Mention It All - A Girls Trip Etiquette Lesson (RHOA)

Episode Date: February 8, 2021

It’s Super Bowl Monday, which Bari and Dylan are salty about RHOA skipping a week. Nevertheless, they catch up with a recap of last week’s hilarious episode. Before that, they discuss the trailer for Lisa Vanderpump’s new show coming to E!, and whether they’ll be watching. They also unpack Lisa Barlow’s bizarre Instagram story about Brooks Marks, and debate whether lip fillers count as “getting work done.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And Barry Rosenfeld. I need to start drinking alcohol. Now go to sleep, we. Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the Mention at All podcast. I'm Dylan Hafer. And I'm Barry Rosenfeld. And it's Monday.

How's it going? It's Super Bowl Hangover Monday. We were just discussing how it really seems unfair that the Super Bowl happens on a Sunday night and then we have to work the next morning. Yeah. I would like to see some change on that in the future. If there's like a petition I can sign or anything. Barry, how is your how is your Super Bowl experience?

It was good. It was a very, very, very, very snowy and scary morning. But all in all, it was fine. We don't, we like, you know, my team's the giants. They weren't in it, sadly. So it's like you don't take it as seriously as when your own team's in it. but it's still just like a fun day for me. I guess.

It's funny because like I don't have an NFL team really. Like it's just not something that I invest mental energy in. So I never like it would take a lot for me to feel like I cared about a super cool game. But of course I was, you know, watching and live tweeting for matches. And I did enjoy the halftime show. I know we we had differing opinions on them. Yeah. But it's okay. Well, listen, I didn't not.

It's so hard when you, to, like, to talk about something like this because it's like, I didn't not enjoy it. It is just not what I think the standard should have been. But that we'll talk about that on our at Betches podcast this week. Listen to at Betches on Wednesday. I'm sure we will talk about that. Oh, yeah. We're definitely going to talk about Britney Spears too.

I feel like there's a lot of, a lot of discussion topics this week. Well, I do have to say, though, I did have some drama this morning already. Drama. Including a neighbor. and let me just tell you, let me just, I have to get this off my chest. So I was walking my dog at like 7.30 in the morning for his like morning shift. And I have this one old lady neighbor who's like, you know, those neighbors who are just like always there. Like she's always there outside, whatever.

So I'm like, what are you doing outside at 7.30? Yeah. So of course there's snow everywhere. And my dog, for those of you who have dogs, know this. He started like limping, like lifting up his paws because the ice. and the salt really bother their paws. It's completely normal. So she was like, oh my God, is he okay?

Like, is he okay? And I was like, yeah, he's fine. Like, she's bothering him. And she was like, you should put that cream on his paws. Like, let me go and get it. And I was like, no, no, like, you don't have to do that. Oh, it gets weirder. So she comes outside and I was like, oh, because I go to her, I can just Google it.

And she comes outside and I was like, oh, I see the name. Okay. She goes, here, you should put it on now. And she like, opens it. And I was like, no, no, like, I'm weird with COVID. And also I'm weird in general. I don't like when people like touch my dog. I don't want your cream on my dog.

Like I have to Google that shit first. So then she she jumps away and looks at me and I go, no, no, I don't have COVID. I'm weird with COVID. Like you're too close to me. I don't need. I'm not sticking my hand. I didn't do anything wrong in this situation. So she like rolls her eyes and looks away and goes, having a good day and walked away.

Like I pissed her off. And then she starts like muttering under her breath like that my dog was suffering. So I yelled back, obviously, if you know me. I don't shut the fuck up with that. So I yelled across the street. And I go, he's not suffering, but thank you. And she, like, closed her door. Like, who's like, are you kidding?

It's my fucking dog. I feel like people, I don't understand how people don't get. It's one thing if you don't care that much about that we're in the middle of a pandemic, but it's like, like, leave me alone. Like, don't come toward me. And regardless, pandemic or not, you're not putting that jar of whatever you just took from your house on my dog. His paws are fine.

Thank you. Okay, let's chat. So we're, not that we're not already chatting. So we have kind of an interesting day today because there was no Real Housewives of Atlanta episode last night because of the Super Bowl. So we're going to talk about last week's episode a little bit because we had our interview with the Summer House cast and didn't get a chance to recap it. But first, we have to talk about.

Lisa Vanderpump's new show coming to E was announced on Thursday or Friday. I don't remember. Overserved with Lisa Vanderpump premiering March 18th. Barry, what do you think? What do you think I think? I am fucking excited for this. I'm excited. First of all, first of all, I'm excited that it's on E.

