Watch What Crappens - #2863 Crappy Hour 5/26/2025: Bravo Headline News with Guest Danny Pellegrino
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I'm Ronnie and today, the very special, gorgeous, about to be daddy for the first time guest,
Daddy Pellegrino.
Hi, Ronnie.
Hello, Danny from the Everything Iconic podcast.
So good to see you.
We have so much to chat about.
I know.
It's so good to see you.
And I had Amy Phillips on here earlier and we were talking about how we only see each
other if we do this.
I know.
I feel that way with a lot of our, I mean, a lot of you guys.
It's like we, of course I love everyone, but it's like hard to see everyone.
And you and I were just talking before we started recording.
We live so close to each other.
We live right by each other.
And then we have to get together. But it is hard. And I feel like once you get in sort
of the habit of hanging out on a podcast recording, it's like every time you do hang out, you're
like, wait, should we be recording this? Or like, should we just use this as an excuse?
Ben and I do. We'll whip out our phone in a 7-Eleven. We don't care. Yeah, we'll whip
it out everywhere. But also it's weird because I'm used to seeing you like this,
and in real life, we'd probably just be like,
hey, what do you like to eat?
Oh, no, I don't care. What do you like to eat?
Well, and all of the Bravo nonsense
gives us something to chat about too.
It's like, you know, we have plenty to talk about
with the world of Bravo.
Yeah, I don't have real life stuff.
So what's your...
What's... Tell me about the baby.
Are you so excited?
Daddy's soon.
Daddy's soon? Is Matt excited?
Do you have a little baby sound machine
for the baby to play with? Like, what's happening?
Okay, well, the sound machine, it's funny you bring that up,
because I feel like everything now has a sound machine,
like, attached to it.
Like, so we have, like, a separate sound machine,
but then it feels like everything makes the sound.
And then also, like everything makes the sound.
And then also like, I was kind of thinking like, well, can't you just, you can like pull
it up on Spotify or whatever, if you need like specific sounds too.
So we're like overloaded with sound machines.
And then, so we have like travel ones, we have a main one, but, but yeah, we're both
Matt and I are both really excited.
And I've been trying to just, I've been working a lot to try to get ahead of, you know, with podcasts and other work stuff, trying to get ahead so that I can take some time
and relax a little bit. But I still have a couple of weeks. Um, I mean, obviously we can't control
when the baby comes exactly, but we're due in like a couple of weeks, um, or two and a half weeks or
something. So, so it'll be very soon. Um, but, and I'm just on edge. My emotions are also like all over the place.
So it's like very heightened to everything.
So I'm either like, when I'm excitable, I'm like super excitable.
When I'm sad, I'm like super sad.
So it's just like this roller coaster of emotions,
which my therapist does say is normal when you're about to have a baby.
Oh, that therapy is gonna go right out the window.
Don't you worry. You're gonna have that baby
and you're gonna just be tortured by this little fucking thing
that's so cute that you're gonna be in prison,
and you're gonna love it. It's gonna be great.
Will you come babysit? Will you come babysit?
Yes. Oh, my God. We live right by each other.
So bring that baby over. I will teach your baby important things.
Did you guys know Danny lives...
Okay, we live by this little mall,
and Danny knows that there's an air wand there.
Because, you know, he's a healthy, skinny bitch.
He did not know there's a Van Lewin's ice cream back there.
That is a shame.
You need somebody to teach your baby
the important shit in this neighborhood.
How do you not know that?
I know. Well, but that whole area stresses me out.
I can't go there much because it's like this little,
sort of outdoor shopping area.
And for people who don't know, an Arowan is like this really,
insanely overpriced
grocery market. And I hate it because there's like a hot bar where you can get food and
there's always like a bunch of people taking like influencers taking video there and stuff.
And so like you can't even get the food you want because it's just a lot of influencers
taking videos. So I can't even go up that way.
It's not an air one. I hate those people too. So that's why you go to the ice cream place.
Because guess who's not taping in there? Influencers. I'm not going to tape themselves eating ice
cream. Those skinny bastards.
You know, there's a plant shop there, which this is so weird. There's a plant shop. You
know the one in the corner there?
Oh yeah.
There's a bar upstairs at the plant shop.
Yeah. Those people are full of shit. Have you been up there?
Yeah, I've been. I've only been to the happy hour there. I've never been there for buying plants.
They're very snobby there.
I'm not paying you $100 for a ficus or whatever.
And they won't even call it a ficus.
It's like a philodendron, gada gada, you know, whatever.
I'm too trashy for that place. I stick to Van Leeuwen.
Van Leeuwen does like five-star dining for me.
I'm like, whoa, $10 ice cream.
What do I...
Like the chocolate brownies really good.
It's very gooey.
Okay.
And then they have a lot of, you know,
like foofy flavors that you try to look
like you have some, you know, breeding.
Right.
Those are never good.
Stick with the chocolate stuff.
I was telling you just earlier today,
I was at the Cold Stone
because we have a lot of like those salt and straws
out here too, which I don't like a salt and straw because it's so fancy. And like I, you know, like
I want like a good old fat, you know, I miss a dairy. Yeah. But no, I hear you. Yeah. Salt
and straws. Very like bacon and Gouda. I don't want that. Fuck off. Give me fucking cookies
and cream. Yeah. Give me a brownie or a mint chip. Okay, so tell me about your books.
Let's get all... What do you have going on?
