Vanderpump Rules s11 ep2 Recap: VPR Past & Present

Emily Rose ponders the past and present as she recaps this week's episode of Vanderpump Rules. She touches some more on allegations against the DJ, explains her manic state of watching s9 of VPR, tries to make sense of Ariana and Tom's housing situation AND MORE! Be sure to leave a 5-Star review on Apple Podcasts, critiques and all! 

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 Hello, hello, hello. This is Who the Fuck Knows with Emily Rose. I'm Emily Rose. Welcome back. You all, I am ready to take you on a journey. This journey will be through 2021 where season nine of Vanderpump Rules aired because I have some Some information, some thoughts, some retrospective analyses to give to you all based on what I did yesterday, which was binge season nine of Vanderpump Rules.

Now before we get there, couple of housekeeping things. I want to read you all a review, an Apple podcast review that I got and it says the following because I love this review. That's why I'm reading it. The title is, Good, But Bet It Will Get Better. It's five stars. It says, First, I think she is brave for doing this.

With no sidekick to play off of, that must be hard. Doing what Emily suggested, giving five stars, but there's some room for improvement. Your voice gets a bit shaky when you seem slightly unsure. It's okay to be sure and confident in your opinions, because they are yours to state. I am putting your pod in my rotation.

Thank you very much, 2unstable2. I really appreciate it. And I mean that genuinely. I asked you all to give me 5 stars, but if you have criticism, go ahead and give it to me because I need it. And I will say this, my voice is probably going to be shaky today. Not because I'm unsure, but because I have so much information and I've done my best to compile some notes.

But, uh, it's been tough. I will also give you all a little bit of an update. Because if you've been listening I don't know. You might want to know. On Friday, I put in my non renewal Confirmation basically at my job that I will not be returning next year. And if you all have been listening to me, you know that I've been having a lot of problems.

I've been very frustrated with my, with my situation. And so I will no longer be working where I work come June 2024. So if you guys are hiring, let me know. I am looking to switch industries. It's been tough, which again I think I've mentioned before. Because People in education don't tend to get looked at as having transferable skills, but I have a lot of them, and I was not a classroom teacher, not to say that classroom teachers don't have transferable skills because they absolutely do.

I personally have just worked in different pieces of education that I think would translate more to more traditional roles and I am looking to get started in events marketing or I mean podcasting would be tight, right? But here we are in the meantime. Thank you. Welcome back. Loved the love that you gave me on last week's episode with Lindsay of Vanderpod Recaps.

Most of this will become from voice messages that I've been sending back and forth to her for the past three days. So check that out. Download my episodes. Give me a five star review. Tell me what you really feel though. Don't hold back and the rest I can save for later. All right, let's get started. So, season 11, episode 2 of Vanderpump Rules, before I start into my review, I need to tell you guys, I went back to season 9 yesterday because essentially some allegations have been coming to light, now granted they've been coming to light since 2019, about James, James Kennedy's behavior.

And I am not a journalist. I think I said this last time. So I don't want for anyone to have expectations of me that I know exactly what I'm talking about. I have never heard anything out of anyone's mouth first hand that is directly involved with James. I just know From podcast interviews, from reading Kristen's book, things that I've been saying, and things that have been happening that I believe that there's cause for concern.

Then on Friday, or I guess they recorded probably earlier than Friday, Allie Luber, who is James current girlfriend, went on Shenanigans, which is Sheena Shea's podcast, and refuted the most recent claim that came from Teddy and Tamara of Two Teas in a Pod, I mean from their respective shows, but of Two Teas in a Pod.

They were on Tom Sandoval's podcast, and they said that at the 2022 MTV Video Awards, they were getting in the same car as Allie and James. They didn't name Allie, they just said they were with James Kennedy, and James got in an altercation, and both women, Teddy and Tamara, had to get out of the car and physically break up the altercation, and it was really weird and scary for them.

If you do some investigation, investigating, you would know that would be Allie. That he was with at the time. He and Raquel had already broken up. So, Allie went on Sheena's podcast and when asked about that specific incident, she was very, Particular about her word choice. She explains, yes, they got in an argument.

No, it did not get physical. She found it necessary to add that she was not bleeding. I don't believe Tamara or Teddy said that someone was bleeding, but maybe they did. Honestly, I've been doing so much that I still haven't gotten back to that fact. So if I find it, I'll put it in. But Allie clarifies she was not in a physical altercation.

She was not bleeding. James Everyone was drunk, she said at the time, and, but this is not what spurred James to stop drinking, which he has now, according to him in the show, stopped drinking, but he is still smoking weed all day every day. Now, James has had a wild time with sobriety over the past several years, and the last time that James said that he was Only smoking weed all day, every day, and he was two years sober, quote, from drinking, was season nine.

In season nine, he was smoking weed every day, he goes over to his friend's house, his dad's best friend's house, who acts as like, kind of a sober companion, but also a mentor, I guess, a sponsor of sorts. And he cries, and he says he's gonna try to stop smoking weed. This is the season that Raquel Claims, or not claims because it's not a claim, this is what she said, this is what happened.

She was with James one night and he accidentally bumped her nose to the point where it was fractured. And so Raquel had to get a nose job. So that was the big, that was the big plot point of season 9. Not the only one, but one of them was Raquel's getting a nose job. James did something that caused Raquel to have to get a nose job, but that she was getting a nose job.

