rachel's reality reckoning rant

My name is Ty French, and this is my podcast. That's what it's called. Ty French Podcasts. Yeah, I did it. Ty French Podcasts. Ty French Podcasts. Ty French Podcasts. Ty French Podcasts. Hello, hello, hello and welcome back. To the Ty French Podcast. My name is Ty French, and this is my freaking podcast. That's why it's called Ty French Podcasts. If there's one thing that I am sad about doing a rebrand coming soon, I told you, I'd stop talking about it, but here I am again. Talking about it. It's doing that intro because obviously, like I said, doing a rebrand, the name will be changing, I believe, and it'll be a new cover, all of that shit, but I won't be able to say. Hello, my name is Ty French, and this is my podcast, and that's why it's called Ty French Podcasts, because it won't be called the Ty French Podcast anymore. I'll figure out some new intro and some new iteration, or something, but anyways. Happy Friday. TGIF, I'm so, for freaking happy, it's finally the weekend. This week has just felt like, I don't even know. The weeks are just starting to blend together. It goes by so quick, but also so slow at the same time. And, you know, what could start this Friday off with a bang? What could start this weekend off with just a bang? Following out Ty French Podcasts on Instagram. If you are not following the Instagram handle at Ty French Podcasts, currently owned by Ty French, more, then you're homophobic. And I don't make the rules, I don't make the laws, but I do make the laws in this country of me, where I'm the rat king. I make the laws of this land. And in this world of said rat king, you're homophobic if you're not following Ty French Podcasts. And trust me, mama's, I see the numbers. I see the numbers on the back end of how many of y'all are listening? How many y'all are tuning in? And then I see the numbers of followers on my podcast accounts, page on Instagram, on Ty French Podcasts, like I said. So, I know there's a lot of you out there that are kind of giving homophobic energy. And I'm gonna need you to be an ally and rise up this weekend. And I'm gonna need you to follow me because guess what? I'm desperate. I'm desperate for attention. I'm desperate for numbers. Can't I even talk? I just need to start that off because you know what? I would like more followers. That's the dumbest thing ever. I don't know how else to say it, but you know what? It's true. Follow me bitch because I'm desperate. I'm a desperate old millennial hag. And I need validation. Okay. I, that's not what this podcast is about. I don't know what it is. If this podcast is not just me seeking validation and confirmation about, I don't know, I'm being dumb. Anyways, hi guys. Happy Friday. I hope everyone had an amazing week. I hope everyone has some fun weekend plans. One of my friends from New York is in town and is staying with me. So that will be really fun. He actually gets here in like an hour. So I got to be quick with the court in this episode. You know, I like to rant. You know, I like to go on for a little too long. So what we will see today's episode is just going to be kind of cash and kind of light. But we have new pertinent information regarding certain situations, certain, certain scandals, certain scandals, if I should say. That need to be discussed. And so we're going to be talking about that after some life updates. But it's been so cloudy here in the mornings. And I'm just new to the west side, you know, as we all know. And I just, I can't. I can't with the marine layer. It needs to start burning off a little too much. I mean, like easier, faster. One of my little tyrants messaged me on my Instagram account at different podcasts in which you all should be following. Like I said, and was like thinking of you with the storm. Stay safe. I said, Mama, what storm? Mama, is there something ahead of my way that I should be concerned about? Is there something ahead of my way that I should be privy to this knowledge? Thank you for bringing it up to me and for, you know, protecting me. I was like, literally, excuse me what? And she was like, there's a storm about to hit California this weekend. They're saying it will probably hit as a tropical storm. But it's like a hurricane in the ocean right now. And when I tell you this was the first time I'd heard about this, that is the blessing and the curse of not watching any news. And that is the blessing and the curse of the death of Twitter. Like I just am not aware to anything that happens in the news anymore because my one source of news was Twitter now X. And so it's been kind of nice to not have any information available to me. However, I would like to know if I'm about to be in Hurricane Katrina and if I need to prepare. So thank you to this little tyrant for keeping the rat king safe. Yeah, like I said, it's just been so cloudy and now I know why because Hurricane Tortillas is about to hit the coast. But I check the weather and it says it's only supposed to rain Saturday Sunday and it's only like 50% chance. So I think it's just going to be kind of cloudy. I don't know. I don't know. We'll see. I'll keep you guys updated next week if I'm still in the house. But I just need something to be discussed about my new routine over here on the west side. And that is my morning walks. The power of a morning walk. To the ocean with a coffee. Now, I don't know if I've talked about this before, but like I am not much of coffee drinker. Or should I say I haven't been much of a coffee drinker in the past. But these days I wake up. I walk down to my local coffee shop. I get a cup of coffee and then I walk to the beach. And let me tell you, it is healing parts of my soul that I didn't know needed healing. It is really just setting me up for success. And it really just like elevates my day so much. And yeah, I've just been getting up so much earlier. Like typically when I lived in we home, mama, I'm not getting out of bed to 11 a.m. Because my apartment was dark, it was quiet. I didn't have much to do. Yada, yada, yada. I lived up on a hill so I didn't really want to walk too far. My new spot, easy to walk to everything. It kind of like gets a little bit more noisy, which is like a good thing. And I'm on the, I'm on like not a street level like I used to be. And so I can sleep with my blinds open and I just wake up at the sun, when it's sunny. And it's just been so nice to get up early. Like literally the power of getting up early and going out of walk. Like mama, I hate walking. You guys know I hate walking. But that is just turning me into a