Watch What Crappens - #2253 Southern Hospitality, Part 1: Shots, Fired

Episode Date: December 12, 2023

It’s a Below Deck Med + Southern Hospitality double recap! First, we catch up on Kyle’s latest pity party on the yacht.  Then on Southern Hospitality (S02E01), Leva is cracking down on drinking on the job, and she means business! That’s why she brought in Lea, a lady in a blazer, to NIP THINGS IN THE BUD.  Watch out!Watch with Crappens on Demand here:  http://bit.ly/crappensvideoSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hello listeners, this is Mike Corey of Against the Odds. You might know that I adventure around the world while recording this podcast. And over the years, I've learned that where I stay when I travel can make all the difference. Airbnb has been my go-to place for finding the perfect accommodations. Because with hotels, you often don't have the luxury of extra space or privacy. Recently, I had a bunch of friends come down to visit in Mexico. We found this large house and the place had a pool, a barbecue, a kitchen, and a great big living room to play cards, watch movies, and just chill out. It honestly made all the difference

in the trip. It felt like we were all roommates again. The next time you're planning a trip, whether it's with friends, family, or yourself, check out Airbnb. To find something you won't forget. Hello and welcome to Watch Your Crappins, a podcast about all that crap on Bravo that we just love to talk about. I'm Ben Mandelker and joining me today is the one and only Mr. Ronnie Keram. Hi Ronnie, how are you? What's up? Today we have a very special episode because we are welcoming back Southern hospitality which we were so happy to see. Got a second season. We felt we were

afraid we were the only ones watching the show but you know they got a second season out of it because the first season was hilarious and wonderful. So we're gonna talk about that before we even dive into that we're also gonna talk below deck med We're not doing a full recap this week, but we're gonna touch on it here before we get into the Southern hospitality Before we dive into all of that. Thanks everyone who came to crappy hour If you missed it, it's still up on our social media and of course the episode is in our feed So go listen to that. Be sure you're subscribed to this show

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And now... All right, let's get into it. So, now below deck Mediterranean, if you were looking for a recap last week, there's just too much. There's too much. So, it's on the Salt Lake City, right, Ben? No, last week, didn't we do a full recap last week? We did a full recap last week, didn't we?

We did? I think it was the week. No, I think we did a full recap last week? We did a full recap last week. Didn't we? We did? I think it was been... No, I think we did a half. Oh. Okay, well, if we don't have a full one up... If there was a week we missed, it's at the beginning of another week.

Is it the beginning of Salt Lake City either last week or two weeks ago? Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. So if you're missing it, go check it out. But yeah, we're just gonna give many caps because honestly this show,

like as much as we enjoy this show and we do, it's never ending. I mean, I guess housewives are never ending too, right? We're currently, there are four of them on and it's literally the same thing every week on everyone. But we still love that, you know, we don't mind the repetition. But below deck is literally sometimes

just watching people work. So if we're gonna skip something, it's watching people clean a toilet. Now, that said, it really is hard to miss this one because when there's someone who gives you rage like Kyle, there's a fun thing, it's fun. I love rage, I love feeling rage flow through me.

So I just, I hate missing out on a full rage fest. So we still have to do a little bit at the beginning of this recap. And this was this episode of Below Deck Med was Kyle pulling sympathy cards for the audience. Everything was like, I feel like this is Kyle at 21, you know, not Kyle at 31, you know, it takes me all the way back there because he's upset, you know, he's upset because people don't like him because he's's been a monster. And so you know, have the new girl and you have Jack, the chef, who don't really feel like talking to him.

Jack is icing him out. And Jack is the only one who seems to understand how to deal with someone like Kyle, which is that he's just not gonna engage with him. Jack is like, you know, when you talk to Kyle, what he does is he feeds off of it, he feeds off of confrontation, so I'm just not gonna give it to him.

And it works. Kyle cannot deal. But the new girl, she, I mean, she makes things nice by the end of the episode. But Kyle is now doing the whole crying, calling his boyfriend, standing up on the deck while in opera singers things and patting his eyes like handiffs with a hanker chiff, you know, feeling sad for himself, for being a terrible person. Yeah, you know, a part of it worked on me, part of whatever manipulation did work on me, because at one point I was like, you know, I think maybe Kyle just doesn't really understand

how gross he is. He just, maybe he just doesn't know. And so when he's confronted by people not just making nice with him, like he's not getting the drama from Jack or Lily, right? And they've both chosen until this episode, damn you, Lily, they've both chosen to just blow him off and treat it like it's no big deal. And that's when someone like Kyle starts spiraling out of control.

But I'm like, maybe he just doesn't see how terrible he is. But then when he pulled it around to like, this is 21 year old car, basically insinuating bullying. Like this is like what it was like when I was bullied and or and or closeted. And I can't believe that this is still, you know, this is what I'm dealing with now. And he kind of turned it to that way where I was like, okay, well, I felt for you for a good five minutes. Listen, if you want to get me to feel for you, cry, I will always fall for crying.

If I see some real tears, I will be like, I feel for you, but then it evaporated very, very quickly. Because he just can't help himself. Like immediately after he's like, and guess who's my, guess who's on my, guess who's on my radar now. Yeah. Well, and also these did not feel like real tears.

He was just like, at one point when he is standing on the deck, well, there's an opera singer singing to the guests and he's just tapping his eyes and he's like, oh, there's me. I was like, I can't, I'm sorry. Look, I will hold space for the fact that his upbringing was probably very, very challenging. Being a closeted gay boy and a conservative family,

perhaps in a conservative community. Yada, yada, yada. That all comes with a huge amount of trauma and difficulty and, you know, it manifests in ways. And so I, on some level, I feel badly for him that, you know, like, this is the manifestation of all that. This, the way he acts, the way he pits people against each other, it speaks to deep insecurities and self-loathing that comes from that period of his life, et cetera.

I feel bad for that. But that being said, he still is doing this stuff and I feel worse for the people who are the victims of his insecurity and his like, the way he behaves, the way he pits people against each other. I feel worse for those people than I do for Kyle because they are innocent victims to his self-loathing and he needs to get help. If that makes sense, it's like I can only feel so bad for Kyle because he's now, he can't talk about being 31 and having like,

like, oh, I'm older and wiser now and yet he's not doing things to changes here. Well, I think if his conversation with the audience was more like, you know what, I'm horrible. Yeah. And I've always been horrible. And how do I start being horrible? Okay, that would be a conversation that I'm sympathetic. Right, because we all understand that.

Yeah, you'd be sympathetic, because you're like, okay, you know, I have that conversation with myself all the time, where I'm like, why am I so negative? Or why is, how come every time I make a comment it has to sound like this? Like just the tone is just like, man, man, man.

