Mention It All - Back In The Berzerkshires (RHONY, Below Deck Med)

Episode Date: July 10, 2020

It’s time for RHONY’s annual trip to the Berzerkshires, and as usual, things are off to a rough start. Dylan and Bari judge Dorinda’s interior decorating skills, and then judge Ramona for being the worst. Also, why is Luann so damn mad at Sonja? They finish the episode with this week’s Below Deck Med—they might not be editing Pete the racist out, but at least they’re making him look like a clown. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Who don't check me, boo? And Barry Rosenfeld. I need to start drinking alcohol. Now go to sleep, we. Hey, guys, welcome back to the Mention at All podcast. I'm Dylan Hafer. And I'm Barry Rosenfeld. And we have two fun shows to talk about today.

Real House of New York is still back. we're going to get into some below deck mad stuff at the end of the show to catch up on what we missed earlier this week. But can we just get a Friday vibe check first? How's it going, Barry? Tropical storm is on its way. Wait, yeah, I got that notification yesterday. My phone started buzzing like it was an Amber Alert or something. It literally says 100% ringing mic all day.

I can actually see out my window. It's just starting to rain now in the city. but I was like, I knew that it was going to rain this weekend, but then I got this tropical storm notification. I'm like, excuse me? Do I need to board up my windows? Oh my God, I'm joking. I know you guys have all been wondering about how my root canal went,

and don't think I didn't forget that none of you have reached out and asked how I'm feeling, but I have a follow-up appointment later on today. To either... I don't even know what today's appointment is. I wasn't listening. I had this tendency to not listen, like when people are talking directly to me.

And I don't know if it's to finish it. I don't know if it's a follow-up. I don't know what she is doing in my mouth. But I'll keep you guys posted like on that anyway. Hopefully whatever she does to your mouth, you will be recovered by next week. Yeah. Like, I'm excited.

Like, I love the dentist. but this is an endodontist, so it's one level above. Okay. So the thing with me with the tropical storm, by the way. So with a tropical storm right now, I just recently watched this scary movie called Crawl. I don't know if you're familiar. No. It came out last year and it is, it's like in a hurricane and this girl goes into the house to like get her dad because he didn't evacuate.

And then there's alligators in the basement. Oh, and I've heard. Yes, I remember exactly what you're talking about. It's this whole alligator horror movie. It's actually pretty good. But now when I think of Tropical Storm or Hurricane or anything, I'm like, oh, I'm going to get eaten by an alligator. Even though, you went to Tulian, though. You're like used to alligators. Oh, yeah. I'm so used to them. I mean, they're not like in the city of New Orleans. They're not just like, I say this on like a daily basis. I'm like, this is why I just can't live. in like

South Carolina or anything like that because they literally have just an alligator's roaming around and I am talking from experience I have been there like I know I've seen them my dad almost got eaten by one true story if you want to know about that

hit me up I watched the David Foster documentary this week me too it was it was it was not bad I'll say it was not bad I thought it was interesting

because like David Foster has such a legendary career. It's cool to hear all these people talking. He's obviously an asshole, whatever. Right. And he knows it. And he knows it.

He knows it. But of course, the part that mattered most to me was the two minutes when he was talking about Yolanda. And it's interesting because he is saying, you know, I didn't leave her because she was sick. I could never do that. But I'll never talk about why I left. And it's like, okay, guess we just, guess we'll just leave it there.

I need to know. Yeah, it seems like there must have been something more. And he makes it sound like, and I think his daughters make it sound like we definitely didn't get the full story. And that maybe Real Housewives didn't portray him in the most flattering light. But I don't know. I thought it was worth a watch. I mean, he's a, he's an interesting.

Yeah, I mean, it's obviously worth it to watch it. There was an entire part regarding Celine Dion. So that's also like. mostly why I watch. I was like, she's just so fucking funny. I was like, everything you do,

every breath you take, every movement, I just like adore her. God. Okay, let's get into her house. Yeah, I can talk an entire episode about Celine Dion.

