Dark Energy Tuesday (“Summer House,” Acquired Style, “The Valley,” Stassi Schroeder)

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1:26I've been obviously very good about wearing my sunscreen. Don't forget your SPF, everyone. But yeah, let's just get into it. The audio leak from the Summer House reunion. What were your thoughts on this? And for context, you guys, in case you missed it, I don't know how you missed it. You didn't, but yes. Audio from the Summer House reunion, which filmed last week, leaked all over the internet. And we heard Kyle calling West a schmuck, Sierra calling Amanda a snake in the grass, also silent but deadly because she is a she is a fart kind of amanda yeah yeah um amanda throws sierra's you can't help who you like back in her face which is obviously extremely fucked up mia says that amanda threw everything away just to be a side piece west does not defend amanda among other highlights uh tmz has the audio i think that they bought it from the person that leaked it so that they are able to legally have it now and bravo took this very seriously and apparently found There were a lot of rumors that it was someone on the cast, that it was Wes, that it was Jesse.

2:25I heard that it was right before it came out that it was a Bravo staffer on the production team. I heard that it was Jesse and I was like, no, not Jesse. Right when I was starting to, you know, appreciate him. I mean, I do appreciate the Bravo staffer who leaked the audio. Let's be real. They did the Lord's work. I saw this TikTok and I saw that you reposted it as well. It was this person that was, they had Uber Eats on their hat. And it was like the person that leaked Sierra's audio. It's like Uber Eats and he has his phone just like playing. I was dying laughing. There was a lot of rhetoric online that this was PR, that Bravo intentionally did this to drum up, you know, like excitement about the reunion.

3:04Trust us, we're already excited about the reunion. They don't need to drum up excitement. No. The fact that we have to wait a month to watch this reunion is my idea of torture. I need to see the footage now. Now, how can Love Island produce basically live real footage and edit in real time and deliver the episodes within 24 hours? I'm going to need Bravo to step up their game. This is ridiculous. In fact, can the rest of the season? I don't give a fuck. Play the reunion today. I really don't care. And that goes for the city as well. I know that you said a couple episodes ago this is going to give more press to the city.

3:35I don't give a fuck. I need to see the reunion today and nothing else. It is crazy when you think about Love Island. Like, why does Bravo take eight months to turn around episodes? And that's not an understatement, by the way. It is eight months. It's just, it's not fair. Yeah. It's not fair. Like, we need this now. And I said this on Instagram, like, I would pay any amount of money. Like, I know that people listen to or pay for, like, Jake Paul fights and stuff like that. Like, they paid, like,$85 on pay-per-view for, like, a fight. I would pay twice that for the unedited reunion footage. I would pay three times that, probably.

4:12No, I'm willing to pay$500, Bravo. Are you listening? $500. That's my number. I would pay$500. It's negotiable as well. Yeah. It's negotiable. I'm willing to pay the entire, I want to pay$500 for the unedited, uncut version. Yeah, absolutely. 10 hours. And I mean, I also am so shocked. Talking about like the content of that leak. I am so, I guess I shouldn't be shocked. But how crazy is it that it doesn't sound like Amanda or Wes? And this was the leaks that were coming up before the actual audio leak. people were saying, you know, Amanda and Wes came in guns blazing inside source here. I just think it's so crazy to come in with that attitude when they were apparently stone cold, not wanting to take accountability.

4:56What? It's so bad. No, I'm just, it's just so bad because all the rumors were true and even worse when we heard the audio. We're like, oh, it's worse than we thought. No, it's crazy because, I mean, obviously they're going to get heat either way, but if you come in and you're remorseful and take accountability, or in Amanda's case, I think that she is obviously obsessed with West or digmatized or whatever it is. She clearly has feelings for him. Apparently, she was referring to him as her boyfriend. But if she comes in and she, you know, says, I was in a vulnerable place after my divorce. I was in this unhealthy marriage for so long.

