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Nick
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E
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Justin
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E
Fantastic.
D
Gorge.
Justin
I'm pissed.
Nick
Oh my God. And me?
Justin
No, of course not. I'm pissed.
Nick
Why?
Justin
Because last night Nick went out to dinner with his manager and we had a work dinner. Had a work dinner.
Nick
Talked about your guys future.
E
Love that.
D
Wow.
F
Is it bright.
Justin
Yeah.
E
Wait, do we love that your future's bright?
Nick
I hope. I don't know. Like hey, we're in it together. Sink or swim. Anyways, sorry. Now he's pissed. Back to Natalie.
Justin
So that means I'm on my own for supper and.
Nick
Yeah. Did you order? Like, go ahead. Yeah. I am curious about this cuz I was like, what happened here last night?
Justin
Well, yeah. And. And so I'm, you know, also on my own with River's nighttime routine, which that's no big deal. But you know, it's like, when should I order food?
Nick
The chef went to dinner with his.
Justin
Well, no, it's just hard to take care of a baby and cook yourself supper. You know, I only have two hands, so. And she does not really allow me to put her down. I know she allows you to put her down, but anyways, so we are. So I. Yeah, I was like trying to map out like, okay, when should I order? I was like, I'll do Thai food from our place, Sierra. And then I was like, I don't want that. I said, you know what? I'm gonna get my favorite pizza that Nick doesn't love. So I never really get it from Roberta's.
G
Okay.
Justin
There's one like right down the street. And I like, am like, this will be super quick. You know, it'll. I can put it in the oven and heat it up. So once Rivera's down, you know, for the night, I can enjoy my pizza, whatever. Type in Roberta's. Click on Roberta's 60 Minutes. And I'm like, they must be busy. But I'm like, okay. Honestly, that gives me like enough time to do everything. That'll be great. Order $80 later for pizza. For a pizza and a little salad. You know, they've got the tip, they've got the tax, they've got the delivery fee, they've got the fucking everything. So it ended up being 70.
G
$80.
Justin
Like so expensive. And I'm like, okay, I got to.
Nick
Take your Christmas present back.
Justin
Because my D was so expensive. Yeah.
Nick
And so you didn't have to eat $80 dinner. No, I'm just kidding.
Justin
No, truly. I get. I finally get river to bed and I go to look at my pizza because I'm like, what? Seriously? Okay. What is taking so long? Because it is close by. It sent me the one from culver City, the 1:45 an hour away.
Nick
Oh.
D
I order from them sometimes.
Justin
Why would you do that? There's one ten minutes from me. Why would they show me the one that's an hour away from me?
D
That's so stupid. Isn't that a phone problem?
Justin
Is that a GP problem?
E
No, it's It's. It's a mates Uber Eats problem. Because I've had that happen.
Nick
Door Dash doesn't do that.
E
I've ordered from Erewhon and it's sent in from Pacific Palisades. And I was like, in what world?
Nick
Door Dash would never do that.
E
But it normally shows up the Erewhon the same picture. So it's like you just click on it because you've ordered it 10 minutes away. And then it's like, why would you.
Justin
Not put the one that's closest?
Nick
So at what point did you order John and Vinnie's?
Justin
I didn't order John.
Nick
Oh, that was from the night before.
Justin
That was from when Joan. Serena.
Nick
Yeah, I forgot. Okay.
Justin
Yeah.
Nick
No, I was like, how many things did she.
Justin
Once I realized it was already too late. He was on his way. He was getting on the 4:05 at 6:00. And I'm like, well, this is gonna be a disaster. So I finally got my soggy salad and my cold pizza and it was just.
D
That's a long. As someone who has to do that drive every single day, that's an hour drive.
Justin
I was pissed. And I also felt really bad for the delivery driver because it's miserable. I only tipped him $5. Cause I was like, this is an easy drive five minutes from this place. Like, I'm close. It's easy. And he had to sit in traffic.
D
The 10 is stopped.
F
That's called a refund.
Nick
Why? They don't even allow you to order.
Justin
That's what I'm saying. If there's one close to me, why show me the one that's so far away?
D
That's awful for everyone involved.
E
A thousand percent.
Nick
Yeah, like, like some, some places be like, no, you're too fucking far.
Justin
Yeah.
D
Like that's just one inhumane to do that to you. Too inhumane to do that to the driver.
Nick
Doordash is like, sorry, that's crazy.
D
We can't doordash. It's like if it's 20 minutes, if it's 15 or 20 minutes away, they're like, no.
G
Unavailable. A little bar.
F
Yeah.
E
Even like old school delivering. Like when you like would call the store and get it delivered, it's like they had like a five block radius.
D
They have a range. Domino's will tell you to fuck off.
Justin
Show me the range. So I was in a bad mood. And then I was. Before all of that happened, before I realized, you know, I'm like, river, we haven't shown her any sort of TV or anything like that. We've Honestly, tried to do it on airplanes, and she's been not interested. But I was like, how fun would it be to, like, get in the bed and put on Dumbo, like the original Dumbo, and, like, watch a movie with her? And it was so sweet and so cute, and she loved it. And then she definitely.
Nick
Rob Minkoff really had an impression on you.
Justin
He did. I trusted him. You know, we asked Rob.
Nick
She's only watching Dumbo now because of Rob.
Justin
No, I just asked. It was the first movie you allowed your kids to watch. And he said Dumbo. And so I was like, great. You know, and she was into it, and she was interested. And then I gave her that bottle, and she was like, I'm done, Mom. I'd like to go to bed.
D
She's done, Bo.
Justin
Damn. Damn. So, yeah, that was my night last night.
Nick
I am so sorry you had to deal with all that.
Justin
It's okay. And I am almost out of ranch, which don't even get me started on that, because I did ask them for ranch. They put no ranch in the bed. And then I only have.
Nick
And then I came home. Now they didn't hear me, walked into the bedroom, and she thought I was there to kill her.
Justin
Y'all know I have intruder syndrome.
D
You thought he was the killer.
Justin
And the night before, I woke up in the middle of the night because I was like, are our windows locked? Like, in river and the guest boat? And I had to get up, and I had to make sure everything was locked. Then Nick had left my car unlocked, which. That triggers a whole new anxiety. So then I had to, like, read my book to fall back asleep. So then last night, I don't hear we have, like, the passcode on our door, you know, And I don't hear that. I just hear Nick's little boot heels clicking through the thing with a flashlight.
G
And I'm like, flashlight?
Justin
I guess I have the lights on.
Nick
I don't want to wake up my baby.
Justin
So he had his own flashlight on. And I'm in bed, and I go.
Nick
Just trying to be courteous.
Justin
And he's like, yeah. And I'm like, jesus, I thought it was someone trying to kill me.
E
She's already reaching for a fire, plays poker, literally.
Nick
And then I was like, do you want to have sex?
Justin
Yeah. He definitely did not ask that.
Nick
Come at me like that.
Justin
Yeah, I mean. I mean, if.
E
If any.
Justin
If anyone is waking up out of the dead of their sleep and performing props to them.
E
There was after.
Justin
After thinking you're getting. Going to get killed props to them.
Nick
Because then I wanted to, like, talk about some ideas that I was talking about at dinner. And I'm like, babe, are you awake? She's like, no.
Justin
So get out of here. Yeah, so that was my.
Nick
Anyway, well, the piece of shit loser that he is, James Kennedy, has issued a statement on his Instagram stories that was set to expire for 24 hours.
Justin
Which is just disgusting. It's an insane. Like, the notes. Apologies. Right now, it feels like everyone and their mother is doing one, literally. So, like. And this is such serious things that you have been accused of, like, why are we just.
Nick
This is an embarrassing statement by James. And he reads it starts by saying, I am committed to making meaningful changes in my life to. What are you speaking about, James?
D
You're elaborate.
Nick
A physical abuse of women.
D
Yeah.
Nick
I don't know. Like, anyway, I'm taking time to focus on my sobriety. Oh, he's blaming the alcohol, obviously.
G
So.
E
Has he not. He's so. He's not. He's saying that he hasn't been.
Nick
He's a victim of his addiction. Addiction.
D
Because everyone who has an addiction results to domestic violence.
Nick
I know. I know a lot of people who drink, and I know a lot of people who sadly struggle with drinking too much alcohol, many of which, all of the people I know personally that I'm friends with don't beat their partners or pick them up and throw them or don't have a history of situations like that. James. It's just disgusting that he wanted.
Justin
No, no, no. The next part's the best. The next part's the best. Keep going.
Nick
I'm taking time to focus on my sobriety, personal growth, and being present for my loved ones. Oh, that's his problem. He's not present.
Justin
No, no. The personal growth, the growth. He's got to grow.
Nick
He's got to grow.
Justin
Yeah, he's been. He's an abuser, and he needs to grow from being an abuser.
D
We're watching. We're recapping Vanderpump. We're on season five.
Justin
Yes.
D
And he's talking about his personal growth. And that was how many years ago.
Justin
At some point, you do in fact, have to. To grow up. And you can't just continue this, like, growth. It has to, at some point, actually take effect.
Nick
He does want you to know that navigating challenging moments is not easy.
Justin
Moments that you created challenging moments of beating your partner.
Nick
He really is going through it right now. He wants you to know that's an insane post. Being challenged.
D
You guys, we should feel Shawy.
Nick
But is determined to learn.
Justin
So thank f. Maybe this time.
Nick
Oh, and grow, of course. And most importantly for James, move forward with his incredible support system around him.
Justin
That'S most important to him is to move forward.
Nick
Yeah. Not an acknowledgment of how disgusting it is to hit your or throw your partner or whatever. The. I mean, James is the weakest of the men of Vanderpump, I've now come to realize. I mean, like, James is one of those small humans and individuals that, like, clearly has a very large insecurity about who he is as a person and is easily triggered. And when he feels small, he takes it out on his girlfriends 100%.
E
And I'm also kind of like the biggest cop out to me is this, that I am determined to learn and grow and move forward. And it's just kind of like, what about the people that you've done this to that have had to learn and grow and move forward on their own from the trauma that you've created? But, like, you're going to sit here and I'm supposed to feel like something for you about you learning and growing. Like, you need to learn at 30 something that you don't hit your partner.
Nick
Yeah. I would have liked to see James say, saying, hey, I want to come on here, acknowledge what has been hard to, you know, what I've been ignoring is that, you know, I'm an abuser of women. And I apologize not only to the person I currently abuse, but all the people from my past that this must be a very triggering and difficult time, one of which is a pregnant woman right now, Kristen Doughty, who. Yeah, it's really like, after talking to you after all this, like, it's a shocking how much this has been kind of swept under the rug.
E
No, it's crazy.
Nick
It's still being like, where's Lisa Vanderpump? Lisa?
E
No comments.
F
It's gross.
Justin
I mean, all of them are at fault, like, the entire Bravo network for covering it up. There was clearly stuff that they edited out that they like.
Nick
Yeah, I mean, I, you know, that's. You gotta assume that stuff going on, but it's very easy to hold Lisa Vanderpump accountable.
E
I definitely think it's a production company. And then I'm also like, I. I know Lisa has a hand in what the story is. Right. And it's like, she doesn't like Kristen. Everybody now doesn't like Kristen. Kristen gets the worst edit. But it's like the idea that we're going to leave out Context as to why Kristen did certain things to make it seem like she's the bad guy when it's like you knew what she was going through. That, to me is sickening. Let alone that we see a history of her protecting the men on this show and then it's just throwing the women to the wolves.
Nick
What's so gross about this is because it's obviously a very sensitive topic and triggering for a lot of people. And I think just in general, like, I think part of the reason why we like watching REIT tv, not only just for the mess, but for the opportunity for people to make meaningful changes and show growth. And when people on these shows every once in a while show that growth, it's kind of inspiring for us because I think we all kind of project our own problems when we watch these characters and yada, yada, yada. And it's just when it comes to domestic abuse, it's just one of those things that's never acknowledged enough. People are always trying to give the benefit of the doubt to the men who, who do these things. And the fact that this guy has been on this show for how many seasons and how many years with we're now coming to learn, there's all these incidences. And now you have this situation with Allie where the police report says he picked her up and threw her. Allie, if you haven't met her in person, is a very petite lady. And there's the fact that it's just like still kind of being swept under the rug. It just feels very much like no one's giving this the attention it needs to be. And it's like James, I feel like he's getting away with it again in a way almost other than Kristen. Has anyone come out, said anything?
E
I think it's just Kristen and Rachel, unfortunately.
F
Well, I know friends of some of the castmates have too.
E
Jamie, friends of Sheena and Kristen. But I don't think any of the other cast members or like, like Lala was ride or die with James. I don't think she said anything.
Justin
Brittany hasn't.
Nick
Why hasn't? Why not?
E
I don't think the majority of the cast has made a comment on it.
Nick
I don't know how close all these people are. I know Lisa Vanderpump is very close with James. I know Lisa Vanderpump has mentored and been like a second mother to James. And I think she is complicit in this cover up of James's behavior. You know, she's in a position of power and for her to not say anything. I don't want to put anyone else under like a.
E
Under fire.
Nick
Under fire. Because I don't know what they knew or how, you know, how close they were, they were working and the, you know. But Lisa, Lisa. I think it's gross at least anything.
Justin
Yeah, no, I agree.
F
We have been seeing photos of Ali moving out, though. I know that's kind of all over the Internet right now.
Justin
Yeah, I think what I saw, and correct me if I'm wrong, but I think her family was coming to town to spend like the holidays with them, like in their house. And then obviously all of this happened and so they got like an Airbnb and she's staying with them. Yeah. I hope she, she feels supported and I hope she feels like she has a safe space within her family and she doesn't have to go back to him. Because I know in these situation you do feel like you, you know, that's your house and that's, you know, where you've built a life and you want.