We can't get buried down the Celine Dion Road because we will never come back. I'm not choking anymore, by the way. Thank you. I'm so relieved. This week we are

getting into our annual Berserkeshire's trip, and we are seeing for the first time Dorinda's redone home. Ugh. Let me just say that. Somebody tweeted that it looks like

a fun house. 50 different people had three hours to decorate this house. That's actually really funny and so accurate. Okay. Like she, I hate when she like labels the rooms because it's not like a random

hotel in like themed hotel in like Nevada. It's like her house and she was even like, Leah's in the Moroccan room. Like what? Why is that even there? It's a fish room, which is like obviously standard, whatever. And then like Hannah's room is this hot neon, not even hot pink, neon pink. Like, like she goes, I didn't redo Hannah's.

I just updated it. Okay, well, that's what you did to the entire house. It's the same thing, honey. And so the carpet, there were downstairs in the foyer. There were three carpets. on top of each other. I'm like, what is this? The colors, the neon green.

She had Masoni make the carpet, which, aka, I'm not impressed. Also, when she went up the stairs, the carpet didn't touch the wall. Did you see it didn't finish? It wasn't measured correctly. Oh my God. Sorry, rant. I'm like, I was not at full.

Dorinda's house is the epitome of that saying where it's when you think you're ready to leave the house, look in the mirror and take off one thing. Every room in that house has five too many accessories. Items. Yeah. Yeah. But even in her home thing, do you see her where she's sitting?

I'm like, oh, my God, the color. Maybe it's because of me. I'm just like not, I like neutrals or black and white and whatever. Like, oh, my God, the color, I cannot. That's why I love. That's why I love, like, the houses of most of the Beverly Hills women because they're so clean and just rich. looking but not like you went to the store and bought every single finish. Yeah, I could not

handle it. I mean, listen, to each their own. Like, it, I'm not saying her house is beautiful. It's not my taste. Let me just say that. It's not my taste. Like, if that was my house, I would be blessed to have it, but it's not the way I would decorate it. And for something that size, I would absolutely, you have to hire someone because you can't have all of your designs vomiting all over the house because that's what it is. Right. So in the lead-up to going to the house, we see Elise and Sonia are just fully dumping on Ramona. And Ramona is with...

Who is Ramona with? Ramona is with Luayan and she is saying how Derinda is just mourning Richard's death for the first time. And she thinks it's ridiculous that Sonia and Derinda are mad about that Long Island trip to the show. room. And it's so interesting because I feel like we're now in like the third episode of this kind of line of drama and Ramona still can't see at all how she is wrong. Let me tell you something. Okay. I was holding myself back. I have thought I've seen it all with Ramona's behavior and I honestly think that this episode alone pushed me over the edge. I really do. I

think that what she does and how she treats people and how she has like tunnel, no peripheral vision, I should say, is just like sickening. I, I cannot, let me just tell you, I actually think the drama on this show is 10 times better than Beverly Hills. So I appreciate it. But her in general, OMG, I just can't get over it. Well, and she, she's fixated on. this thing of that she has 50 close friends, which just doesn't, it's not real. Cares. And she says, well, when she's talking to Lou, she says maybe they're just jealous, I have 50 friends.

And then when she's talking to Elise later at Bluestone Manor, she's saying, yeah, like, you're one of my close friends. I have 50 close friends. And I love that Elise basically says, if you really think you have 50 close friends, that is so naive because that's just not true. Well, it's funny because Elise, I'm in just. her more and more, but I still just think I don't know her all the way. So I feel like there's still a part that I don't know. However, we hear her saying what happened that night when Ramona

left the Halloween party and went to Omar's. And apparently, this is just Elisa's side, Elise left because she knew Ramona was upset and went to Omar's to go check on her. This is just allegedly what happened. And from hearing this, you do tend to think Elise is a good friend. And so I'm like, okay. And Ramona apparently told her, like, you can't sit with me. And Ramona was sitting by herself at a table. And, like, that is so rude and disgusting. And the more and more we see Ramona on the show,

the more I believe what Elise is saying about what happened. Well, and it's interesting because I think Sonia and Elise have a lot of the same issues with Ramona. But with Sonia, because we've watched them together for years, there's a lot more backstory. We have all these fun memories. of them together and Ramonia and all of that. Whereas with Elise, we've just seen her come onto the show,

and it's obvious that Ramona was the one who invited her there. And within essentially, this is like a month in real time, essentially, Ramona has completely ditched her. And thankfully, Elise, I think, is doing a great job of fitting in with the rest of the women. I mean, she already knew Sonia. I think she probably already knew Durinda. And even Leah had her back. Right.

