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Hello, everyone, and welcome to everything iconic with me, Danny Pellegrino. That was a clip from this week's episode of the Valley. It's episode 10 of the season. I can't believe we're already on episode 10. I don't know where the time has gone. I just saw on social media, Andy was, like, asking for questions for the Valley reunion. I'm like, we're already there. How did we get there? Anyway, I'm pissed at those men meeting for that summit to take down Brit Bananas because I will not stand for it. She's recovering from mommy makeover surgery. Leave her be in the bed with the empty white claw. And a couple rooms over from Danny a few weeks before. Let her be. Let her be. She's been through enough with that demon she was with. I'm sorry. I hate to stick up first so much because I know people. People get mad at me, but I do not care for it because they're just pissed. And I was also pissed at Schwartz. I guess we're gonna get to the scene in a minute. But I was pissed at Schwartz. He said in the confessional he was sticking up for Brit Bananas. But then in the scene, he wasn't actually saying anything. And I'm like, speak up, Schwartz. Speak up to these two, these little guys. Anyway, we Open the episode with Luke and Zach training at a CrossFit gym. Then we see Jesse. It's like all the montage y stuff. And I don't normally talk about the montage y stuff at the beginning of the episode. You know how we check in with everyone at their houses. But I do want to spend upwards of 45 minutes on the one quick little scene of Jesse and Isabella and Lacey at home, and Lacey's combing Isabella's hair. Now, if I was Michelle watching this, I would completely lose it. And look, I'm just. I can only speak for myself. And I know people have different family situations, setups, whatever, but knowing the dynamic between Lacey, Jesse, and Michelle, the idea of Lacey, like, combing Michelle's daughter's hair on camera, like, I don't know, I would just. If I was Michelle and I was seeing that, like, as a parent, I would lose it a little bit. What. Does anyone else feel that way? Because it's like, you already know they have a contentious relationship. Lacy and Jesse are not married or not. I guess they're in a sort of committed relationship, but it's still fairly new. And then for Lacy to be doing it feels like, so intimate to me. Like, if they were at a salon and some woman who was like. Or man or whoever was the hairstylist at a salon, that'd be different to see on camera. But if I was Michelle watching the new girlfriend of my still current husband, because I don't think he signed the divorce papers yet, and then my daughter and the new girlfriend was combing the daughter's hair on camera, I don't know. I would just, like, that would be too. It was too intimate for me. I didn't like. I wouldn't. I didn't like it. I didn't like it. I didn't like it. And I do like Lacey on the show, and I think she's great for this program. I'm just saying for Michelle, on behalf of Michelle, I just have to say Rotten Hill. I'm sorry. Gotta say it. Gotta say it as I sees it. Then we see Jason four hours post surgery. He's gonna be in that straight leg cast for four to six weeks, and Janet's gotta do everything. He's being a tough patient. He's snappy and rude. And I saw a lot of people were tough on Jason because he was crying last week on the program about how he's not gonna be able to connect with his son. And I felt like he was just being. Showing genuine emotion, which is great. And I Understood what he was saying, because at that age, a young little boy, they connect with their certain people just through, like, physical. Through, you know, jumping around on the couch or jumping around throwing each other up in the air and all that stuff. And so that Jason was saying, like, that was the bond with his son. He's not gonna have that for four to six weeks. Not to mention, Janet's gonna have to do everything around the house. And it seems to me like they have, like, a little bit more of an equal partnership where it's like they split up the responsibilities, so then knowing that Janet's gonna have to take it all. But I saw people, like, really criticizing Jason for getting emotional about that. And I thought, like, that was. He's. We got a straight guy on the show getting emotional about loving his son, and people were dragging him for that. And I know people hate Jason and Janet, but I just thought really, like, that's what he's getting dragged for. I felt bad for him. I did. Now, meanwhile, Melissa and Jasmine, they got their invitations for their wedding invitations. And I was laughing at this because the font was bigger for Melissa's name. Jasmine pointed out, she's like, your font is bigger. And it was. I. Like, I paused the screen. It wasn't much bigger, but it was. I did notice it when I paused the screen, I was like, who would do that? Like, and what was it just like, Walgreens invitations or where did these invitations come from that they made one person's name bigger on the invitation? Like, that would drive me nuts. I would be absolutely livid if I ordered a bunch of fucking invitations for my wedding and they put somebody else's name bigger. Like, you need to do equal billing. Equal billing. While we're here, can I just discuss something that's bothered me my entire adult life and childhood life, if I'm being honest. But, you know when you see a movie poster, I don't know if this happens as much anymore because I just don't look at the movie posters. But it always would piss me off when you'd see a movie poster for, like, a rom com. And let's say it was, I don't know, Julie Roberts and Richard Gere and Pretty Woman, they would always put Richard Gere's name over Julia Roberts face on the poster and vice