Mention It All - Larsa Lights, OC Fights, & Dance Moms… Delights?

Episode Date: August 16, 2024

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We'll go check me both Hey everyone Welcome back to the mention It's Dylan We're wrapping up the week Of course we have another OC episode to recap But first we have some other news

And updates to share And we will just jump right into it First of all we got news Yesterday that the Traders has been renewed for two more seasons by Peacock. That will be season four and five. So we have season three that they already filmed earlier this year, coming soon, I'm sure. And then two more after that.

And Alan Cumming will be remaining on as host. This is really exciting news, partially because Traders is great and we love it. And obviously, more seasons is a good thing in general. But just in the sense that Peacock has been a little bit up and down when it comes to the Bravo-related output. You know, famously, Real Housewives Ultimate Girls trip seems to be in a little bit of a

strange spot right now as to whether or not that show is going to exist moving forward. We got the news of that dating sort of spinoff, the Love Hotel show that they're going to be doing in Mexico with a few housewives. That's interesting. You know, below deck

down under is not happening seemingly anymore. Miami is on Bravo and also just taking forever to film. We have some Miami updates. So having two more seasons of traders ordered presumably, you know, on a timeline, we're getting these about once a year. Like, you know, they've come out in January, two years in a row. It's nice to have some stability in the greater, the greater NBC universal reality universe. And I'm happy to see traders coming back. I'm of course now thinking about witch housewives and other Bravo Labs and other

characters from the you know C&D list celebrity realm might be on traitors in the next few years there's going to be a lot of opportunities I mean we could even see some more return people there's there's lots of slots I feel like we're going to get some more van der pump rules representation Tom Sandoval is on the upcoming season which you know mixed feelings about that but like I feel like Sheena could be in the Traders' Castle. I feel like we could get, you know, really like more housewives from pretty much every city. Even, you know, someone from family karma, someone from Southern Charm. Like, there's a lot of, there's a lot of room in the castle.

And I think it's going to be exciting seeing who might get picked over the next couple of years. But of course, I did mention Real Housewives of Miami. And as this franchise continues to spin its wheels. with no update on filming yet for season seven. There are more updates happening within the cast, more major life events that are being missed by Bravo cameras because yesterday on Wednesday, we found out that Julia and Martina, her wife, Martina Navratilova,

they have adopted two children, two young boys. We don't know exactly how old they are. I don't know if they're babies or kids that are a little bit older. But they have talked about over the last few years, this, you know, back and forth of whether they wanted to have more kids, whether, you know, Julia has, like, teenage, like, you know, young adult at this point, kids that we've seen on the show. So obviously, this is different for them to adopt kids together. They had kind of put that on hold while Martina was going through treatment for her cancer, but they have officially

adopted. So that is, it's exciting for them. You know, it's just, you know, an exciting thing that it would be cool to see on Housewives. I don't know if Julia is necessarily going to be back when season seven happens. If season seven happens, God, who knows? It seems like maybe if there are some casting changes that were going to happen before the next season, that Julia might be somebody who was kind of in the hot seat a little bit. But I don't know. I mean, since we've last seen The Real Housewives of Miami, Nicole also had a kid.

you know, Larsa and Marcus went through their breakup, got back together, broke up again, who the fuck knows, Alexia and Todd, whatever's happening with them. There's just so much in the Miami group that we are not going to see at this point. And, you know, obviously the kids aren't going to like go away. So if Julia is back on the show at some point, I'm sure we will get some of that storyline. But, you know, we're not going to get the whole thing. And that's, it's a little frustrating. But speaking of Miami, I can't. So if you're not aware, Larsa has a newish business venture that she launched earlier this year. You know, she's done the $1,000 dog collar, she's done the jewelry line. She's done the tequila brand that, as I have discussed, does not actually exist

based on any research I've done. And her latest business venture is the Larsa Light. It's an iPhone clip-on selfie-light kind of thing. You know, just really, really happy for her with all that business success, of course. But when this came across my timeline this morning, I literally didn't know if it was real. And so I had to go and check the Larsa Light Instagram account. And in fact, it is. So on the Larsa Light Instagram stories, they posted a screenshot of an article. And here's the headline.