So it's not just like she's alone, but it kind of reminds me of last season when Luann brought Barb onto the show and then basically ditched her. And Barb, Barb just really struggled to kind of make any other connections in the group. I think lucky for us, because it's more fun to watch, Elise has more kind of of a place in the group. But I still think if she and Ramona really can't get it back together, it would be. tough for Elise to kind of stay in the group because why else is she there? Well, you know what? I don't know because if she builds her own relationships, maybe we can have a little swap on the show and Ramona gets the boot finally and Elise stays on because she kind

of just brings, she brings like a nice energy, but we find out also that Ramona unfollows. There's a difference between unfollows and blocks. So she unfollowed Elise on social media, but you know what really threw me over the edge is when Elise came arrived at the Berkshires and Ramona didn't even pick her head up and or get up. Here's the difference between me and Elise.

There's a lot, but the difference in that scenario is I would have called her out on her shit right then in there. And Elise is like too quiet. I feel nice about it, but I would have been like, oh, you don't say hello.

Hello? Standing right here. I think it's hard because Elise seems like the kind of person who, doesn't want to cause a scene. She doesn't want, you know, she wants to stick up for herself and she wants to hold Ramona accountable,

but she feels bad. And especially coming into Durinda's home like that, she seemed very, like she wanted to be as respectful as possible. And then even in the kitchen after they finished dinner, Ramona was saying, you know, Elise was kind of starting to bring it up. And Ramona's like, we'll talk about this some other time, and just you and me. I don't want to, I don't want to cause a scene, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

and then you have Sonia being like, talk about it now. And then honestly from there, everything just spiraled. And then I don't, to be honest, I feel like with Sonia and Luan getting mad at each other,

I feel like it was like a blink and you miss it and then all of a sudden they're yelling. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. First of all, I think there's more to this conversation with Ramona and Elise. First of all, the other women didn't want to get involved. They just wanted to watch. They kept saying, like, they weren't saying anything. They really made it clear they just wanted to watch. Ramona kept wanting to leave. She didn't want an audience. But I think it's because she did, she wanted to say whatever she wanted to say to Elisa and not

get in trouble. She didn't want the other women to like call her on her bullshit. But she, it kept cutting off Elise, she kept demeaning her. And like, does that make sense? Demeaning her? I don't know. And like, she's just so rude. However, she was wearing that orange again, which you know I love. So I was like one point for Ramona.

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But yeah, it's interesting because I really feel like Elise is right in this situation, but it's tough because her being the new person on the show and Ramona's been on for 12 seasons, you know, she's always going to be kind of like the underdog and right I don't know how much it'll develop I know but then you're yeah we get into you can tell sonia and luam we're wanting to do some type of weird performance because they were all like starting to drink whatever and then like yeah you're right it went from like whoa zero to 100 and luan was almost doing it remind me she was doing like a monologue like she was like you're not being in my show and like turned her and left the room three separate times.

I was like, she was almost like, that one wasn't good enough. And, like, came back. I was just going to say she kept, she kept, like, say something, leave the room, be like muttering to herself in the hallway and then come back in. And then she was doing like a show. It was like funny, but. But she was like, I'm a huge cabaret star. I have a successful show, a national tour.

I don't need her. I have top Broadway talent, comedians. Was something a little off to you? I don't know. it was just strange because we've seen Luanne definitely be into herself in the last couple seasons with the cabaret stuff, but to see her be so... Something seemed off to me.

