Bros & Shows - Kenya's Gone but Atlanta is Back! (RHOA Premiere Full Recap)

Episode Date: March 12, 2025

What's up Bros? Atlanta is finally back after a very long off season. Personally, we really enjoyed the premiere. It flowed well, the ladies brought it and it sets up for an entertaining season. We ask the audience to give it a shot, let some episodes play out and let's see where we're at. But in the premiere, Shamea takes center stage. Her house is the wealth that we've been wanting back in housewives. She's planning a birthday party that the whole cast is invited to. At a dinner with Kelli, Britney and Shamea, Kelli asks about the situation between Porsha and Simon, asking "why she stole her man" in regards to Simon's ex. Shamea lets Porsha know which will be interesting to watch play out. Drew is amidst her divorce with Ralph and Ralph is currently residing (by court order) in the basement of their house. And rightfully so. But Drew has been seen hanging out and producing music with Dennis, the father of Porsha's kid, which ALSO gets back to Porsha. Kenya makes some appearances, but as we know, she will be edited out at some point due to an incident from this season... At the party the stage is set for some palpable drama. As far as premiere's go, we thought they got off to a solid start. We're excited to see whats in store. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Conditions apply. Scotia Bank, you're richer than you think. Like, we just started watching Atlanta last year, and I just learned the cast, and then they go ahead and switch up pretty much the entire cast. So now I have to learn the entire cast again, because there's only like two or three people returning. So here we are. Yeah, I mean, obviously we know Porsche and Kenya.

Kenya is going to be a hot. Yeah, Cynthia, we know the majority of them. That's the thing. It's just the only full-time cast member that has returned. is Drew, which is kind of funny after what happened with Drew and Ralph in the last season. And I know Kenya is going to be a hot button issue this season because she's in it, she's not in it, and then they completely cut her out entirely. So she was trending on Twitter on Sunday night when Atlanta was premiering over the Atlanta premiere.

So it was Kenya, then R-H-O-A. That's funny. I'm Brows and Shows. Good evening, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of Bros and Shows. I'm your co-host. Steel Russell, joined as always by the one and only Georgia Goots. What's up, dude?

That's Peach Goots to you, buddy. Peachy Goots. Yeah, peachy clean. Peachy queen? Yeah, I don't know. I'm stuck in a loop. Thank you. Thank you.

That broke me out of the loop. Got you, better. It's so nice to be back in Atlanta. I know that there were a lot of, like, hardships with filming this season and we're going to have to see how that goes the entire cast got completely shaken up and we'll see how that goes as well but the production value always gets me going and these fucking houses these confessional looks everything just looks incredible yeah and here's the thing and this is going to be for the entire season it's similar to

other shows we've watched in the past that have either had shakeups or complete transitions into new cast like roney obviously roney didn't hit this season at all but the one thing that we were running into before it had even aired is the hate for it that nobody liked it nobody wanted to come on we're going to have a similar issue with this show coming out not you and i just the general public because there's a lot of people that are like they're going to ruin the show like the fact that kenya's not on there a lot of people have an issue with that there's a lot of hurdles that they have in place before the first episode it even aired. And when I was looking through Twitter, you know, you're hearing some of the same things.

And like, I, I saw some positive responses. I didn't see a lot of reposal. Like, it wasn't, I did too. And that's my thing. It's like, I enjoyed this episode. I really liked it. I know it's not classic Atlanta. A lot of these faces we have seen before in the past and they've come back.

You know, there's some newbies. Sure. I liked it. I thought it was decent. I thought they got out of the gate. Okay. I think that we need to. to go into it expecting something a little bit new,

not hoping and praying for OG Atlanta, which a lot of people regard, yeah, exactly. A lot of people regard like OG Atlanta as some of the best housewifery ever seen. You're not going to get that again. It's not coming back to be the same show it was. You have to embrace what it's going to become.

And I just don't want to not give it a shot right out of the gate and just see what we have. You know, see what we have early on. If it sucks, okay, but like, let's try it. I think it's set up well. I think that they put a lot of thought into that. And obviously, things do go awry at some point, especially with Kenya. But I think that it's set up really well because you have somebody like Shimea who's

been around for a long time. She knows all of the women. She's friends with a lot of the women. She sort of just slides right back into that candy spot where everybody's pretty cool with her. Everybody respects her. And yeah, there's going to be some issues here and there or whatever, but she'll probably get out of it.

She is something of like a glue that's going to hold the group together, that's going have events that force people that are going to have issues together and you know we see some issues that are already kind of taking shape at this point and she's going to be the person that's going to be right in the middle of it all orchestrating and making sure everybody stays on on the right path i guess on task and the other thing is if we look at her like a candy figure candy was checked out the last two seasons of Atlanta she was all over the place and i don't blame her because she had a lot going on and the show was in flux but if shimea can step into that role right away and she's going to be present.

She's going to look at this like, okay, this is how we're going to make sure that everybody stays together. I trust her. I liked Shumia. I thought that she did a good job. I mean,

there's some things that could wear thin, like later on down the road. But I thought that she had a solid first episode. Like I said, I liked the majority of what I saw. I was not, I was captivated the whole time. I watched the whole thing.

I was not, you know, jumping on my phone. I was paying attention. That's kind of my biggest litmus test is like, how many times do I look at my phone during an episode? It's like, that tells me, okay, I was going to laugh right away because you're like, I watched the whole thing.

I'm like, good. You're going to be re-capping. I hope so. I mean, I watched the whole thing without looking at my phone. Correct. Yeah, I know. And that's, it's a big test. Like I said, we watch a lot of these shows.

So there's plenty where I'm like looking down on my phone. I'm like, oh, shit, I got to rewind that or whatever. Yep. This is not one of them. So that's a good start for me. I like Shamea. I thought that she did a good job. Like I said, I like the cast that they put together thus far.

Drew amidst the divorce with fucking Ralph is going to be entertaining. There's a lot of things that I saw in this episode. I'm like, ooh, okay, we have palpable drama on the horizon. This whole group knows each other, which is massive. The whole crew knows each other. Even the ones that don't, they're still like, you can go down the line and find a connection. Like, oh, I don't know you personally, but you're friends with so-and-so. She's friends with this person.

