When Reality Hits with Jax and Brittany - House of Villains Announcement!

Episode Date: August 18, 2023

Jax & Brittany discuss Jax's return to TV with E!'s House of Villains, Tom Schwartz's questionable new haircut, Raquel Leviss' appearance on Bethenny Frankel's podcast, when Baby #2 will arrive, "correct" parenting styles AND MORE! Check out our great sponsors!!! Jenni Kayne: Find your forever pieces when you use code "Reality" at JenniKayne.com and you'll get 15% off your first order! Care/of: Need vitamins? Go to TakeCareOf.com and enter code “RealityHits50” for 50% off your first order! Article: Need furniture? Get $50 off your first purchase of $100 or more at Article.com/realityhits  HungryRoot: Get 30% off your first delivery and free veggies for life at HungryRoot.com/reality  Sheath Underwear: Go to SHEATHUNDERWEAR.COM and use code “REALITY” to receive 20% off!

Hey everybody and welcome to Winnie out of hits with Jackson Brittany. Hey everybody how's it going? So we're so excited that Jackson can finally talk about something that he's been so excited to share which is House of Villains. House of Vill was officially, I guess, launched or talked about yesterday and social announced. Yeah. It's been a while since I've been on a TV show. Officially announced yesterday, it's going to be on October 12th, on E. You know, what an amazing, what an amazing time that was definitely very interesting. I can't obviously get into too many details about it, but the things I can say are the cast was amazing for the most part. I'd say 95% of the cast was amazing.

So speaking of that, who was your favorite cast member? Because obviously the cast has been announced, like, you can share that. Yeah, there are certain things that I can share about. Obviously, it's on E. Obviously, it's going to be coming out October 12th. And my favorite cast member, I don't think it's any secret. It's Johnny bananas. Yeah. Him and I are very one and the same.

We are pretty much the same person. We got along like, we were like brothers on that show. We literally were attached to the hip, had a great time. And you know, we obviously kept the relationship going on after the show. But yeah, he was definitely my favorite. Okay well then the opposite who was your least favorite cast? Well you know I got into a little tiff with a couple people I don't want to get into it because obviously I don't want to give anything away but my least favorite person would have to be not a good person

I always take people face value I don't like to judge a book by its cover, but everybody was definitely right for sure. Oh drama Okay, so going away and having to say at a house away from me and Cruz How did that make you feel like how are you able to handle that? It was tough. You know in the beginning obviously day one You know, there was a lot going on. We're living in a house together. You know, there's no doors and, you know, there's just cameras going all the time. But yeah, we weren't allowed to have phones. We were giving our phones, but we were

giving our phones between like one and three in the morning. That was it. So by the time I got my phone, my family was asleep. So I didn't really get to talk to anybody. Basically, they gave it to us because they all know that we are working and we all have things going on. So they basically let us check our emails. And you know, basically the reason the more I they gave it to us between one and three

is because they knew we would be in contact with anybody, we can only check our emails. So that was how that went. But yeah, I missed you guys terribly. You left me a very, well, I don't want to give too much away. Yeah, you can't get too much away, because I know you're getting trouble, but still, I know it'd be hard to be away from me and Cruz. It was very, very hard.

You know, I talked about you guys a lot. You know, I had a lot of fun on there. There was definitely a lot of different personalities on that show. There's a lot of people that were legends on that show. Yes, like New York. Even more of a legend than me, believe it or not. You know, I get along really well with Amarosa and I got along good with. I mean, a lot of Johnny Fair play really liked him a lot. He's really funny. We have a lot in common too. We're both very, very nostalgic. We had a lot in common with that,

talking about the 80s and 90s all the time. There's always so much downtime on that show. So we do definitely in some deep conversations. Well, I just remember before you went and like went to the show, he had no idea who is going to be on the cast with him. And I kept saying, I bet you New York is going to be on there. Remember before you went. And then of course, you texted me like the first night New York is here and I was like yes I always loved Tiffany New AKA New York from like flavor of love and I love New York I just always thought she was such a hoot like so funny Like and Fisa too. Did you like her? Oh no for 90 day fiance. Oh No remember well, we love 90 day fiance, but like

I can't remember we really like a like to her like to or not I think that we thought she was main to her boyfriend or maybe he was main to her I can't really remember but we love 90 day fiance either way so we're probably a fan no matter what you definitely get a different vibe from her there for sure yeah that was interesting I guess that I want to I want to talk about it so much I can't wait till this air is because there's just so much to say. And I'm really excited because next week I'm trying to get Johnny Benanas on our show. Yeah.

And he is in Florida right now opening his, he's in Florida right now opening his new gym, which he'll be talking about next week. But yeah, I'm going to have him on next week. And hopefully we can talk about a little bit more. Awesome. Okay. So I have a question from a fan for you, Jacks, from Aliza 25. Thoughts on Schwarze's hair. I have a lot of shorts.

I have a lot of shorts. I have a lot of comments on Schwarze's hair. Obviously he's my friend, so I can kind of give him a hard time about it. But we do have a boys' group chat where we all kind of Hang it we talk we've had this group chat actually since we started it actually for Tom and Katie's wedding So that's how old this group chat is so we definitely all gave our comments Gosh, they're the memes about his hair are absolutely hilarious. There are so many memes about it. I don't know what he was thinking You know like Barbie and Ken, right now, everybody's going the blonde route right now.