She got so angry at Sonia, and I don't really think... I understand if she was annoyed or something, but to all of a sudden be basically yelling at Sonia over something that really didn't seem that deep. Right. Well, she was saying how the whole thing about being paid. And let me tell you, I think that should be a private conversation. That's not something that needed to be like all the other girls. So they were all saying, so Romano is like, pay her $10,000, $5,000.

So when Sonia said she was being paid $225, Ramona was like, oh, $2,000. And Sonya was like $225. And of course, Ramona started backing up Sonia and like all of this as if her issue never happened. And I was like, bitch, sit down. But the money thing is a whole other like situation. I don't know the ins and outs of that. Like, Lou was claiming she has huge Broadway stars.

She doesn't need to pay Sonia to take off her dress. I was like, this is a mess. It's an absolute mess. And they're all drunk. It's the kind of thing where I feel like the money thing really isn't that important. Like, they can figure that out on their own. I hope Sonya gets paid for whatever, but that's not really what matters here.

But it's the fact that all of a sudden, the man's like, she's a bitch. She shouldn't be in my show. She's a bitch. And it's like, I don't need you. Yeah, it's disappointing. But I hope that they, I hope, honestly, it's the kind of thing where it's like, it makes me think, like, I hope she was drunk or something. And then the next episode she, like, realized.

Yeah. I don't know. It was just, I can't, I can't imagine yelling at someone like that when it's not really, like, a personal conflict. I don't know. It also wasn't even like. it was yelling out of it was anger like you heard the anger and also she was like saying kind of mean stuff like um but maybe there's something deeper there that we'll find out but sonia was just crying saying i love lou i love lou and it was like i felt bad because sonia she just seemed so confused

like she was like why am i why is this happening i didn't want to make her mad but yeah um i don't Don't be so narcissistic. Narcissistic. Oh, also they were talking about Romano's vocabulary in the car, and then she gets out of the car, and she says that the foilage in the tree is very lovely. Yeah, I noticed that as well. And I was like, oh, my God. But yeah, the narcissistic.

I was like, girl, if you're going to, like, you can't, you can't, like, dis someone and say a word wrong. Like, it's just not intimidating at all. can't like do that. Overall, I felt like this episode was an improvement on last week and I am definitely hopeful for the rest of the season. I hope they keep it up because I think they will. Next the episode looks like kind of crazy. Yeah.

I mean, the Berkshires always delivers. Next episode, it looks like we have Dorinda and Luann getting into it, which should be fun. Heather makes an appearance. Yes. Oh, my God. Heather Thompson. I'm excited. I'm excited.

But honestly, this, I always watch Below Deck in the beginning of the week. And I like forget what happens before like we talk when we talk about it. But I'm also, as you know, in the middle of watching old seasons of Below Deck. So I'm almost done. So I have to not confuse myself with what's going on. Right, right, right. But this episode I don't think was that great. I just watched it yesterday.

I'm having fun. Okay, honestly, it's getting frustrating how much they are not editing. Because last week, it felt like, okay, like, I don't know. And then this week there was more of him than ever. Well, okay, so this week they made him look like bad, though. I know. The fact that they showed him texting or talking about Laura for different. times in the episode.

Yeah. Oh my God, he looks pathetic. Also, though, like, he is that guy at a club. I feel that, like, would approach you and your girlfriend and he thinks he's, like, so hot and expects you to, like, go home with him. Like, that's the vibe I get from him. Well, and when he, so he realized that Bugsie was definitely more into Alex, which good for her.

But then he, when he walked into the. like crew mess where she was sitting and is talking about how you know he loves usually on the boats he's fucking the stewardesses and that's he almost like vomited i okay i felt so bad for her in that moment because nobody should be subjected to hearing shit like that in their workplace but also i i so enjoyed watching her reaction because she was so immediately horrified and i like that nobody, none of the women on this boat are taking his shit. Did he think she was going to be like,

that's hot, damn? And you can see, like, in the preview for next week, they're definite, you know, she's definitely speaking to Sandy about that and Malia is having, like, continued talks with Pete. And so, obviously Pete sucks. And it, and I, I hate that the, like, it's, the thing about the Lodek

that's frustrating is that I feel like every season, to varying degrees, these women are put in these positions where they're having to work with guys that are just assholes and misogynistic and all of that. And it's frustrating to see it happen over and over again. But I'm glad that the women aren't just letting it happen and not holding him accountable. 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 delaying ovulation. Plan B is available nationwide at all major retailers and through delivery apps like DoorDash.