versa. So over Julia's, it would be Richard Gere, and over Richard, it would say Julia Roberts. And they would do this for every rom com. It didn't matter what it was. It could be that one. What was that one with Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler. He always talked like he had peanut butter in his mouth the whole time trying to do an American accent, but it'd be like Katherine Heigl's name over Gerard Butler's face and vice versa. On the poster, I'm like, why do they do that as a Type A? That really would drive me fucking nuts. And it still does. If I see it anywhere, I don't like it equal billing, but also above the person's face, like, it doesn't even make any logical sense, like, why they're doing it that way. And they do it on every poster, and it's enough is enough. Enough is enough. Speaking of movies, you know that Scary Movie. I'm getting off track here. I've had too much cold brew. But the point is that new scary movies coming out with Anna Faris and Regina is back and the Wayans back and whatever. But I was seeing an interview, and they said, originally, you guys, originally Marlon and the Wayans, they had. Instead of Anna Faris, it was, guess who, Guess who. I'm gonna build this up a little bit, make you wait for it. But guess who was supposed to be the lead in Scary Movie? And then they got rid of her and got Anna Faris. I don't think she filmed it all, but they said in an interview, I forget who it was with. It showed up on my TikTok. But the way in said there was initially somebody else cast in the Anna Faris role who wanted the role. And then it went to Anna Faris and said, but it was my arch nemesis, Melissa Joan Fart. Could you imagine how different that would be? Melissa Joan Fart in that role. Apparently she wanted it. And they were like, absolutely not. Like, we're giving it to Anna Faris. I'm excited it's coming back. I don't know if it'll be good, but we'll see. Okay. So then we talked about Melissa and Jasmine's invitations. Those were insane. Were they getting new ones then? Were they gonna. Can you send back invitations once you get them? I don't know. Meanwhile, Brittany's planning the engagement party from the privacy of her own bed because she's still recovering from her mommy makeover and likely the crab boil before the surgery and the crab boil that she did before her major surgery, which is the most insane thing you could ever possibly do. But also later in the episode, she had those things. It was like, draining stuff from her system. And I don't know. I don't know where it was actually draining. She Kept calling them her balls. I got, my balls are draining. I got to drain my balls. I gotta drain my balls. And they were just filling up with some sort of blood like substance. And she's like, well, it's blood, but it's not really blood. It's not all blood. And she was showing the new boyfriend too, which I was like, brit, not that I care about that new boyfriend because he seems like a demon. But she was like, oh, that's filling up with blood and it makes a lot of blood and stuff. And I was thinking it's actually also probably a little bit leftover crab boil. I would imagine those balls. I can't even imagine what was filling up in those balls because she had the crab boil beforehand, plus all the surgery stuff. So I think it was like a mix of sausage, corn, crab, hard crab and butter, whatever it was in that crab boil and as well as the blood and whatever's coming out of that. But I, I did feel for her. Now Jasmine, she calls Zach, she used to live with Zach, which I think we knew, but I didn't really know. You know, I kind of forgot about it. And Zach's current roommate is moving out. And Zach is devastated because Jasmine calls and Jack's or Zach is devastated over the phone, start crying. You could hear he gets the shaky voice, crying voice. And I know Zach's a crier because we saw him cry later in the episode as he's giving a speech in front of the Domino's Pizza in his apartment, but he started tearing up over the phone. And I don't even know if he knew it was being filmed because it was just the audio. We didn't see Zach, but he was very sad because the roommate moved out and took the monster fridge. That's right, he took it. Which is like, I don't know, it made me laugh so hard. And later in the episode when they threw that apartment warming party, I was just so happy. It felt like old school Vanderpump rules. Being in that apartment. And then also him being upset about the monster fridge just was making me laugh. And Zach says the roommate wants to sell that thing for profit, but Zach says it's his thing and he's crying about it. And I'm just like to remind you all that it's like a full size monster fridge. Monster energy drink fridge. It's the kind of thing you see at the gas station, which I would imagine that Zach could head on over to the 711 and just say, hey, how much for that monster fridge? And they'd probably say, well, we'll give you $10 to take it off our hands. You know, how hard could those be to get? Are they really, like, in demand? Maybe they are. Maybe I'd hop on ebay right now, and it's like 10k for monster fridge, but I don't know that I don't feel that they'd be that hard to get a monster fridge. Can somebody, especially being on tv, I'm sure at this point, somebody from Monster Fridge can just send them one. Well, they'll probably see this episode and just be like, hey, Zach, we're sending you a monster fridge. As they should. As they should. Now, you know me, I can't have a monster energy drink. I got my cold brew here in my hands, and I already feel like I'm on crack. But a monster would just drive me nuts. I'd be running, running through the walls like the Kool Aid man, if I had a monster energy drink, let alone a fridge filled with them. But, yeah, he's