Millionaire Gen Z influencer Alex Ir. Under Fire after alleged posts with racial slurs surface. Okay. So if you're not familiar with Alex Earle, congratulations. You have probably had a very productive last few years. For the rest of us, so sorry, we've spent too much time online. Our brains are fucked. So Alex Earle is this millionaire Genzi influencer.

She was a student at University of Miami. She went viral for doing like, get ready with me, is having a chaotic life, whatever. You know, like girl who comes for money and parties a lot. fun times. She's very beautiful. She's now dating an NFL player. She goes to all the parties. It's a whole thing. But Alex Earle is like famous for this selfie light that clips onto your phone. And if you have spent, if you have spent a good amount of time on TikTok in the last, let's say, six, nine months, the amount of ads that I get, the TikTok shop videos that come up of people hawking this fucking Alex Earle light. it's like this is what my pictures look like without the Alexerlite and this is what it looks like with the Alex Earl light. You guys, you need the Alex Earl light. It's on TikTok shop right now for only $19. That's less than a trip to the movie theater. They're inescapable. If you have spent time on TikTok and not gotten the Alex Earl light ads, please like send me good vibes to never see it again because I'm so sick of those fucking ads. But anyway, Alex Earl is, I would say, arguably, the most notable, you know, competitor to Larsa in the clip-on iPhone

selfie-light space, you know, that really, that really huge space in the industry. Alex Earle is kind of the titan of that industry, I would say. I mean, maybe the biggest other one I can think of is those loomy phone cases that I feel like the Kardashians used to be really into. I feel like those kind of fell by the wayside. Now everybody has the big square light that they can. clip onto their phone. I've been, you know, I've benefited from Melissa Gorga's selfie light in the past. She has a really good one that she carries around with her. I'm sure all the housewives do.

But Larsa, you know, she's making it a business. So how does this Alex Earl thing tie into Larsa? Well, so Larsa Light. Notice this is the Larsa Lite account, not the Larsa Pippin, Instagram. They posted the screenshot of the article with a big pink X through the article. like somebody has crossed out Alex Earle. And then in the bottom corner, they have put like a cutout sticker photo of Larsa, taking a mirror selfie with her Larsa light. So it's the Alexer article with an X through it. And then Larsa's down in the corner, taking her own selfie, you know,

looking very Larsa-ish in like a barely there silver dress. And then you tap through to the next slide. And they said, the Larsa light stands for inclusivity and condemns all forms of racism. Choose brands that uphold these values. Shop with Larsa. Larsa Pippen, the Larsa Light. Okay, first of all, let me just say, I have not done any digging into this Alex Earle, alleged posts with racial slurs story. I don't know the background of that. I don't know what's true. What's not so like, fully taking this at face value and just talking about the absolute bat-shit crazy nature of Larsa light. using Alex Earle's potential cancellation as an opportunity to promote themselves in the, like I said,

iPhone clip-on selfie light brand space is just like so many layers of delusional. Like, what is happening here? What are we doing? Who is posting this? The second slide with the statement on it is this like millennial pink background with a nice, a nice serif font, you know, like very delicately worded. And Larsa's like autograph is on there. It's like, what Canva template did somebody upload this to where they're like,

ah, yes, we have the template saved under like Larsa Light, social justice statement, version two, final, final, final. It's just so funny. Because when I first saw this, I was like, wait, is Alex, did Alex Earl like, did she promote the Larsa light? like what's the connection there, and then realizing that it literally is just like them being like, don't buy this racist girl's selfie light, buy Larsa's selfie light.

Larsa promotes whatever values. Meanwhile, Larsa, of course, is out here like questioning people's cancer diagnoses and supporting Donald Trump after he got shot. It's a whole thing. But I think it's funny for Larsa to position herself as somebody who upholds certain values with her brand. Because I just don't feel like that's necessarily like,

politics aside. I don't think of Larsa as somebody who's terribly, like, values-minded. I think of her as somebody who's, like, money-minded and, like, hotness-minded. And, like, she has a lot of questions for people that are kind of out of pocket. But anyway, if you're in the market for an iPhone light, I suppose the Larsa light is one that you can consider. So good, so good, so good. Everything you want for summer is at Nordstrom Rack stores now and up to 60% off.

