Bros & Shows - Guerdy Rocks, Larsa Sucks. (RHOM Finale Full Recap)

Episode Date: February 27, 2024

What's up Bros? It's the RHOM finale and boy oh boy... Larsa is the worst. In this episode the season wraps up with Guerdy getting ready for chemo. Julia buys a new pig, Houdini and also still has questions for Larsa regarding Michael Jordan's response to her dating Marcus. Adriana is getting ready to perform her new single with Emilio Estefan as it looks like her music career is moving in the right direction. Back to Guerdy, it's a very emotional episode as we watch her shave her head to prep for chemo, and then we have to watch Larsa being Larsa as she somehow plays the victim in the scenario. Guerdy just wants Larsa to understand, Larsa doesn't care. It was appalling to watch Larsa play victim as Guerdy is prepping to fight cancer and even then Larsa can't get out of her own way to be a good friend. Overall, it was a great season and a solid finale. But Larsa is the actual worst. Time Stamps: Intro (0-13:00) RHOM (13:09) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It rhymes with something else that I don't want to talk about. Yeah, no. Yeah, working today sucked. But look, it was nice out today. It was. The sun's still up. Weird. Monday.

Sun up. Just not happy, you know? Just tired. No, I get it. I get it. It's definitely a very Monday kind of Monday. I woke up 100% on the wrong side of the bed today. I don't know why.

Yeah, I didn't hear from you until like 3 p.m. That's rare. Yeah. Usually I check in early in the morning. I just, I had myself a day. I don't know. And I had to cook for people and I was like angry cooking, which I don't like to do. Angry cooking.

Yeah. Yeah, you can ask Dev. It's like, you know, when I put like the tray in the oven, it's a little more, a little more, er. A little more, you know what I mean? I will say watching Miami, and when that's what we're going to discuss today, a lot of people have been asking, like, where's the Miami covers? Don't worry.

We watched it. Everything's a little hectic again with the recording schedule since we're putting out so many apps. But we'll make sure we get all of the big ones. And we love Miami. So we had to make sure we tied a bow on it. So that's what we're discussing today. I have a whole lot to say. I am furious.

Yeah, this might just be a day where I let you go ranting. I'm going to rant today. Yeah. I'm just going to, I'm going to preface it. And this episode deserves to be ranted upon. A disclaimer. Yeah, disclaimer. I'm going to talk a lot of shit about Larsa because.

What a horrible person. I will get there. We will get there. But before we get into it, I do want to rank the show's final ranking because Beverly Hills wrapped, I'm not going to bring into account the reunions. I just want to rank the shows. We had three finish out so far. Soho finished up, Miami finished up, and Beverly Hills finished up.

So we're heading into reunion season, which is somewhat refreshing. I like to wrap the shows up so we can move on to the next batch. We've got Summer House coming out. We already came out. we've got the valley premiering soon. So we get to- dive into that one. Let's just deal with that later. Yeah. It's almost March.

I know. But it's like mid-March, though. I think it's the... I don't think it's that late. I think March 9th. God. I could be totally wrong. That's just a date I just named, but... This is when it gets the most complicated, though, because we've got so many shows... Like, shows are finishing up, and we don't even talk about Potomac anymore, but we always have to shoehorn it into each episode because it... I don't... I don't even have the energy to shoehorn today. Good, okay. We don't have to talk about that.

but all of the other shows are ending and then obviously there's some overlap VPR's been on for a couple of weeks now Summer House is out so it just gets so confusing it does it does I'll lead us off okay I'm going to start out I'm going bottom to top here

and this is tougher because a lot of shows have been good but I'm going to go with the bottom of the list for me is Beverly Hills probably I thought that it was an underwhelming finish I think it's even more frustrating now that I'm seeing more more come out from

Mo's show on Netflix. And they're actually getting into everything in the first like two episodes of the season. That drives me nuts. So we're not even, unless you're watching that show, we're not privy to that information. So that's annoying. So Beverly Hills is in last place.

After that, I've got, honestly, Vanderpump. Underwhelming thus far. It's doing a lot of things that I was afraid that it was going to do. It's forcing things. It's not exploring new routes, which I get, again, it's only three months removed from Scandival. But they had a long time to plan.

It was, you know, productions is a different story. And I am firmly on board with you where they should have waited. I should have waited to pick up the cameras. That was their fault. However, that's hindsight. I think everybody would agree that with the volatile nature of Scandival, it makes sense that they're like, oh, we got to get the cameras up. But I think they did a massive disservice. It's too close.

We're too far removed, and they're too close to it. So that's where my issue is with that. After that is Summerhouse, because it was a great first episode. I'm excited to see what they do in the next one, and we start bringing other people into the house. Then we've got Soho, because I thought they did phenomenal. They're number two. That was a great season, great finale. We're getting to see our rookies warm up, and I love to see the rookies catch their stride.

A lot of people on that show hit their stride. Numero Uno, just watched the finale. Miami had a phenomenal, phenomenal season. now over to you over to me uh also have beverly hills in the basement firmly in the basement and for the exact same reasons i could not believe how much content i was getting from the trailer for mo's show the fucking trailer we got more from that trailer than we got the entire season of and we get more obviously because and we'll talk about this a little bit more as the uh reunion comes up in the next or i guess within this week but you have the text exchange from

Doreet and Kyle. I read through that. I read through all the comments that were associated with that. Kyle just did not want to share anything this entire season. That's what it comes down to. And she tried to like manipulate Doreet with that text. That's all that was. That wasn't her actually apologizing.

It wasn't her actually addressing anything. No, dude, the timing is everything. You can't do that the day before the reunion. And not expect people to be able to read through the lines. Like that's insane. So, yeah, Beverly Hills is in the basement. Also because of the cringy-ass mo video that he, posted.

Oh, yeah. People are into my life and I'm going to dance around it. Like, I fuck off, dude. So yeah, Beverly Hills Bottom. I've actually got Miami going into the fourth slot. Really? Yeah, I didn't really. Miami was fine.

It's just, I felt like the storylines got a little annoying. In what regards? I didn't give a shit about Lisa's thing anymore. Oh, no. I agree with that. You could argue that was the main storyline of the year. I love, obviously, the moments with Julia, which we'll get into it with Julia and Martina.

But other than that, there wasn't a whole lot. more for me, especially finale-wise, like, yeah, Larsa's a piece of shit, but we've known that. She had a good couple of episodes there where she kind of kept her mouth shut, but I didn't get a lot. The true Larsa shine through. And I don't enjoy watching that. So, no, I've got that towards the bottom. VPR slides into three. It's consistent. I'm a little concerned of where they're going to go with it, and we've talked about that at nauseam at this point. But, you know, at some point, we're just going to have to sit down and watch. So I've got that right in the middle. I don't hate it, but I don't love it. Summer House, we talk.

about this with Ryan Bailey for the episode that actually dropped yesterday, if you're listening today. I always enjoy Summer House because it was my first Bravo show that I really got into, that I really enjoyed on a week-to-week basis. So seeing them come back to the house always excites me. I will 1,000% eat my words by the end of the year, I'm sure, because I will be bored at some point, but I always enjoy watching them get back to the house. And I've got Soho number one. So-ho, I think, had such a good season, and it's great to see that they're getting some notoriety, some of the bigger Bravo pages are picking up, showing a little bit more from that, saying that they're excited about the third season, seeing where it goes. And overall, I think it was

a great season. And the finale and reunion kind of capped that in. It did. And people are going to think that we're paid by Southern Hospitality. We are not. We're not. We were just there before you. Yeah, we just got on that train before you guys. But hey, there's plenty of room, so climb aboard. Choochoo! Climb aboard. But you don't get to sit in first class. We sit in first class. Yeah, because we've been here. We've been here. We've been here. We're important. No, we're not. But anyway, make sure you get tickets to our live show, and that is next week. That's next Wednesday.