got to be the only gay in West Hollywood that's, like, sad about losing a monster fridge, because I hate to stereotype, but gays usually have a pretty good interior design sense. I mean, that's one thing we're known for. It's like our throw pillows. And so the fact that Zach seeing that apartment and he said he's like, my interior design style is more like monster fridge, and Benji's is more artistic. But I just thought, you are gay. You are gay. He's breaking stereotypes. And honestly, I'm grateful for that. So thank God that Zach's on TV this Pride Month because Zach is breaking down the stereotypes, and he's making people see that gays aren't just one way. We don't just. We don't all just know about interior design. Some of us have an affinity for monster energy drink fridges in our apartments. And so I'm proud of him. This Pride Month, we need him on screen. Him and Benji both. We need to see both sides of the coin. And so I'm very happy about that. I'm very happy. Then we cut to Michelle and Nia, who I did not even know were friends. They're going to Armenian coffee shop, getting some herbal lattes. Nia, you guys, it took her an hour to get there. She's like, oh, I'm sorry I'm late. It took me an hour to get there. And I bet that cast, I know they hate her for, like, a million reasons. Like, the cast, they don't like Danny and Nia. Obviously, but one of the many reasons they probably hate them is because they have to wait. Like, imagine Michelle having to wait at the coffee shop. Nia said it took her an hour to get there. She's like, I'm sorry. Not only that, like, I feel so bad for Nia having to drive an hour. And when she said an hour is probably a little more than an hour, but her having to take that with a four month old, an hour each way, midday, to film this scene at a coffee shop with Michelle, like, it was a nightmare for all of them. Like, production was probably pissed because Nia was late. Nia's pissed because she's like, why do I gotta drive? Imagine you have a four month old. You're not driving an hour to go to coffee with a friend. Like, you just. That's the most absurd thing. No one would do that. No one would think about. You have a four month old. Are you gonna be driving an hour, an hour plus to go get coffee for a friend? You would never. You'd be like, no, I have a four month old. Like, I'm not leaving. Maybe if it was 10 minutes away, 20 minutes away even. But an hour each way and you're breastfeeding. Like, it's the worst, biggest nightmare that Nia's got to go through, but also for the other cast members who have to wait on her ass to get there with a four month old. I mean, it's like all absurd. But Nia says there's a double standard with guys in the group, which is not true. She brings up Jesse drunk last season, which everybody talked about. We all talked about Jesse being drunk when he was berating Michelle and the cast trip at that winery or whatever. But I don't think Jesse was like, making everybody else that uncomfortable, you know, like, that's the big difference is like, Danny makes everybody in the group uncomfortable when he's drinking. Like, they're not uncomfortable when Zach's drunk or they're not uncomfortable. They might get mad at them when they're drunk, but they're not all sitting around, like, uncomfortable and being like, ugh, this person's getting drunk again. Like, that's the big difference. And I don't know why nobody's understanding that. And I don't know why Michelle won't just explain that or anyone won't just explain that. It's like they're all afraid to say anything to them. And yeah, I feel like, especially in the scene, I noticed Michelle's afraid to say anything. And that's frustrating to me. Because in the confessionals, you could tell Michelle's hates Nia and Danny. And she even said last week or the week before, she's like, yeah, everybody thinks this. And it's like, okay, well, if everybody thinks this, thinks this, then we cut to Brittany's house with Cruz and Zuli and the dog Monroe with the pearls on the dog. They found a way to get the pearls on. Even though Brittany's up in bed rest on her pain pills, she found a way to get the pearls on the doggy. And Brandon, the boyfriend arrives with flowers two days after the surgery. And Britney is so mad because the one thing she asked of him was to pick up her pain pills. She's like, I only got one left. I only got one pain pill left. I asked him for one thing and she's got the. I got the bloody ball sacks. I need to be cleaned up and I need my pain pills. And she was thinking about asking the nanny to help change those bloody ball sacks. And I thought like, Brett, you cannot do that. Like that electric chair. There is no. You cannot ask the nanny, the babysitter, or literally anybody. You can't. I don't know if it's a. If you have a cleaning person come, you can't ask them to change you. I don't even think maybe Brandon would be the only one that you could ask to change. Nobody else in the house should be changing your bloody ball sacks. I don't believe. Unless you hired, like, a nurse or something to come and do it. But otherwise, like, you either need to do it or Brandon needs to do it. And you know I love you, but I'm like, thinking you can't ask. The nanny's busy watching Cruise while you're laid up in bed yelling at your boyfriend for a pain pill. I need my pain pills. Where he at? I need him to go get them. And then Kristen arrives. Maybe she could ask Kristen help, I don't know. But Brittany and Brandon argue in front of her, which is not good. And apparently, you guys, he asked her for money and she gave it to him. And then she thought she would give him the money because he was going to help with. He was going to help, like, take care of her. And I know that we thought Brittany got her sporkle back.