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Okay, so no word on what's happening with Miami yet. Before we get into O.C., I want to talk about a new show that I have been watching and that I have been loving, and I did not expect this. It's not on Bravo, but I do feel that spiritually it is similar enough that I feel like I would be doing you a disservice if I didn't just talk about it for a few minutes. And that is the new rebooted version of Dance Moms that just dropped on Hulu last week. It's called Dance Moms A New Era. And whether or not you watch the original Dance Moms, I'm sure that you are aware of it as a cultural touchstone. Abby Lee Miller, kind of inescapable, you know, Maddie Ziegler, the ship that launched a thousand Cia music videos. These girls were everywhere.

They just did their reunion earlier this year. It's been like, I don't know, 12, 13 years since the show originally premiered. They had, you know, many seasons, many episodes. That was one thing. I rewatched some of dance moms, I think, during the pandemic. And some of their seasons are like 30 episodes long, and these girls are going to a dance competition every damn episode. Like, they were being worked to the bone. I thought we had child labor laws in this country. I thought we had protections in place. Like, how were these girls allowed to be dancing that much? It's insane. But anyway, I digress. Dance mom's a new era. It's a completely new cast. It's a new, It's a new version, but the formula, you guys, the formula has not changed one iota.

I was expecting, because we're in 2024, you know, there have been, I'm sure, lots of think pieces about the original dance moms and how, you know, it was harmful to the girls and the, you know, the teaching methods and the parenting methods and, you know, the amount of yelling and all of this stuff was harmful. And I just assumed when I heard that there was a dance mom's reboot coming down the pipeline, I was like, okay, it's going to be a lot more, you know, gentle and there's going to be a lot more kind of like mental health discussion and the teaching methods are going to be really like pulled back and a lot more, you know, demure to quote the, the girls on TikTok these days. I was wrong. Literally like 15 minutes into this show, I'm watching it.

I'm like, oh, oh, we're still, oh, oh, we haven't. okay. I don't want to say that I am glad that this show still continues to be as intense and ridiculous as it is, but certainly I think it's more exciting to watch because it is like that. But anyway, to set the scene just a little bit, I'm not going to recap every episode or anything, but I'm about halfway through this season. It's 10 episodes. They're all out right now on Hulu. They're like 45 minutes each. Really a good like mini binge to dig into. Miss Glow is this dance teacher, and she is, like, as close to Abby Lee Miller as you could get. You know, they visually are pretty similar, raspy voice, you know, they all really speak, they both really speak in these, like, very exaggerated terms of, like, anybody's replaceable, you know?

Like, nobody's spot on this team is promised. Like, why didn't you do that? Right now, if I could replace the whole team, I would. It's like the exact same type of rhetoric that Abby Lee was using. The girls are like ages 8 through 12. The moms, this is one thing, watching dance moms now, I'm like, oh, the moms aren't that old. When I watched dance moms the first time around, I was like, oh, yeah, these like middle-aged ladies, now the moms are like a few years older than me. This is wild to me, where I'm like, oh, I'm much closer an age now to the moms on dance moms than I am to the daughters.

And that's a little bit humbling. but this is a dance studio in Virginia and there are a few moments through the first five episodes that I've watched that really like had my jaw on the floor kind of took my breath away. I'll just give you like a little bit of a sampling because if you're kind of,

if you're on the fence about the show as I honestly was, I feel like I feel like I would, I have to kind of like clue you in a little bit. So first of all, you know on dance moms, Maddie was always kind of like the number one girl in the group. On this show, there's a little girl named Audrey. She's like 12 years old, and we find out in the first episode that she has recently returned to the dance studio after spending some time on Broadway in The Music Man. The Music Man production from a couple