And then of course, as you know, she ended their engagement on television. They had already ended it, but they announced it on television. And she accuses him of using cocaine. Now, I want to say, I was doing some research. As I've said before. I was on Reddit last night. And there was a, there was a post from a few years ago of someone whose sister ran the business that was featured in the episode of Ariana's birthday in season 9.

The one where, you guys might remember, they showed it in the promo a lot where she like slips and falls down. And they had gone to this like psychedelic, um, staged room. Event space. And that's where they threw the party. Now, this person on Reddit had done a lot of events, I guess, but her sister owned that place, so she was there.

And she said that she overheard producers on the walkie talkies talking about how Lala was concerned about James because he was on some sort of new kind of Adderall, and that several of them were on some sort of new kind of Adderall that was making them act. Berserk. Now, all love to Ariana. And she never says that Ariana took this, this drug.

But, and because you don't really see much of any of the cast except for Lala and Ariana in this part of the episode, you can't really confirm, but Ariana was really, uh, jazzed up while she was also very drunk. So that would make a lot of sense. So, If you're taking a heightened version of Adderall, which is a meth affiliate, I think is how you pronounce it, you're, uh, you're gonna be, you're gonna be headbutting people, let's just say that.

And I think it's interesting because the season, as you all may remember, I promise I'm getting to the real episode, I just have to give you all this background information. The season opened, season 9, with James and Max being in this huge fight because they got in a fight over a salad, because Max didn't want James to ask for a waitress to come back and correct their order, essentially.

And then they get in a huge fight, make a big scene, leave, and then James spits verbal vitriol at Max, and Lisa confronts him about it. Later in the episode, the two try to come to terms and try to apologize, I guess. And James says, alright, mate, but you took the same pre workout pill that I did. So they're saying that they were on pre workout pills.

So context from this Reddit post, if I'm to believe all of this, would say, that probably wasn't a pre workout pill, it was probably this quote unquote, actually it's a derivative of Ritalin, when I did my research. And Ritalin was a little bit before my time. But is apparently an extremely powerful version of Adderall with a different, um, chemical makeup, I suppose.

It jazzes you the fuck up, you know? Just, let's just be very clear, it jazzes you up. Makes you act crazy like maybe other stimulants that are less legal would. And maybe that's how, as I have Complained about for months. People get around saying that they were not on coke. Maybe Craig Conover, when he talks about how he was not on coke, but he was acting like an absolute maniac.

Maybe that's what these people were doing. Who knows? Also, this Redditor mentions in this post that she saw Brock handing out little baggies to people, which I think is interesting. Brock is becoming a more interesting character as time goes on, I believe, but you know that I love Sheena Shay, and I'm happy for her.

I want to mention also, among these allegations, not just Kristen, not just what happened with Allie, and what Raquel has been alluding to on her podcast, Rachel Goes Rogue. Raquel It mentions a few times that there were instances that made her fearful with James. She left James in a very specific way. You know, she did the breakup on camera, and that, at one point, the cast starts to kind of dig into James a little bit about his behavior, and he says to Raquel, he turns to Raquel and goes, That's why I wanted to do this later.

I didn't want to do this in front of everyone. And it's like, well, I actually think it's smart that Raquel did do this in front of everyone. And then her father meets her at the studio and moves her out. Like, that night. So I just, there's just, to me that's cause for alarm. Also, things I forgot about from that season, James gets into a tizzy about a few different things with Raquel that I think are odd.

He gets upset because of something that doesn't happen. He's like, he's afraid that Raquel is gonna throw the kind of bachelorette party where there's like, straws shaped like dicks and stuff like, like, admittedly corny shit like that. And he gets really upset about it, and then he's like, absolutely not.

He tells Raquel that she cannot speak to Brock without letting him know or agree to do photoshoots or anything with anyone without letting him know. So I'm just saying, we know he's verbally abusive. He seems to be controlling some sort of aspect, whether it's the social aspect, the image of Raquel in this season.

And then there's the thing that recently came out with Allie. And honestly, you all, there is so much more to that. And it's not that I'm not comfortable speaking on it, it's that I don't want you to have to sit here through another three hour episode while I lament on all the things. So, I take Bravo very seriously as a podcast that you should check out.

Brunch and Bravo is an Instagram account you should check out. Check out Your Moms Are Watching. She has been on the beat, as it were, for some time about James's Behavior, particularly when it comes to Kristen. She went on Dana Wilke's podcast and told a story about Kristen needing a safe haven from James.

So, I just think it's all kind of a lot and something to keep an eye on. And then, of course, Allie goes on Sheena's podcast this weekend. I will say this, I didn't really want Sheena to do this. There was rumors that Allie was going to go on and refute what happened. Now, why would Teddy and Tamra lie?

Guys, I don't know. I don't know why Teddy and Tamra would lie about that. I really don't see what that, how that would benefit them. This isn't like a thirsty thing. This isn't like something that's gonna, this could get them in trouble. So I don't know why they would lie about it, but Allie went on and she said that did not happen outright.

But I will say, in my opinion, it felt like Sheena led the conversation in a way where it kind, you could come out of it and say, Okay, whatever you believe or have heard up until this point, no comment. But now, with Allie, things are different. Now, do I agree with it? No. Do I think that Allie would have more incentive to say that didn't happen than Tamara and Teddy would have incentive to lie that it did?

Yes, I think Allie would have incentive to say that did not happen, even if it did. I'm not calling her a liar, I'm just posturing about the possibility that there would be a reason why she wouldn't want to speak about it. And Sheena also, with, with the stuff with Brock, and I could go on and on about it.