You have some people shouldn't go blonde. Some people should not. Well, I'm thinking of whenever you guys all try to dress up as girls for his, remember whenever you guys did that for, for King's bachelor party, bachelor at party. Yeah, shorts. They're, they're joint bachelor at party. Yeah.

Yeah. And you guys all dressed up and like shorts had the blonde wig and I knew then like blonde was not his color. Well Tom is very fair. Tom is very fair skinned and Tom's from Florida and he literally I don't know if a lot of you ever seen the the memes out there Florida man Tom screams Florida man. He looks like a Florida guy who drives a Honda Civic. Mayor and may not be a drug dealer or in on drugs. I don't know. I just didn't like it. I gave him a hard time I'm like Tom, please change your hair back. This does not look good. I don't know who's done that to you

I don't know if you're going through a mid-life crisis. I just all I remember I didn't even know I think your mom Pointed out to me when I woke up. She's like did Tom Schwartz die his hair? Is he okay? Yeah, that's my thoughts. I don't like it. I hope he changes it back. There's a really funny meme out there that I've been kind of sending to my friends. It's a picture of Tom Santaval

and a picture of Tom Schwartz with blonde hair and Tom Santaval had that skunk thing hair going on when he had the highlights of the white. And then on the above, it says, pick your poison. And it's just really, really funny. But I love Tom. Everybody knows I love Tom Schwartz. I love to give him a hard time.

He deserves me to get busted his balls about this one. I'm sorry. It looks awful. He needs to turn it back. I think he did turn it back, actually. I think this was happened a couple of days ago. So I think he did. Yeah, but still it's like the whole Barbeen Kin

thing going on right now. All the guys are trying to go blonde. So everybody, how many Barbie costumes are going to be this year? How many Barbie? Oh, everybody's going to be a barbeere. Everybody's going to be kin. That's going to be a whole thing. There's a lot of people though that should not be dressing up as Barbie. Not to be mean, but you know, I just think there's a lot of people that should stay away from that costume. It's yeah. But okay. So here's another question from Regina underscore on go codes.

She says what other reality competition shows would either of you be interested in joining? It's so funny that you mentioned this because Brittany and I, well thanks to Sherry. Brittany and I, we make it well known that we really don't watch a lot of reality TV shows. We have our favorites, like I said before, 90 day fiance, which we really, really enjoy, but Sherry's been here and she's got us locked in on Love Island between Between Sherry and Ariana being on there, we kind of got stuck on it. We wanted to watch her and see how she did by the way she nailed it. She did a great job. But we've been watching Love Island and we got stuck into that.

And then all of a sudden we took a turn and went into temptation Island. And now we're on a new show called The Big D. The Big D. I don't know what happened because this is so anti-Britney and I, we don't watch reality shows like this. We don't, we like, almost, we don't despise them. We just don't like watching them. It's like they all flew in to each other, you know?

They all flew in to each other because love Island is on every day. So we watch that religiously because we have Sherry kind of gives us the run down on love Island. We love Berge, by the way. Yeah, we're big fans of Berge. I told that to Argan the other day. I'm like, big fan of Berge, I love him. She'senz. We love Berge, by the way. Yeah, we're big fans of Berge. I told that to Argonne the other day.

I'm like, big fan of Berge, I love her. She's like, I love Berge too. So we watched that. And then when that shows over, we kind of just fell into Temptation Island, which that show has been on for a very, very, very long time. I remember coming home from high school and Temptation being on.

So that show has been on forever. And I don't know, I'm really obsessed with, I think I like Temptation Island a little bit more. I think this is the reason why I don't know. I'm really obsessed with I think I like Temptation Island a little bit more. I think this is the reason why I don't mean to talk over you Sorry, I have a lot to say about this Temptation Island just seems it's a little bit more our age group and I think You know, I think it's just a little bit easier for for me to Understand yeah, relate because they're a little bit older. They're in relationships and they're trying to figure out if They're gonna stay in there with a couple figure out if they're going to stay in

there with their couple or not. The love island is more people kids in their 20s. They're just having fun and God, they all look so good by the way. Every one of them, they can barely wear anything on that show and everybody's got looks just amazing, guys and girls. You cracked me out, Jacks, because you were like, they're not really trying to have the mics on that show. Are they?

No, in like most reality. Because their mics are just hanging out everywhere. Oh, yeah. Their mics are just hanging out. They wear them in a waistband. And it's like one of the things I remember starting on the interpop rules is we always hit our mics. We always had to make sure they were hidden.

And it was like every show I've been on, they've hidden their mics, even on House of villains. We never show our mics. So we're just watching that. They just wear them on the outside of their clothes. Or like we're the big necklaces. Yeah. Yeah.

What do they supposed to do? These girls wear practically nothing. I mean, those aren't even know what though? What are they supposed to do? These girls were pricking. They're clean. Nothing. I mean, those aren't even bikinis. I mean, they're showing. They're thongs. Yeah.

