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Joy is back at the ranch—and this time AJ is joining the entire episode.

Fresh off Ben’s Traitors: New Blood premiere party, the three chat about a week filled with friends, cocktails, cookies with Ben’s face on them, cakes with Ben’s face on them and, apparently, just about anything else they could possibly put Ben’s face on. 

But Joy’s visit brings back one particularly chaotic memory: the time she helped Ben and AJ move from Los Angeles to Texas during COVID.

After U-Haul informed them that their “reservation” didn’t necessarily mean there would actually be a truck available, the plan quickly unraveled. A Penske truck was secured, AJ’s car suddenly needed a driver, and Joy—mid-walk in Beverly Hills—somehow agreed to drive it to Texas.

What she thought would be a relatively manageable road trip turned into a 21-hour first day involving horses, dogs, a cat named Annabelle, a truck that could barely make it up hills, gas-station confusion, two panic attacks, fears of the cartel, sleeping in a horse trailer and discovering that simply reaching Texas did not mean they were anywhere close to Granbury. 

And the chaos didn’t end when they arrived.

Ben promptly learned how not to operate his new swimming pool by heating the entire thing to nearly 100 degrees, draining the property’s propane tank overnight and leaving everyone without hot water—all for approximately fifteen minutes in the pool. 

The conversation eventually makes its way back to the present: Joy’s obsession with Patrick the cat, why guests at Ben and AJ’s ranch eventually become unpaid farmhands, another koi pond rebuild, experiencing Ben’s television premiere together, and the people, animals and little things bringing everyone some much-needed joy.

In this episode:

• Joy returns to the ranch
• Recapping Ben’s premiere party
• The Whitney Houston cocktail
• Joy’s newest love: Patrick the cat
• The disastrous LA-to-Texas move
• U-Haul’s questionable definition of a “reservation”
• How Joy accidentally became part of the moving crew
• A 15-hour drive that became 21 hours
• AJ’s Penske truck that could barely climb a hill
• Traveling across the country with horses, dogs and a cat
• Joy’s two road-trip panic attacks
• Surviving El Paso 😂
• Sleeping in a horse trailer
• Finally arriving at the new ranch
• Ben accidentally heating the pool to nearly 100 degrees
• Draining an entire propane tank overnight
• Why Joy is allowed to stay longer than most houseguests
• The ranch’s three requirements for an indoor cat
• Experiencing premiere night together
• What is bringing everyone joy right now

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