Because you've got books, you've got movies.
I saw your holiday film. That was great.
I love you bringing in like the HGTV with the...
With the Christmas movie.
And then what are your books?
Yeah, so I just have my books. I have two books.
How do I remember this?
And a holiday book called Jolli-A-Spongebob.
And then I'm working on my third one, which will be a really long way away,
but I'm working on it.
It'll have a lot of baby stuff, I would imagine.
Yeah, maybe like some parenting baby stuff, but I'm working on it.
And yeah, my other books, they've been actually,
it's been weird because for some reason, Amazon did like a big sale on the books.
And so they were like really inexpensive
and I think they still are like $4
or under $4 or something like that.
And so there's been this whole like slew of people.
The first one, how do I remember this came out
like three years ago or something.
And it's been so fascinating
because all sorts of new people have picked it up
and it's been really exciting to hear from people.
And the Jolly Sponge too, which is a Christmas book.
It's like a Christmas essay collection, but there's, there's, it's,
you could read it any time of the year, but people have been sort of
picking them up and it's been fun.
Oh, good.
Yeah.
You get a whole new audience when you like lower the price.
Is that what you're saying?
Sales.
Yeah.
That's where it's at.
And I know it's like, you're not supposed to say, I mean, I know
Amazon's kind of a monster, but yeah, for some reason... Whatever, they're our network, so we work for the monster, so...
And also, they're sort of like losing money on the book because it's like, you know, they
pay like retail for it, but then they market for under retail.
So like, just because it's really cheap.
Oh, Amazon ain't losing shit.
Don't you worry about that.
I don't worry about Amazon.
Amazon, they're the last people I worry about
at the end of the day.
But I was saying that's why I think it's okay
to buy the books off Amazon.
Yeah, it is.
Because it's like, I still get, you know,
I get the money for it, but then they lose the money on it.
So it's like, you know, you're sticking it to the man
a little bit and supporting me.
Yeah, I like that. Like, rebellion purchase.
Well, we also live in independent bookstores,
but yes, let's talk about Bravo.
Yeah, but also go to the bookstores, yeah.
Yeah, don't be a horrible person who goes to bookstores just to look at books and then take pictures of the books. You remember to
buy it for cheap on your Kinta later. People like that are horrible and you're all going
to hell.
We see you there.
I will see you there. I'll be there with you. I'll be at the hell van Leeuwen's in the back.
Books are too heavy. Okay, that's my complaint about books. So, let's go to...
HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE What could you do with that? Okay, so I'm loving The Valley. But one of the things that's interesting to me about The Valley is it is a cast full of villains.
And I'm finding, and I don't, I wanna talk to you about this,
because I don't know if you're hearing from people the same way.
Like, I came into the season being like,
this is gonna be the best season of TV.
I think it's been so good, so chaotic.
Every episode to me, aside from maybe last week,
was like a little slower than most.
But otherwise,
I feel like it's just been fantastic reality TV.
But I'm hearing from so many people who listen to my show
or watch these shows who find the cast just too unlikeable.
And I like that they're all sort of unlikeable.
But I'm curious, where do you stand on that?
Well, I love feeling anger and rage.
That's like my love language.
And so, when I can go raging,
just start screaming at people and calling them stupid,
I love that. I feel so good.
And so, it's good for me in that way.
I mean, you've got Janet, who's a monster.
All the men on the show. You can yell at all the men.
Even Jason acts so innocent. Fuck that guy too.
You know, they're all terrible.
And then you've got Janet, who's one of the most terrible.
And these are like rayon villains.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, did you see all that stuff about like the...
the alcohol thing that they edited out of the show with Janet?
Yeah. The Al-Anon thing. Yeah.
And then they asked, but the weird thing about it was,
so they edited out of the main episode, but then they also had asked her about it on Watch What Happens Live and then edited
that out of Watch What Happens Live.
And it's like, well, what is happening there?
Like I don't understand it.
Bravo, honestly, Bravo needs to stop with the, you know, if you talk to somebody from
Bravo, which you know, you do a lot of interviews, right?
So we don't, we'll do maybe one a year or two a year.
But every time you do one, they're like,
okay, now here's the stuff we want edited out.
And they give you this page of shit
to go edit out of the interview.
And it's like, that's all the good stuff.
You know, why would I want to interview people from Bravo
if you're gonna cut everything good?
And why would anybody want to listen to this?
Like, you want the messy stuff
because they share the messy stuff.
The people share the messy stuff.
They don't share like the, I love blueberries.
They don't want to share that.
So why are you bothering to?
So they've got some kind of weird disconnect over there with, they've got all the PR people
kind of running free and they're not controlling things the way Bravo wants.
And I don't know what Bravo thinks it is, but it's not some classy organization
that needs to be protected.
You're putting out trash.
You're putting out glamorous trash that we love.
Stop editing it and stop doing all that shit.
Why was, was the Al-Anon thing
like gonna ruin somebody's life?
I also don't know if it's,
and this is, people are probably gonna get mad at me,
but I don't know if the blame should be,
if people are mad, when people are mad about that, I understand that, but it's, it shouldn't all be
the blame on Janet either, because it's like, there's a whole slew of people with Bravo that
it goes through. So like anyone that can obviously have a problem with it along the way before it
gets to that point. Um, but I, I sort of stopped doing a lot of the Bravo interviews too, because
it just got to the
point where it's like, okay, you're right, you're cutting out all of the juicy stuff
or they're asking you to cut stuff out.