walker. When I tell you I'm walking one, two miles before 9 a.m. That is unheard of for me. That is literally unheard of. And I'm gonna change bitch. And I'm hoping that with this new practice, I'm about to be a much slender bitch. I'm hoping that the walks alone give me the body of Zach Efron and I unfortunately don't think that it will. But I'm gonna keep living that delusion. That these morning walks are really just gonna turn me into a super fit eight pack California Beach boy by next summer. So we will see. We will see if I add anything else into my workout regime. I won't let you guys know. His regime might word routine regime. I don't think regime is the right word that I just used there. I think I met routine. Regime is giving me kind of like scary energy. I don't know what that means actually anyways. What else for a life update do I have for you guys? Oh. Thanks to the power of the tyrants. I'm sure it was just me alone and it was the power of my podcast that alone. But red, white and royal blue. I cannot say it. I'll say text to me after my episode on Wednesday. Because he's like you cannot say red, white and royal blue. And I promise like I'm not. It's not like I was hammered like I just like I cannot say it. It is a tongue twister red, white and royal blue. I don't know. Anyways, that is now the number one movie on Amazon Prime right now in the world. Congrats. The gay is one. And if you guys have not seen it yet, you guys need to. It's super cute. Just thought I'd give you guys a little update there. Also update on. On the unfortunate incident that happened earlier this week when I hit that bitch in the Prius. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, you got to go listen to one of these Wednesdays episode. But yes, I got in a little accident. And she texted me and I thought I was in the clear, you know, I'm thinking she was super nice. And she is. She's super nice, whatever. But I thought I was in the clear and I wasn't going to have to pay nothing. But she told me that she took it to the car wash and they tried to buff it out. And that there's probably going to be some replacing going on or some dent, some type of body work. So I'll let you guys know. But that's just really a nice way to start your weekend. However, she texted me and she was like, oh my gosh, I found you on Instagram. I'll say hi. That is my worst nightmare. That is my worst nightmare because I'm like, I don't want you to know my Instagram. You know, like I'm thinking like you're just, just whatever. Then I click over to her Instagram. Tell me why this bitch is literally a huge celebrity stylist. Yeah, for big slabs, big slabs. I'm not going to name names because I don't want to expose her identity. But I was like, cool. Like, I mean, great that you're in the industry. Now we're connected. And you're so nice. And I'm glad I like, I'll leave spoke of her praise on the pod. But I'm like, that made me feel even worse. That made me feel even worse. So we'll see if she said she has like go to New York for work. And so she was like, I'll let you know in a few weeks what they say. But if it's more than I made at the photo shoot, then I'm literally just, I'm never leaving my house. Every time I leave my house, it costs me hundreds of dollars because I either hit a bitch. I crashed my car. I get a flat tire. I spend money. I go out to eat after I ink. Like, I don't know. Living is so expensive. I didn't ask to be here. I didn't ask to be born. Why do I have to pay so much? Anyways, just thought you guys would like that. Information about the lovely lady in the, in the Prius that I hit. That was super nice in my day. Apparently, this is celebrity stylist. And I got to be watching now on these streets for the night. Who knows? Maybe I'll hit Kim Kardashian next. You never know. You never know in LA. That is such an LA thing. Like she texted me and she's like, oh, I find your Instagram. And then I look over and she's like verified and literally has like so many photos. I was like, oh, okay. This is literally the most LA of experiences to exist. Um, oh, another amazing fun life update that I have for you guys. I got Botox. Finally, I finally got some Botox. I needed it so for wreaking bad. I have only gotten it once before with my friend, Brielle. I went with her last time she went. It was like maybe two years ago. Um, maybe a year ago. No, I think it was like two years ago. Um, and that shit, it faded out so fast. And it was so expensive because her guy is like a celeb guy. You know, so it was like $1200 and I was like, I will never be getting Botox again. Like, I'm just going to have to age gracefully. I'm going to have to deal with the wrinkles because I ain't rolling in the down. Like, I'm not just, I don't have just like two grand to throw away every six months so that my face doesn't move. Um, and you know, I was just accepting my fate of being just an ugly, wrinkly white old guy and being bitter about all these very pretty youthful men that I'm running into. Um, however, my lovely, lovely, lovely friend Kylie, who is new to California within the last year, um, started this company called Maldwella. And they, like, you know, they do like IVs and stuff like that. But now they just started doing Botox. Thank God they're available in LA, OSE, Bakersfield, Riverside, Sacramento. They're all over. They do like in-home IVs and like, you know, all those things like V12 shots, blah, blah, blah, blah. But now they just started doing Botox. So when I tell you, Mama came over to my house, poked me for a few minutes. I didn't even feel a thing. Her pricing is so good, so good. And now I'm going to be gorgeous in about 14 days. In about 14 days, guess what? You're going to watch these podcast clips. My face ain't going to move. Just how I like it. I don't want my forehead to move because guess what? It was looking like a geographical map up there. It was starting to look like a transcript of an ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic. Is that the word? Hieroglyphic? Is that the word I'm talking about? Hieroglyph? Hieroglyph? Hieroglyph? Yeah, hieroglyphic. Anyways, so I'm super pumped about that. You know, if you can't beat them, join them. You know, I'm a Beverly Hills bitch. I'm a California boy. And I like to lay out on the sun and I don't have the best skincare routine. So what do I got to do? I got to freeze those muscles. I don't want a single wrinkle. I want to age gracefully. However, I also want to look like I am 19 for the rest of my life. So it's this constant battle that I have of, you know, you see these