Nick
To believe in the best of them and you want to, you want to.
Justin
Well, they also say, you know, like, yeah, I love you and I'm sorry and it'll never happen again and it'll, you know, this is the only time I'll never do this.
Nick
And if you're a man and you are capable of doing that, I don't care how up you are, like, that just means you're more than capable of doing it. There's some people, there's. It's a non negotiable for most people. For most men, it's just. I don't care. You can be like, I don't, I don't understand this whole, like, I was drunk.
E
Exactly. It's not, it's not an excuse, it's.
Nick
Not a defense anyways. Yeah, real disappointing, James, that guy. I hope you never work again.
Justin
You know how I was just talking about my intruder syndrome?
Nick
Yeah.
Justin
Well, it definitely wasn't helped after reading Kristen Cavallari's story that she just talked about. It happened in 2020 during COVID Her and her family were in Jamaica, I believe it was like during COVID they had like escaped, tried to be, you know, they were, they were in a hotel and, or in a like airbnb rental property, whatever, in Jamaica. And she owns Uncommon James, which is a jewelry brand. And she had, you know, like she had unpacked, she had her jewelry, you know, kind of like laying out and you know, I guess was easy to pick out what she was Going to wear that day, whatever. And then their air conditioning had broken in their rental property, so they had called someone to come check it out. And that person clearly saw her jewelry, came back that same night, and Kristen was in bed with her son, asleep. And she woke up to this man with a ski mask on and covered in black, crawling on the floor of her bedroom to get to her jewelry. And she woke up. She says, I was so obviously out of it because I had just woken up. And I go, what the fuck are you doing? And this man stands up, runs out of the door, and you guys. He had a ski mask on, full black arms, black pants, the. The full thing. And I went, oh. Because Cam was in the bed with me. I didn't yell, I didn't scream. You think in these moments that that's what you do, but your instincts just kick in. And I honestly felt like I was in Mission Impossible. Once I woke Jay up, then I got really nervous. Then I started to get really scared. I started shaking. This is when she was married to Jay Cutler.
E
Yeah.
Nick
So Jay was in bed at the time.
Justin
He wasn't in the bed with them. Maybe he was asleep on the couch or I don't know what. But she was, you know, in the bed with her son. And it's like, once she went and told Jay what happened, it had, like, hit her. And she said her kids, to this day, still don't know that that happened. But, like, I think that's a. There is a lesson in there for everyone. Like, hide your shit. Do not have your stuff out.
Nick
Like, you don't have anything. We're poor as fuck.
Justin
Well, it's just like, when you go to hotels or, like, you know anyone, you. And you don't, like, you unpack and you have your stuff laying around, and you trust that, you know, the housekeepers or anyone who, like, comes in and out of your room, that you trust them. And, like, you just never know. And so it's like, that is such that, like, triggers my anxiety so bad because I have nightmares of that happening to me all the time.
F
Kudos to Kristen, though. To keep it calm for your child.
Justin
Right?
F
I mean, like, in that moment.
Justin
In that moment, to not be, like, fight or flight. Yeah. To fake. Like, I don't want my child to wake up and see this and be, like, scarred or have trauma. And, like, that's crazy.
Nick
How does she. Yeah, I'm glad. Then you. You'd be able to be able to sleep forever.
Justin
Fall back asleep, just.
Nick
No.
Justin
Yeah, I mean, I definitely. I don't know what I would do in that scenario. I think we all like to imagine, you know, what we do. We all watch these crime shows and these whatevers, and you think, like, what?
Nick
Guys got some serious mama line energy.
E
I was gonna say, do you think that your instincts change once you have a kid? Because it's like, now you're not thinking about just, like, being afraid for yourself. You're now, like, I need to protect my child. Because it reminds me of Dorit with the break in and how she was, like, reasoning with the robbers about, like, my kids, please don't. You know?
Justin
Yeah, I think definitely, like, once you have children, I mean, for me, at least, the, like, the flight is no longer, like, an option. An option?
E
Yeah.
Justin
It's like you're fighting for your. Your kid's life for sure.
Nick
Anything new from Tom and Victoria? Are they still. Are they going strong? Are they back at it?
E
See if she's back on the grid. Her face is back on his Instagram. She has been unarchived.
D
Oh, my God, they're going strong.
E
She admitted she was wrong and Tom forgave people.
Nick
Or what's the speculation behind what happened here?
E
That she insinuated that Tom cheated with a friend or something and that it was like, whatever she posted was like, you guys were right. You knew or you tried to tell me or something like that. And then people are filling.
F
They're filling the lines in a lot, though.
Nick
Yeah.
F
Like, it's just the fact that she said, you guys warned me. You're right. Like, that's all she said about his friends. And the people are.
Nick
I took it as he prioritizes his friends over his girlfriends.
E
I took it as an insinuation that he was a cheater.
D
Yes.
Nick
Just because of scandal.
Justin
Tiger never changes his stripes.
E
Yeah.
Justin
And then you don't say that about.
D
Like, he's hanging out with Jax.
G
Yeah.
Justin
Like, you know, and the. You guys warned me. It's like, I'm sure they were like, he's gonna do this to you. What he did, Ariana. He'll do it to you. I can't imagine.
Nick
They were like, do you think he got, like. She got, like, a DM from some.
D
Girl who was like, hey, girl, he went to Vegas.
Justin
There's the. The guessing is unstoppable.
D
Just like the archiving and unarchiving on Instagram is the loser. Iest thing. It's like, are you 12?
Justin
Yeah. Yeah, he is.
Nick
I mean, yeah, he's. Yeah, he's stuck.
Justin
He has a child brain.
Nick
I will say I Mean, it could get dark for the Toms.
E
Her statement was, wow, you guys were right. Tiger never changes its stripes. He loves the best friends, apparently. I feel like a fool, completely heartbroken. And that insinuates he loves the best friends. Like how he loved Ariana's best friend, Raquel.
Nick
Is. Is Schwartz supposed to be in the Valley?
Justin
Yes.
E
Shorts, Lala and Sheena are moving over to the Valley or at least having cameos.
Nick
I'm curious. Yeah. And. And now no Sandoval.
E
No, Sandoval is not a part of the equation.
F
I did see some headlines that Joe was saying she was invited though. This for the Valley, which is interesting. I didn't open it up.
E
I was like, Zach had a response to that.
Nick
This could start to get pretty dark. I mean, think about it though. I'm, you know, Vanderpump's canceled. Vanderpump was Tom Sandoval's whole life. You know, James, he had the DJ thing going. Hopefully not anymore. Schwartz is getting work, but like, this could start getting pretty dark, you know, like, what is Tom Sandoval gonna do?
D
You know, get a job.
Nick
But that's what I'm saying.
Justin
He's not going to act like they are above getting a job.
D
Like, you don't have to be on tv.
Nick
You don't. That's what I'm saying.
Justin
Go work at the mall.
Nick
It's not gonna happen.
Justin
Go work at Auntie Ann's.
Nick
That's what I'm saying. This is about to get dark.
F
He can't get a job there though.
E
But the balance, where there's darkness, there's light. Because this is all good stuff for Kristen. Kristen announces that she's pregnant on the same day that Shorts and Sandy's is closed. VPR is canceled, she's pregnant and she has a job on the Valley. So Kristen's having a great 2025 and that's all I care about, period.
Justin
Period.
Nick
Whitney Rose shuts down divorce rumors with her husband Justin. I didn't know there were rumors.
D
Yeah, as a fellow Justin, how do you feel? Justin?
F
Yeah, I love Whitney and Justin, so.
D
Me too.
F
No, but these are rumors that have been circulating for like a month on like bigger quote, unquote, Bravo blogs basically alleging that they've been sleeping apart since last year and going through the motions in public.
Nick
How would the blogs know about that?
F
I mean, housewives speak through blogs. So like a lot of the times, like, you will find information.
Justin
I went to these blogs and was like, no, no, no. Hey, me and Justin aren't sleeping Well.
Nick
I will say, at Kathy Hilton's party, there was an alarming number. What we come to find out. Bloggers.
F
That's what I'm saying.
Nick
So I was like, talking to people like, oh, we love your show. Even, like, oh, great. And now he was like, it turns out they're a blogger.
F
I'm like, oh, even, like, Candy Burris, like, she brings bloggers to dinners and, like, treats them well. I think it was Teresa was friends with a blogger, and then she went turned on the blogger, and the blogger turned on her. So it's like you befriend the bloggers to, like, have a good Internet cut anyways.
D
It's like old Hollywood.
F
Yeah. So.
Nick
Yeah. But still, like, why wouldn't Whitney tell.
F
A blogger she's shutting these rumors down? So basically, there's been rumors that they're always fighting and that they are basically going to have a divorce for an upcoming season storyline. She was like, we never heard anything about it. It was just the blogs. And then she's finally responding to them, saying, this is a lie and everyone should fact check before they put such reckless, false information about someone's marriage and family. This is bullshit. Lies. Stop spreading false information.
Justin
I agree with her.
F
So she finally shut it up.
Nick
Yeah. I just hate that she. You know, it's one of those things that, you know, to. To address the rumor is platforming the rumor. Like, I'm a perfect example. I had no idea there was trouble in Parad or perceived trouble in paradise, and now it's like I ignored it.
F
Because I love them.
Justin
But it's also like, yeah, it's like, if you know that. Like, if Whitney knows that her and Justin are good, their kids are good, they're happy, they're fine. Like, why feed into the nonsense that is the Internet?
D
Well, I guess she kind of has to, because if she does. Well, if she doesn't, the next season, like, somebody on the show, one of the girls are gonna be like, there are rumors going around that you and Justin are getting a divorce.
Nick
Blogs. Yeah. But if you don't get divorced.
Justin
Yeah.
D
Then, like, but no matter what, it's probably going to be part of the show next.
F
I think she did it because there's no need to make it a storyline. But blogs are so ingrained in, like, the housewife.
D
Yeah.
F
Currently the housewife, like, storylines are all blogs, podcasts, tweets, like, and people love.
Justin
To try to tear down a marriage.
F
Exactly.
E
100. I was going to say there's a big, ominous rumor going around that there is a housewife couple that you would least expect is getting a divorce. But, like, she had to, like, stay to keep up the image.
F
And they've almost done it before, and.
E
They'Ve speculated on, like, pretty much every Bravo couple. It was Meredith and Seth. It was Whitney and Justin. And it's just like, why don't you.
D
Guys just shut the up?
E
Just wait.
Justin
Just wait until they announce that they're divorced or they're separating. Like, what the fuck? It's so weird that these people try to, like, meddle in and, like, be the ones to release this. Like, these people have kids.
E
Yes.
Justin
And you want to be so badly to be the person who's like, well, I knew first, and I'm announcing that, like, they're getting a divorce because they fucking hate each other. Like, that's so weird to me.
E
And sharing, like, intimate details that you clearly don't know about.
Justin
They're not sleeping in the same bed and they're fighting non stop.
F
Also, who would know that?
Justin
Like, yeah, literally, like, okay. Like, anyone could say that about anyone's marriage, you know?
E
Like, that's just.
Justin
It's just so bizarre and weird.
D
My theory, and I have no way to prove this, is that Lisa had somebody that works for her send a DM to a blogger about this.
Nick
I mean, that.
E
Not Mary. Writing the next storyline for the next season.
Nick
Speaking of Salt Lake City rumors and lore, we have the incredible Meredith marks on. On this week's episode of Going Deeper, which dropped yesterday. If you have not listened to Meredith.
F
Did you notice the whole time you were like, lawyer, lawyer, lawyer. And she was like, yes.
D
She's never technically.
F
She's never practiced law. She has a law degree and then never practice.
D
She's an icon.
Nick
But she went to law school.
F
She did.
D
She did.
F
She looked for compliments. She was. Every time you said it, she was like.
Nick
You have to gas her up. You know?
D
Yeah, she deserves to be gassed up.
Justin
Did y'all see this crazy Aaron Rodgers documentary on Netflix?
Nick
I'm aware of it. I've not watched it.
Justin
I have not watched it either. Could you imagine? That's what I did last night. Nick goes to dinner. I'm like, I watched Aaron Rodgers documentary.
Nick
Okay.
Justin
But he did finally open up about this, like, family rift that's been kind of. It started when he was on. His brother was on Bachelorette.
Nick
I didn't realize. Yeah. I was somehow catching strays from Aaron Rodgers.
F
Leia, go for it.
Nick
Leia, can you bring people up to speak happily?
G
He talks about how on the Bachelor, you know, how they do the hometowns. And so they set two seats, and he says, and what do they do? They go on a show and leave two empty chairs. They all agreed this was a good thing to do. To leave two empty chairs at a stupid dating show that my brother just went on to get famous. His words, not mine. That he ended up winning. But a dinner that was during the football season I was never asked to go to. Not that I would have gone.
Nick
I mean, like, I'm glad he got that out.
Justin
Yeah, right.
Nick
But I just, like, I forgot about it, you know?
Justin
It is crazy for them to leave. Like, I watched the clip, and they, like, pan out and show the two empty seats. It's like, come on.
Nick
I mean, but, like, like, sure, it's.
Justin
Ridiculous, but, like, everyone agreed to do it. His, Aaron's parents, agreed to do it.
Nick
Man.
Justin
That's a good point, brother. Like, they all were like, yeah, sure. Like, just pan out and make it seem like our son fucking sucks and didn't want to come.
Nick
That's a good point point, because I was thinking, oh, I don't fault the Bachelor producers for doing it.
Justin
No. His family were like, yeah, sure, we'll sit at a table with two empty seats and make it a whole thing.
F
Yeah.
Nick
That is crazy.