So I either tell them like, I'm not going to edit them at all, or I don't want to do
it.
Like it's not fun.
It's not fun.
And I don't work for you.
And then I know what I mean.
I can't take notes from people that I don't even see their face and we don't take
notes.
You're not paying me.
And then it ultimately always just makes us look bad.
Like that's what I, that's where I sort of drew the line because I felt like there would
be times where people would say, well, why didn't you ask about that or this thing or
that thing?
And it's like, well, I did ask about it, but then they threatened to whatever if I didn't
edit it out or whatever.
So it's like, that's the thing.
And so it just makes me look like a bad interviewer.
I don't even think the president can go on an interview and then request edits.
That's just weird.
I've just never heard of that.
So, I mean, I have from Bravo, but I haven't heard of it from anybody else.
So that kind of stuff, I just think that they've got somebody up there clutching their pearls
all the time, not wanting to get sued because they've got a lot of stuff going on with the
lawsuits and people accusing them of stuff.
But, you know, don't do that on my time.
And you're right, because a lot of what people say is that Bravo gives the most notes out
of any network.
So, whenever they get an episode of something, they send copious amounts of notes.
So, for those episodes to get through to air,
and then for them to be like,
oh, no, they said Al-Anon, we have to take it out.
It's just ridiculous, and it's making all the production people
jump through hoops. And the Al-Anon thing wasn't great.
She shouldn't have been outing that.
Janet sucks. Like, I'm not defending the Al-Anon thing.
But yeah, I agree with you. If you're gonna edit it out,
do it before... You can't make Hey You do it.
Look at Hey You. Hey You's like, no.
I'm not taking that out. We are busy.
We are in a different time than you. Okay?
And over the years, I've interviewed a lot of other talent
from like other networks or other celebrities and stuff.
And it's like they...
They're never asking to edit things out.
It's like always just the Bravo people.
Yeah. And you know, Bravo's like pretty good to us for edit things out. It's like always just the Bravo people. Yeah.
And you know, Bravo's like pretty good to us for the most part as far as like screen.
Like they're great.
So, you know, as far as like bitching about Bravo, it's just that thing.
Like the editing thing needs to be, they need to have more balls as far as just being like,
we're controversial.
We thrive on controversy.
Housewives is our bread and butter.
It's all about fighting.
Release the fights.
Either like lean in or lean all the way off. It's like, I don't know, they're always just
like, I don't know, it's frustrating. They keep sort of trying to figure out where the line is.
And it's like, well, we're how many years into this whole empire?
The line has been crossed already. Yeah, it's too late. Safe word was said five years ago,
and you guys are still going. So the Valley, yeah, I think it's dark.
It pisses me off, but I think it's also still fun and funny
for the most part.
And don't you think it's the most fun show to recap?
Going back to your point where it's fun to rage about something,
I have the most fun recapping the Valley
or like Salt Lake City Housewives or just, I don't know,
I like when it's messy and whatever.
That's when it's fun to talk about.
Yeah, and there's big characters on them, you know?
And so I love, you know, doing like,
stupid sketch characters of the people.
So, the Valley has good impressions and, you know,
Salt Lake City, some of them, let me see what I struggle with.
Are you into the below decks and stuff too?
Do you like all of those?
I used to get into the below deck and I know people love it,
but I just, it got overwhelming to me
when they started just releasing a thousand spin-offs.
Yeah, it's one of those I really like to recap, but when we're taking off a season, because
it never ends, it's like day after day, you know, week after week. So sometimes we'll
take a season off and I can't watch it because I'm like, why am I watching these people clean?
But talking about it is really fun.
Yeah. But I'm like, why am I watching these people clean? But talking about it is really fun. Yeah.
But I'm like, why am I watching maids fight?
You guys do so many shows. You cover so many shows.
It's incredible.
Yeah, what do you do these days?
Do you stick to all the housewives?
Like, solidly?
You know, right now I'm just doing Valley
and finishing up Summer House.
And then I'm gonna actually be recapping
in just like that coming up.
Oh, you are?
Which is fun. So I've already recorded a couple of those
with my friend Hannah is joining me.
Oh, Hannah Brown.
So we're gonna be covering that sort of,
it'll be like a half paternity leave
because I'm able to record them a little early.
Okay, love it.
And so that's all I'm gonna be doing.
And how are you liking, oh, I'm sorry,
what were you gonna say?
No, but I, and then Housewives,
like I haven't been covering Atlanta. I did, I'm sorry, what were you gonna say? No, but I... And then Housewives. Like, I haven't been covering Atlanta.
I...
I did... I... Beverly Hills.
But I just kind of pick... I like to pick two shows.
I can't do more than two shows.
It's a lot.
And we used to do it where we would do
three or four shows in one episode,
and then there would be three hour...
episode, or two and a half hours, three hours, four hours, you know?
And then now people still to this day are like,
I'm trying to listen to Real Housewives of Orange County
season, whatever, and I can't find it.
And I'm like, I know we covered the Brooks Cancer season.
So now we have to go through and figure out what episode
and what timestamp everything is.
So yeah, keep it simple.
I think you do it right.
Yeah, we do our best.
You're keeping it simple, you're doing it right.
Okay, so what's the other one that you cover? Summer best. Yeah, we do our best. You're keeping it simple. You're doing it right.
Okay, so what's the other one that you cover?