people, you see these celebs that get like, you know, I hate to say it. I hate to say it. We love you Madonna, your mother, but you're looking a little scary. And I'm not trying to ever look like that. I'm not trying to look that scary and that pulled back. However, I do want to look like Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston, where they have aged gracefully with a little nip and tucking and a little pollen and a little talks here or there. And they're looking stun eye yang. They're looking gorge eye, yes. That's what I'm trying to do. And you know when that's got to start? When you're younger. Because how you get these people like Madonna or, you know, some of these older ladies when they didn't have as much access to like what we have access to now with like modern medicine and stuff, if you wait until it's all saggy and then you try and pull it back, that's not going to work. That's how you're going to look scary. But if you're just gradually doing little things here there to maintain what you've already got, that's I think the way you're going to come out on top. That's how you're going to look gorgeous forever. That's the way to age gracefully. You know, I'm obviously not going to look the same forever. But I'm going to try. I'm sure I'm trying. And I implore you to all join me on this journey of youthfulness and chasing youthfulness and not aging gracefully because we all need to look beautiful and studying and wickedly gorgeous. And with my friend Kylie, you can do that. The brand is called Maduella. Maduella, California. Their Instagram handle is Maduella underscore CA. So yeah, check it out. Check them out. They're great. Hi, when I tell you, I don't know if I have like a high paint tolerance. I think I must because I did not feel a single poke. I didn't feel a single thing. But when I got Botox the first time, I'm not going to, I'm not going to name names. But who did it? But it was a little painful. I won't lie. Like I definitely felt it. But this last time, maybe because I had gotten it before I was kind of used to what it was going to feel like. But I'm not kidding. I did not feel anything. It was so easy. It was so seamless. And yeah, like I said, her pricing is so good. And I just, oh, I can't wait. I can't wait. That's the thing that sex with Botox is like you have to wait the two weeks for it to like really set in. But when I tell you in two weeks, you're not going to get in. I'm going to be posting left and right. There's going to be selfies left and right on my feed. You guys think you're sick of me now? Just you wait in 14 days. I'm going to be on every billboard. I'm going to be on every corner. I'm going to be every bus in the city of Los Angeles. Oh gosh. I am just, you know what? I was going to say I'm in a cuckoo crazy mood. But compared to Wednesday's episode, this is nothing. I don't know what the hell I was on on Wednesday's episode. But when I was listening back first off, I literally, I was so tired. If you guys listen to it, you knew that I was like recording it late at night because my photo shoot went way longer than I had expected. And so I didn't finish recording until like 10, 10, 15. And then I obviously had to edit it and listen to it. And that takes me like two hours. And let me tell you, Mama fell asleep. I woke up. It was like, it was like midnight. It was like, it already listened through the whole way through. I couldn't remember what I had listened to, what I had edited. So then I had to go back and do like the second half again. At that point, I was like, as long as there's not like a huge long pause. Or something like doesn't need to be cut out. Like, I'm just posting it. I don't care. If I leave something in there that is whatever problematic, doesn't make sense. A sounding bad. Like the audio was off. I don't care. I'll figure it out later because I've got to go to bed. But I was just feeling really at cuckoo crazy. And I'm kind of, that energy is kind of rubbing off to me today on Fridays. Episode. Oh, you know what it is? It's because I'm not filming. I always forget to say that at the beginning of the episode. No wonder none of you guys watch it because I'm so inconsistent with the damn video. That, you know, that's on me. That's on me. I'm hoping I'm going to be better at that. But my friend is going to be here this weekend. And, you know, I didn't have time to get ready. And I'm not, maybe once I get the Botox and the Botox sits in, they don't be able to just casually record without, you know, I'm on some Charlotte Tilbury Bronzer and some Housewives Foundation. Maybe then I'll feel comfortable to just be Ron organic. And I wouldn't, I wouldn't feel bad recording in my sweatpants like I'm currently in right now. However, until the Botox sits in, I got to, I got to do foundation. I got to do bronzer. I got to, I got to do Patrick Talk contour. And once you do that enough times, like once you get ready and you put on some makeup, now when I see myself without a little bronzer on, I'm looking corpsey. Like Tim Burton character. And that's not good. Okay. Anyways, you have been rambling on for way too long with a live update. Normally Friday, I don't really have a bunch of an update, but I feel like I just had so much that I wanted to share with you guys. The song of the moment before we get into the nitty-gritty of the episode is soak up the sun by Cheryl Crow. Woo! If there is one song that can perfectly encapsulate the feeling and the energy that I'm trying to create with my new lifestyle over in Venice as a basic beach California bitch boy. It is soak up the sun by Cheryl Crow. Oh my gosh, that's kind of tongue twister too. Suck up the sun, Cheryl Crow. Is there a better California summer nostalgic vibe? I'm gonna soak it. Oh, it's so good. I don't know if I can sing it because I don't want copyright in Frenchman, but it is just so good. You guys need to go listen to it. It'll just send you off into this like summery nostalgic, ready for your weekend vibe. And like I said, fall is out the window. We ain't talking about that no more. We're done with that shit. Throw away the pumpkin spice all days. And I don't want to hear about a fucking sweater or a cardigan or nothing. We are still in summer. And what's gonna get you off the fall energy and into the summer energy is soak up the sun by Cheryl Crow. So if you're feeling a little tempted by these pumpkin spice lattes and these apple cider shit and these cardigans and, you know, the people online saying that summer's over. If you're feeling tempted to sway over to that dark side, I implore