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There's no reason that you should be with this. Brandon. Get him out of there. Fly him the coop. Fly him out of the coop and just send him off in the distance. Send him to Santa Clarita if you got to. He lives two hours away or something, so it should be an easy breakup, but you do not need to be with this band. Brittany. Too many red flags. You shouldn't be giving him money. And then also, he had, like, all these excuses. She's like, you're gonna be here next week. And he's like, no, I'm gonna arrive, like, in a week and a half. She's like, well, the one thing I asked of you is for you to come, and you're not even here. I feel bad. I feel bad for her. Then we cut to Nia and Danny at a restaurant with the baby, and Danny's, like, bouncing the baby to sleep. The baby's spitting up. I'm getting a little too anxiety from this. And I, you know, I love babies. I got a baby at home same age as them, and I can't do it anymore. Enough is enough. And I hate to say that. I know. God bless. And I know. I understand the issue because she's trying to work this job, being on television, and she's breastfeeding the baby. And so I understand this is a dilemma. And I'm not. I'm only here to support paid maternity leave for everybody involved and otherwise. So I do think that it's actually on our nation to free Nia from this program, but I can't watch it on screen anymore. Like, seeing him bounce that baby to sleep, it's just giving me anxiety. Like, that's how I felt the whole scene when Danny's bouncing the baby. I hate Danny, too, but it's like. And he's, like, nauseous from the baby throw up. And it's like, you've had four. This is the fourth baby. Like, how are you nauseous about spit up? Like, that is. I have one baby, and I'm not nauseous from spit up after a week of having that baby like you. What do you mean? That was, like, the big red flag for me watching Danny of, like, oh, I don't know. That he's very active, involved, and maybe that's a big giant leap and a conclusion that I'm making that's wrong. But I do feel that, like, if you have four babies, four children, and you are by the fourth one nauseous from baby throw up, that's a big red flag for me. I just feel like, okay, you're. You're definitely not involved. Like, this is the first time you're holding the baby. That's how I felt when he was holding the baby at the restaurant. He's trying to rehab his image on camera. He's like, oh, everybody's gonna hate me. The audience is gonna hate me. They think I'm a drunk and I'm sneaking alcohol every time I'm on screen, so maybe I'll. And it feels like I hate my wife. Like, everybody's gonna think that. And so I'm gonna hold the baby in this restaurant scene. And then the baby spit up and he didn't know what to do. But it was like, that was. To me, as an audience member who's been watching these shows forever, it made me think, oh, this is the first time he's holding a baby. And by your fourth one, that's. That's a red flag. So maybe I'm making a leap in conclusion. And I'm sorry about that, but that's my truth. Then cut to Jasmine, Jesse and Zach. They're meeting in Silver Lake. Zach still very upset about the monster fridge. And I love it. They're having a housewarming party because Benji's moving in. And I love Benji. I do love. He looks so cute in that outfit he was wearing at the. At the party. He was like, dressed nice. He looked like a warbler, didn't he? And from the Glee, I was happy about it. Then Jasmine brings up Kristen writing hard for Dani and Nia and how she's like posting on her social media like Kristin posted. Dani and Nia are my inspiration and couple inspo. And it is true. Like, of all people to have to find inspiration from. Couple wise, I'd say they are next to not last. They're not last on the list. I'd actually say Brandon and Brittany would be last on the list at this current moment in time when they're together in the show. But otherwise it's like Brandon and Brittany. And then Danny and Neo would be like my next. And then I'm trying to think, who else do we have on the show? Obviously Jesse and Michelle are divorced or not together anymore. Janet and Jason, I think, are actually a very healthy couple. And I understand it's not popular, but I think they're a very healthy couple. And who is the other one? Do they have another? Is there. I'm sure I'm missing Kristen, Luke, but they're the ones looking for the inspo Schwartz and the girlfriend. I don't know if we could count them yet. Yet. Jesse said, I'm a little actually Schwartz, speaking of him and the girlfriend. I'm a little concerned that she keeps bringing people around. Like when Schwartz brings her in scenes. She's always got a girlfriend with her and I understand that. Maybe that makes her feel safe on camera because I probably would want to bring her friend too if I was not officially in the cast of something, but dating someone in the cast of something. And I had to be on screen. So I get it. But I want to see her freed from her plus ones, you know, so I can really get to know her because I feel like we haven't gotten to know her yet other than that one scene with the glasses. Let's see, we have Jesse. Oh, we're going to talk about this. So this was the scene I played at the beginning of the episode. I want to take a break here and then we're going to come back and discuss this. We're going to discuss the Jesse, Jasmine and Zach scene and then we're going to discuss that other scene with those boys that I was mad about. Let's take a break here. Thank you to Acast. We'll be right back. We all know pets rule the house. You used to think you're in charge of your day, but then you're fully negotiating with the animal. 