You know, like I have a lot of things with myself that even when I want to work on things with myself or try or go to therapy or read a self-help, or whatever it is, that I just can't seem to get on top of. And I guess we all kind of have that, right? Well, we all want something to be better about ourselves or something to be different. So I get that, but he's not being that way.

He's like, why are they being like this to me? Exactly. He's saying like, why am I miserable? He is saying that. And that's kind of where I felt for him. Because I was taking that, you know, little of when he started the whole, like, I'm just miserable.

And like, why am I so miserable? And I can't be like, I can't stand being miserable. Part of me started to feel from there because I was like, okay, well, you know, maybe he means like, why am I such a miserable human being? How do I change this? Like, are these patterns in me that I can change? But nope, that's not what he was saying. He was like, why am I miserable?

Everybody's making me miserable. And this is so exot. Everybody being so miserable to me is so exot. He feels like I can't take it. Yeah, I think that's, I'll amend what I'm saying, which is that, you know, at 31, I mean, that's still pretty young. It's not like you just, like, oh, I should be in therapy by now. You know, where you have that reasonable, like, oh, I should be in therapy by now. You know, we have that reasonable,

like I think people who are in their 40s who are still dealing with the damage of their childhoods or whatever who are not in therapy, I'm like, okay, now you're too old, you have to be in therapy, you can't be doing, making these same mistakes. 31 is still relatively young. Well, I got news for you, that shit never ends. And it really is a cycle, you know?

My grandmother was going off about her, what happened in her childhood just as deeply at the end of her life as she ever was. My mom still does it, I still do it. It's like some weird thing about her. And therapy doesn't her what kind of therapy or whatever. And therapy doesn't, it's not like a,

like it's like once you're in therapy, it's all fixed, it definitely is not. But it's more like my amendment to what I was saying about Kyle is more like it's sort of building off what you said, which is that there's no, there's no sense of self-awareness with him. There's not a sense of like, like, oh, I probably bring this on myself or I always do, I do this. I pit people against each other because my own insecurity, it's more just like people

out to get to me. And I didn't know what to do. He's and I just tried to be a civics queen and everyone just wants to undermine me at every chance. And it's like, no, that's not, no, you were actively, actively undermining people at all times and then they react to you and then you're shocked.

You're shocked that they react that they don't necessarily like your behavior. And it's like that lack of self-awareness is what's really frustrating. Yeah, but hilarious too, because just having people who don't react to him or give him what he wants and just watching him cave, like immediately cave. Okay, so we've got this new chick, Lily, who is just awful. Like she's literally terrible. And she's such a nice person too.

And she's like so cool and funny and fine And you want to like little heap of damn she sucks. I mean listen Not everybody's gonna be good at every job But how many times you have to be told how to make a bed? I mean this girl is like Literally jumping on a bed to make it Yeah, nobody wants her unsanitary ass and I just mean cuz you're human Rolling all over their bed stop rolling on the beds. Like she's making the bed by like,

holding down one end and then jumping across it, on top of the bed, and then talking it in that, walk around the bed, Lily, walk around the bed. I've never felt more like a parental figure than screaming at someone this episode on how to make a bed. As she does that thing, where she says that something's done and it's not done at all

and it's driving to me mad and Jessica mad. And she's just like useless. She's very, very useless. And what's weird is that they're saying, like, oh my God, just three nights left, three nights left and the seasons over. But then what happens is at the end of the episode, basically to me tell Sandy that Lily is dead weight

because to me gets in trouble because at the very top of the episode, Kyle is calling for deck hands to help with service and so they have to, Sandy has to wake up Laura or Laura to help out with service, even though there's two stews that are downstairs that are working. So to me, so to Sandy later on, I was like, hey, you know what?

Hey, tip meeting everyone. To me, if there's two, if there's two stews downstairs, you got to let one of them help with service before we wake up the deck hands, okay? Because I did then. I didn't know that's what was going on. So to me then clarifies, by the way, the reason why that situation was happening is because Lily is dead weight. And so Sandy calls up Lily to say, listen, I'm gonna give you one more chance or something like that. But in my mind, Ronnie, what I'm all trying to get to is, if there's three nights left,

what is the point of saying you get one more chance? Are there gonna be two charters in three days? I'm really confused. Maybe. But also Sandy does this thing where she thinks she can talk intelligence into people. And that's just not how it works, you know? And I actually really like Lily. But Tumi is like, she's dead weight.

She's zero help. And Sandy's like, you know what? I'm gonna talk to her. That's not gonna help. You can't talk, you can't talk somebody into being competent. The girl's trying. I mean, she's not just lying around,

but you can say, you know, for her. She's not being lazy. She's just really, really dull. And she's trying, you know, she even whips up, listen, and I think we all do this. You know, when I have a problem, and I really wanna get my shit together, do you know what I say?

What, I'm whipping out my iPad. Every time I'm whipping out my iPad, for some reason that makes me feel smarter, especially when there's a keyboard on it. Yeah. And that's what she's doing, where she's like, I have an iPad and it has a keyboard, so I'm just writing things down as a list,

because you know what is more efficient, writing it down as an iPad than it is on paper. So here I'm gonna write a list, five towels, four hand towels, three toilet papers, wrote it on the iPad. It does them hell up!

And now you're just in a corner on a fucking night, but like what do you have to go to the coffee shop and like listen to music and drink some coffee while you write your fucking thing? Yes, it's not for you to be inspired. Get the fucking toilet paper. Like you can't make something much smarter and it's frustrating to even see somebody have that talk.

Now another thing that's frustrating because it doesn't work, it's what I mean now another thing that's frustrating because it doesn't work It's what I mean another thing that's frustrating is to me like I like to me and I think she's she gets better I think she's getting better at handling everything as she gets used to the season going on But I think her main flaw is just shit talking the people instead of saying like listen here's what I've noticed about you Lily You move really slowly the people instead of saying like, listen, here's what I've noticed about you, Lily. You move really slowly. She's like, you know what, Lily? Just came up to me and told me that you're dead weight. You can't say that. Stop doing that. She really is bad at that. Yeah, she has to just, she had, even though most people can deduce where the complaint comes from, you have to like,

you've got to like, protect the people who are coming to you who have like, reasonable issues. And you just have to say, Lily, it's been brought to my attention. You're taking a long time. You need to speed up or whatever it is. Like, you don't even say it's been brought to my attention.