So on thongs, these girls are just walking out. There's no order to put them like. The guys are all just chisels beyond belief. But then I'm like, you know what, these guys are 25 years old. I remember what I looked like when I was 25 years old too. And yeah, so I mean, they're just sitting around drinking, you know, having fun. It's like I said, it's a lot of fun to watch that show.

It's the only thing that would bother me about that show is, and which by the way, this happened on House of Villains as well, are the lights are always on. So when you go to bed, they don't turn the lights off. Oh, it cannot stand that. They don't turn the lights off. So the camera, I've never been on a show where the cameras have ran 24, 7. There's cameras 24 seven as I can imagine waking up in the morning with a brand new person and like having to like do your whole morning routine

Like brush your teeth just like wake up like feeling like like I'm not a morning person. We know we know this Very very On not a morning person so waking up and like having to deal with like all those people 24 or seven, I can only imagine. It was crazy. Like I said, I can't get into too much, but you'll see it was definitely like, I mean, I can't get, I wish I could say more, but it was just, I can tell you that the cameras do not stop.

Okay. So what, so the question was what other reality competition show, what either of you be interested in joining? Um, I wouldn't answer. What do you think? Temptation Island? I don't want, I would never do that because I'm not gonna put my relationship.

I don't, We would kill each other. We would not temptation Island. Yeah, I would always be worried. I just, I would like to be a host. I would love to host. I think you know, a host would be so fun. I think maybe like something like Triters, like the murder mystery, like stuff. I think you know how this would be so fun. I think maybe like something like Triters,

like the murder mystery life stuff. I think that would be fun. Something like that. I think from what I'm not mistaken, I think you were up for that, but you know, things kind of got in the way with scheduling. So hopefully next season you can do it. I think it would be so fun to do like a murder mystery game.

And I also think that shows up for an Emmy, by the way. Oh really? Have you watched it? Triters? I know, but I just know that I love murderous stories. Yeah, you would really, really do it, because I feel like I should be a detective in my second life.

Yeah, Brittany's really, she's obsessed with like, those games like Clue and like, what do you call the houses that we go to? Escape rooms? Escape rooms? She figures all that stuff out. She's really into all that stuff. Me, I lose my patience after like two days.

Or like nailed it. Like I love like cooking shows. Like funny like baking shows, like nailed it would be fun. Yeah. Or yeah, I not love Nicole the host. Like I think that would be like so much fun. Yeah, that would be a lot of fun. I think we have a good time.

We love our cooking shows, especially around the holidays. Nicole is the host of nailed it and she's so funny. And like I just think it would be such a fun time. She is hilarious. I remember her from. Jacques. Yes fun time. She is hilarious. I remember her from, Jacques. Yes, Jacques. She was on that show.

I think with John Cena, wipe out or something. I think she was on that first and then she became on the show. Yeah, she's hilarious. She's really, really fun. Yeah, such a good host. So I think that something like that would be so much fun. I would absolutely love to do something like that. Definitely host.

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want to put too much onto this, but like this is a question that I've gotten so many times. This one is from Sheen's 517. Thoughts on ReKill interview with Bethany. She took no accountability. Who took no accountability? I only listened to part of it because I can't believe it. Well, that was the question. Thoughts on ReKill's interview with Bethany. She took no accountability? I only listened to part of it because I can't remember. Well, that was the question. Thoughts on Rekel's interview with Bethany.

She took no accountability. You know, first of all, I think Bethany's obviously doing for the clicks. She obviously doesn't care. I don't think anything about Rekel. She's doing this because she sees like, oh, here's an opening I can have her on. So I'm gonna get a lot of hits,

which, you know, that's part of podcasting. Second of all, I heard a little bit of this Raquel thing and I was just like, this is terrible. I was like, she's just blaming it like, oh my gosh, we're on reality. No one put a gun on your head to be on reality TV. Nobody. And I think, you know what, I can see that the fact

that she's going to need help, you know what? Bravo to her, that's great. But you know, I hear things and I see things that she does and then she goes ahead and says, okay, I'm getting help but then she laughs about it. I just have a hard time believing it. And I really don't have much to say. I don't know this person.

I just know of what I see her on TV and I just found it still very, very hard to believe her when she broke down on camera and then would go in the green room with Tom and laugh about it. So I don't know if she's telling the truth. She's, I don't know. I can't tell if this is real. I can't tell if this is fake. I don't know if she's telling the truth. I don't know. I can't tell if this is real. I can't tell if this is fake. I can't tell if this is just for clicks. I can't tell if she just got paid some cash to do Bethany's thing. I think it's a little bit of all that to be

honest, but I don't really know. So I can't really judge, but it's just really exhausting to listen to. That's why I turned it off. I think the part about Acton like she wasn't very close with Ariona was like the hardest for me because they obviously were very close friends even off camera for a long time So I think that was the part that was like hard But I didn't really listen to the whole thing and I just think like putting too much energy into that anymore is like Like I don't know. It's a little bit much. We beat this horse to death so many times And I know a lot of people want to know about it or asking us about it.

So that's why I had to address it. But I know Bethany is like a billionaire at this point. And what does she care what Rick says? And Rick Hill, I want the best for her. I do want her to like heal and like have growth and everything. But I don't know, people just need to like take account of the ability, grow up and move on. That's the end of the day.

