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Julie
Previously on Little Talks.
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Roop
Oh, boy. Here we go.
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Julie
it was a she does. It was a really cool vibe.
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Roop
chapter four. Jax Taylor.
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Julie
And she used that money to put a down payment on her house now in LA in the Valley.
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Roop
I like Tom, I don't know, we talked about this. If he was in town, would you go see him?
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Roop
yeah.
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Julie
Just to see what it. I don't know that I would steal time.
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Roop
Really? Is it is it because of the scandal
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Julie
Oh, definitely. The hurt. Yeah. Hurt my ears and eyes.
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Julie
To see what would happen. Like with the crowd being rowdy is I. Everybody's going just to see what would happen I think. Yeah hinting. It's kind of all in his lyrics. Yeah. And he's playing it up.
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Roop
So I guess we need to talk about scandal for a minute. this was, I think last year it happened 20, 23.
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Julie
It was like, yes.
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Julie
Yes, March.
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Roop
Scandal is here's what scandal it was. Tom Sandoval was, not married to, but living with Ariana's Ariana Grande, let's say.
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Julie
I say Ari.
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Julie
Too.
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Roop
He was living room Madix was another, bartender on the show. They've been best friends for a long time. is that, he kind of broke up with Kristen to be with her at some point. and then they moved in together, and they were like Batman and Robin. Like they were a team for years and years on the show.
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Roop
another person, James Kennedy, had a, girlfriend, came in, retail, founded by Rachel McHale, comes in and, you know, at some point Tom cheats on Ariana with him. And although I'm looking at this thing. Well, this has been the whole show for ten years, they're cheating on each other and getting back together and fighting all this.
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Roop
The universe did feel that way?
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Julie
No.
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Roop
And YouTube didn't feel that way.
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Julie
And the rest of it.
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Julie
Yeah. And it was a six month long affair.
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Roop
Yeah, yeah, that one did that.
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Julie
They definitively.
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Julie
Love. And Ariana is best friends with Raquel. So it was it was the ultimate betrayal, really.
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Roop
They're all best friends. I don't see how this one was different.
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Julie
Because they were basically married.
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Roop
Yeah, but they weren't because Ariana refused to get married. Tom wanted to get married.
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Julie
But they were together.
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Julie
Yeah, they had embryos or something.
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Julie
Very serious. Got house?
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Julie
Yeah.
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Roop
In court right.
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Julie
Now. Yes.
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Roop
So this breakup happens. The whole world finds out about it. The term, second of all, was born. And,
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Julie
Which is so funny.
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Julie
Yes.
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Roop
And, you know, that was the kind of bad press that isn't great when your name is on multiple restaurants and a band and arguably the number one guy on the show after tax left. So, they did some pretty good damage to the bar. Tomtom. I read about this initially when it broke the first week or two of their business was up like, 200% of people.
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Roop
I think for one thing, it's easier to,
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Julie
Yeah.
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Julie
Right.
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Roop
Or man.
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Julie
Fight.
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Roop
After that died down, their business dropped, where they were making about 20% or something like this wasn't normally where they were outside clothes.
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Julie
It was bad, I remember.
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Julie
Yeah.
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Julie
All of them on Instagram. But, which was like pleading with people on stories being like, this isn't just about me. And, yeah, you know, servers, who have families to support. And I was like, oh, yeah, like in my brain.
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Julie
Right. That's a lot.
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Roop
Yeah. And, you know, if you're just talking to influencers when you have hitched your wagon to a brand or a person or a person out here, or a person, you know, in such a, direct way, which is definitely what happened here. so he's a guy with no trouble, like she's in her restaurant, actually.
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Julie
Right? Right. Yeah. Yeah.
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Roop
but when you kind of, you know, hits yourself to that, it's kind of a good reminder of the danger of putting a single face or face out there as an investor, your brand, like you've never you could have never guessed two years prior that, like, yeah, the world's going, I hate this character who's like, really a nice guy and super lovable on the show.
