Bros & Shows - Alexia and Marysol Stay Back (Part 2 of 2)(RHOM Full Recap)

Episode Date: August 29, 2025

What's up Bros? The ladies of RHOM are still in Seville. Alexia and Marysol have decided that they wont be going on Julia's trip. Don't worry, Julia is totally fine with it... Lisa gets word that she is officially divorced. Kiki and Adriana are still at odds from the ratchet/ wretched debacle. Stephanie is upset at Alexia and Marysol for not going on the plane. In Marbella, Julia asks Derek to be the godfather to her kids. Things escalate at the Plaza De Espana when Stephanie calls out Alexia. It turns into an all out argument as everyone chimes in about everything. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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She really is. But let's get to lunch. And I don't know what it is about wealth and Lisa. Like, dude, clean it up. I don't know what else to say. Yeah, like the old commercial. Like, pardon me. Do you have any great, Braddon?

Like, I guess, I'll take the jelly. Just be cool. Like, what are we doing? This is the second time we've seen her do this this season. And you would, she wants to say that she has all this money and shit and she lives this lifestyle, which I believe she does. Her apartment's like $30,000 a month. Yep.

Why do you have to embarrass everybody every time you get around people with, like, crazy money? Like, this is, she's talking about the food and like, I love this rich people dinner stuff. is that what it is? She hears like an English accent or any, any rich sounding accent, which, you know, whatever. I think that's just in her brain. Oh, boy, I'm around real wealth. I need to, I need to class it up. Like, you're trying so hard to be rich. And you are for, you know, what it is. I don't care how you got your money. I thought you were rich. I mean, at least as far as I understand. Act. Act like it. Yeah. Act like it. Sometimes it's funny, though. I don't really care too much. No, I thought it was funny. Like, I think it's really funny, especially because of how uncomfortable the rest of the group gets. But, like, we all have this friend or we've all been in a situation where, like, you're at a dinner or an event or something and somebody is a little drunk. And for some reason, they think that they are the best orator in the world. And they, like, need to let everybody know.

And it's like this big moment. And they just keep giving speeches and toast and stuff. And, like, Lisa keeps standing up and giving toast. And people are starting to question. She just got divorced. sure and I I'm not mad at it especially when she stands up and says let's pour one out for Alexia and Marisol he's like okay we didn't just lose our homies dude like what are we talking about here and the best part is she brings that up and you can tell Julius mortified because she's like you know

I wish Lexi she goes that's nice like yells that's nice to cut her off let it go let's see what she says you know I want to see what she says right there yeah but Adriana the whole thing's bittersweet. This is probably my favorite part of the episode. Because when she said bittersweet, I'm like, oh, because, you know, Alexia and Marisol aren't here, so it's, you know, not the same. No, I was kind of hoping I would be asked to be the godmother, and I guess not. Yeah, I love in Adriana's mind.

She's like, well, you've got a godfather and a godmother. Why is she doing all of this patronage when it comes to asking for the godfather? Is she still going to ask me? I mean, I'm still available. It's like, no, I think she's, I think she's asking Derek and, and, and, Jeremy, Jeffrey, I think they're going to be godfathers, and I think that's it. I don't think it's it. Yeah, because there's two of them. I think it's just godfathers is all encompassing. I don't think it matters. Well, yeah, I mean, I get where Adriana is and it's

it's a false season. You can never assume that you're going to be a godparent. That's crazy work. I think this is the best, maybe it's not best case. Best case would probably be if Julia asked her to be a godmother. But when you think about it, it's not like she's asking Alexia to be the godmother. That would be fucking hell on earth for Adriana. We already had that scene in like the second episode where she invited both of them over to meet the boys. Bet me she asks.

What? Now that you say that, bet me that she asks one of them or both of them to make a godmotherer. Think about it. She's defending this move. There are two boys. I'm just saying.

