Mention It All - All Roads Lead To Larsa (Love Hotel, The Valley, Summer House)

Episode Date: May 2, 2025

On this week’s solo episode, Dylan has lots to catch up on, starting with the long-awaited Real Housewives of Miami trailer. After dipping into some Larsa Pippen lore, he breaks down the upcoming season, and the latest on Alexia and Todd. From there, he recaps the week’s most important Bravo developments, starting with the perfectly enjoyable premiere of Love Hotel. Over on The Valley, Jesse ratchets up the rumors about Michelle, and she responds by trying to vote him off his own trip. We love mess! Then, Dylan unpacks all the most cringe moments from this week’s Summer House, before giving out a very special award to one of the Atlanta ladies. Go to the Always On YouTube page to watch full length episodes: Youtube.com/@AlwaysOnBetches Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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With me, Dylan Hafer. We'll go check me, boo. Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the Mention at All podcast. It is Friday, and we are in the first week of our new schedule. So I am really excited to be here on Friday talking about everything that has happened this week. And you guys, it's a lot.

We have a real houseways of Miami trailer to talk about. a Love Hotel premiere, another wild episode of The Valley with conspiracy theories and Dave and Busters tokens and uninviting people from trips. Over on Atlanta, we've got inviting people to trips they weren't invited on. We've got Summer House to talk about. We've got a fun new segment we're going to do at the end where I'm going to be giving out awards every week and it's going to be different every week and you never know who's going to win and you never know what the category is going to be. But also exciting happening this. week. As you may have heard, our new YouTube channel is live with video episodes coming out every

Tuesday. It's the Always on YouTube channel. The first episode with Kristen and Nia from the Valley came out earlier this week. Thank you so much to everyone who's listened, especially everyone who's watched, commented, rated, reviewed, subscribed. We have some exciting guests lined up for the rest of this month and even into June already. So make sure you subscribe to Always on on YouTube so you don't miss any of the video episodes over there. But of course, we're still here on Fridays, just yapping about all things, Bravo. And I am so thrilled. I am so thrilled that we finally have this Real Housewives of Miami trailer because it has felt like an age and a half that we have waited for this. We knew when they were filming. We knew that Dr. Nicole was leaving.

We knew that there was Alexia and Todd stuff and Larson and Marcus stuff being left, just left on the floor that we weren't going to see on the show. But finally, the trailer is here. And you know what? I had a little bit of a spiky sense. I mean, obviously, I knew that it was coming at some point. So it's not like, oh, God. But I've been watching the New York Knicks play in the NBA playoffs. They just won their series against the Pistons, by the way.

But the Pistons, I don't know a fucking thing about the Pistons, except that one of their players is, Malik Beasley. And that name might not mean anything to you, but it meant something to me, not for basketball reasons, but for Larsa Pippin reasons. Because like five years ago, I don't know if you guys remember this, because it was actually, it was before they even rebooted Real Housewives of Miami. So Larza was a little bit in the like post-Cardashian wilderness. We didn't know exactly what was happening with her. But she allegedly had an affair with this guy, Malik Beasley, Malik Beasley, who was married at the time. So that's why it was contentious. He was married to this woman, Montana Yao and then she filed for divorce. I think actually she's filed for divorce from him a couple

times. I'm not sure where they stand right now. But I was watching, I was like, I don't know, I haven't thought about Malik Beasley in years because that was a blip. You know, that was a Larsa blip. And then I'm watching a basketball game last week and I'm like, where do I know that name from? Larsa. Larsa. All roads lead back to Larsa. Larsa. I always think, no, actually, the Dr. Nicole pronunciation of Larsa is really pleasing to me, but I, the actual one, that scratches the itch in my brain is Julia Lemagova from a couple of seasons ago when she was like, he's Larsa! It's always Larsa, it's always Larsa.

And fun fact, Malik Beasley actually for a minute was playing on, I think the Lakers with Larsa's son, Scotty Pippin Jr. There are too many Larsa connections. In the actual trailer for the season, Larsa is not like a huge presence. Honestly, this trailer, it's enjoyable to watch. It feels a little bit light on plot. I don't know if I really care when it comes to Real Housewives of Miami because I do think that they are one of the most entertaining ensemble casts on television. Not just on Bravo. They are, they're giving personality, they're giving glamour, they're giving hilarity, they're giving drama, everything.

