Mention It All - Brittany Lawyers Up… Finally (RHOA, Summer House, The Valley, SLOMW)

Episode Date: May 30, 2025

Dylan kicks off the episode by taste-testing Paige DeSorbo’s new Dunkin’ drink live on mic. Cheers to a Pink Spritz summer (and Daphne securing the bag)! He briefly checks in on the Real Housewives of London cast announcement, before diving into Phaedra’s return to RHOA. He also roasts Brit’s questionable event execution, and then turns his attention to part one of the Summer House reunion. Will Lexi ever be able to cement her position in the group? Later, he recaps all the drama from the latest episode of The Valley, and the final few episodes of Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. Go to the Always On YouTube page to watch full length episodes every Tuesday: Youtube.com/@AlwaysOnBetches Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Who's going to check me, boo? Hey everyone, welcome back to the Mention at All podcast. Happy Friday. We've made it to the end of this, I guess, short holiday week. I don't know.

It hasn't felt short to me. I hope everybody else has had a good week. We are making it through, though. We've got a lot to talk about today. Atlanta is back in the conversation. We've got a summer house reunion to get into a little bit, talking about the

valley, just like always, and a little bit of Secret Lives of Mormon Wives wrap up. Ten episodes dropping all at once. Again, Hulu, why do you do this to us? But thank you. But next time, maybe spread it out. But we are getting to the end of Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. But first, a couple things to get to up top. First of all, I don't know if everyone saw, but Paige DeSorbo is kind of crushing it in life right now. And she now has a Duncan drink. This is, she's in a, she's in a strong lineage. Charlie Demilio had a Dunkin drink. That's the only one I'm thinking of right now. Oh, uh, Ice Spice had a Dunkin drink. Pitch to Sorbonne Ice Spice. Uh, you know, good company to be in. Um, but I have a fun surprise. I actually have,

what's that sound? I have the pink spritz refresher, uh, hot and in my hands right now, actually. It's cold. It's nice and icy. But I have not tried it yet. So I am, I'm going to do a live taste test for all of you of this pink spritz refresher. It is, it's the Duncan tropical guava refresher flavor with sparkling water to give it that little summer spritz. Okay. So I'm, I'm going to take my first sip right now.

If you, I don't know if you'll be able to hear this, but if you don't like sipping noises, I'm sorry. Ooh. Ooh. That's good. The guava is like. very guava-e. It's very tropical. A little bit of, you know, like, if you're in Hawaii and they have like pog juice that's like, what is it, like passion orange guava, I think, if I'm wrong, sorry, this is yummy. Okay, I like that. I've had their other refresher flavors, but not the tropical

guava. I would get this again. The sparkling water is a good hack. I think you can get any of them with sparkling water. I like that. It's very refreshing. I hope it has caffeine. I'm a little tired. I went to Beyonce two nights ago. I was there. If you've seen on TikTok the night that all the videos are Beyonce performing in the pouring rain, that's when I was there. It was very wet. The ponchos were out in full force. But Beyonce does a full three-hour show in the pouring rain. I could never. I would never. Like, I don't understand that, but it was a lot of fun. But like, just like soul and body have been tired. But we are, we are caught up on everything. The other thing that happened this week, we got a cast announcement for the Real Housewives of

London. Now, we've talked about this just a little bit on and off when it was announced. It's a little bit of a weird situation because it's not a Bravo show. It's not a Peacock show. It's a Hey You original. And it still is unclear. They've now announced the cast. We have cast photos. They have not really told us whether there's going to be a, like, technically legal way for us to watch this in the U.S. I'm still hopeful, but, you know, we're also getting Ladies of London coming back as a Bravo show. So I really don't know what to expect, but we do now know who's going to be on the cast. And it's like mostly people we haven't heard of except one big exception. And that is Ladies of London, OG Juliet Angus, is now officially a real high.

housewife. Congratulations to Juliet. She is somebody who has always kind of maintained since Ladies of London a really solid social media presence. She is like a true, like fashion lifestyle influencer, not like one of these girls who blows up on TikTok overnight and then suddenly they're going on, you know, a tart trip or whatever. It's like, Juliet, I don't know exactly what her, you know, how much money she's making. or what her, you know, I don't really like keep up with her on a day to day. But I feel like she's one of those like OG kind of fashion bloggers that was able to just sort of like keep it going. She's at Juliet on Instagram, which I always just think is like so fucking chic to just be like, I want to be at Dylan.