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Roop
Well.
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Julie
Don't don't go too far. There.
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Julie
If perception was like full of money.
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Julie
Yes.
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Julie
You change.
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Roop
so yeah, it was it was not good for Tomtom, I think kind of covered a little since it's unclear where that's at. but maybe that's why Schwartz, his partner, is looking to start a new bar with Jack.
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Julie
But do you think you would maybe learn? Because Jack's is kind of a villain character, right?
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Roop
You know.
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Julie
Schwartz is capable of really figuring out, like, maybe I should do business.
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Julie
Yeah. The craziest business partners that guy has.
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Roop
So. So, yeah, you're kind of in here. You mean to me off the mix about this?
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Julie
Yeah.
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Roop
So, you know, yeah, that's had a pretty big impact on their businesses, which they covered a little bit on the show. And then last, this last season, I would guess that finishing right now was kind of the aftermath of scandal. And it was Tom saying all trying to get into prices for the rest of the cast members and Schwartz trying to sell them.
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Roop
And, you start realizing that at the end of the season, it's not just about like the restaurants or the side businesses, it's this is endangering the core of everything. Like the entire show, right? Being some trouble because of this. Now, I know they didn't really get numbers this year, but when you see how it kind of plays out and that some people don't want to be involved with this anymore, it makes it kind of tough to go for it.
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Julie
So yeah, where do you go from there.
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Roop
And some of the characters or cast members? Well, I'm particular actually call out to, hey, this is my livelihood, I exist and the money I make is because when we have a reality show, people watch, right. So we need to work at this. And that was when we started to complain about the the best bartender who's the server now that complaining about who's running the reality gig for the for all of them.
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Julie
I'm not just completely, fully angry. Yes, other people feel the way they feel.
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Roop
Fourth wall breaking. Look at the camera. I'm mad about this topic.
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Julie
Yes.
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Roop
So that's what happened with Tomtom, right? I'm not joking about that one.
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Roop
Okay, here we go. Chapter six Arianna Madix is married.
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Roop
There it is.
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Julie
Clean.
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Roop
This is the woman who is kind of. Kind of. She was at the center of scandal with, Sandoval because she was the one who was, cheated on.
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Julie
The victim.
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Roop
But before we talk about her victimhood. I got some issues.
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Julie
yes.
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Roop
so she had promoted herself, and that's through the show she's been on also since around the last year, maybe a year or two before, as I care to move into my character. And she started seeing Tom. she's doing fine. She's like, probably. No, not probably. She's arguably the most successful, I would say cast member at this point, for sure.
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Roop
Broadway star?
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Julie
Yes.
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Roop
Did she make on that.
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Julie
$1 million?
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Roop
Kind of good reviews.
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Julie
Yeah.
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Roop
Yeah. People loved her on.
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Julie
Their rave reviews.
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Sarah
Too.
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Roop
She's like, I forgot about that. Dancing with the stars. She didn't tell anybody about. And she got really upset. I don't like.
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Julie
Drama.
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Roop
Drama. she also snagged a hosting gig on Love Island.
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Julie
Right? Yes.
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Sarah
Not the U.S. version of things.
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Julie
I've seen the UK season, but that's like 50 episodes. Or like it's every day and night. Yeah, that's too much for me.
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Roop
Because she's on there, though.
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Julie
Now, I'm not that much of a stand.
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Roop
So this could be a mistake on her part. So is she's strong enough to go out away from Vanderpump to do her own thing because it's.
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Sarah
Like, yes, we'll.
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Roop
Find out. Right. Like. Is her going to Love Island? The producers probably started getting some great, things. And anyone else want to try things from Vanderpump. They want exposure on it. And they talked a little bit about her being a host on Love Island. But, I don't think she's coming back to the show.
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Julie
You don't.
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Roop
Know? I don't think she's coming back to the show where we're going to see Love Island as a cross-promotional opportunity there. So I, I this is a weird one for me.