Just say, Lily, you're taking too long. Yada, yada. But yeah, she keeps on throwing people's names under the bus. And so they, this, I mean, we have, I think it's been years since we've seen an interior that's been this dysfunctional all season long. And yeah, as much as it does, it's like, I mean, you should be able to go to your boss and say, you should be able to go to your boss and say, listen, I have a problem with so and so. That's how you're supposed to do it. You're not supposed to go to the person and be like, I have a problem with you and here it is. I mean, maybe in real life, that's what you do. You confront it head on, but in work, you don't do that. You have to

go to your boss and you have to work. That's just the proper channel. So when you do that and then your boss turns around and like, ratch you out to the person that you were just talking about, it's not like Jess was saying anything mean about her, you know, it's like to go rat or rat. She was just doing her job by telling you. And so for you taking that and using it against her, and now you've put the employees against each other again, and now you've got this girl Lillie all upset

on a personal level, and now she's fighting with Jess, and you did that, what the hell? Yeah, the other thing is Haley, the deck hand, she feels sick. So she's thrown up. She's barely been on the season. So I was like laughing that she actually had like something to do in the episode, and that was to throw up.

And then the other big thing that happened in the episode was that one of the guests, the sky, Amish, he was awful. He gets really wasted. He's one of the guests, the guy Amish, he was awful, he gets really wasted, he's one of those guests that goes to like everyone's gone to sleep and he's gone to sleep, but then he comes out again and he's walking around drunkenly and he starts going into the crew mess and then he starts going into the, into their quarters and he like knocks on doors and he just opens them and you can't blame the alcohol on that one because you know what you're doing.

You know these are not the guest rooms. He's pretending like they're the guest rooms. He's calling out for his friend or something and he'll knock and open the doors. You just can't do that. If any of the women I think had been in a state of like undressed, that would have been like a major major major issue and This guy was awful and so Sandy had to call the have a meeting with a primary and say like he's got to be put under control

Otherwise, he's gonna be off the boat. I'm actually surprised he wasn't kicked off the boat in general Well, he sure cleaned up his act though. Yeah after that man Once he got in trouble and then the guy who doesn't seem to know him well at all, like the main dental implant guy who hired an opera singer for his wife's birthday was his birthday or his wife. It was his birthday. And he hired an opera singer. When the opera singer came, he's like, guys,

I just wanted to do something that we're gonna remember the rest of our lives. And she's like, he he he he he he he he he he he he he. He's like, oh my god, he's like crying. He he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he He kicked off the boat. Okay, great talk and do ya, great talk and do ya. And then Amish really just cleaned up his act. I don't think he said another word the entire time. He said nothing. And then on the last day, he went up to Captain Sandy and was like, hey, thanks for everything this trip.

It was really great. You did a great job. I was really impressed, which is because his way of saying, yeah, sorry, I was a drunk and mess. I won't do that again. Yeah, he even said, like, I just wanna say that before I fuck everything up again or something. Yeah, and she was like, be a good boy.

You go be a good boy now. I actually really liked the way Captain Sandy handled that, to be honest. Even though I just said, oh, I'm surprised he wasn't kicked off the boat. The way that she told the primary, she was so matter of fact in just like this situation, I was actually impressed.

I was like, that was a good way to deal with it. Because for me, this is a bad confrontation. It would have been like this. Yeah, so Amish, well anyway, he was drunk and he was going into rooms and like, I mean, he can go into rooms, it's fine. Like, I don't mind, I mean, he can go. I mean, you know what, you can go, never mind.

Anyway, I'll see you later, bye. That's how I would have handled it. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, well, it continued. The chaos continues to grow and spin out of control. And they did keep, like you mentioned, they kept saying, okay, only three nights left, guys, only three nights left. Oh, we didn't talk about. So, okay, so once the charter is over, it's crew go out night, so they all go out.

And Kyle is earlier, he was saying something, oh, and Jack is now my target, because Jack is coming from me, nin-nin in it. But now that they go out, Jack is still not talking to him, but not in a shitty way where Kyle can cry victim. He's just not, he's not acting like, oh, I can't sit, I think he's sitting right next to him.

Yeah. Like he sits down right next to him. So he's not acting like he's a leper or something. But everybody is like, okay, let's have a good night. Guys, no drama. And I was like, we're speaking of Jake. You an organ, you an organ, he a chalk, which of course he has to do in front of the entire fucking table.

Right. Make it look like he's a good person. Also to remind people that he's a victim and see to start, was I counting or doing? You went from A to C, but I can give you A, make it look like he's a good person, also to remind people that he's a victim, and C, to start, was I counting or doing it? You went from A to C, but I can give you a bit of a... Yes. But while you come up with B, I just want to say this is all after Kyle says, even one...

No, C, I was about to do C. Okay, well I was... No, I was gonna say that he had just before that said to everyone, boy, the way I'm gonna get drunk tonight, so I pulled just a hit of Tom for anything I say, which was his way of saying, like, I'm about to talk some shit about all of you, especially Jack. Alright, C was, yeah, to start, of course, start some major drama because he's been without it. So, I think at this point, he's like, okay, I'm gonna fight with Jack, right? It's time for commercial. It's time for a crap-ins-commercial. So there I go, God. And Jimmy's like boys behave yourselves. So he's like and oh just wants like chick

Do we need to talk? Because wait you'll be having and Jack's like you don't need to care so much like that's what I could say about you You're making up all this drama in your head. I don't really care. Oh really? You will never oh really don't really care. Oh really, you will never. Oh really don't, I really don't care. Five, twit, two, he's like, all right, bros then, we're bros then, right? You will never say you're not my bro.

We'll tell you that much. He's like, all right, fine, you know, like we're fine. No, I can drink for joy and not to forget. So they're fine, because Jack really doesn't give a shit about Kyle. Like, Jack is truly, you know, the expression, the opposite of love is not hate. It's in difference. Jack was in difference. Jack is just like, okay, this guy's a piece of shit.

I don't care. I'm not gonna spend any energy. And it worked because like you said, if Jack had made a big fuss about like, I'm not talking to you and I'm sitting across the table, that's what Kyle would feed off of. But Jack, like, just, like, you know, the guy was just immaterial to Jack and it was great. It was great to see it happen. So that was the big.

Well, also we saw Lilly apologize because it's easier for Jack to ignore Kyle than it is for Lilly. Right. Just to work for Lilly is like in a position. She doesn't know what she's doing. She's in the middle of all these people who know a lot more than her and she's already feeling stupid. She doesn't really have any friends. They're already all bonded and then Kyle just starts giving her the cold shoulder and giving her one word answers and this is

a total asshole to her. And so she finally has to apologize. She's like, you know, it just look, it seems like you're a real good guy, which I don't know where you got that impression, but it seemed like a really good guy. And, you know, I don't mean it the first night when you were saying stuff to me. I didn't really know what you were talking about. Well, we were just talking about banter.