5:33And, you know, West was giving me attention and I fell for it. And she should have turned it around on West. I don't know anything but her strategy, which was to come in and be combative and say, we were both single, like blah, blah, blah. How about during that clip where Sierra says, you know, she says, oh, it was complicated because I'm married and I'm still married. And then Sierra goes, yeah, and you're still married. And she goes, am I supposed to be celibate? No, that comment, Sophie, when she said, am I supposed to be celibate? It's like, that is such an extreme way to respond. I'm not saying to be celibate.

6:08I'm telling you to not fuck my ex-boyfriend who literally broke me down bone by bone. This man fucked with Ciara so much. And we all have this guy who has ruined our lives. Like I literally am visualizing the man that has done this to me for years. It was painful. And sometimes it's even more painful when it's something that doesn't actually transpire into a real relationship because he messed with her for so many years. Yeah. And was so manipulative. And for Amanda to just say, what am I supposed to be celibate? That's literally not the point. are you missing brain cells right now? Like it actually enraged me on behalf of Sierra.

6:42And I love that you wrote down here in the notes that Mia asked, are you willing to throw everything away for being Wes's side piece? And this is the time that Wes could have been like, hey, hey, hey, hey. Hey, that's my girlfriend. Ladies, let's relax. Of course, Wes being such a pussy. Completely like, yeah, silent. Didn't say anything. Didn't defend. It's Amanda, as we all knew, was going to stand up for herself. Wes is completely silent. He has no words. Oh, I'm just, you know, I don't know how to make words. I'm too nervous. Sarah scares me. It's so pathetic. I was listening to, when I listened to the audio, I was like, I had my hand over my mouth.

7:16I was like, oh my God. And dare I even say, at least Raquel and Sandoval were remorseful. Okay. Raquel came in there completely owning every single mistake. And Raquel, I think was a little bit, you know, a little odd. Okay. We can all admit it. But Raquel at least took accountability and was like, I totally messed up. The second she realized what she had done and she had a bit of clarity, she stepped away from that relationship. No, no, no. This is worse because Amanda is doubling down. Yeah. I can't believe I'm standing up for Raquel and Sandoval. I can't believe it. I know. I feel like in retrospect, we're like, wow, Sandoval and Raquel, they really did things right.

7:49But at the time, we were like, what the fuck was that reunion performance? Oh, we were like, take them to the stake. Like, no, we were literally like about to. Yeah. No, I know. We were willing to like publicly execute them for what they did. And now I'm looking back and I'm like, huh, Raquel. and Sandoval. Yeah, they had some remorse and they had empathy. At least people were like, at least that photo of them like smoking cigarettes on the ground outside the reunion was like really cunty. No, I know. And they were like, yeah, they're all seated on the floor. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I think Amanda turning that around where she said, you can't help who you like.

8:21And that was what Sierra said when she was talking about the racial dynamics and the racism that she has faced with regards to her relationship with West by the Bravo audience. And Amanda turned that around and said, I can't help it. And I can't choose. I didn't choose. You can. Okay. Maybe you can't help who you're attracted to. You can choose how you decide to act on it. Like, have I thought that some of my friends, significant others were attractive before? Of course. Of course. Actually now thinking about it, probably not, but I'm sure there's, I can't think of a single one of my friends. No offense.

8:56But like, if there was one that I was like, oh, he's kind of cute. Would I act on it? No. Absolutely not. Because you have two working brain cells. We are human beings. This is what makes us not animals. Yeah, no, 100%. Shit, I was going to say something, and now I don't remember. I know. I feel like there's just like a million thoughts at once, and I keep losing my train of thought because there's so much to talk about. Yes. Oh, oh, oh. Now I know what I was going to say. So there's a lot of Bravo accounts that are doing the Lord's work, and they are going back to receipts. And if you think about it, similar to Raquel and Sandoval, you can piece together when that relationship likely started from their Instagram.

9:28Yeah. Yeah. Have you seen, I think it was in March 2025, Amanda was in LA doing some press. Wes was also in LA doing some press. And Kyle was not there. I think he was doing, I don't know what he was doing. But they had hotel rooms in the same hotel literally sharing a wall. And there's an Instagram video of both of them filming one another saying, oh, hey, neighbor. Hey, neighbor. People are thinking this was when it started. Yes. People are thinking that, oh, they shared a hotel, like hotel rooms adjacent to one another. they were filming one another they've been going they were going out together what if this started in march 2025 so well before season 10 aired wow i so i have been in the camp of i don't think this started last summer or before last summer but it could be convinced otherwise i hope on the reunion they're at least honest they won't be because i know i i feel like they're not going to be honest apparently what well no is it like i mean there was no overlap everyone was single i can't do is Was that your West?