So I kind of know you through the grapevine. Like there's a lot of different, like we look for. certain tropes early on with newer shows or newer casts. Do they know each other? Do they have a history? What is their history? Have they been on reality TV before? They check a lot of these boxes. So I think that that's a positive. And again, I fear that the backlash is going to be premeditated versus, oh, I don't like this show because I've watched a few episodes and it's not hitting. Yeah, I agree with that. Yeah. I think it's, you were right to immediately line it up with something like Roney because Atlanta

and Roney, they were the golden age of housewives. I understand it was incredible and you want that back. You're very nostalgic about it. But that goes to say with a lot of shows. I mean, you're never going to be able to hit the same way. Maybe you were at a different point in your life when you watch those shows and they hit that hard because of where you were. And now they just don't.

And that's kind of how it is. You got to embrace change. That's the only way that we can live. You know what Poppy said to us yesterday? She said, I came up with a saying. This is not a like, look what my child said. My three-year told me that he wants world peace she said to me i came starting to sound like that i wasn't thinking that but now i not it's not because it is previously a saying but she did say like i

coined this term which i think she came up with it on her own which is kind of cool but she's like change is hard but change can be good and i was like wow dude like that's some deep shit i like that i five i know it sounds like one of those moments i swear to god and you know poppy yeah okay but she did she said let's you tweet that and see i see out the reaction no gags i know exactly what the reaction that's the difference i'll say it to you because you know poppy and you know how mature she is and our audience hopefully believes me because i i the last thing i want to do is be one of those parents on twitter like look at my child's at but yeah change can be good guys i don't know put it this way is the same thing we said with roney early on when they started the new season

you didn't like the last few seasons of roney nobody liked the last especially the last two like you didn't like it yeah so they tried to change it then you're mad they tried to change it nobody's like Atlanta for a long time so they're trying to change it let's not hate it because of change with that being said let's jump into this episode what i loved absolutely loved is that they fucking intro everybody immediately we didn't have to wait for names to pop up i'd have to go through that whole all that bullshit we go one by one we list the cast we got shamia kelly angela drew Brittany, Portia. Boom.

Done. Thank you. Do that every season. Every time you change the cast. Not even when you change the cast. Just do it every season when he started because there's newcomers and just name them so we know. Yeah. I would say if there's one newcomer, just start off with the newcomer.

Sure. Get it out of the way early. Then we remind you out what this woman's all about. Names are hard. Okay. You watch a lot of shows. Names are hard. So anyway, obviously, Porsche is back.

A lot of people are super excited about Porsche being back. I'm excited that Porsche is back and you get this this welcome back like it looks like a Nike commercial like she's out like in her sports wear she's like oh man it's been like narrated by Porsche and she's like doing like calistemics I was married to this man and he was lying to me the whole time it was the longest 15 months of my life yeah okay as we know she's married to Simon so like we obviously have a history there but it's like it was very funny to watch this not funny but I I actually enjoyed it. I'm like, okay, what are we doing here? The production value is phenomenal. I'm glad that we're getting more cinematic scenes. I love cinematic scenes and housewife shows. I think they should always be seen.

Yeah, so it's awesome. You know, she's back. I'm glad that she's back. She goes to that whole thing like you said. Who the fuck did I marry? Who is this guy? I thought he was somebody. It's not.

So Portia's back is a great reintroduction for Porsche. I'm excited about that part. And then we get to Sterling Hall. Fuck yes, Sterling Hall. God damn it. Thank God we have one of these houses back in Housewives. This is a nice thing. Bring wealth back to Housewives.

I don't want to see all these broke people that are going through divorces and not getting any money. I want to see some huge houses with fucking elevators in it. I'm sick of pool houses in Beverly Hills. Okay. I want fucking mansions. I want $9 million houses. That's probably worth double that now.

I want to see elevators in closets. That's what I want. So you set the bar high out of the gate. This house is a fucking estate, and I'm thrilled that we're in here. But we get to re-meat Shimea, and, you know, she was Porsche's ride or die back in the day. But she's claiming that I can outshine the best of them. And I, look, her performance this episode, I'm intrigued. Yep.

I'm intrigued because I think that she can. She took the role figure, like, right away. I had no doubt in my mind. As soon as she started talking, as soon as she started getting with all the rest of the ladies central figure there you go that's all we need that we need a central figure we need like you said the glue and we need the person that's going to have the events and as she says i'm having this birthday party it's my first big event in this house i'm inviting the whole family we get to learn about who she is a little bit she calls herself the female jamy fox

because she's a singer dancer actress and a tv host that's interesting i'm excited thank you shami But she talks about what she's been through with her growing her family. As she said, she has two kids, Shia and Shiloh, and I guess that Shiloh was born premature, had over a dozen surgeries. So that's really tough. And I like the family aspect. So what I loved about this intro, because immediately after that, you get, you know, 10 years with her husband, Gerald, all that. We hit all of it. Tell me who you are, who you're married to, who your family is, what you do for a living, and about your house.

How much money do you have? That's what I want to know. They get it all out in the open immediately because that's what we want to hear. We want to get to know them without having to wait three episodes. It's like, wait, what did she say? And she goes on like, this is probably why I was like, okay, I fuck with Shamiya, like right out of the gate. When she talks about the story of her meeting Gerald and going to his house and blowing up his bathroom at 430, fucking amazing. That was, that was cinema.

She's like, it was a full, full symphony orchestra in his bathroom. And the next time I came back, he had wipes for me. I'm like, that is true. First of all. Yeah. Let love win. Let love win. Okay. And if you can't go, that's, I don't know how many women don't know.

If you really want to know if a dude's going to ride or die for you, go take a shit in his house, okay? Do it. Do it. I think that's easier than done. No, because, yeah, obviously if you're uncomfortable. But here's the thing. if they throw a fit or if they're like, oh, my God, that's not the guy, all right?

Any grown man can be like, yeah, you have to go to the bathroom. We all do. Go for it. Just spray afterwards, if you don't mind. Yeah. But like, that's the powder room downstairs, yeah. Sure. Like, just not the, uh, I don't want to smell it, but like, go down there.

Seriously, like, I think that it's a great test. I'm glad that she did it. And I'm so, so delighted that she shared it with us. I was like, thank you for this moment because I thought it was hilarious. I love the play by play of the whole thing, too, because obviously it took about 20 minutes to get through, very long-winded, even though the producers like, Shmiya, we're cutting it. It's pretty short.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, let me just get through this. I just have a couple of points to make, 25 minutes later, still going, given the full play-by-play, met at the club, walked around, he asked me if I wanted to drink, got a drink, looked around, you married, not married, okay, cool, went to a barbecue, saw them, you got kids, no kids, all right, now we're talking, then I was in his bed at 430 and I'd take a shit. Great, perfect. That's what we needed.