Justin
Crazy.
Nick
Let's call him out.
Justin
That's crazy. And I. I mean, his words, not mine, in order to be famous.
D
So funny on the show, too.
G
I remember him talking about, like, how him and Aaron didn't have, like, a good relationship, but that he did have a good relationship with his other brother.
Nick
No, I. They definitely use the Bachelorette to express their frustration with their famous quarterback son, which is so.
Justin
So weird.
D
Dumb.
Nick
Yeah. Even if. Even if Aaron was totally in the wrong as to why there is.
D
Yeah, he could suck. But still.
Justin
You're, like, on the Bachelorette. Yeah.
E
Eight years later.
D
Yeah, it just gives. It gives. They want. They're using him for headlines.
Nick
What do you mean, eight years later?
E
Season 12 of Bachelorette was in 2016.
Nick
You're criticizing Aaron.
E
I'm just saying, like, why are we still talking about it eight years later?
Nick
Oh, well, he's just talking about everything.
D
It's his documentary. It's his. Martha, coffee.
E
But I'm like, was this pressing news that people needed to hear information.
G
I needed to hear it.
Justin
Well, his family started it when they went on the Bachelorette, and they made it a whole thing about how they're not. Yeah, but in Aaron. In the documentary, Aaron is like, listen, this happened in high school. Like, this started where like. Like, we had this riff in high school and then college and then his brother. College.
G
Yeah.
Justin
He's like, it's just been a long. Like, they clearly have just struggled with their relationship for a long time.
Nick
I think there's a lot of ego between Jordan and.
G
Yeah, he mentions that Aaron, like, went pro and. And Jordan. I don't remember when, like, he. He didn't have the same level of success.
Nick
Yeah, Jordan sucked. Jordan played for Vanderpump, and then he got a couple.
E
Vanderpump, Vanderbilt.
Nick
Vanderpump, Vanderbilt. And then he had a couple of cups of coffee on a couple of teams as a pract squad player, almost certainly solely because his brother at the time was the best quarterback in the league. So a couple. You know. You know what I'm saying? Like, a lot of ego involved. Jordan basically took his success on the Bachelorette, coupled with him being the brother of Aaron Rodgers, and spun that into a broadcasting career.
Justin
Right.
Nick
Calling games on espn. Listen, if you're Aaron Rodgers, you feel a certain way about your brother who you don't have a good relationship with, with using you to build his entire career on.
Justin
Yeah.
Nick
Yeah.
E
When you put it like that, I just, like, hey, didn't realize that this was still an ongoing feud. I was like, this happened eight years ago.
D
Why do we call Ryan Murphy?
Nick
He has not been talking to his.
E
Family, really, for this entire decade.
Justin
And we've just, like. And no one has ever asked Aaron. Like, he's just never talked about it. And so, like, doing this documentary, you know, obviously it's talking about a lot of stuff in his life, and his, like, relationship with his family clearly is a big one. And also, Olivia Munn is a huge actress, and so, like, why. Why would you leave an empty seat for her? Bachelorette, like, we think Ms. Olivia Munn is gonna come on your show and meet.
Nick
Like, why the Bachelorette?
Justin
Her boyfriend's brother's girlfriend.
Nick
Like, I get why the Bachelorette did it. They're like, they're gonna take it.
Justin
Of course.
Nick
But you made a great point. Why the family allowed that to happen is crazy. The family could have been like, we're not doing that. We're not gonna allow you to come into our house and use ratings. But they did. They totally fucking did. They definitely did not have to. Like, they did it. They.
F
Yeah.
Nick
Like, now that I'm reminded of it, they did it as if, like, they were like, yeah, Aaron and Olivia should be here in, like, 10. They're just running late. They're super famous. They got caught in traffic. It's probably the paparazzi, but, like, they were. Yeah. No, I kind of get his point.
G
At the time, too. There was, like, speculation that Olivia Munn was, like, the one who caused the estrangement in the family dynamic with Aaron.
Nick
Yeah. There was a lot of rumors blaming the woman.
D
Shocker, they.
Nick
They threw Olivia under.
Justin
Yeah. But I mean, even. I mean, Aaron says, like, no, this. That was a great relationship. Nothing bad was going on. This was just like, deep rooted family drama. Family drama. And, like, didn't his dad say, like, Aaron's dad come out and say something and then, like, wasn't Stephen a Smith, like, dude, what the. Like, why are we bringing, like, you don't do that. You don't bring your.
D
You know what? Jody Foster loves Aaron Rodgers, and Aaron Rodgers thanked Jody Foster one time in an MVP speech for some reason. And ever since then, I'm like, like, do whatever you want, brother. That's crazy.
Nick
Well, the. The president of the packers called him a complicated fella.
D
Wow.
Nick
And I thought.
D
And Jody loves a complicated fella.
Nick
Yeah.
D
Yeah.
Nick
He's. He's not basic.
D
Nope.
Nick
No, no, no. Is it time for maybe Stats versus knowledge.
D
Yeah.
Nick
Or knowledge versus Stats. Let's get into stats.
D
Vibes versus Stats.
Nick
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G
Can I tell you what that reminds me of?
Nick
What?
G
You know that. That, like, clip that went viral of, like, the older couple and. And he's like a buttery, flaky crust.
D
Crispy, buttery crust.
G
And she's like, no, it's a crispy, flaky fl. Every time Vibes versus Stats comes.
Nick
I don't know the name of our own segment. Vibes versus Vibes versus Stats. All right, Mary, what do we got on the docket for this week?
D
Okay, so the first game I want to talk about is the 49ers are playing the Dolphins. And are we watching White Christmas? Because this game is all about sisters. Sisters. We all know Olivia Culpo.
Justin
We all know Olivia Culpo, wife of glory, former Miss America, former Miss USA Miss Universe.
E
Miss Universe.
Nick
I don't know.
D
She's a pageant virgin queen, beautiful all around, married to 49ers running back Christian.
Nick
McCaffrey, formerly the girlfriend of Danny Amendola, friend of show.
D
She was also in the Other Woman. The movie, not in real life. She was in the movie the Other Woman.
Nick
She's also in the movie. Was that a reality TV show or is that.
Justin
No, no, this is just Kate Upton new headline.
D
Yeah, I mean, according to her Wikipedia, she. She had a role in the other one cameo. And I feel pretty anyway, but this is really. This drama is all about her sister, Sophia Culpo, who's a tiktoker. Sophia Culpo used to date Miami Dolphins wide receiver Braxton barrios for two years from 2021 to 2023.
Nick
Long time.
D
Recently, she posted a cryptic TikTok insinuating that Braxton is her Zach Bryan. In the. In the TikTok, Sofia stitches a video of a girl saying, if you guys remember, Braxton is technically Sofia Culpo's Zach Bryan with a video of herself cheersing the camera and with a very large glass of wine and sunglasses. And she, like, lifts the sunglasses up and looks really sassy into the camera. And if you're wondering why would Sofia Culpo do this out of nowhere and, like, throw astray, it's not out of Nowhere because Sophia's TikTok was referencing Brianna Chicken Fry's appearance on Alex Urban Earl's podcast Hot Mess. And Alex Earle is in fact currently dating Sophia's ex boyfriend and Miami Dolphins wide receiver Braxton Barrios.
Justin
Which is even weirder because whenever Alex came out with her podcast merch, Brianna went on like, social media and was like, she stole all my merch designs.
D
So what is going on?
Justin
What is going on?
Nick
What is his. Her merch designs that she stole.
Justin
They were very similar.
D
I don't know.
Nick
This is giving.
Justin
Like you could pull up side by side.
D
I don't remember the exact WNBA level messy drama of.
Justin
They were definitely very similar. And like, Brianna made it a thing. Like, she went to social media and she's like, she stole my designs.
Nick
And this isn't a passive accusation. I mean, like, Brianna is. Has been painting Zach Bryan as an emotional abuser.
D
Yes. And then for Sophia to respond to this girl on TikTok and saying that Braxton is her Zach Bryan, that's a heavy accusation.
Nick
It is.
D
So what's going on here? I had no idea who any of These people were 24 hours ago.
Justin
No.
D
Yeah.
Justin
All right, so now we're picking between, well, Sophia and Alex. Is that kind of what it comes.
D
Down to, or I'm guessing. I'm guessing. So the Dolphins has Braxton in San Francisco has Christian McCaffrey, who's just chilling.
Justin
And it's her brother in law of.
Nick
The year, unfortunately, Christian.
D
Oh, then he really is just chilling.
Nick
But he's literally chilling.
D
I think. I don't think we can pick the Dolphins on this one.
Justin
1.
E
I was going to say, I think.
D
We have to go with our buddy, Sourdough Sam.
E
I'm going to go with Olivia Culpa. Anybody?
Nick
The coach of the.
Justin
I am also going to go with.
Nick
Olivia Culpa, and I feel like coordinator of the Niners. Wow.
D
So there's a lot of drama.
Nick
Again, let's just remind ourselves that The San Francisco 49ers do have the guy who is a hero and stopped a crime and got shot.
Justin
And it has Sydney Warner's husband Fred.
Nick
Who was a great guy. Excellent.
E
And I feel like they're doing well.
Nick
Niners.
Justin
No, no, no.
D
But neither are the Dolphins.
Nick
Well, they're not doing well in the sense that Niners going into the season were picked by many people to be one of the best teams in the league, and they have been very much not. They're having a disappointment.
E
The Dolphins are disappointing their people, too.
Nick
Because they've never really been good. So, like to say they're having a disappointing season. It's kind of like they've had a disappointing season for the past 30 years.
D
They have the same record as the Niners.
Justin
We're going Niners.
D
We have to go. Niners.
Nick
Okay.
Justin
What about you?
Nick
Well, I don't want to pick the Dolphins after.
D
I mean, Braxton.
Nick
After Braxton.
D
Also. What kind of a name is Braxton?
Justin
Well, his mom was being creative, I guess.
E
A name of a man who will break your heart, I hope.
D
God, I've never had my heart broken by a Braxton.
Nick
Anyway, did Brianna and Alex squash their.
Justin
No idea. I did not watch or listen to their episode together. But I do know alone, lot of people were very confused because they were like, weren't you, like, accusing her of stealing all your merch? Like, what's going on here?
D
I don't think anyone is more confused than Sophia Culpo.
Nick
And then, like. And then when. When describing Zach's behavior to Alex, Alex wasn't like, oh, it sounds like my boyfriend.
Justin
No, I doubt she would. Yeah. They seem very happy and in love.
Nick
Okay.
Justin
So. Yeah.
G
But.
Justin
Okay, we're going 49ers. Going 49ers. All right, good to know.
D
Next game, the New Orleans Saints are playing the Green Bay packers. And call me Craig Conover because I want to get into some conspiracy theories. The streets are saying.
Justin
And by the streets, well, we're picking the Packers. I feel like we all are. Right.
F
She's not wrong.
Justin
But go ahead.
D
Streets are saying. And by the streets, I mean TikTok and Reddit and my roommate Kade, who brought this to my attention, that the Green Bay packers quarterback Jordan Love is only successful during the Toyota.
Nick
Yes.
D
And may in fact be an NFL plant designed to sell Toyotas to distress Wisconsinites all over the greater nation of Wisconsin.
Nick
For those of you don't know, Toyota Thon is a seasonable sale. Seasonal.
D
Seasonal sale.
Nick
Seasonal sale. That Toyota puts on around this time of year.
D
It runs November 15th to January 6th.
G
And.
Nick
And you look at Jordan Love stats during Toyota Thon and not Toyota Thon. It's shocking talking.
E
Well, if it's happening right now, I choose him.
Justin
Does he drive a Toyota?
Nick
I don't. Do not know.
D
Well, Toyota Fon has been an official NFL sponsor since 2023, which was the first year Jordan Love started for the Packers.
Nick
So he's really been crushing life during Toyota Thon. He is.
D
But the problem is Toyota Thon doesn't run through the super bowl, which is famously in February.
Nick
So can he keep it going?
D
Can he keep it going? How do you feel about your main man being an injury industry plant? Potential?
Nick
Yeah, I feel fine with it. As long as they win. I don't think he is. Yeah. Yeah.
D
No, but it's fun to think about.
Nick
It is.
D
So we're all going back.
Justin
We're all gonna go Packers.
D
Cool. That's easy.
Nick
Okay.
Justin
That is easy.
D
All right, join us next week.
Nick
Thank you, wonderful Pistachios for sponsoring the segment of the vile files. Visit wonderful pistachios.com to learn more. So, all right, do we want to do Bev Hills or do we want to go Ultimatum next Christmas? Christmas. Oh, what are you guys all doing for Christmas? Christmas plans.
Justin
Christmas plans.
Nick
Or for our Jewish friends out there, Hanukkah?
F
Holiday plans.
Nick
Holiday plans.
Justin
Holiday plans.
Nick
We say Christmas.
E
Does Christmas. Does that, like, also count for New Year's?
G
Sure.
E
Okay. I'll be here for Christmas and then New Year's. I am going to Canada and I'm really excited for that.
D
We're in Canada, around the Vancouver area. Okay.
Justin
Yeah.
E
Yeah. Is that the French?
D
No, that's Quebec. Sorry. That's the French.
E
Montreal.
D
Montreal.
Justin
O. Justin, are you going home?
F
I am Flying home. Delta there.
Justin
What did you ask Santa for? For Christmas?
F
Love and happiness.
Justin
Wow.
F
Yeah. I feel like it's a year of. It's a year of not needing too much, you know? Also, if I'm flying, I can't bring it back, so.
Justin
Yeah, for sure.
E
Practical Mary.
D
Are you gonna go? Yeah, I'm going to Florida. I leave on Sunday, and I'm flying with my cat, George Michael. So I'm very. I. I got him some.
