Mention It All - Bloody Banquets, Gas Station Standoffs, & SLC’s Next Top Couple (Traitors, RHOP, RHOBH, RHOSLC)

Episode Date: January 30, 2026

It’s a frigid week in New York City, but Dylan has plenty of fuel in the tank for this week’s Bravo roundup, starting with the latest from cross-country filming for Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip. Speaking of fuel in the tank, the ladies of Potomac are driving all over Colorado in this week’s season finale, delivering an epic hour of television, gas station pizza and all. Next, Dylan unpacks part three of the RHOSLC reunion, where Bronwyn announces her separation from Todd, Meredith throws production under the bus, and Whitney makes him shed an unexpected tear. With SLC done for the season, he turns his attention to RHOBH, where the warning bells are getting louder for Amanda’s rookie season. Meanwhile, Kyle is second guessing her separation from Mauricio, and Dorit is foaming at the mouth for a rematch with the newbie. Finally, Dylan digs into an epic episode of Traitors, starting with the worst-dressed at the banquet. With a dramatic antidote twist and a messy murder, Lisa Rinna’s back is against the wall, and Rob’s dagger throws a wrench into an already complicated game. Go to the BravoByBetches YouTube page to watch full length episodes every Tuesday: Youtube.com/@BravoByBetches Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Exclusions apply for licenses, see Home Depot.com slash license numbers. Hey everyone, welcome back to the Mentioned at All podcast and welcome back to another Friday episode. And you guys, I think it's going to be a good one. Mara Higgins, if you're watching or listening right now, girl, I can't get it out of my system. I was on a bachelor party in Miami this past weekend. And we watched, it was actually, it was the perfect thing. everybody arrived on Thursday by like Thursday at like 7, 8 p.m. We were all at the house in Miami. And did we go out our first night in Miami? No. No, of course we didn't. We drank like five

bottles of wine and watched the new episode of the traders. And that is what life is all about. Just, you know, eight good girlfriends sitting in the living room watching traders, reacting to Rob's, you know, overalls with his pits hanging out. Reacting to Mora going, oh, I think he's a traitor. Reacting to a crazy roundtable with Colton and Lisa. I'm so excited because we, after a few weeks of scheduling, scheduling ups and downs, we can finally talk about traders, about the new episode of Traders this week.

As I did for the season premiere, I am going to put the trade. Raiders recap at the end of the episode. So if you haven't watched yet, if you're not up to date and you don't want spoilers, you will know when to stop watching, when to stop listening. But come back after because we, you know, we can see where you drop off the episode. And if it's like, Rupertree, you should want, you should want to know what happened on traders. Just like if you don't want it spoiled. Again, I don't want the comments. Leave me out of it. No, but we have a lot to talk about today, we are going to discuss the Real Housewives of Potomac season finale, kind of, of this trip to Colorado, which is just some of the best television I've seen in yours.

I don't want to hear it. I don't want arguments. Argue with the wall. We're going to talk about Real Housewives of Beverly Hills a little bit, part three of the Salt Lake City reunion and where we're leaving off with that group. And we're going to get into Tray Ars at the end of the episode. So I want to give a little shout out. of course, on video now for both our Tuesday and Friday episodes.

You can watch videos on YouTube, YouTube.com slash at Bravo by Betches and on Spotify. So if you're watching either of those places, hey, if you're not, you have the opportunity to, or you can just keep listening like you always have, and I appreciate that too. But we have some exciting stuff coming up on this schedule. We have a busy February coming up. And you know what's something crazy that I realized this was not on purpose. You guys, I promise. I wouldn't have done this on purpose.

But I kind of love the way it's coming together. February, like, maybe for the first time ever is going to be all men on mention it all, which feels like it's tough for me to say. But there's some gays in there. It's okay. Next week we have Carl Radkei, Summerhouse premiere Tuesday's episode. The following week, we have Rodrigo Reyes from Southern Charm. He was in the studio yesterday after doing Watch What Happens Live.

And I believe he had had a couple of shots before we chatted. So that'll be a fun one to get into. And then later on in the month, we have, you guys, they were here. I've already posted about it on Instagram. So you know if you thought, whatever. Dylan Ephron and Boston Rob, we're in the studio. And a good vibe, I would say, all around. So you are not going to want to miss the stuff that we have coming up in February on the show.

So go subscribe to our YouTube channel. Follow us on Spotify. Listen wherever you listen. But it's going to be a good month. Earlier this week, we had Dr. Heavenly on the show. Just a riot. it. Even if you are not fully caught up on married to medicine, that woman, the way that she can just get going and she's hard to get ungoing. I've never had a full, you know, congressional stump speech

happened in the studio before, but it was an experience. And I, the married to medicine ladies, never disappoint. Let's just say that. And so go, go watch that if you haven't yet. But now, let's get into everything we have to talk about. First of all, I want to just touch on. They are, in the midst of filming this Real Housewives ultimate girls trip, ultimate road trip, 20 years of, you know, the 20th, roaring 20th, as we talked about a couple weeks ago. This group has been off to the races and I am just more and more that we see from filming for this show. I have more questions about what's going on? Like what is this going to be? What is the format? How is it edited? Is it? Is it? Is it? There is there drama? Are we saying it's a road trip, but they're actually just flying from city to city? It seems like that's probably the case. But there have just been so many, so many pictures and videos of like, okay, Nini and Fidra are at a brunch. And then there's, and then there's Alexia's there. And then we're in Potomac. And there was a giant snowstorm in New York. I don't know

if that affected their planning. I think there's some like mafia dinner. And then, and then they're in Orange County. It's a lot to keep track of. And so I'm just, I'm so curious for the show because all of the other girls trips have been seven or eight women fly to a location. They're there for the week. That's the group. There's normal drama that's associated with being on a group trip. There, you know, Durinda's yelling at people for eating in bed. Somebody's throwing elephant poop at the sanctuary in Thailand.