This is completely different for us. Like she runs her shows and she's on Bravo. So it's she jumped ship. Which we knew was going to happen. Let's be real. So it's a completely different vibe, I would say, where she's yet again a different character, where she's like having fun and like having like these one-on-one interview. Yes, exactly.

With random, might I add, random guests that we see in the commercials. Right. Okay. So the guests in the trailer, there are a bunch, include Mario Lopez, Vivica A. Fox, who is a favorite of like watch what happens live. That makes sense. Steve-O, Margaret Cho, Joel McHale. Like, Joe McHale.

Okay, I will say I, this is not something that I am clamoring for. I'm not like super excited about this. I know you're a bigger LVP fan than I am. I do feel like the guest list is not really making me more excited for it. It's not, it's, this is mean to say, obviously, I like these guests, but it's that type of guest list where it's like, let's see who we can get for this. It's right. Because the thing is, like, thinking about it compared to say, watch what happens live.

It's not necessarily that the people are less famous than watch what happens live guests, but watch what happens live because it's always Bravo people. I always feel like there's a reason that it's like I'm interested because they're talking about the show that I'm watching. like, I don't know if I care about Joel McHale, you know? Yeah. You know, I don't know. I mean, we miss him from the soup days, but that was a really long time ago.

That was a really long time ago. I will say, I do agree. I think it's nice that it's on E because obviously like E and Bravo are in the same family. It's not like she like burned a bridge with Bravo to do this show. But like, like, I will feel like, okay, we can watch it and maybe like talk about it, do a little review. but I don't feel like I'm like changed to this TV show and have to watch every episode. Wait, I do have a question, though. Maybe I missed this or maybe they didn't say it.

What restaurant is this taking place at? I think it's at her house. What? That was a wine room in her home. Did you see that? Maybe it's not all at her house. I mean, listen, I wouldn't be surprised if that wine room was in her house. There was, okay, there was definitely a part where she's setting the table outside that I think is in her backyard.

I don't know. Maybe it's not all at her house, but I think part of it is at Villarosa at least. I hope. I know. Maybe we'll get to see the animals. That would be the best part. Yes. Hanky and Hanky and I want to see what Hanky and Hank you're up to and Harrison and the dogs.

What are the names? Diamond and something. Diamond or the horse. Yeah. What I say? Diamond and I don't remember. It's okay. Ohio.

Okay. another in other Lisa news but Lisa Barlow I have to talk about this photo that Lisa Barlow posted on her Instagram story yesterday because it is just I it was the first thing I saw when I woke up on Sunday morning and I just can't so Lisa posted this photo on her Instagram story of her and Brooks Marks that's clearly an old photo and the caption is I love at Brooks marks and the lips are his this is from when he was in high school and okay so first of all Brooks has addressed on social media before people saying that he has lip fillers and he says that he does not. And so for some reason, Lisa felt the need or was asked or agreed to post this photo.

And Lisa, I love you, but this photo proves nothing because Brooks's lips look. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Tiny, he has said he's gotten lip fillers or he said he did. He said he hasn't. He said he hasn't. Okay. First of all, I just think it's weird that. like his mom right now is like doing like prove it's not something you need to prove to the world

but also I do have to say because I have a look mom it's Lisa oh shoot yeah oh my God I just got so confused Meredith's son so it in other news like I do look I when you look at him his lips kind of are the first thing you notice but not in a bad way like not like Lisa Winna lips but I think Brooks is like, I think he's like a good looking guy, but it's like it's not weird to say like, yeah, I got my lips done. Like your lips look like they got done. But I'm not whatever. They teach that you can teach yourself how to pout. So like he, he could. I'm not like, I don't want to like spend. I mean, there, yeah, there's there's something in there. Maybe he wears lip venom, you know. Maybe maybe he went to beauty lab and laser and was like, give me a facial. And then. then if a needle goes in my lips at any point during the facial, like, I won't say no. Okay, but like we honestly, Dylan, I didn't see it. And Dylan sent it to me this morning. And my first reaction was that I was like, oh, damn, Brooks looks hot in that picture. And I didn't feel, Dylan, like, was like yelling at me via like text and was like, Barry.