years ago that starred Hugh Jackman. Audrey was in this show, and so now she has returned to the dance studio as like the Broadway star, and she maybe is like a little less dedicated to the competition elite dance team than she used to be, because like now she's been on Broadway. So she's like the favorite, but also kind of a little, she's viewed a little skeptically that these, the moms are kind of like, well, she's been gone for the last year. Why is she on top of the pyramid? And, you know, some of the people question her dedication to the team. But then there's a little plot twist, a few episodes in. And I don't feel like this is a show that can really be spoiled, like grow up. But if you, if you really don't want to know the details

of dance moms, a new era, feel free to skip ahead a couple minutes until I'm talking about OC. it's revealed a few episodes into this show that Miss Glow the dance teacher is currently living in the basement of Audrey and her mother Tammy's house. She lives in their basement. They share a mailing address. And this is clearly a little bit of a touchy subject. The other moms say that Glow doesn't like to talk about it. When they're filming at their house,

Glow asks that they don't show her area. that's the word they use. It's a little freaky. It's a little weird. The vibes are very strange. So obviously there's this whole, you know, mother-daughter tension of our Audrey and Tammy the favorites, partially because they're just the favorites, but partially because Glow literally lives at their house in the basement. Chilling. I don't think Gabby Lee Miller ever lived at, you know, Maddie Ziegler's basement, at least. I feel like if she had, we would have known about that on the show. But then there's another, there's another moment in the second episode. And this is crazy in a totally different way. So the episode starts with this disclaimer. You know how there's like sometimes on Bravo shows there'll be a trigger warning that pops up on the screen at the beginning of an episode. If it's like if there's going to be a talk about suicide in the episode or domestic violence or something, I think that's great. I think that those, you know, they don't give away that much really.

and it really can, you know, just help people be more prepared for what they're about to see. What I was not prepared for was this trigger warning at the beginning of episode two of Dance Mom's A New Era. It just flashes on the screen. The following episode contains serious themes, including death and the supernatural. Viewer discretion is advised. Right away, if you want to get me hooked on a TV show, throw something like that up on the screen. I'm not going to not watch now. I have to find out. What we find out, the group dance for the week is called medium. And it is about a medium, like a psychic medium who is like summoning spirits in the dance. They have candles. Like some of the girls are the spirits. One of the girls is the medium. It's like very, you know, Alison, what's her name? Alison Dubois vibes. And we find out that the dance is dedicated to misglows. a stillborn son that she had 25 years ago.

So that is, it's emotional. I, you know, I think adding stuff like that to the show, you know, kind of gives it emotional stakes. It's not all just yelling. But then we find out there's another, there's a mother daughter in the group. And it's, the daughter is Mina and the mom is Min, and Min is Chinese. And she reveals that two years ago, her teenage son died in a car accident. And her parents who live in China.

do not know about her son's death that happened two years ago. She says, my parents will call and they ask how he's doing. And I just say he's fine. And I've never told them that he died. Not only do her parents in China not know, but nobody in the room knew about this before this episode. None of the moms knew. None of the daughters knew. I don't think production of the show knew.

It is such a crazy moment to watch. And I think even knowing about it still, the emotionally charged, it is, it's crazy. I just didn't expect anything like this to happen on dance moms a new era. But it's, this show, it really is surprising me every episode. There's a lot, I mean, there's the classic drama of like, is this girl going to learn her dance? Is she going to do her left side aerial? If not, how bad is she going to get yelled at? You know, there is the kind of classic dance mom stuff, but I am just kind of shocked at five episodes into this show.

like how much it's keeping me on my toes, how real some of the stuff feels, in ways that's not just like dance studio drama. I don't know. I'm curious if anybody else is watching dance moms a new era, it is surpassing all of my expectations. And I will say my expectations were quite low, but it's still, I'm having a good time. I'm halfway through. I probably won't talk about it again unless people really, you know, want me to. But I know you like it when I stick to housewives. So let's do just that. Let's talk about Real Housewives of Orange County. Good sleep is everything.