Oh, it's a possibility. That would be funny. All right. Yeah, I hope that happens. I really hope that happens. Yeah. And then I hope like the end instead of like a big party or something, it's just the christening. I hope that's it.

And then I hope that there's a cut scene at the very end. And it's like the villain origin story of Adriana, like sitting in a dark room, just like drinking and just like, they take everything from me. They take everything that I love. It just shows Alexia and Marisol like partying. And she just like goes up to the dark curtain and shuts it.

And that's like, and then a dresser out of like a black dress to the christening. everybody else is wearing white she has a veil on that's what i want to see that would be incredible but we get a little kiki and gertie conversation and we get to the bottom of the wretched ratchit situation because and a lot of people commented in our dms about this that she actually said wretched but it came out ratchet i believe her like we go through the whole thing and the first part is like adrian is so confused like pirate like yeah i'm confused by this one like i mean it's adriana so i'm not going to put anything past her but like that's a pirate word

come on wretched wretched yeah that's a pirate word really sure yeah are these wretched seas I uh I was I was drunk uh last week of the week before I don't remember how long nice dude and I uh well I mean you're gonna love this I well you know how like you go to watch a movie and it's not on any streaming platforms and you're like that's ridiculous I but at that point I have to buy it on Amazon Prime I well I have Apple TV so I just go over and I

I wanted to watch Pirates of the Caribbean. I wanted to watch the Black Pearl. Ooh. Sue me. How was it? I didn't hold up. Oh, dude, it holds up so much. But I, I've been doing this thing recently.

Whenever it's part of a series, I just buy the whole series. So I bought all five movies. Good. Do it. No, I've got them. Yeah. So I just throw it on every once in a while. But yeah, pirate word for sure.

I used to do a good Captain Jack Sparrow. I don't think I can do it anymore. I used to be pretty solid out of it. He didn't drink anymore? Probably. Honestly. Stay here and try not to do anything stupid. That's there you are. But yeah, I was definitely better.

You don't have the sway anymore. Yeah. No. Oh, you mean just be walking? You're way too sober talking about it. You got to be drunk to do it, right? Yeah, you're right. You're totally right.

Let's keep trucking now. And this is the scene we were talking about earlier. And this is Julia with Derek. And they're talking about the current situation with their daughters. I didn't like this at all. I knew what she was doing. Man, it's fucked because this is her way of knowing or she knows that they can't respond.

So she has the power to paint this any way that she wants. So how does she paint it that she's the victim in this whole thing? So you need, if you're going to do this correctly, in my opinion, one, don't do it because you're putting them in the spotlight and making them have to respond to this whole thing. But if you're going to do it, you have to take responsibility immediately and say, like, look. to do like Derek is not going to push you on this topic it's such a it's a sensitive topic all you have to say is you know things are a little haywire right now I mean it just kind of happened out of nowhere which is what happens with adoption and I have to make right with them

I have to kind of figure out how it works for everybody's life instead it's a woe is me you know they need to adjust they need to change things they need to understand that this is how it's going to be and like to some degree sure i i do understand that if this is the whole story if there's nothing else involved and it's just simply this happens so quickly and you guys didn't even tell us or this happened so quickly and we didn't have time to adjust if it's that it'll all be all right but i i it has to be deeper and the fact that we all know it's got to be deeper and this is how she's going about it is slimy it's just not good it's not a good look because they're not there to defend themselves you're doing this on bravo on a show

where millions of people are going to watch this. And now they're all going to have, which, by the way, we already have notions about you. It's not preconceived. But now, even if we didn't understand who you are as a person online right now and your wife, we would have preconceived notions about your daughters. Is that really how you want to go about it? Do you really want to sit there in that moment and have all of these people watching

at home feeling bad for you and villainizing your daughters? Exactly. Like, that's such a dumbass way to go about it. All you have to say is just one sentence. We have to figure out. how to make life work the way that it is. And I hope that we can figure it out. And we're going to work on it.