Summer House.
Okay, so where do you stand on Lexi, Lex-Jexi?
I'm so tired of Lexi and Jesse.
It's like, I feel like nobody else had anything going on.
I'm going to be Danny Downer for a minute, so I apologize, but I feel like nobody else
had anything going on.
And so like production and the cast and everything really like leaned
into this Lexi Jesse thing. And I find it, I don't know, I don't, I find it just like
a 20 something three week relationship that they are trying to make into a bigger thing
than it is like production, the cast, everyone. And I think it's largely because there's just
no other storylines going on. I mean, Kyle and Amanda didn't really have anything going on.
West just sort of was silent the whole season.
Paige had the thing with Craig, but that was largely off screen and he came in for a couple
episodes.
So, Gabby was missing for a few episodes.
Emeril was edited out of episodes.
So, it was like, I just think nobody else had anything.
And so, they really like leaned in hard and tried to make this thing. They presented the Lexi and Jesse thing even in the editing and the
everything as a much bigger thing. And it's exhausting. And it just is like,
it was a two, three week relationship. Like, I don't give a fuck.
And like, I've been there, I guess, where it's nothing and I'm still like,
but you can't get me to believe that a model
who dated a Beckham cares about Jesse.
I just don't believe it. I've never believed it.
You heard him sing. Like, I just don't believe it.
I saw somebody online the other day say that
Jesse looks like he has too many teeth for his mouth.
Which I... And he's got a beautiful smile.
But I can't stop
thinking about that. Every time I think of Jesse, I'm now just like looking at his teeth.
Like I'm focusing on it.
Yeah. Jesse's a teeth man. Um, so what else is on there? Summer house, we said the valley,
we said, and then that's it. Have you heard anything about the new Vanderpump rules?
No, I saw some photos from filming, but I haven't heard like anything good or bad.
You know, it seems to me like Bravo overall, it's maybe trying to keep a little bit more
lock and key over like stuff that's filming, which I like.
And I don't know if that's what's happening with Vanderpump rules, but I noticed it with
like the Real Houses of Orange County, there hasn't been much leaked about what's going
on.
And Salt Lake City, there hasn't been much leaked about what's going on. And Miami, which is upcoming.
Did you see the Miami, the Miami...
Of course.
Yes.
Oh, that's one of my favorite ones.
Miami's gonna be good.
That's the most underrated Housewives, I think.
Totally.
Totally.
That one gets like five people watching it.
Like, if you look at the rating, I follow, um, ratings Bravo on X.
I love her.
I love you.
Or them.
I don't know if it's her.
I assume it's her because she has the Meredith blowing in the wind picture
As I that one back there behind me. I'm sure there's plenty of men on Twitter with that as their profile picture
I'm sure so I don't know if it's a her or not. But in my mind, it's Meredith with her wind blowing
They're down in the socials anyway
That one I follow and what I feel so bad for Miami,
because Miami's like one person.
You know, it'll be like we tracked one person
watching it this week, and it's so good.
And I don't understand too, because to me,
Miami is also very aspirational in the way that like,
like I think it looks really rich on camera,
it's very colorful, and so I don't understand exactly
where the disconnect is, because I think it's like high drama, a mix of
like really messy people, but I think you also still have like
likable people on there. Um, it's like a half and half cast
where it's like, you know, very more regular people and then
also crazies, which I love.
Yeah. Who's regular on that show. I think they're all crazy.
Dr. Nicole's, I mean, she's no longer on the show.
How long does she last? She lasted two minutes.
She was like, bye, I can't.
I think at some point she was like, enough.
Enough of you crazies.
But yeah, she's fairly normal.
For someone who's out yacht shopping and...
Like a rich normal.
Yeah. Yeah.
And Gertie, I think like a rich normal.
Gertie's fair, yeah, Gertie's normal too.
Yeah, you're right. Yeah, they did bring in some more normal. Kiki's a rich normal. Gertie's fair. Yeah, Gertie's normal too. Yeah, you're right.
Yeah, they did bring in sort of like a Kiki's a quirky normal.
She's like, I don't know what would that like, you know, that like, that meme or whatever
it's like chaotic good, chaotic, like I feel like Kiki's chaotic.
Good.
Yeah, she's good.
She's a good one.
But the the standbys are all still insane.
Yeah, like Alexia is chaotic evil or you know, like we could fit them all in that thing.
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And they're actually aspirational in the way that they keep living glamorous lives and
I have no idea how.
Like Alexia, how?
I mean, I know she got money when the ex died or maybe.
I mean, I don't even know what's going on.
But remember when Todd was like, okay, here's why we rent.
I have a statement, you know, and he makes like a full statement that he's written down
on paper.
And I don't know how they they all seem like fraudsters.
And I don't know how they have money.
And maybe they are still a rich.
I can't wait to see what's going on with Todd and Alexia because they were like getting
a divorce and then getting now they're back together, I think.
So and I don't really know.
I think the other thing I like about Miami is maybe because I just, they don't get as much press. Like
if in Beverly Hills, I feel like if Kyle makes one move with Morgan, it's like all over page
six and everything. But Miami doesn't quite get that. And so I go into the seasons, not
really knowing as much. And so even with like the Lexi and Todd stuff, I'm like, Oh, I'm
excited to see what happens there because all I know is that they were going to get divorced and then now are not getting
divorced. So I guess is, and I have no information. This is just from watching the show. But my
guess is she had problems with her kids because Todd was always going against the bratty kid,
Peter. And so I think she left Todd to show her son that she was going to stand up for
her son, but then stayed with Todd.