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Sarah
I don't think she's going back.
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Roop
I don't think.
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Sarah
Yes. She's just seen so calm in the ring.
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Julie
Yeah.
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Sarah
Last one kind of mentality.
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Julie
I hope she's not. But we can get that later.
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Roop
So the other things that she promoted while she's on the show was a cocktail book with Tom Sandoval.
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Julie
Yes.
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Roop
And he found his way in there. and then she currently she's just open this last week, I think, a sandwich shop with me. Katie Maloney, you know.
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Sarah
Something about her.
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Roop
Which is kind of based off more on movies and things like that.
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Julie
Nora Ephron.
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Roop
Yeah.
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Julie
You know, it's, it's not Nora Ephron. It's, It's.
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Sarah
Yes.
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Julie
Yes.
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Roop
Yeah. I often direct smart Ephron.
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Julie
Oh, well. Nancy Meyers. Like, that's what the world knows.
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Roop
Like, you've got mail in here.
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Julie
Right, right, right.
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Sarah
Yeah. Yeah. For these.
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Roop
Okay.
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Sarah
So I also say that they should have named their sandwich shop The Better Half, and I will. Yes. Didn't do that.
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Julie
That's a genius. That is genius.
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Roop
So, now he's getting to it, I guess. So. Ariana's whole vibe. In addition to promoting the sandwich chocolates, she got the same country everyone else did you get to see and, work on it, get launched, and now it's finally like, they they need to talk a little bit about her doing Love Island and the Broadway. Different stars and that stuff that easily the only reason she exists on the show this season seemed to be to deal with the scandal of Fall Out.
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Julie
Right.
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Roop
And I, I'm not unsympathetic to her, like she was in a bad way. And it was a bad thing.
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Julie
Very bad.
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Roop
Her entire personality for well over a year. It was draining on her friends. Like, how many times can people say you're sorry? It's time to move on. And, like the fact that she just refused. I really thought that at some point, by the end, she'd say, I'm. I'm these passes, I'm moving all that. I'm out.
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Julie
But she didn't make it. Her personality, it'd be Cina calling her, being like, hey, I'm trying to forgive this horrible man. She's like, I don't care. Like, don't talk to me about this.
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Sarah
And also in the stages of grieving, right? Yeah. For a while, she.
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Roop
Found the boyfriend, like four weeks.
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Julie
Well, do you not want her to have love?
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Roop
Yeah, I do, but that's what I'm saying. Like, she she needs to move on with her life. Move forward. Like it's a terrible thing.
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Julie
Yeah. Right. She is moving forward. But the show is making her. Yeah.
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Roop
And that's kind of what happens in the finale. You see that kind of explode or the producer come from behind the camera, which you'll never see. I think in.
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Sarah
The most recent.
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Julie
Yeah.
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Roop
Now, probably the finale. Producer. Please don't do this show that the always believe. I don't know. I thought it was a lot. I thought the universe was for, was like, give this guy's some grace. The ability to recover from this. People just did not want that. Well, in particular, which I get, but hear me out.
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Roop
The thing that made me the most frustrated about Ariana's, art or personality season was it hurt her telling everyone else in this group, if you're friends with him and you hated me, and that was tough for people who had known him longer or wanted to be given that grace and given that opportunity.
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Julie
Yeah.
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Roop
She was forced to choose between the guy who, you know, did this to her and and her, and that put them in weird situations.
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Julie
And the place of the show, like for you, you have to have communication. I did feel bad for Sheena a little bit about that, but that's kind of it because.
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Roop
You feel bad for Schwartz. Well, she beat the crap out of Schwartz every time he would walk into the room.
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Julie
Yeah. But Schwartz and Schwartz is a different topic because he just, like, needs to man up in a lot of areas.
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Sarah
But I was really proud of Ariana, though. What's your name? I was saying Erica either.
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Sarah
but like, right after skating while broke, she used her.
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Julie
Yes.
