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For sure. And he has that “aw shucks” demeanor, plus is clearly an anxious person (which makes some people sympathetic). Of the guys, he’s also the least posturing (which is not to say he doesn’t hide things… he just puts on less of a show about being the Number One Guy in the Group).

LOL, keep watching! You still won’t find anything to back up Lala’s statement 🤣 I never liked Sandoval (good ol’ Flat Iron Tom). Schwartz I went back and forth on. But Sandoval? Always struck me as a self-centered, performative so-and-so. I promise that is not revisionist history, LOL.

It’s so funny that you quoted me re: Lala (wow, I wrote that seven years ago!)… all these years later, and Lala may not be hitting on their men, but she sure still likes to attack the women and then blame them for not doing her bidding.

Good grief. This makes MY blood pressure rise. Teddi’s opinion on this is worth the paper I’m not writing this comment on. I’d rather hear Tamra talk about… well, just about anything. Heck, at my doctors office, they weigh you in an open hallway and announce it to the whole hall if you don’t warn them you don’t want to hear it! (Ok, they don't *announce* it, but they do say it out loud…)

I believe it! I once took a tour of a very arid part of the world and they told us to keep drinking water all day long, whether we felt thirsty or not, or whether we were indoors most of the day or outside. Dehydration can sneak up on you VERY quickly! (And not to be TMI, but keep an eye on the color of your urine—if it looks any darker than pale, it COULD be dehydration. Emphasis on could… there may be other reasons)

Maybe Mau and Sandoval could get a place together?

The biggest revelation during this reunion was the flashback to Kyle and Mauricio in Paris circa 2013. I had to face the fact that I’ve watched this show for at least 11 years 🤣 Though I am really put off by how Erika and Kathy reacted to Sutton’s medical incident (even if stress/panic brought it on, it was obviously serious enough to require medical attention), I’m calling it now: Sandoval will “pass out” during the VPR reunion 🤣

Yep, that Penny! Oooh interesting theory! I do think the shop is real but I will buy that there’s an additional reality connection happening here.

Penny was on Next Food Network Star ages ago. She was absolutely obnoxious and insufferable on that show. I was 0% surprised that she was taking over the interview process.

There was something about a late-night pizza run and some people said things like “if they are doing a pizza run alone that late, she probably did something with him, too”—there may be more to it but that is what I remember seeing.

My initial reaction was to skip the reunion. I should have listened to my gut. It was not particularly interesting or insightful. Oh well. If I had, I’d have missed Dorit serving fashion fashion fashion. Kyle frustrated and irritated the heck out of me. She’s trying to use the Scandoval playbook AND she can’t get LVP out of her brain and mouth. Lady, take a cue from Frozen and let it go. I’m still not an enormous fan of Crystal, but I’m glad the “child bride” comment was revisited. “12-year-old child bride” was such a wrong-headed comment on so many levels. Crystal was 24—not a child! And Dorit’s snark about being successful didn’t land, either. Did she literally learn that day about Crystal’s coconut water business? I find that hard to believe. Most of the rest felt like a rehash, a bunch of deflection and rehashing, or a mix of all of that.

Emo: Had roots in punk, started to really emerge in the 90s with bands like Sunny Day Real Estate, but became more of a "thing" in the late 90s/early 2000s with My Chemical Romance, Taking Back Sunday, Panic! At the Disco, Fall Out Boy, etc. I can definitely see Katie into this music as a teen. Anyhoo... Schwartz. It was a bad call to use him as the "unifier," but I guess that's what we got. Sandoval refuses to do the one thing that would ACTUALLY make some headway with the group: admit what he did was wrong, apologize profusely, promise to (and actually) change, and make amends. I don't know what his "status" is like with the whole group as of now, but at this point in time, none of them are having it, and no amount of Schwartz Schwartzing will move them. ESPECIALLY because Schwartz was complicit...despite his protestations to the contrary. PS I don't know if "boards on boards" is still a thing here, but I wanted to express appreciation for the levelheadedness here!

And it appears to be a pretty large fridge. How much does one person need in a fridge at a time, really?

Chokin' not Broken? (Too much?)

If you have Spotify, the Ringer’s podcast series “An American Scandoval” is worth checking out. Not that anything is necessarily new to you, but it ties everything together. Plus it’s fun and funny!