I didn't realize that that was a picture of him in high school. So I was like, no, he's a handsome guy. I just think it's funny that Lisa, I want to know like what caused Lisa to post this photo. I have an idea. Like, was Meredith like, well, Lisa, people are saying that Brooks might have lip fillers. And I know you have this old photo. Like, oh my God, that is so true. But I just want to say that if any of my mom's friends posted a picture of me and them from high school and like, think about it that way and like posted me on their social media and was like, Barry has never gotten any work done. I was like, thank you so much.

But like, I didn't need you to do that. I didn't need you to post that pick. First of all, lies. I haven't got any work done. Remember we had this conversation? Oh, you weren't. You've gotten lip fillers. Oh, my God, Dylan, this is so funny that you're bringing this up.

On our at Betches recording last week, Dana and I had like a whole conversation on what we consider getting quote unquote work done. And I consider getting worked. I'm so open about getting my lips done. I don't care. But I think work done is like plastic surgery going under the knife and not like injections. Like I don't think people having Botox is getting work done. I think they're saying I've had Botox. I would agree.

I would agree. I just think it's. I was like, wait, Dylan, I really haven't gotten anything done. Guys, Barry did a full Heidi Montag plastic surgery. Oh my God. Someone said she was getting dental work. Someone sent me one of her tick. We're steering so off track right now.

Someone sent me one of her TikToks over the weekend. And it is you should just go check it out. It's really wild. Girl, winter is so last season. And now Springs got you looking at pictures of tank tops with hungry eyes. Your algorithm is feeding you cutoffs. You're thirsty for the sun on your shoulders. That perfect hang on the patio sundress.

Those sandals you can wear all day and all night. And you've had enough of shopping from your couch. Done hoping it looks anything like the picture when you tear up on that envelope. It's time for a little in-person spring treat. It's time for a trip to Ross. Work your magic. Okay, let's talk about Real Hostiles of Atlanta. I, so in this Isle of Palms, South Carolina trip,

I personally thought this was a great episode last week. Me too. I feel like this season, starting with the episode before, this season has kind of like clicked into place. And I feel like the full group is like finally really like coming together and like really working off of each other well. It was that this episode, though, the beginning of it was pretty chaotic. If you ask me, like, they all show up and just, like, start running around the house.

And then I kind of caught on as to what was going on because they clearly didn't either because Kenny didn't explain anything. They, like, picked alter egos and then had, like, a competition. And, like, the winner of that competition got to pick the room. But they were all just having fun on their own. Like, like, Portia was, like, twerking. They were all having, like, a good time. And Kenya got, like, mad.

I was like, oh, my God, what's happening? So can you wanted to do this murder mystery thing? And the problem with that is that like, that's a very organized fun event. And that can be fun in the right context. But if nobody's in the mood to do it, it's not worth trying. I've said this 100 times. Forced fun is not fun. I can't be involved in that. It's really a lot for me. I did a Zoom murder mystery party over the weekend for my friend's birthday party. And it was actually great because it was like everybody was really, everybody was paying attention. attention. Everybody was in the mood. But when, you know, when you're starting off the night with Shamiya assigning herself the name Vagina Drip, it's not going to go well. Candy, I'm sorry, candy. I love her. And this episode was so good with her because she was like, I am an Alderigo. She's like, my name's Candy. Like, where do you go from there? You don't need a nickname when your name is candy. And she just like keeps sipping her water. She had water by the way. Everyone else was drinking. And she's like not impressed by these strippers, like, quote unquote.

at strippers. Like, she just is like, why am I? Like, this is too much. Like, I just want to go to bed. I also thought the nieces versus auntie's dichotomy was really funny. So good. And then there was this meme and they go candy that nightgown you're wearing is not helping the ante situation.

She was wearing like a pink t-shirt nightgown with stars on it. She looked amazing. It's funny because candy, it's like she would say that she doesn't want to be an auntie, but then she's like, what? Like, I'm going to wear my night. down. Yeah. We have to talk about Marlowe because she brought us different Marlowe vibes this episode.

And I was a huge fan of it. She and Kenya, as we know, just like, don't get along. And she got the shittiest room, which again, in one of these houses, give me a chair and I'll sleep in it. Like these rooms, these women think they are unpacking and staying in like, a villa for like a month and they're just staying in an Airbnb for a weekend. Like it's not that big of a deal, you know? I would say Marlowe's room. It was clearly the least nice room in the house, but it looked like a normal bedroom in a house, like almost like a childhood bedroom with like

a full size bed. It was not like gross. It just wasn't very special. I would say. So then she pulled, she was talking to candy and she was like, I kind of want to like talk to. Kenya and be like what the fuck is up basically because she has kind of like had it. She knew that Kenya giving her that room was like a dig. So it. But as she was selling this, Kenny, do you not see her outfit like putting on her thigh high boots and like her entire matching ensemble? But like I don't, I'm team Marlowe for this. Of course, because I'm not really team Kenya, but.