Justin
You know, one time I was on a flight and the cat got out and was running up and down the flight.
Nick
Wait.
F
That's so cute.
Justin
No one could catch the cat.
D
That seems, like, very him. But that hopefully will not happen. I just. I'm really anxious about it, so I need to just. He's not. He's gonna be fine. So if I don't worry about it, then I don't think my anxiety will transfer over to him.
Nick
What's your favorite holiday tradition?
F
Eggnog. Because it tastes awful, but, like, you just have to drink it.
D
Okay.
Nick
Okay.
Justin
Hey, Heidi. Garlic partner.
E
I like little Christmas Eve celebration.
Justin
I love.
E
We do, like, a little friends thing, and. And I just. I'm always drunk and then hungover.
Nick
Christmas Eve or Christmas Day?
E
Christmas Eve is like.
Justin
Like, definitely getting hammered on Christmas Eve. Yeah.
E
And then.
Justin
Right. I feel like. Well, relax. Yeah. We're celebrating our family. Nick. Like, me, Nick and River and the dogs. We're doing that this weekend. So Friday night this week is Christmas Eve, and Saturday is Christmas morning. Oh, so we have to bake cookies on Friday night for Santa.
Nick
Yeah. We're like. We're like a divorced family. It has to have two different. Well, you want our first Christmas family trauma.
Justin
Yeah. Well, no, we have to just. We have to give river that at home.
Nick
Yeah.
Justin
You know what I'm saying? And we. I got the dogs. They're stocking stuffers. And what are we gonna cook on Friday night?
Nick
Oh, my God. Done. I thought Christmas was Saturday.
Justin
Well, that's Christmas Day, but we do Christmas Eve, like dinner.
Nick
Oh, my God. So we have. Okay.
E
You've got more stuff to plan. Have you guys finished your Christmas shopping?
Justin
No, I am done because I am ahead of. I haven't started the curve either, have I? Oh, my God.
D
I have to get a white elephant gift for my family.
Justin
Nick hasn't gotten me my gift from river yet, which I clocked yesterday because I had just wrapped. Wrapped River's gift to her dad.
E
Right.
Justin
You know, she's just not able to wrap stuff right now, so I was just wrapping it for her, of course.
Nick
And, well, you know, river told me that you're really hard to shop for.
Justin
Well, that's why I made you a PDF form with photos and links and sizes and colors.
E
Nick's just gonna get river, take river to the park and get her to, like, grab, like, a handful of grass and, like, put it in a box and river pick this.
Nick
All this means is I just have to change one of the. From Nick to.
Justin
From River.
D
That's true.
E
Pick best one.
D
Yeah, that's true.
Nick
Favorite Christmas movie.
E
I'm so basic. I'm like, Home Alone.
Justin
Yeah, yeah.
D
Home alone, Home Alone 2.
Nick
Both equally good. I'm going to go Home Alone 1. Yeah. If I had to pick. But Home Alone 2 stands up.
F
Christmas with the cranks.
E
I love that one, too.
D
That's a great one.
F
The honey ham. Never tried that in my life, but I want one of those.
D
Yeah.
Justin
Oh, a honey ham is good.
D
Mine's either Christmas vacation or the grapes.
Nick
We have Aria on this episode of Reality Recap. Fascinating interview. Fascinating interview.
Justin
Say more.
Nick
Bit of a conspiracy theory going around. I think that we are starting.
F
I can say I started it.
Nick
Justin started it. It was more of an observation.
F
I'll just say the Bravo blogs have trained me better to recognize backgrounds, what people are holding, the way they're talking, the lighting. All I noticed was Scotty's background is awfully similar to the background that Aria had when she zoomed in.
Nick
Well, and we mentioned this in the interview with Aria because we do ask her about her background. Well, when we interviewed Scotty the first time, we were doing these interviews over zoom. For those of you who aren't familiar with zoom, if you have, like, some kind of Zoom account, it'll. You'll like, what. Who is. Who are you? What is your name? And you'll put, like, Nick or whatever. Sometimes in a shared account, people put two names. I don't know, for whatever reason. Well, when Scotty zoomed in, like, last week and we had not seen the end of the season, it said Scotty and Ari, like, oh, spoiler alert, they're still together. But we were like, scotty gotta take that off. We don't want to spoil anything. Then we find out they're not together because we watched, you know, they. Scotty posed.
Justin
We watched the reunion.
Nick
Reunion. You know, his reactive personality kept showing up, even though Scotty was like, no, I know.
Justin
Craziness.
Nick
And then we were very happy to talk to Aria, and she was very, you know, you'll listen to it. She was very open about her, you know, we were aligned about our opinion with Scotty and she was critical. Not, not, not, not like shit talking. But she gave some direct feedback, let's just say. But Justin pointed out that the. The background, it is blurred. The way the lighting is shockingly the same.
Justin
Yeah.
F
The doors, the windows, the way the lighting hits the walls.
Nick
I don't know what you want to make of that. Is it the same background? Is it not the same background? If it is the same background. Are they back together? Why is she coming on and.
D
But they never lived together.
Justin
I did post on my Instagram and said I really hope that Aria and I tagged her is not with this man. I need her to run as fast as possible. And she did respond, but she only responded and talked about like my deck, my decor in my house. So there was no like haha girl that man. There was no like, well, just like give it a second, you know.
Nick
And again, listen, if they're back together and they want to work on it, I mean, but you know, go forth and be prosperous. But I mean again, after you listen to this interview, it will get to the interview. Okay. All right. Well, Aria, everybody.
Justin
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Nick
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Justin
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G
I'm excited to be here. Thank you guys for asking me to be here.
Nick
We're excited to have you. Now that everything's out. I didn't even know where to start with you. You know, here's where I want to start. Did you, you listen to our interview with Scotty?
G
I did.
Nick
You did?
G
I did. He was fighting for his life in that interview.
Nick
You know, at that point we had only seen so many of the episodes. I certainly know what it's like to be on your guys's side. I certainly know what it's like to watch something and, you know, and not necessarily remember it the same way. And we really wanted to give Scotty the benefit of the doubt. And then we kept watching, you know, and yeah, I guess it was a, it was a tough watch and we felt a bit gaslit by Scotty.
G
It's funny to say, like, hear it because it's like the world is like, I feel gaslit. I'm like, I was in it.
Nick
So, yeah, I am really curious because, like, boy, I gotta say, watching you, your guys's relationship. Yeah. Seem like two different people. Like, how did you guys get together in the first place?
G
So the thing is, is like Scotty is like such a beautiful individual. When he's not, I feel like triggered. Triggered and how I would say triggered. It's like if anything, you know, comes up with maybe insecurity and or like second to last scene, it was where in the kitchen, I'm wearing my black dress and he's like addressing how I don't give him non sexual physical touch. And in that scene, the reason why that came up was actually it was right after we had our last mixer where Caleb and Mariah were at. Everybody was there, but he was watching everything I did because he was feeling insecure. He might never admit that, but he was feeling insecure because he felt like there was some type of connection that was with Caleb. And he, you know, was like, you weren't really giving, you weren't really holding my hand. You weren't really all over me. Like, Sandy was all over Nick and was like, that's not my love language. I'm not going to go sit on your lap. I don't do that in front of people. Like, I, I was like, I was holding his hand during the experience, like during that time. But I Just feel like it was coming up and I feel like, because he's hurt. He tries to hurt me.
Nick
Yeah.
G
With his words. And so I. When you say like, oh, how did you guys get together? We actually met at Coachella. We didn't, like, we just like, saw each other and we were like, there was a vibe. Vibe. And then we ended up actually also. Then coincidentally, like, just also being at. In Vegas, like maybe a few months later after that. And so then after that, I feel like we were inseparable. Like, the reason why I think I was so like, into Scotty was that he was so obsessed with me. But, like, not in a. It wasn't in an unhealthy way. It was just in a. In a way of intention.
Nick
Yeah.
G
Where he was, you know, going out of his way to see me. We lived in two different cities at the time. I was still going into nurse. Like, I was still a nurse, nursing school. So it's like there was a lot of things that he had to wait for me. And so I felt like I wanted to show my. My commitment to him as well. But I think also he has, you know, baggage with relationships, like women, you know, cheating on him. And. And so it's just like a lot of things that I had to deal with and show him that, like, I am not. That I am not your. Your past. I. I am here. I want to love you, but I just don't think that that was enough because there's internal battles that he's dealing with.
Nick
You know, it was interesting to watch. I. I really try as much as I can, especially since we. We watch you. So we watch these shows, we critique the characters we watch. And having been on your guys's side before, I. I definitely try to watch with like radical empathy, I guess, in a way, you know. And so like when I look at Scotty and if I'm really trying to be empathetic, like, there are elements of him that I. I could see like 23 year old me in. In a sense. Like, Scotty reminds me of that guy. Guy who. He means well, you know, like, he want you. You can see. Like he wants to be a good partner. Like it matters to Scotty to be a good boyfriend. I. I feel like that's a true statement from what I watched.
G
I just don't think he knows how. Yeah, it's like.
Nick
Yeah, but he does it. Yeah, he does the thing where it's just like. And I feel like I've done that when I was younger and immature, where it's just like, because I'm showing up and I'm doing this. It's like, you kind of like, well, I'm doing this. So I'm expecting you to match me, and if you don't match me, you're doing something wrong. And it's. And everything is based off of, well, willing to do this, and I'm willing to do this. And it's. It's very much centered through, you know, what he's willing to do. And because he's putting so much effort into being a good guy, I don't think he even realizes that his, his actions come across that he's owed something. You know, he's owed a certain type of behavior or he's owed a certain type of, like, payback for, like, what he perceives is, like, him acting a certain way. You know, it's like. And I. I hope that he matures, though. The only problem with Scott. How old is Scotty?
G
Prefrontal. Definitely develop.
Nick
Yeah, I mean, it's just like he's 30, you know, it's. Yeah, I think there's still hope for him, unfortunately. You know, listen, we are. We are.
G
I do. I honestly think that this was a wake up call, if I'm being honest. Like, I think that, I mean, who gets to really see theirselves in a third person? I think for even for me, like, honestly, like, watching some of this back, like, honestly, I just remember feeling, like, defeated or feeling, like, unhappy, but I didn't know, like, what it was because I was like, I'm doing as much as I possibly can do. Like, why is this not working?
Nick
Yeah.
G
And I honestly think I went onto the show to really show how committed I am to him because I didn't want to be there. And it's not that he forced me to be there, but, like, I did it. Like, it was definitely something that I was like, okay, well, is he showing me that he wants to commit? And I feel like something we lacked in our, you know, relationship was reassurance. Because. Because I feel like our. Our relationship wasn't really the healthiest. So, yes, it would be, like, threatening of the relationship. I don't want to be with you because you're not giving me this. And, like, I mean, you guys saw it on the show, so it was like him expressing that he wants to marry me and do this process. I was like, oh, of course I will do that. You're showing me reassurance that you even see a future with me. And then I feel like in the experience, I wanted to show him that I'm a loyal girlfriend. I am someone who I was committed to the experience in the way of I'm wanting to learn how to be a better partner. And I feel like that was what I wanted to highlight. But I think that what he was really hung up on, even past, like, watching the show, was he was just, like, very hurt by seeing a connection develop.
Nick
But yeah, yeah, yeah, I, I, I'm glad that you said that. I think I said, said it in our last episode. You know, it seemed like it was hard to watch you struggle in the relationship because it seemed like both you and Scotty wanted to be good partners. It was fascinating watching you. It was hard to watch, but fascinating because just like you described, it was like you were almost confused as to why you were unhappy because here you are and you had referenced past relationships and, and, and, and bad boyfriends. So like, compared to maybe your past and don't know the details of it, Scotty initially probably presents as this really well intentioned, thoughtful, I really want to be a good partner guy. Guy really shows up and does the little things and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I would imagine when you look at Scotty at face value, it's like, I should, this is a good guy. I should like this guy. But he would almost belittle you and critique you and minimize you. And it's like he sold it as, I want us to be a good couple and I want to be a good boyfriend. So it's almost like he masked his criticism under the guise of, you know, I care about us and I care about the relationship. And I imagine it almost sounds like that's kind of what you struggled with. Almost like, why am I so unhappy with a guy who wants to be a good boyfriend?
G
I think it's just, it was like, yeah, I was just so confused all the time because I'd be like, okay, you want to be with me, you say you're committed, you want a future with me, but then it seems like I make you so unhappy. And I honestly just got to a point, like, I just got tired of fighting. Like, I was exhausted. Like, I just, it just reminded me too much of my dynamic with, like, my parents watching that, like, growing up and watching them fight. And I just was like, yeah, this is just like, not for me. And it wasn't even that I realized that I was, like, being, like, gaslit in situations. Like, honestly, I feel like now in a third person, like, perspective, I could see, like, okay, like, this is literally something I think I saw. And I was like, oh, wait, that's kind of funny. It was like he's a. His. He's. He just throws word salad out. And so I feel like that was some. I just. I truly just respect him. And I was trying to understand this man so hard, but it just was like there was just such a disconnect that I was just like, I give up. And I think the last straw for me was just the fact that I had to beg him to go to couples therapy. Like, I was like, you know, that there's an issue. Why am I begging you to do anything? And so I just was like, I was so over it. Like, I just was like, yeah, I don't. I can't do this anymore. Like, I truly need to choose myself. And like, even though you love me, like, I just. You're not showing me the ways that I want to be loved.