Perfect. Fine. Derek's not going to push you. We're not going to get any more information. It's going to come across the suite. You're going to have something secret. And that's fine. That's how it should be.

They're not on the show to defend themselves. No, instead we're going to go the route of Martina as much softer than I am and was crying and said, if I got cancer again, would they feel sorry and come back then? What are you doing? What the fuck is that? of course they would you idiot why would you put that out there in the ether why would you put that out there so that now people like it's exactly what you just said i didn't even think of it that way is now some people at our julia stands are going to villainize your daughters they're going to act like they're the problem and we don't know the whole yeah has any stands let's be honest i haven't seen i would hope not but i'm just saying the fact that you could play with that right the fact that you could even put that out there as a possibility that like my daughters are now the villains in my story storyline is brutal and to put it out the cancer thing ultimatum is fucking nuts of course they would come back of course they would check in if she had cancer why would you say this on

tv like i don't it's just nuts it's nuts and of course derrick i mean he's in a tough spot he's just gonna sit there and sympathize yeah and he said that he's going to call and like they can be mad at me if they want to or whatever i just i thought this was i thought the whole thing was one inappropriate two i thought it was an act i thought she was trying to play the the sympathy card as hard as she could so that if they see it they're like oh mom but that's not what's going to happen julia they're going to watch it and go fuck you like what are you doing you're making us look terrible because you didn't push them to potentially and i don't know if they will because we don't really know our daughters that well they seem sweet when we when we did meet them in

what season three or four or whatever you're going to push your daughters to do something that they don't want to do and you don't want them to do which is probably posting a, here's our side of the story. Do you really want that? No, you don't. And I don't really think that she's thinking. And that's the thing is like, I don't think Julie is dumb,

but I don't think she's that smart. I think she's kind of neutral and intelligence, if that makes any sense. She doesn't see that. She doesn't understand that point. She's hurt because she feels hurt. And like, again, we don't have the whole story,

but you're an asshole. So I'm going to assume that you're the aggressor in this situation. And that's unfortunately just how it works. So this is going to play. to push your daughters who are trying to figure it out. And like you said, very Tamer Judge ask, they don't want to be on this show doing that. They don't want their lives. Or they would be. Their family lives put on blast. And instead, you're doing this without their consent. It's not going to end well with you. Correct. 100%. But let's get to Flamenco Day. With Amex Platinum, access to

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It's never just coffee. And we're at the hotel getting ready to go. And we get the first discussions between Marisol and Stephanie and Alexia and others. We're getting two different stories right out of the gate. Marisol saying, Alexia really needed me. I wanted to stay back with her. she was going through it. Alexia's saying, due to all the rules, we didn't want to go. So you didn't get your story straight, which even if you did, Alexia would blow up your spot regardless. It doesn't

really matter. But that sets the tone as we depart for flamenco Plaza is what I call it. Plaza de Espania is where they're headed, which I guess is where a lot of flamenco dancers gather. So it's kind of a special occasion. And the best part about this whole thing is Julia Marisol and Alexia I believe set up this happy birthday, Felista Cumpalianos. I don't think Alexia was involved, but yeah, Marisol and Julia definitely did.

Julia says that Lexi was involved. And that was the funniest part of this whole thing is as it's happening, it works. Like Stephanie's crying. She thinks it's really sweet. We do get a reminder that some of her abrasive behaviors due to the fact

that she doesn't have a lot of friends. So that actually makes sense with like the rules and that she doesn't really know how to operate in this setting. That gives her a little bit more of a pass. and also it was ridiculous because as soon as she sees that it's working, Julia says, I don't know, 10 times, we did this for you.

Me and Marisol did this for it. And Alexia, like we all did this for you because we love you. She kept repeating it over and over again, trying to force it in there like, hey, see, we're cool. Just because they didn't go on the trip, they're still cool.