Even if there's not like a major scandal happening, I still am happy to watch, you know, 14 to 18 episodes and I hope that they give us more. But it is a little bit, you know, we get a glimpse of Dr. DeKole in the trailer, which I didn't know if she was going to appear on this season at all. she announced previously that she was stepping away because she was dealing with some postpartum, you know, depression and stuff like that, really wanting to take time after having her second child, which I am like fully in support of, even though Nicole miss you already, girl. But we see her and she is talking about our new housewife, Stephanie, who they brought out at Bravo Fan Fest in Miami. And it was like, okay, like, who's this girlie? Oh, we're going to have to wait six more months? Never mind. But Stephanie kind of seems like Dr. Nicole just like in a

font with a different accent. She's got a plane. She used to date Anthony. She's seemingly very wealthy. She's got it like that. And she's fighting with Alexia. Oh, it's me, Alexia. Like that, a new housewife fighting with Alexia, that is something that I, it like, thrills me a little bit. Meanwhile, Alexia and Todd still are on this kind of like toxic, cursed roller coaster together? Now, I remember last year, I listened to a full episode of the I por favor podcast when Alexia was talking about her fresh news that Todd had filed for divorce and she was sounding so broken and Marisol was talking her through it all, monkey, you're going to be okay. Cut to just this week, I see paparazzi photos of Alexia and Todd canoodling at the beach.

They're like getting handsy in the ocean, making out a little bit and there's a camera. What is going on? I guess we will see on this season. I don't want to be like, why don't we know what's happening when there's 16 episodes we're about to watch that's going to explain what's happening? I just thought there was going to be a moment where like, Alexia was going to be really hurt for a while. Todd was supposed to be her, you know, her rock. He was supposed to be providing for Frankie and for, you know, for Alexia. But then she was going to like snap out of it kind of and be like, you know what?

I am an independent woman. I'm going to be good on my own. It does not seem like we have really, you know, distanced ourselves from the Todd of it all. And I just, I kind of wanted that for her because Todd, I mean, I don't know anything. I don't know anything. I just feel like we have some question marks. The vibes around Todd are a little like Teresa and Louie, a little. you know, I don't, I don't know how attached to that you really want to be.

But whatever, she's making it through. You know, Lisa is still with Jody. That seems like it's going to be a whole thing. You know, Kiki, Adriana, Marisol, they're still friends of, whatever they have worked out contract-wise over there. So everybody is just happy with the status quo of being a friend of. I'm in favor of it. I think that this show is one of the best.

I can't wait to be watching it every week once again. But that's where we are with Miami. Speaking of new shows coming back, Love Hotel. Love Hotel aired on Sunday night. And I was really kind of unsure what my feeling was going to be watching this show. Because when it was announced, it's like, oh, that's fun. That's a cute idea. Okay, yeah.

Send some housewives, get some men. You know, it'll be like fun and flirty. And, you know, they get to wear their, you know, little cut out stomach floor-length dresses. They pack a whole suitcase full of those. You know, maybe get a little Mac on on the beach. Good, good for them. And the first episode, that's exactly how I felt. It was fun. It was cute. It was light. It was also a little heavy. I did shed a tear, which I'm not like a, I'm not like a rare crier. I will get for Kempt, you know, watching a really good commercial or like a documentary, oh, a documentary, forget it.

you know, I saw sinners for a second time last night and I did cry during that. But Love Hotel, I was not necessarily expecting to feel that like simmering emotion. But finding out that one of the suitors who I, look, I'm sorry, the suitors names are not high on my list of things to remember. But one of these sweet gentlemen does share that his wife passed away. I think when he's talking to Shannon and that it just got me choked up. And I, I'm hoping that this show remains just kind of like a nice buzz, a nice thing to put on every week, a fun hour. There's going to be some jokes. There's going to be some laughs. Luanne's going to make out with somebody. I love that like Ashley goes on a date with this guy and he like wants to kiss her, but he doesn't.

And then she's like, why didn't he kiss me? And then he goes back to the room. Knock, knock, knock. Can I kiss you? I love that energy. I do think, okay, I have some more logistical questions. about the Love Hotel. Like, I actually think it's a little weird that you're on this show meeting these guys that you're

supposed to date and they know exactly what hotel room you're in. Like, I just feel like I would be like, okay, like, you can walk me to the elevator and then I will see you tomorrow at the lobby. Like, I, um, a hotel room just feels like that's my sanctuary. That's, that's my, um, you know, it can be as messy or as clean as I want. You know, you can have the room service that's been sitting out for three days. I don't want somebody else like in that space.