And he's like, oh, thank you so much for your apology, then, you were thinking. You chose the right time to say it. It's like, oh, thanks, Master of Apologies. Yeah, she had to do it. And he's like, and he's basically like, you're so welcome. And you know you thank you that bent a lot.

And also, by the way, going forward, don't put the iron in the drawing machine. It's not gonna be very helpful. Okay, great, bye. So, and the other thing is the other thing was that Natalia is texting everyone. So Natalia is texting Luca, Nat boy. So, and the other thing is the other thing was that Natalia is texting everyone. So Natalia is texting Luca, Natalia is texting. There's someone else, Jack, I think.

So she's still texting and we see in the trailer that she comes and joins them on land at some point. I don't know if that's gonna be for the finale or not, but she's still around. So, yes, that was pretty much she's gonna come back and spread her ring of terror. So we'll see. Yeah, so that was pretty much what happened on Below Deck Med this week. Now let's pivot over to Southern Hospitality.

So Southern Hospitality,, messy messy show. It's like a little baby van der Pump rules. So season one of van der Pump rules was beautifully messy. And season one of this show was beautifully messy. And then season two of van der Pump rules was even messier and wonderful. And so far season two of this show looks like it's gonna be heading in that same direction.

Which makes me happy. Well, it's always fun. I love this show. You know, it's an old waiter back in my day, um, a little service queen myself. Of course, I love waiting table shows. And this one is so funny because it's in this town, Charleston, where they all feel like they're like superstars and the next Hollywood because of Southern charm. Right, so there's all these influencers there now and they really feel like they're hot shit.

And season two of any show, people come back with season two face on where they're like, okay, this is what people think of me and this is, I know the game now and this is what I'm gonna do, dun, dun, dun, dun. And it's just so funny to me, the things that they came back with,

like the Perth, like Emmy and Will decided that they're gonna come back and get revenge on Maddie. Yeah. I don't think ever did anything to them, but they're like, you know what, we're gonna have a Maddie takedown. See, everyone's decided like, this is gonna be a huge Maddie takedown season.

And I just think it's so funny. It's like, what is she even a captain? Like, what is she considered at the job? Like she's so nice to you. She doesn't even tell you guys to stop drinking. Like, why are you taking down Maddie? What'd she do? She went to Tulum.

But we know that. Emmy spends like the entire episode slinking around corners listening on Maddie and having a look on her face like, whoa, she's like in a murder mystery. It's just like some sort of like like silly murder mystery from like the 40s, where she's listening in and saying, I just hit something. Who are?

And like she's just like behind a rack, behind a door frame. Just listening in on Maddie. Sue literally improvise or panamed herself holding the glass up to and by the way, Emmy is really becoming my favorite really just because of her apartment. I have to say like I was impressed last season but I'm even more impressed this season because she keeps her studio apartment immaculate. Like, that is a beautiful studio apartment. And, you know, when we, we all know the band-up room rules apartments, when we, they were these wretched, sad, carpeted, decaying, refrigerator, places where the microwave and the air

conditioner cannot be on at the same place, just these like rat- infested domiciles. And I have to say, you know, all these Emmy could have, she could have followed in those footsteps and she has a beautiful studio apartment. Everything's clean, everything's painted. And I just feel like she needs to be applauded for putting some effort into making her, her little studio apartment television ready.

Yeah, well, I think it's a little unfair because we constantly give TJ shit for always vacuuming. And that brings me to my first complaint, which is why didn't we get any shots of TJ vacuuming? Yeah, you guys can't give us an entire season that revolves around TJ vacuuming his apartment and then come back this season and we don't see him vacuum once.

That was shocking. That was really shocking. I was upset about that. I was hoping we would see just a little bit more of TJ passing judgment on people. I actually got used to that. I used to hate it, but now it's actually something I'm like tuning in for. I was waiting to see more of him standing behind the bar saying, well, she just walked in. That was his whole thing.

Last season was like, Mikhail walked in and they're like, guess his back. Mikhail just walked in. Cause that was his whole thing. Last season was like, Mikhail walked in and they're like, guess his back. Mikhail just walked in. Can you believe it after everything that he did? But now, TJ was just sort of like there, wasn't right? Because TJ is naturally like that. He's like naturally personickity. Like I really do think he's like a young version

of the church lady from SML, the DNA Carver, Dana Carvey character, like, who did that say? You know, like really personickity, just judgey gay, and I fucking love it. And I think maybe he's coming back a little bit more reserved because he got a lot of hate lassies him for being like that. And so maybe he came back a tiny bit reserved, but everybody else came back extra T.J.E. And so it's making us not really see T.J. as much,

because everybody else came back like, I'm gonna be a fucking mess this season, you wait. Yeah, especially Mia, Mia really tried hard. She's like, I'm gonna have a moment to love us like you're fired. Wait, what? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha moment and love us like you're fired. What? Okay. So let's start going through this from the beginning. So we opened with clips from last summer, random snippets on what went down. So Maddie just like trying to convince herself that she's like really happy, like I'm

with Trevor now. I'm like, we are really happy. So here's what happened to me last season. Republican's everything. I went to Tulum where I saw Grace Sully, but then like we both like the same guy. So she got like totally pissed off at me for no reason. I'm totally sober, which you can absolutely tell from every single

confessional I have. Like this one. And I ended up getting the man of my dreams, the guy who rides to the horse and buggy bike. What are they calling them? Uh, the bike, the bicycle buggy. bike. What do they call them then? What do you think called them? The bike. The bicycle buggy. The bicycle buggy.

The bike's a cool bike. Yeah, the, the, the, the, the, it's like a rickshaw, like an urban rickshaw, or I guess rickshaws are urban. Yeah. It's like a, like a bike, bike, I feel like it's not a rickshaw. It's like a bug, it's just a bug, it's a bike, bike taxi.

Okay. So, um, It's like a bug, it's just a bug, it's a bike taxi. Okay, so she's like, I'm happy. That's her, that's basically her season. And then we see her making out with Trevor a lot and then everyone else, like just cute cutting to the rest of the casting. I like, I hate Trevor. You know what I, I want to wish one thing for my birthday.

They'd Trevor would die. I hate Trevor. Like everybody hates this guy. Yeah, and no one hates him more than Joey Marbles. All's known as Joey Butt Bottles. All's known as just Joe Bradley. And he's like, Trevor cheated on Maddie, and like she went back to him.