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Sarah
Springfield's, like, completely like one of the episodes. Yeah, yeah, I go on about that.
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Roop
But it tells that to her.
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Julie
Yeah. Yes. With his white fingernail polish. Okay.
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Sarah
White fingernails for.
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Julie
Ever.
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Sarah
But she goes out, and Kitty's brand deals with these totally bare and, just really milks it, and I thought that was really okay.
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Julie
Have you seen the one? The recent one with an and the battery commercial, and it's so.
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Sarah
Oh, yes. Yeah.
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Roop
Well, all I'm saying is, all in all, even though they split up and had this huge nuclear fight that the whole world witnessed and felt continue to live together in the house that they bought together, which.
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Julie
That is bizarre. Yeah.
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Roop
That's another thing ahead of time.
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Sarah
I think we are in agreement.
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Roop
But so because of that.
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Julie
Yes. Except that.
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Roop
I'm saying it's.
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Julie
Thomas fault.
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Roop
Tom had to hire an assistant, named him to mediate and decide what he's going to be, what part of the house in different times.
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Julie
Because Tom is crazy in it. Yeah.
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Roop
So? So going and has a battery deal now, too.
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Julie
Yeah. So the ad just saw a recent commercial where an as in a Duracell battery. And then she at the very end Ariana comes in. So they've levered and to now.
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Roop
One of these brands again they're going the opposite way. They see that symbols hate it. Then I think she probably this is mostly see question that.
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Julie
Yeah. Like Uber.
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Roop
Oh that only works if you watch the show. But you kind of understand it better as an inside joke.
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Julie
E for sure.
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Sarah
But very impactful. Have much for the show right. Like this is hilarious. And also did that.
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Julie
Yeah.
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Roop
The timing for them to do that too. So like they would have this at a time. Right. Like that had to happen on the show to try and get those people.
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Roop
It reminds me a little bit of the, Super Bowl ad where the lights went out. I think. Right. but you have those moments, and, I've never, ever thought of TV reality. These, like, moments delivered for ad like.
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Julie
Right?
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Roop
Sometimes the moments I can take it. And so, you know, I love seeing it.
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Julie
Yeah. It's funny.
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Roop
Anything else Ariana.
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Sarah
Just got and she's great. Yeah. And I'm proud of her.
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Julie
Yeah.
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Roop
I love the whole whole show.
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Sarah
Cancel like you're both mad about.
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Julie
It is, which is fair. I think. I think she should be leave the show. But I think she's justified in how she's been feeling. And people are like, why don't you talk to your ex-boyfriend who just did this horrible thing? It's like, you wouldn't want to do that.
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Roop
I just want to say sorry.
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Julie
With caveats and but yes, this is why I did this.
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Sarah
And you're okay. He was like, first and foremost, defense.
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Julie
Yes. He never just said, I'm sorry.
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Sarah
He went on a podcast and it was defensive and yeah, really just made it worse for himself.
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Julie
he needed to grovel for a season. Then I could get behind it.
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Roop
So he. Is he. So he could be back in a few verses in the future.
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Julie
I've never been a Thomas in person, but she's.
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Roop
Already been there. If I took you to West Hollywood. Yeah, I'm going to go do it. Vanderpump restaurant bar tour. Would you go to Tomtom?
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Sarah
Yes.
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Julie
But would you go to Schwartz and Sandy's? Yes she would. I just I do, I do, I would do that work.
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Roop
All right. That's it for the cast. Now we're gonna talk about Lisa Vanderpump. The Queen. She's one of chapter one, chapter seven, Lisa Vanderpump. she knows what she's doing. And she has an entrepreneurial spirit that you see in the shows. Like, you can see her hustle kind of working. She's working on that. Like you never really see how it ends up, like your daughter and her daughter or son in law over the weekend, or some liquor license deal or something they're trying to get from, like, I don't know what ever happened with that, but she's going to see that she's kind of in the spirit.