Like, I just did it about two minutes, but yeah, that was great. It was great. It was fantastic, great intro, great opening, great opening scene, got me excited. I think that was a big part of it, too, is I was locked in now because she had such a great intro. But then we check in with a, you know, a familiar face in Drew, and she has one year going on one year amidst this divorce. They're still not divorced because, lo and behold. Drew, she was singing to Ralph at the reunion. Oh, God.

Oh, God. I forgot about that. Oh, dude. This is the problem because when it happened, I'm like, I need a reminder. I need everybody to have the reminder that this happens because it was so goddamn funny that the last thing that we saw from the Atlanta season before they blew up the cast was Drew at the reunion performing her song with Ralph in the audience. When they were going through a divorce. Yes. Need that.

I need people to know. Why did they play that? But if you forgot, I'm here to remind you. I appreciate you that. I actually do. I genuinely appreciate you, like allowing me to remember that moment. Holy shit. There, that, we need to hang that in the stuity, bro.

That's the next picture going up. Oh, I'm sure there's like a beautiful, like, 4K picture that we can put up there where it's her on stage, singing with the lights on her. And then there's a spotlight on Ralph. I think we can, we can replace something in here. We need to have that out. Yeah, that's a good call. Good call.

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I'm sure they edited her out of, like... like half of this episode too probably yeah yeah i would imagine uh but she arrives and ralph's office is now like a salon it looked like which i fucking love that and ralph has been sequestered to the basement via judge's orders it's too fucking funny dude like it's you can't make this up it is so funny that he got put down there and i love that drew talks about it saying i was hoping that he would go down there and start getting his shit together and move out like hey buddy you live in the basement maybe go get a house of your own maybe go get a townhouse or an apartment just get the hell out of here now i'm going to stay in the basement her i think it was her daughter that was walking around like

where's daddy downstairs he might be downstairs i'm not really sure he's down there just doing whatever ralph is doing down there because he's doing ralph shit without drew what is he doing she was the only reason that he was even relevant in the in the production of film or whatever the hell you want to say what he was doing otherwise what is he up to i have no idea to be this savvy businessman that does all these business things i don't know what the fuck he does he's living in a basement right now to the point that as his daughter's ascending the stairs he said give me a hug goodbye like she's leaving the house she's just walking up the stairs my guy but the best part is you're not allowed to walk up the staircase you're fucking stuck in the basement i need to know more about the

basement like is there a separate entrance for him to get down there is he going said that no there's separate entrance in is he going in through like a cellar door though like like one of those tornado cellars door oh yeah yeah so awesome if he's just like in a walk in every time it's like three a m you just hear like a creek you're like god damn it ralph yeah ralph don't not my fridge the fuck in the basement like the best part like the he's definitely sneaking upstairs to eat some shit out of sure without a doubt like put a camera in the fridge you'll catch him up there like in there 3 a m like shuffling shredded cheese in his mouth Whoa, whoa.

All right. Don't associate that with Ralph because that's a great move. It's a phenomenal move, which is why I mentioned it, all right? I'm just saying even Ralph doesn't do that. Ralph sucks. Oh, yeah. He takes the block of cheese and takes a bite out of it and ruins it for everybody. That's what Ralph does.

But you know what? He's spooning cottage cheese into us. Oh, God. That's more of a Ralph move. Now he's in the basement because you're a dick, Ralph. Because the judge says so. It's a judge. That's incredible.

You're stuck in the basement. That judge must have had the funniest time, too, sitting there like, this is what we're going to do. Ralph, basement, buddy, can't come up. When can I come up? What's my visitation rates with my kids? They have to come downstairs. They can't lower them down with cheese.

And then you get the, what is it, the first fifth and, what did I write? It's like the first, fifth and seventh weekend. Yeah. Oh, the first third and fifth weekend of the month, she has to leave the house. So he can come out of the basement. Oh, it's so good. It's so good. It's, they, that's what he deserves.

But we find out they're talking through an app and the judge sees everything that they're saying. Lo and behold, shockingly, fucking Ralph can't help himself. And he throws bullshit into that chat, not surprising at all. And Drew wants to pop off, but she doesn't, nor should you. Again, the judge is just trying to bait her. Yeah, exactly. But we find out about her career a little bit. And she's opening for Tank in Chicago.

and she's partners with Porsche's Dennis. Now, most of you probably know, Dennis being the father of Porsche's child. And now Drew is with him and he's producing music. Also, Kenya had no idea that Dennis was involved in music, even though Drew says music is his past. Very, very, very long time he's been doing music. But two seconds later, it was,

I'm not really sure how long he's been doing this. Weird. The whole thing's a little bit strange, especially when you add to it, he's been my saving grace through all of this. Yeah. Yeah, you make it personal. It's very emotional. It's getting weird. What's going on here?

You're going through a lot. You're leaning on Dennis. And then when Kenya asks a question, why didn't he produce for her, which wasn't all that long ago when she made a song? 2014, 2015, maybe. He wasn't doing it back then. Nope. Not a very, very long time. Not even a very long time or a long time.

This is a passion, though. He's passionate about this. Look, I mean, you can get passionate about things later in life for sure, but, you know, I still come back to the, it made it seem like he's been doing it his whole life. Because it's a very, very long time. Yeah. I guess different people at different, what? Short time. Short time.

Yeah. Short time long time. Okay. Short time. Oh, there we go. Yeah. Yeah. Short time long time.

Very strange. The whole thing's strange. And I'm like, okay, well, she's clearly fucking Dennis. Like, yeah. I don't know what you just said. I wasn't paying attention because you're just clearly having sex with this man. Got it. Okay, cool.

Anyway, we move on from there and we get to see Kelly with her daughters. Chloe, it's her 17th birthday. They're at a tea party. She's pouring whiskey into the tea. So I'm already fucking with Kelly. I'm like,

hell yeah. This is awesome. And we go through this, this birthday party. And she's living a single mom life. She's got Nana's Waffles. fucking love that. That sounds incredible.

You know what sounds even cooler? I'm trying to grow my waffle empire. I will invest in a waffle empire? Hell yeah. Waffle house is my favorite establishment in the United States of America. We have been talking about investing our nest egg, our bros and shows nest egg, right to the wall.