Next week. So if you have... You're going to wear. What am I going to wear? I'm probably going Phillies in some way, shape, or form because it's spring training, and it's home turf. I'm going to rep the boys probably. Nothing wacky.

Like, I'm going to put an actual, like, outfit together. I'm not wearing jorts or the overalls. I might go with my dad's BP top, BP, for those you thought of those you don't know. I know, and I don't want to repeat an outfit, but I do kind of like the, like, I wear my home jersey at home. I get that, but, I mean, you're famous now. You have to think about not wearing the same thing. You can't wear the same fit. We're not famous.

First and four months. I didn't say we were famous. I said you're famous. Stop it. You've got like Man Crush Monday going on on Twitter. Have you seen that? I do. Yeah, dude, there's guys that are calling you out, girls that are calling you out.

What are you talking about? You're famous, bro. No, are you referring to the, the arthritis post? Yeah, there's the arthritis post. And then there was another guy who said, tweeted yesterday the day before, is this a safe space to talk about my crush on steel? Oh, so, you know, that was all the same thread. That was the same thread, okay. Yeah, that woman responding with arthritis was in response to that man saying is a safe space.

I'm actually going to call it X right now, because, and you'll understand why, X is getting weird. So I don't know what's, I try to not pay attention. At least my personal feed is fine because it's all just sports and jokes. Yeah. When we go over to the podcast side, for whatever reason, we get the weirdest shit in the world. And neither of us are acting. We don't interact with it. Yeah.

That's it. I don't go on it. No. That's the standard feed. It is, it's dark. It's very dark. There are a lot of weird things that should not be. Well, I mean, they're on the internet and, you know, they should be on Reddit.

They should be like on, like, not on Twitter. Not on X, rather. It's like, so. Fights. It's like, it's people saying horrible things to other people. It's just, it's a, I don't like to go on our Twitter. Yeah, it's a post on it. And then I bounce.

and I know a lot of people are going to be like, oh, it's the algorithm. It's what you guys are interacting with. No, it's not. We interact with our fans and then we post things, that's it. That we don't go on there. I go on Instagram, like, exclusively pretty much. What if that says something about our fans, though? We're interacting with our fans, and it's like, hey, you know what, you might be interested

in this because a guy that you commented it, maybe. If you guys are watching fight videos on X, stop it. Stop it. Because it's leaking into our page. I don't want your private browser. Yeah. But as I was saying, our live show is next week. Philly at the City Winery, March 6th. It's Wednesday night. If you haven't gotten tickets yet,

there's only a few left. We've had a huge push early on. We sold a ton of tickets. Then we had a lull. We've had recently a huge push again. So there's really not a lot left. Go get those tickets ASAP. If you want to come hang out with us next Wednesday night, doors open at six. I believe show starts at seven. It's going to be a blast. Get your tickets to that one. What else we got, Magoutz? We've got DC May 3rd at the Union stage. Make sure you get your tickets for that. That's going to be our first Friday show, so that's going to be a lot of fun. And you have no excuses. You don't have work the next day. Well, you shouldn't. People shouldn't work on weekends. I agree. Yeah. Everybody should not work

on weekends. So make sure you get there, get your tickets, get in there. It's going to be a really fun time. And that's a little bit of a bigger room. So that doesn't mean you have more time to get tickets. It just means you can move around a little bit. Or fill that room. Yeah. Bring your friends. Bring your family. Bring your dog. Please bring your fucking dog, actually. You can't bring your dog. Don't put that out there. Smuggle your dog in. If you wait. wait we'll bring your dog on stage if you're able to smuggle your dog i feel like we're setting a dangerous we are i know but if you can they like bark at the park why not you know we'll think

of a good catchphrase for that i don't have one yet but we'll think we'll think of what if you can smuggle a dog we'll we'll bring you on stage absolutely well we'll bring the dog on stage we'll bring both of you on stage yes absolutely so you get your german shepherd in there and you dress him up Like, as a human being, like a little rascal scenario. Now we're going off the rails. So, yeah, make sure you get your tickets for D.C. That's Friday, May 3rd. And then we also have Friday, June 14th in Boston.

Yep. Come see the bros up there. Steele makes a point to say this every time. It is a smaller venue. It only has like 70 seats. 70 total. So it is going to be small. It's going to be close and intimate.

Hell yeah. So make sure you get your tickets for that because we will be up there and we'll be making sure to see Fenway Park. Yeah, we got Phillies on Thursday night. Yep. And then we got the show on Friday. You can check us out in our overalls the night before because both of us agreed that we will be wearing overalls to that game.

And make sure you get your tickets for that. Make sure you get them soon because that will sell out very quickly. Yeah, 70 is not a big number. And hopefully we don't get in a fight at Fenway wearing our overalls. No, we won't. Boston fans are normal. Yeah. The good thing is they're soft. So we do get to a scuffle.

We'll be on stage the next night, don't you worry? I'll get us out a hawk. That'll actually look pretty cool, though. We walk in with, like, black eyes. Black eyes. Fat lip. Why not? What happened?

Some idiot was talking shit on the green monster last night. I went to a mosh pit the night before. Yeah. There was a... Drop kick Murphy's concert. There was a some 41 concert last night. Yeah, we got in there. Fat lip, get it?

Yeah, I get it. Yeah, no, that went over my head, but nicely done. Anyway, it is time to discuss the finale of... Bam, bra, bra, bam, bam. Oh, no, we got a couple more. Three reunion episodes. Mr. 305. Mr. Worldwide.

That's right. It's Miami time, baby. And it was the finale. And we talked about a little bit already. This is why I appreciate that we have different ways to watch these shows. Because when I watch this, I was like, oh, great end of the season. Enough happened for me. Larsa is horrible.

What a terrible human being. But solid episode. other side of the room, you didn't enjoy it that much. Didn't enjoy it that much. Why? What was the issue with it? That was more of like an overall season outlook. While I didn't think that it was the worst season I've ever watched, I didn't think it was the best.

There were times where I definitely wasn't entertained. We hit a lull in the middle where it was just constantly talking about the same thing with Lisa over and over and over again. And I just didn't really care for any of that. But this one in particular, it was weird, honestly, because I thought the whole Michael Jordan issue was not that big of a deal. It's not. And it was weird to me specifically because I felt myself agreeing with Larsa.