I don't know that she was the right venue for Allie to do this, but it seems like Allie felt safe with Sheena. I think that Sheena handled the conversation somewhat responsibly. It didn't feel, it didn't feel that bad to me. As bad as I was, I was prepared to have a conversation with my cat, Sheena.

Like, girl, we might need a name change, essentially. But that didn't happen. I hope Allie's okay. I just, I don't think we need James on our screens anymore, but he is in episode 2 of season 11, so let's get right to it.

Okay, so we open the return of Tom Sandoval. Tom has come back from Special Forces and is having a conversation with his assistant Anne in the kitchen. Let's talk about Anne for just a second. I like Anne. I think Anne is cool. I think Anne is very interesting. She now has a podcast. She is the former assistant of Tom Sandoval.

I believe that that is I think that's okay to say. And her co host, I believe her name is Amanda, is the Former assistant at the Viophiles, I think. Allegedly. It's hard to, it's a little, I don't want to say clunky, a little confusing, Anne's podcast, because it's unclear Whether she still works for Tom, or if she works, there was a thing that came out that she now works for Ariana.

But what I do know, is that she is an actress, uh, improv actress, who does this job kind of, I don't want to say on the side, but the, her passion is theater and acting, and that is not her main thing is not being an assistant for Tom Sandel, that's for fucking sure. And when the clip that comes out in a couple of minutes we'll talk about with her and Ariana, when that first came out, I thought it was one of the most egregious things I'd ever seen in my life, frankly.

I'd never seen I don't like people being spoken to. The way that I felt Anne was being spoken to, but let's give that a second so that you have some context. So, Tom Sandoval is fixing to have a birthday party, and he wants to have people over to his house. Let's talk about the house. So he and Ariana live together as you all know.

Why won't Ariana leave? Well, she feels Like, she shouldn't have to. And Tom feels like he shouldn't have to. So they have made a pact, I guess, where Anne, Assistant Anne, is their go between so that they never have to see or speak to each other. In my opinion That is immature. And at some point, we, you know, there's all of these things about how Ariana's handling it.

And I believe that, in, isolated, each one of these things are not bad. She doesn't want to leave the house, and she shouldn't have to. Agree, not bad. She shouldn't have to speak to Tom Sandoval if she doesn't want to. Agree, not bad. She shouldn't have to film with Tom Sandoval if she doesn't want to, because of how he treated her.

Agreed, not bad. She Shouldn't trust him with their finances, therefore she shouldn't be putting money toward a mortgage if she doesn't know how much she's supposed to be putting toward it and he, this is all the after show that we learned this, he will not give her an itemized receipt of the bills so she will not contribute to the bills.

Fine. That's fine. Move past it. She's in a relationship, a new one, with Dan. Fine. We can move past it. She doesn't want, really, for people to speak to Tom Sandoval. Fine. We can move past it. My thing is, all of these things combined just kind of, to me, feel like just fucking Leave. Like, get out of the house. I know it's not that simple.

I have pored over understanding what is going on there, but what I think is interesting in the season 9 reunion She talks about how she doesn't like how sanctimony, sanctimonious married people are and to be fair She's sitting in a room full virtual or otherwise of castmates whose marriages Were about to end or ended within months of filming, right?

So why would you look at all of that and be like marriage isn't shit? Well to to be just kind of fair to these people who were treating her Katie, Lala James, we're talking to Ariana like shit because she didn't want to get married, but whatever. Ariana probably would have an easier time getting out of the house if they were married.

Oddly enough, it seems that not being married has made this situation, owning a home with someone, a lot, a lot more difficult. Excuse me. So, there's that. I just, I don't think it's easy for her to get out of the house, but I also am like, Ariana, Oh, another one you tell him what he can and can't do because of how he hurt you.

Yeah, at this point, fine on everything, you can't tell him he can't have a party in his house. And saying you're gonna call the cops on him is fucking ridiculous, okay? It is, it's ridiculous. At this point, they are functioning as roommates who have had a squabble, and in the situation of a roommate, when, if you and your roommate get in a fight and it's like, alright, one of us is leaving, Well, I guess you don't own the property, so somebody just gets out, but infighting between the roommates, like you can't have a party, well you can't tell me that.

You can't tell me to do that. I'm your roommate. I'm not, you know, you're not my mom. You're not my landlord. These people are in a really precarious situation, and he's not her boyfriend anymore. So he doesn't technically have to listen to her. And I think everything else, the finances, she's not paying a mortgage, she's, which is, by the way, that is, if you haven't watched the After Show, it's true.

She isn't paying the mortgage. And she's not contributing to the bills, but her argument, like I said, is that she found out, after they refinanced the home, They had been putting money in a joint account, and that was where the bills were being taken from. So all of their bills were coming out of this joint account.

They would both put a certain amount of money in and blah blah blah. Well, she finds out now that she had been overpaying for, I believe it was the mortgage. So now, because of how he conducted his affair with Raquel, she doesn't believe anything he says, so she's refusing to pay anything. So he's paying all of it.

The, again, the thing is, though, that I don't understand where either of them are coming from, he used the house. As collateral for the business shorts and Sandys, which we're going to get into that later and how he's handling that dip shit process. So if he ends up not being able to pay. The business, if he's not, if the business fails because of whatever, if he can't pay all of his bills and put whatever he needs to into the, into the business, or if he just doesn't show up and acts like a complete ass all the time, then if the business fails, they're coming for the house, and then neither of you are getting the house, right?