A lover boy. Yeah, we were thinking lover boy. There was another one we were talking about. Oh, it was G. Lillie's, uh, uh, Oh, Burning Man. Yeah. No, it turns out the correct answer is let's invest in waffles because, hell yeah. No one says no to a waffle unless you're an asshole.

There's going to be one person in here that doesn't like waffles. Like, I didn't care for when he said that. More of a pancake guy. I'm more of a waffle guy. I'm more of a waffle guy as well. I think that good pancakes are easier to come by. But if you get me a good waffle, I will choose that every single time. time the way that they have the holes for the syrup and the butter oh yeah yeah i agree that's a

really good point throw some great waffle too with a little hot honey who i'm so fucking hungry bro i'm so hungry oh dude the mixture of maple syrup and hot honey together is is wonderful it's a wonderful thing get crazy powder sugar on it too yeah why not can we take a break so i can go eat this i'm so hungry that sucks you have a waffle maker i feel like you yeah i have a waffle maker yeah i knew it definitely have a lot of like that's something that like everybody gets at one point in their lives and you don't use it nearly as much as you would hope but it's always great when you do have you know what i have i've got the two little waffle makers so i can make a little waffle sandwich with the chicken on the sandwich and then the hot honey oh yeah fuck i'm hungry yeah yeah do that do that what were we talking about yeah yeah damn it oh the waffle empire oh god that's all i want i'll figure out a way to have a waffle tonight. I might make waffles the night. But anyway, somebody on, on Twitter said, what is this, the real divorced housewives of Atlanta? Because Kelly's also going through a divorce. She has two months until the divorce. That's all right. They've been going through it for,

I don't have an issue with it. It was just a funny line. I've no, I'm not one of the people. It's like, their house wives. Why are they all single? It's like, are we really getting caught in semantics of the name of the show? Yeah, who cares? But anyway, she's been going through divorce for two and a half years. They were married for 11 years. They're somewhere, along the way it turned into complete enemies and uh yeah i love the use of enemies instead of saying like yeah we just kind of grew apart we wanted different things like no we grew into fucking mortal enemies we hate each other we hate each other now we flipped at some point can't really put my thumb on when it happens but we are mortal enemies now and i will take them down

with my waffles that's what i want the hell yeah trounced by waffles is a great story that would be awesome but apparently along the way it got pretty sketchy She, you know, there was, there was the police were involved and her ex threatened her in court. There was a lot of crazy shit happening. So it's nice that she's, you know, two months out from this being over. And I really like, obviously, the strong independent woman storyline where she's, you know, taking care of her kids. And, you know, she bought her daughter 17 gifts for her 17th birthday, many of them being very expensive purses, to which I did have to question. I'm like, all right, so she wants a pink Birken.

I'm aware how expensive burkins are. If you buy 17 other designer bags, does that not equate to like a lower end? I understand Birken seem to be like astronomical. But can we not get a pink Birken instead of? I think, and this is just me, giving a 17-year-old one Birken that she could potentially ruin and mess with. Rather give her maybe lower priced items from Chanel. That would make more sense. So there's 17 of those so that she can interchange them.

she'll get more out of them. And then if one of them gets all fucked up, it's not the Birken that got fucked up. It's one of the lowly Chanel purses. Yeah, because as we do know, like a Birken is much more than just a bag, right? A Birken's a statement. It's a lifestyle.

It's a lifestyle. You know, we're Birken men ourselves. We don't own them. Yeah. And someday. Someday. We're going to pull up ourselves and have a Birken party. We get our first Birken.

But anyway, we get to Portia and her. def as mean that I'm laughing. But the fact that she's going back to see her divorce attorney again, and he's like, I missed you. I'm like, yeah. No, it's funny too that you left at that because I left at him saying,

you know the way. Yeah. Right through here, you know where you're going. I'll be down in a minute. You know where you're going. And look, it could have been that this is like her third,

fourth meeting and like this is the first one on camera. So we're doing the weird introductions. It's so funnier to think about it. Like, oh, yeah, you know the way. It looks like the office is completely. different but he is funded by divorce so he is much more swanky yeah exactly it was it was a very funny lead off to this whole thing but he does reference that she walked away from a whole lot

in her previous divorce so this time she has a pre-nup she wants to do things the right way make sure she's walking with what she can get but as we know and if you've been keeping up with it like we're not sure how much is entirely there Simon was not on the up and up about finances not on the up and up about business decisions and he kept Porsche at bay the entire time. So this is one of those divorces where it's like kind of, we can compare it. No, to compare it. It's just one of those divorces where she's finding out, oh, fuck, there's a lot of shit that I didn't know about.

Yeah. We're not sure what's even there to split other than the house. We know for a fact that they have 50, 50 on the house. The judge did rule that Porsche can stay in the house. And where is he from? Do you know where he's from? I'm not sure. I don't know.

I'm wondering, like, I believe. He has a company. I believe he's from Nigeria because when she's on the phone with Cynthia later on the episode, Cynthia makes a joke like, oh, we can't go to Nigeria anymore. And the portion is like, well, I'm Nigerian. So we can go to Nigeria because she did the 23 and me. I'm assuming and there's like 47% Nigerian. So you still go. But yeah, I think he's from there.

I believe he has businesses in the U.S. I think he has businesses in the U.S. because the article clip that they put up there said that he was going to be fined about $900,000 or something. it towards his business and that Porsche was going to get involved in that in some way, shape or form. So that's got to suck too. But I do wonder, like, all of these things that she didn't know and she goes into it even more. Like, why are we always getting in this second very long line of the airports? It's like, uh, what do you think?

Yeah. What is he telling her at that point? I don't know. Is it like my, my passport still isn't cleared or they still have to do like double checks on me for the next six months? Like he's got to just be making things up as he goes along. and for whatever reason she was falling for it but it didn't seem like she fell for it for that long because you can only keep that trade going

for so long and it was what 15 months of them being married? 15 months and she she called it quits because she started to find things out she says when the communication stopped was the problem because they were always so communicative and then all of a sudden he wasn't and then she started finding things out she was like

she got sent a foreclosure notice on the house and was like what the fuck is that so she clearly didn't know what was up and he goes further and sends her a cease and desist cannot film in the house. So now he's fucking with her finances, which is fucked. So hopefully that gets overturned. I can't imagine.

Go to Ralph's basement. Now, send him to the basement. Oh, you could probably use Ralph's basement. Yeah. If you wanted to. Then you have to hang out with Ralph. And that would stop. Or just, you're going through a divorce.