And so I was a little surprised that like he was walking Ashley to the door of the hotel room. Because I thought that they would kind of have it a little bit more like structured. But it kind of seems like these women can do whatever they want. Like, okay, yeah, like go on a date. And then like if you want to fuck, that's fun. If you want to just like make out by the pool, that's okay. you know, maybe Joel Kim Booster will be back tomorrow, but it's not like The Bachelor where it feels like they are sort of like regimented within an inch of their lives. And that's the thing that I

have always had issues with with The Bachelor is that the expectation is so high. You are supposed to be engaged at the end of that show. But the structure is so rigid that it's like you're supposed to be engaged to somebody that you cannot have spent more than like 12 solid hours with. And I like that Love Hotel, it's a little bit more Lucy Goosey. It's like, okay, we're going to have suitors. You can get to know people. You can have a little fun. At the end, if you find some love in the Love Hotel, that's cool. Also, it's cool if you don't.

I don't think any of these women are expecting to find their their Mr. Wright in these circumstances. You know, at least three of these men claim to not own a television, which I just think is a little like, why don't you have a TV? I can't

imagine dating somebody who doesn't have a TV. Look, if you don't watch the same things I watch, that's okay. I've been on dates with people where they find out, like, what I do, this, and they're like, oh my God, I'm so sorry. I don't really know the housewives. And I'm like, that's amazing. I love to hear it. Because look, I have also been on dates with people who watch a lot of housewives. And that's fun because it's like, okay, I don't have to search for a conversation topic. if I'm on a date with somebody who I know is also going to have a wealth of opinions about Heather Gay.

Like, that's an easy in. We can talk about Ramona for an hour and then we've gotten the small talk out of the way. But the problem is, here's the problem. And maybe this is like, I don't know if like straight people can really relate to this because like how many times, like if you're like a straight girlie who's like, I love Bravo. I don't know if you're like hinge matches are really matching that energy very often. And, you know, I'm sorry. That sounds hard.

But you have to get over the hump where it's like, we can't only be talking about Bravo. Because I've also gone on dates with people where it's like, great, we talked about Ramona now like, tell me about something else. And they're like, okay, but what about Potomac? And I'm like, no, no, no, this can't be, this can't be the whole. We have to like move the ball at some way. Like, I contain multitudes and I hope that you do as well. But that's on dating. I'm barely even dating right now.

So I don't know. This is not important. But I want to just say to the people. who are behind Love Hotel. Thank you. Thank you. Because I was on the record as having some questions with the Denise Richards show recently about where and how and why we were using our housewives spin-off resources. And I didn't think that the Denise Richards show was a fabulous use of that capital. And I think that Love Hotel is exactly what we should be doing. doing with our housewives IP.

This is the kind of show where maybe they'll do multiple seasons, maybe it'll be a one-off, maybe it'll come back in five years. You know, Sonia has been beating the drum that she's like, hey guys, just remember the only reason I wasn't there is because I was in a relationship at the time, but otherwise I would have been. Ashley Darby, I hope you had fun. I was supposed to be there. Like, we, Sonia, respectfully, we know, we've heard you.

Thank you. Sonia being on this show like would be fun, but also would be so chaotic. Like I say this with love. I love Sonia, but like I don't need to see her like falling over by the pool for six episodes. And maybe she wouldn't. Maybe she wouldn't. Maybe she would be amazing. I don't know.

But I'm enjoying it so far. I didn't think it was really funny. I saw an interview where Giselle was asked about Joel Kimbooster, who is the host of the show. And there's some drama. if you were paying attention in the fall. Joel kind of like crashed out on Instagram talking about how Shannon was like horrible to work with and then he apologized and it was the whole thing.

I don't know if we'll get into that on the show. I kind of hope we do. But Giselle said that she would give Joel Kim Booster a five out of ten. But then she was, the reason she was giving was that she didn't like the selection of men for her. And I'm like, are we really pretending that Joel Kimbooster is the one like out here reviewing these applications? Mama, there's a casting department.