10:25Oh, so, no, it just, there wasn't, there wasn't any overlap. I mean, like, we were so single. And Jesse, okay, so Jesse on Watch What Happens Live last week. Lally. Jesse Solomon. Oh. Why, randomly, why would I be talking about Jesse Lally out of nowhere talking about Summer? No. No, Jesse Solomon. I'm sorry, I still can't stand Jesse Solomon, so that's why I try to keep him as separate from my brain as I can be. Also, it's like he, Jesse Solomon is just Jesse Solomon. Like, I don't know why I just called him Jesse. Yeah, I needed you to say the last name as well. That's what it was. So Jesse Solomon was in Watch What Happens Live, and he indicated that he thought that West and Amanda were going, or that West in particular was going to be combative during the reunion.

11:05And everyone was like, what the fuck? What do you mean combative? And this indicates that West behind the scenes still thinks he does nothing. He did nothing wrong. And that I'm sure West and Amanda are talking to their friends and saying, we were both single. Like, what's the big deal? It's not about both being single. Yeah, it's not about that. And it's not about the timeline. Honestly, at this point, it doesn't even matter. But watching Summer House last, and it just made it so much more painful because Sierra and West have this conversation. And Sierra is very emotional, and she's talking about how she misses him as a best friend.

11:36But I think the underlying thing here that was unspoken, and I think in the preview for next week's, for I guess this week's Summer House episode that airs tonight, is that, and Kyle points this out, he's like, is she going to admit that she's still or him? I think that the unspoken thing is that she still has lingering feelings for him, but doesn't want to admit it, understandably, because she doesn't want to get hurt again. She doesn't want to get embarrassed again. And completely understandably, because he ends up hurting her anyway. And I don't know, I feel like that's the unspoken thing here that I feel like, and how is she supposed to get over him anyway?

12:08Because it's like, they're always together. It's impossible for her to get over him. They are still, you know, together all the time. And also West admitting that he resents Sierra because of the backlash she got from the fans. And he says the natural instinct is to resent that person. No, no, it isn't. That says so much about him. That is so telling. Not even making eye contact with her. I think the natural instinct would be to examine your own behavior if you're getting so much backlash from fans. And I'm also seeing discourse about the fact that did West hook up with Amanda to be free of all of the expectations that Sierra had for him and all of the rules that she put in place and all the boundaries?

12:41It seems like he wanted to do the one thing to hurt her so much because he fucking hates her. I don't doubt that theory. And maybe he didn't do it consciously. You know, I'm going to get back at Sierra or rid myself of her forever by hooking up with her best friend. It probably was subconsciously, genuinely. And I do think there is a lot of weight to that theory. And you so called it when you said months ago, you're like, I think because he was a fan favorite his freshman season. There was a New York Times article about him, for God's sake, about how he's the breakout star of Summerhouse. That got to his head so quickly, I think, more quickly than any other cast member has really ever experienced on Summerhouse, maybe even on Bravo.

13:20100%. No one has had such a good freshman season. And do you know what I actually even have to say? I think Rachel Zoe on Beverly Hills and maybe Leah McSweeney from her first season of Roni, the positive reception that they had received from viewers was so astronomical. But I think to see a man on Bravo with such a good reception by the audience is very rare. And it got to his head so quickly. I think that he was riding that high until his sophomore season when it all came crumbling down. And he was like, oh, I'm not the golden boy anymore. And to him, he's like, the natural instinct is to resent that person.