So she could have her cake and eat it too.
That's what I'm guessing.
Trying to please Peter.
That little fucker.
Don't raise your child like, she raised Peter.
I'm telling you that right now. Don't do it.
I'll be there. I'll be there in my little antevan
making sure that baby's not being raised by Peter.
I'll be like, you will not videotape homeless people
while you beat them, little baby.
Let's go to Van Lewin's.
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Where do you stand on Adriana?
I love Adriana. She's insane.
She's got severe issues,
but I love that she's on the show.
And I think it's very smart that they won't make her full time because she always comes
to work to try and get that full time.
All those Miami gals, I do think work harder than the other franchises.
I feel that way about Salt Lake City too.
I think Salt Lake City, they work harder than Beverly Hills.
A lot of them work harder than like Beverly Hills.
Beverly Hills doesn't do shit.
Those girls don't work at all.
And somehow they still come off, even the most boring seasons I find entertaining and I don't really know why.
But yeah, they do put in the work. I met Adriana at BravoCon. She was sitting on this couch.
I was with Miss Patricia. That was the day I saw you. So I walked from you and went to
some green room or whatever and saw Adriana. And Miss Patricia was like, who's that? And
she's just like lounging on this couch. You know, she's got like her leg up and she's like, what do you think? Huh? You like it? She's just like doing her hair, like,
but she's like, no, I don't like it.
And she's like, no, I don't like it.
And she's like, no, I don't like it.
And she's like, no, I don't like it.
And she's like, no, I don't like it.
And she's like, no, I don't like it.
And she's like, no, I don't like it.
And she's like, no, I don't like it.
And she's like, no, I don't like it.
And she's like, no, I don't like it. And she's like, no, I don't like it. And she's like, you, you watch my show? And I said, yeah. And she's like, what do you think?
You like it?
She's just like doing her hair, like basking in the compliments.
And I thought you were as crazy in real life.
And I love that about you.
They were, I did their panel, the Miami panel last year,
or whatever the last BravoCon was.
And yeah, I felt like beforehand,
they were all like coming up to me and being like,
well, you need to bring up, you know, this thing or you need to bring up that thing.
And they were all just exactly what I wanted them to be. But also with Miss Patricia, I
don't know if you were with her, but I like sat and had a conversation with her and I
love Miss Patricia.
Yeah.
We had this whole conversation and I left and be like, oh, we're like buddies now, you
know. And then on Instagram, she like posted a photo with somebody else and tagged me on it. And I was like, oh, that's not me.
Like I wrote her. I was like, that's not me. And she's like, what are you talking about?
And I was like, you tagged me and like, you know, we were there together, but that's not me.
And she's like, yes, it is. So I was like, I guess we're not, not that close.
So I was like, I guess we're not, not that close. Sounds about right.
She told me you should do Botox.
And I said, I do do Botox.
And she said, you need better Botox.
That's not working.
Whatever they're telling you they're doing to you, they're not doing.
Well, speaking of speaking care, I've told this on my show before, but I apologize for
repeating myself.
But I used to do a thing on my Instagram called Face Mask Friday, where I would put on like, I would try different
face masks, like shitty ones, drugstore ones, whatever. And she sent me, she sent me in
the mail a bottle of La Mer, like a very expensive bottle of La Mer with like her personalized
stationery. Another reason why I thought we were like close friends, but with her stationery,
it said like, don't use those cheap
masks or something, or don't use that cheap skincare product. Like, and then sign Patricia.
I'll never forget that was the best thing ever.
That's pretty good.
All right, let's get into some Bravo headlines. Shall we? We were just talking about how we don't
hear a lot of things from between the shows, but this is actually an old story,
but we didn't get to talk about it last time.
Katie Janela, have you heard any of the stuff going on
with Katie G on Real Housewives of Orange County?
Well, all I've heard is that she's like not...
She wasn't on like the main cast trip at the end of the season.
Yeah, I saw some Instagram she did where she was...
You know, where they say like,
Katie, the government, is what the government calls me.
Kate is what my mother calls me. You know those posts?
Yeah, like those memes or whatever.
Yeah, those memes.
And then the last one was, liar,
what my fellow workmates call me.
She's like trying to be all badass.
I was like, to be all badass.
I was like, ooh, what happened with Katie?
So this rumor from TV Deeds.
Her job may be in jeopardy after a major altercation
with Emily Simpson and Gretchen Rossi.
Katie wanted to go on the recent cast trip to Amsterdam,
but she was not allowed to.
Let's just say her future is not looking bright on OCE.
Without saying too much, a major announcement
will be coming soon.
Here's what bothers me. I don't care that much about Katie.
I mean, I liked her okay, but whatever.
Here's what bothers me. Emily Simpson and Gretchen Rossi
teaming up vile. No. New hip. New hip.
And Gret...
New hip!
New hip and Gretchen.
No hip!
Pfft!
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And Gretchen.
Do you do that all the time too?
Yeah, and I'm not someone who even needed Gretchen back.
Like, I was fine without Gretchen.
I don't understand, like, really...
I feel like people wanted her back, and I'm like,
what? I never got that.
No, I didn't.
I don't think anybody asked for Gretchen back.
But Gretchen's back.