you to redeem yourself listening to this song and get back into the summer spirit. You know what I'm saying? Because you don't know what you have until it's gone. And I know when summer's gone and it's actually fall, all you bitches who are pre-preemptively drinking the pumpkin spice lattes, you're gonna have rats. You're gonna have rage and regret. Because what comes after fall? Winter mama. And I am ready for that. I'm not ready for that. Anyways. So. Anyways, so. Today and yesterday, I don't even know how to get into this. I thought we were done with Skandival. I really did. And obviously I knew they were gonna like cover it next season, but I, you know, I felt like I had some time with my tyrants without Skandival around. And there's just been a lot coming out about, like, whether Rachel, I'm gonna call her Rachel now, because that's what she has said she wants to go by. I know in the past, I've said that anyone who called her Rachel looks like a loser. And I still see him by that. Because she was at that time going by Raquel. So if you took that away from her, that's just weird. But now she likes to go by Raquel. So I'm gonna address her as Raquel. But we're talking about Raquel. Vanderpump rules, Skandival. You know, there's been a lot of chatter online about, like, whether or not she was gonna film the season or not. And they were going back with contracts back and forth. Yada, yada, yada. I don't know how much of that was true. She's like been in this facility in Arizona for a few months. And just like learning and like going through therapy and like protecting her mental health and all that, which I think is great. Then out of nowhere, she makes the decision to go on Bethany Frankl's podcast. It was a two-part podcast today and yesterday. And I listened to it and you know, we've got to talk about it. I've dedicated like two episodes before to Skandival. And we've talked all about it. So I felt like it was only fair to share my thoughts on the podcast episode. And first off, all I have to say is it is so frustrating how fans can be so invested in these situations, like in Skandival and whatever. And like we, that's why we watched the reunions. Oh my gosh, the trucks outside. I'm so sorry. That's why we watched the reunions. That's why we watched the shows. And we really just, I don't know. What am I trying to say? The fact that like Tom Skandival broke his silence on the Howman Dell podcast, who has nothing to do with the Broadway Universe, has never seen the show, doesn't know Tom Skandival, no connection to it. So we're breaking the silence with someone who has no idea what they're talking about, is not asking the correct questions, isn't going to hold that person accountable because they have no stake in the race. That's not okay. That was so frustrating. So then we're cow, Rachel. Oh my gosh, I'm so used to calling her. We're cow. Rachel goes on Bethany Frankl's podcast and the bitches never seen Vanderprung rules. Bethany Frankl has never seen Vanderprung rules. Man, man, this is not a fair race. Like you're not asking the correct questions. You're not asking enough questions. You're just judging. You're going into this interview, only talking about what you've seen online. You're talking about what TikToks you've seen, or the clips, or this, or what articles you've read, or what the fandom is saying. And I appreciate Bethany Frankl's approach of giving Rachel a platform to share her story and in theory, it's nice because Bethany Frankl has been on Housewives and so she is part of the universe. And she knows how things can get misconstrued in reunions and with production and whatever. That side of things was kind of fascinating to hear about. However, you've never seen the show. You've never seen the show. So you don't even know who this bitch is. You don't even really fully understand the whole drama or why people are so upset. And so some of her commentary throughout the podcast episode was just a little frustrating because it's like, yes, in theory, what you're saying is correct. People should have given you a break or this, or everyone's human, whatever. Those are all true, but you don't understand the stake in the race. And so when Rachel, there were parts in it where she was like, oh yeah, me and Ariana weren't that close. And so Bethany's like, oh, then why are people so haunt and bothered by this? And Rachel's like, oh, just production, whatever. And I'm like, okay, no, but that's not fair to say because we watched the show. Like we watched you crying Ariana's arms multiple times about things we watched Ariana stick up for you, like whatever, like you were friends. You can paint it however you want, but like we saw that. And if Bethany had actually watched the damn show, then I feel like she could have called Rachel out on her bullshit when she's like, oh, but we weren't really that close. We never hung out not around cameras. It's like, that's not really a fair assumption to say. Just because you didn't hang out not around cameras doesn't mean that you guys didn't have a real friendship. And that she was not a good friend to you. Anyways, the other thing that I need to talk about with Bethany Frankel's podcast just in general, she has like two podcasts. I don't really get it. One of them literally the episodes are 10 minutes long, 10 minutes long, and there will be four minutes of ads. Mama, you getting on and saying three sentences about a topic is not a podcast episode. And then for you to sell ads on that and then half of it be ads is like, mama, go on your Instagram story and go on a tangent. Like that is not a podcast episode. It's so annoying. And I'm sure she knew that this Rachel episode would be like big because you know it's Rachel and she's breaking her silence after scandal. The amount of ads in it was actually insane. Like self fewer ads for more money. But oh my gosh, like within the first 15 minutes, I think probably like four of those minutes were ads. And I'm just like, okay. Obviously like everyone deserves to be paid for their work, podcasting as I know is so much freaking work and I can't wait to finally have advertisers and to make this like more of a business because obviously if that doesn't happen, like if I don't start getting ads then I'm quitting because it's a lot of work. It's a lot of time that I could be doing other projects with whatever I fully get that. But like you do have to take your listener into account and you just don't want to ever feel like, like okay, like I don't know. I don't know what I'm trying to say. Just I think some podcast that