Like, look what they did for you. They hired you birthday singers. I mean, sure, it's a very sweet sentiment. It's nice, yeah. It's nice for somebody, and I think, I can't remember who it was, but there was somebody recently on Housewives and Newby. Maybe it wasn't that recent. I think for some reason, I think it's Diana Jenkins who said, I've never been on a girl's trip before. Like, just straight up, I've never been on a girl's trip before.

And that's the type of behavior that you see. And it sucks. Like, you kind of feel bad for the person because they're like, oh, whatever. But that's the life that they lead. Fine, whatever. It's just, it makes sense for what we've seen on this trip when it comes to Stephanie. She can't really handle it because she's not the type. I mean, even like, you know, dating girls, like marrying girls, like, you see how

girls groups work. You understand how they work when they have a lot of friends. And it's wild. It is insane because guy groups are completely different. So if you have somebody who just doesn't have friends and doesn't really invest that much in their social life, they're not going to understand this. You're throwing them into that. I don't know how old Stephanie is.

Let's assume she's like 42, 43, throwing a woman who has never really did. into that situation before for the first time just doing that, throwing her into the middle of a situation in Seville. Like, that's crazy. It's not going to work out well. And she's going to have a lot of anxiety about it. She's going to be overwhelmed. And this is what we're seeing.

So it does make sense. Yeah, it tracks. And it does give her, like I said, it's a bit more of a pass. She's getting her sea legs, so to speak. And especially throwing her into a housewife show as her first friend group would be a daunting task. Yeah.

But it's just. funny because like we've heard her at one point get mad that like you've ruined three dinners that's like you you will never get through a dinner on this show it will not happen it never happens it happened once in salt lake and it was crazy but you're never going to get through a dinner and then she says in this scene because they're being nice to her now and like the happy birthday thing she's like i got whiplash like what do are they nice when they're not i'm like welcome to housewives like this is what happens you got to get over things quick or else you're not going to survive here but she pulls alexia to talk

Just the best move to not have both of them, one, and two, not to go for Marisol. Marisol smart enough. You know what the best move right away, too, when Alexi is just saying, I don't feel comfortable about Marisol here. Why? Why? We can have conversation. Why do you need support?

What do you need support for? Well, the two of us decided to stay together. Okay. I'm trying to get it for you. Marisol, Marisle threw this whole party for me, but I still feel slated by you. So I'm going to hold off on, which, by the way, incredibly sound reasoning by Stephanie. Marisol threw a party for me. I'm cool with her right now.

I'll talk to her about it. Maybe tomorrow, maybe the day after when we get back to Miami. Who knows? But with you, I know for a fact you didn't throw this shit. Let's talk about it. What happened here? Because I'm hearing a lot of mixed stories. And I just, the way these two go after each other is so good because it's just two very different personalities clashing.

And it's fun to watch. I completely agree. Because they are similar in a lot of ways, you know, like they're both hardheaded. they're both stubborn and they're both quote unquote alphas yep but they operate way differently and so that makes it really intriguing because that's where they're going to butt heads is because the like the cornerstone of it is that they're both i don't know they're alphas i don't know another word for that yeah so like you get these great conversations where no one's going to budge what was funny is that alexia immediately throws marisal into the bus no it was more her there's

more her so talk to her it's like you can't handle this shit like you're actually not one is not your strong suit no you need backup you need backup to bounce off and deflect and she's like well you know she tries to go the route of like i needed a day for myself maris i wanted to stay with me and she's like oh well i heard that it was because of all of my rules actually is why you didn't go so so what is it actually she's like let's alexia say her piece that's important let's her talk and then she steps in and goes okay the way i felt which i love the preface of like this is how it made me feel because you're supposed to let her finish that sentence because it's it's not how you felt it's how she's feeling and you can't dictate her feelings