Nick
So, yeah, that's that. You know, coming from a guy like Scotty, refusing couples therapies seems like a big red flag because again, he. He comes across as someone who is willing to do anything for the relationship in love. But like, him to turn that down tells me that he really wanted to be in control of how he thought you guys should work on the relationship. And as soon as he was going to let in a third party therapist, you know, he has to give up that control and he has to be willing to be introspective about the role he plays and whatever problem this relationship has and, you know, it's. It's telling that he turned it down. Another thing that was really hard to watch, you know, it was towards the. And it's when you were crying and he was talking about physical touch. He brought that up earlier. Scotty, if you're listening, when you ask someone to work on something, if it's a bad habit, especially if they acknowledge the bad habit, like you, you know, not even a bad habit, you were just like, listen, it's not my love language. It's not my thing. But, like, you were willing to recognize that it was. Scotty. So here you are willing to work on it. Scotty. If you're listening, don't come back. Feedback with like, you never do this, or you always, you know, you always ignore me. Like when someone's working on something and they try something and your feedback later on is they still never do something, that must be. That's the most defeating feeling in the world because. Right. I mean, here you are. Maybe you're not loving on Scotty the way he wants to be loved, but it sounds like you were making like a genuine effort into like doing what Scotty wanted. And then all of a sudden, you know, you get feedback. Like, you like, he sees someone sit on someone's lap and you're like, you never do this. Like, what a defeating feeling to work on something and then have your partner tell you never fucking do something is. It's. I know, it feels like emotional torture in a way.
G
It's interesting too. Like, I feel like, yeah, I mean, we did end up going to like, I think it was like the, the intro to couples therapy, but I think I was so done that like I, I ended up making the couples therapist my own therapist because I was like, yeah. I told her, I was like, hey, we're not going to do this anymore. Can do you want to work with me by yourself or we'll just have to let this go. And she was like, oh, yeah, sure, sure. But something that was like, that we learned is like there's like seven like deadly habits to do in a relationship. And one of them is not like saying never, always those kind of things because it makes the person feel like they're, they're. It's never enough and they're not enough. And if they're actually, you know, being receptive to what you want to say or what you're saying to them, then you should be like, hey, I'm still hurting. But like, I see you, I see that you're trying, trying. And in that actual fight, when I said if this isn't our first, this isn't the first time that we're talking about this on camera, which it wasn't featured, but we talked about that again. And I asked him, is that a non negotiable for you? Because that is not my love language. And I am working on it. But if you're saying like you need me to be like all on you all the time, like if that is a non negotiable for you, like, let me know because in, in my head I'll know. Like, this maybe isn't like, maybe we're just not exactly good match. But I think I go in my head and I'm like, I was I really affectionate in the beginning and. But maybe it was just like I was starting to fall out of love and I was trying my hardest to like stay there. But like, it was just like it was, there was just a disconnect.
Nick
Did you have any inkling that he was planning on proposing to you?
G
I feel like I wasn't really sure, to be honest, because of our last conversation before for it. But I know he loves me and I, I honestly don't. It's like, I know he wouldn't want to see me with anyone else. So for him to not propose in that moment, I think he would have been like, more scared of like, okay, what does this really mean? Because, yes, the show is like, you get engaged and you move on, but, like, this is real life. Like, okay, like, maybe it doesn't end out like that. You don't get engaged, but are we still going to work on the relationship? And I think that I tried so hard in this experience to be so, like, you know, like, take this experience. We're still respect him. And then I think to like, get to that point where potentially he's going to publicly embarrass me. Like, I think that. I think we had a lot of thoughts. And then I think for me, I was like, I don't want to reject him, but there's still things I want to work on. And so that's why, you know, I called the engagement off after a day because I was like, we're taking. This is too fast. Like, we need to like, move in together. And I can say that that's something I did respect is he was really fast about doing that, but it just like, it just didn't work out.
Nick
I definitely felt for both you in that moment. It was kind of hysterical at the reunion when they were like, when did you guys break up? And you were like a day. And Scotty just. It was kind of funny. I don't know. Like.
G
Yeah, well, he didn't know. He didn't want that to be brought up at all. And I, I was kind of trying to keep that up, like, in wraps. I'm not gonna lie, because I feel like, you know, that's, it's. That's kind of like ego defeating. But I mean, it's the truth. It's the truth.
Nick
Hearing you talk, it's just. I really hope Scotty is willing to, to use this experience as an opportunity to, like, reflect and see himself in ways that, you know, his partners have seen him or other people. You know, it's a. It's a tough lesson to learn, but if he's willing to learn, learn. Yeah. I want to believe that he, he is well intentioned. But like, it's like, it's like Scotty has this idea of how he thinks relationships should be. I presume probably from his upbringing or whatever he's seen on movies. And again, well intentioned. And then like, you've, you know, added the. The information of past girlfriends and being cheated on. And I think he just has this idea that he's the good guy, and because he's willing. Because he thinks he's the good guy and he's willing to try hard, it really comes across as that he's used that as an excuse internally and not necessarily consciously to act the way he's acted in a way where it's. It can come across as very aggressive and in mean almost and belittling and condescending and. And minimizing. And it's like, it's. It's hard to watch because I don't think Scotty would ever think of himself in that way. You know what I'm saying? I don't think he would.
G
Yeah, no, I agree. I do want to say something, though, because obviously, with all, like, you know, people's opinions, and he's never been physical with me, like, at all. And so. And honestly, like, watching the show, like, they definitely dramatize, like, his stare and, like, I mean, he's still staring all crazy, but, like, it's very dramatized. And I feel like I've never been scared of Scotty, like, ever. But I think the things that I've been annoyed with him, like, I'll be like, okay, like, this is very childish. Like, let's. Let's talk like adults. But I've never been like, oh, my gosh, I'm so afraid. Like, and I think that's why you can see, like, once the changeover happened, like, I was excited to be with him. I actually didn't even. I wasn't paying any attention to him staring at me. Like, I feel like people were making tiktoks and. And being like, oh, his stare. Like, his stare to her. At the change, I was like, I was so unbothered. Like, I was just like, he's mad because he sees that there was a connection, and he. I'm a very honest person, and so I'm not going to sugarcoat anything. So I think that I was never, like, worried about going back. I just more so was like, okay, like, are we going to have any type of progress, or is this going to continue to go and go and go?
Nick
Yeah. Thank you for clarifying that. I'm assuming that you obviously seen things online. Unfortunately, you know, when it comes to these shows, a lot of the people who watch this show obviously will, you know, project their own personal experiences. And sadly, there are a lot of women out there who have to deal with men who unfortunately think physical violence is Acceptable with ladies. But that doesn't, you know. Anyways, thank you for pointing that out because it's. It's. Despite all of Scottie's flaws, it's not fair for people to take weird stares and then make assumptions about what they think he's capable of.
G
The type of messages I was getting, like, I do feel for the women, but I was like, I haven't had that experience, but I can understand why, like, that man looked crazy. Yeah, I watched that and I was like, what is going on?
Nick
Have you spoken with him recently? Like, do you. Do you think he is willing to be humble enough to just say, you know what? I really have some work to do. And, you know, it would be very easy for him to blame the edit because there was a lot of people in these situations in the beginning, I.
G
Think, because that's like, you know, I think when you're first accepting something, you're kind of in denial for a long little bit. But I think that once, you know, the world really showed, like a reflection of who he was perceiving himself as. He really did see and I think relate to is like something that wasn't featured. And I think it really does play a narrative into, like, what Scotty was in the show is they didn't show his family and friends meet up. They didn't show, like, just his friends meeting up with us. And like, he has a really solid group of friends. And so that was something that I was very attracted to because I was like, okay, he's surrounded by men that actually have a high eq. They. But they just did not know how he treated me. So it's like. And so I think now seeing everything, they've all, like, reached out to me. They're like, aria, you carried yourself so well. And I am so sorry for, like, the pain that you've had to endure, like, on that in that process. But I want you to know, like, we're going to, like, we're going to. We're going to definitely do some intervention. Like that that was kind of like where it was coming from. And I think that honestly, I don't think his mom has seen it. I don't think he wants her to see it because I know she'd be, like, very disappointed. And I mean, I just. I had to let her know that we did break up because he didn't tell her. And I know she's really sad and she was like, trying to call me about it. So I just feel like, yeah, this is a wake up call for him. I Think he didn't realize what he had when he had it. And now that it's not there, now he's, you know, feeling it. But I hope it is something that he grows.
E
You said at reunion that he doesn't love you the way that you wanted to be loved. And your time with Caleb was so wholesome. What did you learn about the way that you wanted to be loved?
G
I just need somebody to be, like, calm with me because I think that, like, I'm an anxious individual. Like, honestly, like, I am very anxious. And so I feel like when Scotty has his little moments, like, I used to be, like, overly trying to explain myself or. And I did nothing wrong. But I think I got to a point where in my self development, I mean, I go to therapy. I've been. I started to go to therapy because I realized that I was emotionally reactive. And so it's maybe something. He would hurt my feelings and I would maybe, like, lash out and, like, not, like, be kind with my words. And I feel like that was like, okay, I'm going to work on this. But I started to realize, like, okay, why am I working so hard on myself and trying for this relationship when I don't feel like the person I'm in the relationship with sees that there's any issues? And so it was really the. The calmness of Caleb. I'm also very aware. Three weeks is not enough to see somebody's ugly. Like, it's not. And so I really want to clear the air. I never in my life thought I was gonna leave with Caleb. Like, my edit looks like, yes, I think I was definitely having a little baby crush. But, like, it was never anything deeper than that. Like, I never was like, oh, I'm gonna run off with Mariah's man, my man. Like, I. I was like, that's not what I came on the. I was really trying to show how committed I was to the person I came with.
Nick
Thank you for clarifying that. Can you speak to one thing? I guess I really didn't understand your POV from watching it back was what came across is your insistence on trying to get Caleb to, like, acknowledge a connection between the two of you. And while I don't doubt there was a connection, I'm watching it and thinking. It seemed like he thought acknowledging that would be disrespecting his. His girlfriend. And to me, it came across as, like, I don't know, maybe there's a connection, I don't know. But, like, he just wants to call it a friendship. And I was Comfortable as a viewer with him trying to protect that. But, like, how did you see it in real time and what are your thoughts on that?
G
So you guys don't see how often. Like, often he said it. Like, it was too, like, an overboard amount of times. Like, any time I feel like he got a chance to talk about our connection was like, friendship, friendship, friendship, friendship. But off camera, he's so calculated. Caleb is a good guy. I respect him, but he is very calculated. So he. I feel like he would put on this, like, I don't want to call it a front because I think he truly is a good guy. But he was very in his head when cameras were there, but then once cameras weren't there, we had two days off. He was so different, so chill, so laid back. And we actually, like, we were hanging out outside of just like, the producer, like, like, dates, ideas. Like, we would actually, like, hang out with each other, talk about things. And. And so there was like. And his. Just his vibe. I know what a friend vibe is. That was not it. Like, there'd be little side comments and so. And it wasn't disrespectful. Like, every time he was trying to respect his girlfriend. But, like, I think I. For me, I was just like, bro, like, it's not that deep. Like, just say it. Like, I don't. I don't get it. Like, I didn't understand it. And then I think watching it back, it really bothered me that he was gaslighting his girlfriend. Like, I was like, she obviously wants to talk about something because you spent three weeks with someone and something that isn't featured because he wouldn't say it on camera, which I thought was interesting. But the two top choices that he wanted to be with and he told Mariah, which caused her to have insecurity, was he was like, Chanel and Aria and so then us matching with each other. She's like, you know, like, panicking because she's like, well, this was someone that was his, like, top two, too. And then. So I feel like for me, what was hard to watch was how he was never reassuring to her about just even talking about it. He would just shut her down. And I feel like I've talked to Mariah off, like, outside of the reunion. And, like, I really, truly just think she deserves somebody that wants to just like, yeah, she's a serious girl. But, like, you want to be heard when, you know, you're like, I couldn't imagine being by myself for three, three weeks. Like, you know, and so for him to Just, like, shut her off and be like, dude, I didn't do anything. Like, can you just be happy? Like, it kind of was like that.
Nick
That makes sense. Yeah. Fair enough. Where. What are you up to now? Like, what. What? Are you in dating? Are you. Have you moved on? No. Like, how long you and Scotty been broken up for?
G
We've been broken up since September, so it has not been that long. And, no, I'm not dating. I am so, like, I don't want to say I'm, like, jaded by men, but, like, I'm off of men for right now. Like, I definitely know that. Like, you know, if intentions are there and there's like, just intentions and actually healed, a healed person who knows their triggers, knows their traumas and all that, then, like, yes, maybe. But, like, right now, like, I am speed dial with my therapist. She's telling me I need a year to myself, and so I'm kind of going on that. Wait. But, yeah, I'm just really working and focusing on myself, being surrounded by family, friends. And honestly, I think that how. Why this hasn't been as hard is because I do have a really good support system.
Nick
That's. That's great to hear. What. What are your thoughts on just kind of the overall experience in the rest of the cast? Were there any surprises as a viewer?
G
No, I was not surprised because the. With Junior.
Nick
Yeah. Is he as shady as he came across as a viewer?
G
Oh, yeah, for sure. I feel like with Junior, I mean, I was going on dates with him. I think I saw something that Zana talked about, and I think he knew the type of woman I was, so he kind of wanted to be whatever I wanted him to be. And then I feel like third date. That's when I started to see the cracks where I was like, what are your intentions? And I was like, I don't know if he's gonna respect my boundaries because I'm not going to be making out with you. Slapping my ass is crazy. Like, when I saw that, I was like that insane. So I feel like for me, yeah, everything panned out in the way that hats how he is and that that's his character. And I think, okay, whatever he gets out of this show, good for him. But he's never going to get a quality woman because he's not a quality man, period.
E
Period. I do have one random question. We noticed that your background kind of looks similar to Scotty's.