I get that it's fun to be like, oh, Joel Kim Booster is like the love coordinator, but it's like he's not like out here picking the dudes. He's not out here clearing the background checks. I just think like it is a little weird in the first episode. So there's four housewives. And I think there's only like eight suitors in the first episode. We really got to get some variety going. I don't, I think they're going to be introducing additional.

men. I don't know what the cadence is going to be or what the total volume is going to be. But yeah, when you've got four women, and I, you know, Giselle might have some different tastes than Shannon might have some different tastes from Louan. I mean, Luann might be into all of them. I don't know. I hope that we do get a little bit more catiness and drama between the women. And I also hope that we get a little more variety because, look, Jiselle wants love too. And I don't know if that guy she's talking to you on this episode is going to cut it. And maybe I will learn their names at some point, but no promises. So good, so good, so good.

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Work your magic. Let's talk about the Valley. The Valley. I love the Valley so much. There are some shows. I think there are a lot of shows where if they had something happening at the magnitude of the importance of Jacks Taylor's hitting rock bottom, depending who you ask, crashing out, going to rehab, that would be a whole season. That would be at least, you know, 60% of the material for the season. You guys, Jacks Taylor went to rehab at the first.

end of episode two, and we immediately hit the ground running with like four more things. This is why I love this show so much. The big cast, the amount of different personalities, the amount of things that are going on, there is always something new to look at. And Jesse and Michelle, I mean, my God, I don't wish a divorce like this on anyone, but they hate each other so bad. And just like, it sucks, but also it's so. so delightful. It's so amazing for our television viewing purposes. Hearing Jesse go through, he has a little tea party for Kristen and Luke. The way he's like wooing Kristen this season, like, oh my God. Just she's loving every second of it. Jesse has really been trying to put two

and two together of the evidence that Michelle was cheating on him, not just that she was cheating, on him for a while because he he knows that. She's acknowledged that there was at least one. She admitted to one affair. He's saying, I know that she was cheating specifically with Aaron, the guy that she is dating now. So either he was the one that Michelle admitted to or there was more than one. And so either way, he's trying to like gin up evidence to make Michelle look even worse

than she has already. I mean, she's already admitted to cheating on you at a certain point. Like, you're getting divorced because she cheated on you and other reasons. Just like, isn't that enough? Why do we need the witch hunt of the honey? Because Aaron, okay, we got to back up. So Aaron apparently has a honey company. Very L.A. coded.

Let's just say that. Jesse says that Michelle had the honey brand, Aaron's honey brand in their pantry for two years. And he says that, oh, this is. honey. When Michelle went public with dating Aaron, he went to the Instagram profile. He saw the honey. And that's when it clicked. He said, that honey was in the pantry. And when we ran out of it, I looked at Whole Foods to try and get more. And I said, hey, baby, hey, Michelle, they don't sell that honey at Whole Foods. Where do you get it? And she said, oh, I get it at this place near Runyon. First of all, like, this place near Runyon, like, is it like a market stall on the side of the road?

Like, if it was at a store, you would say the store. You'd be like, oh, yeah, they're at the, at the, you know, so-and-so's grocery over by, like, that's not a way people talk. But guess who lives near Iranian? Aaron with the honey. Aaron with the honey. Smoking gun. At least according to Jesse.

But then he also has a couple of other, you know, red flags to add to the assortment. He says that she was wearing makeup to allegedly go on a hike in the summer in the morning, red flag, and that also she wasn't wearing her rings, and she said it was because she didn't feel safe wearing the diamond, but that would only explain the engagement ring, and why wouldn't she be wearing the wedding band? Look, I think it is, it's so, it's so fun to watch somebody go into detective mode and explaining, like, the honey conspiracy theory is really, like, sparking joy for me. But, like, on a, on a personal level, Jesse, like, just let it go. just move on.

But not only is he not letting that go, but he also is kind of spreading even more, you know, questions and rumors and, you know, allegations about Michelle because the boys group chat has become front and center this season. And that is, I still don't want to see it. I don't even really want to know about it. But we find out via Luke telling Kristen,

I guess there's a lot of game of telephone with the boys chat that Jesse has said or somebody was talking about that Michelle apparently at one point was maybe allegedly sleeping with the billionaire for $1,500 a night. Now that's a lot of money. And trust me, we do not judge here. You know, sex work is work. Do whatever you got to do. I have no fucking clue if Michelle is.