adds, like what we said for instance, like I never get to get their ads. I could listen and talk about anything. Obviously they're my best friends. But like or like that I've had a podcast. Their ads, I literally don't have to skip through. Like it just like seamlessly works into their episode and by the time I'm even realizing that it's an ad, I'm halfway through the ad, I'm good to go. Bethany's, oh my gosh, like they just keep going and then you think it's done. And I try not to skip through people's ads because I think that's rude. It's like I, that's like, it almost feels like stealing. It's like I'm listening to your podcast for free and I'm gonna watch an ad, you know, because I want you to get your bag and I want to support your show. And I want this show that I love so much to keep happening. So I'm gonna support, I'm gonna listen to the ad, you know, when I watch cable, when I watch housewives, I watch the commercials, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I'm here to support it, whatever. But holy shit, that was the first podcast where I'm like, I'm gonna have to skip some because like I've already listened to three minutes full of ads and they're still going. Every time I think it's gonna end, they just keep on going. So I don't know, I mean she probably got paid so freaking much. I am curious if Rachel got paid, like if Bethany paid her, I doubt she did. But it's just like, she could have gone anywhere. She could have literally done an Oprah interview. She could have done Alex Cooper, call her daddy. She could have done anything. The good morning America, literally, like she could have done a Watch My Happens Live, like exclusive thing. I don't know. For her to do Bethany Frankle just felt like, it almost felt like she was doing Bethany Frankle because she was a fan girl, a Bethany Frankle, and she kind of mentioned that her mom like pushed her to do it with Bethany Frankle and it kind of sounded like her mom was a fan girl. So I don't know. I did think it was interesting how Rachel said that she now goes my Rachel and she felt like she kind of had like, almost sounds like multiple personality syndrome. Like, like Raquel was this like other person and she was always afraid to be herself and this or I don't know. I kind of just wrote down like some bullet points kind of of the episodes. My main takeaway, I didn't, nothing like ground breaking was said during the episode or episodes. My takeaway from it was as a whole was that, I think had the reaction not been so this role towards Rachel, I keep wanting to say her cow. Had the reaction from the fans and everything just not been like so harsh, I think she probably would have been a lot more apologetic and she probably would have felt a lot worse. I get this feeling that like, when all of these people are coming at you and it's so like you don't even have an opportunity to speak or think or anything, like any human being, no matter if you're in the wrong or right, like you're gonna go into fight or flight mode and you're gonna fight for yourself, you're gonna stand up for yourself because even if you know you're in the wrong and whatever, people are telling you to kill yourself to, you know, get fucked by a cheese grater, all of the stuff, like you, your reaction is gonna be like, hold up, hold up, hold up, hold up. What the fuck? Like I'm a human being, F-Off, leave me alone. Like that's gonna be anyone's natural reaction. And so I do feel like she was remorseful. However, I think the reaction was just like, I don't think the punishment fit the crime. And so not in terms of like Ariana talking to her, but just in terms of like a whole and like how much like the media and everything just got a hold of it. And so I think she has no choice other than to, you know, defend herself and fight for herself. She's not just gonna like give in, you know. And I think that going, I think deciding not to do this season was probably the best thing ever for her. Like I think her story is kind of complete. She wasn't ever like needed on the show, you know. She mentioned that one of the producers did confirm that after season 10, the show was supposed to be canceled and then Scandival obviously happened and it didn't get canceled. So up in tell Scandival, like she was not a pertinent character. The show wasn't even that pertinent. Like nothing really was that big of a deal. She admitted and she kind of alluded to the fact that she thinks that Tom Scandival had orchestrated this event with Bravo for the show to get this second wave. I don't know how I feel about that. I don't even know if that's how I would like to think I have enough faith in humanity that like they wouldn't do this unless Ariana was in on it. Like, I mean, I guess if literally their livelihood's gonna be done and they're gonna cancel the show and the network's like, you know, show up or get off the screen. But the fact that even Rachel, who's literally the Scandival is about her, is wondering like if Tom was in on this because I guess allegedly he's now or he was offered a producing credit on the season, which obviously producers on the show like, you know, give the storylines and you know, put all the pieces of the puzzle together to make it a show. I don't know. Very, very interesting. I do feel really bad for her in terms of it felt like Tom really did taking advantage of this girl. And, you know, she's an adult. She can't fend for herself in a lot of ways. And like, you know, it takes two to tango. Like, she was, she had a part of this. He didn't like force her to do anything or whatever. And especially like, if it was a one-time, two-time thing, maybe you could, you know, argue that. But a 10-month affair, it's like, come on, mama, mama, mama, mama. Like, use your brain. But what I thought was kind of crazy that she said about the whole situation and I think a huge part as to why they are no longer together now and kind of the demise of their relationship because obviously we all wanted what we didn't want them to work out. But like, that was going to be the only thing that made that all worth it was if they got happily, happily ever after they had five children, yada, yada, yada, yada, whatever. Everyone's happy. See you later. But she said that Tom, sand of all, did not have consent to record her while she was, you know, having sexy time on FaceTime with him. And that's obviously recording that Arya on the saw. And that's how we all now have sand of all. And that I'm pretty sure is illegal. Like, you can't record someone naked with the outdoor consent. And especially if