I mean, it'll be interesting to see how she's...
I was going to use the word evolved.
I'm going to rescind because I don't think that'll happen.
But changed because I think she's become like a big, far...
Like she's become very extreme in her politics,
let's just say from what I've seen on the Instagram.
So it'll be interesting to see how that works out.
All I've seen on the Instagram. So it'll be interesting to see how that works out. All I've seen on the Instagram is like the no nose photos
where it's just like, they're so heavily built.
Like you can't, there's no recognizable features
because there's such like a Vaseline over the lens.
Yeah, and she's got this beautiful daughter.
I mean, of course she had a beautiful daughter.
Gretchen's beautiful, you know, so she had,
and Slade's hot, like, you know, I'm not talking about the insides.
Oh, you think Slade's hot?
Well, I mean, he's a good-looking man.
I'm not talking about his insides, but, you know, yeah,
he's good, he's well-featured or whatever.
So they had a little, you know, put some good genetics in there
and had this little adorable kid.
But she's very like child beauty pageant,
JonBenet, like hair curled and full out in her car seat.
You know? And Gretchen's hair is done the same way.
So, I guess I'm kind of interested on seeing that part.
You know, I don't like in general also on the house,
with... I'm sort of pushing Katie off the trip.
I don't like any time when a cast member doesn't go on the cast trip.
Like, I'd rather them go on the cast trip
and just argue with everybody than just not go on the cast trip. Like, I'd rather them go on the cast trip
and just argue with everybody
than just not go on the cast trip.
Like, I don't like when people try to decide,
like, oh, they're not coming on my, it's my trip.
It's like, no, this is a cast show.
We all know that it's not really the person doing the trip.
Like, it's all pretend.
It's the production company is planning the trip.
So I don't like when it's like somebody comes in
and says, well, they're not coming or something. And I don't know how it'll play out, but I don't
like that. I want everyone on the cast trip, whether you all hate each other or not. I
need you on the cast trip.
You've got you, especially if you hate each other, get on the cast trip. How are we supposed
to yell at you if you're at home?
And back to Gretchen, I also am curious how Tamra will play it because Tamra's even savvier
than ever, I think, because she's got her podcast now where she analyzes Housewives like we do.
So I think she's savvier than ever. And I think I'm curious which route she'll take,
because I feel like in ordinary circumstances, she would have butted up against Gretchen coming
back. But I almost feel like she's going to think, well, that's what they expect of me.
So I'm going to buddy up with Gretchen.
Does that make sense? And I'm curious which road she'll take.
Yeah, she's in a rough position this season
because they're ready to come for her after last season.
Because remember last season in the reunion,
how Tamra was quiet the whole time?
She's like,
-♪ Yeah, you know, I thought about it, and I'm sorry. -♪
Every time they would confide, she's like,
-♪ Yeah, I thought about it, I'm so sorry about it.
And she wouldn't fight.
And so she knew, because they were all, and they all had reason,
but they always have reason, they still don't come for her.
But last year they did, and so they're gonna get her.
They're gonna try and get her this year.
Well, we do know that she quit.
I love how we started this whole podcast or whatever off
by saying that we don't know anything about Orange County,
and now we're talking about it, I'm like, oh, I know everything.
But that's how we heard, you know, that you're right. Well, because she, you know, she said
it, she went on her Instagram.
Sometimes you come to the point where you can't take it anymore. I'm too good of a person.
There's real life stuff happening guys. I quit.
It's like that Kyle Richards quitting though, where it's like she did the same thing last season
and then come to the episode and it was like half an episode
she wasn't in. It's like, okay.
Yeah, well, yeah, Tamra's...
Especially Kyle. Oh my God, Kyle.
Kyle's the worst with that.
Every season, like...
Every season, two months before,
it starts with Kyle Richards' stories
popping up all over the place.
Is Kyle Richards returning?
Kyle Richards can't return.
She can't take the behavior from her fellow castmates.
And this year, they had us believing
it was gonna be a whole Kyle takedown.
Where was the takedown? I saw no takedown.
I think the show would benefit from Kyle taking a season or two off.
Like, it just... I feel like she runs that show too much,
and it sucks a lot of the air out of all the dynamics
with everyone else. And so, I just wish
she would step aside for a minute.
I do too. But, you know, no one's surprised
that I think that. God, she makes me nuts.
Like, just... And I was with...
And I didn't like the villainizing Garcelle
over the, just be a lesbian if you want to.
I mean, you're the one putting it in the tabloids every day.
She's just trying to be supportive.
And it's like, that's the show.
I don't, and then, I mean, not that this was so long ago,
but yeah, even at the reunion with Garcelle,
it was like, they were kind of mad that she,
she like didn't have any craziness going on.
And it's like, well, I don't know.
It's like, sorry that her husband didn't like
bamboozle the elderly or like, I don't know.
Yeah, sorry, I didn't bamboozle the elderly. Yeah. Oh, God, Erica, we could talk about
that all day.
Okay, wait, can we talk about the Erica and Jesse Solomon stuff? Because I haven't gotten
a chance to talk about this.
Yes, let's do it. I haven't either. So Erica Jane and Jesse Solomon hooked up after, watch
what happens live taping in New York,
according to a source.
What do you think?
One of the Umansky daughters was the source.
I think it's crazy.
I think it's crazy.