I'm like, you know what? It kind of sucks. Like you just had your boyfriend's father who was very, very, very famous out in the open say that he doesn't support your relationship and your friends are just digging into that. That kind of sucks. I felt a little bad. I didn't actually feel bad for her. But I was more so of the thinking, this isn't that big of a deal.

Maybe we just drop it because she's not going to be. going to say anything. Marcus is agreeing with his dad, honestly. Like, he's laughing. So, yeah, I didn't really understand any of that. And then obviously, by the end of the episode, everybody rightfully so hates Larsa. Other than that, you know, there wasn't a lot to tie a bow on necessarily. There wasn't a lot of storylines. Like, yes, obviously, we have Gertie, who's going through cancer treatment, and then we find out, obviously, that she is cancer-free at the end, and that's the only thing that really matters. Hurrah. I don't know why I just said hurrah. I wanted to say array. Whatever. We're Marines now.

She's a warrior. She's a warrior. There was a good job. Thank you. But yeah, like, there wasn't a lot to tie a bow on. Like, we didn't get a lot out of most of the other people on the show. And that's, you know, that's fine. I wasn't bored. It's just, you know, it was fine. See, but like... I think you're powered by your hate for Larsa. You're like, yeah, she's a terrible person, so that was a good episode for me. That partly, but it's also, I love, like, the Gertie scenes so much, like, seeing her with Russell

and the support and stuff like that. I guess for me, why it was a solid finale to a great season when I look at it is because I'm comparing it to the other Housewives show that we were watching during, and that's Beverly Hills, which lacked in so many different aspects that I thought Miami delivered on. But it's interesting to me that Beverly Hills gets the ratings simply because it's Beverly Hills. Because if you compare the two seasons, Miami did a lot more. There was more emotion, there was more storylines I thought than what we got from Beverly Hills. Definitely way more.

I don't want to compare those two because, like you said already, Beverly Hills is Beverly Hills. They're going to get the ratings. Ratings matters for those in-between shows, not necessarily up top because, you know, even if it's a terrible product, I mean, Potomac's still getting good ratings. And we know that they haven't done shit the entire season except the same thing. I don't know. I think they're just watching because they're used to it. It's kind of the same thing as Beverly Hills. It's like, yeah, I'm going to put it on because I watch Beverly Hills my entire life.

Like, that's just what's going to happen, I guess. It's turned into a background watch. Yeah, I think it kind of has in a way, but something like Miami, something obviously like Soho, you know, we monitored VPR over the last couple of years before Scandival, now it doesn't really matter. The ratings matter for those shows, and Miami's doing okay. Obviously, they benefited from taking the pause, which is good, and it is still a good show. It's just, you know, it didn't really do it for me in the finale. That's interesting. But let's dive into it, and we start out with Larson, Marcus, right out of the gate, with some separation anxiety, which is good because I was having separation anxiety from not seeing these two do their,

podcast in a very long time. They should do it every episode. They should start every episode with a segment of separation anxiety to show that they have nothing to talk about because they don't have anything to talk about. This time they do, I guess, because of the Michael Jordan thing, I'm on the same exact page as you here. Who cares? Who cares that Michael Jordan? Like, yeah, no shit, he said no. I'm actually, the funny thing is when it's the two of them talking, I'm okay with it. My problem didn't lie with Larson and Marcus talking about because the rest of the group digging into it. It's the rest of the group digging into it. And you know what it is?

It comes down to sharing on a housewife show. Yeah. This is something that Larsa and Larsa, you know, she's taken that role where she just kind of instigates in other people's problems. She doesn't share a whole lot from her life aside from, well, I just took like 50 feet pictures today and, you know, that's what I'm going to do. That's really the only thing that we've gotten from Larsa, you know, between that and just generalized anxiety about being away from Marcus for a couple of days, weird.

But now they're finally... It's not generalized. It's separation anxiety. I didn't want to say it. separation anxiety. It is. It's full-blown separation anxiety. I feel bad for them every time they're apart. They paid us to plug their podcast. They definitely did. I will never listen to an episode of that. But they finally have something to talk about, and I actually wanted to see the insight from this because you have Larsa, who we've discussed to a very serious extent of what

her relationship is to Michael Jordan and how much she's seen him and blah, blah, blah. I want to see how she actually feels about that. I want to see how Marcus feels about his father laughing on an interview or a quick little interview about his relationship with Larsa. Those are the things that I actually did want to see just to see how they reacted. You're right. It's the rest of the group digging into it because it's not really that big of a deal. And I think that they're just trying to get Larsa to show something from her personal on camera because the rest of them have done that.

That makes a lot of sense because I was confused by it too. I was like this, why does Julia need an answer about this? Like what's so pressing about this when they found the news? They're like, ooh. and there's no way that it was just coincidental in the fact that somebody asked her about how Michael Jordan feels about it in the very next day that

dropped. Yeah. There's no, somebody new or the way they played production a little bit, maybe I don't really know. I don't know. But regardless, it was this scene was whatever. I agree that this would have been a good time to get some kind of information out of the two of them as to how they're feeling.

Marcus handled it, how you should handle it. He brushed it off, said whatever. I'm sure him and his dad have had a conversation. I would have bet that there was a phone call at some point or another after this came out in which they talked, it's clearly squashed enough that I promise you all, I don't know how many of you out there like basketball fans or Michael Jordan fans. If Michael Jordan had an issue with this, we would know about it. And I don't think that Marcus would be dating Larson because Michael Jordan we would know about it through the channels. No, he doesn't talk to the press that also.

He doesn't talk to the press, but he's also not afraid to be like, yeah, fuck that. Like he, I don't know, man. I think that the reaction that we got was pretty tame compared to what it would have been if he really didn't support. Maybe that's the way to put it. Yeah. Like him just laughing it off and saying no, I think he's just annoyed that he had answered a question. He doesn't care. Yeah. So I think that's more so, but... I have a question for you

to take this to like a psychological level. Do you think that in any way is this relationship, I'm not saying that they're not actually into each other or any of that shit, but do you think that when this started at the very least, is there some underlying issue between Marcus and father where he's like oh this is like a good way to kind of take a dig at my dad in any way because that's kind of what i'm i don't know it's just the whole thing as i'm i've been trying to make sense

of it all season as you know does that play a factor where he's kind of like fuck you dad i don't think so honestly no no i maybe originally he could have marcus could have thought that it was kind of funny like oh i'm flirting with scottie's ex like that's kind of interesting maybe oh but i actually do think that they like each other which is very interesting like When it started, was there an air of, like, kind of like flipping off? Maybe both Scotty and Michael. I don't think so. Honestly, I don't know.

We don't know enough about Marcus to be able to kind of dig into that. That's very true. He doesn't show enough of his actual personality, or maybe that's Bravo's fault or versus fault. I think he seems like a decent dude. But, yeah, no, I really don't think so. I think that he hit it off. I think at one point in time, he probably did think it was a little funny. Maybe his friends thought it was funny.

His family thought it was funny. But no, I think that he generally, I think he genuinely likes her. I do too now. I just didn't know if, like, if there was a point in which maybe this was to take a dig or if he thought it was funny, I don't know, but... Ontario, the wait is over. The gold standard of online casinos has arrived. Golden Nugget online casino is live.