Who is, who's at Dylan on Instagram? If I ever find out, if I ever see them in person, we're going to, you know, meet up in the alley and fight for that handle. because being at Dylan, oh my God, that's like, at Sheena. Oh my God, I'm being shut. It's a fucking blank account. What the hell? That is so rude. I, like, and the thing is, if I got a hold of them and was like, hey, can I have this blank account?

They'd be like, yeah, that'll be $1 million. Just to be at Dylan. You know what's annoying? My Twitter handle. So on Instagram, I'm at Dylan Hafer. So clean, simple. Would love to be at Dylan. you know, missed the boat on that one.

On Twitter, on X, I'm at the Dylan Hafer, because Dylan Hafer is taken by somebody who hasn't tweeted since, like, 2011. It's just rude. It hurts. It's hurtful. But at Juliet is a real housewife of London. Congratulations. I was reading the cast bios of some of these other women,

who I'm not really going to get into it because, again, we don't even know if we're going to be able to watch this show. But I, one of them is like a blonde lady. And in her bio, it says that she's like a longtime friend of Caroline Stanbury. And wherever I was reading this bio, they had like bolded Caroline Stanbury's name because I guess she's like, you know, we know who she is. And I just, my brain was reading it as Caroline Stanbury is this woman. And I was like, what did Caroline Stanbury do to her face now? she looks completely different, not just younger, not just hotter, like a different human.

You guys, it's a different human. It's not Caroline Stanbury. She is not on Real Housewives of London. As far as I know, she and Sergio are still living in Dubai. And, I mean, quite frankly, after those two seasons of Real Housewives of Dubai, I'm not sure we need to, you know, emigrate Caroline's family once again just to get her on Real Housewives because that show. So it was a bit of a flop. A bit of a flop, though I did this week randomly. What was sticking in my brain was Caroline Brooks's pronunciation of mustard yellow when they brought those dresses when they were on their trip. And she's like, I don't wear mustard yellow. They had their moments. I will say.

They had their moments. Oh, also Dr. Sarah. Dr. Sarah Almadani. She has a book that just came out that's like, fuck. It's called like fuck narcissists, I think. And it has like a skull and crossbones on the cover. She is posting about this. I kid you not,

50 times a day. Her stories for the last like two weeks since this book came out, dots. Dots. She is, she's bringing the book all over the, she was like in, she was like in India or something, taking pictures with the book.

She's going to hustle. She's going to hustle, you know, she's not a real doctor, but she's a real business woman. And congratulations, I guess. Why do I follow Dr. Sarah?

on Instagram. I think she follows me. I think we followed each other. Is it rude if I unfollow her? I follow her. Like, Bravo by Betches follows her. But like, at Dylan Hafer. I wish it was at Dylan.

I also follow her. I don't think I need to follow her. Way in if you think I should unfollow Dr. Sara on Instagram. I promise we have more interesting things to talk about. And let's start with Real Housewives of Atlanta. I feel like I have given short shrift to Real House of Is of Atlanta the last couple weeks. and now I feel that the season is coming around the turn into this last section, and they're coming back strong.

This week, of course, was the long-awaited return of Fadra Parks, just in the very end. I like that they kind of gave us a designated scene of Portia, basically just sitting down with her and catching her up on all the tea that she's missed, because I think it would have been a little bit phony if it was just like, like, oh, my friend Fadra, who I haven't seen in a while, I invited her to the party because I miss her. And I think she might get along with the group. It's like, no. Like, Kenya had unfortunate circumstances. They needed a Hail Mary. They called in a ringer. Married to medicine was done filming. And they cut Fager the check. And I think in 2025 for us to pretend that something else happened

would be a little silly. So I like that we get this kind of like. Like, you know, stop the episode, knock on the door, Fadra's back. We're going to, you know, get her reacquainted. And notably, this is the first time on Housewives that she has had to address what happened last time we saw her on Housewives. And the way that she does this is so specific. I would love to know how this was workshopped and molded and formulated. I imagine that production basically told her that something needed to be said, that there needed to be sort of like, you know, make a statement, now we can move on. But it's interesting because it's the first time that we're seeing Fadre on Housewives since she, well, Housewives of Atlanta.