was doing this. If you listen to Michelle, she was not. But this is something where it's like, you know that this is going to be on TV. Whether or not you think that the boys chat is like a sacred space where nobody should know. First of all, I love that the women are like, girl, we all have your phone pass codes. Even if nobody is like out here, you know, even if Danny's not leaking it, even if Luke's not leaking it, you know, Jason has an Android, so he's not really active in the boys chat. Probably a good decision. I mean, team, iPhone, but like not being in the boys chat, probably for the best. But like, you knew that this was going to come out somewhere. And Michelle just like, there's all of this like noise around. It's,

it's very weird to me that just for like a regular ass person, like who is Michelle's son-A in this world, like, why are we suddenly talking about Quentin Tarantino and cheating for two years in the honey and she had a boyfriend and Kristen said she was talking about somebody else? And also now she was fucking a billionaire for $1,500 a night. It's like, just like drive your carpool and go home. Like, these people just have so many like rumors swirling around. I'm exhausted just watching it. Can you imagine?

Being like a mom and then also having people talk about you sleeping with a billionaire for $1,500 a night, I could never, I could never do what these people do. But a lot of the plot points from this week's episode come to a head at, Janet's birthday party, which is that Dave and Busters, which is, according to pretty much everyone in the cast, her favorite place on Earth, which the more I learn about Janet, the more, the more questions I have. Every answer comes with four more questions. She loves Taco Bell. She loves Dave and Busters. She loves, I'm sure she loves like a, you know, Chevron print and the glasses with the nose and the mustache on them. Her taste level, I'm questioning it.

But I do like that she invites Kristen to her birthday party. And Kristen is on the fence, but she decides to go because she's like, well, I know that Janet will be in a good mood at Dave & Busters because it's literally her favorite place on Earth. So for that reason, it feels like a safe enough territory for me to attend. Like, seeing Janet talk about her like game plan strategy of Dave and Busters, first you got you. You got to go to the prize room the first time you get there because then you can put your eye, you can have a specific goal in mind. She sounds like, fucking Mel Robbins with Dave and Busters. She's like, I have a theory.

She's like, you have to envision the giant teddy bear in your mind's eye and say, 25,000 tickets. That's a goal that I can work toward. And then you have to be intentional the whole night. This game is a high ticket amount, so I'm going to play that for our. Michelle is over in the corner. spiraling out, having a emotional breakdown about this billionaire rumor and Jesse saying all these things and there's a whole Santa Barbara situation which we'll get to.

And then we see Janet like full blinders on playing like fucking dance dance revolution or something trying to get all her tokens. This woman, I don't know what to do with her. She is Janet. I would love to talk to Janet. Janet, if you're listening.

No, I just, she seems, she's one of one. She's not like other girls, if you will. No, but the Santa Barbara situation is crazy too,

because for their first trip of the season, Jesse has arranged for them to all stay in a house in Santa Barbara. And he is inviting Michelle on the trip, which like,

is that being the bigger person if you also just want to make their life miserable, I don't know. I'm glad that everyone's invited, but at what cost? But Michelle kind of feels the same way because she's saying, I don't think that it makes sense for me to stay in the same house as Jesse when we are in this contentious situation. Therefore, Jesse should not stay in the house. Girl. girl watching Michelle not only do the mental gymnastics herself

of explaining why Jesse should be the one kicked out of the house that he in fact has planned for the Santa Barbara trip but then trying to enforce those same mental gymnastics on everyone else in the cast she's like you guys you guys you guys we're going to take a vote we're going to take a vote whoever gets more votes gets to stay in the house

so please vote for me and don't vote for Jesse And it's like, wait, wait, wait, sorry, sorry, who just, who said we're taking a vote? I love that. This is, it's like the bossy kid on the playground who's like, no, this is how we're playing the game. I won. It's like, you just made up the rules and said you were the winner. But then people are not falling in line the way Michelle wants them to.

Watching her be like, it's very hurtful. It's very hurtful to watch my people not understand what I'm going through. It's like, girl, they understand what you're going through. They just are acknowledging the fact that it's a little cuckoo to try and kick Jesse off of the trip that he's coordinating. That's crazy. And I love it. No, like, it's crazy complimentary. Like, we need this energy.

This is what I live for. This is what I crave. We've got conspiracy theories. We've got votes going on. Majority rules. This trip to Santa Barbara is going to be a fucking shit show and I cannot wait for it. I am set. But, man, Michelle, I do feel for her.