00:17:54:24 - 00:18:00:28
Roop
this shows that we just talked about earlier. Initially, we're all sat in her restaurants.
00:18:02:25 - 00:18:08:23
Roop
I think the first one I think is close. I think sales or pop up opens during the show.
00:18:08:23 - 00:18:10:19
Sarah
Right.
00:18:10:21 - 00:18:16:01
Roop
oh. Very close to but close pump's closed. So it's a little bit.
00:18:16:04 - 00:18:21:23
Julie
Yeah. And the rent gotten crazy apparently that. Yeah.
00:18:21:25 - 00:18:33:01
Roop
So she's kind of constantly got those open, and she's got, the restaurant in Vegas, a terrace. She has a nightclub there as well. And Caesars, I think, she's got the.
00:18:33:04 - 00:18:40:04
Julie
Oh, yeah. Oh, she's partnered with someone that. They've just got it down right.
00:18:40:05 - 00:18:43:21
Roop
She's got her, you know, vodka and the wine. The rosé.
00:18:43:24 - 00:18:45:27
Julie
Yeah. The rosé. She always has a glass.
00:18:46:05 - 00:18:51:10
Roop
Yeah. And so she's she's actually doing pretty well. And these things are all quite central to the show.
00:18:51:13 - 00:18:52:07
Julie
Yes.
00:18:52:10 - 00:18:56:22
Roop
But the whole episode, especially the first, like, eight seasons, happened in her.
00:18:56:22 - 00:18:58:04
Julie
Restaurant, right?
00:18:58:06 - 00:19:04:11
Roop
Which is like crazy. You know, cameras running around, people yelling and throwing things. But that's why you're going to want to see it.
00:19:04:17 - 00:19:05:21
Julie
Exactly.
00:19:05:24 - 00:19:12:13
Sarah
Yeah. Some of these restaurants. But this is literally the ground that moment there. But that.
00:19:12:16 - 00:19:14:10
Julie
Right. Right.
00:19:14:12 - 00:19:18:25
Sarah
How does she do that? you got some of the, like HGTV.
00:19:18:27 - 00:19:19:22
Julie
Yeah.
00:19:19:25 - 00:19:28:04
Sarah
As well. Kind of be interested because. Yeah, you're watching the business. You built, you built, and then you can go see it.
00:19:28:06 - 00:19:32:00
Roop
And, you know, the other thing she did and does, I think, you know, she has a dog place.
00:19:32:02 - 00:19:33:13
Sarah
Oh, well.
00:19:33:15 - 00:19:36:09
Julie
Yes. Vanderpump Dogs. Right.
00:19:36:11 - 00:19:57:05
Roop
Dog. it's a she's a she's a local again. It's a central, well kind of side area of the show. Like there's a whole episode that also people are sitting around there talking for the show. Yes. They're, just a pretty clever, energy, but just one of her charities as well. Yeah. What about her making money?
00:19:57:05 - 00:20:10:24
Roop
She's also, you know, helping with charity. She works in by featuring them on the show, which I think is pretty cool. Yeah, I've heard she's either not is, lovely in real life or that you don't really know.
00:20:10:24 - 00:20:13:22
Julie
Maybe it to me. She's lovely.
00:20:13:24 - 00:20:14:12
Roop
Best.
00:20:14:14 - 00:20:17:29
Julie
Yeah. She has to be in person.
00:20:18:01 - 00:20:20:26
Sarah
I think this is what we're fighting about is I was like.
00:20:21:02 - 00:20:21:19
Roop
I have a show.
00:20:21:19 - 00:20:35:23
Sarah
On. Yeah. She pretty much is always doing something for the. There's, like, all of your decisions are for the business. And I don't ever think she is, like, not thinking about that. I mean, so that's where I'm kind of like she.
00:20:35:25 - 00:20:44:17
Roop
Well, I always I wonder, like, how much is her and how much is resistance and things like that. But like, she has a lot of businesses, a lot of irons in the fire and she's kind of constantly.