She made an appearance on Dubai. God, why am I talking? Dubai. It's everywhere today. No, but since she lied about Candy and Todd drugging Portia and Trouche and Troubara and Trouche and. trying to take her to the dungeon. Man, what a, what a story, what a time. She hasn't had to address it on Housewives, and she hasn't really addressed it much of anywhere else.

I mean, remember when she was on Ultimate Girls' trip and Tamara tried to bring it up, shut down immediately? But Fadra, she doesn't so much apologize as just, like, gives a brief acknowledgement that, well, you know, the last time you saw me, it, um, you know, wasn't my best moment. But, you know, it's like very, very, Like, oh, I was there. I remember it all too well.

Now, people have lots of mixed feelings about Fadra coming back to housewives. And I think, I think all the feelings are valid. I am excited to have her back because I think she brings an undeniable energy and quality to this show that I think hopefully will help kind of, you know, lift the vibes of the last handful of episodes of the season. but I also, you know, I think that she's a complicated figure. Let's just say that. But she's back. We will get more of her next week. She's basically joining just in time to go on this trip to Grenada, which I'm excited

to see. But earlier in this episode, we get one of my favorite housewives events in a while. Because Britt Edy, she's not just an insurance agent. She's a businesswoman. And, you know, now that her insurance license is in limbo or something, whatever's going on with that, she can focus on her true passion, which is starting a shapewear line, bare and naked, rolls right off the tongue. And she is celebrating her passion for shapewear with a bare and naked pre-launch party luncheon at a country club. Now, what does a golf course have to do with shapewear?

I don't know. And neither does she. Don't ask. She doesn't want to talk about it. But this event is just so beautifully bad in a way that is like, man, I love watching Housewives just pretend that they like got it like that. And, you know, Britt bringing everybody out on the golf course, nobody is dressed to be on a golf course. Nobody understands why they're on a golf course. Again, it's a party, you know, a pre-launch party for a shapewear line.

Why are we on the golf course? Nobody knows. They come back inside. She's given a very different party experience to the cast members versus everyone else that's invited. And this is where I would just say to anybody who's on a show like this, if you're planning a party, planning an event, throwing a thing, it's expensive. It's a lot. And Bravo doesn't pay for these parties. Bravo doesn't pay for your, you know, sit down dinner for 50 people. No. If you can't afford to have the big party, have the party just for the cast, there would have been nothing wrong with this bare-end naked shapeware pre-launch country club luncheon being just the ladies. Just the ladies. That would have made a lot more sense, to be honest. And also, everybody would have gotten the VIP bare and naked experience. Because what Brittany decides to do is that she's going to have this party and she's going to invite lots of people, but only the women in the cast are, A, going to get samples of the bear and naked shapewear.

Only the women in the cast are going to have, like, places to sit down at a table. And only the women in the cast are supposed to be eating a meal. There is food at the event, but the people who aren't in the cast, the, I don't know, the peasants that were just invited, invited guests, they're supposed to be standing on. eating hors d'oeuvres, just drinking? I don't, I don't know. But they don't get the shapewear. They don't get the, you know, the food.

And suddenly this becomes an issue because nobody else at the party got this memo that Britt had in her mind. So suddenly there's not enough food. It's just, it's excellent. It's excellent television. And, you know, as Portia says, this is Atlanta. If you don't have the right food at your party, that can get around. That can follow you for months.

This is so reminiscent to me of when Walk With Me, Real House's of Dallas, when Leanne Locken got married, still to this day, still to this day, we do not know if there was food at her wedding. She is adamant that there was food at her wedding, but everybody else was there. And they're like, I don't know, I didn't eat.

I was hungry. I left to get fucking McDonald's drive-through. If there was food at the wedding, I didn't see it. It didn't come across my. plate. Congrats to Britt, though, on the shapeware pre-launch. I can't wait to see you're going to do great things.

The women of Atlanta right now are really launching a lot of projects. I mean, Drew and Shemia are full force ahead with the music. I guess Portia's really leaning into the pampered by Porsche. Reminder, I had pampered by Porsche sheets once upon a time. If Porsche wants to send me more sheets, I would gladly try out whatever the new thing is. But the Atlanta ladies, they've got some good stuff going. Portia and Shemia seem to be, you know, tentatively in a little better place right now. You know, Portia and Drew still kind of working through their stuff.

Dennis is still, he's still up in the studio with Drew. So I don't know if we're going to get to a better place because of that. But it is kind of crazy, though, thinking about, you know, the way that Ralph has been filming for this season versus the way that Dennis has been filming for this season. Ralph has a solo confessional. Why are we doing that? Why are we doing that? Who decided that?