I mean, the fact that her husband is talking about all this stuff on camera, spreading rumors, you know, bringing all this stuff up, it's got to be hard. But the actual rational choice would be don't fucking go on the trip that he's planning. Michelle's not going to be deterred. No, but she does say the claim that Jesse is worse, is by far. She uses the word by far worse than Jacks. I feel like it's kind of apples and oranges. Like, I don't want to make, like, a quantity statement of who's more worse.

But, like, Jacks is in rehab for a cocaine addiction and also some other stuff that I'm sure he has to work through. Jesse just seems like a fucking dick. And, like, who among us is not, you know, spend a little too much mental energy on somebody who's a fucking dick? But, like, worse than Jacks by far? I don't know. maybe. We'll see how the rest of the season goes. We are still only three episodes in, which I kind of can't believe. Good sleep is everything. That's why Ali's science back support is made with a blend of melatonin and L-Dien for both kiddos and grown-ups. So when your mind won't switch off, you've got something that can help. You're racing thoughts and restless nights won't stand a chance.

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Own the dream. From one shit show relationship demise to another, Summerhouse, pour one out, pour one out, because I think we have officially reached the end of the road for Jesse and Lexi. Start to finish 12 episodes. It's been a lot of Jesse and Lexi content this season on Summerhouse. And I don't want to say that I don't care or I don't love it. It just has been a lot. And I think knowing that from the beginning of the season, knowing that they're not still together,

knowing that it doesn't work, and also knowing that in the grand scheme of things, we're watching the, um, you know, detritus of this relationship of these people that have actually technically known each other for like six to eight weeks. I would say the emotional attachment isn't quite there for me. Meanwhile, something like the Page and Craig thing, watching that slow moving car crash, like that has felt like a little more stakesy. With Jesse and Lexi, it's a lot, it's, it's very high school in the sense that the way they're talking about something doesn't really match up with what it is that they're talking about.

That he, you know, they said they're in love the first day. Jesse's changing everything about himself. Lexi says that everybody thinks she's a psycho. None of that is really, none of it's true. It's puppy love, it's infatuation, it's love bombing. Call it what you want. But like, at the end of the day, when they're all 60 years old, they're going to look back and be like, oh, like, Lexie Wood, who was that?

Jesse's going to be on his world tour for his Michael Boubley singing career that he's really all in on. He dropped a new single yesterday. He's doing music. I got to say, I don't know about the music. Not, not, I, Jesse, we're, we love you. But I, I don't want to be, like, rude about the music. I just don't, I don't need it to cross my desk.

And I, I don't, I think that the second you are leaning into the thing that started out as a joke on the show and really trying to go for it in a real way, you sort of, lose a little bit of that thing with the audience where it's like, what would Jesse Solomon do, right? You want to hear my like, LOL quote unquote hit song. When it's like an actual single, when you're trying to be the next like Robin Thick or whatever, suddenly it's like,

he's singing again. That's how I mean, we're watching Ashley Darby do Roberta Flack covers. And then she's like, wait, no, no, no. I know that time was a little messy. I'm going to do it again. And then it's like the same because that's kind of where the talent level is his hitting. Ashley and Jesse could be good on a tour together.

You know, we've got like Kendrick Lamar and Siza on tour together this summer. Maybe next summer it'll be Ashley Darby and Jesse Solomon selling out MetLife Stadium. You never know. You never know. No, but actually, besides Jesse and Lexi, the two cringiest moments on Summer House this week, both have to do with Sierra. Because first we have this, oh my God, this conversation between Carl and Sierra,

I wanted to crawl under a desk and mute the screen and just like, Carl telling Sierra that he has a crush on her and talking about her to her face sounding like he is writing her a recommendation letter. He's like, Sierra is one of the best people I know. She is very genuine and smart and also funny and has a great personality. And it has been a pleasure to get to know her these last years.

And I hope that she will go on to do great things. And if you accept her to this program, she will be a credit to your institution. It's like, oh, Carl, enough. Enough! I know I went really hard on Carl last week and I don't want to keep, like, dragging him for being sincere or whatever, but it's like, enough. Sierra, to her credit, is like, yeah. I mean, I think I need to go date somebody I've never met before,

whoever that is, literally anybody else. But thank you for all those kind words. And you never know. You never know. You never know is doing a lot of work there. And it's like, well, I mean, you know, but like, maybe. So you're saying there's a chance. That's what Carl's hearing, I'm sure.