the way that I felt she goes don't take it personally yeah wait you don't get to dictate that either they can't do something mean and that's like saying no offense but go fuck yourself like it's it doesn't work she's upset because you guys ditched her after saying that you're like trying to be friends with her and trying to be close and this and that you ditched her on a 40,000 plane so she feels some type of way you don't get to say don't take it personally and then you go. You go. I'm just sorry. It's just it she, she never gets the facts because Alexia won't let her. And that's really all it is. All Stephanie's trying to say is, I feel slated. The rest of the girls have said that you didn't want to go because of my rules, not because you

wanted the day, not because you were feeling overwhelmed, not because you and Marisol just needed some alone time. None of that was really conveyed. It was simply just you didn't want to go because you didn't trust me. You thought that I was going to leave everybody stranded. which, to be fair, Stephanie did say they can take a ride back. They can drive back. I don't give a shit. If they start some shit on my plane, like, yes, that is dangling the carrot. That is 100% dangling the carrot of the private jet.

You can't say shit like that. But when she said it was when you guys were all in agreement. Now, I'll leave Marisol out of this. But when you, Larsa and Stephanie were sitting there, you were all in agreement. Yes, let's put this person here on the plane so that there's no issues. And if there is issues, fine. That would be funny. That's how we're going to handle it.

You were laughing about it. So now you're saying you don't trust it, as if you were worried I was going to leave you, because that's really all it is. You weren't worried that she was going to leave Adriana, Gertie, Kiki, anyone, Lisa, to have to ride back. You were never worried that you weren't going to be able to ride back because you can conduct yourself in a right behavior that you'll be okay. So it's just bullshit. And I love that she took this approach because obviously the answer is simply, we're fucking tired of the bullshit. it's been a long trip you guys were going away we saw an opportunity and we just decided to stay it's not about your rules i just didn't want to go and i didn't want to deal with them anymore fine i think

would have gone over well instead you stick to your laurels here and you double down and blame stephanie and then when she starts to talk again you just go right over her who's saying that i don't know what's going on and that's when everything just evolves yeah and she's like who said that's like that's not the important part but julius said it gertie said it multiple people had said it that it was your rules she's still trying to combat it until she says, I let you finish. She's like, see, this is your problem. You're condescending. I'm like, hey, Glass House.

Like, are you kidding me? You put down everybody. You had a narcissist party claiming that you're the only one in the group that's not a narcissist because you're too empathetic. Like, the way that she sees herself compared to the ladies in this group is fascinating to me because you're part of the problem, Alexia, but you claim to be above it. And you're proving in this scene right now that you're not. And that's when she starts to go out.

after the Marisol route. She's like, well, like you're talking to me and not Marisol. And a great response from Stephanie. She's like, because I'm talking to you.

I'll talk to her too. But you guys, you know, you're twins and I need to be able to get you one on one to see how you feel to see how she feels. And I think that was perfect. The twin line, which Alexia tries to spin in her favor.

I'm like, no, it's not working. Yeah, my dad was an identical twin. Okay, cool. That's irrelevant to what we're talking about.

Production just decides to show a picture. It's like, of her guy. What do we care about this? Nothing to do with anything in this whole scene. No, the twin comment was very funny because it's like, what does that even mean?

Like it got Alexia just enough where she's like, what are you talking about? What is that? And it just pushed her off of her game a little bit. It got Stephanie back in. 100%. And she starts listing the reasons. Like,

you know, you're telling people I'm dangling my private jet. You spoke to everyone else before you spoke to me. You're threatening or saying that I'm threatening to leave people. They're like, who the hell do you think? think I am, Alexia, this was the most contradictory part. And I don't think that she obviously didn't clock it, but she's like,

you're trying to separate people in this group. I'm like, no, you're trying to separate people in this group, Alexia. As a matter of fact, you and Marisol separated yourselves today. So that's a bad defense. But you can tell she's so rattled that she can't really keep it together. And it kind of devolves and they go back to the main group. And Steph, Steph, my friend, Steph. She outs Alexia to Julia.