It's kind of like just a big housewives trip on steroids. Whereas this is like a completely different beast. because there's all these guests, they're traveling to different locations, it's unclear to me like, is the show mostly just going to be like, we have a party in each city, or are we seeing that dynamic of like all of these women

staying in a hotel together, being on the road together? Like, are we going to have, is the point of this show that there's going to be like drama in the group and then there's a bunch of guests? Or is it sort of just like, we're taking this show on the road, and we're going to have fun.

Because I think either could be fun to watch, but just from the glimpses we're getting, I'm kind of like, hey, what's the plan? How is this going to be edited into like seven episodes of TV? I think it seems like it's going to be a lot, whatever it is. But I'm really curious to find out. Also this week we got our first look at Southern Hospitality, which is coming back the first week of March.

So that's exciting. Top Chef coming back, the Carolinas, that's happening in March 2. We've got a lot of stuff coming up on this schedule for the next couple months. Of course, Summer House kicking off next week. I've seen the premiere. It's exciting. It's interesting. We're going to mention it all about the DJ career and then some.

So we'll be talking about Summer House starting next week, and I'm excited for that. Let's start with Potomac, because I think that Potomac has sort of quietly, had a really, really great season. And I haven't talked about it every single week. I know that some people have had mixed feelings about it. But when I was sitting down to watch the final episode of that Colorado trip earlier this week, I just was in a state of euphoria. I was laughing my ass off. I was like taking pictures of the TV like I was at a Harry Styles concert. I was like, oh, Angel sitting up so high in the driver's seat of that big pickup truck with the cowboy hat on, just looking like she wants to drive off the side of the mountain. The entire trip was such a

such a wonderful like symphony of disaster in a way that I, I truly don't think you could have written it better. And by that, I mean, like, worse. Like, like, horrible planning. Angel kind of, she fucked it. There's no other way to say. Angel fucked it. Like, it was a, it was a shambly trip from start to finish.

Obviously, Giselle went very hard on her. I think it's understandable. I know some people are kind of like, oh, like, justice for Angel. It was stressful. She tried. They were so mean to her. Not no, but also, like, come on.

They were in the car so much. Truly, if this was Real Housewives ultimate road trip, they could have made it from Orange County to Miami by now, the amount that they were in the car on that trip to Colorado. Because remember, already the women were staying, sorry, the ladies were staying like an hour away from Angel's house, then they have to drive to take the PJ to Aspen, then they're driving on this last day, like three hours to get to this fly fishing excursion.

and they never even make it there. The second they flashed on the screen, the cartoon map of the state of Colorado with the little moving icons of where each car was and where the fly fishing excursion destination was that they, spoiler alert, we're never going to make it to.

And then we're also flashing a countdown clock of how much time was left before the women's flight back to Potomac. You knew it wasn't going to, you know it wasn't going to happen from the, jump. And then we're cutting to this like serene, beautiful lake where the women are supposed to be showing up. And we just have the chef who's like dropping the ribs in the grill. And this

beautiful woman who I would love to meet and speak with, who is the, um, the Wanderland chief of staff. Can you? Can you? We're making up jobs now. Chief of staff. The, the word chief of The phrase chief of staff is just like, are we working at the White House? Is it like, are you like the governor? Chief of staff? Is that like a normal? Do normal businesses have a chief of staff? Is Wonderland Adventure Company or whatever the fuck?

No, but it is truly just like beautiful to behold the way that these women are split up in the cars. We have Angel. So they've stayed at the four seasons in Denver, I think. And they have this fly fishing excursion, but the flight is in the afternoon. And also Tia and Kiana's baggage or stuff is still at Angel's house, I think. So they have to drive separately to go pick up the stuff. And they're going to be in the car for what, like five hours? And then the other women are meeting them there.

So they're already split up. And Angel gets lost on the way to her own. excursion. And she's like, well, you know, the pin said that it was going to be, somebody had dropped a pin. And it's like, bitch, what's the address? You're driving three hours into the woods based on a pin that somebody dropped? You're like, you're in the middle of the woods. I don't think that the GPS works up there. You should have, if there's ever a time in, in 2026 that you should have like the printed out directions, do you remember map? quest. The, like, folder full of map quest directions that my mom would have printed out for any

like family road trip. You need that in the, in the back country of Colorado. No, but she's just getting lost. She's reversing down a gravel road up a mountain with Keaarna as her navigator. Girl, you're going to die. God bless. I mean, Tia's in the back seat. She's like, ladies, I'm not going to be helping very much, but Kiana, I think you're doing a fabulous job. She's like, let go and let God. She's like, I don't have the bandwidth to be trying to know. Kiarna's also, I think Kiana took a gummy. She's high. The high navigator. I could never, I'd be conked out in the backseat. Meanwhile, in the other car, we have Wendy, we have Jazzy, and we have Stacey. And after Stacy spends about a minute and a half trying to tear into this little bag of nuts, again,

relatable. We've all been there. Jazzy and Stacy decide to, to like dust up a little bit. And it's just so entertaining the way that they are in this car. I mean, they're stuck in the car until eternity. They have nothing but time. and the way that the way that we decide that this is going to be an issue is that Stacy brings up the audacity that Jazzy had to take Sharise's number and she's like I just didn't