But then Sierra has to go and receive another, you know, fuck-ass commentary from one of these guys because Jesse is saying, you know how Jesse a few weeks ago said that if he had gotten to the house before West last summer, things might have been different, implying that he and Sierra might have had this great, you know, Casablanca love affair, whatever. And they're like, yeah, I mean, that was like a weird thing to say to her. That's why Jesse's upset, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Lexi's upset, you know.

And he goes, well, when I said that, it was. is to make Sierra feel better. Sir. Sir. Jesse. Jessica Solomon. What are you doing? What are you?

Dumb are you? Like, okay, the singing is one thing. Saying dumb shit like that? Oh my God. It's painful. It's painful. And Sierra, of course, it's like, fuck you.

You think, okay, first of all, I've got Carl over there, showering me with praise. I don't need anybody to make myself feel better. And also, who are you? Leave me the fuck alone. I was, honestly, I was impressed with Sierra's restraint in that moment because I thought she was going to drag his ass up down, left, right, and center. Oh my God, just these guys, they cannot get it together. But, you know, Amanda doesn't know if she wants kids. That's tough. Lindsay bringing Danielle to her appointment. That's nice. I mean, it's a, I feel like the season of Summerhouse, it's like, kind of like, I feel like I'm like 65% of the way there. There's just like, I feel like every week there's at least one or two scenes that I watch that I'm really into, but there's also at least one or two scenes that I watch that I'm like, can we like wrap this up? I think they're in a little bit of a, they're in a little bit of a phase where I think some people have maybe outgrown the format a little bit. And I don't, I don't mean that as like, we don't need a pregnant person. We don't need a kid. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I just think like the dichotomy, this. season of what's been happening with Lexi and Jesse where it's like we have hot young people in the house that are trying to find love question mark and then we have 40-year-olds talking about their

futures and whether they want kids. It feels like we need to figure out the balance a little bit. But I don't know. I mean, they filmed their reunion this week last week. I'm excited to see that. I do think there's a lot of ground to cover. I mean, the Page and Craig stuff. This week was the first week in a while that Paige wasn't really kind of like in her feelings about that. So I'm, I think it's good that they're letting it rest for a bit, but then interested to see kind of like where that picks up by the end of the season and into the reunion. But yeah, Summerhouse, I'm like missing something. Just, just a little bit of something. But that brings us to the end of the episode. And I did not talk about Atlanta because I wanted to save it. Because this week,

we're giving out an award. And like I said, said, it's going to be a different award every week. So you've got to stay on your toes. You've got to listen to the end. But this week, the Brittany Bateman Award for filming during filming goes to Angela Oakley. Angela, congratulations. Congratulations for being a strategic scheming diva at the house in Nashville at 2.30 in the morning. Through the window from the second floor, she heard a sound at the pool. She heard people chatting. She heard people mumbling and cackling as Nikki Minaj would say. And she gets out that phone and she records and she picks up, what is it?

Portia saying that maybe she should sleep with Charles, Angela's husband. I mean, that's a pretty good nugget to catch. And Kelly confirms it in the confess. Portia says she doesn't know what she's talking about. Kelly confirms it in the confessional that it was something about sleeping with Charles. Angela. Angela, you're really, you're doing great work right now. I will say, Angela, these last couple weeks, is really positioning herself as a central figure in a lot of the conflicts this season.

Because she has had an issue with Shamiya this season. She now is really not getting along with Portia. She has an issue with Brit after the Kenya situation. I think it's an interesting strategic choice to align yourself with Drusadora on your. first season because Angela really created a lot of heat for herself by being the one who had to do the grunt work of getting Drew Sedora onto the Nashville trip. Obviously, it was Portia's birthday trip. She didn't want to invite Drew. Angela was like, well, don't you think it would be nice if you invited her anyway, if she was there for the group, for love, for connection, for, I don't know,

don't you think you want her there? She ended up getting her there. I just think, like, Angela, like, you endanger girl a little bit because you're just doing a lot, but also, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And congratulations. Congratulations on your award. A very prestigious award. Who knows if we'll ever give that one out again because we're going to be switching it up every week. But that's our inaugural award show segment at the end of the show. And thank you so much, everyone, for listening. I've had a lot of fun this week, and I can't wait to keep it going. knowing that we're doing these Friday episodes, we're going to be talking about a lot of different things. And some weeks we're going to be focusing more on some shows than others. So definitely keep me posted what you're liking, what you want more of.

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