Mention It All - A Larsa-mergency In Miami (RHOM, Traitors)

Episode Date: February 12, 2024

After a tiring night of football and Bravo news, Dylan starts with an honest plea for more Bravolebs in Super Bowl commercials. Then, he moves to the big story of the day: the seeming breakup between Larsa and Marcus. Five words: GET THE CAMERAS TO MIAMI! Later, he heaps praise upon Sandra’s gameplay on The Traitors, and has some harsh words for another player in the castle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome back to the Mentioned It All podcast. It's Monday. It's post-Super Bowl day, which, as somebody who doesn't even really care about football, it still just feels like a day that we should have off. Don't you think? Like, the way that we're not. that this country's priorities are, I think it's kind of astounding that a group of old white men

somewhere haven't ever banded together and gotten us a national holiday the Monday after the Super Bowl. It was an okay game. It was pretty exciting there toward the end. I can't say that I was jazzed to watch more football at the end of the football game that had already happened. But, you know, it was what it was. The Chiefs won. Congrats to Taylor Swift. Congrats to Usher. I enjoyed the halftime show a lot. I was surprised. I thought we might get some housewives in some Super Bowl commercials, some Bravo Labs. I didn't see any Ariana. I didn't see any Vanderpump Rules representation. I didn't see any housewives. I didn't see any Andy. I think this is an area that could be

improved a lot. I think that the advertising climate we're living in, you know, the moment in culture? I think it's a missed opportunity. I mean, never forget, a few years back, we got Caroline Manzo and Teresa back together for a Sabra Hummus commercial. What are we doing now? Where are the Housewives? The Vanderpump Rules Kids, for sure I thought, would be able to get into a commercial this year. I don't know if they need better agents. I don't know. You know, actually, what I think it is. Watching those Super Bowl commercials. There were some good commercials. Beyonce for Verizon in the midst of dropping a new album. Amazing. Ben Affleck dancing in a Duncan jumpsuit to each their own. I think that we have gotten to a point with the Super Bowl commercials

where these advertising people feel like the bar for celebrities is so high that the only way to make their commercial super bowl worthy, if it's not going to be about, you know, Jesus washing feet or whatever the fuck Tamu is. I thought it was Timu. They think the only way to make an impact is to bump up that star wattage to 100. They're going to get more A-listers.

We're going to get Glenn Close and Tina Fey in the same commercial. We're going to get everybody under the sun to participate in one 30-second spot. You know, if Aubrey Plaza's in the commercial, we got to get Nick Offerman to make a cameo. And look, I love seeing celebrities doing funny things as much as the next person. But when every commercial has two to three

A-list celebrities in it, none of them feel special. And you know what? Me tap, tap, tap in a way over on Bravo by Betches, I'm not sharing any of those commercials with any of those A-listers. Those have nothing for me. But you know what I would share the hell out of? A commercial with Ariana.

A commercial with, I don't know, Sutton Strack. A commercial with Bryn and Jessel and Aaron. And look, I know that this is niche. But you're here listening. Other people are listening, following, watching. And I think that almost having a niche celebrity in your commercial makes it more impactful, maybe to a smaller group of people, but we would all be listening and learning. Versus I don't even remember. I got star blindness from watching the Super Bowl.

Put Bravo Labs in commercials. God, if capitalism can do one thing, can't we get these Bravo Labs some Super Bowl? commercial checks. I'll tell you one thing, it'll be a hell of a lot cheaper than paying Beyonce to stand on top of the sphere. I don't know. But something else a little more relevant, and frankly, a little more important than the Super Bowl was happening yesterday. And that is that there was a little seismic shift in the vicinity of Miami, and seemingly Larsa Pippen and Marcus Jordan are no more. This is a shock to the system.

This is a code read. What are we doing here? Who knew what and where and when and why? JFK conspiracy level of news story to me. I don't mean to imply that Larsa Pippin is as important on a global scale as JFK was. But she's up there. she could be in a Super Bowl commercial.