Listen, I don't know, I didn't listen to the whole podcast, but I just you know, just say listen, I screwed up. I made some mistakes I'm getting help. I'm moving on. Yeah, like the dissecting it and kind of putting blame on partial things Well, I blame this partially and I blame this partially and well, and now I don't have this just say you know what? I was on a reality show. I got blinded by the light just like the song. I made some mistakes. I screwed up. I'm getting help. That's all I can say. And that's the best you can wish for anybody.

But the part where she just dissect things and then puts partial blame on certain things, that's not growing up to me. That's not just owning it and saying, you know what, I effed up. Yeah, I will say there's a lot of things I agree with and a lot of things I don't agree with and we'll just leave it at that. I mean, I messed up plenty of times. Plenty of times. But you know, one thing that I can say about myself is, you know what, I can apologize that. I mean, you know, I messed up plenty of times, plenty of times, but you know one thing that I can say about myself is, you know what I can apologize and I can say, you know what?

This is where I screwed up. This is where I need work. And you know, I think that's the best you can do. We're all human. We all make mistakes. Of course, of course. And just grow and let's move on. So okay, here is a question from Julia, JK12. And it says, what you and Jack's biggest pet peeve of each other? How much time do we have left in this podcast? Just keep me. I'm just kidding, I don't have to. Just I guess.

What's your biggest pet peeve that I do? Be honest, tell me. You're not a morning person. No, not at all all you can be very mean to me. You can be very mean. A lot of people don't see that. Oh gosh mean just more like staining up for myself and being irritated. As you should and that thing goes along with being married and like at the end of the day listen. Where this is not the 90s where I the men go off to work and they come home.

This is a different world we live in, where a lot of men nowadays are home all the time. They work from home, so they're with their significant others a lot more. We're, Bernie and I have a very fortunate, blessed relationship to where, well, it can be blessed to get out of your blessed other times she wants to kill me and I want to kill her.

But, you know, we work together, we play together, we raise our child together, we're starting businesses together, we literally are together 24-7 to the where, you know, we work together, we play together, we raise our child together, we're starting businesses together, we literally are together 24-7 to the where, you know, you are gonna drive each other crazy. It's gonna happen. So, I think, you know, sometimes we get on each other's nerves. I wouldn't say there's one particular thing

that annoys me about you. I think sometimes we just drive each other crazy and that's part of marriage. And, you know, there's times where we're like, man, marriage is tough and life is tough is tough and it really, really is. I mean, we've been married now for four years together for eight and I think things can be tough at times and I think that's when you really have to really work at it

and that's when you have to really, your marriage is put to a test and you have to really, really work and you both really have to work at it. I think it takes two and you've got to have to sit down and be honest with each other like we have and and that's pretty much it Well dang, I thought you're gonna say like whenever I snap my fingers in my sleep or something like that I went it like away from me. I'm like whoa I was like prepared to say you snore you fart a lot I'm taking it for a more like an adult aspect because of course we have little things

that hurt us like I leave the cover doors open or I don't put the milk back or something is a little like that but that hurts everybody but I think like I said when you're married and I think I'm just trying to reach out to the people that are maybe going through a tough time in their marriage and they're not used to being with or significant others so much that you know it is work it is work marriage and it can be tough at times but as long as your guys are close and you talk it out and you're honest and you make time for each other, that's where I think it will excel.

Exactly. I agree 1,000%, which leads me into another question and that is from Maddie G. Shores, intimacy with a kid. Question mark. Well, that's funny. You say that because we are actually kind of going through that right now. Let's be honest.

We're very honest on this podcast and that's the kind of thing that Brittany and I are kind of, I don't want to say struggling with, but we have it to a year old and we are starting a few businesses. I'm back on TV again. There's a lot of things going on. Obviously, we went from COVID to doing absolutely nothing to now we're doing so many things. And I'm trying to juggle a bunch of different things. Brittany's trying to juggle a bunch of things. We're trying to raise a child. I got my mother in law in town.

We have dogs, we have a child. And it's just there's a lot. Life is really, really hard. It's hard. And I think, you know, Brittany and I actually had this conversation the other day that we just really need to re, don't forget about us. We us to kind of rekindle things a little bit maybe sometimes I think maybe sometimes we need to put each other first I think maybe we need to step up our date night game a

little bit I think a little bit and I'm definitely I need to initiate more for sure I feel like I've been slacking in the initiation part I feel like you know it's like I said I'm 100% aware of that I'm a 100% aware that that. I'm a 100% aware of that. I've been just, I've been just really focused on like trying to get this bar going and trying to get something successful going because I like I said, COVID really, really put me in a dark place and it put me in a... Which I'm sure a lot of people agree with and understand because so many people lost their jobs and like, you know, there's a lot of people who went through exactly

those same exact emotions. So I know that it would like a lot of people would be like, Oh, you know what? I went through that too. And they're like, you know, realize what we're talking about. So that's why it's so good to share. You know, luckily, we're very fortunate enough that me and Brittany still got to work through COVID. But it took a huge part of our savings, a huge part of our savings. So now we are kind of working a lot, but now we're making up and putting back into our bank accounts, what we went

through. That being said, you know, COVID was a really tough time for me. And I didn't even realize it was a tough time until I got out of COVID, until I started going out into the world, such as going to the grocery store, going to the bar with my friends. And I don't know, not a lot of people who you obviously don't know me, but I'm a very social person. I can go to a bar and I can meet the whole bar in five minutes and be friends with everybody. That's just who I am. I'm just a very social animal. So now when I got back out of COVID and I started going out, I started like almost being an introvert.