I didn't think that was cool because I was friends with Charisse or I had an issue with Charisse and that we were supposed to be cool so then you got my number and Jesse's like oh no reverse bitch you didn't want to come to my wedding until you knew that Ashley and Wendy were going to be there you were flip-flopping all over the place and she's like well I had my um I had my gummy line was was launching and Jesse's like you knew my wedding date for a year it's it's this is actually was a really entertaining fight to watch because jassy was so right like like Stacy like what are you doing we she already got caught in the in the bullshit about Jazzy's wedding

the thing about sure getting Sharise's phone number is like truly who cares But the way that Stacey argues and makes her points is just like so pleasing to me that I'm like, it's actually a really even matchup because I'm like, I agree with what Jassy's saying. But how Stacey's saying it also really scratches an itch for me. So I'm kind of just like, okay, go. Have fun. And Wendy, I feel like is kind of like moderating really well. and she's like calling out Stacey for her bullshit.

But she's also like, I've been a friend to you. And then it's just everything's going left. They're really going at it in the car. The poor drive, I mean, the drivers? I love, so it's like angels driving her own truck, which that's a whole other thing. But then these other two cars, in the other one we have, Giselle and Ashley and Monique, they have drivers that have to be like listening to them the whole time. Can you imagine? I need the driver. The black car, Denali driver, who was driving

Jazzy and Stacey and Wendy in the mountains of Colorado, get to the studio. We have a spot on the couch. I would like to speak to them. Side by side, the driver of that car and the Wanderland chief of staff. That's my, that's my new guest wish list. If my, if my, if my, if my, if my, If my talent team is listening, can you get me what's her name from Wanderland? Is she available for interviews? Man, and then the ending, the grand finale of this whole season of Potomac taking place at a gas station parking lot on the side of the road in bum fuck Colorado, where Stacey is grabbing her suitcase out of the back of the car and walking her little ass across the parking lot like she's going to find. find another ride because she's so sick of fighting with Wendy and with Jazzy.

But where are you going? You're on the side of a mountain. It's just, it's epic. They're eating gas station pizza and tacos at a picnic table. They're FaceTiming with Angel. And when angels like, when they're like, when they're like, girl, how did you get lost? Like, don't you, haven't you been here before? And she's like, well, no.

So I, because it's a large group of ladies, I had found this exclusive lake for us to go to. And someone's like, so exclusive you couldn't find it. I can't. Meanwhile, their flight takes off in like 59 minutes. Can you imagine? It's just, you couldn't write it this way. I was laughing at this episode of Potomac and really the whole trip to Colorado, like I was watching like a great episode of Veep. Like I have laughed harder at this than I have laughed at like full seasons of shows that have won the Emmy for Best Comedy, which is not necessarily a high bar.

I mean, I watched The Bear. Like, it's like two laughs. But man, I mean, just beautiful. The editors, the editors of these episodes, like God's work. They are doing God's work. No, but like a great way to end the season, Angel calls her poor chief of. staff and is like, well, the ladies aren't coming. She goes, bad news bears. Man, where is she now? She's still wandering. We definitely done some wandering.

I love Potomac. And of course, you know, this is, I think, sort of like the proper season finale. But then we have one more episode before we get into that reunion because guess who's home? Ding dong. The Grand Dom's back. This episode ends with Karen being released from jail. She's got her prison braids and her do-rag and she's going home and Andy's going to be there and Ray's there and Raven's giving her a big hug. There was a clip that came out. I think it's from the beginning of next week's episode where Karen's like talking to Ray and like everybody who's greeting her and Raven is still like really hugging her tightly. And she goes, yeah, like I had to do the, the girls in the jail like wanted to do the prison braids. so they gave me the extensions out of their head and did the braids.

And the second that Karen says that she's wearing the other girls from prisons, extensions, Raven just fully backs up. It's like jaw dropped. It's good to see Karen. I'm curious, I didn't realize that Karen's sit down with Andy was going to be like a whole episode, question mark. I also thought that they picked up cameras when Wendy and Eddie got arrested. So I'm curious to see like what next week's episode kind of ends up being because I feel like it could be a little bit of both. But we have a whole episode before the reunion.

So they're really like making the most of the end of this season in a way that I am super enjoying. This trip was amazing. I would say if anybody was like on the fence about this season of Potomac, I think the season, the rest of the season was like pretty good. But this trip, I mean, Alzheimer. all time. I want to rewatch it already. And that does, I mean, I watched a lot of Housewives. I don't rewatch everything.

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Let's get into SLC just to kind of put a bow on this season. I mean, this episode of the reunion was like, there was a lot going on. It's not that it was boring. It's just I think I'm like a little ready to put these women in a corner for a few months and move on. We can't keep talking about the plane. We can't keep talking about who's going to take accountability for what. Lisa Barlow is not apologizing.