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here because we find out that Gertie's about to start chemo. She's doing four sessions every three weeks. So it's going to span over about 12 months or sorry, 12 weeks, so about three months to get through the chemo. And then she's finishing up with radiation. So it's getting very real, but it's also you see her has, she's come to terms with the fact that she's, about to get treatment because she's much more composed when talking about it, which is great to see her that she's confident with it. And she still has an issue with everything that's happened with Larsa this season. And I was glad that this came back up because I thought it got brushed over so quickly. I didn't think that anybody held her feet to the fire. I didn't think

people pressed Larsa enough. And something that's going to appear later on in this episode, we've watched it all season. Why does no one say anything when Larsa starts doing this bullshit? shit like why is gertie the only one defending herself why does anybody else like not jump up and go hey dumbass she has cancer shut the fuck up like that i'm very confused by that yeah i don't really know and i mean the least surprising thing of all was lisa coming to her defense but coming to larses defense coming to larses defense yeah i don't really know and and i guess yeah i am glad that it came back around but i also would have been completely fine if it didn't come back around because gertie's dealing with what gertie's dealing with so if she doesn't want to do it then

that's her prerogative. If she doesn't have the energy to go after Larsa for what she said and what she did in the beginning of the season, that's fine by me. Nobody else was going to do it. I never really questioned why nobody else did it. That's the thing. Like, I don't, it just, you're right. It got brushed away.

If these people were friends, it seems like everybody's just trying to, like, keep things copesthetic or argue about dumb shit. Yeah. Instead of, here's something on a silver platter, you guys can go attack Larsa for being a terrible person. And nobody really does. Yeah, nobody does. And maybe it's because they've done it before.

and the way that Larson handles those things is she deflects and deflex and doesn't seem to actually care. That's fair. So maybe they just don't really feel like battling because there's nothing that's going to come of it. If it was about any other topic, I hear you. Yeah. The fact that we're discussing lack of sympathy and empathy for Gertie's fight with cancer makes that Nolan void. It definitely does. But it's very confusing.

Every time that Gertie gets into it, everyone else sits there like just watching it happen. I'm like, somebody fucking say something. help her out. This is ridiculous. But moving on, we get Alexia in her new house. She actually ended up picking up the one that we had seen. So they move in a smaller space, still very nice, still an obscene amount of money. And they're right on the water. It looks nice. But she has a discussion with Peter about who's going to take care of Frankie when she's gone. And Peter says that he's going to step into that role, you know, touching scene, whatever. Whether or not Peter can handle taking on that role is a different story, but that's not for us to say.

Nope. It's not for us to say. We do not get an opinion on that one. Nope, we don't. And the biggest thing I think is what I want to talk about this scene or why I brought the scene up because not a whole lot happened. I just want to give Alexia some props for this season because I hated Alexia and Marisol last year.

I thought Alexia handled herself very well this year. I don't think she put herself in any terrible positions where I was like, whoa, what the fuck? Like she got into it with Nicole a few times, but that's, we're used to that. because they just haven't vibed very well. I feel like Marisol and Alexia have had their issues with Nicole. Rightfully so, too, because I felt like the whole Anna situation deserved Alexia to kind of pop off a little bit. So that was fine.

Again, not at Nicole, at Adriana. Yeah, definitely at Adriana. Yeah. But I was still fine with the way that all of that worked out. And the way that Alexia was this season, I do agree. She somehow was able to rein it in to the point where, yes, she still was able to pop off when it was appropriate. Yeah, but reasonably.

Reasonably, and she was still able to throw shade when she was talking about Lisa and whatever else may have happened. And she didn't annoy me. I don't know how she came back. Good season. I'm back of the season. Good season.

And, like, that's the thing. Because she wasn't as explosive on, like, the touch of a dime, when she did have something to say. On the touch of a dime? Is that a thing? I don't know. On the touch, I feel like that's a saying.

Flip of a coin? A coin. Touch of, no. I think. Touch of a dime's a thing. I don't know, dude. Hold on. I'm going to look it up real quick.

We're taking a quick pause here. No, it's not a, that's not a phrase. It's just nothing. No, there's something with a dime. There is. It didn't come up. Nothing came up. So I'm clearly way off.

I think of a dime probably would have produced some results. Of a dime. What's the stops on a dime? Stops on a dime. Yeah. At least I found it. Touch of a dime's not a thing. Not on a dime.

Turn on a dime. There you go. That still don't really fit. Nope. no hey we'll get him next time you can't win them all but I think that because she was able to remain composed during certain seasons when she did pop off it landed better so I was like oh I actually enjoyed this instead of in the past it was like every episode was her Marisol versus somebody I was like this is getting really tired I agree yeah good season for her we get a quick checking with Lisa and her mom and I don't need to talk about this scene to you because nothing happened it was just like Lisa getting sympathy and support It was she does need it, but she has worn out her welcome with me this season. Yeah. And again, if she hadn't done everything that she had done this season,

including this episode. Maybe this scene would have been a little bit better. It wasn't. No, it just wasn't. I just don't care anymore is like the root of it all. I don't care when these songs. And you also know what she was trying to do. She's trying to get sympathy from her mom.

She even said, like, I don't get to see you as often. It's great to have you down here. Let's talk about my problems. And that's fine because you are going through some problems. but don't turn it and act like you were in the right the entire time and say, you know, my friends were ganging up on me. They were not. They were not. They were trying to help you

and you're too far up your own ass to see. They were tired of your ass. Yes. Like, no, just don't. Nope. But we get to a scene with Julia and Adriana at Julius Farm. I want to go to Julia's Farm. So do I. It looks delightful. I know. It looks really, really nice. Whimsical. It is. That's a really good way to put it.

It's a whimsical farm in Florida. And I would like to go. You don't have to do the English accent. That doesn't make sense. Because it became whimsical. I feel like whimsical implies a light British accent. Okay. That's weird.

Wimcical. You're probably not wrong about that, but yeah. I mean, I like this scene a lot just because it still shows, and I love shining a light on Martina and Julia's relationship. Love their relationship. Their relationship's great. We've seen it go through a lot in the last two years, and they are very good together. Yeah.

And the fact that she FaceTimed Martina and it had her... Martina didn't even question it. Close your eyes. If I did that to you on a FaceTime, you'd be like, what the fuck is wrong? No, I'm not. Just turn the camera around when you want to surprise me. Yeah, you psycho? What are you showing me?

Seriously. And Martina closed her eyes right away. And there you go, little pig. And Houdini. We've got a pig. Houdini the pig. The best part is Martina knew. It's like, yeah, well, you're talking to me about saving money, which means you've spent it elsewhere.

It's like, let's see what you bought. And then Martina sees a picture. You're like, oh, it's so cute. I was like, oh, it works. Rescued a pig. Rescued a pig from a petting zoo. Which big's the question. What do they do with the animals that don't get rescued at petting zoos?

