are flipped around in thehouse.
It's really sad.
Um, britney's looking for somemilk for their son and finds a
(31:20):
cup with lipstick on it in thefridge.
Part of me feels like jackleaves.
Jacks leaves these thingsbecause he's just a dick and a
child, but whatever.
Then jacks rolls up and it'sweird to me that when jacks is
approaching cruise, cruise islike crying.
It makes me wonder how oftenjacks does see cruise and what
(31:43):
that is like.
But because we we don't see,always see his Cruz is upset.
Maybe he's upset because ofsomething completely different
and it's not his fatherapproaching him.
But whatever, brittany asksthat he not kiss Cruz on the
face because she saw, she sawthat woman leaving this morning
from that house and she doesn'tknow where Jax, she can only
(32:05):
imagine where Jax's mouth hasbeen.
And now you're going to kissthe face of our cherubic son.
I feel the same way, you, dirtybird.
She doesn't know if he's takena shower, brushed his teeth,
he's foul, from what I remember,and she knows better than me.
Then we cut to the camerafootage, of course, so that you
can see this woman walking outof the house, which is hilarious
(32:26):
.
Hilarious that the camerafootage gets queued up, not that
it happened.
But then Jax wants to have thenerve to ask if Julian was over
last night.
You are so jealous.
You are so jealous because youknow that Brittany can do better
.
You know it and that's why youkeep trying to beat her down.
Let her go.
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Let her go, jax.
Let her be free.
You go ahead and be miserable.
Let her be free.
Fly, brittany fly.
That's my takeaway.
But things get worse.
Things get worse.
Excuse my English.
Thank God for Zooli worse.
(33:08):
Uh, things get worse.
Excuse my english.
Um, thank god for zuli.
Zuli takes crews to the park,so he doesn't have to see any of
this.
It just it's all really sadbecause it makes you think like
if the cameras weren't here,would zuli have taken crews?
How much has crews seen?
Probably more than his littlebaby eyes need to have seen,
like overall.
That makes me the most sadabout their situation.
(33:29):
But yeah, jacks is still indelulueville talking about
britney, destroyed his life andthis is why he has to go to
rehab.
This has nothing to do withbritney.
This has everything to do withyou and your baggage and your
addiction and your anger andyour depression and your anxiety
(33:50):
.
The sooner you claim thesethings as your own, the sooner
you'll be able to fix them andbe better.
And that's just the truth of itall.
But because Jax is Jax, he'sblaming Brittany and saying
everything is her fault.
And we found out thatBrittany's been paying the bills
still at this house, or atleast I found out.
Maybe you knew she's beenpaying the bills still, even
(34:12):
though she's bed hopping fromAirbnb to Airbnb just trying to
find a safe space for her andher son.
Sickening, sickening.
Jax is completely off of hisrocker, calls Brittany and the
situation, their conversation,toxic.
Jax, you are the most toxichuman I've seen on television in
my 37 years of life.
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Truly, madly, deeply.
You just absolutely are.
I don't know how I feel aboutthe sending of the pictures of
Cruz.
That's not bad.
I mean, look, you're sendingthem to someone you know you're
not sending them to like.
I don't know how I feel aboutthe sending of the pictures of
Cruz.
That's not bad.
I mean, look, you're sendingthem to someone you know You're
not sending them to like I don'tknow.
It's not as bad as having womenover in the house that Brittany
still pays the bills for.
You cannot equate the two, jax.
(34:54):
That's not fair.
But you're going to pullwhatever you think you can
because you are like you're in acorner.
So you're in a corner, soyou're just scratching,
scratching, scratching, tryingto get what you can.
Sicko jason comes to take jacksto rehab which okay, I guess so
(35:14):
and it's having a weird littleconversation with him about.
Now he's saying that he's gonnamiss out on time with cruz.
Listen, you miss out on thistime with cruz so that you can
have the rest of your life withhim.
If this was really important toyou, you would be able to see
that and understand that these30 days are nothing in the grand
scheme of life and the timethat you can have with your son.
And if then he starts cryingand we've seen Jax cry before
(35:38):
it's his Hail Mary I'm not herefor the tears.
I just can't.
Like I said earlier, I reallyhope that we don't see him for
at least two episodes, becausehe completely drained me in this
one episode.
I feel so bad for Cruz.
I feel so bad for Brittany.
I hope that she is happy, ashappy as she can be in real life
(36:00):
, in real time right now,because she that jack's trash.
I hope he gets better.
But yeah, I don't have any newnews.
Um, brothel's love hotel iscoming up this sunday.
I'm interested in that becauseI love nissim, giselle.
Um, I love shannon, but we'llsee.
(36:22):
And countess, louis and I, yeah, whatever, that's fine, um, but
yeah, we'll watch that thissunday and I'll be back to talk
about that and real life vibesof atlanta next week.
I think this really will be thelast episode of this week.
I'm not going to talk aboutsummer house because, though
it's been all right it, it'skind of boring me.
(36:44):
We'll see.
We'll see, maybe I'll change mymind, but thanks for listening.
Hope to see you back here.
Bye.
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