Meredith is done with it. We know. We knew that six weeks ago. it's fine. See you next season. It is what it is. The interesting things that kind of did happen this episode, I honestly thought the marriage stuff was the most interesting because we went around the circle. Whitney got surprisingly raw about what's going on in her relationship with Justin. And it's, I think it's worse than I realized because she's getting emotional talking about how they're, you know, in therapy and working on things with each other.

And he's like, do you think there's a way forward? And she's like, I think there might be. And I'm like, might be. My Whitney and Justin Rose are at a might be. I feel like they're like soulmates. I mean, I know they were like both cheating and like with other people when they met and like whatever. But like I just not like soulmates like, oh my God, love would be dead. But I'm like, who else are they going to be with?

They're each other's people. Like, it's Whitney and Justin. I don't even think I realized I felt. that way about them. But then when Bronwyn makes her announcement, Ting, Ting, Ting, Ting, that she and Todd are separated and that it was her choice and that right now he is living in New York and she's living in Utah and she's not going to see him while she's in town for the reunion in New York and that she, you know, she needs to feel like she is getting the respect she deserves and that she's not going to stay on the show if she can't talk about her issues with other people and that

He just wants her to be, like, out there doing PR for him. And she says that he went back and he watched every episode of the show and read a lot online of what people are saying about him and that he was super upset and kind of bringing up to her. Like, do you, did you think it was a big deal with the cherry? Do you, you know, do you feel like I talk to you like that? And it's like, kind of too late. Like, you're a, you're a grown man. You're in your, what, 50s, 60s, 70s?

I think we looked up how old taught us, 60s, 50s, I don't know. You're a grown-ass man. You shouldn't need a million people on Reddit to be telling you that the way you speak to your wife is not respectful. 66, thank you. I knew I was, 50, 60s or 70s. One of them had to be right.

Like, you shouldn't need, you shouldn't need like hours of footage and threads online for somebody to make you, think twice about how you're speaking to who is supposed to be the most important and and cherished and beloved person in your life. Like that's a, that's a you problem. And brought, I think Bronwyn, Bronwyn approached this to me like really well at the reunion where she wasn't. She wasn't speaking negatively about Todd. She was speaking honestly about where she's at and her

feelings and some of the conversations they've had. Um, but I mean, If she's not going to speak negatively about Todd, like, okay, I'll do it. Like, I think that there's a, there's a time and a place for somebody realizing that they've behaved a certain way and wanting to make a change. But I feel like Todd, it's just kind of like you're a 66 year old man. Like, you should know how to speak to your wife a little bit, like once in a while. But the thing that really got me was while Bronwyn is talking about where she's at with Todd. but Whitney starts like fully breaking down on stage and is like really seeing her and Justin's dynamic in some of the stuff with Bronwyn and Todd, except Whitney is is hearing this

and internalizing it and saying, I'm, I'm relating to this, but it's triggering to me because I feel like in my relationship, I'm the one who's fucking up. I'm the one who's fucking up. I'm the who's causing the problems, like Todd is in your relationship, I'm the one who's speaking to Justin a certain way or pushing him. Which I don't, I mean, I don't think that is accurate. Like, I think that Whitney is really being hard on herself. But when she's getting so emotional and she asks to leave the stage for a second, she's like, I need to see Justin and watching her go and give him a hug and kind of be honest about what

she's feeling like, I got, I was getting choked up. And I guess I'm realizing in the last, watching the episode and then talking about it in the last five minutes, I think I kind of ride for Whitney and Justin. I think they're my, I think they're the couple on this show that I care about the most. I don't know how I feel about this. But I was like, why am I about to shed a tear watching Whitney Rose go give her baby boy Justin a hug? what is this feeling so sudden and new? I don't know.

I mean, maybe I'm, maybe it's my time in the month. I don't know. No, but that was a real moment. But whatever, you know, we'll see. Now that the season's over, it's like, I feel like in six months where the show's going to come back

and Whitney's going to be like, Justin and I are doing better than ever. And Bronman's going to be like, so I am single now. So I've decided to date women. you know, Whitney, let me know. I don't know where everybody's going to land. But, you know, I think Salt Lake City had a great season.

I think that at the end, I've been a little annoyed with it, and I'm ready to kind of put it in its box. Meredith's complaining about production. It's annoying. Bronwyn's like, Bronwyn's, so Meredith says that she's had issues with production. Bronwyn's like, yeah, the issue with production is that you strategically try to bring stuff up off camera and handle things a certain way, and that doesn't work. But then Mary, Mary gets emotional.

Mary's getting choked up. And she goes, I just don't like that Meredith would say that about production. And I, first of all, Mary Cosby does not get like emotional that often. Like she kind of, she like barely wants to give a shit about these women. But it actually to me is so, I think it's really fascinating to hear people who have been on these shows for years and who have opened up their, lives and really have their lives changed by these shows to talk like that about the people who make the show, the crew behind the scenes. I mean, Salt Lake City has been getting all these accolades and they've talked about, like, when, you know, when Whitney's saying, like, the reason

we got featured in Us Weekly, yeah, it's us on the show, but it's also the people who make this show. And that if you're not sort of equally appreciative of both sides of that equation, that's not okay. Like you have to, it's a, it's a, it's all one big family and they couldn't do it without each other. And so to hear Marion and Whitney speak about it that way, I thought was really interesting. I mean, I, I, I just talked to Carl yesterday and we were talking about, you know, 10 years of Summerhouse and the, the crew and the people who make that show. In Carl's book, he talks about when his brother died, the way that the, the crew was able to really like give him what he needed and work with him.