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girlies going to Tamara's Big Bear House, and we have the other half of the girlies going to Elizabeth Fargus's Lakeinta House, which is a sentence I never thought I would say on this show. But these two trips are so interesting because, first of all, it feels like Tamara is kind of like babysitting, chaperoning the JV team a little bit, because the Big Bear Group, it's Tamara, and then Katie, Jen Padrante, and Alexis. And it's kind of like, okay, like, it feels like Tamara's kind of separating herself from the actual, you know, important people on the show. And maybe this is an effective strategy for Tamara because she really is, she's shoring up her support in the newer, younger, maybe more malleable portion of the cast. You know, she's going to have Katie on her side.

she's going to have Alexis on her side and you know Jen TBD but the other trip to Laquinta is just like so weird because it's Shannon Gina Emily and Heather and suddenly Gina who arranged this trip because she is the listing agent on Liz Vargas's can I say gorgeous house in Laquinta with a fucking lake for 500 coy fish Gina is suddenly the odd woman out on this trip because we know that Heather is mad at her for how she handled this paparazzi situation and then it turns out Emily is mad at her because Gina has been talking shit about how close Emily has gotten with Tamara and how she's lodged herself up Tamara's ass

and it's making her more aggressive and Emily knew that Gina was like critical of her after her outburst at Jen at her dinner but now it turns out that Emily has been, or that Gina has been talking shit about Emily even before that. And so all of a sudden there's like this very strange vibe between Gina and Emily and Gina and Heather, who were kind of her two closest friends in the group.

So suddenly it feels like Gina has kind of gone from being in a position of strength within the group to sort of needing friends. Because we know that Katie feels betrayed by her for how the paparazzi situation, was handled. We know that Heather feels betrayed by her. Emily feels betrayed by her. Shannon is, you know, she and Shannon are fine, weirdly, for the first time kind of ever. But Gina is, I feel like she's kind of dancing with danger right now, because it's like, okay, you got to, you got to get your ducks in a row a little bit if you're going to be messy. And I think that's like a key on Housewives

is that if you are, if you are going to be kind of like an agent of chaos and a little bit of a messy person and a bone collector, you have to have enough people that are like solidly on your side that you can execute your mess and then still have like, it's still have a home to go back to at the end of the day. And it feels like Gina maybe, uh, she got a little over her skis and now she needs to reel it in. And I, I think she'll be okay. But it, it is just interesting how this paparazzi thing has really spiraled to create bigger problems within the group. Because the paparazzi thing, can we just, can we all agree that? it's not that interesting. I'm sorry. Like, I understand that Heather is, is pissed off,

that it's come back up again this season. But when she's doing the whole, like, it affects my children, it affects blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And the comparison between Heather having the rumor out there about calling the paparazzi on herself and Shannon talking about CPS getting called on Gina, like, Gina is messy. You know, she has created a lot of this problem for herself, but, like, those two situations are not comparable. And it feels like both Tamara and Heather are kind of trying to plant the seed that they are comparable. I'm like, I don't think that that makes sense.

I don't think anybody watching the show, I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, or don't. I don't think most people watching the show are going to be like, oh, yeah, Gina, now, this is karma for Gina, for Shannon, for the CPS rumor, that now there's this rumor about Heather, and that affects her kids. It's like, what? What are we doing here? I don't know. But the Big Bear Trip, honestly, really feels like it's being just taken over by Alexis.

And specifically, Alexis talking about Johnny, sorry. Because it's just like, it's really strange that we're, I think, six episodes into this season. And it feels like Alexis has not had one moment of screen time that is. really about anything other than John. And of course, John is an interesting thing that she's bringing to the table at this point. Well, not bringing to the table in physical form because we only see him on FaceTime this episode and he's yet to actually appear on this season. But, you know, I was interested going into

the season in the John and Alexis storyline and how that was going to impact Shannon and how the rest of the group was going to handle it. But Katie is so spot on when she says that she feels like so far she's gotten to know John more than she's gotten to know Alexis, and John's not even there. It really is, it's, it's frustrating to me because I think Alexis is entertaining and I think that Alexis is messy and I was excited to have her back in the mix, but we're really just not seeing Alexis at all. We're seeing Alexis as like spokeswoman for John, and I think it's self-appointed. I don't think John is sending alexist. on housewives and being like, you need to spend the whole time talking about how great of a guy I am.