She's like, or to Lisa, she's like, they wanted to leave you behind. Boot, mic drop. Now, that wasn't even what happened. I know. That wasn't the best part. Yeah, like Stephanie also, Stephanie alluded to the people in the group right now that are creating chaos. If they act up, I'll leave them. They'll drive home.

I don't give a shit. Fine, whatever. Stephanie said that. Alexia agreed and maybe said Lisa, maybe said Adriana, who knows. but that's what happens and that's all you have to do it just creates even more chaos then everybody starts fighting

Lars is going to step in and say actually I was my favorite part actually I was me I wasn't comfortable being on a plane with you and if it turns to that then that's fine and you even see when they were doing what were they making plates I think they were painting

tiles tiles tiles tiles tiles yeah planting tiles you see Alexia Marisol are like oh god like really and it just got worse for Marisol Marisol is the most relatable. She's like, are we really fucking doing this? I just don't want to deal with it.

And it got to that point by the end of the night where she just didn't want to go. She simply didn't want to go. Alexia had to get on board, but still, it's so funny just throwing this to the group like, hey, Alexia wanted to leave you behind. That's why she was upset. That's why she said that I'm a bad person. That's what's going on. Now go.

Have fun. Actually, it was me. Then you've just got the cross fighting of Alexia and Stephanie. Marisol, someone involved loosely. she doesn't really want to be involved. And then Larson and Lisa are yelling over each other. There's a lot of good insults going over. Petty Pippin.

That's great. She said something like you're lumpy and frumpy or something. She said you're frumpy. Yeah. Yeah, she called her frumpy. That's such a tough word. That's how we come back from. It boiled over.

I mean, we were waiting for it to eventually just boil over. Like we've gotten these little squabbles here and there. Kiki and Adriana, by the way, completely left in the dust. Perfect. It's a very issue for last night. They both identify it. Like, hey, yeah, I said Richard, not ratchet, but I understand, okay, this is nothing. What we have right here is nothing compared to this shit.

Let's just move forward. Okay, cool. Yeah, Kiki's like, look, I didn't mean that. Like, I'm so sorry. Like, I think that you're beautiful and you should own that you're like an older woman, but still so beautiful and powerful, blah, blah, blah. I was like, yeah, it was sweet. And like to watch them both look at the group yelling at each other in this beautiful setting and be like, we're good.

Yeah, we're good. Gurney and Kiki are fine. They're sitting there. They're like, yeah, this is, this is fun to watch. This is okay because we're not involved. My favorite part of it is Stephanie's just going after the twin thing and that, you know, they speak for each other, this and that. They're literally, they being Alexian Marisol, speaking for each other that they don't speak

for each other. It was awesome. They're like, we're not twins. I don't, and they're finishing each other sentences and shit. They're saying the same thing. I'm like, you guys don't even see it. It's so good, dude. it's so good the last scene is a a triple juxtapose scene which is really tough for me i got my

new system now so it's a little bit better but we got 14 a marisole adriana and uh i forget who else is with her lisa i believe uh no 14 b is lisa alexia julia 14 c is larza and stephan so larcen stephanie stephanie's obviously not feeling very good about this whole thing and she's starting to see what we all kind of saw it's like this, it might be more Marisol than it is Alexia. Maybe I was looking at the wrong person, like Marisol is the ringleader. Marisol, she's now talking about the Richard Branson trip and who she wants to invite and she's in a tough spot, which I actually like, like, I'm a firm believer in cast trips need

to be the whole crew, but after a cast trip, if we have a fallout and we need two factions, to kind of just check in on how everyone's doing in a peaceful setting. I like that in like a recovery mode kind of deal. Not only that, in that scene, too, while Marisol is like, I don't know who the fuck to invite. Who puts her hand on her shoulder, Adriana? I know. She's like, you can invite me. It sucks.

Like, I understand. I fully get what's going on. And she's receptive to it. I'm like, okay. I'm coming, right. Who? The way that these groups, because it just kind of goes from that big setting where everybody's yelling at each other. And then all of a sudden, it's like, we've got three here, three here, two here over here.