00:20:44:20 - 00:20:45:11
Julie
Yeah.
00:20:45:13 - 00:20:48:13
Roop
Know, get me like in shows.
00:20:48:16 - 00:20:55:20
Julie
She's also like an executive producer or something on all the shows, including The Valley, which she's not even on.
00:20:55:20 - 00:21:08:17
Roop
That really shocked me. I wonder if she's got the executives. That was Jackson Brittany, who came to Bravo with that pitch and they bought it. I wonder if Lisa has the executive producer credit just because it's in the Vanderpump Universe.
00:21:08:19 - 00:21:09:02
Julie
Right?
00:21:09:02 - 00:21:14:07
Roop
But she has some rights to any shows they have or find creative around characters. Is the feature on her show?
00:21:14:10 - 00:21:16:18
Julie
I guess, over there?
00:21:16:21 - 00:21:18:21
Sarah
Yeah. So she's like, behind the camera?
00:21:18:27 - 00:21:19:16
Roop
No.
00:21:19:18 - 00:21:21:08
Julie
No.
00:21:21:11 - 00:21:22:14
Roop
Show up on the show.
00:21:22:16 - 00:21:25:02
Julie
Right.
00:21:25:04 - 00:21:32:29
Roop
I don't spoil the show that watched it, but like the last episode, they have some special guests and special guests. And finally Stacey's back, you know, or something.
00:21:33:02 - 00:21:33:28
Julie
Yeah.
00:21:34:00 - 00:21:35:00
Roop
See what happens.
00:21:36:02 - 00:21:46:12
Roop
I have notes for Lisa. Okay. So at least when she's kind of the center of all this, she's also featured all the episodes early on. She's kind of the mother hand to all of that.
00:21:46:14 - 00:21:48:17
Julie
Yeah, and her beautiful house.
00:21:48:21 - 00:21:51:04
Roop
Yeah. Her house is always on.
00:21:51:07 - 00:21:54:15
Sarah
it's very.
00:21:54:17 - 00:21:55:16
Julie
Villarosa.
00:21:55:19 - 00:22:00:08
Roop
Yeah. You know, it's just about anything else.
00:22:00:11 - 00:22:01:01
Sarah
Absolutely.
00:22:01:04 - 00:22:02:21
Julie
Yeah.
00:22:02:24 - 00:22:25:13
Roop
But sort of. Yeah. So, she does a pretty good job, you know, bringing us all together, and she's not hurting for money. but she needed a network to do this, and she's currently Hulu, which is not Bravo, which without anything else. I mean, I love her. Bravo. I don't really know, but. Bravo. and also, that's the network.
00:22:25:13 - 00:22:48:17
Roop
All the shows, except for Vanderpump. And they've been pretty smart here beyond just being the place the show airs. they, you know, they actively engage viewers in these reunions of behind the scenes specials and interactive social media campaigns, but they're also working with cast members to cross-promote the show on the network. Almost every show is on in some way, form or fashion.
00:22:48:17 - 00:22:51:14
Roop
Even Michael the Villa right.
00:22:51:16 - 00:22:55:09
Julie
Or Winter House, Tom Schwartz and
00:22:55:12 - 00:22:59:17
Roop
and then they have their annual conference, which I alluded to earlier that. Bravo.
00:22:59:19 - 00:23:00:18
Julie
Yeah.
00:23:00:21 - 00:23:06:18
Roop
where all these characters from the Housewives shows and Vanderpump and what else is that all it.
00:23:06:21 - 00:23:08:26
Julie
Like Below Deck and all that?
00:23:08:28 - 00:23:09:10
Roop
I forgot.
00:23:09:11 - 00:23:13:04
Julie
Yeah. It's so many southern charm.
00:23:13:07 - 00:23:14:14
Roop
Southern charm. I got to get.
00:23:14:14 - 00:23:17:22
Julie
It on Summer House. I know, yeah.