I think that Alexis really, I think Alexis believes it. I think she's being, I think she's being real in the sense that she feels like it is her duty to support the man she loves. But it's just too much. It's too much. It's too much. And it's not being balanced out with anything else. When they're in the car and she's like, I told Johnny, I didn't know what I was looking for until I found you because I didn't know what you are could even exist. Girls, I'm telling you, like, he's, he's the perfect man and, you know, other people just don't understand. And she says he's a true Christian boy. And they, you know, they went to two Christian services. First of all, why two episodes in a row are we pretending that Real Housewives of Orange County is like

Christians United of America? Like, it's this, look what show you're on. This is season 18 of Real House of Orange County. Cut the the shit. But it's just, it's frustrating because I'm like, Alexis, talk about anything else. What did you have for breakfast? What movies have you seen lately? Are you reading anything good? Like, is there anything going on in Alexis's life that is not just, you know, looking at John Jansen with like heart eyes and riding for him when she feels that somebody is speaking ill of him? And this comes kind of full circle at the end of the episode because she, tells the girls in Big Bear when they're wearing their, you know, teddy bear pajamas the first night, very cute, you know, whatever, that she and John have videos of Shannon from the night of the DUI that she says are horrifying and 10 times worse than anything you could imagine.

And that if Shannon doesn't, you know, stop talking crap about John and, you know, start cooperating or whatever, that he's, going to release the videos and Shannon's going to look horrible. And I just like, I don't really get where we're going with this. Because just last episode, remember, at Gina's dinner, Alexis is still claiming that she wants to build a relationship with Shannon. And not that we believed her at the time, but there just is, there's literally no way to believe that she wants to build a relationship with Shannon when she cannot, for one second, stop talking about how she, she and John have the power to destroy Shannon's life. Like, you can't, it's like you can't build an actual relationship with somebody that

you've taken hostage. And it feels like Alexis is on this show to kind of put Shannon in a hostage situation and to basically get her to stop talking shit about John or else she's going to make her life a living hell. And, you know, if you want to do that, it's a free country, do whatever you want. But then it's like, you also can't expect that this person's going to want to be friends with you or that anyone else in the group is going to feel like they can trust you or get to know you or build a relationship with you. It just is, it's, it's unbelievable in the sense that I just,

I physically don't believe it. Did anyone else feel when we saw Liz Vargas just for like one split little second? Just a little bit of like, what if? What if she had stayed? What if we brought her back? What if we saw her more? I was like, oh, she's a little kooky. She's a little, fun. She's like a, you know, she's like that aunt that has a lot of money and isn't married. And, you know, she always seems like she's, you know, getting laid and having a good time. And she always got back from some special trip that she's going to tell you about and bring you a souvenir. I feel like that's the Liz Vargas energy. And then I realized that she didn't even stay for dinner at her own house and I barely noticed that she wasn't there. And I'm like,

okay, never mind. Liz Vargas famously was on one of the worst housewife seasons of all time. So I think there was never really going to be a route forward for her on the show. But, you know, it's fun that she's staying in the mix. She's not somebody that I ever thought we would see again. So that's fun. But otherwise, I mean, we need to move on from the paparazzi thing. Alexis needs to, you know, get something else to talk about. She needs to get a hobby, really. That's what she needs. But, you know, I feel like I'm ready. I feel like we've had kind of like, section one of this season is like coming to an end. And now I'm ready. for us to kind of move on. Like we got to, we got to keep the ball rolling. It's still great. It's still

very entertaining. I mean, seeing Shannon try to navigate a jack-in-the-box drive-through, comedic gold. You know, even if I'm, even if I'm frustrated by other parts of this show, I still can really enjoy Emily blatantly disregarding Shane's directive not to eat in the truck. I mean, really, don't eat in the truck. Who cares? Pay to get the car cleaned, if you, if you care so much. But anyway, we got to move on from the paparazzi thing. Alexis needs to get a hobby. Alexis, if you need like a book recommendation or a TV show recommendation,

slide into the DMs, I'm happy to provide you with something else to do. But I think she could really benefit from that. I think Alexis just needs a hobby. And that's where I land on that. And that's where we land for this week. Thank you so much for listening. Don't forget to rate review and follow the show wherever you listen. You can follow us on Instagram at Bravo by Betches.

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