Just use the same divorce attorney that Drew is in. She'll put Simon in the basement. She did do that. I mean, yeah. Let's stick all of the ex-husbands and basements. Everybody goes to the basement. Yeah. Wait.

No, he has to, he has to go live with Ralph in Ralph's basement. Yes, yes. That's the answer. And then stick a camera in there. Boom. We just came up with a new show, done, husbands and basements. But we get to dinner. And it's Kelly, Shamia, and Brittany.

And was not aware that insurance agents go to the flyest and sexiest events. News to me, didn't know. Depends on the insurance, I suppose. I think my favorite part is, like, the way she said it was almost that, as you all know, like, of course, I'm going to these parties because I'm an insurance agent. I was like, I think, all the insurance agents I know are not going to the flash these sexiest events, you know? Kind of insurance. I don't know what's going on here. Life insurance?

But what, then you'd just be going to funerals. Yeah. You're that guy that walks in with the binder afterwards and it's like, I need to talk to the family, you know? First chaser, yeah. Yeah. Well, that's a lawyer, I guess. Yeah, the attorney does that. We're not lawyers.

We say it all the time. That is not our forte. But anyway, back to dinner. They're discussing Porsche's divorce. And, you know, they're trying. It's just funny because you can tell that it's early in the season. You can tell they're trying to set the tone in the right way. Like, oh, she's going to come out on top.

And, you know, everything's going to be great. And then out of nowhere, Kelly's like, should have ever took that girl's man. I'm like, ooh, fuck you. Yeah. Quick. Let's get into it. I love this. Yeah.

Hell yeah. Because as we know, Simon was involved with somebody. Previously, you get the cutscene of her going to his house with his wife and, like, giving him a fist bump, almost out of respect. Like, I'm not going to hug you because your wife's right there. Let's just do a little bump. Boop, boop. So there is, it doesn't seem on the up and up. There's a gray area.

There's a gray area. Yeah. It's never so slightly. Even if it's not. Anytime. Anytime you suspect a little overlap, just call it out. Sure. It never goes wrong.

Never goes wrong. Not for us at home. No. Trust at home. It turns into gold. You might get the wrath. You might get some shit, but we're going to love it. And we get to watch it transpire, which we love to do.

So yes, always call it out. Shia sticks up for her. I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. That's my friend. You guys don't know her. I liked her reasoning behind it. It wasn't so much, like you don't know her stop talking shit. It was more so I don't want them to go in with a,

jaded disposition when they meet her and they're already not into her because they heard rumors or whatever rather than give her a shot to win them over. Yeah. I think that's way more of it what it was. And this is me going to say that like Shamiya has such a good central presence where this is the first episode. This is probably one of your first scenes that you're filming. They haven't met yet.

Let's know, let's put the brakes on that. We don't need factions immediately. No, we don't need factions immediately. But also Shamiya can speak to this. She knows how Porsche is going to react to it. She knows that. it's going to get back to her because Brittany's going to tell somebody or Shamia is even going to go tell somebody or Kelly's just going to walk right in there, just say it out of right

away as soon as she sees Porsche walk in the door. All of that happened. Pretty much, pretty much everything that I just said. Yeah, all those things could happen and all of those things did happen. Yeah, that happened. So it actually worked out perfectly for us at home, but we always want to say we don't want to see the newcomers try too hard out of the gate. We don't want to see some rumors being done.

peddled around we don't want to see you try too hard try to ease into it see how things go and then you can drop that bomb second episode third episode maybe but it seems to work it seems like kelly's just like confident where she is she doesn't she doesn't give a shit and she didn't do it later in like a i'm thirsty for attention type of way it was more of like a hey this is who i am this is what i think i'd set it to these women i'm going to say it to your face love that well what i like about it and how she gets into it later immediately and not letting the game telephone play out right it points to somebody that stands on business which i love in these shows when you have a person that doesn't put up with shit that's like i'm not going to listen like i'm

just going to take it to them and see what they say about it there's always like that person needs to be on this show one person in every franchise needs to be the person that's like this is stupid i'm just going to bring it up so i'm glad that we have somebody taking on that role like immediately but again shimea with the defense is is saying well she checked with simon and the x first I'm like, how did that conversation go? Yeah, that doesn't seem like. That doesn't sound legit to me. She called the accent.

Like, are you cool with this? Like, who doesn't know? Sounds like Drew calling to make sure that it's okay if she boixt Dennis. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I don't think that happens. Yeah. No, there's no way that happens. So anyway, we get portion Shami at a strip club.

And I haven't been outside. And, you know, if Shemia says that going to see clapping cheeks is going to make me happier, then I'm going to go watch clapping cheats. The best part about this is we got them at a strip club and they weren't eating lobster. They weren't eating wings. They weren't eating any finger food like we've seen in other shows that will not be mentioned. They were sitting there ripping shots. It's shot o'clock.

Let's get after it. I forgot about that. You're bringing a lot of memories up right now about it. Yeah. Is it kind of hard to hear? I forgot about the lobster and wings in a strip club. That is ludicrous. Finger foods in a strip club is just, that should be illegal.

Oh, God. Yeah, they're just ripping shots. What the funniest fucking part, bro, the funniest part is, like, the randos in there. They're like, what the, you know there's a dude in there who's not supposed to be there. And there's a fucking camera. He's like, oh, like, some guys there, like on his lunch break, he changed into his sweatpants to get in there. He's got to go back to work. He doesn't want his wife to find out.

And all of a sudden, he walks in just sees a camera crew. It was just like Abe Simpson just walking in, just into the bushes. back out. That's Homer Simpson. That's Homer into the bushes, yeah. Abe walking into the brothel and turning back out. That's the other one. That's exactly what.

Like that was my thing. Because in the background, you do see some fuzzy faces. I'm like, that guy's probably pissed if he's on camera right now. That guy's hoping that his wife doesn't watch it later. Yeah, 100%. But weirdly, Simon texted Shemia, congrats on the peach and like other things.

And she's like, oh, thanks, bro, whatever. And a little too self-aware for a housewife show. I don't like that. Don't call attention to housewife things. No, that's pretty weird that he's calling that out out of the gate. But, you know, she's like, first of all,

don't call him bro. He's not a bro. He's not a bro. He's Simon. And second of all, this guy sucks. Like, don't talk to him.