I was just like terrible. Like, hey, he already cheated on you once. I don't know why you would go back. So. Yeah, why would you go back to someone who cheated on you or a joy mobiles? Yeah, I'm gonna go back. So, why would you go back to someone who cheered on your joy mobiles? Yeah, I'm going to go back. So then we see Trevor and Maddie fucking in the motor home

on their way to NASCAR. Yeah. And they were taking their group, their glamorous group vacations to NASCAR and Charlotte. And then Joe's like, Trevor's like a stereotypical gay scene in a movie. Like, wants a cheater? Always a cheater.

Yeah, he just got marbled. So then, I know coming up this summer on Southern hospitality, fucking lava. You know, there was, there were a lot of lottery winners. So look, my point is we know that luck exists.

Okay, I'm not gonna go down my whole list of people who have been lucky. Lottery winners, I think, is general enough that we all get it. I don't think anyone is luckier than Leva. Leva has probably, she has less than zero charisma or presence at all, and she doesn't even want to be here. How is Leva even here? It's like they plucked Leva out of nowhere.

She just scummed some, she's like, welcome to an entire show, Senator Ami, Southern hospitality. Why am I even here? Why are you making me do this? Like, who is holding a gun to love his head? They gave you your room show, Perka. I enjoy Leva. And I, and I, and I enjoy speaking, I've often enjoyed people without charisma on these shows Just because I find them fascinating and they give us a new one Love is new like sidekick. Yeah, which we'll get into I mean so Lee is my favorite like I love Lee on this so So with this summer Maddie saying I believed him and when he said he would never do it again and he cheated

Ah Everyone's like yeah, it's Trevor. Hello And when he said he would never do it again, and he cheated, ah! And everyone's like, yeah, it's Trevor, hello. We told you so. So she's like, you told me you would never do a text here again. You lied to me, Trevor. And then everyone having to hold her back. And her being like, you need to stay the fuck away from my boyfriend.

Like, what did you fuck my boyfriend? Yo, I fucking crashed. And everyone's just holding your back like don't do it Don't ruin your life as a Assistant assistant assistant Managing bottle girls your DJ career is just about to explode don't do this don't do this, Maddie Said not was like our big coming up this season. So they've changed our uniforms, right? What were their uniforms before?

Because now they're doing this like Jander, Lisa, Vanderpump, Pink, Satin, kind of cocktail dress, slash prom dress, ball gown thing. They're, well, their uniforms are always different. I mean, last season, famously, their first uniform was like this fluorescent green thing that they wore that covered up barely in Ariola.

And I say that not from a British place, but just because they're all wearing it and love us. I'm all about female empowerment. And I just want to see women supporting women. I just want women to win. Now wear this nipple cover as your dress. So, um, I, but I think they'd like a change from like night to night at, at Republic. Am I wrong? Like from event to event. Well, I noticed that Maddie was wearing a pink one and then, um, gracefully was wearing

a blue one, so I don't know. So six weeks earlier, before all this drama, we open, I think we open this way last year, or at least it's the first scene I remember. You know how you don't remember the first thing that ever happened in your life, but there's like something so impactful that that's your first memory. I think my first memory of the show was Joey Marbles naked getting come at the show. And it's an old tradition started by Vanderpump rules with the guys. It's unfortunately carried on with Shep in Southern charm,

which is yikes nobody needs it. But God, Joey Marbles, what a cute little butt. So glad to have you back to sexually harass. And you too will. Yeah, well it gets a very long and extended butt scene. It was up on screen for a while. Yeah, so yeah, and we see Brad, Bradley doing push-ups. That's right, because Joey Marbles is Joe Bradley, but then there's also Bradley, right?

It's just confusing. Yeah, it's confusing. And the Maddie's over at Trevor's place and Trevor's shaving. Trevor really looks like like maybe like Theodore from the Alvin and the Chipmunks, right? Like it's kind of like this is who she decided like she's going to like isolate herself from all her friends for this Theodore looking guy and he's shaving and she's like wait a second. Are you gonna shave your whole beard? He's like no because then you'd be didn't like an 18 year old if I did that and like ah

Yeah, you'd be a date like an 18 year old if I did that and like, ah, yeah. You'd be like Justin Bieber, great. Yeah, and so we see a clip of them when they first met and he's like a little kid with his dad. It's a weird picture to show. I don't know. And then she's like, yeah, well, I've been sober for nine years and recovery taught me

that like people get second chances because I had to fight for my own life. So I got second chances. And so yeah, Trevor and I are living together. Now we're happy and I'm in love. Okay, wait, second chance is, that was you giving your, that was you earning it. You know what I mean?

Like, so bringing up is you actually making effort to change your life. I couldn't do anything to earn it. He just showed back up the second there were cameras up again. Yeah, you get a second chance because you made a fundamental shift and change in your life.

He literally just refilled the air on his bike taxi. Like, there's nothing different about him. So she's using, she's basically using, like her sobriety as a shield for critics who are saying like, why are you back with a schmuck? So he, Trevor pulls out a Charcuterie board from his fridge. He's like, why are you back with a schmuck? So, he Trevor pulls out a charcootie report from his fridge. He's like, I didn't have breakfast, but I have a charcootie report. And she's like, wait a second.

You made this? Look at you being a housewife. And it's just like a little tray with like four pieces of prosciutto and some grapes on it. And she's like very impressed. I've got to love that charcootie. And he's like, yeah, and also, I'm gonna take out the trash later. She's like, oh my God, marriage, marriage!

So she's like, you know what this is like? This is like, looking into the future and like seeing something in the future, like not today, but like in the future, maybe today. I mean, if you wanted today, I would do today, but like not today, but like in the future. This is not today you wanted today I would do today but like not today but like in the future It's not today, but like soon not long but soon Yeah, it's like I can see already when I'm the ripe old age of 38

I'm eating charcuterie for breakfast then and it's just like we're having charcuterie breakfast now And it's like wow this is our future. It's amazing Despite everyone always being against my relationship, like, I saw Miss Myself made it. Okay, you're dumb. And I hope you feel dumb that they keep playing these clips. Yeah, because they're really rubbing it in right now to poor Maddie, who ends up getting fucked over.

Literally by the end of the episode, I mean, I thought it would take at least until episode three or four of a wow. They just jump right into it. Yeah, so she's like, all right, well, I gotta go work bottle service now. You know, I like being shouted with love and respect and food, you know, I'm third gonna say sex. Yeah, sex too.

God, I love looking into a future. So now they're playing like kind of military music and we see because they're going to work at Republic, which is you guys, you have to be so disciplined at Republic, it's like being in the military. So we go and we see the line outside of Republic and they're playing a song that's like big moves on this circuit, big moves on this circuit. This is basically some homely people who don't know, was told them their homely.