I always wonder, how do they decide, like, who gets to sit in the chair? Like, whenever a housewife's kid for the first time starts having confessions, it's like, I don't know about that. But Ralph, in the chair by himself, somebody had to, like, put that on the schedule. They used resources to do that. Very strange to me. Very strange indeed. No, but that's kind of the Atlanta run down for this week.

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Let's talk about Summerhouse. Now, I think Summerhouse next week will be more of a deep dive after part two because it's a two-part reunion. I like to kind of tie things together in a bow after we've seen it all. But this week is interesting. I like the beds that I think it's very cute. I think it's clever. I like when they have fun with these reunion sets.

And I think that this is the most whimsical one they've done in a while. And I like to see them being creative with the format. Amanda's sitting next to Andy for, I think, the first time, but she really, she really doesn't want to sit next to Kyle. Now, this is something that I think, it's like a funny joke, but then also it's like, is like, is it a joke? And if it is, maybe that shouldn't be the joke. like Amanda has to know that every I don't want to say everybody because I don't even really

I mean it has to know that lots of people online are literally like girl divorce him girl leave his ass girl being single might be better week after week after week so when you show up to the reunion and you're like oh do we have to sit next to each other again it's like you're you're adding you know kindling to the fire I don't know she's stronger than me That's for sure. I like that everyone kind of is in agreement about Craig being a little bit of a loser. I like that we all can just call it like we see it, that he's lying about the engagement ring. I think it's been nice to see the way that this cast has pretty uniformly supported page

through this breakup, because that is not a given, especially in this, you know, in a normal friend group that might be, you know, challenging, but especially on a show like this where people have all sorts of different motivations, people can flip-flop left and right. These people have known Craig for a long time, some of them. I don't think it was a given that everybody was going to be really riding for Paige and supporting her through this breakup. And let me tell you, I love to see it. I love to see it. When Lindsay and Kyle were on Watch What Happens Live last week and they were like, disagree that the cast would stay friends with Craig, get him. Like, it's, it's nice to see.

It's just nice to see. And I think it's nice that it doesn't feel like Paige has to come into this reunion defending herself, really, because it doesn't feel like there's anything to defend. And she can, I mean, she can decide how much she wants to kind of, like, get in the mud and, and stir things up with that. But I don't think she really has a reason to. She's got her, she and her cat are in a dunk. in commercial. Just like focus on that. But we have to deal with West and Sierra and then also

with Jesse and Lexi. And the West, the West and Sierra thing, like, it does kind of feel at this point like we are more or less rehashing something that hasn't changed in a year. So I don't, I don't love that this is like a whole segment on the reunion. But I also think it is important that West sort of shows that he gives a fuck. about this and like after his dismal performance at the reunion last year, he does come in with some, you know, talking points. He comes in with a little bit of a more, you know, open attitude than he did last year. And I think it mostly, it mostly works for him. I mean, I just think he is, he's never going to come off as somebody who is like really good at talking about feeling.

and seeming like he really is like very much understanding why people are upset with him. Like he just kind of has that, that boy thing of like, wait, wait, everybody's, wait, oh, you were really mad about that? Oh, man. Oh, man, I didn't realize. I'm sorry. Man. Oh, but he does.

I mean, he like apologizes again to Sierra and like really seems, you know, no more articles, no more talking to the New York Times. Sierra, I think, has like, she's done a good job of really holding his feet to the fire for the last year and kind of punishing him a little bit for kind of being the worst. And I think that hopefully this reunion can kind of be a little bit of tying a bow on that. And if they are going to move forward as friends in some way, it kind of feels like now is the time. Will they? Who knows?

I mean, I think this show is generally better when, for the most part, everyone is getting along. And that's something where, like, you know, seeing Lindsay and Kyle mostly in a good place, seeing like Paige and Kyle and Amanda and Lindsay, like seeing everybody mostly get along and support each other, it gives the overall show a better vibe. And then you can kind of have your individual conflicts. And unfortunately, Lexi has found herself in a place where she's not really getting a, along super great with anyone. Obviously, she and Jesse have a very complicated dynamic and it still is kind of just making my head hurt, watching them go back and forth about it because it's like,

at this point, what are we doing? You've broken up three times. It's been a long time. Like, I don't know. That's the name of the game. But I'm almost more interested in Lexi's dynamic with Sierra. Because Lexi and Sierra really have some, some, uh, not great feelings toward each other. And Lexi, I think coming out of this season, at the end, it became a big thing about how she didn't necessarily form great friendships with people. And she felt like her relationship with Jessie was holding her back from that. And she specifically, you know, had tension with Sierra over him, over Jesse being flirty with her and yada, yada, yada.