But it's just a strange thing. I guess he's just chasing around everything she's doing right now, trying to keep tabs on her. I don't know if he's, he's just trying to be ever present is the vibe. It's like, I'm still here. Like,

that's kind of the vibe I'm getting. I'm still getting bros from Shamea. exactly like that kind of thing that's what i took from it too what i liked again and if this is how the show goes because we like a fast pace right like we like to shit happen we like them to get over it we like them to move on to the next thing that seems to be the tone being set because immediately she starts talking about kelly and brittany while i went to dinner with them and you know kelly at one point said why did she take that girl's man and Porsche's like who the fuck are these people like she doesn't even know me she's going to talk shit about me that's the

correct response that is 100% the correct response but she's taken up back and i'm like oh Porsche is activated episode one by kelly this is everything's pointing in my mind to like good this is good good for the show this will be entertaining so that's also i'm curious what the did you i didn't dive deep on twitter or anything i just like looked at the first thing that popped up when I typed in R-H-O-A. Is this been well-received, or is this episode kind of in the middle? I think that everybody's still stuck on. It's sort of like a wait-and-see approach.

No, it's not even necessarily old Atlanta. I think it's still, a lot of people probably aren't, maybe Twitter savvy is not the right way to put it, but they didn't really know that Kenya was cut out. So they were finding out for the first time. Yeah, it's, it's tough to figure this out because obviously we do this for a living. it's a good point okay so it's always tough for me whenever i look online and people are like oh my god can you got dropped from the season she got cut out and edited it out here and there and i'm like yeah dude where you been that's a good point months ago this doesn't consume your life

this show has been filmed for the last year and it's been ready since like september but because of the kenya stuff yeah so uh not really sure where you guys have been but it's just really funny i think that once people get over that and it's sort of like the wait and see approach, see how, you know, the Kenya of it all affects the entire show, see how the newbies do. I think probably by episode three or four will probably have better reading on it, but I think ratings-wise did really well. That's good. All right. I'm cool. I mean, it's still Atlanta, so. I'm still, let's just stick with ratings for now because I feel people are going to have to get used to this before the comments actually bear any weight, but

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now you have to go through this whole thing drew's been going through a divorce Porsche has been super supportive of that drew called her it was at a reunion shot of her getting ready to the reunion calling? Yeah, it was before the reunion, yeah. Yeah, so, like, she's, she's in tune with what's been going on in Drew's life, so it's pretty fucking slimy if you're going to turn around and bang her

kids' dad. We also heard in the first conversation when Kenya went over to Drew's house and they were talking about Dennis, Drew said, yeah, I think that Dennis asked her and she said everything was fine. So it seems a little weird. Dennis asked her if he could produce the music,

not if I can go sleep with your friend. Yeah, and that's kind of like the underlining thing that's going on right now. So yeah, could get a little dicey. You think? Drew's even modeling in like Porsche's hair company. Like that's what that.

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we then get on to Shimea who is singing now for the second or third time this is one of the things that could wear on me I yeah you know I don't know I think I would imagine she is episodes away from announcing either a song and or an album or something along those lines and I think look she has a great voice she has a very nice voice she does she does but the biggest pet peeve of mine is when people just randomly start singing like and it goes on for so long like she's just talking to her mom about the rain coming it's nice if you left it at just the let the sun come out tomorrow or like rain rain rain go away or something like that she's saying ring ring go away just that's all i need just one line i don't need you to do the whole song because what am i supposed to do do do i clap at the end of it i almost did because the best part is her mom is like in the back like just kind of nodding along and then sings sings with her like briefly and then like at the end it's just like smiling nodding her head she started singing louder when her mom started singing to it's like no no no no no you're not going to outshine me mom shut up it's my

moment i'm trying to sell a record deal here rain rain go i can't sing like she she has a great voice the big thing too is because as soon as i start watching it as soon as drew pops on the screen i'm like all right when's drew going to start singing i got a mentally prep for this i know what's going to happen it's the same thing i do for a lot of these shows like erika jane i know that she's going to perform at some point sheen is going to fucking sing ashley garby's going to sing like i have to mentally prep in the beginning of all of these seasons where anybody's going to sing and i'm like all right when's drew going to sing and instead shimea sings and i'm like all right she actually has a really good voice and then six minutes later when she's still singing rain rain go away i'm done

what do i don't want to hear this anymore yeah i wish you did clap like by yourself your house just like golf clap but anyway Porsche and cynthia face time just to talk about the simon stuff and the Drew and Dennis stuff, which is important for later. And then we get to Shimea's party. And Kelly arrives. I like again that Shemia right out of the gate, hey,

felt uncomfortable after that dinner. Just want to let you know that I told Portia what you said. I like that she does that out of the gate. That kind of protects her a little bit. Kelly's also a little bit pissed. She's like, dude, come on.

Like, why did you do that? That's her friend. So she protected herself because she knows this is on camera. I'm not going to fuck with her. that but I'm also going to tell the other person so they didn't get blindsided by the whole thing up she's playing defense and she's playing offense so I like that move I guess Kelly is more upset about the whole thing because she's been cheated on so she has more of a reaction to it she's like I know what feels if that's what she did fuck her I'm like okay like if you have

pre-existing yeah we've seen a lot of like across all of these shows you know we've got the the other woman syndrome where you start thinking about that and if you even bring that up people get offensive about it. This one is a new one. I haven't seen this one before, but I've been cheated on. So if I see somebody else being cheated on and she's the other woman,

don't like that. I'm going to call that out immediately. The BPR is the other woman's syndrome. Yeah, I'm like, I guess that's fair. I don't know if it's real or not. Well, I mean, here's the thing. It gets fair to have feelings about it. But it's also,

this is really none of your business. You don't even know her. So what you're saying is you're forming an opinion on her character without knowing her. And, yeah, that's a really good point. But in both situations, it's the dude's fault. So it's your ex's fault for cheating on you, and it's Simon's fault for cheating on his wife. So why are we blaming Portia?