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He named himself party Pete. It's one thing there's when there's a guy who, you know, sometimes drinks too much and makes a couple comments or something. But he literally all the time is saying things that are inappropriate, being an asshole, being rude to people. It's just, it's nonstop. And I hope he gets fired just so we don't have to watch it for the whole season. But I don't know. Because it's not even like he's not even, you know, what he kind of reminds me of. But in like a bad way is Mike the situation.

Yes. Yeah, he's like, that was the show. Like, he was allowed to do, well, not allowed, but like that was the, what's the word I'm looking for? I don't know. I mean, that was, his whole schick was that. Right. And it worked.

Whereas, like, with this, it just feels gross every single time. Yeah, I'm like, stop. Like, ew, I would honestly, like, leh. But, um, yeah, I don't want to, like, talk, like, give him the satisfaction. He's like, I was laughing. I was laughing so much when they came back from going out. and Bugs and Alex were in the hot tub and they were like, oh, it's kind of cold.

And Malia comes up and she goes, guys, the heater is not even on. They were so drunk that they just thought they didn't realize. They were sitting in a, they were literally sitting in a tub of cold water. Like, do you know how drunk they had to have been for them not to realize? Because even when I go into a regular swimming pool

and it's like a little cold, I'm like, ooh, you always get a little, like, hesitant it to go in. they were like sitting hanging out in a tub of, it was an ice bath essentially. But we also see, though, that Rob has a girlfriend. And I love how people take that word like to a different level. You know what I mean?

Because like he's into Jessica. So because now we find out he has a girlfriend, it's like different. To be honest, I mean, I'm pretty like positive about. about open relationships, whatever, your situation is your situation. So I don't really see any issue. I mean, it's for him to decide how he wants to go about it. But I don't feel like he's lied to anyone or is doing anything wrong. But I do think it's, he needs to be, he needs to be honest with himself.

Exactly. Be honest with Jess. Because like when we saw Hannah saying that he posted that thing on his Instagram story of this girl from home and Jess was like taken aback, you know, everybody should just be on the same page. And right. He's so hot though. I know. I think like, of course, like you, but it's about being shady. Like, if you're into Jess, just be like, I do, I just want to let you know, like, I do have someone at home, like, it's on and off, like, it's not working. Don't, like, hide it. And then also post about it, like, no one's going to see it on your Instagram. Like, that's just bizarre.

But then they would be a very hot couple, by the way, Rob and Jess. But the episode ends where Jess potentially breaks her finger. And, like, I'm very nervous. I'm very nervous. Is there anything worse than shutting your finger in a door? I don't think so. There's, like, a few things worse, but, like, that's bad, especially for her job. True.

Yeah, she can't hold, like, 72 plates with a broken finger. We're like tuck in a sheet really tight. Oh my God. Ow. So between these two shows, who is your number one this week? My number one this week. Okay. My number one this week is Sonia because of that damn ass.

Yeah, she looks great. Holy shit. And I've never strived for anything more in my life. So that's my number one because she's, she also like, you know, was, oh, and also I felt bad because she tried to wink in her interview and she didn't. She couldn't. Oh my God. My number one of the week, I'm going to give it to Darynda just because she seems like she's doing a lot better. And also she seems really happy with the house, even if it's not our standards. My taste. She seems like she's in a good spot and I am

less worried about her than I was at the beginning of the season. So, well, yeah, I think that's great. She was doing a little bit of slurring at the end of the episode, but you know what? We all slur sometimes, so we have to just ignore it. But we'll brush it under her three rugs. So, thanks for listening. I hope you all have a great weekend. Don't forget to rate, review, and subscribe.

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