I was almost being shying away from this and I'm like, who is this person? And I was getting anxiety and I was taking it out of my wife and I was frustrated because I wasn't the normal jacks that I'm used to being. So I don't know where I was going with this conversation, but getting back to the intimacy part, I think, you know, not blaming it on COVID,

but I just think, you know, I just need to find the old jacks again, and having a kid is difficult. I would not change it for the world. In fact, Bernie and I are talking about having more kids. And, but we just need to find time for each other. The intimacy part is definitely took a little bit of a backseat, but we're working on it.

Yes, we're definitely working on that. We want to have a lot more date nights and also like, not gonna lie, like crews, I don't really like him, not to sleep in the room with us at night. So we're trying to work on that a little bit, like trying to get him in his own room last night, for instance. Oh my gosh, we're gonna talk about this.

It was so cute, it was so cute, so we had to talk about it. So Jackson, crew, me and mom were hanging out because my mom was in town, so me and Okay. So cute. So we had to talk about it. Okay. So Jackson crew, me and mom were hanging out because my mom was in town. So me and mom are hanging out. Jacks took crews to the park. So whenever the sun set, he brought him home. It was like 830 crews was asleep.

So Jacks put him in his crib in his bedroom for the night. So we let his bedroom door cracked. We left on the patio of light so that if in just in case he woke up, he could see through the hallway. We left our bedroom door cracked. Um, and we're just laying in bed and I can, and we have a camera on him, of course. So I hear crews like starting like move around and make sounds, it wakes me up and I'm like, okay, Jackson, Jackson, I'm like, wake, Jackson up. I'm like, hey, Cruz is waking up. So we just watch Cruz crawl out of his crib, like over the top, like do some Spider-Man shit.

Like, it's just like complete little Spider-Man moves, like going down, crawling around, I'm like, okay, I feel like you're asleep, like you're asleep. And he just like walks all the way into our room and crawls on the bed with us. The cutest little thing ever. It was like, we loved it. And he just like walks all the way into our room and crawls on the bed with us. The cutest little thing ever. It was like, we loved it. I honestly was like, it was almost like another chapter in our lives, another phase in our lives. It's like, I feel like now, after last night, I'm so funny that we talked about this because last night

was the first night that we said, okay, we're going to not the first night. We've done it a couple like two or three other times. But the first night we just let him sleep in his bed and we'll say, let's, let's see what happens. And the fact that he just got out of his own bed and came into our bed with his little teddy bear and came a snow next to us with a big smile on It was just the cutest thing in the world to me. It was so cute. I was like he's getting older. He's crawling out of his bed to come and cuddle with his mom and dad. Yeah, and I was like of course I want to understand a battle night. Of course I do. but I was just like, oh my God, this is the next phase of our, our pair of hood. He's coming to cuddle with us. And I was like, it was just,

it was like, I told my friends today, I was with my buddies today. I'm like, you guys will never get this. And I told my buddy who's about to have a baby. And like, these are the little things that are, you're gonna love. And I know it doesn't seem a lot to when you tell it to your friend, but having my son crawl out of his bed

and then come to crawl in with me, I was like, I'm getting emotional right now. I'm just talking about it. Because it was such a cool experience. And I know a lot of people listening are probably like, you know, oh my God, your baby still sleeps in the bed with you. Yes, guess what? Yes, he still sleeps in our bedroom and that is okay.

Parenting is different in so many ways. There is no correct way to parent. It's going to be different from every single person you talk to, and you're going to figure it out on your own. Don't listen to other people. Don't let other people shame you. Mom guilt is a real thing, and I think that we just need to like take it as it comes, and like just be the best people and the best parents that we can be.

Because I'm so sick of people commenting and hating on other people's parenting skills and things like that. Like, we love our kid more than anything in the world. And I think he's the best thing to come and sleep in the bed with us in the middle of the night. I don't even care. I love it. It was just super cute that Cruz came into the room. We like absolutely love that. We've been through a lot of weird things with our stalker and stuff.

So I think that was like a big deal of why we didn't want to have Cruz in his own bedroom. And I know a lot of people aren't gonna understand that, but it was like terrifying. And I just want, you know, as a mom, I don't know if a lot of people know this or not. Just a little back history there. We had a stalker for a long time. So Brittany and I were kind of just a little worried about having our child in a bedroom by himself. Even though he's on the second floor. He's saying we have an alarm. We just, we have an alarm. Just we kind of had a little bit of nervousness,

but we're starting to let go a little bit. Yeah. And of course, this goes back to the intimacy thing. You know, we're just, you know, if we're gonna make baby number two, we can't have cruise in the room 24 hours. Yeah. If you want to, if you want to come to the room later on,

then good. We love it. Okay, here's another. This is a little bit of a change up, but something that we should talk about for sure. This is from Yasmin Alexis. And she asked, does Jack still greet his dad? And how do you help him with it as his wife?