I think that's how it works. So I, if I were her, Which she has now at the top of January, she did file paperwork to essentially put the fate of the house in a judge's hands. And then he will either order them to, someone to pay somebody out, he's gonna make it, the judge is gonna make a decision allegedly.

So, that's what's gonna happen with that. She doesn't live in the house right now, but at this point, when they're filming this scene with Anne, bless her, if I were her, I would have had something in writing saying, These are the terms until you either pay me or offer me what I think is appropriate to sell the home or until I can buy you out, these are our terms of living together and sign it because frankly, um, not paying the mortgage doesn't look good or sound good in my opinion, but I'm not an officer of the court.

Also, He doesn't, if you call the cops on him because he's loud, that's such a pain. Why are we bringing, you know, we're not calling the cops. And then in the after show, she says, oh, well, I was being hyperbolic. I don't know, Ariana. It didn't feel like you were. The way that she speaks sometimes, and she does this throughout season 9 too, if anyone was wondering.

Is really laced with so much passive aggression. It is exhausting to listen to her. I'm just being honest. I, by the way, am not an Ariana hater. I love Ariana. I think she's very cool. I think it's great what she's doing. But I'm just trying to be objective here. Don't worry, we'll get to Sandoval. I'm trying to be objective here.

I don't like how she's handling the situation. And, at the end of the day, just big, over arching themes. Both of these motherfuckers have enough resources and are not in a situation where their safety is threatened. Sorry that I'm, I guess, kind of agreeing with Sandoval in this moment. I'm more so, which is even more horrific, agreeing with Lala in that they don't have to leave.

Like, neither of them really have to leave. She is not putting him in danger. He is not putting her in danger. They're just fucking with each other. They are both fucking with each other so hard. And it does not have to be this hard, in my opinion. She could, you know, surrender and, you know, give up whatever she thinks she deserves.

And he could do the same thing and neither of them are doing that. And by the way, I saw something online that was like, I really admire how strong Ariana is being in this, and you know what, I don't like that. Because sometimes it's not about, it's not a testament to how strong you are as a woman if you have to make a decision.

Strength is really, sometimes, can be. Taking less than what you deserve so that you can move on and live a flourishing life with your new personal trainer slash bartender boyfriend and go unfreeze your eggs and have the life, you know, that you've always apparently wanted. That's my opinion. There are people in situations that, like this, that do not have the financial means, seriously do not have the financial means to move anywhere else.

I understand that Ariana may not be able to go get a two story condo in the heart of West Hollywood by herself, but she has options, and some people in these times and days do not have options. So while Lala's being a little Again, this is After Show stuff, guys. After Show is required viewing for my podcast from now on, by the way.

Lala makes the point that she should just leave. Ariana says, I can't, I'm not Lala. I don't have the financial. means to just leave whenever I want. In my opinion, Lala had to leave because the situation was dangerous. Ariana agrees for her and for Ocean, but Ariana could leave. And I just think that that is the thing that makes people feel a little uncomfortable about the situation because at the end of the day, she could leave.

She doesn't want to. And she's justified in not wanting to, but she is not actually physically bound to the home, clearly, because right now she's living in New York, performing in Chicago. Apparently, if you live, if she like moved out, apparently he could claim abandonment of property. I don't know what Tom would or wouldn't do.

He might do that. He doesn't seem To be litigious neither of them particularly do I feel like if they were We would have been here already But I don't know what tom wooder wouldn't do I feel also like if he tried to claim abandonment of property if she like Moved to another apartment or started living with Dan or something like that or Katie or whoever if she had enough of her belongings and Essentials at home couldn't she then argue that she didn't demand the property like there has to be with good enough lawyers There has to be a loophole here.

I assume but maybe I'm wrong again. I'm not an officer of the court. I am a An executive assistant who podcasts. So, that's all. Alright.

Anyway, child, so Tom asks Anne to ask Ariana if he can have a party. Ariana responds and says, absolutely the fuck not. She comes downstairs and suggests that he have a party. Ariana says she's gonna call the cops. She's dripping with passive aggression. Now that I've watched that scene more than once I do feel like she was not directing it at Anne.

I feel like she was directing it at Tom. But, learn how to fucking talk to people, okay? At some point, again, the buck has to stop somewhere. So, you don't have to be an asshole to Anne. You can feel how you want to feel, but you need to check yourselves in those moments. I don't think that's a big ask. I don't think that's a big ask of her.

And I feel comfortable saying, hey. Don't speak to your fucking help like that. And I don't mean the help. I mean don't speak to people that are helping you because you have decided you're not gonna speak to him, which is fine, but that's not her fault. Okay? She didn't cheat on you. Tom did. Okay? She's not Raquel.

Okay? So. Moving on we have a scene where we see LVP getting ready to go to the closing of Pump because Pump closes. It's funny looking back because at the time there were all these rumors that Pump was going to close and she kept coming out and being like, No, darling, it's not going to close. It's not going to close.

But then it definitely Definitely closed. So she's getting ready to go and give like a final hurrah at Pump. People have been saying a lot. I've seen a lot of discourse about how Lisa just shouldn't even be on the show anymore. And I don't feel that way. I don't feel like Lisa shouldn't be on the show. I don't think they need to change Vanderpump rules and, you know, get rid of Vanderpump.

I don't think she needs solo scenes. I remember one of the post Scandaval episodes that came out, and she was like, playing with her grandson on a carpet. And I was like, well, we don't need this. So, I'm gonna say, we don't need to cut Axe her from the show completely, but we definitely don't need solo scenes of her, like, getting her hair done, for God's sake.