I think sometimes we don't think about that as like an active part of making the show, that it's like, oh, there's like someone holding the camera and then the women just like live their lives. But it's like these are, it's a real back and forth dynamic. And I think that's super important, especially on a long running show. And I think that that's, it's an interesting thing for Meredith to sort of get called out on. But I think in this case, like, I'm kind of glad they did because I think that that's a real thing that because of the fourth wall, we don't hear much about. But it was interesting. But yeah, that's, you know, Salt Lake.

Elektra wants to go to the Olympics. And I hope that she does. I look forward to seeing Elektra. Is she, how, she's like 12, 13, 15? I don't know. Is she going to L.A.? The one after that's in Australia. So I don't know if, I don't know which Olympics.

But can you imagine? 14. She's 14. So she could probably, maybe, maybe Brisbane, 232. But can you imagine, though, because NBC has the Olympics and NBC has Bravo, can you imagine how big they would blow it out if a housewife's daughter was going to the Olympics? It would be, first of all, Angie Kaye at the Olympics, imagine. She would be like Team USA.

Oh, my God. Would she, if Electra gets her citizenship, maybe she would compete for Greece. whatever country Electra chooses to represent when she makes the Olympics Angie Kay is going to have the most patriotic outfit you've ever seen which like I don't know how I feel about that

right now. So like go Greece maybe? I don't know, whatever. But no truly get Angie K to the Olympics. The Olympics started in Greece. From Mount Olympi Angie should carry the torch.

Did you see the heated rivalry guys carrying the torch for the Milan Olympics. First of all, like, sexy. Second of all, what's the application process for that? I kind of thought, like, I knew that you didn't have to be, like, in the Olympics, but I kind of thought you had to be, like, an athlete or, like, from the host country. Like, I don't know, I don't know how they really, like, they're just letting anybody hold that torch these days, I guess. No, but if... goes to the Olympics in Australia. Real Houseways of Salt Lake City cast trip to the Olympics.

NBC should be able to hook them the fuck up. We should be having Lisa Barlow perform at the opening ceremony. Like the Caldrent. I got to reel myself in because I'm not going to be able to stop. But I would like to see it. I would like to see it. Okay, let's talk about Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Oh, you guys.

if there is one thing I can say about Real Housewives of Beverly Hills so far this season, and especially this episode, you guys, it's bad for Amanda. It's bad and it's getting worse. Because every, okay, the first couple episodes, you know, I had already read into Amanda's bio and questioned her whole like Money Queen thing because it sounds like a scam on paper. When like Bose was first kind of bringing it up, I was like, oh, interesting. Like, some Somebody's like asking questions. I guess I'm glad that we're talking about, but like I didn't think every single episode,

multiple women in the cast are going to be talking to each other and putting together pieces about Amanda's career and the way she portrays herself and her backstory and all of this stuff. It's like it's becoming a major through line of the season that everybody is not buying what Amanda is selling. And this is fascinating to me because I don't remember another time where somebody came on the show with a purportedly successful, you know, thriving business identity.

And so quickly is having just holes poked in that left and right. Because so the episode starts and Rachel and Erica are hanging out. And they're talking about the prior night where, you know, Derreet was getting into it with Amanda and she shared that it was the anniversary of her son's death, which obviously is intense. First of all, Rachel walking in and going, ugh, I'm just so, like, not great at weekend dressing, like, during the day. I'm like, what does that mean? Weekend dressing during the day. I'm like, putting on clothes? What do you mean? I'm sorry. Everything, like, look, Rachel looks amazing all the time. everything that she wears is like a flowy dress.

Does that not work for a weekend during the day? I remember one time I follow Sonia Morgan's daughter, Quincy, on Instagram, and she's like, she's a really, I mean, she's a beautiful young woman. I've met her before and she was nice, but she's like sort of a influencer, like sort of blogger sometimes, I don't know, she posts like links to her outfits. And one time she posted something about her favorite, like, daytime hair looks. And I'm like, do you have different hair looks from her? day to night. I'm like, what's going on? Can you not wear your hair down at night? Like, is there,

is there, like, a code that I'm not aware of? Oh, no, but anyway, they're, they're catching up about this, and they're talking about Amanda, and they're bringing up, um, you know, on the car and Sedona, how she was, like, loudly having, having, like, a work meeting in the middle seat. It's just, like, crazy behavior. Like, so you have to get the website ready. And then, do you know, when you're sending through those numbers? Okay, I'll be waiting for that. Thanks, guys. Let me know. I'm the money queen. I love when like Rachel's like, well, I don't love the name Money Queen. She just is like stuck on that.