And then she said, a love you guys. Well, such a great question, such an emotional question. I absolutely do agree with my dad. I go through ups and downs with it. There's times where it hits me. There's times I just went to a cancer event a few days ago and it really hit me hard. The match gal. The match gal with our dear friend Jared who found his match there, which was really exciting. But yeah, there's times where it hits me. There's times where like, especially when I look at my son, you know, especially when, you know, everything is just, we're just so blessed, you know, I have a beautiful home, I have a beautiful wife, I have a beautiful

child, and it's just, you know, I just wish sometimes that my father could see this. I know he could see this from heaven, I know he can, but I just sometimes wish that he was here. I'm jealous, so jealous of Britney's mother that gets to be here and see all this and take, you know, and embrace all this. And it's just sucks that my dad can't. I know I'll see him again one day, but yeah, I do. Just answer your question. I do go through moments. It's sometimes when I'm by myself. And sometimes I love allowing myself to think about my dad. There's times where I just want to have a good cry. And I know you're like, oh, Jacks, you guys don't cry. You do.

Sometimes I just want to sit, I'll go out in my backyard and I'll grab my dad's ashes and I'll just sit and have a good cry. And I'm about to cry right now. I feel like I'm thinking about it right now. But yes, I do. And I feel like it's okay to embrace

our relatives that I've passed on. So thank you for that question. I really like that question. I'm glad somebody asked that. But yes, I think about my father a lot, especially right now because there's so much going on in my life, and I just hope that he's so proud of me. He's definitely so proud of you, especially how amazing of a father that you are. And I think that as a wife, like in the second part of the question, how do you help him as a wife? I think just like letting him have his time to mourn him and, you know, let him know how proud his father would be of him.

And to see how he is with Cruz, I think is just a reflection of how good of a father that he had. So I think that's very important. And, you know, I'm so glad that I got to meet him as well before he passed, you know, because I think how many years was I with you before? Five. Yeah. Oh, no, you met my dad. No, you've been the whole eight years. You met my dad.

Let me get it. No, I know I was talking about, like, I knew him for like what, like, three years before he passed away. Three, but yeah, three, yes. Three, yeah. Wish it was longer, of course, but I'm so glad I got to meet him.

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Are you worried about Jack's returning to TV? Don't don't don't. Well, this is for you, question. Is this question? Yeah, I mean, it's really for me. Are you worried about your loving husband who has changed for the better returning to the big screen? No, I think that you like are meant to be on TV. And I think that you've always been such a huge character.

The only thing I worry about is if you get in your head a little bit and like, I just don't want to come across in a relationship, but other than that, I think that like you are meant for this and you will shine. And like I feel like whenever you weren't on TV and you weren't like doing, you know, veteran-primper rules and like I feel like whenever you weren't on TV and you weren't like doing, you know, interprimper rules and like different types of things, I think that you really were down whether you wanted to admit it or not. So I think that, wait, I was down for what?

Like you were down, like a little bit down, like during COVID and like, you know, like I think there was a time that we, you know, you definitely went through. Yeah. I went through ups and downs with it. Yeah. There was times where I was like, okay, I'm done with I don't want to be on the show anymore And then there's times like did I make the right choice? Do I and I got I'm not gonna lie to you I missed being on TV like Britney said I there's I'm just not very many things in this life that I'm good at But I feel like I'm really good to you are and I have fun with it Obviously being on Vanderpump rules was absolute blessing the big people at Bravo or so kind to me the people at Bravo were so kind to me, the people at NBC are so kind to me. You know, everybody through the TV world,

even though when I wasn't often it were always checking in on me, you know, I still get, you know, messages from everybody, all the executives at NBC, including Andy, how you doing, you're still the best on TV, you're still the number one villain to me. And it was just nice, and it's just so nice to finally start to get back into the entertainment world again. Because like I'm just so glad that the fans, a lot of the fans have missed me, a lot of people that reached out and said we miss you on TV, your great

TV, they also want to see where I am now, where Brittany is now, where our family is now because we all, we left the show right after our wedding and it's been many years, we now have a child, we now have a home, we now have life to live now. And it's just nice to go back. And I'm looking at the world a lot differently now. I'm obviously not the same Jackson people are like, oh, you're always the same. You know, that devil on my shoulder will always be there. It'll always be there. But that angel over there just speaks a lot louder.

And I'm just, I love making, you know, the right choices and doing the right thing. And I just feel so much better about myself. And, you know, I feel like that old guy is gone. He's gone and he's definitely not missed. Maybe I saw some of you fans out there and this guy is crazy jacks because I'm not gonna lie. I was a steam locomotive on a runaway train. I was a runaway train. I was a runaway train for many many seasons and you know to be honest I thought and I don't mean to digress here a little bit but I just thought that's what the people wanted. I was a runaway train for many, many seasons. And, you know, to be honest, I thought, and I don't mean to digress here a little bit, but I just thought that's what the people wanted.