And then suddenly at the reunion, Lexi is like hurt and upset that. people including Sierra didn't come to her birthday party. And I just, this is where Lexi kind of loses me because I, I want her to thrive. I want her to be a great, you know, asset to this show and a great part of this cast.

And it's like, you can't have your cake and eat it too. You can't have it both ways. You can't say that Sierra was, you know, sabotaging your relationship with Jesse and, you know, not respecting your boundaries and all of that. And then be like, aw, you didn't respond to my party full invite. Oh, I thought I was going to be, I thought we were all going to

have fun at my party. I'm on the show now. I thought I was going to have, I thought I was going to have other famous people kind of at my party. It's like, no, you, you actually do have to nurture these relationships. It is not a given at all that everybody on these shows is. is like hanging out and supporting each other and having fun when the cameras are not up, or even when they are. So I think that Lexi, like, I really want her to, assuming that she's going to stay on this show next season, I really want her to actually figure out her place in the group as a real friend versus just kind of almost feeling like Jesse's plus one for a lot of the summer.

Because I think she can do that. I think she has the potential. And I think we've seen, you know, she showed up and really was an important piece of this season, but in a very specific way. And I think that she really has some work to do to make herself a part of this friend group as a whole. And I hope that she can do that. I hope that she realizes that it's not just going to be an automatic thing, that people like Paige and Sierra are a little bit tough to crack. and that it takes effort. And honestly, it's like, we see that across the board on Bravo shows.

Call it hazing. Call it, you know, being stubborn or, you know, not liking newbies or whatever. It takes a little bit. You have to kind of roll with the punches, put in your time, and really put in the effort. And I think that that would be my note to Lexi. I think it's a little too late for Imral. He's on the reunion for all of 10 minutes. The fact that they're like giving him the first.

friend-of treatment when he was not announced as a friend of up for this season. Kind of brutal. Kind of brutal, but, you know, whatever, I think he deserves it. I hope he's good with his family. I don't want him to... But then he's the one being like Orgy Beast on the show. Everybody, make your decisions carefully. I don't want to be Orgy Beast on a show.

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He's getting to see his son. I'm like, you've only been gone for two weeks? You've only been gone for 17 days. You've been on your phone the whole time. You've been back to the house. You've had friends checking in. You've been watching the cameras. You would think he's been gone for a year and a half the way that he's acting.

No, but he goes to see Cruz and then he sees Brittany when she's like picking him up. And he says that he wants to go back to the beginning. and really start fresh and he wants to date her again and yada, yada, yada, and their relationship's going to be so good. And it's like, okay, first of all, when you guys were dating, you were already cheating on her. We watched Vanderpump Rules. Don't act like those first three years were like perfect couple honeymoon phase. Nothing went wrong. It's like, no, you flew her out from Kentucky. You forced her to get, you know, a certain size fake boobs. And then you cheated. on her a bunch and gaslit her about it and then somehow convinced her to marry you and had a

baby. Like, that's what you want to go back to. Okay. I don't know who would like sign up for that. But then he ruins whatever goodwill he might have fostered by saying that he doesn't want to go back to living in the house because that's like, I don't know, that's like has baggage with it. So he signed a lease for a condo right next to Tom Schwartz. Mind you, Brittany already has signed a lease or whatever for this Airbnb apartment. I'm like, at what point is an Airbnb just an apartment? I don't know. So now they have a house with Britney says a $14,000 mortgage.

And she has an apartment that she's been renting. And he now has a separate apartment that he has signed a lease. for. And then later in the episode, we find out from Brittany that Jacks has not paid the mortgage for like three or four months. She says he hasn't paid it since May. It's August when they're filming this. She's like, that might be close to $100,000. Now, she did earlier say it was $14,000 a month. So from May to August, 14,000, like, we're not, the math isn't quite mathing for it to be $100,000. But I don't know, maybe there's like interest, maybe there's late fees. I don't know. I don't have a mortgage. I'm not there. I'm not at that point in life.