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All right, so Jesse, Jasmine, and Zach are still together at this outdoor beer garden or whatever they're at. And Jesse says they need to put the Danny thing to bed. It's like everybody's still talking about it. And look, as much as I'm frustrated with Danny and Nia, I also agree that, like, we need a enough is enough. Like, I. We need other storylines going on, and that behooves the rest of them. Like, I'm happy that this is a. This is great. If this is a storyline on the show. I'm not saying remove the Danny and Nia storyline about him drinking and sneaking the booze every five seconds, but we just need other. We need other stuff going on. We need other feuds. We need other. Let's get some other layers here, because right now, we don't have the layers. And, you know, I always say that's the most important thing with these seasons is, like, you need layer, you need multiple feuds. It never works when it's just if it's like two sides. Sometimes the seasons when there are two sides, I'm trying to think of, like, let's say Beverly Hills, when Kyle and LVP were feuding. It's like the whole thing can't be about Kyle and lvp. But if we have the Kyle and LVP feud, but then we also have the Erika Jayne Bamboozlement stuff going on, and we have Dorit versus Sutton. You know, like, we need to have layers to these shows. Or Roni used to. I always thought that was, like, the best of doing that. And Salt Lake City is one of the best right now of doing that, where if you tune into Salt Lake City, there's a hundred feuds going on. So it's like Angie and Lisa might be fighting one episode, but also at the table, Whitney and Heather might be fighting, and they're all yelling at Meredith Marks, and she's slurring her words, yelling at Mary Cosby, who's praying that she don't have to be in a scene with Whitney Wild Rose. You know, like, there's so many different feuds happening and that's layers to the show. But when the shows just have like, okay, the only feud is everybody versus Danny and Nia or everybody versus this person, they never work as good because you just get burnt out from it. By the end of the season, we're like, okay, enough. And so when Jesse's saying that we need to put the Danny thing to bed, I'm like, okay, that's right. Like, so spark up something else. Like spark. Spark up some other sort of feud. Because there's stuff abrun. There's stuff abruin. It seemed like there was stuff abruin with Michelle and Lacy, but then that kind of fizzled. There's stuff a brewing. There's stuff a brewing, but we need it to rise to the surface. We need it to start bubbling up because right now it's just everybody versus Danny and Ian. It's like, okay, enough is enough. But Jasmine's still upset with Zach for raising his hand at the reunion. And she says Zack's scared to say how he feels about Danny. Okay, then we cut to Britney's house. Jasmine arrives and she's like, oh, Britt, your titties are so small now. And then Jasmine thanks her for having. Thanks her for putting on this engagement party. And Brittany's like, here's how it's gonna look. I got these balloons. And then Jasmine, like, cries because she's like, this is so beautiful. And I don't know if you caught this, but Brittany was like, well, that's just inspo of how it's gonna. I want it to look. So it's not even exactly. It was just like a Pinterest board and Jasmine was crying. I'm thinking, Brittany, you better, I don't know, recover soon and plan this engagement party. Because right now there seems to be a lot of pressure and Jasmine's excited about it, but Jasmine goes to the spare bathroom and guess what she finds there? Danny's old white claw. That's right. And they flashback. Danny told Nia they weren't drinking that day, but he snuck it. And there's camera and audio of it. And so I love that producers combed through the footage and found Danny getting that white claw. And I do actually believe this is a conspiracy theory, but I believe that producers planted that empty white. Like, they found the footage and the audio and knew that Danny was drinking and they knew that it would be a storyline. They were like, we need to highlight this footage. And so I thought they probably told Brittany in this scene, like, hey, can we plant A white claw in that bathroom. And Jasmine's gonna go pretend to find it there because I just don't know that it would still be in there. It felt too convenient that, like, the one empty white claw can. And I'm glad they did it. I'm just saying, I think there was. This was like, maybe a production trick. That was my take. But Brittany says she understands Nia. She's like, I get it, because. But why is he doing. It's, like, very weird to me that he's this multiple times where he's just showing up on camera. I'm not drinking. And then we see there's, like, audio footage that they're pulling because you know what that means? That means production's telling us this thing about Danny is true. Like, this is what they're saying to us. It's not just the cast members. So even as an audience, if you're on Danny, Nia's side, I would just like to point out that, like, production's telling us this. Like, they. They're highlighting. They're finding footage and audio of Danny sneaking alcohol at these parties and events. And so they're telling us, like, hey, look at this. Do you see what I mean? Then this is when we have that scene with Schwartz. Jesse and Danny and Schwartz got champs for Jesse's divorce, even though it's not done. And then Danny shows up and he gets a Jameson ginger ale, so he's not sneaking in this scene. And Jesse says, hey. When Danny arrives, Jesse's like, hey, this champagne that Tom Schwartz got is for me and Michelle signing the paperwork. And I don't know if you caught this, but Danny, his response was, huah. Huh. It was very, like. It was very Tim Allen in Home Improvement Coded, who I believe was probably Danny's inspo for his acting. And I can't fault him for that because I was a Home Improvement fan. However, I was thinking, like, Danny, a lot of his personality kind of, I think, like, is a result of Tim Allen and Home Improvement. Like, Danny, because he's probably. I don't know, how old is he? He's probably a couple years older than I am, right? I'm going to assume maybe or around my age. And so he was probably raised on Home Improvement. And when I heard him do that little grunt at the table with Jesse and Schwartz and he go, huh? I thought, okay, Danny was raised on Home Improvement, and that's a lot of his personality. Now, I was also raised on Home Improvement. And although I took a lot from it, I feel like most of my personality was derived from Patricia Richardson, who played, of course, Jill on Home Improvement, the matriarch. And so that's where I think him and I may be the fork in the road for our personalities, because otherwise, he's a Danny in the Valley, I'm a Danny in the Valley. Like, otherwise, maybe we would have been too simple. We would have ended up too similar as adults, and I'd be watching this show differently. But I think that's the fork in the road for our. Our lives. Is that, like, when I was watching Home Improvement as a kid, I was thinking, look at how great Jill is. Like, look how fantastic that mom is. She's got three boys, got them together, she whips them all into shape, and she does it all. She does it. She did it all, and she's a star. And so that's where. That's who raised me. Okay, so then Schwartz, though, when they're talking about the divorce papers, he says to Danny, you'll learn about this very soon. Even Schwartz couldn't help but whack him. Schwartz, like, the. The one who's never