13:55Like you said, no, it isn't. It's to take a step back, understand what it is that I did to elicit this kind of anger from the audience, this kind of trigger from the audience. But instead, he's so emotionally immature that he had to blame it on the person that he hurt. It's like you can't even take a second to look at your own actions and understand what the amount of damage you caused to someone that whatever caused this type of reception from the audience. A complete 180. There's a lack of not even it's a lack of self-awareness that I think I don't mess around with. Like when it comes to maturity, I think the first thing that I always recognize about a person is like, do you have a level of self-awareness that makes you understand the difference between right and wrong and where you could have hurt people?

14:36And I don't think he has any self-awareness. And I do want to call out, too, because I was talking about this also with a group of friends of mine. At some point, it does get very frustrating for me to watch Sierra. And this is coming from my own perspective because I think at that point in my life in like my late 20s, mid 20s, I was definitely Sierra when I continued to allow people to treat me so horribly. And looking back, it's completely relatable. And I think that's why it's so triggering for me. Yeah. It is frustrating for me to see her continue to cry to his face when literally seven days ago, a girl was on his lap making out with him.

15:09And he literally said in front of you how he did not care for her to continue to sit on his lap. It was very painful for me to watch Sierra regress and beg him for his friendship again when he literally did the most disrespectful thing. And then she keeps saying, oh, he's in jail. He's in jail. Sierra, you've done such a good job the last two years to keep him at an arm's length. And now you're going to throw that all away when he did you the most wrong just a week ago. It's very frustrating. And I think it's triggering for me, to be very honest. I mean, it makes us want to shake her. It's like, don't do not, you know, cry for this man.

15:42He does not care about you. He does not care. He can't even make eye contact with her during this conversation. It is so frustrating. I think that he is so, and I've always, I've always said this, not to brag, that I've always hated West. I can see right through him. He's so inauthentic. And it just sucks that she can't see that. Like, it sucks. And yeah, it's frustrating. It's like, oh my God, please don't cry for this guy. And you can tell that, you know, the unspoken thing, like I said, is that she still has lingering feelings. Absolutely. And she doesn't want to say it, which is also frustrating, but also understandable.

16:13And it's just, oh my God, it is just a mess, a freaking mess. She's blinded by love. Yeah, she's blinded because she still has, she can't get over him because she is still around him. How is she supposed to get over someone that she's always still around because of the nature of, you know, the show and their situation? Also, I have to ask you, in this, so last week's episode, when Amanda decided to ditch the house, and she's like, I'm not coming, and she claimed that it was her mental health. So when, I couldn't help but laugh on the boat when she calls Kyle, and the first thing she asks is, where's Sierra?

16:48And Sierra's like, hi, missed you. Wes said it was the best weekend ever. She's like, really? The first weekend I'm not at the house, and it's the best weekend ever? You could tell. She took so much offense to it. No, no, she was like, ah. And then people are comparing it to that caption on Instagram during like the blizzard or whatever when she was hanging out with Wes, but it was like before people knew they were hooking up. And the caption is best day ever hyphen WW. So it's like, oh, my God, she finally got the validation from Wes. Oh, that's so cringy. I didn't even put that caption together.

17:20I've obviously seen that photo. Yeah. Oh, my God. OK, let's stay on kind of. Oh, my God. I feel like there's so much summer house stuff to talk about, but we need to move on because we have so much stuff on our list. You guys know I like to have a good time. And Cheers has genuinely changed my relationship with going out. I feel like once you hit your 30s, even if you're just having a completely normal night, like a couple of glasses of wine at dinner, a friend's birthday, whatever, the next morning just hits differently. Even if I think I'm doing everything right. Baby snarks in their 30s and above, I know you know what I'm talking about.

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20:34And a lot of things change that. You can listen to our saucy episode if you forget why. Basically, I think that she's a brazen racist. And the fact that she's getting a platform still, I'm so confused by Hulu's choices. And speaking of Hulu's choices, Secret Lives of Mormon Wives colon Orange County? Is that what it's called? The cast was announced also at this Hulu Gets Real thing. So a lot of them I haven't heard of. A lot of them we have, which is crazy. Yeah, the ones I have heard of are Bobby Althoff, who did, you know, the interviews with Drake and whatever she's known for. Avery Woods, who we have a whole episode about.