I thought, you know, the more I do crazy shit, the more I'm gonna be liked. And the more, you know, I felt like a little bit of job security, you know, I kind of felt like, maybe this is the what I'm supposed to be. And I kind of lost who I was as a person, because my mother and my father did not raise that human being.

So seasons, well, to be honest, right before I met Brittany, that's, that was a different human being. You know, I definitely, when you were with me, you know, you get blinded by the light, you start these shows and you get all this fame and you get all everything handed to you and you're making tons of money and you just don't really care. Like, you know, you go through this diva mentality where it's like, and I went through it even with the sunglasses thing and I hate bringing that up because of some embarrassing.

The sunglasses. You know, like I had a little bit of a diva mentality. I'm like, I'm Jack Taylor. I don't need to pay for things. I don't need to do this. And I feel like, awful, awful, awful, awful. It was awful.

And it was like, I needed that to happen for me to be like, okay, this is like, you need to check yourself. You are not bigger than anybody. And I feel like I'm needed that to happen for me to be like, okay, this is like, you need to check yourself. You are not bigger than anybody. And I feel like I'm kind of going into where Tom Sanovale is. I feel like maybe he had his moment where he was like, I'm Tom Sanovale. I can cheat whoever I want to cheat with.

I can do whatever I want. And I feel like he's had his moment and he's kind of needed this to figure out who he is. Kind of bring it back to real life. So I'm a firm believer that everything happens for a reason. Yes, getting in trouble sucks and acting like that. I'm embarrassed, but I feel like I needed to go through that to be the person that I am today.

Yeah. And I think that you've grown up so much. And like, of course, like the question, like, do you fear Jack's being back on TV? Like, no, not really. He's an amazing, has been an amazing father. And I think that, you know, people are just gonna see how much you love your family, how much you love your son.

And I think that that's, that's gonna show so much growth in you. And I'm excited for people to see that. I hope people like me look now. Yeah, even though I'm not the crazy old Jacks anymore. You're still Jacks, nobody wants. I still do the things that I, I still do crazy things.

I just don't hurt people anymore. I don't make dumb dumb decisions. I still, I still shoot crazy things. I just don't hurt people anymore. I don't make dumb dumb decisions. I still shoot first ass later. I'm still doing that kind of stuff. But you know, as far as like hurting my family or hurting others or being malicious, that's just not in me anymore. And I've had a good time so far on the House of villains. I've had a good time. So we'll see what's next. I'm excited for the future. I got a lot of things happening. Brittany's got a lot of things happening. So we're just being positive and we're just happy to be where we are.

You know, we're happy to be where we are. Because like I said, it was a long crawl from COVID. It really was. Oh yeah. We were at the bottom of the barrel. Just like the whole world was. We were all at the bottom. All of us together.

People were losing jobs. People were depressed. We couldn't leave the house. We just felt like we lost everything. There was moments where like, do we stay in California? Do we have enough money? Are we gonna be okay? There was so many questions.

And I felt like we worked, Brent and I worked so hard to get to where we are today. And I'm just, I'm just blessed. I'm just blessed. We're still very excited for you guys to see what we have coming in the future. We have so many amazing things coming up. Of course, watch House of Villains.

I hope that Jackson's not too much of a villain on there. I had not seen it. So all I know is what Jackson's told me. I don't know anything other than that you guys know. I definitely felt out of place compared to some of the ones in that show. There's people on that show that are a lot more villainous than I.

And I didn't know. I mean, I think I know I knew maybe one or two people on the show because again, I don't watch reality shows, especially contestant type reality shows. I don't really know. Until mom came here and now we're all in these contestant shows. So thank you, Sherry, for getting me invested in all these shows. But no, and I met a lot of good people on the show.

It was a lot of fun. But there's also some people on there that I want to freaking kill. So I'm excited to see myself and well, obviously, how to have episodes where we like recap like episodes from the show. Yeah, I'll be recapping every episode. Next week, I'm going to have Johnny Benanas on. He's going to talk a little bit about it. Like I said, he right now, he's in Florida, starting his new gym. I tell you guys can't talk too much. We can't talk too much. There's so many limits until things come out. Right. But I want him to be on the podcast so we can talk about his new covers

and what he can talk about. He's been on like, he's like a real world machine. He's been on every real world for the last 20 something years. Yeah, like insane, insane. Yeah, he's been a serious contestant. So we'll get into that, we'll get into what he's up to. And yeah.

It should be a fun time. Absolutely. I'm so excited. I can't wait for everybody to see his show and excited for everything that we have coming up in the future. We have an amazing family. I know. I'm really excited. I think my sister is going to be coming in town soon. Yeah. I really excited. I have her on. Like we had mom on. Yeah. That will be fun as well. I love having people from our past on so

we can talk about like little stories from our childhoods and get let people like really get to know us. And my sister and Brittany love to just just be out. I love Jenny. I love Jenny. And she always takes my side on things, so it's even better. She knows I'm right. Yeah, if you're not following my sister already, definitely give her a follow up.

She's the best. She'll be here in a couple of weeks in her and Brittany will team up on me and there's some stories. For sure. Okay, one last question. Really fast. This is from, oh gosh, I feel like I'm messing up people stuff.