then that gets distributed. I'm pretty sure that's considered revenge porn. And that is literally illegal. Like, you will go to jail for that. And so I think, you know, Rachel definitely could have pressed charges on that. I believe, I don't know if it gets murky because they were on a FaceTime call. So it's like, I guess she consented to like showing herself naked on the call. So then I don't know if it's like you're opening yourself up to be recorded. If that, I don't know, I don't know. Because I know in some states it's illegal to record someone even on a phone call without their knowledge. That's why a lot of phone companies, like when you call their customer service, say like this call is being recorded. Yada, yada, yada. Because they like legally have to tell you that you're being recorded. So all that to say, I just think like, if she really wanted to, you know, go for it, Mama could press charges. And she would probably win. And Tom would probably serve time. And or like get a fat fear customer service. I mean, customer service, community service. I don't know. I just think the fact that he didn't get consent is so gross. Like, and she said that in the finale, when they picked cameras back up. And she went over, or Tom went over to her house, to her apartment. And they were having that conversation. There were a lot of allegations that said, like, you know, she was hiding like a bag of cocaine or ketamine on the counter. And the whole conversation just fell awkward. They didn't want to kiss because it was on camera. Yada, yada, yada. There were rumors online about how like, Tom didn't want to film after that, or that he needed something edited out. And we all thought it was that they kissed on camera and that he needed to have that edited out. Well, then she comes in with the bomb. And this honestly was one of the biggest bombshells to me, the biggest takeaways from the episode was, she asked him on camera, why did you record me without consent? Like, I did not consent to that, and that makes me really upset. And he admitted, like, yeah, I'm sorry, like, I wanted to, I only recorded it because I wanted to show you at a later date how beautiful you looked. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew. That's like, oh, I'll take a, I'll take a candid photo of you at the grocery store, and I'll send it to you later about how beautiful you look. I'll take a photo of you playing at the beach because you look so high and whatever, and I'll send it to you later. Not a whole screen record you masturbating on FaceTime and then show you later. Yeah, absolutely not. Jail. Jail to that man. But then, apparently after they wrapped that scene, he was so pissed and he was like, why did you ask me that on camera? And she's like, what? Like, we're literally filming a scene talking about this whole scandal. Like, I thought I'm just being open and honest and whatever. So then, he refuses to film anything else for Skandovalm, any of the content, until the producers guarantee that they are going to delete that part and edit that part out. He did not want on the show on the camera, on TV admitting that he did not have consent for that. Why is that? Because literally that's admitting that he committed a crime. And if she wanted to press charges, that's just proof. Like, he would literally get locked away. See you later. Obviously, they could still subpoena that footage and, you know, if she really wanted to go for it. But I think it was at that point that she realized, okay, this man does not love me and this man is only looking out for himself and is orchestrating a TV show to fit whatever narrative he wants. You know, at the same time, it came out the end of the three-part reunion how like much he was forcing her to lie and share about the timeline and all the stuff. And I feel like when he made them edit out that scene is like, when she really clicked, like, oh shit. What did I get myself involved in and how the heck do I get out of this? Something I thought was interesting during the whole interview in part two, she was saying, I had never heard this allegation, but apparently there is an alleged physical abuse allegation between Kristen Dodie and James Kennedy. And Rachel was basically saying and insinuating or whatever you want to call it, that Bravo is giving Kristen Dodie and Jacks and all of them this spin-off series to hush them up and to give them money and to shush them about this allegation so they don't come out about it so that Vanderpump rules can continue to thrive and go on and succeed and so that they don't get canceled because James is an abuser. That is a huge accusation and I'm not discrediting, I'm not discrediting the abuse allegation, but the allegation that Bravo knows about it and is trying to hush them all up and give them like a spin-off? I don't know about that. That's kind of giving like, I don't know. Like I said, I try to have a bit more faith in humanity. Maybe I'm just being naive, but just how she talked about past cast members and current cast members and all of their drama, I can understand her frustrations that the show was literally built up of a ton of liars and cheaters and overall they've all done shocking things and then she's on the scene and it's her turn now and the reaction is just times a thousand and she really didn't understand why, but I think she just didn't have the history with the rest of the cast that the other cast has with each other. Like Jack's in Stasi and all of that drama, like they've been together and around for years and best friends since they were like 20 and roommates and all of this stuff and like she just doesn't have that like lifelong relationship with the cast. So that when she fs them over, it's like if I have, if Tessa fs me over right now, it's like I'm gonna forgive her, we're gonna get over it and you know, we're gonna work through that situation because we're lifelong friends. If a friend that I've had for the past year, two years, fs me over, I'm probably gonna be like, also like Wuchacho, see you later, you fucking bitch. So I understand kind of both sides because I don't think that the reaction should have been as big because they've all done it. However, I just think like her relationship with everyone in the group is so different, but I don't know. Is she kind of felt like she was really pissed at Bravo. Like after listening to this interview, I'd be so interested on being the fly in the wall on the conversations that she's had with Bravo about like, because apparently they were in talks to come back, you know, and I don't know if it was a money thing or what, but she seems really bitter at Bravo for not protecting her, not stepping in, her not getting paid enough. I know that Bethany Frankel said that she is shocked that Rachel only gets paid. She said that Bethany's assistance get paid more than Rachel per season. And she was like, that's disgusting, like Bravo's using you. And then I saw a clip on TikTok of like TMZ or something doing an interview with Lisa Vanderpump about the podcast, and she was like, I don't watch it, but whatever. And the paparazzi guy was like, oh, how do you feel about Rachel saying that she gets paid less than Bethany's assistance? And she was like, that's not true. I am a producer on the show and I know exactly how much she makes. She said that she gets paid 361,000 dollars. That's how much she got paid last season. 