But just like assinine stuff that Jacks is doing. And this, I love, I love, love, love that Brittany is going scorched earth. She's like, yep, everybody's like, girl, call a lawyer. Call a fucking lawyer at this pool party that she has at the rental place where Sheena and Lala are there. Lala's like, yeah, yep, yep, yep, girl, you need to call a lawyer. And she's like, yeah, I got the appointment this week. I'm talking to him. No, it's done. It's over. Thank you.

Thank you, thank you, Brittany. You know, her mama, her mama, Sherry is in town this week. Always love to see Mama Sherry. I would like to see, like, you know how they do actors on actors during award season? I would like to see Sherry, Brittany's mom. and Leanne, Taylor-Frank-Paul's mom, sit down for like a mothers-on-mothers. Wouldn't that be fun? It would just be them, like, talking at each other, but not listening to what the other one is saying,

and just talking about their daughters and how perfect they are. But also the mistakes that they've made, you know, like Leanne would kind of be slut-shaming Taylor a little bit. Mothers on mothers. Maybe we should arrange that. I don't, would, like, would Leanne and Sherry be good podcast guests? I don't know about that. The way that, the way that Leanne shows up to Demi's Christmas party, iconic. Iconic.

No, but back to the valley. The other, the other big thread that we're still following this week is whatever the fuck is going on with Danny or Daniel, as Nea would say, after, of course, taking shots of tequila in the pantry in Santa Barbara, where Janet could see. him and that she felt uncomfy because she had a secret. And then she confronts Nia about it after Nia has just bared her soul about being homeless in the past. And then, you know, Nia tells Danny about this and then Danny's mad and Danny's talking to Jason and Jason is mad because Janet has obviously sent him to be mad at him. The moral of the story is Danny obviously has

some things to figure out some demons. And I hope he does. I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't know exactly where that falls. I don't think it's our place to say. But what I do feel confident about is that Janet needs to sit down. Because the energy that Jason brings to this meet up with Danny is so crazy to me. He's like, yeah, I just think, you know, you realizing that you need to do more. You need to do better. And Danny's like, yeah, like, I just said that I would apologize. And then they're bringing up the Jasmine thing. I don't understand why Jason suddenly feels like it's his job to lecture Danny about whatever happened with him and Jasmine that he, I think, has already apologized for and then said he's going to apologize again. It just is like,

the way that these Danny issues are sort of being like taken on by Janet and her proxy husband, sorry, Jason, it feels like there is kind of this like crusade happening that like just, it feels opportunistic on Janet's part, I think. Because later in the episode, we see Danny meeting up with Jasmine and her girlfriend, Melissa, and I feel like that was like a good conversation. They have talked it out. He has apologized. They have explained why it mattered so much to them.

like that's that's kind of settled until further notice and unless it's not that's they've dealt with it and i feel like janet is still going to find an opportunity to like hold that over danny and janet just she has a way of handling things that is not good it's not effective it's it's very like bull in a china shop kind of vibes and i'm i'm just waiting for for her to have her like big feud with Kristen that we know is coming later in the season because that that is going to be just delicious. And I can't wait to see Kristen just kind of shut down the Janet train. We also have this scene where Kristen and Luke go to brunch, I guess, with Jesse.

And they're talking about this Jason and Danny scene. And it's so funny because like none of the involved parties are at the brunch. And Kristen is like, she's getting heated about Jason. And she says that it's pretty rich for Jason to be so mad at Danny when he doesn't even wear his wedding ring when he goes out. It's like first of all, that comes so out of left field. It just has nothing to do with anything. Like I'm interested.

I'd like to know. But it's like everybody making like false equivalencies between wildly different scenarios that are happening between them. It's just as perfect because everything feels like a game of telephone where all the cords are cut. But Kristen is like, I heard this rumor from Zach. And then it was confirmed by Jasmine, which if you recall was the exact same way the, you know, Michelle being a racist Republican thing happened last year.

It was confirmed by Jasmine. Like confirmed with what? Like Jasmine is not like the associated press. She's acting. Kristen's acting like that's too. you know, reputable sources, it's a gay guy and a messy woman. You don't know the veracity of that information. I feel like, like, Des Mois is more accurate than I heard it from Zach and then it was

confirmed by Jasmine. Like the, you know, during like debates and stuff when they do the truth meter, it's like, probably a lie. A little bit true, maybe, but. Kristen never change. And she says, all I know is that Jason better watch out because you fuck with my friends and my family.