Then we go, okay, gonna get through this really quickly, alright? We get this very unnecessary scene of James and Allie walking down the street, talking about how James misses Graham, and speculation is that this scene was filmed after they had already gotten Graham back. Not that he was, like, genuinely just randomly talking about how much he misses Graham.

Maybe the producers were like, hey guys, talk about Graham. Now, Allie said on Sheena's podcast, I do want to bring this up really quickly. Allie said on Sheena's podcast that she and Sheena and many of their friends were not trying to have Graham in their home. Sheena had interactions with the dog. Allie, lots of people had interactions with the dog and understood Graham to be aggressive.

To the point where Sheena was worried about her cats and Allie was worried about her cats because she has cats. So Graham being aggressive was not made up by Raquel, as some people seem to point out. Well, he just looks so cuddly and sweet on TV. That's an insane thing to say. And if you said that, you need to reevaluate, you need to reevaluate.

If we've had two and a half minutes Over the course of three years total of seeing this dog on screen, you have no idea what his behavior is like. My cat Sheena is adorable in pictures, but she attacks me sometimes. And that's okay. Cause Sheena isn't attacking my guests. She's not a danger to me or to others.

But Graham was. And I'm glad that they both admitted that. But now apparently he's just the sweetest angel of a dog they've ever seen. And it was, I guess, just under Raquel's care that he was aggressive. It was probably because he was uprooted from his home and put in someone else's home that didn't really want him.

It probably triggered his aggression as well. And what I believe to be terrible raising on James's part, but he says he's the best dog dad that ever lived, and I don't believe him, and I don't like him, and I'm gonna move on. Alright. The next scene, Jason comes over to the house to support Tom, because Jason, who is one of the producers now of Everybody Loves Tom, Tom's podcast, is one of his only remaining friends, uh, in light of this scandal.

And so they're talking about this birthday party, and we're kind of intercutting between this scene back in the kitchen and Lala and Ariana at Just Peachy, which is a scene, I think it's a smoothie Pop up food truck thing in wherever they live. So that sounds cool. So, so Tom asks Anne how Ariana took the news of the party.

Anne says, not well, bitch, and Jason says, well, why don't you just, I mean, it's your house. Just throw the party. What is she gonna do? And Anne says, Oh, well, actually, um, she did indicate that she may call the police. And Jason goes, that's insane. And I laughed out loud. I was like, that is insane. That is objectively fucking insane.

So we're at Just Peachy with Lala and Ariana. Lala pays for Ariana, which was nice. They sit down, and Ariana's explaining the whole party debacle. And, uh, Lala does something that I don't know how to feel. She makes a point that I 100 percent agree with. She says, well, why can't he have a party? In his own house.

And Ariana says, well he can. But, he can't, but I can still call the cops. And Lala says, but why would you do that? And it was so funny, it's like, why would you do that? Why would you do that? Over a noise complaint. Girl, grow up girl. I'm sorry. That's nuts. And I don't, I don't know. Maybe she wouldn't. I still think she might totally have called the cops if it weren't for emo night saving the day, but that's ridiculous, Ariana.

Let's, you know, bring it down. So Lala kind of, she gets a little shady in her confessionals, but essentially she's saying Hey, maybe you guys could come to a compromise and Anne is thinking the same thing and Jason So they come to the compromise that Tom is only gonna have 12 people over it has to be over by midnight Okay, fine.

What a miserable ass fucking situation to be in. I just cannot imagine So then we get the scene of pump closing and I found this really interesting. I said this on Twitter The way that they have had these flashbacks to pivotal moments in Vanderpump Rules timeline career, it's giving this season, this is the finale season.

Now some people feel like we're setting ourselves up for a great revival. But honestly, how many years can this show go on? I think This is a very dark season, actually. And I don't know that there is much to tell after Season 11. I've been saying this, Rob Schulte has said this on Vanderpump Rob's, on my podcast and his.

I don't think that there is a future after Season 11. Now, would I want for Raquel to come back? Maybe, but honestly, like, now, what the fuck are they gonna do? Like, what? Would that even look like? I don't, I don't know. I don't know that that's a very I'm not going to get my hopes up for a season 11, okay? It feels like they're doing these lengthy cinematic flashbacks to great times at Pomp and Pomptina and all these, you know, goofy flashback things and I, it feels like it's the end.

It really does. The next scene is one that really touched my heart. Sheena Marie. Davies goes to the studio to record a, an emo version of Good as Gold. I like this rock mom era of Sheena, I really do. I like the, I love the 27's by the way. I wish they would've come to Atlanta. No one comes to Atlanta.

Nothing happens in Atlanta fun. But That's not true. That was a crazy thing to say. My bad. But I do wish that more Vanderpump type things would come to Atlanta anyway. So, Sheena is in the studio. She's in the stew. She records her little Screamo edit of Good as Gold and then she sits down with Brock and they start to talk about Sheena's postpartum OCD.

Now, to the Redditors, what you don't know because you guys hate Sheena is Sheena has been talking about her postpartum OCD from far, far before Scandal Ball, before Season 10. She has been, I'm sorry, before Season 11. She has been discussing this. She was diagnosed with it. This is my take. I am not a doctor.

What she reveals in Season 9 is she had a miscarriage. And then , she gave birth to Summer Moon. She got very, very sick and had very bad preeclampsia in the final part of her, oh, what a term. And it made it very, Summer Moon essentially maybe almost didn't make it, it sounds like.