361,000 dollars. Man, man, man. That literally puts you in like the top five percent of salaries in America, maybe even higher. Like that is a shit ton of money to literally have your life filmed. Now do I think that that is... If they would have known what this was going to blow into and how big of a part she would have had in the season prior, then obviously she could have negotiated way more. She could have negotiated into two million dollar salary compared to all these housewives or whatever. But that was the salary she was offered. She was a nothing on the show. So I think it's not fair to say that she was not fairly paid because that's the agreement that they agreed upon. Then now that this is bigger, I do think that there's an argument to be made about how reality stars don't receive residuals or anything like actors do. So that's kind of a different story. I think that she should get some monetary benefit because of the success. But then that just kind of feeds into the narrative that she was also complaining about on the podcast about how reality TV she felt like she sold her soul because people get rewarded for their bad behavior because then ratings go up. And it's just like sick and twisted environment. She said she literally felt like she sold her soul. But then you're pissed that you're not being rewarded for your bad behavior. So which is it? Do you want to fix the system of not rewarding people for doing shocking things? Meanwhile, you just did a shocking thing and you are better that you are not getting paid enough. So it's double-edged sword. It's double-edged sword. I was getting, speaking of the numbers and the ratings and whatever, I was getting so annoyed at Bethany, this whole interview because she just kept reiterating that she'd never seen the show. And she kept asking Rachel like if she knows the numbers and the ratings between like older seasons and now or like other housewives show. Bethany, you are the host of the show. You're the host of the podcast. You're the interviewer. You should have done some research beforehand. If you want to know the ratings and the numbers, look it up. Look it up. Don't look it up on your phone or live while you're doing the podcast. And then she was blown away by the numbers. She couldn't even believe it as she's googling it and doing this research. I'm like, mama, ask Rachel some questions. You should be coming to Rachel and be like, okay, so here's what the numbers were as season prior. Here are the numbers now. What do you think about that? Not asking her the numbers. And she just kept reiterating. I've never seen the show. I've never seen the show. I only watched the reunion. I only watched the reunion. Do your research before you have this person on or let Andy Cohen do it. Let someone do it who knows anything about the scenario. And can give us some facts. However, she said that she did watch the reunion. And Bethany kind of started to say some of the things that the cast had said to Rachel and she teared up and she was upset. And like I said, it's easy to watch that episode and like step aside and be like, okay, yeah, she cheated on your husband with your boyfriend, whatever, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And but like this isn't fitting the crime. Like you guys are being assholes. It's easy to objectively watch just the reunion and be like, yeah, you guys are going a little hard on her like give her a break. Why isn't anyone like stepping up? Why isn't, you know, whatever. But that's why it's just context is key. It's important to watch the whole show because while I do not think that their reaction is okay, I think that that Rachel is human and human makes mistakes. I've said it before. I've said it a million times. She didn't kill anyone. Like people cheat, whatever. That doesn't make it okay. But like it's a reality. And like you don't have to tell her to like, I don't think it's okay for you to like, you know, send all this hate towards her and tell her to get fucked by a cheese grater and whatever. And tell her to get fucked by a cheese grater and whatever. Now that being said, just because I can agree that it is wrong doesn't mean that I think that Ariana specifically, the rest of the cast I think was just like doggy piling on and just wanted to end excuse for screen time. But Ariana, yeah, yeah, I'm sorry about it. You have that right. You have that right. It is, it is wrong for you to say that to any human being objectively in any scenario. However, you have the right to. I don't know if that makes any sense, but like, sure. I don't ever want to imagine a scenario in which I'm telling someone to get FI cheese grater that they are subhuman, that they're disgusting, that I never want to see their face again, whatever. I don't have to be put in that situation. However, if I am dating someone and I live with someone and own a house with someone for 10 years and you fuck around behind my back for 10 months, I'll probably say a lot worse than those things. I would probably, you know, I'm not, I can't even tell you what I would say. And I would hope that my friends would also back me up and be like, you're a frickin' twat and you're disgusting and you're a con. And blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Because that's what friends do. And that's just how you react when someone cheats on your house. You're with your boyfriend. Like, sorry. Yes, it's not right, it is wrong. So it's okay, it's easy for Bethany Frankl to objectively look at this situation and be like, wow, they were really bad to you, they bullied you. No shit, they bullied you. You had an affair with a frickin' man for 10 months. You're both in the wrong, you're both in the wrong, but you were the one that initiated