I don't know how to explain the crowd outside of Republic. But the way they talk about Republic and then sing the crowd, I was like, is there a Tommy Bahamas shirt sale? Like what's happening? They always act as if they have the hottest club in Vegas or in Miami. Like, this is, this is the hottest ticket to get an art puzzle week in Miami. But in reality, it's basically people who just came from like the Bass Pro shop who now won. Got dancing afterwards. Like, yeah, Republic is the number one place to go to after top golf.

And we serve the clientele. It's after bar.olf. And we serve the clientele. It's after bar. Yeah. Topgolf. So we see shots of the bar, which I still cannot tell how big this place is. It looks like a hallway. It doesn't look great.

And we hear that it's very small too. So it's not like my visual, my eyes are doing all that much work. We hear it's really tiny, but it's amazing how they shoot it to look like it could be bigger, right? Yeah, to make it look like a tiny. It's like a enormous. They literally make it look like a towel, but we've been, people have actually messaged us

and said, oh, I went to Republic and I was tiny. So they do great work and make it seem huge. And you know, MTV does does that but it looks enormous. So we also meet the new VIP server. His name it looks like it's spelled Oisin but I think it's Oisin Oisin. How they said his name? Oisin. I think it's Ossin, Ossin, how they said his name? Ossin, Ossin. They say Ossin, but then someone calls them Ossin. So Ossin.

Ossin, don't, don't, I don't know. But he's a douche. It's a total douche, which I love. It's like a long haired hot douche. I think from, is he from Ireland? He's from, I know, I think he's from Tulum. I think he might, well, I don't know. I mean, his accent's so. No, he talk he might, he might, well, I don't know, I mean, his accent's so...

No, he talk like that, don't he? He talks like that. Well, it's not our she's either in it, but it sounds like that. He's talking like that. You know what, there was an accent and I think because they met him in Tulum, I just projected a Spanish accent onto him. And I wonder if it was my brain playing a trick because I just heard Tulum. You're gonna hear Tulum a lot because we are watching Southern hospitality.

They say Tulum a lot on their show. I mean, they love Tulum. They love it. So, Lava, Joe gives, Joey Marbles gives, Oys and a fist bump. He's like, Oh, so then Lava's like Republic

is like the true essence of Southern hospitality. Oh, really? Republic is the true essence of Southern hospitality. Oh, really? Republic is the true essence of Southern hospitality. Leva is it. It's like, yeah, that's why we've been in business for 10 years. By the way, I think you're right. Because his last name, I looked him up on Instagram.

His last name is O'Neal. And his little bio says marketing master for NKD marketing and Bravo, Southern hospitality, but then he writes down Iyer EIRE sense for Ireland so I think you're correct. Ah, there you go. All right. Good job. Oh gang, I Cod I was worried because below deck meds ending and I was like where are we gonna? You know use of really terrible lucky charms. I'm so glad. By the way, there's no one I wish on below deck man.

This year. No, still use it. Bravo's of TV official site. According to his official Bravo bio, he's from Wicklow, Ireland. So, hi there, Shaq, son-to-deez. I'm Mary Ego. How are you, go.

So they met him in Tulum, which is where all of the sorted backstories for this show seem to come from, which I loved. I loved that they were still like mining to loom for more people and storylines. So love us like there's like tons of competition in Charleston. The people come to my club because my VIP team is going to always get the party started. Okay, do you even know what you're saying? my club because my VIP team is gonna always get the party started. Okay, do you even know what you're saying?

Are you just reading these off-cute cards? You know the plot for the rest of the show, right? Because you're literally leading it. Lava. I think it's still funny that they're using this. Like my team is gonna party it up, except that they don't party anymore, because that's a rule, which is totally my idea.

And we're putting it into effect right now, right when the camera started. I have to say, Ronnie, when I go to a club, my first thought is, I really hope they have a good VIP team that's going to help my party get started, because that's how I know I'll want to go to this club. So always the first consideration is the quality of the VIP team. Yeah, totally. Like when I go to Chili's, I really want to know that my waiter enjoys an awesome blossom just as much as I do. Yeah, you know what I mean?

Yeah, because is that outback? Outback is awesome blossom. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no Yeah. Either way, it's like, you know, when I go to a club,

you know, it's, you know, music, who cares, drinks, who cares, vibe, who cares, VIP, VIP staff, only priority for me. That's what I need. If they don't bring out a good sign with sparklers, then it's like, why even be there? Like, I'm done. Yeah, so it's a busy night in the club and TJ, you know, and his

like, prismicity shit starting little way. It's like, um, is Mattie here? And they're like, no, where is Mattie? Well, Mattie's never here. So Chris, the new general manager, who is just kind of slutty, he's kind of a Barney rubble. He goes and finds Mattie in the kitchen and she's cleaning her shoes and he, What's she doing, bud? She's like, cleaning my shoes? They get dirty. All right, bud. Well, listen, bud, I'm going to need you in the meeting because I don't have time to

relay this information again, all right? You're going to get in the meeting and that's it. Yeah, so the big thing is that they have a new room for meetings because last year they were like sitting on basically paint canisters and Like this is the same room. It's a different room. I thought they said it was a new room I don't seem to remember a big and big vacant blue room I mean there could have been it's hard to remember I had memories of every time they had a staff meeting They were literally sitting on like cases of Fabulouso. I don't remember a big blue room with coaches in it,

but maybe it was, I don't know. Should've done my research. So they're in the meeting, and Oisins, I can't believe we're not allowed to have a baby. Like we're not allowed, can you believe it? And Matt is like, yeah, I know, we're all really upset about it right now, but we just gotta keep going. We just gotta keep going. I can't believe it. And man, he's like, yeah, I know we're all really upset about it right now, but you know what?

Just we just gotta keep going. We just gotta keep going. So Leva says, sadly, over the last past few years, we got a little loose with our rules. And we see like everyone getting drunk. We see Grace Lilly, you know, doing the Grace Lilly thing. We see Mia being like, I'm so glad I can be here. I can work here and just just chill with a glass of champagne and a lot of go on a break.

So they're all getting wasted on the job. Yeah, because I'm in finance. And so it's so nice to come to work and just chill because I'm in finance. So then back to Leva, she's like, yeah, it's my fault. Because I do like to be a friendly boss. I'm not a fucking monster. Like I get first chances and second chances and third chances

and fourth chances and fifth chances and sixth. Lemon. Can you guys just edit out half of Lemon's monologue? What do I have to sit through it? Yeah, such a good, this year we're going back to the rule book. Here are your rules. Be on time, respect managers, don't drink.