The Kardashians are in Super Bowl commercials? Why not Larsa? I'm kidding. I know. But so yesterday evening, Sunday evening, you know, people started to notice. I think our friend Gibson Johns was the first one who I saw say anything about it. I don't know who, you know, everybody is, you know, like I said, tap, tap, tap in a way.

It's the Super Bowl. There's memes. There's posts. Larsa's little stuff can get lost in the shuffle. But everybody starts to notice at a certain point in the evening that there are no photos of Marcus on Larsa's Instagram. Larsa is no longer following Marcus. I went in there myself. I searched up Air MJ 523.

Nothing. And then Larsa on her story has posted. God, it makes me happy just thinking about it. It's a black screen from Create Mode. That's what I love. I love when the stars are just, you know, getting down and dirty, getting in there with Create mode. This has not been, you know, nobody made this on a Canva template. Nobody was in Adobe Illustrator from Create Mode.

Should your friends unfollow your X? With a poll sticker, with just the options, yes and no. It's so pure. It's so simple and so effective. It tells me exactly what I need to know. It tells me that something is a foot. because, you know, unfollowing, deleting the photos, that is kind of run-of-the-mill celebrity nonsense when it comes to relationships. It could mean something. It could not. It could mean something completely different from what you think it means at first.

Obviously, there are some celebrities I always give Lala and Randall is the example who even when they were together, never followed each other on Instagram. But that post, the ears are perked up. And then you go over to Marcus's page. and he posted, 16 hours ago now as I'm recording this, a photo of the Super Bowl on a shockingly small TV, very far away from where he's sitting in the corner of the room, and he says, watching the game with Pops and the fam, who y'all got in the Super Bowl, Chiefs 49ers. Okay, so I have, I, um, Look, I don't know exactly what Michael Jordan is up to these days, but I do feel confident that he is still wildly rich. And so this picture of a TV, of a small little sad TV, I'm confused.

Is this really? Is this Michael Jordan's house? Is this Marcus's apartment that he basically hasn't been living in because he's been mostly living with Larsa? I don't know. But anyway, the actual importance of this is that Michael Jordan never really approved of Larsa and Marcus together. So it seems like, without saying much, he's sending a message by pointing out that he is watching the game with Pops and the fam, aka not with Larsa. And then he also posted a selfie of him with his dad, Michael Jordan. He said, MJ times two. I search one name and end up seeing him. 20 things. That's a Drake. It's a Drake lyric. There's a Drake song on the story.

I can't. I'm not going to like wrap the whatever. And then he posts one hour ago as I'm doing this. Just a photo of Michael Jordan in his prime dunking. So yes, something is afoot. They are not together physically right now. And it seems like they are not together in any way right now. So good.

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It's time for a little in-person spring treat. It's time for a trip to Ross. Work your magic. And Larsa followed up this morning. I'm just going to read one last post. shared a post from another creator, and I always love this. This is a classic Chloe Kardashian kind of move where any time that she and Tristan were going through something or there was like a, you know, it would be like page six is like exclusive report. Tristan cheated on

Chloe again in a hotel room in front of a million cameras while she's like about to have his baby and she would just be posting like pictures of clouds with emo quotes over them. But so this is what Larsa has posted today. The man you choose to be your partner affects everything in your life, your mental health, your peace of mind, your love inside you, your happiness, how you get through tragedies, your successes, how your children will be raised, and much more. Choose wisely. Oh, Larsa, you're so bad. You're so bad, Larsa. Oh, this is getting inspired. I see. And I'm very curious whether we're going to get any kind of statement from them. As you might recall, the, the sort of entry period into Larkas, was that their couple name? Why did we never say that?

The entry into Larsa and Marcus being together was kind of under the table, wink, wink, what's going on? for a long time, Larsa was just telling everyone that they were friends. I believe I got introduced to Marcus as Larsa's friend, and it was like, L.O.L. Okay. Obviously, at a certain point, they, you know, did away with that framework. But we never really, she's not the kind of person that has really given us, like, a big announcement or anything. So I would be surprised if we get some kind of social media post that's like, hey guys, just wanted to give you a little update. Marcus and I have decided to go our separate ways.