And I think that Sheena, for whatever reason, Blames herself for that. I don't know. , I think that when you're under stress, and I think that this show brings stress, I think that this, the environment that she lives in, I think the situation with Brock probably brought stress. Having a baby probably brought stress.

Having a baby after having suffered a miscarriage, I'm sure, brings on And a crazy amount of stress, and I don't know, I don't know if like, medication plays into it, I don't know, but I think Sheena blames herself, and I think that's part of how this postpartum OCD manifested, is she doesn't trust herself with Summer Moon.

Now that's not to say that she thinks she's going to do something to Summer Moon, but I think she feels so deeply that she is the cause for Summer Moon almost not making it, that it's hard for her to feel like she's the safe space for Summer Moon that she should be. So this has resulted in her being extremely particular about who can babysit Summer.

And this has led to scheduling issues for Her and Brock, and they don't get to go out off camera, obviously. They don't get to do the kind of stuff that they used to do is what Brock ends up saying later. He, I honestly, honestly guys, I think Brock just wants to party and I hate that about him. I do. I think he just wants to party and I think that sometimes men don't realize the extent that having a baby can take the, The measures, the what having a baby can do to your social life, essentially, I've said essentially a million times, but you guys get what I'm saying, right?

Having a baby impacts your social life sometimes, all right? And I think some men are not prepared for the reality of that, especially when Sheena has this internal barrier that she's having to work through to Allow people to take care of Summer Moon, and I'm sure she's, honestly, there's probably other shit that she's worried about, right?

She can't just hire me to come watch Summer. She is probably afraid of people leaking information about her or whatever, and y'all can call her delusional or say, She's not famous enough for people to want to do that. People do all kinds of crazy shit around here. We'll get to that at the end. Looking at you, Brett.

Looking at you, Brett. Okay, people do crazy shit in these circles, and we've seen it for years. I don't think it's unreasonable. I don't like the way that Brock is handling it, and I love Sheena. All right, the next scene, we are presented with a conversation that the Toms are having together discussing the State of Schwartz and Sandys.

And Sandoval gets Schwartz a pair of shoes, which I suppose is fine. Here's the thing with the two guys, alright? Sandoval's ruining Schwartz's life. Sandoval is ruining Schwartz's life, and has ruined it, and when I watched, re watched season 9 yesterday, it became even more clear to me. And I want to say, I am a queen of compartmentalization.

I can compartmentalize, that's how I ended up in some circumstances that, uh, I have a lot of sympathy for Raquel on, okay? In my life, when I was young, alright? I thought I would be able to watch season 9 and feel the way I used to feel about Sandoval, which was a certain amount of respect or admiration or intrigue, and it's not happening.

I actually Have never felt so negatively about him as I did watching season 9 even re watching season 10 didn't make me feel this way Sandoval is actively destroying Schwartz's marriage in season 9 and I think Something terminology gets thrown around a lot in the Vanderpump Rules universe that I don't think is fitting or appropriate for the circumstance I think that they say Obviously, this is sociopath narcissist Katie a lot says Schwartz doesn't back me up.

And I don't think their issue was about him having her back or backing her up because that would mean that Katie was doing something where she needed support for her own endeavor or in her life or something she was going through and she needed the support of her spouse to So, Execute a decision, right?

I, I would need someone to back me up or have my back. If I was standing on a limb, making a decision when I, like I said, when I decided I'm not going to come back to my job next year, I needed support from people around me to say that's a good decision. That's not really what was going on. Katie didn't really have that.

I mean, I'm sure there were circumstances where that was a case. I'm not putting that past Schwartz, but what it seemed to me. was that Schwartz was actively allowing another person to Shape his opinion of his wife to speak to his wife absolutely the fuck crazy and to diminish her as a person. He was choosing another person over his wife and that person is Sandoval.

And he, look, I don't think Katie had any business in Schwartz and Sands. That whole thing, very weird. Oh, also, that Reddit I was talking about earlier where Sloane was at. That's, I think that's her name on Reddit. That's her name. Was. At this event, she said the producers hate Katie, which is so interesting because it seems like they give her A very fine edit nowadays, so maybe it's new producers, but she said they hate her, and that she was very mean.

She also said that Sheena was cold, but that she understands why Sheena was being cold, and that Lala was actively mean to her as well. But that Ariana was great. So, basically it's the same shit we always hear about the cast, nothing changes. And that Schwartz was fine, and Tom Sandoval acted like he was in a, he was in Saturday Night Fever.

And James was really mean at first and then got really nice. So doesn't that really just track with everything we've ever thought about these people? Anyway, my voice is getting hoarse,  because I am dry. My throat's dry.

So anyway, I don't think that Katie had any business in Schwartz and Sandys because it's just like, you don't want to get your spouse involved in your business with someone else and it's not She's not going to be actively involved in the meetings and things like that. So she might have a better business acumen.

She might be full of better ideas, but she's not in the business and having another voice that isn't. involved directly in the business probably isn't helpful. Though I agree that she would have, I kind of wish Ariana would have kept an eye on this, but what happens to the business affects Katie, especially since they were married.

So, you know, but whatever, it's neither here nor there. Sandoval was an asshole to her, and I think Sandoval ruined their marriage, okay? And I think this scene with the two Toms in this random restaurant Is Tom really reflecting? And I think he has been doing a lot of reflecting on how much he has sacrificed for this brand, for this friendship, for this endeavor.

And I think he wonders to this day if it was worth it. The Vile Files is a great Great showing of Schwartz having to absolutely upend his life for Sandoval. So, they talk about what's going on with the business and Schwartz says basically like, You fumbled the bag. You did not show up. You couldn't physically be there because they thought we Bad for branding.