Justin
Is it?
G
Oh, does it?
Nick
No. Okay.
G
No, I actually, I live in a. So I made. I live in A one bedroom. And I made the living room my bedro. The. The room my closet, because I have a lot of clothes.
E
Okay.
G
And so, no, it's not the same. We're not in the same city. He's in la, actually, and I'm in the bay.
Nick
When Scotty zoomed in and talked to us, you know, we didn't know. You know, we hadn't seen the end. Yeah, his Zoom name. What was it?
E
Scotty and Arya.
Nick
His zoom name was Scotty and Arya. And we saw it. We actually had to be like, hey, you got to change that. Because we didn't want to, like, spoil any. Anything. And I'm thinking, holy, they're together still, you know, and. And I'm watching the whole thing, and I watched, you know, you guys get engaged, and I'm just like, yeah, yeah, they went. They're shockingly still together. And then, I don't know, I forgot who I was talking to. Natalie or one of you guys or something. And, like, no, they. They. They're. They're broken up. And I'm like, huh. And so, yeah, anyways.
G
Yeah. I don't even know what that zoom would be like. Maybe that's like our zoom from when we were doing couples therapy or something.
Nick
But, yeah, maybe. I don't know. Do you think he's accepted the fact that you guys are done?
G
No, I don't think so. I think. I think that he still thinks that there's hope. And. I don't know. I'm not holding my breath, honestly, because I feel like if. If there. If there wanted to be change, it would have happened. I. I feel like, for me, I'm, like, I'm happy that he's seeing that he has issues now, that the public has their opinion, but, like, it just doesn't feel genuine. So it's like, to him. For him to, like, plea to me and tell me. Me, like, you know, I can do this. I can be this for you. It just seems, like very. Just like. It doesn't seem genuine for me, and I didn't need time.
Nick
Yeah, it's tough for someone like him in that situation, because I believe that he believes it. You know what I'm saying? I believe that he believes that he's willing and capable of making whatever changes he needs to make. And I believe that he is embarrassed by what he's seen. But, like. Like you said, like, he would only be doing it for you, and he can't do it for you. He has to do it for himself. Right. And that and the type of change that he really needs to. To invoke does take time. He really needs to sit in it. He really needs to be comfortable with, like, not wanting to, you know, act the way he does and things like that. And the problem, I. You know, with someone like Scotty in this situation, I almost feel bad for him, because in his mind, his willingness to acknowledge his fault, it's insincere in the fact that if he can identify a problem, then he can fix the problem. And his willingness to identify the problem is, to me, comes across as centered around the fact that he wants to get his way. And what he wants is to be with you. And so he's willing to see the problem because he knows he can fix the problem. If he really thought there was no way of getting back together with you, I would really be curious of how willing he was still willing to change, because once he lost hope of you guys getting back together, you know, is he really still motivated to make those changes? You know? And I think when we want to change for someone else, we convince ourselves that it's internal, but at the end of the day, we just. We want to get what we want. And what he wants is you.
G
Yeah, I. Yeah. I mean, all I can do is, like, hope that, like, he wants to work on himself, just to work on himself, because of how maybe, like, watching yourself back, being, like, man, I just. I could have dealt with that way differently. Like, even for me, like, watching back how I was speaking to Mariah at Girls Night, I feel like. Like, I was really just trying to, like, tell her, like, girl, you know, there's been instances already in the past where you're, like, you know, in a way, badgering your partner, and he feels exhausted. And then she was doing it in the experience, and so I was trying to, like, tell, like, nudge her and tell her that without busting her out, like I did in the reunion. And so I was trying to do that. And so it's like, my delivery could have been better. And so watching myself back, I was like, ooh, like, I apologize to Mariah, and I talked to her about it. And so I feel like for him, it's the accountability thing, and you can't teach somebody that they just need to want to do that. And so I really just hope that he does his healing, you know, and works on the things that he needs to work on. But, like, I mean, I'm only gonna put good energy out there that he does that, but I'm not gonna, like, hold my breath again for anything. To change because it just. We been together for as long as we've been together, and it. It didn't change. So I just. I don't know.
E
Going back a little bit, what were your thoughts about Scotty and Zana's trial marriage? Watching it back? Like, did you see things that reflected your relationship or did it make things clearer? Or, like, their initial. How we spoke about their initial connection.
G
Okay. So I feel like I saw that there's an initial connection, obviously, and so that's why I got jealous. We actually had some rules going into this experience, so that was one of them. Not to be physical in front of each other and so. And not get drunk. Like, only no max, more than three drinks. And so that was. Everything went out the window. I feel like once the experience happened, so I was freaking out, and so I knew that there was an initial attraction. I saw that she liked the fact that he wanted to get married. And so. And I mean, Zana is a beautiful, like, being, like, inside and out, and I. I love her. We're actually friends now, so. And that's actually someone I talk to probably the most out of everybody. And so it's very interesting, like, you know, how that dynamic happened. But watching it back and watching how he handled, like, situations, I know he was triggered. And I think when he's triggered about something, you know, attacking his character is what he will say. He doesn't. He's not nice with his words. And so he will. If he feels like somebody's cutting at him, he's trying to cut at you with his words. And so watch. I was just disappointed, to be honest. Like, I was like, oh, like, you don't even know this girl.
Nick
Yeah. It's like he wants to be good guy so bad that he's not even willing to consider that he is capable of not.
F
Not.
Justin
Yeah, you know, we all have those.
Nick
Of course we all do. Yeah. Yeah.
G
I like, like, when he said something at guys night, which it wasn't a lie. Like, he was like, oh, our fights can be visceral. I was aware that I'm on tv. Okay. Like, I know I have my, like, breaking points where sometimes I will. It's either I shut down, which what you guys saw is I shut it. I shut. Shut down. The other part of me is I will snap back and I'll be like, don't talk to me like that. And I'll. You know, and. But I was like, do I want to be that person on camera? Like, do I want to do that? And I was hoping that he would want to work through that, like, on camera, maybe talk differently, but it didn't change.
Nick
I don't think he knows how. Yeah, I don't think he has that self awareness.
G
Yeah. And so. Yeah, so I was just disappointed, honestly. But was I surprised? No, I wasn't surprised. I. I was, like, bringing up her age multiple times.
Nick
Like, that was crazy.
G
You guys aren't even. Like, she's not old. Like, you're not old. Like, what. What is. What is this?
Nick
I forgot about that. That was crazy.
E
Two years difference.
Nick
Did he ever take you cold? Plunging?
E
Cryotherapy therapy? Hot air balloons? Were these dates that you went on?
G
Yeah, I went on. I actually, I'm. I'm super into a lot of, like, outlandish things. And I think that's why maybe when he was, you know, saying his examples of, like, things he wanted to do with her and she shut it down automatically. I'm not someone who shuts ideas down automatically. I'll listen to somebody's ideas, and potentially, even if I'm scared, I'm like, okay, let's try it together. This is going to be new and fun. And so I think for him, he was like, dang. She didn't even, like, like, want to talk about it. And so maybe he was triggered in that moment because, you know, she didn't want to even, like, talk about it. But it was very childish. Like how it looks like, yes, there was cuts, and they made it very dramatic. But I still think, like, yes, he was probably upset. Upset I wasn't there. But I did watch, you know, the interview with Zana, and we ended up. Actually, I've done cryotherapy with him, and I've also done, you know, I did the hot air balloon, actually, the show. Like, the producers set that up, and it was a beautiful moment. It was great. They didn't air that, but. And, yeah, I was a little scared. I'm kind of afraid of heights. But it was actually very beautiful and fun. But, yeah, I just. I think he doesn't realize that, you know, when you're in a partnership, it can't always be your way. And I think that's something he's always, like, kind of thought, like, is like, oh, she doesn't let me leave. Lead is like, something he would say to me or express to other people. Like when he was talking to Zana, and it's like, no, I want someone to lead, but I don't want someone to only think about themselves.
Nick
Leading isn't getting what you want when you Want it all the time. Like, I don't feel like that's not the same. Scotty.
G
Yeah.
Nick
Aria, thank you for your time. Thank you for your transparency, and it's been a joy to watch you and best of luck in the future. Hopefully this was an overall, you know, rewarding experience, and I hope you learn to appreciate it more and more as time goes on.
G
Yeah, I have no. Yeah, no regrets at all. Thank you guys for having me. But, yeah, no, no regrets for doing the ultimatum. I do think that it was really beneficial for me. I think I was able to see a lot that I needed and didn't even know I needed and able to really just choose myself at the end of everything.
Nick
Well, thank you for your time. It's been a joy to watch you and happy holidays.
G
Happy holidays, guys.
Nick
All right, take care.
Justin
Bye.
Nick
Bye.
Justin
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Justin
You probably spent more delivering coffee to your house this morning.
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Justin
Definitely same room.
F
I don't believe her. The second she was like, we're not Together or. Yeah, we're not together. I was like, why? I love her.
Justin
Love Aria. I obviously was not there for that.
Nick
I was not there. Arya was gracious enough to wake up very early before work. Some of us came in.
Justin
So did y'all call her out and say, like, we asked her?
Nick
Yeah. No.
Justin
Did you say, we think you're lying?
Nick
No.
F
I respect Arya, so I kept it to myself. But.
E
Well, first we asked if she was single, and she said yes, that she's not ready to date.
Nick
She's so single, not dating.
E
She's learning about herself.
F
In her defense, it could be like, a duplicate apartment in two different cities that look modern in the same.
D
Or maybe, you know, if Scotty is having a hard time, like, she's still his friend. She's there to support him, and she's just hanging out because they never lived together.
E
Well, she said he's in Los Angeles and she's in San Francisco.
Nick
She called in at 8 in the morning.
D
Oh, so she just lied.
Nick
She called.
Justin
She.
Nick
She called.
F
She did say they moved in for a little bit, so they have lived together.
D
Okay.
E
He is also a landlord.
Justin
So the finale in the reunion, I.
F
Think if you have a QR code in your nails, you wait.
D
Yeah.
Justin
She is a bad.
F
I don't care what's on the nails.
Justin
I love her until the. In her grave. She is a bad. For that move. It was so iconic and her just being like, anyone have their phones? Great. I just do have a QR code under my nail. Perfect. There. The receipts.
Nick
That was awesome.
Justin
It's in a folder named Receipts. I was like, ah.
E
I'm like, who is your nail girl?
Justin
No, her nail girl is so talented. That is insane. And I feel like we have been right about Scotty and Junior all along. They both still suck to this day. The whole hall pass thing and them playing all that footage back made me want to vomit so many times over and over and over again. The constant disrespect, respect that this man just, like, didn't give a fuck about Zayn. And this was what. The first day they got there, where they're just, like, meeting the other people.
E
It's the who who said hall pass? And it's.
Justin
You said hall said hall pass.
E
The.
Justin
And then for him to be like, well, that's not what I meant. No, y'all are taking that out of context. That's not how I said.
D
If I had said something that, like, I regretted, I would not bully somebody and accuse them of saying it. I would be like, let's Forget this ever happened.
Justin
That's crazy. Anyway, so what are y'all doing for the holiday?
D
I don't know. Let's never talk about it again.
Nick
Junior's problem is that he's so comfortable being himself that he forgot it ever happened was kind of the problem.
Justin
Yeah, he probably thought that, like, they. Because there was. I don't think there was video footage of him saying it. Right. It was just like, audio.
E
There was the first night. Yeah, I'm here for how pass.
Justin
Crazy. He probably. Yeah, he probably forgot that, you know, they were recording him with the camera.
Nick
And then he asked for $10,000 to do press. Yeah, yeah.
Justin
That this man thinks that he has is just bonkers to me. Like, first of all, we all fucking hate you on this show. No one likes you, and now you think someone's going to pay you ten grand to come talk about how shitty of a person you are on this show.
F
He does have the most amount of followers, which is interesting, definitely.
Justin
But you know what? Have the followers. There's no way, like, who's buying stuff from this man if he starts influencing.
E
What makes me happy is. Is that he is getting or he's asking for $10,000, he's not going to get it, which means I don't have to hear his side of the story. So no one's gonna be a fucking lie. No one needs to pay for that.
Justin
His side of the story is not going to be true.
E
No.
Justin
And then Scotty, the just disrespect of this man to, like, won't even let Zana speak. And like, oh, I just. I just cannot with these men.
Nick
They're.
Justin
It's. It's ridiculous.
Nick
Then there's Nick and Sandy, who, spoiler alert. Are on next week's episode of Going Deep. There are only, what, two episodes next week? We haven't asked Nick on Monday on the 23rd of December. Take some time with your families. Enjoy the holidays. And we are back on Thursday the 26th, the day after Christmas. And if you want to get some tea from Nick and Sandy, they. They joined us together. Honestly, we're shocked they showed up together. I. We didn't really, because they' not together.
Justin
They're broken up.
Nick
They're not. They are not together.
Justin
They're not pulling Arya and Scotty, they.
Nick
Didn'T come from the same background. It was a fascinating interview. Not without giving too much away. It was a little uncomfy at times.
Justin
Yeah.
Nick
We obviously, you know, watching this, I think we both were very critical of Sandy.
Justin
I apologize to her for Some of my remarks.
Nick
Yeah. When talking to them. We didn't really know what to expect. The more we talked them, the more it. It felt like, you know, because Sandy kept kind of referencing. There's more of the story. There's more of the story, which we kind of.
Justin
Well, and just her words during the show of, like, her big accusations of you tormenting me and you attacking me and you neglecting me. You know, I just was like, where is this coming from?
Nick
They address a lot of that. I think also when you do listen or watch this, I think it's important to kind of listen to the things that aren't said in a way. I don't know if you get what I'm saying, but, like, there's subtext. Yeah. I think maybe Nick might be more problematic than he seems.