in a conflict on these shows, just had to whack Danny in that moment. And that made me laugh. Schwartz also said he's official with the girlfriend, says he loves her, even. And then they talk about Danny's drinking. Jesse defends his drinking and says they all look up to Danny and Nia's relationship. And I'm like, you all do? I don't know. How do they all do it? What do you mean? Is it just because they're, like, I guess, sort of conventionally attractive? I mean, when you. They all. I guess Danny and Nia are. I mean, Nia is obviously beautiful, and you put a heel on Danny and I guess squint a little bit, and you're like, okay, he's not bad. But otherwise, I'm like, what are we looking up to? Because it feels to me like they hate each other and everybody hates them. So, like, what do you mean, Jesse? Everybody looks up to these relationships. I'm, like, waiting for an explanation of all these people saying, we look up to Danny and Nia's relationship. Like, are we gonna ever get an explanation for that? Maybe at the reunion. Can somebody ask him? Like, I'm waiting. I'm waiting for, like, some sort of understanding of, like, why people look up to Danny. Nia, who live an hour away in Santa Clarita and have 100 kids that they're exhausted by, and Danny's nauseous by throw up by his fourth One and hates his wife. What are we looking at? My. Maybe they're just not showing what they're seeing. Because what I'm seeing, you know, I always try to go off the shows. I always try to go off what I'm seeing on the screen, okay? And from what they're showing me on the screen, it doesn't match up for what they're saying on the screen. But they're all kind of drunk at this point. Schwartz sort of sticks up for Britney in the confessional when they say they're going to go after her. And I got to stick up for Jesse Lally for a second. I like when he's villainous. So him saying, like, we gotta go after Britney. Like, look, I will defend Brit Bananas till I'm blue in the face whether I like it or not. And whether she pisses me off or not, I'm still going to defend her against Jesse Lally, of course. But there is a part of me that's like, oh, great, we're getting somewhere. Like, Jesse's being villainous and he's starting some shit with some. With Britney. Like, at least I'm gonna have something to watch that's not Danny Nia. And about Danny being drunk, you know, like, I need that. We all need that. We come to this place for magic. In the words of Nicole Kidman's AMC ad, we come to this place for magic. And so I need Jesse to start some shit with whoever's around. I don't care if it's Brit Bananas or Janet Nancy. And who's Nancy? Lacey. Nancy. Nancy. You don't hear that name much anymore. I wish her name was Nancy. I mean, Lacey's a beautiful name, but I do sort of wish her name was Nancy. That's neither here nor there, though. The point is they. I wish Schwartz would have stuck up for Brittany because Schwartz has known Britney forever. He was in her wedding to the Demon. Then we cut to Britney. She goes to the surgeon's office with Janet and the doctor says he's so proud of Britt's bubbies. And she looks at them. Janet's like, I'm blown away. I gotta say something. You know, last week on the show, I was complaining, not complaining, but I was saying oftentimes when they show surgery scenes, they show a little too much, like, blood and stuff for me. And I felt that way in this scene. I was maybe a little too square for this because they're unwrapping everything. And look, I may be the wrong person to ask about this too, because it's not like I want to see a naked woman's body no matter what. Like, it's just. I can appreciate the beauty, but, like, I don't need to see anyone's puppies. I just. Obviously another fork in the road I took when I was a young, young man. I said, no, I'm not interested in seeing that. I'm interested in seeing the other. The men, but. So I wouldn't like it no matter what. But when it's all, like, everything's, like, sort of scarred and bloody, it was hard for me to look at. But I'm happy for. I'm so happy for. She said the stretch marks are gone. SHE CRIES I just had to look away. I'm not a. I'm not a blood person. I don't like seeing bloody stuff. I don't even in horror movies. Like, I'm not good with bloody. And I know there was a time when, like, saw came out. Do you remember when the first saw came out? It was like, everything was like, so gory and bloody. I'm like, I don't need to see all that. Like, I like when it's just sort of alluded to. And I love a good horror slasher movie, Truly, I do. It might not seem like I'm the audience for that, but especially growing up, I was obsessed with, like, Scream. I know what you did last summer. All those movies were, like, the best. But then they started to get, like, too gory for me and I'm just like, can't we go back to where they just, like, sort of allude to it? It's always, I think, scarier when you don't see what's. You don't see it, the blood, you know, what happened to tension, you know? Okay, so then I'm happy for her, though. And she said she was believing a lot of the bad stuff Jacks was saying. And that man did a number on her. And I am so pissed at him. I'm so pissed at him. Then we cut to Zach's housewarming, where there's no furniture. Zack said his. His style is more monster fridge. Very brand oriented. That's his exact wording. It's like, that's his style was brand oriented. Monster fridge, which is a shocking way to describe your interior design style. But it is what it is and that's why I'm happy that he's on this program, because we need him. We come to this place for magic and we need him showing the diversity amongst gays. We do. I do wish there was More furniture. I know he borrowed some folding chairs, but maybe shouldn't have had this housewarming party until you got some real chairs. Also, I did clock the. He did have this table that didn't feel like a shoe rack, but he used as a shoe rack. And I just. Maybe I'm being a little too nitpicky. And you know what? I probably am, but here I am doing a podcast about the Valley, so of course I'm going to be fucking nitpicky. And the truth is, I was clocking the T in the background of that. He had this table or something. It was a decorative piece that I don't believe was a shoe rack. And he just had shoes loaded on the thing. And I'm like, I don't think West Elm designed it for that. And so maybe we need to get him, like, a shoe closet or something, because that was the thing that was hurting my eyes the most. You know what hurts my eyes here at the house? I'll bring it around to me, because I'm not perfect. But we have. Matt's very intense about, like, no shoes in the house. My husband, and