Amounted 18. She says, what have you learned about each other since becoming parents? Ooh, you wanna take this one? What have you learned about since becoming parents? There's no learned about each other. So what have I learned about you? What? There's a lot of love. There's not learned about each other. So what have I learned about you?

What I've learned about you is that you are definitely hands on father, which I absolutely adore and love about you. You have set that to the plate and more ways than one. And really, the left for him is just so amazing and so incredible, he's the best thing that's ever happened to us, of course. But I don't know, I think it makes me love you more

because I know how much that you love him. There's so much, I mean, I can go on and on. But you tell me, what have you learned about me since I'm having a kid? Well, I've always known that you're gonna be a great mother since I'm at Brittany. All her friends had kids and she's always been the favorite auntie with all know, with all my nephews

and my nieces, everybody loves Brittany. She's just great with kids and I knew going in, like I don't know if you guys know this, I never wanted to get married, I never wanted kids, I never wanted pets and now I have all that. I have a fish, I have two dogs, I have a home, I have a baby, I have a wife and these are all things I thought I was never gonna have.

So it took for me to meet my partner, my best friend, my wife, for me to change. So if I can change, anybody can change. And I feel like my wife has literally taught me how to be a good father, as long as, as well as my father. I kind of took a playbook, I've taken my dad's playbook. My dad worked his ass off and he'd to give my sister and everything that we could possibly have.

I never knew my dad and my mother's financials growing up. We didn't know that until later in life. But, you know, we grew up very well. I never went without anything I wanted. I always got. And I just want to make sure that I can do one up my dad. I want to make sure that my son has everything like I had. I want to make sure my son has a bank account.

I want to make sure he got good education. I want to make sure he's a nice kid. He's friendly. He's kind. He's caring. He loves everybody. Of course. And I feel like my role is just to give him the tools to succeed in life. And my role is to make him a good person, to make him a far better person than I am, and just to make him as good and as loving as my wife. So if I can do all that, I will be, you know, happy as a clam.

So what have you learned about me? Becoming a player. Did we not get in the way? You even answered the question. But everything you said was so sweet, of course. So we're so lucky. No, I just like I said, I've always known you were going to be a good mother.

There was no doubt in my mind. It was just like, that's why I was like, okay, when you wanted to have kids, I was like, yeah, we can do this, of course. You know, I know I'll be a good father at the time, but you were born to be a good mother. I already know that. So you care so much about our little boy.

I mean, I see him in you every day. You spend so much time. You give him so much. The kid is so freaking spoiled. I don't know how we're gonna do holidays. How he's gonna enjoy Christmas because you buy him so much. Oh, don't say that.

I mean, the kid is the most spoiled kid ever. I don't think he understands how spoiled he is, but you know what, he deserves it. He loves it. He's just so perfect. And he's so perfect. And you know you're just a great caring loving mother and and and I tell you what like I couldn't imagine myself ever having children with anybody else. That's right and baby never to you is hopefully coming soon knock on wood. I know I'm I'm not gonna lie I'm I'm excited for it but again nervous at the same time. Yeah I'm

flying. Time is flying. You know, we said we were gonna have another one by two, and he now he's almost two and he's gonna want to do it. Four months, yeah. Two and four months, so we're a little behind the eight ball on that, I'm getting a little older. He needs a brother or sister, I know that, but I'm just your typical father, right?

I care about the things that dad's caring about. Are we financially ready? Are we mentally ready? Are we physically ready? Are we gonna be okay with two babies and diapers? Like, I just care about- Yeah, Jackson's like checking the thermostat. He's like turning to that like old school dad. I'm such a dad. I've got to wire the lights on. Why are the lights on? Why is the pool on? What's going on here? Why is there conditioning on? Why are you know, I'm that guy. I've turned into my father whom I love dearly,

but I've turned into that guy like are we gonna be okay? Like yeah, you know what? You have kids and you figure it out. Yeah, we'll be okay. We'll be fine. I'm just that typical dad that just worries about everything. Yeah, it's so cute though, I love it. I love what you've turned into. It's got a really, really good podcast. This is a really, really good podcast. You guys had so much fun.

We love doing this. It's like almost like a little bit of therapy for us, getting able to talk about all this stuff and get it all out. It feels so good and I hope that, you know, we're all parents, we're all learning as we go. So that's something else that people need to realize. Like, we're all learning as we go.

It don't be hard on each other. And Bryce, what's going on? We love your family, love your husband, love your kids. Love one another. Do what is best for you and your family. And don't worry about what other people think, because all that matters is what you are doing in your own life and that you are doing things the right way and you're positive and you're having a good time with your own family.

That's what really matters. That's what really matters. If anybody has any questions about kids or what they, you know, you want to have kids or what are the, what are some of the things to look for? Please, please ask. We will make sure we answer these questions. Like I said, we are all in this together. Like Brittany said, we are here to help and we just want to love one another like I said life is

freaking hard life is really really hard and it's so short so just have fun stay positive like with each other up yeah positive energy positive vibes that's what I think for sure. Alright guys, thank you so much. Make sure you ride in for questions for next week. We love you guys. Thanks for listening to Wineryality hits with Jackson Brickney. Bye guys. Have a great week. Yes!