Justin
Like there's some stuff that happened that maybe they agreed they would not air out in public.
Nick
Yeah.
D
Which is.
Justin
Which I respect.
D
They're right.
G
Listen.
Justin
Yeah. If you don't, you know.
Nick
Yeah. Anyways, it's a fascinating conversation between the two of them. You should definitely tune into that next week.
F
What did you think of Dave and Vanessa showing up?
Justin
Bitch, get.
Nick
I'm fucking over it.
G
No.
F
Yeah.
Justin
No. And I said this to Nick and Vanessa, and I'll say it here because you'll hear this first. They should have stayed on their couch. Like, the way that Vanessa and Dave. You left the show.
G
Okay.
Justin
Chanel and Micah, like, I. They are on TikTok lives. Like, they're thriving. They're doing great. Why Vanessa and Dave thought they needed this 15 minutes of fame so bad. Like, you gave up on the show. You left. We don't need you back.
D
They were both annoying.
Justin
We don't need you back. Then they come back to only. Only, like, air out.
Nick
Sure.
Justin
Like, yeah. Lecture and talk about, like, her time with her day with Nick. It's like. And I have zero respect, especially coming from a fucking woman, to tell anyone when it is their time to deal with their trauma, to go to therapy to get help. Like, that's not her place. She doesn't know this man. She spent 24 hours with him. And you feel like now you're gonna come on a national TV TV show and tell him in front of everyone. It's your time to get. It's your time to get help. Like, you think that's gonna help him. It's only gonna make it worse. Now you're telling the fucking world that he has all these issues and all this trauma and, like, that he needs help. Sorry. But I have zero respect for that. You should have stayed at home on your couch. We didn't need you.
Nick
You're hot.
Justin
I just can't take it. It's just like. And then Dave literally said nothing. Like, we didn't need you. We didn't need you.
F
Yeah, I will say Vanessa, like, her speaking out. Kind of like there might be a woman's intuition there. I don't know. Like, she. She's saying, he's a walking red flag.
Nick
It has nothing really to do with whether she's right or wrong. It's just not her place. And she's not doing it for the greater good and she's not doing it for Nick. She's doing it to get her moment.
Justin
And I'm not downplaying her experience with him. I have no idea what he did to her. She said he was rude. Obviously, I have no respect for that. Like, we're, you know. I'm not downplaying anything she went through. What I am downplaying is she left the show. She chose. Chose Dave. She chose A Life with Dave. Pop the off and live your life with Dave. You don't get to come back on this show and, like, lecture and air out what happened with this man. Like, you don't have the right. You left.
Nick
If we are talking about serious things, it comes across as so performative.
Justin
And for her to be like, you lied. You weren't homeschooled. He's like, I was. She's like, for a semester, you're a liar.
Nick
I'm sorry, does that not count? A semester is kind of a long, long time.
Justin
Like, and he was like, it was for a year. It's like, who gives a. He was homeschooled. Like, why come on here and be like, you're a liar?
F
I do. I do agree with you with the context that they're on their PR tour right now, like, speaking to articles.
Justin
Oh, she hasn't stopped chirping on tick tock.
Nick
I'm like, it's like, I went to Paris. No, you didn't. I went for a day. Not long enough.
Justin
It's like, oh, yeah, weird.
Nick
You're making TV show. If you're a producer, you don't care if people are doing it just to be famous. If they're going to come on and be messy, you're going to say yes. You're going to see what you got. You'll air it. It's something to talk about.
F
You know, they wanted that against Nick.
Justin
They're like, oh, you want to come out here and, like, spill some. Sure, yeah. Come talk.
F
You want to call them dangerous? Okay, sure.
D
Like, bring them on.
F
Like, they're only there for like, five minutes.
Justin
They literally came out to say that and then to leave. That's all. That's all that they did. We got no update on, like, not that I really give a.
F
But like, but we did that. They're. They still want to get married but haven't, thank God.
Nick
So nothing's happened.
Justin
Thank God. I know that about Vanessa and Dave, that they are still, like, at some point in their lives going to get married.
D
I feel everything I learn about Vanessa and Dave, I learn against my will.
Justin
Honestly, it triggers me so bad because, like, telling someone that their trauma is, like, now they need to deal with it, like, who are you?
F
They are getting a lot of hate about that on the end, as they should.
Justin
She had zero right to do that.
E
How did you feel about Aria calling out Caleb with the watching of the stories?
Justin
That was weird. It was like she's. She cannot accept the fact. Fact. I hope y'all asked.
Nick
We did. And. And you know, she's very well spoken. She leaned in.
G
She did the same thing to us.
Justin
That she did at the reunion.
Nick
Yeah.
E
That he was not like, who he claimed to be kind of thing.
Justin
Which, like, maybe he wasn't. We're only seeing clips. We're only seeing part.
Nick
She called Caleb calculated. I. I don't know. Mariah was the one who clearly wanted to do this show. Right. Like, Caleb. It felt like Caleb very much gave. I got dragged to do this. She gives very type A personality, you know, very structured.
Justin
I don't agree with that. Because if he got dragged to do this, the second that Dave left his girl, he would have been like, babe, let's get the out of here. Because I didn't even.
Nick
I mean, once he was there for the experience, I mean, he didn't.
E
Once he was paired up with another woman, he was like, you know what?
Justin
Let's see where.
Nick
I mean, whatever. Who knows what? But it's just like, I don't. I still. I guess I. I guess I don't agree with Arya. It's just like her big thing was, well, he was this different off camera. And I was like, I mean. Yeah, I mean, you know, a lot of people don't know how to do reality tv and they get self conscious about being on camera and maybe they're just not comfortable with, I don't know, sharing. Like, I don't find that to be inauthentic. I find it to be like, I don't know. Maybe this guy isn't good at tv.
D
Yeah.
Nick
And it just seems weird to demand that he.
F
You know, I want to see the.
Justin
Screenshot, but it's like, he is engaged with Mariah. They seem happy. They traveled the west coast or whatever the hell they. They did. And for your, like, her only thing was, like, you're viewing my stories and liking my stories.
E
But I'm saying there's. There's context missing where I would love to hear from his perspective. And I wish I would have thought to ask her this, but it's like, why does she think he blocked her? Because I'm like, there clearly had to have been some. Some sort of something that happened to where he would hit the block button versus.
Justin
Or maybe him and Mariah just came to, like, a. Let's just, like, block people from our.
E
Remember, she said. She goes, I didn't know about any of this.
Justin
She knew about the blocking. She said something about, like, I. The blocking I was aware of. It was like the. The other liking and stuff. She didn't know, which I also didn't appreciate her, like, coming after Caleb in that moment of, like, we're on tv.
Nick
Like, you're just looking at someone's stories is the most meaningless thing ever.
E
Act ever.
Justin
But also women. And like, there was a time in my life before you Knick where I was like, only, you know, it's like, oh, my God.
Nick
No, I get it.
Justin
Like, they're obsessed with me. They viewed my story.
D
The thing about liking a story is it's either means absolutely nothing and you're just liking a story, or it is the most important thing in the world.
Justin
It doesn't even go to your DMs. It's literally just like, you just scroll down on who viewed your story, and it's like, heart, heart, heart, heart. That's all it is.
Nick
But it's also, yeah, I thought they.
D
Left, but depending on the delusion in your brain in the moment.
Nick
So why is it a crime time for Caleb to interact with someone? He's been like, she's my friend.
E
That's.
D
It's not.
E
That's why I wish I would have asked her. Because to Mary's point where I'm like, I had a roommate, where it was like, anytime a certain guy that she went on a date with, he's not texting you, he's not calling you, he's not asking to hang out, but he watched your story, which means he must be obsessed with you.
G
But she was looking for it.
E
That's what I'm saying.
Justin
Is it what you wanted to believe? He said he also did it to Zaina.
E
That's what he said.
Justin
So that's why Zaina wasn't like, no, you didn't. I was just like, I know, like in stories, but I didn't love that Mariah went after her fiance on live television in front of everyone. I wish she would have been like, listen, I wasn't aware of that. That's definitely a conversation we need to have in private. But, like, thanks for bringing it to my attention.
Nick
Yeah. These are all definitely messy people.
D
Yeah. But none of them would last a day in Salt Lake City or Beverly Hills or with any of these girls.
Nick
I will say, after talking to Sandy, she could. She is far less messy.
Justin
Yeah, yeah.
Nick
Than I thought was.
D
She clocked me.
Nick
She could have been messier. And she was like, she's great. She really, again, listened to it next week, but she really wanted to speak her truth, but was unwilling to be messier than she easily could have. It was the vibe I got.
D
She's willing to let people have assumptions about her and be wrong and be wrong, then, you know, sacrifice her personal relationships.
Nick
Yeah. And that kind of does that a.
D
Lot, which is very cool.
Nick
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And like, the opposite of potentially Arya coming on talking some mad from her boy. Her not boyfriend.
D
Her maybe not kind of boyfriend.
Nick
I mean, we love you, Arya, but, like, that was kind of sh.
E
And maybe he thinks there's a chance they're going to still get back together.
Nick
Well, yeah, I mean, it's not that crazy because, yeah, if it's Scotty, he's very much giving. I haven't given up on us type of thing.
F
She said that put Arya Sandy in a room with Camille grammar, and that's a good show.
D
Oh, my.
F
My God, she is back.
Justin
Camille Grammer.
D
Camille Grammer. She saw the Frasier reboot happening and she said, not on my watch. She said, paramount plus, fuck that, get me on Bravo.
F
Well, and for context. So they've been trying to bring Camille Grammer back for a while. Like, audience members love her. She's part of, like, not the og.
Nick
But, like, when you say they, you mean fans.
F
The fans. But also, like, we know that ultimate girls trip is also a way to test, like, screen time, test old personalities and see if they still land. Camille was part of the Morocco season that got canceled because of Brandy. So, like, they tried testing her. She showed up to the wee dinner too, right?
Nick
Yes.
F
Last season. So she's been in, like, slowly. They're Trying to reintegrate her. And now she's back, and it's dorit versus Camille.
Nick
Dorit, She's. This is our season, man.
E
Dorit is not around. She's taking zero shit from anyone.
Nick
She's saying the C word.
D
She said, see you next, and I loved it.
Justin
No, she said, I didn't call you an effing C word. I called you a stupid C word.
D
And I was joking.
E
Now I think you're a C word.
F
This word is like, the word of Beverly hills. Ever since this word, ever since Erica Jane.
D
I'm a fan of it.
Nick
It's a good word.
Justin
It is.
F
Well, Erica Jane wore.
Justin
You can't say that.
G
It's a good word.
F
Erica Jane wore a necklace.
Nick
I'll shut the up.
F
I was just saying, you're all like.
Nick
It'S the best word ever. I'm like, yeah, it is.
E
You're like, no, no, no, not for you.
Justin
No, you're you.
F
All I have to say is every.
Nick
I would never say it to a lady. Holy Justin.
F
I'm saying nothing.
Justin
The way that Justin has been trying to get this out for five times.
Nick
I was like, sorry, Justin, go ahead.
F
It's not important.
Justin
Yes, it is, Justin.
Nick
You are important.
F
I was just trying to say, erica Jane wore a necklace that said the C word like, six seasons ago. And we learned our lesson never to say it again until durie. And until now.
Justin
Until now. I mean, listen, I. I unfortunately am still team dorit through this because. Sutton, why do you say unfortunately? Well, because obviously, you know, that wasn't a nice thing to say to Camille, you know? You know, I don't. I don't back mean girl behavior. If Angie just came out of nowhere with high body count hair, I would have been like, mean girl Angie. But Britney started that whole thing. You know what I'm saying?
Nick
So, yeah, I guess. But I've been kind of seeing. I just feel like Dorit's been kind of everyone's punching bag for. For a moment. She's finally like, fuck it. I'm not gonna let people punch me. Camille shows up out of nowhere, starts fucking talking shit, and Dorit's defending herself. I don't feel like that's.
E
Dorit's like, why are you here?
D
I was wondering that same question.
F
I was like, camille, she was jabbing back.
E
And Camille's just trying. Like, everyone's saying that they need to support dorit, and then she's like, well, some people here weren't supportive of me during my tough time, coach. And you came to My house with her. And then Erica's like, my name is Erica Jane.
Justin
And I was like, erica.
G
My name is Erica Jane.
Justin
I'm forgetting Erica Jane Jane's name.
D
Erica. Being like, we've all been through this.
E
I'm like, camille, this is not how you fight to get back on the cast. And you don't know your cast members names.
Nick
I will.
E
She was on seasons with Erica.
Nick
I feel like forgetting your cast members name is actually would get you back on the show.
D
It's giving.
E
Yeah. A little bit of Mary energy.
Justin
The whole, like, I've been through stuff. Well, I've also been through stuff. And like. Well, I three have been through stuff.
Nick
It's like, we've all done it.
Justin
Come on. Everyone in this room.
D
We're all like, victoria dressed us. We all can sing.
E
There's not one woman on that cast that has not been divorced.
D
Literally.
E
Like, that's what I'm saying. Like your isolated divorce 10 years ago from Kelsey grammer. No difference from what Kyle's going through. Dorit is going through.
F
Camille was making the point that it happened within the same season, that Camille needed support, but dorit was.
Justin
And she wasn't getting support from the.
Nick
But to Nalia's point, when you have a bunch of, like, privileged women fighting over who's has the saddest life, but.
Justin
They also all have been through very traumatic things.
Nick
They have.
D
And I imagine being married to Kelsey grammer was not.
Nick
And if nothing else, housewives teaches us a valuable lesson that no matter how lucky and how privileged you are, that trauma and pain and suffering and sadness and anxiety, like, touches us all.