he got this sign, like, this little square sign that's by the door. It says, like, please take off your shoes. And it's very small, and it's just on this little thing. But I hate it, honestly. Like, I want to burn it in a fire because I'm so embarrassed. Like, people come over. It's like they got to see that the first thing when they walk through the front door is a sign that says, please take off your shoes. And it's like, we're not a doctor's office. Or I don't know where you would go that you would. But I just don't like it. It's, like, so fucking ugly. And I. You know, you got to pick and choose your battles, so I'm not going to get an argument about it, but I do hate the sign that says, take off your shoes at our house. It's just. It's like, can't you just tell people? Can you just say, please take off your shoes? Why do we have to have a little, small wooden sign? It's not exactly word art, but it's word art spiritually to me. Okay. So then Michelle arrives with her friend who's the one who's flirting with Schwartz. And I did see the two of them talking later in the. In the night, but the producer asked Michelle when the last time she drank out of a red cup was, and she's like, I didn't I don't remember. But she brought a bottle of wine and there's no wine opener. They didn't even have the wine opener. And Lacy walked in shocked. She looks like that meme of Hillary Clinton walking into that apart apartment with all the plants. Do you know what I'm talking about? Like, that's how Lacy walked in. Like, what? Where? Where are we? Likely because Lacey's rich as fuck. Isn't it revealed that she's rich? That's why Michelle said Jesse's keeping her around, but she walked in shock. She's like. She said it gives millennial. It reminds me of college when you go to afters and you wind up somewhere you shouldn't be. And she wasn't wrong. And Lala even walked in, she's like, this is what my AA meetings look like. And it felt like very early vpr. Like, Zach should have been on early vpr, but I don't know why he wasn't. Because seeing this apartment, I'm like, this should have been 10 years ago. And Schwartz and Kiana and Rachel arrive very awkward party because they're all just sitting around. And we must remember that they can't play music at these things because can't afford the rights. Bravo's not loose enough the purse strings to get us a Celine Dion song that we'd be playing at their housewarming party. So there's no reason for them to listen to music because they can't play it on camera or they can't play it when they air it. So they're all just like sitting around in these folding chairs. And there's also, like, nothing else to do. Like they can't go to the backyard and play, I don't know, beer pong or swim in the pool or any. So they're all just like sitting around in some awkward folding chairs with some Domino's pizza. And look, I would imagine Bravo production is paying for the. They would at least pay for the food, right? Don't they have to? Or I guess maybe because Zach's throwing the party. I just thought somebody should have coughed up the money for something other than Domino's pizza. And look, I love a Domino's pizza. Actually, Domino's, I was just reading, is like the best of the fast pizzas, you know, like more so than the other ones. But I feel like we should have stepped it up a little bit. We should had something else. I know even like a fresh brothers pizza that's like a. Like a minor step up from Domino's. Or maybe Even I don't know, I hate to. I shouldn't knock Domino's because Domino's is good, but it just. Something about seeing those Domino's pizza boxes just gave me a little bit of like a. Felt uncomfortable. I did. Then let's take one more quick break and we got to talk about, you know, we may talk more about the Domino's pizza, but I also want to talk about Danny. Sneak in the booze. Sneak in the booze. 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Okay, so Lala is talking about how she can only eat cookie when she's fucked up. So I just had to point that out. Then Kristen walks in, just had that in my notes, need to say it. Then Kristen walks in and she's looking at the wall, because on the wall there's like all these holes where a TV used to be. And Kristen says that she gave Zach the tv, but the roommate took the tv and so there's just like an empty spot where the TV used to be. And this is another thing that, like, maybe we should have put some art or another TV on the wall before we had a welcome party. You know, like, maybe we could have just waited a beat, I'm sorry to say, to Zach and Benji, because I do want to celebrate them, and I'm happy that Benji's moving in, but maybe he could have given Benji like a week or two to get that place in order, because I know he would have whipped it into shape because Zach said he's got a good interior design style. So he would have hopped on over to maybe the Home Goods or the Pottery Barn and figured something out for the wall. But instead we just got an empty spot. And Kristen's like, I gave you that tv. Like, who took the tv? And they don't even have places, really. They had a charcuterie, which I guess was nice. It was a nice charcuterie. And I don't know if somebody donated that or what, but maybe a PR thing or something. But there was Domino's Pizza and a charcuterie with the little naked men on the charcuterie. And they were doing their best, but I just wish they had a couple more weeks. Like, we need paid maternity and paternity leave for these people, but also we need them to have a couple extra weeks of time before they move into the house and have a party. On camera. Moving on. Then Lacy talks about how much Jesse and Michelle spent on their wedding in front of Michelle. And Michelle's just smiling through it. And Michelle needs to say at a certain point, like, shut the fuck up. Like, and I've been liking Michelle this season. We've gotten to see her gymnastics and. And I'm interested in her relationship with Lacey, but I don't care for the fact that I could tell so many times that Michelle's biting her tongue on camera. And that's not a good reality star. Like, we need Michelle to speak up. I'm like, speak up, Michelle, because not only is Lacey coman the daughter's hair on camera, which would drive me up a wall, I'm sorry to say. But also she's talking about your wedding in front of you and how much you spend at the wedding. And then Lacey's suggesting she's throwing a divorce party for Michelle at the Saddle Ranch. I love a Saddle Ranch. But if the new girlfriend of my current husband was saying that I want to throw you a divorce party for the husband while they're dating the husband, I'd say, to hell. Rotten Hill.