And I wonder, I think a lot of these people,
I wonder if they actually like hook up
for the right reasons or if it's just like
angling for storylines. I don't know. That's like the cynical part of me. I'm like,
but does she want Jessie as a storyline? I just don't see that. I guess she would like the other
ladies being like, oh yeah, Erica hooked up with some young, you know, allegedly hot person.
Well, and it's like headlines. It's like not even for her show. It's more like just because it's headlines
to help keep her spot on the show or his spot on the show.
I don't know. I don't know.
I don't see that one happening.
I can't visualize it.
And if I can't visualize you fucking,
I don't think you're a real couple.
Okay, but who do you think they could hook up?
Who could you visualize either one of them with
outside of their own franchises?
Jesse, I could see hooking up with most people.
And it's, I mean, Erika's gorgeous, so it's not anything,
ew, Erika, it's nothing like that.
I just, Erika gives off this, um, non-sexual vibe to me.
Because she tries very hard, you know, to give off her persona.
It's my persona, I'm acting, I'm Erika J.
You know, her Erika J. thing.
I'm a sex kitten. But,, I'm Erica Jane. You know, her Erica Jane thing. I'm a sex kid.
But I don't believe it.
I think she's a non-sexual person.
What do you think?
I mean, that's probably not something
we should speculate on, but who cares?
Let's do it anyway.
Well, and I was actually just talking to a friend
about how that, did you see that Bravo?
I'm sort of taking a son around about way,
but have you seen that Bravo article
or the People Magazine article
that was like the hottest Bravo bachelors or whatever.
And it was like Shep, Carl, Jesse, I don't know,
it's Schwartz.
That was offensive to.
It was so offensive.
That was offensive.
I felt like that entire group was like asexual,
which not that there's anything wrong with that.
It's just like to present them as like these,
I don't know, I felt like that whole group thing.
That's interesting, because I didn't catch that
through line, but you're right.
You've got Carl, who's like named himself Soft.
So let's start there.
And also like he was open about it.
Remember he hadn't had sex for a while
and then as he was flirting with Sierra,
he's like, yeah, I couldn't make it work or whatever.
When I did hook up with that girl,
he said this season.
And then Lindsay said he couldn't make it work or whatever. When I did hook up with that girl, he said this season. And then Lindsay said he couldn't make it work then either.
So.
Schwartz been very open about that.
Yeah.
You know, Katie said, let's talk about how your dick doesn't work.
Yeah.
Shep.
I don't know.
I just.
Shep doesn't seem.
Shep seems drunk sexual.
And you know Shep only lasts 30 seconds anyway.
So, it's not like the other guys are probably trying
to like actually have sex.
Whereas Shep, I think, is like a frat boy.
He's like, boom, pew, and it's over.
It's back.
I thought it was rude to Tyson Beckford
to like pair him with all the physical.
I just felt like that's inappropriate.
He's an international fashion model.
Yeah, I thought so too.
But I didn't really get the sexless through line until international fashion model. Yeah, I thought so too.
But I didn't really get the sexless through line
until you said it.
But now that you said it, that's true.
Maybe asexuals are taking over.
I just thought like, are these the only men on Bravo?
Like who turned it?
There must've been people that turned it down or something.
Like, I wanna know like the mechanics
of how that article came to be
because that can't be like the best Bravo Bachelors like that.
Okay, then let's make our own. So who are the best Bravo Bachelors? And I'll be reading
comments during this to see what you guys say.
The captain was the captain obviously turned it down. Yeah, Captain.
Captain Sandy.
Who's the Australian guy?
Captain Sandy, the hottest, the hottest on route. Captain Jason from Down Under.
He came out with a line of kimonos,
and by that I mean one kimono for $300.
Captain Jason.
There's no doubt in my mind that they went to him
and he turned it down.
Okay, yeah, I... He would have taken it.
Because the whole...
All the ads this season are like,
Jason coming out of the water in a wet white uniform shirt. Yeah, he would have taken it. I would imagine Andy must have turned it down too. All the ads this season are like, Jason coming out of the water in a wet white uniform shirt.
Yeah, he would have taken it.
Who else? Who'd you say next?
Did I lose you?
Oh my God, we're frozen.
Hello, are you?
Okay, you're back, you're back.
Am I back?
Okay, thank God, I almost lost my fucking mind.
Okay, so who was the one you said after?
I said Andy probably turned it down. Andy Cohen.
They probably went to him and he was like,
no, I'm not doing that, right?
Andy was probably like, not with Carl.
Not with Carl. Absolutely not.
I'm not going with Carl and Jeff.
Okay, who do you think else?
Dan West. I feel like West would have been
the better choice between Jesse and West.
West, you know, West gives that kind of barstool sports,
gross, slick, I haven't taken a bath and I smell like bar rot vibe.
But I agree. I still think that there's something sexy about West.
Uh, who would you choose? Who else would we...
Are we missing?
I would go with West. People are saying Craig.
I think that's fair, you know? I don't find Craig...
I mean, I think Craig's adorable, but I don't...
I wouldn't call unfair on that.
I think Craig would be the hottest from that show.
And especially if we're going with...
If Shep's the other option,
obviously Craig is a way better option than Shep.
Right, if you're gonna pick somebody from that show,
it would be Craig, right?
Or to be honest with you, I think...
Well, Rodrigo's in a relationship, right?