But, you know, I've still got my kids, and I've got my family, and I've got my beautiful life, and, you know, thanks everyone for the support. I don't think Larsa is that type of chick. I think that she is going to be posting thirst traps, if I had to guess. I think we will be seeing some body-con dresses, some tasteful angles. I think that she is the type of chick who is going to just ride that wave. She's going to let everybody have a field day in her comments, and she's going to laugh all the way to the bank. Now, I have seen people being like, what's going to happen to the podcast to separation anxiety with Larsa Pippin and Marcus Jordan.

Well, I feel confident telling you right now that is not an issue because this podcast has not had a new episode since November of 2023. And look, they have about, I'm scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, between June and November of 2023, they put out maybe 15 episodes totally. this podcast was not something that, like, you haven't thought about it recently, but they haven't been doing it recently. So the podcast, not going to be an issue. Larsa's not going to have to like come on here next week and be like, hey guys, so this is really awkward, but now it's just separation anxiety with Larsa and it's going to be really good.

And I'm going to bring on some friends and some experts, but I'm going to miss Marcus a lot. Like, no, we're not getting, we're not getting that. I don't think we're going to get a social media statement. So that leaves the Real Housewives of Miami. I think that is the most likely place that we're going to get some kind of addressing of the breakup. And oh, my God, am I at the edge of my seat to find out how that's going to go? because Larsa is somebody who in her last few seasons, since the Miami reboot came back, because season one, it doesn't really feel relevant.

She is somebody who has been involved in a lot of drama and has participated in a lot of group drama. but she has not always been super open about her life. Last season, it was kind of a, it was kind of a sore subject that it felt like we were seeing, I think we saw her go on like one date that felt kind of fake. Meanwhile, she had already been spotted out and about with Marcus, and that seemingly wasn't fair game to be on the show. Obviously, he's been on this season when there, you know, there would be no way for her to kind of.

like pretend that that relationship wasn't happening. But when she came back for season four, she was more freshly divorced. And we did get some of that. You know, it's not that she is pretending that these things in her life aren't happening. But I would not say, I would not say that there's an expectation that we're going to get sort of like the, the hundred percent realness of what's happening in her life. But I am really curious to see sort of how she readjusts because when she came back on the show, she was kind of in this raw place of, you know, my marriage of X many years, just broke up and I'm really, you know, I'm on my own for the first time since I'm 22, whatever.

And then Marcus, this season, has seemed like her new forever, her new rock. She can't go five days without him. You know, she wants to throw a party when he comes back in town. And so for that to end, and while she is currently on the show, how could it not be a main storyline? I mean, how could it not be? And that's where I'm really hoping that, I mean, okay, so they're still wrapping up their season. Their reunion is already taped. let's say their show, let's say their season ends sometime in March.

I'm sorry, I need them to have the cameras up. I mean, today, if possible, I know that's not going to happen. I know that's not how it works, but these next couple months in the life of Larsa, assuming that they are broken up and assuming that they stay broken up, we need eyes on Larsa. This is a crucial matter. I don't know if there's a government bill that we can push through Congress. I don't know if there's, you know, an executive order.

We need Andy in a camera. Even an addendum to the reunion. Do a sit down with Andy. Get her to the clubhouse. But then, but the thing, okay, get her to the clubhouse, but also, I think Larsa is somebody who might need to be poked and prodded a little bit by her. fellow castmates. And I want to see Adriana digging for information. I want to see Kiki, giving Larsa maybe a little bit of a hard time if she wants to come back and be BFFs after she

didn't really need her the last year or two. I want to see Nicole and Gertie deciding how they feel about Larsa. I don't think Gertie had anything nice to say about Larsa at the reunion. Is her breaking up with Marcus going to soften that dynamic? I don't know. I don't have any answers, but I have so many questions. And, man, I mean, as if there's not enough to love about Miami so far this season, now I'm just more excited for what's to come. I hope Larsa stays on the show.

I hope, I mean, I hope everybody stays on the show. But I mean, oh, my God, let's bring it. Let's do it. Get those cameras to Miami. Get the cameras to Miami. Wow. I love that I just talked for 18 minutes about Larsa and Marcus. And I could do more.