Okay, because I have a business to run. And if there's insubordination, you're fired. You're out. And then we see her. She now has a new problem. You know, I would just like to request a new rule on there. Wash your hands, okay?

Because I've seen this show. That rule needs to be somewhere on this show. Wash your fucking hands. Yeah. I don fucking hands. Yeah. I understand why in below deck, you don't wanna have your staff drinking. Generally speaking, you don't wanna have your staff drinking on the job.

But I do feel like at a nightclub, it's probably okay. Like I feel like that might be an exception to the case. It doesn't really bother me as much. There's no yacht that might crash. There's no heavy machinery necessarily. I don't know, I feel like. Well, she just said it in her line before, which is why I was cracking up that she even said it.

She's like my VIP party. It's gonna make sure you're parting right because they're like, she kind of insinuously that they're parting with you. And last year that was her thing. They were like, people come to, people come to Republic because we're the best people to party with and we party with you.

And you don't just get access to Republic, you can access to me. That was kind of their big thing. So for her to be like, oh, and now you can't drink when you party with the guys. It's just weird. I don't know, it's weird. It's a weird line to draw.

It's obviously trying to go for a drama or trying to just fire people that maybe she wanted to fire anyway. I don't know. Yeah. So, now she has a screen of cameras in her office, like a giant wall, which by the way, half of them are not working. So, how about, as long as we're revising, the rules want you to fix your cameras, because

there's like seven different black screens on there, I'm like, this is not a very effective wall of security. Yeah, you're a real Baldwin over there, Sliver. Okay, it's like that movie Sliver where she's got like 20 video cameras. You don't even have room for 20 video cameras. What do you like? Like one is the outside of her garage at home, you know. Well, I guess my husband's home, so that's good. She just has, she has a camera on Gwins. I just wanna see what the parking situations like if I go over there later. I just wanna see like who's buying like satin dresses with giant ruffles on there today. I know, it was like the head of household room

on Big Brother. So Grace the Lee says, so in honor of Lucia not being here today and everyone booze. So Lucia, who seemed to be one of the most responsible people on the show, actually got fired. That's what we find out. Yeah. Well, we all, we all miss her.

Okay, guys. So here's what we're going to do. We're going to burn some sides because she loves side. So in honor of Lucia, who's dead now, let's burn side. And then we see a clip at Lucia's apartment or kids like running around playing. And she's like, I'm terminated by text message. I told, I'm told Lucía Pena is no longer an employed at Republic. And he's like, Oh my God, you did drink on the job. And we're not supposed to drink on the job, right? Like, as that would happen, I'm in finance. So the numbers aren't adding up.

And I say that as someone in finance. And the CEO is like, I just took one swig, and she's like, and you didn't get any warning from Republic at all. It's like, no, no. Literally my first infraction in seven years, I'm fired. And me is like literally firing a single mother for a first offense.

I mean, that is nuts. And then he's like, what the fuck are doodles? Ooh. Because the kids just sitting there and just staring at them. Oh yeah. So then we go back to the meeting and me is like, guys, like you know that before I started to work here,

I was a patron here, because I can afford to be finance. And Lucia was my favorite bottle service girl, so I'm just gonna say that. Well, maybe we should pass the side around and we just spray it all over this room. And so Mia says, if Leva fired every employee, especially the ones that don't work in finance,

that had a shot of alcohol in her establishment, she would have fired everybody except for Maddie, who sober, what I'm trying to say is we all drink. So Maddie and Joe come in and Joe's like, I'm gonna say some business stuff right now. So listen guys, we're gonna do a good job pushing people tonight, turning things over, really rolling over everything, but turning, turning, turning, we're gonna stock up,

and we're gonna pile up. Everybody got it? This is the business. And Grace Lilly, give them a good first impression at the front door, give them your best. Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on actually worked here, you know, since we stopped shooting, so just practice, okay? Grace, give us what are you gonna say at the front door? Aplaria! Nope, real it in a little bit, Grace. Real it in a little bit, but...

So, Joe's has this, ah, last summer was like, not my brightest in the lighting department, ha, ha, ha, ha, and they're like, yeah, Joe's an idiot. And they're just talking about how last summer, Joe confesses love for Maddie, and then like 45 minutes later, I guess made out with Mia and then told her that he was just like a real, he really dropped the ball on that front. Yeah, he'd like tried to profess his love for Maddie once she already was getting back to cover with Trevor,

and then when he didn't get it with her, he tried with Mia. And then was like, I mean, come on. Once like, when they both confronted him together, he's like, I mean, come on. I'm like, hitting on you after I just like told my best friend, I'm gonna love it. With her, you even think that was real? Yeah.

So you just kind of a douche. Yeah, but they've forgiven him. Like Mia's just like whatever, like we're friends. So they're back to being, I guess they're all back to being friends right now. So Joe's like, oh yeah, I'm like Don Pining for Maddie and Mia. And Mia no longer wants to rip my head off, which is great.

I just go back to being Joy-Mobbles. Ha ha ha. So New Year, it's a new Joe. And I'm ready to get back in the game. Start dating. Link. Hank. Yeah. New year, it's a new Joe, and I'm ready to get back in the game. Start dating. Link, Hank, yeah,

Link. It's like really hard for me to win. I'm gonna try winking, I like that they gave him, like Joey Marbles, 2.0. He's, there's always gotta be a guy who's coming back. It's the newest version of themselves on these shows. Yeah. So Joe introduced his oisin on his first night

as the new bottle boy and Maddie's like, yeah, Grace Lilly and I met Oisin in Tulum because where else? And he's like, team money, that's what we're here for. Team money, who's that? I was running a lot of events up in Tulum, secluded parties out in the middle of the jungle

in Mexico. I feel like his party is real strange, like strange tantric sex, you know, experiences, like people would just get naked in the jungle and then he'd pass around like Iwasca or something like that or some sort of strange beverages, like, enjoy it out of a coconut and they'd be like touching and feeling. Like I just imagine that that's what his VIP experience was. Yeah, this guy is fucking for money out in the middle of the jungle. That's right. He just doesn't want to pay for a hotel room. So, um,

Grace is like, yeah, he's dancing on the tables, dancing with all the hot girls. And Maddie's like, yeah, and an orange fucking speedo, which was kind of oddly attractive. Like, we had a moment, but it was just a moment. And he's like, I love girls. Amazing. So Maddie is like, so hey, by the way, have you met Leah? She's the new CEO. She's here. You're gonna meet her. So then we see Leah. Dun dun dun dun dun show walking around like I'm gonna hand out and in fraction She's somebody Who's gonna get an infraction?