21:09Aspen Ovard, who is in a throuple, and a lot of people have asked to do an episode about her, and it actually is on our docket to do a deep dive on her. Actually, I don't know that much about her. Macy's sister also from Secret Lives of Mormon Vibes. And a lot of them aren't even Mormon. So, like, what are we doing here? Yeah, I read like three of them aren't Mormon. And then also a couple of them don't even live in Orange County. And so I think it's really just I keep seeing comments of people saying it should be secret lives of influencers because it really just grabbing a couple influencers from various parts of California and saying, let's film and let's just let's use our trademark of secret lives of Mormon wives and just tack on OC.

21:46So it brings traction to the show because or like secret lives of influencer wives or secret lives of Orange County wives or why do you have to. So there was a creator on TikTok, and I'm sorry, don't have it in front of me right now, who is Mormon and was basically like, stop appropriating Mormonism and treating it like it's a trend. And what even is this? These women aren't even Mormon. I think maybe some of them are, but not all of them. So what are we doing here? And apparently, Emily Kaiser liked that video. So I think that that is confirmation that her and Avery Woods are no longer besties.

22:19Yeah, I need to know what happened with that because Yeah, I'm very curious. I love me some Emily Kaiser and she's gone through hell and back over the last year. Yeah. Rooting for her always, but I'm just very curious because at the darkest moment in her life, you know, her best friend and her no longer talking. So I'm just morbid curiosity for me about what happened between the two of them. But yeah, I'm just, Stassi's new show, I don't know what she has on Hulu. First, she was starring on Vanderpump Villa, which we got some - No one watched. No one watches that show. Someone commented, I think it might have been on Patreon, they're like, low-key, it's kind of good.

22:51I'm like, oh. Oh, that's the first time I've ever heard of anyone watching that show. Literally. But that's the thing. It's like Stassi, so she has this diehard fan base, which we know she does. The announcement, you know, on Instagram, people were so excited. I was like, okay. But no one watched Vanderpump Villa, even though she was on it? Where were her fans when Vanderpump Villa needed viewers? No, exactly. I am curious what this is going to be like, and I can already sense. It's going to be Stassi being a working mom. a working influencer and Bo constantly being peeved because yes because he has to be the stay-at-home dad and he doesn't have a career because his career is supporting his wife and it's like oh the gender roles being switched and how does that emasculate Bo I don't want to hear about Bo I genuinely do not care about him I remember I listened to one episode of Stassi's podcast with Bo based on a referral of a friend of mine she's like you need to listen to this episode because Bo seems peeved and annoyed with her the entire time it was uncomfortable to listen to and granted that's one episode they have a whole catalog of episodes i don't know if that's the entire shtick of their relationship on air but i remember being very uncomfortable watching the episode like he resents her a lot so i bet you it's going to be that kind of vibe on air and i just i'm disinterested and i love that for whatever reason she was booted off of vanderpump rolls which is fair because of what she did to faith it was awful we've seemingly forgotten about that six years later it's like oh what blm what her calling the cops on faith for what faith almost losing her military benefits for what?

24:18Her saying that she could never suck someone's dick without their consent during the media movement. Oh, I forgot about that. Yep. Her saying Nazi chic because she was wearing like a hat. Her saying, why do black people always make it about them at award ceremonies? How come you never hear about Latinos or Asians talking about their misrepresentation or underrepresentation? Like she, time after time, she has proven who she is and we continue to platform her. And I'm frankly disinterested. Yeah, was she great on reality TV? Of course. Was Jax Taylor great on reality TV? Of course. Was James Kennedy, is James Kennedy great on TV?

24:49Of course. Does that mean we continue to platform these people? No. Yeah. And that is my belief. Clearly, Hulu disagrees. A lot of people disagree. Yeah. Hulu, like you said, she hosted the Secret Lives of Mormon Lives reunion. She hosted the Tell Me Lies podcast. I forgot about that too. She has gotten like so many, like Hulu is trying to make her the face of Hulu. And I'm just so confused by that. But, you know, to each their own. She clearly has, you know, this diehard fan base. Do you think the show's going to do well, though? I'm curious because... I mean, no one watched Vanderpump Villa that time were on it.