Mama bears coming out to play. Kristen is just on a really on a role this season. Last week she said, what's up, biznitches. That was just tickled something in me. This week, Mama Bears coming out to play. She is really like holding the torch for the like chuggy mamas out there.

It really, she hasn't changed a bit since her like James May t-shirt company era. Like, she is going to make a line of like Mama Bear T-shirts after she has that baby. And I, I can't wait to see them. They're going to be cringy and ugly. And I can't wait to see them. I'll double tap every photo. I was going to say I would buy one. I wouldn't buy one.

But like, I hope that she does well. She looks so good. She's so pregnant. She's been posting like cute pregnancy photos. A lot of pregnant ladies. A lot of pregnant ladies. Because Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. A lot of pregnant ladies over there too. A lot of hormones. A lot of pregnancy tests. Specifically, this trip to New Orleans. First of all, I think they spend like 15 minutes total at their New Orleans trip outside of the Airbnb or that weird like vampire apothecary, whatever dinner. They go to Cafe Dumand. They really didn't get the.

essence of Cafe Dumont when they were filming there because if you've ever been to Cafe Dumond, yes, the bignets are delicious, there's powdered sugar on everything, a great place to have, you know, an argument with your, uh, you know, fellow mom talk members, but there are also rats everywhere. If you look around the edges of cafe du monde, rats, literally rats grabbing like pieces of bignet that have been dropped on the floor by like sticky children, just rats. I would have loved to see the mom talk ladies versus a rat. Can you imagine if like Layla, if Layla saw a rat getting close to their table? We're missing out on great content.

Cafe Dumont, iconic. New Orleans, I love to see it. But that trip, man, Layla having the idea, which production having the idea to have Layla have the idea to do pregnancy test roulette in this group of women who are like, A, all either trying or wanting to have another baby, probably at some point. Multiple of them dealing with infertility struggles. Demi, like, desperately wants to have a baby with Brett. Macy, we know is pregnant, but just had to go through IVF to get there.

So they all take the pregnancy test and put them in a bowl and there's two positives. And we already know that Macy and Michaela are pregnant. But I felt so bad because, DeMie, first of all, I mean, DeMie does not, she doesn't look great in these last few episodes, but I genuinely really felt for her in that pregnancy test thing because she's having a full breakdown because all she wants is to be pregnant. And then it makes Macy and Michaela feel bad

because they're like, wait, now we feel kind of guilty about being pregnant because you want it so bad. It's just like, oh my God. Layla is, I was talking to a friend about how she really seems like the perfect kind of production puppet a little bit because notice she is also the one who happens to be on a one-on-one trip to New York with Taylor right after Taylor's CMA thing.

None of the girls comment on her post. She's mad about it. She goes off on her Instagram story about how Mom Talk doesn't support each other. Layla on the trip to New York is like, yeah, I mean, to me, I'm really close with to me, but also I see both sides. So I'm going to show Taylor all the text messages talking bad about her. It's like Layla will do whatever they need to kind of move the story forward. And I appreciate that.

She's the one who's going to, you know, tell Taylor that Demi said she's dumb as a rock. Now, Taylor does misremember that. And then when she tries to quote it back to the group, she says, yeah. So I heard that you were calling me trash. And you also said that I'm dumb as a block. And they're like, dumb as a what? and she's like a block. And they're like, um,

she's like, maybe like a, Demi's like maybe a brick. And she's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, dumb is a brick. It's like, dumb as a rock. It's like, it's like when you're watching a,

when you're watching a game show at home and the person's like not getting it right, it's like on Jeopardy when they don't know the answer. And you're like, rock. What is a rock? Dumb as a block is so funny. It's like, what does that mean? No, but Layla,

Layla's just always there to kind of tip the scales. and also she's the one who tells Taylor after the, sorry, New Orleans trip, as she would say, because that's how Princess Tiana says it. She tells Taylor that DeMey basically issued an ultimatum that if it's either going to have to be me or her in Mom Talk, which is just objectively a little bit crazy. Because how could you think that this is not the Taylor Frankie Paul show? DeMey has gotten, I think, a little too big for her britches. she just, she wants to be the ringleader so bad.

