Hello and welcome to She's All Batch.

I'm Stephanie, and we are going to be covering the Laguna Beach reunion that's streaming

right now on Roku.

And joining me to help me do that is Troy McKee and Kelly Williams, hosts of Beyond the Blinds

podcast. Troy and Kelly, welcome to She's All Batch. Thank you for having us. We're so excited.

I mean, I had to have you guys both. I know you guys love Laguna Beach, especially Kelly Laguna

Biocch on Instagram if you know, you know. Kelly might like it a little bit more. A little bit more.

So what did we all think about, like overall? What did you think about it? You know, I thought it was good. I was a little shocked at how like Stephen forward it was. You know, I feel like it was a lot of Stephen. Steven. Yeah. And I watched it more for the girls. So that was shocking, but I thought, I thought they did a good job with it. I liked it more than I thought I would. It made me emo, like it made me emotional. And it was just like, I thought it was really sweet. Like I thought it was really just like feel good, good vibes. Like, you know, they weren't really trying to get into like the nitty gritty of it all. It was just like sweet. Well, that's what I want to talk about because all the promotion for this reunion, it's like never talked about before, like the sit down that you're

that you've been waiting for for 20 years as if they haven't done this 47 times. Literally one of

the first things they say in the intro, it ended in

2004, life moved on, but the people never really talked about what happened. Says who? Like,

you guys, every single story has been told. Like, Kristen's saying the, um, I don't know and I don't

care just as long as it's not Lauren Conrad. I could tell that story in my sleep. They told me about it all when I used to do Instagram lives with them in 2018. No way, did you? Yeah, I used to invite the cast members on. I even had like Justin Bobby come on to chat with me. So yeah. I actually watched Kristen and Lauren's interview, um, on her podcast before watching this. So I kind of knew that it would,

like, because Lauren was just so like, I'm not answering anything that is even just the slightest bit spicy at all.

Even in just like that interview, like it felt like towards the end of it, Kristen was

like pulling tea to try and get her to say anything that wasn't just like, I love everyone and it's been amazing. So I was like, all right, it kind of geared me up to what this. I was like, all right. Now I know what this is going to be. I wasn't expecting anything like spicy. So there was no tea in that interview because I haven't watched that one yet. No, not at all. It's like you're a great mom,

how your kids. They're going to be. expecting anything like spicy. So there was no tea in that interview because I haven't watched that one yet.

No, not at all. It's like you're a great mom, how your kids, they're great. Oh my God. You're doing so well. Like it was so. And like Kristen tried. There were a couple moments. There was one particular moment where she was like, okay, I'm going to see how far I can go with the Heidi thing. you know, I'm gonna just see what I can say.

And she brought up Heidi and she's like,

I know that you don't want to engage in like anything involving the hills at all, just Laguna. And she was like, was that really hard for you going through that issue with Heidi publicly? And Lauren was like, any issue with a breakup is hard. Friendship, relationship. It's all difficult. I was like, all right, well. Well, the thing is, Heidi and Spencer will take anything and run with it. So I do not blame Lauren for just not talking about it. And I know Kristen was like, would you like vote for Spencer? And Lauren's like, what? Like, she even tried to get like. Did she answer that? I think she said I don't live in L.A. Oh, convenient. Yeah. I was like, damn, she's still really media trained for having got done this for so long. Yeah. Well, one thing about Lauren specifically, right in the beginning, we get introduced to the whole cast. the um nostalgia in the beginning they have the

hillary duff song they have the old photos with the new photos present day which was awesome i we see

that low joins via zoom and i'm like wait didn't lauren and low have beef and i figured kelly you may be

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