And a lot of people have brought this up. I agree, I don't think Sandoval being there would be bad for the business. But then I'm like, well, people were absolute fucking maniacs around that time. And they were going to like vandalize Schwartz and Sandy's. I don't know the extent, but they were acting.

People acted and still some do act unbelievably parasocial about this. And, so I can kind of see keeping Sandoval away. But Schwartz was saying there's a lot that you could be doing on the back end to help the business run. And this is what I was saying earlier. Sandoval, Schwartz is right. You are acting an absolute fucking ass about this business and your house is collateral for it.

So if you want the fucking house so bad and you feel so entitled to stay in it, then get, work on your business and stop, stop with the stupid touring Tom extra in the podcast. Like, I don't know. I think if he focused a lot of energy into how he could help his business on the back end, it would be. A lot less stressful for Schwartz, but he's not, Sandoval's not going to do that.

That's the kind of person that you've decided to be friends with Schwartz. Now you're out here covering up for his drunk, high ass on the Vile Files, trying to pretend like you give a shit about Nick Vile, like, ugh, God. What a disaster situation. What a disaster situation. That's pretty much all that happens in that scene.

Now we get to the part that I found very sad and a little concerning, where Sheena, uh, I already spoke about what I feel about her postpartum OCD. She's explaining that she's gonna let this girl that she's known since she, since the girl was 16 come babysit so that she can go to emo night. And they meet her, her name is Tori.

This is the person that we saw in the trailer is gonna have kind of a tryst with Schwartz and Katie separately. So that's kind of interesting. But she's really just kind of used as a device to talk about, to a little bit more, have Sheena open up about her struggles with being a mother to Summer Moon and the therapy that she's in, and again, if you're not, if you're not subscribed to Sheena's vlogs, uh, you will, you wouldn't know, but she is actively in therapy and has been working through it, so she A lot better now, but the big trip that she took to Disneyland, like, she was afraid to take Summer Moon to Disneyland for a long time.

And part of her active therapy was to do that, and she did that, so she's getting a lot better now, anyway. Brock is very dismissive of her. Sheena has been relying on her mom a lot, and Brock feels like Mom's a little more involved in their marriage than he's comfortable with, but he says it like a jackass.

So they kind of argue and then they cry and they get through it and it kind of ends up being a touching scene. I'm still just kind of like side eyeing Brock just a smidge because again, I'm like, do you want to, what do you need to, what do you need to do? Because I don't know if Brock has a job, is the thing.

In season 9, he has this homebody. Business, which is building a body at home, workout, home workout thing. I don't know if he has that anymore. I don't know if Sheena is the only income for her household, but if she is, then A, let's give her a little grace. B, she's under a lot of stress in that case. And C, I kind of can see why she would maybe, uh, need to save her paycheck, aka the show, by maybe having Allie refute certain claims, but I won't go there.

So that scene ends and then we get a Again, very staged, unnecessary scene of Schwartz, Schwartz would never naturally come over to James house. Schwartz would never naturally come over to James house. Alone. In my opinion. I also think it's interesting, nobody will film with Schwartz, bro. Nobody is fucking with, with Schwartzy.

And no one's really filming with James, either. Which I think is interesting. James gets a, so, Allie reads Schwartz's tarot cards, and he is a Triple Libra, which I don't know a whole lot about, but I do know Libra people, and being a triple Libra, in my opinion, is probably someone I would have a really hard time with, because in my experience, those people tend to be very passive.

And very people pleasing like Schwartz. And I think that's all fine to an extent. But, at the end of the day, uh, grow the fuck up. And do something about it, you know what I'm saying? Then we get James getting a text from Sandoval. Inviting James to Sandoval's birthday party. That Ariana's going to call the cops on.

Remember? So, Sandoval sends this text. James is like, Oh, I don't know what to do. Blah, blah, blah. Ultimately, he decides to un going. The final scene, we have James I, this is all very, I just don't understand why Allie was, even went with Jane. The only thing I can imagine is that they were going to an event after Sandoval's birthday, I guess.

But then I'm like, why would we not see the event? That's, that's me asking questions that I have no business asking. Cause it's really not my business, I'm not a producer. But I do have business and I'm wondering, Allie, why were you in the damn car then if you weren't gonna go? I'm just, do you not trust James to drive?

Like, what, what do you think is gonna ha Do you think James is gonna get, like, caught up in old times and he's just gonna stay if you're not in the car waiting? In which case, break up. By the way, you guys need to break the fuck up, alright? I'm gonna say it. Allie. Break up with this guy. He hasn't changed.

He's doing the same shit. He was doing in season 9. I watched it He said he was smoking weed every day on episode 1 of this season He said it in episode 2 of the other season he did it and guess what? He was actually probably allegedly in my opinion on some sort of dextroamphetamine plus ass bullshit that made him an absolute maniac and guess what?

He's still a maniac Ally. You need to leave You need to leave his ass, alright? He's pissing on a bush, he's a grown ass man. That's just disgusting. Leave him. Take the car. GTA his ass. Get out of there, alright? Okay, anyway. So James goes to Sandoval's party, bitches about it the entire time. Also, like, I think James only went to get the screen time because they get paid per episode, I believe, so I think that he just went for the episode.