I'm confused. It's just calling into question her character. She's a party to it because I do believe that the party to it, if they're knowing that the person has a wife or a husband, I do believe the party shares guilt. Yeah. But we need, you should meet the person before talking to her. friends and saying no if she had lunch with brittany and they talked about it fine fine she had lunch with shemia yeah you know where she was right or die yeah so you you have i mean obviously she knew what she was doing like she's not going to throw that out there be like what do you mean you

told her yeah she told her but whatever we get to why shemia and her husband have so much money he is apparently the king of hvac he does commercial hvac which is just for i mean mean fucking ridiculous money ridiculous money and i only know that because i sold energy as one of my offseason jobs forever goes true story and my my one of those asses that comes up to me in like lincoln financial field when i'm trying to watch an eagles game like hey have you thought about switching from pgw no no what we were energy consultants and advisors what we would do is we would take all of you if you owned a company i would take all of your information from your buildings um your your warehouses all the electricity information and find a better fit in an electric

company for you and your company here's the caveat or the kicker i don't get paid unless you sign the deal one and two it comes out of you paying your electric bills you're not paying me directly okay energy by five was like a shit job i paid really well i didn't mind that part but it was tough because a lot of cold calls but my point is you went for like big warehouses that a lot of like refrigeration in it or big warehouse that needed to be cooled down office space because you they HVAC is such a huge thing with

with electricity all to bring it back to this guy makes a shit ton of money riveting stuff thank you that's why you guys listen to us right for stories like that about what I sold fucking electricity I'd rather listen to Shimea Singh more than

yeah me too now that I just went through that whole thing I'm like, I could have done without it. I could have done without it. But Charles Oakley is on the season. He sure is, last enforcer. It's like, holy shit. Charles Oakley. Last time I saw you, it kicked out of Massachusetts Square Garden.

Oh, dude, yeah. Getting in the owner's face. Fucking Dolan. Getting in his face and tell him that he's doing a shit job, trolled his team. Now he's not allowed in MSG. I think he reversed the band, yeah. They reversed the band, but I need him to.

start talking about that. I want to know more. Dude, we usually don't like husbands get involved. If Charles Oakley tells his side of the Madison Square Garden story, I'd be so fucking happy. Also, like, he's got to, he's still a very intimidating guy. Sure. He was what he played and he still is

now. He's gigantic. He was legit an enforcer on the court. Like, he's hair. Charles, his hair and his beard. So goddamn good. Fantastic. Yeah. I'm stoked he's here. But obviously he arrived to his wife, Angela, who is the house wife well i think she's a friend of is she part of the i the list of the friend of she

no no she's part of the list in the intro so i'd imagine she's full oh shit okay yeah so angela's a full time we don't get a lot from her yet because well i just assumed because we got a lot episode and we still don't know we're doing our best all right guys relax but then drew arrives in uh and i might look might not be the same die But it looked like a 316 blonde, I believe, is what Karen's blonde is. All right. And then me to try the blonde in Potomac. I'm not sure.

I mean, I am the resident colorblind guy, but I do not see this blonde. Because you're colorblind. It was blonde. Yeah, it's not the same color, though. It's not the same color. It's not the same color. I can see differences in shades very well, but I can never identify the color. But I can tell you, it's definitely different than what Karen.

Based on your colorblind shade recognition, you're telling me it's a different color. Shade recognition is through the roof, yeah. You didn't know what color the fire was in traders, but you're telling me you can identify a week. You ever seen those colorblind tests where it's like, I've got nine colors up there. It's eight of them are exactly the same. One of them is like a tiny bit off. I've run those bad boys down. I killed those things.

Sick. You're awesome. You're fucking cool, man. I can't tell you what color it was that I picked, but I can tell you it's different. Well, anyway, she's friends with Kelly. So they're tight. they're both going to divorces so I imagine we'll see them team up a little bit but we get

Cynthia Drew and Kelly and they get right into it are you because I guess not right into it it's a hint it's like are you too publicly dating and I thought she was saying you're dating Dennis she's just asking if they're dating but you can tell she's just throwing a little line

out there just trying to fish a little bit are you going to slip it happens yeah she did not no no I'm not dating I want to get through this whole Ralph thing first I'm like oh shit you're burying yourself out of the gate. Cynthia just set you up and you fucking went for it and you fell for it. I don't think she's actually dating him.

I don't know if they're dating. I do think they're boinking. I don't even think they're boinking. I think that this whole thing is just going to be a false flag operation just to go after Drew. Are you a big Drew Stan? Maybe. Maybe I am.

Okay. Hey, no Stan. Dude, she put Ralph in the basement. She did put Ralph in the basement and sang to Ralph at the reunion after they're getting divorced. So, okay, she does deserve some respect. You're right. Yeah, but Kenya arrives.

And she's also going through a divorce, as we know. And she asks about Brittany's new ring. Because Britney's wearing a massive 10-carat diamond ring, a solitaire cut, I believe. Sure. Was what they said. It's a new ring to replace the old ring. She's married to that guy. I don't know what his name is.

Michael. Michael, thank you. She's married to my name. Michael, but as their anniversary present, she got a new engagement ring, which I have heard of before, by the way. I don't think that's not the most unheard of thing ever. Kenya's kind of stuck on it, but I think that it's more so because she references her not wearing a wedding band and just the ring, whatever. There was a little bit of shade. I didn't think it was shady.

It was just ever so slight, but it was enough for her to not be thrilled. And she was like, all right, fuck you. And she started to make divorce jokes. Like, I have a man, you don't, that whole thing. you get Brittany with Michael and Kelly talking about the interaction that just happened. That's when she makes the comment where it's like, I'm married and you're divorced or shut the fuck up. I'm like, okay.

So up until this point, we have set the stage for battles across the board. We certainly have that. I don't know if the Kenya battle is really going to matter. I guess. No, especially if she's not going to be part of the show. Kelly's getting involved with a lot of shit. Sorry, Brittany.

Brittany got involved in this one. So the newbies are getting involved with people that we, That's what I meant, is the newbies are going to have to see if they can punch up. They'll have to punch above their weight class because I don't think that you can really hang with somebody like Kenya. Maybe Porsche is a little easier to hang with, but. Well, they're just going to go too low, which is what happens, by the way. That's what happens, as we know, because Kenny gets the boot for revenge porn. Yeah.

You know, so clearly she takes a swing, but luckily she's not, you know, down to go that low because that's fucking crazy. I don't care who you are. So that's the whole thing. But I guess at some point, I wonder if that's the send-off maybe. We get to that episode and they're like, ooh, fuck.

Yeah, probably. Because you have to, you have to reference it. I don't think that they're even going to reference it, though. You have to. Just because everybody knows about it.

I don't think they will. I know, but they might just sweep it under the rug. I don't know. I'll have to see how they handle it. I'm really curious. But you get all the ladies together in one of the many rooms at Chimmya's gigantic house,

which again, film all of it there. Yeah. movie theater. I actually said that. I'm like, we're going to be here a lot this year. I think she's going to have different parties,

a lot of people over. It's going to be a whole thing. And then honestly, if we just bounce between there and the strip club, I'm a happy boy. That's good enough for me. It's funny.