And she says that Amanda seems like a flight attendant from the 60s, like working for Pan Am, calculating her responses to everything, like kind of robotic. And that is number one. I literally wrote in my notes, it's bad for her. And then later in the episode, I'm skipping over some stuff. But the episode ends at this birthday dinner for Doreet and Erica. And we end on a to be continued. So I'm not, we don't have a lot to get. into with the dinner, but they're talking about how Kyle went over to, you know, the house that she used to

own with Mauricio. And she's like, yeah, I had that house. And then we were renting it out. And then I sold it in 2021. And Amanda's like, she sold it to me. I bought it with my own money. Like, not me and my, not me and my fiance. Like, I bought it by myself. She just like blurt's that out. And that's like, you know, to me, that's like a little bit of like, okay, like, it's kind of like a, it's a weird thing to clarify when you're in a relationship with the person still, it would be one thing if you were married and you were like, I bought it myself and then we got divorced and so I kept it, like, I guess. But Rachel just goes like, why would you share that? It doesn't, it doesn't add to the conversation. And I wrote in my, I wrote in my notes, again, it's bad for her because it feels like

it's one thing for people to be questioning the seriousness of her business or whether she's been truthful about everything. But it feels like every single group scene or conversation that's happening on the show that Amanda's name comes up in, she's being spoken about negatively. She's being picked at and clocked and criticized by kind of everyone in the group. Amanda and Kyle are catching up earlier in the episode and, you know, Amanda's talking about Doreet, and she's like, that is just not how classy women behave. And Kyle's like, are you, so are you more upset about the fact that she was like getting at you on the anniversary of your son's death or the fact that she was like getting at you at all?

And she's like, no, I'm more upset about being verbally accosted at a dinner. And it's like, first, okay, I think that's a strong word. This is housewives. This is what we do. We go to dinner and we fight. And I think Dorete was like. Look, you know what's verbally accosting for Dorit? Camille, you're a cunt!

This was like, this is like, hey Amanda, I thought it was interesting that you were saying, that's not verbally accosting. It's confrontational in nature because it's bringing up an issue. I think accosting implies there's a little bit more juice on it, a little more umph to the words. but she says I will not go to dinner parties where I'm emotionally unsafe. I won't have my cortisol spike and my nervous system deregulated

because she can't be a grown-up. It's like, get a fucking life. And this is, I mean, like I was saying before, she can't win. Kyle says, she's going to need to grow some thicker skin if she wants to be in this group. Now, the one thing I didn't love, Kyle's saying it reminds,

she's reminding her of Crystal Kung Ming-Goff the way she's like being particular about words and wanting to be spoken to in a certain way. I think that's a weird comparison. And I think it shows that Kyle still doesn't really understand why Crystal's treatment in the group didn't really land with a lot of people. Because even if you weren't like Crystal's biggest fan, which like I liked her on the show, I wish she would have stayed around. It felt like she wasn't ever really given like a fair shot in a way and that she had some real issues with the way. the way that Sutton had spoken to her and the way that, you know, certain things were going down and that she was kind of, her issues kind of fell on deaf ears. Whereas with Amanda, I'm like,

oh yeah, she sucks. She's annoying. And so I, I wish that Kyle hadn't made that comparison, because it's also like, Crystal hasn't been here for like two seasons. Why are we, why is that the initial connection that you're making? Because they don't seem very similar to me. Like, I've, I've met Crystal, I've spoken to her. I don't know Amanda, but I'm like, I just don't, I don't get the same vibe from them at all. I do agree that Amanda needs to grow some thicker skin because right now it seems like she is so stuck on a couple of specific words and interaction and tones. And it's just, it just feels like that's not the way to become a part of this group.

But I didn't really get the, I didn't really get the, um, the, the, the, the crystal comparison. Um, but Mauricio makes, makes a big return this episode because, um, Kyle and Dore and Bose, and Bose's random lady friend are out at lunch. And they're literally talking about Doret, Doret's asking Kyle about why she's not filing for a divorce. And literally like three seconds later, Maricio just shows up at the table. And he's like,

Hey, girls. How's it going? He just got back from hanging out with Angel and Aspen. But I love that instead of being like, oh my God, like, what's up? We weren't talking about you at all. Doret's just like, have you ever thought about filing for divorce, Maricio?

And it's like, yeah, let's talk about it. And he's like, no, I never have. But yeah, I didn't really realize this is Bose's first time meeting Maricio. Funny, funny moments. But then Maricio and Kyle, a little later in the episode, go to see the house that Amanda lives at, which is their old house that she bought for them by herself with her own money. Money queen. The guy, the man in the picture didn't help.

I don't remember his name. He's hot, though. Kind of hot. Like, like, a very, like, sturdy man. kind of like like he looks like he could like throw you around. Anyway, um, no, but they go over to the house and Amanda's like showing them what she's done with the place, which is like, fine, whatever. It's, it's cute. I mean, is this the house? The house, it's like Sutton used to live there for a while. But then Kyle has a full emotional breakdown.

She's like, I need a minute. She goes, often she's like fully sobbing in Amanda's house that she used to live in. And she's having this like deep emotional moment of basically, I think being like confronted with her life and her, her happy, happy past and raising her girls and where she's at now and she and Maricio aren't together. And she's like, we had this beautiful life and why did we, why did we throw it away and why are we not? How could we let this happen? and I thought it was a really sort of like surprisingly raw moment from Kyle. I don't feel like we get a ton of her just sort of like being this real. And I don't know. I mean, I don't know if it was just like a specific sort of like time and place.

Sometimes you just really feel the weight of a moment. And maybe she'll wake up tomorrow and be like, L. I'm not like, Maricio's been like making out with 25 year olds. I've decided I could go Brad or Angelina. Like, it's enough. I'm fine. Maybe she'll file for divorce tomorrow. But I do, in that moment, I was like, damn, that's tough.