Do you want to go down the house? rabbit hole? Bacon. You can probably just go on Twitter and find out pretty quickly. No, I don't want to go on Twitter. But this next scene was the most emotional I've ever been watching Bravo. Hands down. Watching Gertie and Russell and Gertie, as we have discussed, is getting geared up to get

her chemo treatment. And she decides that she's going to shave her head preemptively because she wants to be able to control something during this whole thing. in that line alone got me a little teary-eyed i was like wow this is it's so real and that's i will say that the gertie journey definitely definitely made me like this season a lot more just because i love watching her and russell navigate through this thing as a family with the kids i love watching like gertie's strength through this whole thing she is remarkable and it has been very touching to see this kind of stuff and to be

party to Russell shaving her head watching her cut off each individual braid and like crying through this whole thing because we do know that she is cancer free now so to just to be able to see the journey is so touching and emotional and powerful and I thought that it was amazing how they did it I'm glad that Bravo just let it play out they didn't force anything with this any time that Gertie was going through some shit they just put the camera out there there was no forced shit So I'm glad they didn't try to do anything with it.

But at the same time, I'm glad we were able to be there for it because it meant a lot. And I'm sure it hit home with a lot, a lot of people watching. Yeah, I agree fully. And there were times during this season, during the Gertie journey, which you said that I really liked, that I felt like we shouldn't be able to watch this. Yeah. This is too real. This is too much insight into somebody's personal life with something that's going on. But at the same time, I also have to remember, Gertie is choosing to show this.

And there's something really beautiful about that And the fact that she wanted to show this To millions of people who are going to watch this A lot of them are going to be able to resonate with this Whether it's somebody that they know that has gone through this Or they've gone through it personally Gertie being able to show that And show essentially her strength through all of it

And even obviously You know, the weaker moments Which everybody's going to have That's really nice to see And her relationship with Russell Is one of if not the best relationships marriages On all of Bravo I would say it's number one

Yeah I would say it's the most rule. It could be a recency bias, but you know what? Fuck it. Who cares? It's also real. Like, those scenes are real. Their interactions are real.

They're able to have difficult conversations without just, like, wacky arguments. Like, there's some tough combos that we've seen them have with each other, but it's understanding. No one raises their voice. They have difficult points. The other person hears them not. It's a good relationship. But I will say, Gertie is gorgeous with a shaved head. And not everybody can pull that look.

Nope. That's for sure. Not just women. Men, too. like there are a lot of unfortunate bald dudes and it's probably not their fault shit happens i'm just saying to be able to successfully pull that off is not easy and she looks stunning so i love that whole scene it was very touching especially as we know gertie has beaten cancer so just it was just a really nice scene but difficult scene but very nice moving on we get

adriana getting ready and maybe this is i know why you hate this episode because of adriana That's not why you hate this season. I didn't name it during the... This is why you hate the season. No, it's not. Yes, it is. Because she's thriving and you can't handle it. I don't pay any mind.

She's thriving and you can't handle it. Yes. Song sucked. That song did stop it. Stop. Stop glazing. Oh my God. There's no way.

There is no way that you can say the song sucks. The song is not good. Did you listen to lyrics? They don't make any sense. That song, when it is remastered and finished. I don't think you are, right now, you're party to Emilio. just trying to hook up with Andrea. I do think that Emilio is trying to slide in. You're pushing

it. I'm not. You're helping. Wait a minute. This is your fault. If it's not a one-night step. Look, that makes sense for everybody involved. Adriana has been lonely. This is a very, very successful recording artist, producer. You name it. This guy's done it. He's got Grammys. This makes sense. It makes total sense. And you are just rooting

for Adriana's downpull. And that makes sense. That's why you hate the season. Wow. I I just debunked it. It's not at all. I don't pay those scenes any minds. They don't do anything for me. So I just, they just go and I pay attention, I guess.

That's why you hate this episode. And then nothing happens. I am literally paid to watch and talk about Bravo. So you're, and I get nothing from these scenes. I did. What did you get from it? I got Adriana's story just because you hate her doesn't mean everybody hates her.

I don't, I'm glad she's on to come up. She's on to come up. I just don't think she does anything for me. She doesn't do anything for the show. Look at the response. From the, there's, you need her on the show. The rest of the women in the group.

Oh, yeah. They're cheering on their friends. They're good friends. This is a big, objectively speaking. When they're dancing down in Mexico and nobody else cares. Just hear me. Yeah, good friends. Hear me.

You do this to me, by the way. I know. This is, we don't even have to talk about it. This is the first gaslight. Sometimes I get the gaslight. You're not even gaslight. I know. It's harder for me to do it.

I'm not as good as you are at it because I'm not a psycho. But hear me. Okay. That wasn't nice. A single. That wasn't nice. Having a... Take it back.

What? Tell me a psycho. You're not a psycho. Thanks. I don't think you're a psycho. See? You're my psycho. You're my little psycho.

That's what you are. You're dumb blushing. Hear me. I was hoping you were going to move on. No, I'm not. Having a single with Emilio Estefan is a big deal. Period. Whether you like her or not, whether you think the song is good or not, we'll see how it

performs that's releasing early this year, so it might already be out. I don't know. Objectively speaking, that's a big deal. so cool let's keep going that's what takes center stage now is it's adriana's party where she's debuting the song she's performing on stage so we get a very very obvious foreshadowing here because as they are driving to the show we get two separate rides and both cars are talking about the same person different issues we get one car with gerty talking about larsa and her lack of sympathy, empathy, all of that with her situation and spilling the beans about her

situation. And on the flip side, you get Julia up in arms about the Michael Jordan shit. Agreed. We're on the same page there. I don't know why they need to dig. I think you're right. They're just like, oh, we got something. Let's push her. Let's make her talk. But when we get to the party, we instantly get into the Michael Jordan thing. And weirdly enough, I agree with you where I agree with Lars where she's like, do you want me to call like Marcus and have him talk to you about this? Because at this point, what am I supposed to say? I don't believe her that she wouldn't be in a relationship if the parents didn't want it. I don't think she gives a fuck about anybody. No, yeah, I don't think of it at all. But I just don't know what they want from her here.

Like, what answer would suffice? I don't know. It's like, it's kind of embarrassing. It's tough. It's embarrassing. And like, I get it. Maybe they wanted her to show a little bit of emotion and talk about it and say, yeah, and you know, it kind of sucks that his dad doesn't. But like, she's not in a position to talk about that they how long have they even been dating for and like you're in the limelight which is you know lars is used to that so it's not that big of a deal but marcus is telling her hey i talked to my dad he said it's not that big of a deal it's not that big of a deal yeah i guess where we are probably trying to breathe life into it to make it bigger than it is because she's clearly i don't i think she's scared of michael jordan yeah i think that's

fair i don't know him i'd be scared of michael jordan he's a very prominent figure and he has a lot of power and a lot of money. I'm always scared of Michael George. I want to go to his golf course very badly. Bruce played there. Did I tell you that? That's so cool. But shout out, Bruce.

But anyway, this is when Gertie brings up Mexico and says to Larson, like I thought that we bonded. We did. We saw them have that really touching moment at the church. And then since then, that's when Larsa went on our podcast and said, one of the castmates bit me. No, she didn't. I mean, yeah, she did. but it's not like a vicious bite.