I could go on. But I do also want to talk about traders. There was no new Real House of the Postomac this weekend. It's okay. You know, whatever. I can barely keep up. I think last week I talked about an old episode on accident because it's like truly what's happening on the calendar.

But I do want to talk about traitors. Traders. Traders. Oh, my God, Traders. Larsa and Marcus, on this season of Traders. They did film the Traders' reunion last week in New York. I'm not positive if Larsa and Marcus were there. I'm not sure the whole cast was at the reunion.

I don't know if everybody was invited. I don't know if it was a scheduling thing. I'm not sure if Larsa and Marcus were there. But if they were, that could be. an important text, an important document to freeze frame a moment in time. But also, the thing about the traders reunion is like, we know it's not going to be about Larsa and Marcus, even if they're there. So we'll see what we get. But we got to get the cameras to Miami. I'm so sorry. Oh, my God, I got to move on. I just can't, I can't stop thinking about it. I can't stop thinking about it.

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television excellence. Alan coming. Give him the Emmy. Give him the Emmy. Rupal has enough Emmys. If not Roo, then who? Alan. Give him the Emmy. But anyway, I digress. This last episode of the Traders was, uh, it was different than any episode we've really had because there was no murder, there was no banishment. It was kind of a resetting episode. And I'm going to, this is spoilers. Watch the traders, guys, seriously. If you're not caught up, what are you doing? It came out on Thursday.

Today is Monday. You've had time. But so, you know, we left off last episode with Dan getting banished, exposed as a traitor, the first one they've caught. And this week, they tried to recruit Pete, and he said no. And the thing is, there's been a lot made of, how Pete is playing this game, and he turns down the offer to become a traitor, and he says that he wants to win the right way. And to that, I just say, who the fuck cares? You're on a game called The Traders.

Acting like winning as a traitor is like doing something immoral is so annoying to me. That's the same bullshit we got last season. when people were like mad that Sarie was good at the game. Like, can't you hate to see a girl boss win? Just let it be. Play the fucking game. And Pilot Pete, I mean, to his credit, he has, you know, really made a splash this season. I think, you know, sort of on a week-to-week basis, it's changed sort of how people feel about him.

but he has definitely been one of the main characters of this season. And I think in a lot of ways, if you're a reality TV star going on a competition show, maybe even more than winning, one of your goals is to like get screen time and be a main character for the season. I mean, there were 21 people, I think 22, if you count Kate. There were 22 people on this season. And let's just say, some of them I have forgotten were even on the show. So Pilot Pete is certainly getting more of a bump from this show than a lot of other people, whether or not he wins, whether or not he does it the right way. But like, come on. But anyway, he's got his, you know, faithful of the faithful little clan. And they're just like, they're kind of dumb. They're kind

of dumb. I'm sorry. Trishel, I'm over it. John Burkow, he's cute. Fine. Whatever. He can say. Kevin Kreider from Bling Empire. Sir, get over yourself. Who do you think you are? I find that Kevin is maybe the person who rubs me the wrong way most on this cast right now. Because he's not Pete. He's not even Bergey or Trichelle. He's not doing the work. He's not doing the heavy lifting of that faithful of the faithful group. And even if they annoy me, there is work being done.

And I can appreciate that. Kevin is just riding along on the coattails. But then he has the gall. sweet M.J., sweet Mercedes Javid, walks in the room, standing there like a, like a toddler who is scared to tell her parents that she pooped her pants. And he's like, hey, yeah, can you get out for a minute? Can you just give a second? Like, sorry, babe. Who does he think he is? The condescending energy, the holier than thouness, sir, you haven't done a damn thing. You're just as clueless as Jure. I don't know. It just, it just, it just, This rubs me the wrong way, but then we have this leftovers group. And this is what's really

interesting because we get this, you know, just banger of a scene of Sandra with the pool balls explaining to everyone how she's like running game. And this is a classic Sandra move because Sandra is one of those people. She has one survivor twice. I believe there's only one other person who's done that. And Sandra is somebody who, her ability, to be one of the most successful players on this type of show, not even just on Survivor, but also to not have a target on her back. The second she walks in the door is kind of masterful. And in this pool ball explanation, I think she sort of lost some people because if you're