These groups are so random. And I like that. Lisa Alexia and Julia. Yeah. Like, how did that happen? Lisa was going to be uninvited by YouTube. And now you're like chilling with her like Kikian and talking about everything. They're commenting on Larson being up Stephanie's ass, which I love.

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Listen to Unspooled wherever you get your podcast. And don't forget to hit the follow button. You see Alexia kind of seeing in with, like, Lisa, and she starts to kind of hammer home the Larsa thing, because she knows, she's like, look, I'm watching that. I feel so bad for you. And it's all because Larsa's just defending Stephanie. She's not doing things that Larsa usually does. Usually Larsa will separate herself from all of it and fight her own battles.

And she does not care if she has anybody's back and she doesn't care if anybody has her back. We've seen that for seasons. So this has got to be really weird behavior for them watching a new person come into the group. Like, yes, she's rich. Yes, she seems to be friends with Larsa. But we've seen Larsa burn bridges quick. She doesn't defend people. So why is she defending this person?

It's all because now Alexia's got beef with Stephanie and it's enough where she can look at Lisa who's got beef with Larsa, even though they're not that close and say, I kind of see it now. I get it. And if everybody else on the cast is going to sit there and they've all had problems with Larsa, and this is, by the way, not to throw O.C. back into the mix,

this is what makes Miami great versus a show like O.C. If you could have that with Tamara, where Tamara is weirdly up somebody's accent, ass. And you're like, what the fuck's going on over there? And everybody can kind of just look inward, whoa, she's done a lot of things to us. And now she doesn't have our back, but she's doing weird behavior. What the hell's going on there? And they can sort of push back. Like, all right, what is that? Maybe we can have somebody else's back. Maybe we can have Lisa's back against Larissa, because we do see how this is going. The two aren't really connected,

to be honest. It's just self-serving. But sometimes on these shows, a self-serving purpose can join up and create a team because you can go after the same person. You can go after the same group if something's a little off. And I like that. And you can also create conflict between two people that are trying to be friends again and Lisa and Marcia, but the conflict won't go away. Now Alexia's pissed because she's pissed at Stephanie.

And by proxy at Larsa, now you can drive a wedge. Now you can be like, you know, fuck you, Larsa. Hey, Lisa, I'm on your team. Larsa sucks. And it's like, great, great. Okay with a wedge. It's been so long since we've had a housewife show where there's actually been a wedge and we used to like this we used to love in certain shows and salt lake does it every

once in a while although that's kind of moving into different direction where you'll get a wedge once or twice a season but it's with different people it's never just the same factions it's not like you know jersey it's not like fucking potomac was for a little while where it's like okay you guys will not talk to each other and it never happens and we never budge every once in a while we get a little come together but then you break apart again into the same factions the best housewife shows are the ones where you get new allies every season. Somebody has something that's in line with your goal or what you want to get across and you can team up with that person that we didn't see you be friends with the season

before. That's what makes it great because you get to see all these different personalities mixing together instead of just, oh, you guys are friends and you guys are never not going to be friends. That's great. Yeah, Miami does that exceptionally well. We see that season after season of different people coming together to accomplish some kind of goal, whatever that is.

but the episode ends with a funeral. I was so confused because they're like, this is a sign. I'm like, of what? Like, the group's dead? Like, what does this mean? And Alexia luckily, like, paints it for me. So I understand.

She's like, life's too short. We have no time. Right. You know, we have a come to Jesus moment. I thought it was going to be like, if we don't come together as a group, this is how we're going to be. The show's dead. Yeah.

I don't, I didn't know where she was getting at, but it's the fact that time is fleeting, life is fleeting. So we need to, we need to get through this. And you know what we really need? Well, one, we need a prayer from Stephanie and Marcia. We do, yeah. Sure. And two, of course we ended the episode. I just wrote down gross.