The way that you framed it is that she just, like, attacked you and bit you. She gave you, like, a love bite on the arm while you guys were viving, and you brushed it off. You didn't even react. She just went, me, when it happened. Yeah. Then you take it to the podcast. You frame it a totally different way. It makes the headlines when you two had previously said, let's keep each other's name out of the spell, like out of the press.

Let's keep each other's name out of the press. There's no reason that we need to drag each other. I'm going through a whole lot right now. You're my friend. You get that. Larsa. Like, we can just, let's be cool, man. Just be cool. Larsa can't do that. No. I actually just realized, not that I'm rooting for them to break up, but if they did break up,

we don't have to deal with this fucking podcast anymore. That's a good point. And I have a really bad feeling about this podcast moving forward where Larsa is going to use this to talk about things that happen behind the scenes. They or may not have happened. And then that's going to be a sticking point for the next couple of years, where all of a sudden it's going to be, Larsa said this on her podcast.

Let's talk to her about it. I don't want to deal with that because that's a way for Larsa to create buzz and storylines for herself and false narratives or herself in this show moving forward. And I know she's going to do that. That's a really good point. And I don't want that to happen. So, yes, I do want them to break up. I didn't even think I don't care anymore.

I'm done being nice about Larsa. Michael Jordan, if you're listening, break up yourself. We're on your team. But I don't care anymore. And she doesn't deserve anybody to give a fuck because of how she performs. this season and how she performed this episode it was appalling to watch her navigate through this thing and it starts in this scene because she starts going after gertie like gertie don't play dumb don't play dumb like i can't win with you win what bro like honestly win what you are

an asshole you're the one causing all of this everything all the stressors all of this stupid shit is you and you can't keep your fucking mouth shut and you keep dragging gertie's name into it Don't say that somebody bit you. And then don't play the semantics game and go, I didn't say your name. I didn't say your name. No, you didn't. But you said somebody bit me,

and we have camera footage of her nibbling on your arm as a friend, and now she makes the headlines after you guys had agreed to not do that. How come you don't nibble on my arm as a friend? Stop it. I'm not going to bite your arm. I don't want any part. I'm not saying I want you to. I'm just wondering why you don't.

Because I don't want to. Not even playfully? No, it's not playful. I don't want to bite you. I don't know where you've been. that's a good point that's a very fair point I would actually

there's a phrase that doesn't make any sense in my head but for Larsa it makes a lot of sense she's being like maliciously ignorant that that phrase makes no sense by itself

but for Larson somehow it works perfectly maliciously ignorant makes a lot of sense and I love that phrase does it especially in Bravo yeah yeah alright that's fair it's just like you can be so ignorant I'm just trying to figure out

like to what extent of ignorance are we at with Larsa at this point it's intentionally ignorant yeah And she's just playing it up And I just don't understand it I didn't understand In the beginning of the season When she outed Gertie's news

To all of her friends To try to gain some sympathy From her friends Very weird move We talked about that a lot Now anymore It just doesn't make any sense Like I can't wrap my head around

The way that she's acting And how she's responding to Gertie Like you can downplay it You can apologize There are so many different things That you can do To act like That ignorant just doesn't make any sense

To make Like, no normal human being could do that. And Gertie just says, like, I'm just disappointed. And in the confessionals, the rest of the group agrees. We get Alexia saying, you know, if that was me, I would just say, you're right, Gertie. I'm sorry, Gertie. Nicole's saying, you know, maybe not the time and place, Larsa, like, just, like, kind of shut up and, like, reel it in, like, back off. But nothing in the scene.

And this is multiple times this season. Like, why do you guys clam up when Larson is doing this? This is the perfect time for three of the other. women to stand up and go, Larsa, what the fuck? She has cancer. Shut up. What's the matter with you? Are you a lunatic?

How can you make this about yourself? This is the most selfish, crazy behavior we've ever seen. You're yelling at somebody that's about to go through chemo, like next week. Are you fucking kidding me? And nobody says a goddamn word. And Larsa has the fucking balls to say, go take care of your health. You're the one making her more stressed. out. You're the one causing her extra stress as she's taking on cancer, which it is clinically

proven that higher stress leads to bad things. You want her to be as stress-free and rested and careful as possible going through this process so that she can take care of what really fucking matters. That's her life and her family's life. And your head is so far up your own ass and you are so concerned about being vindicated or being right and not being dragged. When no one's fucking dragging you except for your stupid self because you can't get out of your own fucking way to apologize to gertie who is nothing but nice and challenges you when you're fucking wrong because you talk shit and then you get caught and you try to back pedal out of it no one else can fucking stand up and say something so gertie has to do it herself until thank god russell comes

over and handles it so well so well because he doesn't jump off he just says have some respect have some respect don't be disrespectful and gets his wife out of the situation and we've seen how some of the dudes respond at other times, and it's not great because they come in too hot. They say the wrong thing. They start insulting other women in the group. Not a great look. Russell handles himself well, gets her out of there, and then he vents. But to just watch this transpire, watch Larson's smug fucking face as it's happening, as this is playing out, probably how she wants it to play out.

Nothing gets accomplished, and now she can play the victim, and I almost fired my fucking remote through the fucking TV when she says, I'm a victim too. I'm sick over this too. Fuck you. Fuck you. Seriously. To compare you having your fucking feelings hurt to a woman battling breast cancer is atrocious. It's fucking appalling. It made me sick to my stomach. I am physically, physically upset because of this and because of her. And the fact that I know I have to watch this shit again next year and I have to watch fucking Larsa Pippin, who can't even change her name back to her fucking surname because she wants to hang on to any bit of relevancy she has

by using Scotty Pippin's name. You're not married to him anymore, but you are so afraid to be out of the limelight that you remain a Pippin because you know that that's your only claim to fame. Your only fucking claim to fame in this whole universe is that you married a basketball player. Good for you.

Go fuck yourself. Woo! I feel much better. Talk about stress. I feel so much better. I feel like I just took a big old poop. Oh, my God. Like a Sunday morning.

That's been a while. That one, look. And you enjoyed this episode? It didn't sell like that. Look, dude, it just was, it really was sad. It's sad to watch.

I can't wrap my head around how a human being could have that kind of thought process. I think that's why I get so frustrated. Like, you know me. The most frustrating things to me are when I can't put logic to it. When I can't understand why, that's when I get, like, crazy. Because I'm like, this makes no sense.

It's so simple. It's so obvious. And yet you can't do this for somebody, somebody that you're, quote, unquote, friends with. Do you think she's playing it up for the show? Maybe. There's got to be some, like, level, some degree of that. You're trying to use logic again. You're trying to use logic for somebody that's illogic.

Yeah, but I'm not as emotional. So you're not. You're not. That is true. I just I cannot believe like I was at an eight before she said the victim thing I went from eight to to 20 out of 10 when she said the victim thing I was like that's so upsetting

like Gertie has to watch this Army wants to watch that with you like relive that moment and watch you do that don't and another part of me says absolutely not you don't because at least my own life when I'm alone I can just be like I just sit there and simmer I just like stew on I don't I don't yell Maybe we'll throw a notebook, but I don't yell. If I'm alone, I'm quiet.