And I think she doesn't, she really doesn't realize that she is pissing a lot of people off in the process. I mean, she glosses right over this Jay-Z Stiles thing. So Taylor and Demi claim that they have competing nuclear bombs that they're going to throw at each other at the Saints and Sinners Party. So Taylor's nuclear bomb that she throws at Demi is that DeMee said that, Jesse's bad at hair and that she shouldn't go to Jay Z styles. And to me is like, no, no, no, no, no. That's not what I said. I said that I don't know. I don't know if they're good at color. Extensions, yeah, but color, I don't know. And Jesse's like, well, that still sounds pretty shitty. Because I've given all of you bitches free hair. I curl your hair every time we go anywhere.

You come to Jay Z styles. You get free services. Like we post about it together. I do so much shit for you. So for her to even be like mediocre. about J. Z. Stiles is not good for business. But then Demi's nuclear bomb that she's sort of like, she doesn't throw the full bomb. She throws sort of like a, you know, it would be like a splash of uranium. Like it's not the full, you know, however nuclear bombs. I don't know. I watched Oppenheimer, but like she throws like a little like mini bomblet. And she's like, well, you don't want me to say the thing that about how you treat how you treat your husband sorry not your husband you're not married how you treat your boyfriend Dakota and she's like I don't want to say it though because I don't want

it's you know I don't want to ruin things for your kid which for us all don't break up the kids obviously but it's like are we acting like it's a nuclear bomb to acknowledge that Taylor and Dakota's relationship is extremely toxic that's kind of like ground level type of shit we established that season one, episode one. We know that there was an incident. We know that there was police cam footage, whatever. Like, par for the course. Okay.

What? Taylor shoved Dakota? I'm supposed to like, we're going to cancel her because they had a fight? I don't, like, okay. But DeMei really thinks that she is going to sort of wringlead this group into voting out Taylor Frankie Paul. And it's like, Taylor Frankie Paul is like the one that I care about the most. in terms of storyline, in terms of it just is a little, it's falling flat.

Also, earlier in the season, I don't know, I don't even know if we talked about. It comes up that she was trying to get more money and she was willing for her alleged best friend, Jesse, to not be on the show if it meant that she could get paid more. Demi sucks. She seems like a really, really bad friend. She's so focused on the business and it's like, the business is you guys being a friend group. I love that Whitney's like, yeah, when we're, We talk about being a business.

What does that even mean? Because I thought we were like making videos together and we haven't done that in a long time. So like I'm confused on how we're a business. Me too, girl. But in this economy, you got to do what you can. Everybody out here is an entrepreneur. No, but it's messy, messy, messy. You know, Taylor Frankie Paul, she's going to stick around.

And I love that Jesse finally kind of has had enough. And she's like, well, actually, I think to me, I think to me, I think to me, was the one who slept with Marciano at Bannerpump Villa. There's more to that story. I bet there is, and I can't wait to watch season three to find out, man, these women, they just keep it coming. And I love, one thing that I love about this show is that I really feel like they keep the story pushing.

They'll kind of abandon storylines after a few episodes, but I really feel like it's because they just show us exactly as much as we need. And then if something else pops up that's more interesting, they just kind of turn the camera over there. and it's a big enough cast that they don't have to stretch like one person's storyline to fill a whole season. It's really effective. It's really fun to watch. It feels like every episode is something different.

And another thing I love is I don't know why the fuck they decided to do this. But every time they show text messages on the show, it's like every show every show has like a different little like cartoon format that they come up with to show text messages. This show they show every message in this like Times New World. Roman-looking font, this serif font that's very much giving like research paper that you wrote in high school. And it's like, what type of iPhone update is that, that everybody's phone looks like the New York Times? It's such a strange choice to me. You could choose literally any, any plain, aerial, Helvetica, you know, whatever font. Times New Roman. It's bizarre. see a text message look like a newspaper article.

But these women, their minds, they're giving us so much to work with. I can't wait for next season. I just so much to get into. This has been fun, though, and I want to finish off with giving out our fake award of the week and this week bringing it back to Atlanta. Full Circle, the Nini Leaks Award for Nonsensical Event Planning, inspired of course by Nini's Girls and Gays Never Forget All White Party Seafood Suarez goes to Brit Edy.

Congratulations on the pre-launch luncheon for Bear and Naked Shapeware. I assume we'll be able to buy that at our local retailers any day now. We'll be waiting with baited breath for updates, but congratulations. Just next time, order a little more food. Everybody's got to eat the same at the party. That's rule number one. I don't want you to get blacklisted in Atlanta. But congratulations, Britt.

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