Who's gonna get in front? You got time to lean you got time to clean. That's an infraction Watch it, mister. Leah is definitely She is like the like you're watching a high school play and someone has to play the boss in the high school play and that's Leah. She's like, I'm going to wear a business suit because this is what boss has wear. Yeah, she wears like business clothes that just don't fit her, right? My guess is that, poorly, it does not have one well tailored outfit that fits well. She's just walking around in a bunch of rain onon things with collars going in fraction and fraction. And then we learn one of her

favorite things to say later is you know what we're gonna do? Nip it in the butt. That's what we're gonna do. We are about to nip this in the butt. Yeah, she just looks like, she looks like a middle schooler, dressed in adult clothes, going around being like, I'm the boss now, and I'm gonna hand that in fractions. Nothing but in fractions, we're gonna nip it in the bud. That's what bosses do. Yeah. So they ash out, the meeting is coming to a start.

So, Oysen ashes out the sage on the table, and Matt is like, wait a minute, you have to clean that. We have to keep it clean back here now, guys. And he's like, it's all right, darling, don't y'all worry, you're pretty little ahead about it. And he's like it's all right darling don't you're worried your printer didn't have to about it and he's like oh my god you're like literally gonna be fired right now so then we hear a song and it's like let's go hands in the air headed for the game let's go the unofficial anthem of Republic bar and lounge The unofficial anthem of Republic bar and lounge.

So in case you guys are not behind that this is a totally LA Hollywood and only famous people come here, welcome Olivia from Southern Charm. Yeah, I'm some creepy friends. Huge thanks. And they're like, Oh my God, it's Olivia from Southern Charm. No. Everyone drop what you're doing.

Olivia from Southern Charm, that the door door get there now Swarm swarm with bottles and free drinks Hmm, so always since like M.A. Babe you're gonna show me some tricks or what what am I supposed to do here tonight It's a very kind of training and she's like I'll go order a bottle of Dom Okay, and then guess what we're gonna bring it out with glow sticks, because that's what we do here. And he's like, wait a minute, what about the signs? Are we gonna bring out the sign, Brad?

I think that Joe goes, yeah, you know what? We should bring out a sign, and you know what? Just say, hold on, let me think about it. Super stars. That's what it should say. That's good, that's good. Super stars, go for a joke. Go do it. This is what we get paid the big bucks. The poetry of Republic. Superstars. So Leva goes to see

Leah, CEO and her assistant Michelle in the green room and she's like, okay, guys, does it like smell like weed in here? Do you even pretend to work here? They just said that Lucia lit sage every single might here and you don't recognize the smell. Yeah, just go home. Replace. I vote replace Leva with Leah CEO. Yeah. So Leah's like, oh yeah, there's sage. I can tell because I'm a CEO and I hand out infractions. Well, Lu CEO's gone. So let the sage be gone too. Hi, yeah, I just chopped it away. Yeah, just got rid of sage. That's going into handbook and love us like,

yeah, you know what else say just? A fire hazard and then you go, see, yeah, pretty much. We're on top of things now. So, you know what's a fire hazard? Things that we're on fire once. So love is like, you know what's a fire hazard? Things that were on fire once. So, love is like, you know what? We just promoted Leah.

We just promoted Leah to head boss. And I just call her the hammer. So, she's like, okay, Leah. She's like, okay, Leah, you're the hammer. So, just get the monologue to the camera. She's like, I don't really know how to do that. Just go ahead, Leah, just make it up. You're a boss, okay?

You're in Rayon. She's like, okay. Listen, I can do this, because I'm not emotional. You know why? Because we're running a business. So let me do the dirty work, so we can keep rocking and rolling the way we're supposed to.

Infections. She's like, yes, me all day. That was like, yeah, Leah was out in Vegas working some pretty big hotels. Yeah, you ever heard of the NGN? It's not the NGN, it's the NGN. Yeah, it's there too. And she worked it. Okay, and we really fought to have her here.

And she said, I don't know if I could leave being the manager of this buffet. And we said, come on, we'll make it worth your time. So she sets it straight. Okay? You're just seeing all the people that tried to eat the breakfast food when it was turning over to lunch. She wouldn't allow it. Because that's what she does. She's a boss. She's no nonsense. She's so efficient. She's like on it. Yeah. You guys, no one can handle stress of Republic except for the woman who dealt with a seafood buffet all day seafood She's here guys we got her. Yeah, we got her so Leo's like hmm. So Leo's like sage stinks. It's gross and it's a mess We got to nip that in the bud

There's there's too much sage back here. We got a nip that in the butt. There's too much sage back here. We got a nip this in the butt before all the customers smell sage a little bit. So then meanwhile the VIP team is hard at work making the superstar assigned. They're literally acting like they're doing a puzzle on survivor. Like a million dollars is on this. And they're like putting the letters in there. Like superstars. And say superstars,

is this working, is it look good? Is this going to go out? Can we publish this, can this go? Is this what we locked? We locked in superstars? Okay, let's do it. And Maddie says they're all super, all of our guests are superstars

because all of our tables are superstars. Like you're special, just like everyone else, my most favorite bumper sticker. So then we see a group of tacky, dry, adhered girls parting. And one of the girls is telling Oisin, she's like, oh my God, you should do a shot with me. He's like, I want to do a shot.

Can I do a shot, Maddie? Maddie, can I do one? She's like, I'm walking away, you do whatever you want. I don't see, I cannot see anything. And then we say, oh my God, do not do a shot. You're gonna lose your job totally, don't do it. Don't do it, it's like, oh, good, I got it. Oisin will be doing shots later this season.

He definitely will be, but this is also Emmy being like a responsible coworker, as opposed to Maddie, who might be not setting up Oisin for success. Like he might get fired because she's being like, you do what you want to do instead of saying, like, don't do like, he might get fired. Well, because she's being like, you do what you want to do. Instead of saying, like, don't do this, you'll get fired. You know, I think they're trying to set that up a little bit. Well, Emmy is coming for Maddie's gig, I think, right? Probably.

Emmy's like, um, Maddie doesn't even care about anything that goes on at Republic, but I told poison not to drink. So, and basically on this place now. And I would, I would trust Emmy as a manager far more than Maddie. I mean, again, look at that apartment. It is immaculate. Look at where Maddie lives, okay? They couldn't even handle their Charcuterie board.

At one point, we didn't even talk about this. At one point, they had that Charcuterie board sitting there. And what's this phase just spins it, and like three al olives go flying off onto the floor. This is not this is not manager material here. If you can't even figure out the physics that go into rotating a Shakuduri board. So I'm not serious. I'm not cracking jokes here. This is a serious thing for me. Yeah, you're very you're very pro clean apartment, you know

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