Well, well, well, Lauren Greetings. Welcome to my podcast that you sometimes come on.

Thank you so much for being here.

Thrilled to be joining you today, Chandler, this is a week of many scandals, breaking news.

We need to hold hands together as we walk into these truly dark waters.

So, you know, there have been some dead weeks, okay, in recent times where, you know,

the tap of pop culture was not flowing. It wasn't even right, okay?

And we prayed for, you know, for mana from above. And boy, oh boy, did we receive? I mean,

we received so much intel and so much drama this past weekend weekend. I mean,

it's been waking me up in the middle of the night because I can't talk to you about it,

because I've been waiting to talk to you about it till, you know, right now, right?

We have been waiting to debrief on the podcast together. Finally, we have some self-control.

So, let's just, I think we should just dive headfirst into the actual drama that has taken the

nation by storm, ah, scandal of all. I have so many thoughts. Let's set the stage with what

has happened. I mean, the amount of people that I know and love who aren't familiar with this

cast who are now hitting me up for context has been staggering. Like, I feel like we need to do

a little bit of a state of the union before we get into, you know, our takes and where we go as a

nation from here. All right. Well, Vanderpump rules, everyone. Vanderpump rules right now is getting

back to its roots because this show is a hit show built on a very incestuous friend group,

okay? Yes. And the initial cast of characters included Tom Sandivall, who is at the heart of

this drama. And his then-girlfriend, Kristen Dodie, it included Jack's Taylor, Stasi Schroeder.

These are tangential characters now who are not part of the show. But anyway, there was always

lots of cheating drama amongst these characters. Yes. And let's just also set the record that this

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