I'm team Marlowe just because I think her pushing two couches together to sleep on in the living room was hilarious. Okay, yes, but her being so spiteful on purpose and she's like, I'm not sleeping in that room. There was nothing wrong with this room, but she purposely pushed the couches together and made like a couch bed, what I call it, in the living room. Yes. My friends and I in college in our sophomore year dorm when we were drunk, there were these big black leather couches in the common room and we used to push them together and make a couch bed. We didn't sleep there, but we would like hang out. Hang out. I miss the common room in my dorm. kind of.

But not only did she push the beds together, but she moved all her stuff out there. Like all her bags and shoes and stuff were lined up by the fireplace. Like she had her pillowcases with her name on them. Like I love Marlowe loves to move in. Like last year when they had the fight in Toronto in her hotel room and you could see on the little mantle place she had those like block letters spelling out her name. And it's like you're in this hotel for three days.

Marlowe is not shy about the fact that she wants the best And I like the fact that she is I feel like she's just unapologetically herself at all times And also it was her birthday yesterday And not only was it her birthday yesterday But it was also Latoya's birthday And finding out that they have the same birthday I just wish I wish so badly that they were filming right now because can you imagine the two of them trying to negotiate sharing a birthday?

There would be no negotiation and no trying. We would be celebrating Marlowe's birthday. I'm just assuming. Forget Stasi and Ariana. Like this is the birthday conflict. I want to, be seeing. Yeah. Like Marlowe's would be blown out of the water, like so over the top and gorgeous. And I just feel like Latoya's too new in this French. shit like to have any part of that. She would get the leftovers. The leftover pig carcass. Ew. Plan B is a backup birth control option that's there for you when things don't go according to plan. It specifically works after unprotected sex and before pregnancy occurs by temporarily

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I feel like you have a lot of group trip experience and opinions. How did you feel about Kenya ordering food for herself, but not the other women? Okay. So here's the thing. The pig in itself was a delicacy. Like it was very nice, whatever, but you can't just have that. Like, you need to have pasta, salad, something else to go bread to make sandwiches, something. And not to mention, Portia is plant-based right now.

I have a lot of eating or food. I don't know the word I'm looking for. Dietary restrictions. He's restrictions. I literally couldn't think of that word. And so I never expect anyone to ask about me. I kind of just fend for myself, but my friends always do because whoever's planning the trip does that.

But again, in this situation, I think it was a dig for Kenya. Like you should have had something. If you knew you were getting a pig, you knew you should have had something for Porsche because that's not right. But her ordering a crab cake, an Uber eats, and purposely not telling any of the other women, you don't have to include them. You don't have to be like, hey, does anyone want anything? You could have said, guys, I'm ordering food.

Feel free if you want to also. Right. Or even just say, yeah, like, I think obviously kind of the, if you're looking at like the levels of niceness, the nicest thing would be like, what? what does everyone want? I'm ordering food. You could also say, like, hey, if you want in, let me know and we can split it or whatever. But to not even say like, hey, like lunch or dinner or whatever is going to be kind of late.

So if you want anything, like you might want to order for yourself. Like they were all just sitting around getting hungry. Well, listen. All of a sudden, her food shows up. We have all been in Tanya's position where she is drunk and hungry and she all would eat. I would eat anything that was in front of me. I loved that moment from Tanya when she just snatches the receipt and his reading what's in the bag. And like Kenya was like giggling and like joking.

And I don't know if she realized after the fact that she was like, oh shit or she like knew what she was doing. She kept telling the girls there's food in the fridge, like make a sandwich. That's not the same Kenya. And at the same time, why didn't you do that? You know? Yeah. I think Kenya, we've seen that a few times from Kenya with this trip with the transportation and with bringing Brooklyn, that she clearly has kind of her specific idea of what she's going to do on

this trip and that the way she's going about the other women, it's like, are you purposely just trying to make everyone mad? Because it feels like every opportunity she's doing the thing that is going to piss people off. I was just going to say, or she's clearly shown she's never planned a group trip before because like group is a big word involved in that. Like you have to plan for the group. Like you didn't because you This is what annoys me about group trips Because you booked the house That doesn't mean that you had the whole trip planned