that dialogue or this relationship. One thing that I did take away is Bethany made a good point. All that to say, Bethany did make a good point in saying that she had her friend or her therapist or whatever, Watts' reunion and give his kind of psychological breakdown. And this is the thing that really stuck with me. She said that there is a difference between punishment and abuse. And every decision has a good or bad punishment. Like, every thing you do has a reaction. And obviously, what Rachel and Tom did was bad and they should be punished. What is a normal punishment for something like that? Kick her out of the friend group. She's off the show, kick her out of the friend group. Like, she's dead to you, see you later. Like, that is her punishment and that is fair. Like, that fits the crime. However, that does not mean that if someone does something bad, that they deserve to be abused. And then, you know, she kind of goes off into emotional abuse and like kind of the psychology behind that and yeah, like, they were abusing her. They were emotionally abusing her. And like I said, I probably would too. That's just a natural thing to do. However, the punishment just was not fitting the crime. Like, it's not fair for her to have all of those people just yelling at her, barking at her for literally hours on end. That, that, and they made a lot of good points about just reality TV and like HR and you know, if this were a normal job, obviously your co-workers would never be allowed to talk to you like that. And you would never be put in a situation in a work environment like that. That's why we have literally human resources. That's why we have HR. And it's HR short for human resources because that does not feel right. That's why companies have HR and you know, whatever because you're not even allowed to sleep with each other at work. Meanwhile, reality TV like they're being rewarded for their bad behavior and for being rude to co-workers and for sleeping around and cheating and blah, blah, blah, blah. So I don't know, it is kind of hard. And I just don't think that Rachel is cut out for reality TV. And I don't think she's cut out for fame. I don't think she's cut out for this industry obviously. She's too much of a deer and headlights. And so obviously this is a huge lesson for her. I'm sure. But I don't know. I'm really glad she's not on this season. I'm glad we don't have to drag it out anymore. I am interested to see kind of what this season turns into because we've been seeing so much behind the scenes of like photos and the trips that they're going on and everything. And there was just some TMZ photos of Miss Lalla hugging on Tom's animal. So I don't know if they're all good together now. You know, I don't know. Tom Schwartz just died his hair blonde. You know what that means. Every time a boy bleaches their hair, they are in a crisis. They need help. Check on your friends when they go platinum. Please. And I platinum hair. So please check on me. Speaking of dying hair, I put a poll on my Instagram story on anti-friend on whether or not I should go back to my natural color or if I should like say blonde, like which one people preferred. Tell me why everyone voted Brunette, my natural. Everyone, that's my fault. But everyone voting for the opposite hair color that I currently have felt like everyone was saying, you're ugly. You're ugly. You're ugly. We've known you're ugly. Why do you have a dye hair in the first place? Because I've been blonde since April. So y'all, let me go this whole summer with blonde hair. Meanwhile, y'all want me to be Brunette? Y'all let me run around with this mop. Now, I don't know when I'm going to change it, but I'll probably go back. I've been wanting to do it anyway. It's just so expensive to keep up the blonde and the roots and all of that. And I know I look good with the blonde and the Brunette, but let me just tell you, that was a humbling I didn't know I needed this morning. And I appreciate everyone who voted and the honesty. And yeah, be careful. Whenever you're doing polls on your Instagram stories about your looks, about a haircut about this, be prepared. Be prepared to be humbled. Anyways, I don't know. I guess I'll kind of wrap it up there. I don't think anything was like groundbreaking with the podcast episodes. I am glad that she broke her silence, and that we can kind of move on a little bit more now because she has spoken up. She's had her side of the story. We know she's not coming back. Now, I mean, she kind of essentially talked about Bravo and made those allegations. Like, she's never coming back to Vanderpump rules. I don't think. Like, there's her life in reality TV is done as it should be. And I wish that she would have done it with Andy. I don't even know if he would have let her to be honest. I don't even know if he would want to, because they filmed the whole reunion and then she lied the whole time, and then they had to do the separate sit down and then the separate interview. And I don't know. I wish her well. It seemed like she grew a lot from that facility. I know I said that I wish that they would have ended up together because obviously that would have been the only thing that made this all worth it. But I'm glad for her sake that she's not with him. He just seems literally diabolical. I'm glad that I think Schwartz is kind of distancing himself from Tom. Apparently, Lala's getting closer to him, so I don't know. I guess we'll see how that unfolds. But yeah, I don't know. I think that kind of, for me and my brain, really puts like a final nail in the coffin of Scandival. I guess it'll probably that nail in the coffin will get loosened up once the next season airs. I'm sure, and we will talk about that when it comes. But anyways, just had to give you my thoughts on the pot. And I don't know. Hope she's well. I hope Ariana's obviously killing it. I should go on Dancing with the Stars. The new season looks great. I don't think her and Tom have filmed any scenes like solo together. I don't even know if they've talked. We're going to find out. And I'm going to keep you posted. Anyways, go enjoy your weekend. I love you guys so, so much. Like I said at the beginning of episode, don't forget to follow our different podcasts on Instagram. But if you don't follow our different podcasts on Instagram, you are a homophobe. And I still love you because you're my tyrant. But just follow me. I need validation. Anyways, happy Friday. Leave a rating and review. Spotify, Apple Podcast. Yada, yada, yada. You know the drill. And I will see you guys on Wednesday. Mmm.