If you're there, you know, I'm going to jump up off the couch, be like, what the fuck? You're going to look at me and you're going to be like, do you believe this? And when I don't react, you're going to be, you don't want to fucking pay attention. Yeah, you're not even watching your phone. And you're like, no, I'm fine. I'm just not emotional. We wonder how Xbox controllers get broken in this house. Why are you going to do that for?

Shut the fuck up. You're outing me right now. I know, I know. My Xbox controller, this one has lasted a very long time. Yeah, you're okay now, yeah. Nah, if you look at it, there's, there's, um, some cracks. There's tape on it. Yeah, there's definitely tape on it.

But I've gotten better. I told you that's, I don't throw them. I know, and you just did that. If you're watching YouTube, you could see Steele when he talks about how he's simmering. It's this. It's this. But any, you know, any woo. Any woo.

Any woo. I was going to say, any way, and any who, any who, any woo. Any woo. Oh, man, hold on. I need to take a deep breath. That really got me fired. I'm a hot little potato right now, but I did appreciate that we get the confession with Alexia

after this scene in which she's like, you know, if this was me, I would just agree with anything. I think that is, and we talked about it already, but like that's the correct response to this. And that's what I would imagine most people would do. That's, I guess, why I'm so baffled and upset by it. Is, again, I just doesn't track. I don't understand, but of course.

But it's good to see that somebody else at least understands. Yeah, on the show. Like, you get to see that and you're like, okay, all right, I'm not crazy. Yeah. Too crazy. Not too crazy. I'm glad that somebody else on the show can resonate with that.

But of course, of course, who comes to Lars's defense? Who's got her back immediately? Victim number two. Victim number two. It's Lisa. Lisa, out of fucking left field comes in and goes, oh, she was joking. And my blood started boiling again. That's just, that's not even ignorance.

That's just stupidity. She had no idea what was going on. It's like, we're still talking about the biting thing, and she was just joking. You don't get it, Lisa. You haven't been over here. No, you just got here. And you don't pay attention to anybody or anything unless you hear your name. So what are you doing?

Go back over there and pretend to care about something else. Go talk to Jody. Like, we don't give a fuck. Lisa should just be taking a backseat at this point. You've had a very rough season. Yeah, terrible. You kind, you showed up late. You're not mixing it up.

Just stay out of it. Yeah. Just go over somewhere else. Maybe spend some time with your boyfriend talking about not your ex-husband. Yeah, maybe try that for a little. that for a little bit. See how that goes. Like, just fuck off. Both of them. Yeah. Go away. And for her to go

chasing after Gertie, too, it's just like, thank God Russell was there because, seriously. Between Russell and Nicole getting down there and saying, look, I will talk, I will talk to Gertie. When she's ready, you know what you have to do. And I love this line from Nicole, too. When she goes, I'm her real friend. I'm her actual friend. I'm her actual friends. I know how to handle these situations. Let her

calm down for a few minutes, and then I'll go and talk to her. You get the fuck out. Yeah. Stop trying to save face because you stuck your foot in your mouth again. Just fuck off. Yep. I'm saying the effort a lot. Simple as I. You really are. I've gotten better too. Listen. I just, I can't help it. I was. Grandma, I'm listening to this. She does. I'm sorry, Gaggy. Yeah. She does listen to this. Man, she doesn't get mad at the cuss words. She gets mad when I have bad grammar. That's fair. She's really going to like the touch on a dime. Yeah, touch on a dime. She'll probably, she'll text me things and like pretty much call me dumb without, because she'll say like, I know you're not dumb. Yeah.

Like, you know it's not this. And I'm like, I didn't. Didn't you go to school for English? I was an English major at Ohio State. Yeah. Yeah. See how that panned out. You know what?

But that's the thing. You know what you can do with the English degree? Either go to law school or teach English. So I didn't really pick a great major. That's okay. I didn't want to be a lawyer. I don't want to teach English. There's a third option.

It's podcasting and make up words. I do that. Yeah, yeah. That's a good one. I've not done anything with it. We'll get a new word. We'll get a new word. in the dictionary at some point for what i don't know we'll make something up oh you mean one of

our dumb words is gonna what a volition let's push that one let's put that wasn't ours that's not ours uh any woo who's this i want to get who's this who's this needs to get in there yeah i think also not ours no oh damn yeah this is harder than i thought a stolen valor yeah yeah we got be more i already did a hurrah in the episode yeah yeah you could have done a pachino hooah yeah yeah that again still stolen valor but yeah I'm Amy Nicholson, the film critic for the LA Times. And I'm Paul Shear, an actor, writer, and director. You might know me from The League, Veep, or my non-eligible for Academy Award role in Twisters.

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dad has a big boner, which he does. He's, he's, he's, that full mass. He's a little Viagra, you know, before. That's literally what I thought. I think he probably took a little blue pill. But don't worry, dude, because now we get Adriana's performance. And it's called Muevalo, which I believe means move it. And I thought it was, I did think it was good. I've heard songs like this, especially when I lived in Florida. Like, I could definitely, whether you liked it or not, you could definitely hear this song on the radio, especially in Miami. Like, I do think it's a bop, but I think that because Emilio Estefan's tied in, it's a bigger deal than you give it credit.

That's all I'm saying. I think that's why I poke the bear so much is because you try to, like, play it down. It is a big deal. I guess. Maybe it is. You will never comment on it. It drives me crazy. It literally drives me.

Look, I am not, I'll be a big enough guy right now. now. If I was at a bar in somewhere like near Miami or whatever, Fort Lauderdale and it came on and I didn't know what it was, I would probably like nod my head a little bit, but there's subtitles on and I get to see what the lyrics say and it's also Adriana. It's a shit song. It's just not a good song. It makes no sense. Whatever. And that's not like a Spanish to English type of thing. It just doesn't make any sense to it. Whatever. But that pretty much wraps up the show. We get like the checking with everybody. It's all stuff that we already know. You know, Kiki's got a new man. There's that.

And she is not telling anybody who it is. Nope. Rightfully so. Good for her. Don't do it. Don't bring him into it. You don't need to. You protect that relationship. So hopefully it goes well. But we did find out that Julia and Martina, now that they are cancer-free, now that Martinez beaten cancer, they are thinking about potentially adopting again. So I'm curious that that will come back in next season. But the biggest thing, the biggest send-off that we get is Gertie after 127 days. got to ring the bell and if you know anybody that's gone through it if you've gone through

yourself that bell means a lot so i actually cried during that scene full-blown tears how did you cry this episode twice okay both gerties when she shaved her head i was a rage cry did you get a rage cry no i don't rage cry i'm not a rage cryer i'll get you there no you won't if i flip my switch i just get mad not teary-eyed but with with both garty scenes i actually like ugly cried and in the shaving scene i ugly cried but i was alone So, you know, I got to... I don't think you're an ugly crier. I don't think I've seen you cry.