And I know that she had felt, she had talked about when they first separated sort of feeling the weight of the public sentiment around her and Maricio being this like, special couple and people had such strong feelings about their love and their, you know, marriage and all of this and that she felt like she let people down. And it's just, it's, it must be such a mind fuck to have all of that swimming around in your head while you're trying to figure out what the next phase of your life and relationship. And, you know, co-parenting all. I mean, I guess Porsche is not 18 yet. So there still is like a co-parenting element to it. But man, yeah, just like tough stuff. And I,

I thought it was really interesting. I don't know. Like, I feel like some people are going to watch that scene and be like, oh, Kyle's being dramatic. Get over it. It's been two years. But no, I was, I was a little moved. I was not as moved as I was by Whitney Rose and Justin.

So what is that truly, what does that say? How am I doing? Yeah, I don't, I don't know. Man, but Kyle and Mauricio, we've been through a lot with them. And, you know, I'll never be mad about it. But the episode ends at this birthday dinner. We're DeReed's starting to talk to Amanda, and she says she's been verbally accosted. So we'll see how that goes.

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Spoiler alert. Go, go watch the... Press pause. Cover your ears. I don't want to hear it. Don't leave a nasty comment. We're going to talk about Traders. Episode 7.

And it's De Banquet. It's time for De Banquet. These looks that were released online, first of all, look, Traders' dressing is... it's a mysterious art form. It does, it's not the same for everyone. I think there are some people that can really take big swings and it works. Lisa Rina looks fucking amazing. There are some people who, um, should probably take smaller swings. And that's fine. Like I, like, Kristen Kish, can I just say, I think she is slaying the trader's wardrobe because she's kind of just dressing like how she always

dresses, which is like sharp, tailored, cool as fuck, sexy, but like sleek, a little androgynous, a little, like, there's that like men's wear element to it. But just like she looks amazing all the time. But if she showed up wearing what Lisa Rina's wearing, she would look like a clown. But when Lisa Rina shows up what, wearing what she's wearing, she looks iconic. So I appreciate that not everybody is on the same wavelength, but there are some wavelengths that are objectively the wrong wavelength. And I'm looking at you, Colton, and I'm looking at you, Natalie. What the fuck are we doing? You, what a different to say once upon a time, eagles don't fly with pigeons. And some people need to know

that when it comes to the trader's wardrobe, you can do the pigeon version. You're not, you shouldn't be, you're not up there with Alan. And Colton, sweetheart, the headband with the like, pearl corset with the jacket over. Ew. I don't want to see that. Get that man off my screen. It's disturbing. Frankly, but no, we are starting at the banquet and right off the bat, I get a little dose of my

sweet girl, Mora, and her sweet, sweet, sweet accent because she goes, I think some really bad stuff is going to go down at this banquet. So they all walk in, we're sort of like, okay, what's the banquet? Are people, is it just like dinner? What's happening? There's going to be a murder in plain sight. We know about this amulet. It's a brooch. I'm like, aren't amulet, really?

But Lisa's wearing it. And I have to say, I am nervous for Lisa. Because right off the bat, it's like last week she had a lot of heat on her. She had the second most votes at the round table. It was looking a little dicey. And now she has to like get this thing done. Now, for me, I was kind of like, I, to me, getting somebody to touch the amulet didn't seem that hard. Because I feel like you could just go up to somebody else's outfit and be like, oh my God, like this, this.

thing that you're wearing is so cool. Like, look at my thing. Just look, touch it. But I guess that would be suspicious. She actually played it kind of cool because she identified that her potential targets were Natalie, Jam Jam or Kristen. And then she ultimately, like, I guess unhooked the amulet, like the brooch and was like, oh, it's poking me. Can you like fix it? And it turns out it was jam jam. But the twist, the twist in the thing is that Alan comes out at the banquet and says, okay, guys, so somebody's been marked for murder. But there's hope. Because I have two little, two little vials of antidote. And so two people can drink the antidote and they will be protected. And if one of those two people is the person who's been marked for murder, they're safe.

So you have to figure out who's going to drink the antidote. And right off the bat, we have a few kind of lead contenders. Jam Jam goes, oh, Lisa kissed me on the cheek. And I knew we were in trouble. I knew we were in trouble because he was wrong, but he was right. Right, right person, wrong thing. He was like, Lisa kissed me on the cheek. Natalie's like saying something about how Stephen Coletti was carving up the meat and like put it on her plate.

And so they're trying to figure out who was served food and maybe that's the murder. And then Tara Lipinski. Tara's funny. She goes, I know that Derinda put a piece of turkey on my plate because I don't even eat meat. And I especially don't eat meat that's been like sitting out. And she was like, no, you have to have a piece of meat. So it's Dorinda. So basically we have like a few top candidates.

Oh, and Kristen says she's going to drink the antidote because she thinks she got there was like flipping over a card or something on the table. So you're watching it and you're like, oh, fuck, if Kristen and Natalie both drink the antidote, that's two out of the three people that Lisa was trying to murder. And it turns out we have Kristen drinks it, kind of drama free. And then Natalie and Tara are like, I want it. No, I want it. No, I want it. No, I really want it. No, I want it.