E
Can I just share a little? Season one, Camille lore.
Nick
Yes.
E
Camille was actually put on the show because Kelsey was having an affair and he was out working in New York and wanted to keep Camille busy, so he had her sign up or be a housewife. And then obviously the affair and everything comes to light. Season one.
D
What a piece of shit. I hate Kelsey Graham.
Nick
Kind of Frasier. Frasier.
F
That means nothing to me.
Justin
I will say I'm young. Okay, so, okay.
D
Sitcom lore. Sitcom lore. Sitcom lore. Frasier crane was a character on the hit show cheers. And then he gets a spinoff called frasier which is very, very popular in the 90s.
Nick
Him and his brother Niles, therapist, who is kind of an elitist, out of touch.
Justin
Yes.
Nick
Person. But also, like, drink at a bar.
D
Yeah. But then, like, his dad comes to live with him and there's this dog, and then it's like fish out of water. And there are different kinds of people. Anyway, there's now a Frasier reboot on Paramount.
E
Plus there's not one movie I could even think to reference that. You would know. Yeah, but he's done a lot.
Justin
Okay, well, pop off.
F
Frasier is Frasier. Team Sutton.
Nick
Because I. I mean, that's crazy behavior to keep her preoccupied.
D
Almost have to applaud El.
Nick
It's.
D
It's awful. Don't do it. Never do it.
Nick
Don't do it. Don't. Don't do it.
D
Like, awesome.
Justin
That's crazy. Y'all are wild. Why are you Team Sutton?
F
I am Team Sutton and Garcelle to the grave.
Nick
Why?
F
One, because I like what they're like. Friend. I like their friendship. I like what Sutton stands for.
Nick
I. What does Sutton stand for?
F
She stands for being a good mother.
Nick
Being based on one.
F
I will say the one time that I interacted with Sierra clocks me for this. I interacted with sun like the second I graduated. And like, I didn't know what I was doing in life, but I worked on her after show. I sat with her and had like a full on conversation. And she. The thing she said to me was giving mother. And since then I'm like, well, yeah.
Justin
You had a real life experience with her. That is different. That's definitely different. You're allowed to be team sent into the grave kind of real life.
F
And Garcelle, we're just talking about what.
Nick
We see on tv.
E
The crazy thing to me that Garcelle said today or today on this episode was that she thinks that Dorit was set up for her robbery and that she was like, I think Dorit happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. And I think we just didn't.
G
We just.
Justin
Yeah. Sutton wasn't like, oh, well, like who?
Nick
There are people in that community who think there's more to the story when it comes to the Dorit and PK home robbery.
Justin
I wonder if. If Garcelle is going to elaborate because that was like the most biggest bomb with no follow up.
Nick
Yeah.
E
For them to just cut to commercial. I was like, oh, oh. And now we're moving on.
Justin
No, Sutton, like, Sutton had no. No questions.
F
I kind of wish Garcelle didn't bring it up because, like, she did get some flack from reunion because she's taking someone's trauma and being like, well, that was fake. And like, Garcelle did apologize for it and then she brought it up again.
Nick
It was fake.
D
She thinks. She thinks Dorit was set up, so.
F
She changed it, I guess.
Nick
I don't Understand that taking someone's drama. It's housewives. It's all trauma.
E
Yeah.
Nick
Like, how do you determine what trauma is usable and what trauma is off limits?
F
One thing someone's saying, like a gun to your head was made up.
Justin
Like that is.
F
And your kids were next door and.
Justin
You weren't like, yeah.
F
And I love Garcelle, but I was like, no, no.
Justin
I remember being like, definitely not team Garcelle in that. That was fucked up for sure.
Nick
Garcelle does kind of operate like she's untouchable.
F
She should. Why I think she is.
Justin
Justin loves her. Okay. I also. I mean, her Malibu house, is that from the before from rags to riches. That was an insane transformation.
Nick
A self made person.
E
All I know is that Jennifer Tilly has like five fucking homes. And I want to be her. The fact that she has two homes in Bel Air right next to each other.
D
She's a playhouse.
E
But one is a playhouse to have parties.
D
Yes.
Nick
I don't think you guys understand how rich she is.
D
She is exactly who should be. She is the exact kind of person that should have this amount of money.
Nick
I love how she's like, I'm a professional poker player. Because you can't spend enough money.
Justin
Yeah.
F
Tiffany having a Tiffany custom golf.
Justin
She said she's an alcoholic.
E
Her having. Having a house in Malibu. But she doesn't go there because a ghost lives there. And they don't like her when. When they're there, she.
Nick
And then they cut to Erica's little home.
D
If we get Jennifer Tilly on, do you think she'll bring Tiffany?
E
I'm sure if you ask her to.
Justin
Yeah.
E
I'm sure if you ask, she'd be like, oh, my God, Tiffany would love to come out of the house for a little bit.
D
Jennifer, if you come on, can you please bring Tiffany?
F
Wait. Going to Erica. Have you noticed that her therapist is like almost in every pizza party scene with Erica?
E
Yep. And her interior designer.
F
Yeah, it's a therapist and designer.
Nick
She's still holding on to this victim mindset. It is.
F
Well, it's different though. She's taking it.
Nick
She still needs her quote unquote therapist to remind.
F
Remind her she's taking accountability though. So she's acknowledging the past season.
Nick
She was her therapist had to remind her of her accountability. That's not exactly taking it.
F
I mean, the therapist is feeding lines.
Nick
She's like, you know, it was kind of your phone.
D
It was your fault that you didn't get the beats party.
Nick
Yeah. She's like, you know, you kind of you kind of like, you know, the earrings and the whole, like, you know, stealing from poor people.
Justin
That was her husband who was stealing from poor people.
Nick
Erica did not take appropriate accountability.
F
And she acknowledges that.
Nick
Yeah.
Justin
And she acknowledges that her therapist, again.
Nick
Had to remind her of that when she brought up the pizza party. I do think she therapist was like, yeah, yeah.
F
But she conveniently uses her therapist to feed lines, for sure.
Justin
Yeah. My therapist also does remind me of things.
E
I also feel like Erica kind of has a hard time articulating feelings or, like, when she's hurt. So it's like, I think that crutch kind of helps her, because even when they were saying about her history of shoulds with this group of women and how her own list of shoulds that the woman should have done for her in the sense of, you have expectations of your friends instead of saying, like, hey, this isn't how this happened for me, or, like, you guys didn't show up for me. Instead, she gets angry or reactive, and so then it never gets the reaction from her friends that she wants because they're like, why are you so mad? Like, you're the one in the wrong. Instead of it being like, I'm mad because this is how I can express my hurt. Erica just has not been able to say that. She also did say the Lexapro and alcohol combination finally.
F
Yeah.
E
You know, was not conducive to her expressing her feelings.
Nick
You don't think Sutton's a bit reactive?
F
I never said she wasn't reactive.
Nick
I said, don't care.
F
Defend her to the grave.
E
I do think the Sutton and Dorit element of it, though, is kind of. Kind of wild. Like, it does feel like no matter what, one of them says something and it triggers the other one instead of them, like, asking for clarity.
Justin
Also, I am so over this, like, whole. Teddy didn't. She literally said, teddi, I wouldn't consider her a close friend, but, like, we're friends, and all of these women are like, that's not what she said.
E
Yeah, but you don't post her famous.
Justin
Dad, and we keep doing a flashback, and that's literally what she said, said. And it's so frustrating. I'm like, I wish they would just tell these women in the moment, like, okay, drop it. Because she did say that. So, like, it's fine.
F
I think Teddy is securing her season, and I think the editors are behind it.
Justin
I'm ready for her to come back.
Nick
Do you think she just comes on, or do you think she replaces somebody?
F
Friend of one episode? Okay.
Justin
Bravo expert.
F
I don't want her back on, but I think she's good TV and she's every storyline now.
E
So she's a friend of. Even when she's not asked to be on, she's like, they probably don't even.
Nick
Pay her, you know.
D
No, they just gotta let it rock, let it roll. Let the Bible belt come and save their soul.
Nick
Okay. All right, well, that does it for us today. I hope you all have a great weekend. We are back next week on Monday for an incredible episode of Ass Nick and again on Thursday. Going Deeper is shifting for a day because we're not going to drop it on Christmas day. Nick and Sandy from the ultimatum square off and do a kind of a final like, whose fault is it Conversation with Nelly and I and it is a wild, wild episode again. Meredith Marks, Going Deeper. Check it out.
F
Happy holidays.
Nick
Awesome.
D
Love you baby.
Nick
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Podcast Summary: The Viall Files – Episode E858
Title: The Ultimatum w/ Aria, James Kennedy’s Pathetic Response, Aaron Rodgers Shades The Bachelor & RHOBH
Host: Nick Viall
Release Date: December 19, 2024
Welcome to Episode E858 of The Viall Files, hosted by Nick Viall and featuring the Household. In this episode, the hosts delve into a variety of topics spanning reality TV dramas, personal anecdotes, and celebrity news. The episode is structured with engaging discussions, insightful critiques, and heartfelt conversations, making it a must-listen for fans of dating, relationships, and pop culture.
The episode kicks off with Justin sharing a relatable and humorous story about his attempt to order pizza amidst the challenges of single parenthood. Struggling with unreliable delivery services, Justin recounts his frustration:
Justin: "I was pissed because I ended up paying $70 for a cold pizza and soggy salad when the delivery went to an hour away instead of the nearby restaurant."
This segment highlights the everyday struggles of balancing work, parenting, and personal time, resonating with many listeners who juggle similar responsibilities.
A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to dissecting James Kennedy’s recent Instagram statement addressing accusations of physical abuse. The hosts express strong disapproval of Kennedy’s handling of the situation:
Nick: "This is an embarrassing statement by James... blaming his addiction instead of taking full responsibility."
Natalie Joy: "It's sickening how reality TV minimizes serious issues like domestic abuse. James is getting away with it again."
The conversation emphasizes the importance of holding individuals accountable for abusive behavior, criticizing the superficial apologies that fail to address the root problems. The hosts also discuss the lack of support from other cast members and Lisa Vanderpump’s perceived complicity in covering up Kennedy’s actions.
Nick and the Household shift focus to the newly released Aaron Rodgers documentary on Netflix, which sheds light on the strained relationship between Rodgers and his brother Jordan. Key points include:
Nick: "Jordan Love is portrayed as an NFL plant designed to sell Toyotas to Wisconsinites."
Host Discussion: The hosts debate the authenticity of Aaron’s grievances and the lingering family feud that dates back to Jordan’s Bachelorette appearance in 2016.
The segment critiques how personal family issues are dramatized in media, questioning the motivations behind airing such personal disputes publicly.
In the regular Vibes vs. Stats segment, the hosts predict the outcome of an upcoming NFL game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Miami Dolphins. Key discussions include:
Nick: "The 49ers are disappointing despite high expectations, while the Dolphins have struggled for decades."
Justin: "We’re going Niners. Given their disappointing season and the Dolphins' long-term performance issues, it's a safe bet."
The segment provides entertaining insights into NFL dynamics, blending sports knowledge with light-hearted banter.
As the holiday season approaches, the hosts share their personal plans and favorite traditions:
Natalie Joy: "I’m going to Canada for Christmas. Excited for the trip!"
Nick: "We’re celebrating Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with River and baking cookies for Santa."
This section adds a personal touch to the episode, allowing listeners to connect with the hosts on a more intimate level.
The highlight of the episode is an in-depth interview with Aria, discussing her experience on The Ultimatum and her relationship with Scotty. Key topics include:
Relationship Dynamics: Aria opens up about the challenges she faced, including emotional disconnects and communication issues with Scotty.
Aria: "I was so confused because Scotty wanted to be a good partner, but his actions made me so unhappy."
Couples Therapy: Aria shares how struggling to engage in couples therapy led her to prioritize her own mental health.
Aria: "I had to choose myself and focus on my healing because Scotty wasn’t willing to fully engage in the process."
Reality TV Impact: The interview explores how being on camera influenced their relationship, often exacerbating underlying issues.
Aria: "Watching ourselves on TV made me realize the disconnect and the unhealthy patterns we were stuck in."
Nick provides empathetic insights, encouraging Scotty to engage in self-reflection and personal growth.
The hosts continue to unpack various reality TV dramas, including:
Frankie Matt’s Involvement with Sunrise and Territory: Discussing the latest developments and controversies.
Camille Grammer’s Remarks: Critiquing her public appearances and comments about other cast members.
Nick: "Camille’s need to address her trauma on TV feels performative and out of place."
This segment underscores the often tumultuous and publicly scrutinized lives of reality TV stars, blending critique with insider perspectives.
As the episode wraps up, the hosts exchange holiday greetings and tease upcoming episodes:
Nick: "Thank you for tuning in to Episode E858 of The Viall Files. We hope you have a wonderful holiday season. Join us next week for more insightful and entertaining discussions."
Notable Quotes:
Justin: "I ended up paying $70 for a cold pizza and soggy salad... it was just so expensive."
Nick: "James Kennedy’s statement is an embarrassing attempt to dodge full responsibility for his actions."
Aria: "I was so confused because Scotty wanted to be a good partner, but his actions made me so unhappy."
Natalie Joy: "It's sickening how reality TV minimizes serious issues like domestic abuse."
Nick: "The reality TV narrative often masks the real issues behind dramatized scenes."
Conclusion:
Episode E858 of The Viall Files offers a deep dive into the complexities of relationships both on and off reality TV, critiques of celebrity behavior, and engaging personal stories. With a blend of humor, empathy, and critical analysis, Nick Viall and the Household provide listeners with a comprehensive and entertaining overview of the latest in dating, relationships, and reality television.