not keeping track, the two traders are in her group. And so if you're watching it on a surface level, you're kind of like, okay, well, this is Like, it makes sense on paper, but also she's wrong. But she is playing 3D chess, and she posted this on Instagram. And I want to read her caption because it is something to behold. She said, I want to make something clear. During that strategy session, I also made it clear that hopefully the traders were in our group so that they could murder each and every one of the so-called most faithful of the faithful,

therefore allowing the faithful in the leftovers to get to the end of the game. Self-preservation and end-game strategy. What a lot of people don't seem to understand is faithful also have to go just like the traitors. We all can't get to the end. No one there is oblivious to the fact that Parvity and Fadra have already been called out several times. that's actually manageable, if new traders enter the mix, then we have to start back from zero. The brain on this woman. She has figured out this game in a way that nobody else has.

Because Peter and his band of merry men, their only goal, their only objective, the only thing in their mind is, well, we got to get the traders. we got to get the traders we got to get the traders but what happens every time you get a trader they get a little recruitment form and trust me not everybody is going to be like peter and be like well i want to win the right way they're going to recruit somebody and then you're not going to know who that person is and then bam you're going to have another trader that you have to get out of the game whereas sandra Sandra Sandra Sandra she is like oh I already know who the traitors are but I don't want to vote them out yet because then I have to figure out who new traders are.

And that's a pain in my ass. I would rather focus on these five obnoxious, these five obnoxious little bitches in the other room, who I know are probably faithful, but I don't want to split the money with them either. That's the thing. Like this, the way their traders works, if you make it to the end, even if you get out all the traders, you have to split the money with everybody that's left. So I don't know mathematically how many people can make it to the end, but not all the faithfuls are going to. That's what she's saying. She's saying, we have to get it down to the final like four or five anyway. So I'd rather it be four or five people, including the traders, who I have figured out and then I can banish them, then five faithfuls and then have to split the money. And you're only going to get like a $1.50 inch change after taxes. Sorry, Pete, but Sandra wants to be able to buy more than a couple of sweet green salads after she leaves this game.

You're going to have so much fun. You're going to go to the mall with your winnings and you're going to get like one auntie-ans pretzel and a massage chair at Brookstone. And you're going to be in the minus already. Whereas Sandra, big brain Sandra, I don't know if it's going to work. I don't know if it's going to play out the way she thinks it will. but she's actually thinking strategically, and it is a sight to behold. I'm getting chills just thinking about it. I think we probably have like three more episodes of Traders this season, and I'm going to be so sad when it ends.

That Thursday night, little, it's like a Thursday night treat. It's been so fun. Fadra and CT, their little, their little castle, Castle Mance, showmance, romance, romance, romance. It just makes me so happy. And Charette, oh my God, at the fire lighting ceremony, sweet Shiree, lighting Fadre's torch, and then Fadra getting emotional and like, obviously Fadre is a traitor, so there's like a level of like LOL to it.

But those emotions were real. And Fadre saying, you know, we've known each other over 20 years. so nobody here can even understand that level of connection. God, it's kind of beautiful. And also kind of ridiculous. You know, this whole show, it's like this, it's like this perfect balance of drama and comedy and suspense. And I am, I'm just loving every second of it. And I'm, I'm sad that it's going to be over soon. But, you know, Traders was renewed for season three officially last week. So that's good news. I don't know. if they would sort of fast track it and get us more than one season a year, I do worry that then

that you would sort of start to scrape the barrel a little bit with the casting, and the casting is so important. I mean, they won an Emmy for casting for season one, and I have to imagine that, you know, they'll get nominated at least again. God, it's so good. So we have a, we have traitors, we have Larson's breakup, and that's where we are today. I had fun. I hope you did too. I'll be back this week with some guests and some other fun stuff. But until next time, don't forget to rate review and follow the show. Wherever you listen, you can follow us on Instagram at Bravo by Betches. And until next time, be cool.

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