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That's what I'd say. Because there's no reason. At a Saddle Ranch, no less. Although the Saddle Ranch is fun. Like, I haven't been there in a while. It's a restaurant on Sunset. It's got a bull that you could ride. And they have. It's one of those places that, like, every app is good. You know, every appetizer is good. And it's like very Midwest appetizers. So it's like you're getting. You're getting a mozzarella stick, a loaded French fry, a chicken tender. Like, if you want a good ch, I bet they have it. You know, I don't know the exact. I haven't been there in a while. But I do know they even have cotton candy. I think. I think that's like a big thing there. But you could get just like the very, very kid food. Everything's like the kid menu. The main menu is like the kid menu. And I like a place like that. You know, I'm happy as a clam at a Chili's or an Applebee's or Ruby. Ruby Tuesdays still exist. I used to love our Ruby Tuesdays. They had the salad bar. Love her rib toos. Ribtus. Okay. So, yeah, it would be nice to have a party at Saddle Ranch, but they. And they should go there. Lacy should throw a party at Seattle Ranch. I just don't know. That should be the divorce party. And Michelle needs to say something. Speak it up. Danny, though, sneaks the booze again. He's like, I'm drinking water. And then Zach pulls him aside in the room and tells Danny there's like an alpha frat mentality. And Danny says, are you confusing alpha with charisma? No, I don't think that's what he's confusing, Daniel. Like, you dumb shit. Oh, he's pissing me off. I'm sorry. He was pissing me off. And then he reiterates that he's been drinking water all night. And Nia enters. And it's like we see the cameras are catching you. There's not really. This is the thing that shocked me the most is like, of all times to try to lie to the camera. It's like the camera, people can't go anywhere in the room. Like, there's only one spot for them to be. And so obviously they're gonna pick up if you're sneaking booze. Like, there's nowhere for them to go. So they're catching everything on candacamera. So you're caught. Caught. They got you, Daniel. They got your ass on candacamera. And so you need to understand that you can't hide that you're drinking when you're in Zach and Benji's apartment. They don't have any furniture. There's nowhere to hide. You can't hide behind a couch because they don't got one. What are you gonna hide behind? The Domino's pizza box? That's it. There's nowhere to go. And so they're going to catch you on Candid Camera. And so I'm saying I'm just drinking. And then Zach gathers everyone for the speech. He cries. He venmos Kristen for helping pay the rent. And they cheers to Zach and Benji. And that's the end of the episode. Next Week is Casino Night. Janet versus Luke. Janet and Jason. I feel like they're barely even in this show these days. I wonder if they were like, almost demoted or something. Do you think they were almost demoted? Is that a conspiracy theory? Because I feel like we haven't really seen that much and there's been almost. Have there been episodes they haven't been filming as much. Is that because. Do you think the audience just hated them so much that they were like, okay, or do you think it was the injury? I don't know. It feels like they're not on it much. Anyway, I love you all so much for listening. I want to thank you. Go to EverythingIconic store if you want merch. I also sign copies of my books, which you can get wherever books are sold. And we'll be back next week. I mentioned this on the Summer House. I mentioned it last week. But next week, if the episodes are maybe a little off or a little delayed or something. I have family in and out of town. It's my son's birthday and I have some other personal stuff going on. So the next week or so it might be a little off. I'm going to try to keep it on schedule and keep it as normal. 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EVERYTHING ICONIC with Danny Pellegrino
Episode: THE VALLEY: Apartment Warming!
Date: June 4, 2026
This week, Danny Pellegrino breaks down Episode 10 of THE VALLEY. As the season approaches its reunion, Danny recaps the cast’s ongoing feuds, personal challenges, and hilarious moments of messy adulting (from monster fridges to bloody post-surgery “ball sacks”). He gives sharp, highly opinionated commentary on the cast’s emotional states, relationships, and apartment décor, all while wishing for more storyline "layers" and less repetitive drama.
Brittany’s “Mommy Makeover”
Brandon the Boyfriend’s Red Flags
Roommate Drama and Apartment Warming
The Apartment Warming Party
Danny Sneaking Booze
Cast Tiring of the Drama
Desire for MULTIPLE Feuds and Layers
Michelle’s Silence
On Lacey combing Isabella's hair:
“If I was Michelle... and then my daughter and the new girlfriend was combing the daughter’s hair on camera... it was too intimate for me.” (05:24) — Danny
On Monster Fridge:
“He’s got to be the only gay in West Hollywood that’s, like, sad about losing a monster fridge... I’m proud of him. This Pride Month, we need him on screen. Him and Benji both. We need to see both sides of the coin.” (13:04) — Danny
On Wedding Invitations:
“You need to do equal billing. Equal billing.” (08:40) — Danny
On Danny sneaking booze:
“You can’t hide behind a couch because they don’t got one. What are you gonna hide behind? The Domino’s pizza box? That’s it. There’s nowhere to go. So they’re going to catch you on Candid Camera.” (51:45) — Danny
On the need for more layers:
“We need other feuds. Let’s get some other layers here, because right now, we don’t have the layers.” (29:37) — Danny
On Lacey throwing a divorce party:
“If the new girlfriend of my current husband was saying that I want to throw you a divorce party... I’d say Rotten Hill.” (51:12) — Danny
On Brandon (Brittany’s boyfriend):
“You need to send Brandon to the wayside because this man, so many red flags.” (18:35) — Danny
Danny delivers a hilarious, biting, and affectionate breakdown of THE VALLEY, championing the underdogs, shaming the clueless (and the sneaky), and reminding Bravo and the cast that the true magic lies in a tapestry of petty fights, real friendships, and totally unhinged house parties. He calls for more “layers” and less exhaustion around singular storylines, and ensures we know every single detail about monster fridges, wedding invites, and crab-boil-infused surgical drains.
If you missed the episode, this summary will give you all the best commentary, humor, and Bravo chaos—minus the ads and the Domino’s pizza.