You've definitely seen me get teary-eyed. But now, like, when they start, when tears start coming down, like, actually running down my cheek, that's when it gets a little ugly. Okay. So I ugly cried during the shaving scene, and then this scene I just got, there was a couple of tears, but it was just, it was powerful. I'm glad that they shared this journey. It's a very personal journey. They didn't have to let us in as much as they did. And I'm thrilled that they did, because I'm sure that this hit home with a lot of people.

And it's just an inspiring story. to watch and to watch her be so strong through this whole thing i think that's why i enjoyed the ride so much only because she never faltered like even when she was in bed we still saw it with her kids and still be able to find positivity in this whole thing and i think that it's such a great message to share with everybody in the world because we all either know somebody that's gone through cancer or is currently going through it and maybe you yourself are going through it and to see somebody do it not only with grace but with strength and confidence has to give other people out their confidence as well. So I'm just grateful for that. I would agree with all of that.

But that wraps us up. Let me give a, oh, no, we got three more. Bamp, bair, bairs. Yeah, we got three more. I don't need to waste them. Well, here's the thing, though. You feel good about the bern-param-paran-barrails right now. It's a three-part reunion. I know, and there's not enough. There's not enough to talk about for three parts. This is going to be one that they didn't need three. I do believe that one, maybe you stretch it to two, but one would have been perfect. Yeah, I think one would have been phenomenal. I think two only because you can use one episode a majority of it to discuss Gertie is obviously

and you can also touch on like more the sentimental stuff I guess I mean honestly yeah all right and then the second one where you just check in with everybody because a lot of a lot of them have been up to a lot yeah since filming wrapped so you started with Gertie going into Cole's pregnancy check in with Julian Martinez see where they are in the adoption thing. Nicole losing her father. Nicole losing her father. There's enough there that's happened since filming wrapped that you can get into all of that right away. And save

the Lisa and then Larsa's shit for episode too. Yeah. But now I will hate watch. Oh yeah. That's going to be a rage watch for me. Maybe I will rage cry during that one. Maybe I get your wish. Who knows? Who knows? But let's get some questions.

But up first let's dive in with Y, Y, Y, C chick. No question. Just Larsa. is the worst, like the absolute worst. Thank you. Thank you. You are very right. 100% right.

Up next from Brian 04. I'm sorry, Brena. I said Brian, and it is not. It's Brena 0464. Delivered all season. How are the ratings not higher? What's your, I know that you didn't have same tapebook. It is weird because it's on the same night as Beverly Hills.

Yeah, they don't get a lot of overlap, looks like. I guess not. I don't know. We're not sure. Maybe Bravo's not doing a good enough job. promoting it. I think that maybe my only real theory I would have on it is, you know, they did pause for, what, five, six, seven years? Could be that. I'm actually, I'm trying to think because we don't, I mean, we don't watch a lot of the shows live, but like even on Peacock and when we do

watch them live, I don't see any Miami commercials at all. Like, it's usually, it's honestly, it's usually not even the housewife shows. Like, they'll just show like Soho a lot. They'll show VPR a lot. they'll show Summerhouse a lot. They don't really promote any of the... Yeah, I don't get a lot of Miami ones. I'm really confused about that. I think that's probably part of it. There's enough buzz, though.

Like, the people that do watch it, do tweet about it, they put things on social media all the time. So I don't know. I really don't understand. I think next year you'll see an uptick because they did have a solid season, and that's two solid seasons in a row after being on pause.

So I bet that Bravo will probably pick up the A marketing and hopefully push it a bit more because I agree. It deserves more attention than it gets. from marissa and palma demote lisa and larsa to friends of and give adriana and kiki full-time spots kiki 100% yes yeah i agree with that if she's willing to share though

like that's the other thing from kiki this season there have been a lot of conversations with her where she openly just says i don't want to tell you guys what i'm doing is that because she's a friend of like do you know i think she's i think she's a personal person if you think that they gave her the full-time contract she'd be like all right now i'll let I mean, she'd have to. She will have to, to maintain a full... I think she deserves it overall.

I think that she lives a very interesting life. I think her backstory is incredible. And obviously, you know, she lives a life of a model. So, like, why wouldn't you want to see more of that? Definitely be interesting. As far as Adriana goes, I thought she was already full-time. She's friend of? Adriana's friend of, yeah.

No, you give the next full-time spot to Marisol, because she is a friend of, and that she's done enough and she gets enough camera time that it's already weird that she's not a friend of. or I mean, a full time. So I think that the correct answer would be, in my opinion, would be Marisol and Kiki promoting them. I'm 1,000% down with demoting Lisa. Unfortunately, as much as I fucking despise her, I don't think you can take horses down.

She does enough. She does enough. You could demote Adriana, too. You could demote Adriana. Yeah, she's not a friend of. No, demoted off the show. Off the show? Whatever.

From Lauren Hutchinson. Can we agree that Russell's the best house husband this network has ever seen? Absolutely. Yeah, I think so. I think so. I think he's phenomenal. From Myra isn't back. Once actually divorced, do you think Lisa will stop talking about Lenny?

No chance. Zero. She's going to complain about the kids. She'll complain about the house and everything will tie back to Lenny. 100% agree. Just exactly what Lenny wants. I don't think that she has the wherewithal to, like, move past it. I think that she's lashed herself onto it so much that she thinks it's pushing the needle and she's going to die on that hill. She's going to die on the Lenny Hill. Hopefully she does the Monday morning quarterback watches the whole season realizes that people did not like that. Or at the very least during the reunion, hopefully the questions that are selected by Andy and his team say, hey, Lisa, shut up about Lenny. We saw a clip of her losing her shit at the reunion. And I would imagine that is 100% in response to somebody challenging it.

Yeah. And she just, she can't, she's like Larsa in, in the regards that they can't hear what other people are saying. Yeah, that's true. We've seen Lisa have a full-blown conversation with Marisol and at the end of it say, what, who are we talking about? And that was in regards to Marisol getting remarried or renewing her vows over in Scotland, a big deal to her. I also love that they're not traditionally married. Yeah, I know. They renew their vows.

What kind of Gen Z shit is that? That's got to be like the new thing to do and Marisol's been doing it. Say what you will, but seeing her. relationship with that dude and her kids, her husband and her kids, her husband's kids, all look genuine, everyone seemed to like each other. I like that home life. I'm actually, I wish we could see more of that for Marisol. It's interesting that we even see that to begin with as a friend of. Yeah, well, that's my whole point with her. She's not a friend of. She gets more camera time to have the cast. I don't get it, but maybe she's cool with just being a friend of. Who

knows? We've done a complete 180 on Marisol and Alexia. That's what I was saying. I give them both props for this season because they show different sides. And that's, you gotta love it. When you get new sides to housewives when they let you in to different aspects of their life, it goes a long way. It goes a long way, Larson, Lisa. It goes a long way. That's it. I'm not going to yell anymore.

Okay. I feel better now. You got any other questions? No, nothing else that I can see. It looks like everybody agrees, though. Rachel McClers. Who is worse? Tom Sandoval or Larsa?

Still Sandoval, but very close. It's getting dangerously close. It's dangerously close, which is. shocking just shocking hard to do anywho make sure you get those tickets to our live show next week wednesday night make sure you go buy those tickets asap because like i said there's not a ton

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