But, what the fuck was your point there, dude? And Sandoval was, I'm sorry to say it, sorry to say it, Sandoval was, uh, handing you a little bit of a paycheck there, bud. Cause they were gonna film Sandoval's party. They were going to film that. You got Billy Lee, you got Brett, okay? They were gonna film that even if it was for a 40 second montage.

They were gonna film it. He didn't have to invite your ass. And, uh, you went, so. I don't feel bad for you. He comes into the party, and then he does this thing that I think is so funny. Okay. Kara Berry of Everyone's Business But Mine was on my podcast. I cannot remember if she told the full story on my podcast.

So I will just tell what I remember without, because I don't want to say anything that she wouldn't be comfortable with. So essentially, There's a scene in what would have been the original finale of season 10, where the whole crew is at Sur, and Lisa gives this big tearful speech, and Schwartz and Katie get into an argument, and then Raquel follows them both out of Sur into the alley, and they yell at each other?

Anyway. In that scene, there's a point where you can see Brett of, of this, of the who's who of Tom Sandoval's friends. Brett is in the back making facial expressions. And it looks like in that moment he's reacting to what's happening. Like, in shock that Katie and Raquel are going back and forth. Turns out That's not what was going on.

And that Brett was Brett hates Katie. And then he came out on Instagram and I saw this. He came out on Instagram with like a parody song about what a bitch Katie is. And then kind of weirdly tried to ride Katie's coattails for a five minutes of fame. But he's friends with these people. He's been in the mix.

He's in He's on Sheena's vlogs, partying with Raquel. He was the person who um, um, um, In the trailer for season 10, was like spinning Ariana around, I think. I think that was Brad. It could have been Brad. But I think that was him, but he's been in the mix for a long time. And I put this on my Instagram.

I'll pin it today. In season 9, he's in that scene. He's at that birthday party I was telling you guys about. That the girl from Reddit Sister worked at. So Brett's been around, so it's funny because Brett says to James I really just wanna really wanna talk to you about what's going on with the group and like, cause since Katie has totally iced me out well that's what happened he was mean about Katie on the internet and so Katie has totally iced him out and James is like who the fuck is this guy?

Like, James Also, Logan was there. Honestly, I wish James would have engaged. Because there were some real C list players that have all been a part of James C list ass life. That, like, I would have loved to see. I mean, Billy Lee. You got damn, uh, Logan. You got Brett. You got these people. It's funny. To be like, who the fuck are these people, but actually real ones know.

As Sexy Unique Podcast would say, real heads know what's up. Like, these are essential players in the history and lore of Vanderpump Rules. And I, for one, appreciated their presence at the party. Are they main cast members? No. But do we know who they are? I do. Cause I, I love the show. Not, not accusing anyone of not loving the show, I'm just saying.

Anyway, so I thought that was kind of funny of James, but also like, get real here, okay? It would have been funnier if he went in on them for being C list players. Like, that would have been funny. But you're relying on the audience to not love a show that we're deeply invested in and we've been watching like a fucking hawk, which is why your ass is gonna go down one day.

Anyway, he finally successfully pulls Sandoval aside. And he's talking to him, he's like, Mate, you owe me an apology, mate. And Sandoval's kinda like, Oh, I owe you an apology. Here's the thing. Sandoval doesn't owe James an apology. When Sandoval starts to bring up the Kristen thing, It's not, it's not about attacking James for what he did.

It's that James did Exactly what Tom did, because Raquel and James were a couple of weeks out, allegedly, if you believe the timeline, which you don't have to. I sometimes do and don't. James and Raquel were about two months, actually more, probably three or four months out from being broken up when Tom and Raquel's affair started.

Tom and Kristen were a few, were a month or so out from being broken up. When James and Kristen started. So, they weren't together, so it made it murky, and James argument was y'all weren't even together when we started hooking up. And so that, I think, would have been Sandoval's argument. Maybe I'm giving him a little too much credit, but I think he kind of says this on the after show, but it is really similar.

It's not about you fucked my girlfriend, so I fuck your girlfriend. It's about These are the same circumstances, and you didn't feel like you needed to apologize to me, so why should I apologize to you? Furthermore, James was horrible to Raquel, and didn't love her the way that she needed to be loved. And, so, if you were this stand up fucking guy to Raquel, and you were pining over her so hard, and you loved her so much, and you were so sad about your split, then why the fuck did you get with Allie three weeks later, bitch?

Like, this is my thing. I'm all about two things can be true at once, but also, you need to stick to whatever, stick to one thing, though, for you, James. Cause you're all over the fucking place. Either Raquel's breakup had absolutely no effect on you and you and Allie's relationship is totally solid and in total good faith and nothing weird was there and you just fell madly in love and you have no feelings for Raquel and so you're moved on.

Or, you did still have feelings for Raquel. You're hurt that your friend would sleep with your ex fiance. And I understand in any, a normal person, yes, this would probably hurt anyone's feelings. These are not normal people. James, I'm not going to give I You guys, listen, we're at an hour in. You guys know how I feel about James.

I'm not going to give him a bunch of credit because I don't think he deserves it. I don't think he deserves it. I don't think any of these people are being super authentic about anything. And I just want To know what's gonna happen with this season. I'm going to keep tuning in to Rachel Goes Rogue. I'm gonna keep tuning in to the other podcasts.

I'm gonna be reading Billy Lee's podcast via Vanderpod Recaps. Cause I am, I don't think I have it in me. I don't hate Billy Lee or anything. I don't feel one way or the other about her. But I don't know if I can do the podcast. You know what I'm saying? I don't know if I can do a podcast about it. But I think that's basically the episode, you all.

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