Them going to the strip club is never not funny. It's always funny. Just thanks for clarifying why you want them at the strip club because you sounded like a group. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Just there in the strip club. Shake it ass.

You're gross. You're fucking gross, pal. But she gets her birthday present. which, you know, of course it's a Cullin and $400,000 Rolls-Royce SUV. I've never even seen one of these before. Like, that's how not wealthy I am. I didn't know this is a thing. Holy shit, that's a beautiful car.

And then Porsche walks in two hours late and steals the show. Tough look. Not only did she walk up behind Chmilla tap her on the back. She immediately goes, yeah, you're late. She gets in the car. She's yelling. We held it across. Like, great job.

buying this car. Then she gets right in front of the camera. She's like, this is my best friend. She's got a Rolls Royce. It's like, this isn't about you. Get out of here. Go out of shot. Yeah. And even, even she me is like, look, I don't like to dampen anybody's light, but fuck off right now. I just got my big present and everyone's looking at me. And that's what this party is about. It's about me. She has the wardrobe changes, all the stuff. She just got a $400,000 car. Let her have a second. You know what I mean? But anyway, I thought it was horseshit for Porsche to say the reason I'm ladies because of traffic. Everybody else showed up on time and everyone else drove through Atlanta traffic.

And everybody in the world knows Atlanta traffic sucks. Yeah. So I don't think that's a great excuse. But you get Cynthia and Kenya and the Kelly comment about Porsche comes up about her stealing men. And Kelly is obviously upset about the situation again because she's been cheated on. So I guess that's some extra stank on the whole thing. But you get the whole group at the end. And they're all discussing this.

And then Portia walks into the room. And again, this is why I'm, I'm into this season because she's getting into it with Kelly right out of the gate. Kelly's obviously clapping back at her saying, well, just, I love that Kelly standing her ground. Answer the fucking question. Did you take that girl's man? Like, why did you take her man? Standing her ground. Love that.

I thought it was a great deflection too by Forcia. Like, oh, we haven't met before. What's your last name even? I don't know. Yeah. And we saw, of course, as we always do on shows. now, Portia was on Amazon Live, talking about some shit. She was, every time, always Amazon Live.

We could always trace things back to that. But yeah, she probably genuinely didn't know Kelly's last name. And she tried to deflect by doing that. What's your last name? What's your last name? That's kind of a weird move. Start off like this. You haven't even met me yet.

It is kind of a weird move. That's a very valid point. But Kelly decides to not take this opportunity. I thought it would have been really fun if she just extended her hand. Like, hey, by the way, I'm Kelly. I don't even know Kelly's last name. By the way, I'm Kelly. So why did you see all that,

man yeah like you know me yeah that would have that would be really funny it would but you know it'd be better for me at home watching the show what portion goes from that to drew and asks if she's dating Dennis that would be great and guess what happens she does that you get to do an elevator and then we do it that's right yeah so we got to get the elevator first but like here's the thing like for people I'm glad that the reception has been let's wait and see because I think that's the correct response. I agree. This is a solid start to a season.

You've got inklings of drama. You've got a group that knows each other. You've got somebody at the helm and Shemia. If she's going to take that spot, maybe Portia steps into that role. We're not sure who's going to be the leading lady yet. But this structure worked for this episode. It worked.

So I'm excited for next week. Yeah. It was a very good and typically in shows, and obviously there was a longer pause for Atlanta between seasons. There was a lot of things going on. but it seems like there were things that happened in the off season that are just being addressed immediately. It's not becoming a storyline for the entire season. It still could, but at least they're getting talked about right away.

Like we're not going to hold on to this until the fifth or sixth episode and then it's going to last all the way to the reunion. Let's get it out of the way now because I feel like, and this is just something that I feel like watching at the first episode, it seems like this group is going to have that organic chaos, that organic issue, that they're going to immediately start fighting about something here and there. or whatever because there are so many differing personalities there's so many like strong powerful women that are going to stand on business and then you're going to have she be in the middle playing both sides which she's very good at it so I think it's going to work really well I think it's a good dynamic well let's see what our listeners have to say let's get to

some questions my phone died so you can do it I got them first one up here from la Gordi Buena where was all the money before I don't know we I don't know. Shimea had all of it. Shemia has all of it. I can't. Bro, when they walked into

like her foyer, like just with the marble, like the tile floor, I was like, fuck yeah, dude, we're back. This is,

this is a question. From Rachel Ray, how many times an episode do you think Shimea is going to sing? At least once. Probably once. I'm just prepped for it.

I would say on, if we average out the six, to 19 episodes of this season if we include reunions, I would imagine it will average out to about one time an episode. Yeah, yeah, probably. Which means to make it three an episode and then a zero, but it will be frequent.

Yeah. And again, I'm going to go ahead and make, I love to make claims out of the gate. Everybody knows this. I am right now saying that she is coming out with a song at some point in this season. Probably. And that's why she's singing.

Well, we know Drew is. Dennis. From Rebecca K's, what do you guys think about the editing? The green screen confessionals were awful. Well, Rebecca, I thought they were real. So, you did too. That goes to shut up. Look, we take a lot of pride in noticing little things. That's not one of them. Yeah. No. I do know, now that you said it, though, I know that 99.9% of confessions are filmed in front of a green screen. So I am aware of that. I didn't even, I didn't think that far into on this one uh we've got a statement here from brags loving the cast switch up shamea is that girl we are loving it as well we like it yeah great first episode solid start and uh this one i'm probably

gonna disagree with from keel and triggs less questions more just feeling like kelly is trying to come in way too hot i didn't we call people out all the time and usually it's very obvious when they're coming in way too hot i didn't get the sense that kelly was coming in too hot i think that like we saw her personality with her family by herself that seems very true and then we see her at dinner with people that she knows and she stayed true to herself so I think that is just who she is

and you know what at the same time if you're going to in episode one step up to an OG and Porsche yeah and stand your ground like she did so well I yeah it didn't feel like overblown

we see a lot of newcomers come in and and it seems like their moment is forced that didn't seem forced and that's that's why i disagree yeah but that's all i got over here from questions well i'm excited i genuinely i think they got something here if they go you know obviously it's early and i'm not going to claim anything yet but i i do think that i'll just chalk it up to great start great start atlanta great we're waiting a long time and this is a solid start but great start love it you got anything else nope well that's our show Bros. Gotta go.

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