Or just be like ahead of time I got that like I'm gonna do the house Like then we'll figure out when we get there Especially in COVID times When you're not just like going out to restaurants For every meal and not like partying at night Like you have to have activities You have food in the house

You have to It's a lot of effort. And I think, I mean, like, I know that Kenya isn't planning this all on her own because they're on a TV show, but it feels like Kenya kind of purposely left off some things. Wait, but then when she went out to the pool and all the, it reminded me of like, I don't know, when you're at the beach and like all, you have a piece of food and all like the seagulls come. They were all like around and they were like, give me, give me a, and she was like handing out all the food. So like she had like a bite of her sandwich left. And I was like, honestly, you deserve that though. Like, you. Like, you. You deserve that though. Like, you. You can't eat it in front. I would have locked myself in the bathroom. I used to do that when I was a waitress. I used to take an ice cream. We had like individual ice creams and I would put it in my apron like my and I would go

to the bathroom and just sit there and eat my ice cream cone. I'd be like everyone leave me alone for five minutes. That is the saddest thing I've ever heard. Let's, okay, let's quickly talk about this Drew and Latoya nonsense that we have continued. Latoya, I don't know why she thinks she has this. like upper hand on Drew and that Drew has done something to deserve this like

being dragged but I so Latoya plans to bring a, she brings a wig in a bag to give to Drew because she was wearing this whatever crunchy wig she didn't like one time. Drew handles this like an absolute professional. Yep. I was so impressed

because this is she still this is one of the first times. It's her first season obviously but this is one of the first times we've really seen her kind of of go toe to toe with someone. And she was like so prepared. Well, the thing is about Latoya is I don't know if she brought that wig to be funny or to like escalate this fight a little bit more.

And it's like that's so you're not there yet. Even Kenya that all the women were like, uh, Latoya don't like don't do that. That's not nice. Right. So then at dinner when it was confronted, she was like, what? And then Drew was like, no, I'm good. Like I'm good. She was like saying where she gets her wigs and everything.

And then she pulls out a headshot and signs it to her number one fan. And I was like, oh my, boom, roast it. Like that's it. There's no coming back from that. What's so impressive about that is that it's like, it's not like she just had a good comeback line to say to Latoya. She had an equal and opposite prop to give to her. Like she had a wig in a bag and you had an autographed headshot.

Like that is that is like. excellent shade. That is the best. You're obsessed with me. You're my number one fan. Here's a signed headshot. Like that is one of the best I've ever seen. We don't.

It's rare that we see prop work like that. I love that. We keep using the word prop. It's like really funny for some reason. You know like it's it was I was really pleased and that it I feel like these last couple weeks we've talked about it a little bit last week that we've seen Drew kind of like getting into it and stepping it up. And this was like.

Oh, I see what you did. there. I see what you did there. Stepping it up. She's playing the game, one might say. You know, I feel like she is really showing that she can hang with this group. And it took,

you know, like it took a minute to get there, but I'm really excited for where the season is going. And I think we're getting the Long Dong stripper any day now. So. Come on. The dungeon party. Come on. Yeah. I mean, I, we both weren't expecting for some reason for it

not to be on this week. So now I'm like super excited for this coming Sunday, which seems very far away right now. I just feel like because we've kind of started getting into a really good groove with Atlanta the last couple weeks for it to take a break now. It's like, oh, okay. Okay. But we'll honestly, we'll be thankful in like two or three months when there's like one extra episode. Two or three months. Like when the season ends. that's when you think about it that way think about how long that is like and then we still have the reunion and everything like these it's it takes a lot of time to do this work it's hard to know because i don't know if their season is going to be shortened at all because of COVID stuff yeah we know like OC was shorter but their season was bad so it made sense for it to be

short but like i don't know for these other COVID seasons where they can't take like legit trips. I don't know if they're going to do like a full 22 episodes. We'll have to wait and see. Like with, with Dallas, with Atlanta, with Jersey, I hope we get pretty full-length seasons, but we'll see.

I don't know. Speaking of, it's Jersey week. Next week. Not Jersey week. We just got summer house like four days ago. We can wait till next week for Jersey. Okay.

I didn't know what day it was. But anyway, thank you guys so much for listening. We will be back on Thursday with lots more to talk about. Don't forget to rate, review, subscribe, follow us on Instagram at Bravo by Betches, and just be cool. Don't be all like uncool. Betches.