Last week on the podcast, just as we started recording, I was blindsided by breaking news that Tom Sandoval and Arianna Maddox, a couple on Bravo's hit reality show, Vanderpump Rules, had broken up.

Well, over the past week, the scandal has rocked the Vanderpump community to its very core. And I feel I owe our listeners

just a little bit more context. Yeah, this was a big moment for you. This was, you know, it was an on-mic

discovery. It was kind of like our Kronkite finding out about JFK moment. I want you to understand

this. See, Tom and Ariana got together while Tom was in a failing relationship with Kristen,

who thought Tom was cheating with Ariana, which is still unconfirmed,

although Kristen has no leg to stand on, having cheated on Tom with Jacks when he was dating Stasi.

Now, Kristen then got with James, but after they broke up, he began dating Raquel.

And Tom, Tom, you know,

we thought he was a good guy. He gave James $12,000 to buy Raquel an engagement ring, but then they broke up. Meanwhile, Tom's friend Tom Schwartz, his marriage to Katie fell apart. So Tom Schwartz

begins flirting with Raquel, which angers Katie, who insists that Schwartz

not date within the friend's circle. But it turns out that Tom Schwartz's flirtation with Raquel

may have been a smokescreen all along to hide her affair with Tom Sandoval, which began seven months

ago and has completely blindsided the community. I mean, I mean, do you feel this, Luke?

Do you understand this, the significance of this? No.

You know, we're not going to do a topical kind of, you know, going through our Oscar picks discussion

or anything like that. Who's going to win? Who's going to lose? We are going to help you win at your office Oscar pool, which is the thing people still have, right? Yeah, no,

we're not going to do that. But what I would like to do is have another one of our trademark

discussions about, you know, Oscar movies and the institution of the Oscar movie. Well, I've got

Oscar fever.

Who's going to win? Who's going to lose? When I was at the gym yesterday, uh, between sets,

you know, I was glancing at my phone and I made my way over to, uh, the Wikipedia page that just

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