I'm like, ladies. And it ends up being, Mara's like, you want to drink it. So just fucking drink it. And so Natalie drinks it. They sit down and it's Jam Jam. Jam. Jam gets like dragged away screaming from the table. Very dramatic. And he goes, it's Lisa. It's Lisa. She kissed me. She kissed me. She kissed me on the cheek.

She kissed me. And you knew it was going to be tough for Lisa from there. Writing was kind of on the wall, unfortunately, because then we make it to breakfast the next morning. Nobody gets sent home at breakfast because Jam Jam was murdered at the table the night before. But then at breakfast we have Lisa and Colton going at it again. And again, just like muzzle. Put a muzzle on it. I don't want to hear Colton's voice at breakfast. I don't want to hear Colton's voice at the roundtable.

I don't want to hear him talking about how Rob is his bestie in the middle of the mission. And he's going to carry his backpack full of rocks up the mountain. Shut up! At this point, I don't even care if Colton goes home. I just want him to stop talking. And every week, I feel like the last two weeks, he's like, yeah, you know, I've been really loud the last couple weeks, which so I should, which is not great for me. So I should probably take a step back. And it's like, take a fucking step back then.

If you're saying you need to talk less, then talk less. That's all I want. He's so annoying. He's so annoying. But Johnny and Mark at breakfast are saying they want to have the Natalie conversation because now everybody thinks it's suss. how bad Natalie wanted to take the antidote because it's like, oh, maybe she wanted to take it so that the person she had marked for murder wouldn't take it. So that's a whole thing. And then Natalie is talking to Tara and Lisa and she's like, oh, well, I'm the only gamer left because, oh, we murdered a gamer.

And she says, we murdered. It's Portia all over again. Now, Natalie realizes she slipped up right away. And then later at the roundtable, she denies it, which I'm kind of like, girl, you said it. Lisa and Tara both know that you said it. And she's like, I didn't say that. It's like, can we roll footage? I wish we could roll footage.

I know that would be like not good for the game. But right away, I'm like, okay, so Lisa now has this piece of ammunition. She's going to have to use it because everybody else is coming for her. But again, it's going to be tough. And so the mission, there's this twist where they have to get the gold up the hill or whatever. But then the six people with the most gold have a chance to win a dagger. and the dagger gives you two votes at one of the next four roundtables. Explaining the missions on traders is truly like Madlibs.

They're like, and then the next top six will compete for the final thing. And then the final thing will be split in three. And each three will have two chances. I'm like, this is an SAT math problem at this point. But they're doing the dagger thing. It's like Rob's like interrogating everyone so he can know. who's lying about having the dagger on their card. And first of all, like, Rob interrogating everyone, like, hot.

It's hot. He's like, what's your name? He's like, Stephen. It's like, do you have the dagger? No. Okay. I'm like, oh, my God, interrogate me. Strap me to the lie detector.

Who, who, who. No, he's wearing, um, he's wearing this, like, dirty little cowboy shirt or something the whole time. I'm like, oh. Okay. No, but so Rob ends up with the dagger, which is like a big deal because he's a tri-R. But we already know that he's gunning for Lisa because he voted for her last time and really,

nothing has changed. And also, I appreciate as much as I didn't want Lisa, Lisa gets banished. You already watched the episode, no spoiler, whatever. As much as I didn't want Lisa to go, I respect Rob's strategy because he sees the writing on the wall. And also he knows that he has cultivated this close relationship with Colton. And so he is like, Colton has already decided that Lisa is a traitor. He's not going to be swayed otherwise.

So Rob is basically like ensuring that he has Colton on his side by being his bestie, letting him carry the rocks, voting out Lisa. It's all coming together, colluding, conniving, Rob. And I think it's a good strategy. Whose strategy I'm a little less sure about is Candice? Because Candice is like saying that she's going to go for Natalie. And then is like so swayed by the evidence against Lisa,

but she can't bring herself to vote for a housewife. So she votes for Rob? who I believe has zero other votes at the roundtable. And I'm kind of like, look, I know that Rob was doing traitor-on-trader crime, but doing the meme where it's the Spider-Man pointing at each other with no strategy, I don't think that's going to work. And I think, if anything, Rob is now in a position of power because he has appeared to be such a great faithful. And Candice just looks like she threw out the most random vote at the round table

and is saying that she doesn't trust Rob anymore, but it's like, actually, I think the smartest thing right now would be for Robin Candace to be like blood oath till the end. I don't know. I don't know where that's going to net out. Meanwhile, Derinda voted for Mora, and she spelled it M-O-R-E-A.

Moore-A. Mor-A. Durinda. Ma'am. Please. I have been waiting all season for like a truly, like fucked up spelling at the roundtable and more uh is is is giving. But anyway,

a good episode of the trade. I mean, the banquet was really fun. Watching them fight over who got to take the antidote was like pretty great. I'm sad to see Lisa go, but we had a good run. I mean, seven episodes into the season is,

is no small, no small feat. And we got a lot of screen time with her. I am curious if it's early enough in the season for them to recruit another trader. Because that is something where now we have Candace and Rob who are not in a great place with each other seemingly. And if they're given the chance to recruit again, it seems like they're going to have

different objectives there. And so I'm a little unsure how that's going to go. I'm a little unsure like who has the momentum right now in this season. But I'm enjoying it. And I'm glad I got to talk about it today. and I hope everybody else is enjoying and has a great weekend and stay warm. It's cold as fuck. Stay safe out there.

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