00:23:17:24 - 00:23:31:28
Roop
I started watching that a little bit. But I was good. It was coming together in Vegas. It's a massive convention. Fans get to meet them, autographs, all kind of stuff. So beyond just the TV show they do, they make. They're. They're making money off of a life event.
00:23:32:00 - 00:23:32:11
Julie
Yeah.
00:23:32:13 - 00:23:39:14
Roop
Literally these these folks are on the show live and breathe 24 seven. It feels like Bravo World.
00:23:41:03 - 00:23:42:06
Roop
you can say to.
00:23:42:06 - 00:23:47:27
Julie
Me and you can sell all your merch there, your, you can sell your products.
00:23:47:29 - 00:23:48:20
Roop
On.
00:23:48:23 - 00:23:50:02
Julie
Yeah. Yeah.
00:23:50:04 - 00:23:59:04
Sarah
I mean just yeah I know when they're like getting ready, getting in the makeup heaven and stuff there.
00:23:59:07 - 00:24:05:18
Julie
Yeah. Yeah. There's always some product placement. Some are more subtle than others.
00:24:05:21 - 00:24:11:23
Roop
Yeah I agree. So, I'm going to read the rabbit a bit and I've got a little nervous. Okay.
00:24:11:25 - 00:24:13:29
Julie
Yeah.
00:24:14:02 - 00:24:50:20
Roop
so wrap it up. Vader bouncers is an impressive case study and a reality we leverage for marketing personal brands, business ventures, and network strategies. and these strategies highlight the evolving landscape of marketing, you know, through entertaining that happens with wine and content and commercial opportunities. One of the things about content and I not quite about content, is, it needs to be a formula, means something to the audience, but like it needs to be in a way, you know, entertainment there, you know, go online to learn stuff that generally, you want to be in attendance online so easily.
00:24:50:22 - 00:25:15:08
Roop
We're always doing that right with with this. But also leveraging that to, what other stuff? How does it work? well, let me tell you, in the same way that, from a show to others, you know, for each of the cast members to upload this content for them across multiple channels. you can do that with your employees as well.
00:25:15:08 - 00:25:19:26
Roop
And you know, that show probably on social channels.
00:25:19:29 - 00:25:22:18
Julie
Although Littlefield should get a TV show.
00:25:22:21 - 00:25:24:21
Roop
That's kind of what this is.
00:25:24:24 - 00:25:28:20
Julie
That's true.
00:25:28:22 - 00:25:54:09
Roop
So any average employees on LinkedIn, they're pretty content. hopefully on LinkedIn around their brand or your industry or what they do in their day to day life. we share that, promote that, encourage that. because, of course, opportunities are right in front of you. Also, look for cross-promotional opportunities within your industry with other industry partners like the trade show or, trade mags, websites, things like that.
00:25:54:09 - 00:25:55:23
Roop
When you, you know.
00:25:57:26 - 00:26:12:07
Roop
But, anyhow, that's it for really talking about the different marketing aspects of the show here. Yeah. Is there any heroes, would you say? these are kind of.
00:26:12:10 - 00:26:29:01
Julie
Yeah. And yeah. Ariana. And until this season, the down I know I just hope you don't get so much hate after this episode because you are Team Sandoval. I want to make that very clear to everyone.
00:26:29:03 - 00:26:32:29
Sarah
Yeah, it's just really nice.
00:26:33:02 - 00:26:34:25
Julie
And trolling.
00:26:34:27 - 00:26:44:28
Roop
For people. okay. Well that's it. Nothing else than when I sign up. Thanks for sticking with this. We know this has been a longer, different kind of podcast from us. but we thought it'd be fun, so
00:26:44:28 - 00:26:48:15
Roop
hopefully. Yeah, I.
00:26:48:15 - 00:27:00:23
Brenda
And that's a wrap. We hope you've enjoyed our little chat and found ways to grow your own marketing strategies. Remember to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts and follow us on social media at Littlefield Agency.