Julia, hugging Alexia and Lisa. Lisa, who you didn't want to come to your whole thing with the godfather and Alexia who ditched you on that big day and you're going to embrace them both lovingly and say, I love my friends. God, you are intolerable. He is intolerable, but again, that kind of just goes to say

what we were just talking about. I didn't see that coming at all. By the end of this script, all of a sudden it's Alexia, Julia, and Lisa hugging. Why? I'm for it. How did that come from? It's just so random. And that's what makes it good.

That's what makes the show great. Sure does, but it's a good season, man. I'm enjoying it, but let's get to some questions. First up here, this is nice from Amanda Lynn Gamer. I don't watch this show, but love y'all talking about it. So I put it on in the background now. Got to pump up those ratings. That's a good way to do it.

If you're going to just listen to us, we do love it when you listen to us. Don't get us wrong. We want you guys to listen to us all the time. but also watch the shows that we tell you to watch because then that leads to more people watching it and then the show stays on and it gets more notoriety. So just listen to us. You know,

we know what we're talking about. We appreciate it. Ryan Stoneman, is anyone else sick of Stephanie and Julie? Stephanie, like I said, ebbs and flows. And you know what? As a newcomer, I'm fine with that.

She's figuring out how to do it. Stephanie could go either way. And she still, she kind of bounces back and forth where it's like, all right, this is getting a little tired to, okay, there's promise here. I think I could still see it going completely either way. And I'm okay with that for a newbie. That's really how it should be.

I don't want them to go too far one way, too far the other way. When they get too positive and they get too good, we start toting that they're the MVP, that they're the newcomer of the year, whatever we were, whatever award we were giving out that always resulted in their ultimate demise. Newbie of the year. Or they end up being too rough, like a Katie, where it's like, what are you doing? What the fuck?

You're going to go home. You're going to get kicked off the show. Whatever's going to happen. So I like newbies just kind of middling, just somewhere in there where it's like, okay, I can see how this could go bad. I can see all this could go good. That's how it should be for your first season. Totally agree.

Let's see. Oh, and as far as Julia, yeah, I think everyone's sick of Julia, Ryan. Yeah. From nine innings with Nat, did your jaw also drop when Adriana called Kiki Rashid? Yeah, genuinely on the floor. I was like, whoa. Yeah. I didn't even know that she knew what that word was and apparently does not.

Who was it? Read the statement there about somebody sending a DM because their question was too long. I want to read up. I found it from Misanthropy. How is Julia more upset that Lisa still follows Marcus on Instagram considering his comments about who is worthy enough to wash his dishes than she was with Larsa for continuing to be in a relationship with him after those comments? Julia is the worst this season. Her thirst to be liked by some of the women is insufferable. And now she's not upset with Adriana and Marisar, sorry, Alexia and Marisol for sitting

out on the trip to Marbea, as she was with Gertie for falling off and immediately trying to get back into a Zoom. Yeah. She's just, all she's doing is showing us the hypocrisy and the contradiction in her friendships, which we've been calling out all season. So this is like the most in your face example of what a bad friend slash person, Julia is she's just highlighting her shitty shitty personality yeah no I fully agree Julia is just the worst and we're seeing it in so many different ways this season and

offline it's it's never been clear from Paulina Pauline Kack sure Paul no I sound like you Pauline Kack do you think Adriana genuinely did not understand the word ratchet when she used it. I don't think so. I do weirdly think that she said wretched. I do too. She's so quirky that like nobody says that word. I haven't heard that word in forever. It's, I think it's more of like an English word too. I mean, we even brought in a good examiner when we were over at Derek's house to try to get to the bottom of this. I genuinely think she said wretched and it came I do too. Yeah, like when they were trying to sound out like her and Lisa, like I do believe it. I know that Adrienne says some

fucked up stuff when she's drunk especially, but I think it was wretched, but I think the main takeaway is they're cool now. So let's just leave it. That's all the matters. Yeah. Yep. But yeah, that's all I got. Do you got anything

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