Isn't there somebody in there that's... isn't there another guy on Southern Charm? The silent gay was cute with his like weird wig or
whatever. He was cute. I forgot his name. I don't think he'll be back. It was kind of boring. I can
see why they wouldn't pick him. Southern hospitality. Oh, Russell from Real Housewives of Miami,
the husband of Gertie. He's not a bachelor. He's not a, they got to be bachelor. Oh, they from Real Housewives of Miami, the husband of Gertie. He's not a bachelor.
He's not a bad.
They got to have to be a bachelor.
But what about the southern hospitality guys?
Isn't there someone there?
I don't know.
They're just had to have been better people than that grouping.
Um, yeah, there had to be better people.
They didn't do a good job with that.
And there's something in here about those things.
It's like, oh, the here's the pics from the sexiest bachelors of...
Let me find it in here.
Bravo's most eligible bachelors spill their grooming secrets.
Are you seriously gonna have me take grooming advice from Shep?
Never. No, that's insulting, actually.
It is.
Insulting.
How dare you? How dare you? Or Schwartz.
How dare you?
Or Schwartz.
Like who's taking grooming advice from Schwartz?
Schwartz no.
That man's never worn a shoe in his life on camera.
The man slept on a suitcase.
Yeah, the man slept on a suitcase.
On his wedding day, he was bathing in a lake.
Like what do we, I want grooming advice from that man or Carl.
Like, I'm sorry.
This is disgusting.
Carl in his white pants.
No.
And now he's like into flow.
He's like, I'm in the flowy pants now.
Yeah. I'm into his white pants now. And now he's like into flow. He's like, I'm in the flowy pants now.
Yeah, I'm into soft pants.
So.
Come on shoes, here comes one right now.
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Okay, yeah. So the Erica, Jane and Jesse Solomon thing, so we're not buying that basically
is our verdict, eh?
Yeah. Yeah, I agree.
Okay. So then here's another thing I'm not buying, but I could totally see happening,
because our world has gone fucking crazy.
And that is this piece of news.
Real Housewives of New York singer...
Real Housewives of New York alum, Ramona Singer,
considering Florida political run.
Ramona Singer has been making headlines for her time
recently spent down in Florida, besides parting Mar-a-Lago, the former Real Housewives of New York star
is possibly looking to throw her at in the political ring. The thought is terrifying.
Yeah, unfortunately, I do think this could be true. And I don't I'm not happy to say
that, but I do believe that it could be possible.
You know what? Tax poor people. Why don't people tax poor people?
They take up all the sidewalks anyway.
Like if a tax isn't going to pay for sidewalks,
why can't it be paid for by the people that are sleeping on them?
You know what? Tax tents.
And you know what? I've never looked better.
I look younger than ever.
She's always telling us how she's never looked better.
It's like, let other people say that to you.
That would be her debate argument.
They'd be like, ma'am, I think you were out of line.
Oh yeah. But you know what? I look young. You look old.
Oh my God. What a nightmare that would be.
I don't know. But I feel like she will, it would run for like some,
not even like, I don't know, like a, a low position.
I don't, right. It would, it wouldn't be like a big position. It would be, I'm not
sure.
I think you're allowed to do insider trading and all of those positions. So I think that
even a starter, I think even starter level, if you're elected, you can do insider trading.
That's what I think. I'm going to run. I want to run for Congress.
Unfortunately, I do think we're like moments away from her being elected into some cabinet
in our current administration, like Siggy Flicker or something.
Siggy can do it.
I'm scared to, I'm too scared to go, you know, I'm too vulnerable right now to be checking
my news app. So I can't even pay attention.
It's smart. It's, it's insane right now. I read headlines and I'm like, this, this has,
this is not true, right? Because a lot of times I'll read them on Reddit, you know,
I get my housewives news on Reddit. So it'll be like Reddit, right? It'll be housewives,
housewives, housewives, hard news. And I have to look at the subreddit to see if it's a joke.
I know it's too much. It's too much. I deleted or I got off Twitter. And I was like, it was
getting too bleak for me. Like I was just seeing too many bad stories and I was just using my news
app. I was like, I'm not going to go on any of social medias. I'm just going to go on my news app
and just, I followed at the time only like video game news, movie news. And then like, once you
click on one story, the, the like world events stories just sort of trickle in. And then eventually
like my news app was just current event news. And there's no much for me. There's no escaping it. There's no escape.
Just pretend none of this is real. That's what I do.
I know. That's true.
I just pretend... You know, it's like, did you see that, um...
that HBO show? Well, it was a British show, but it was on HBO.
And it's about a family over, like, 10...
decades or something, or five decades or whatever.
What was it called? And you see all these world events happen,
and I just think of it like that.
Like, when I was born, there was major shit going on in the world,
and everything was great for a second, and then there was major shit going on.
We've lived through a lot. The World Trade stuff, you know, 9-11,
the pandemic, wars, famines, the price of eggs.
I mean, we've gone through a lot. We'll be okay.
That just sounded like Ramona's campaign speech.
And threw it off. I've hated poor people.
That's it.
And now I look young. I've aged all those years,
and I look younger than ever.
Alright, speaking of old Roni,
this is not the newest story either,
but we haven't had a chance to comment on this, All right, speaking of old Roni, this is not the newest story either,
but we haven't had a chance to comment on this,
which was,
hysterical Sonja Morgan blacklisted from NYC Italian hotspot
after refusing to pay $1,000 bill she thought was conked.
What say you?
You know, God bless her.
I do worry about my Sonja.
I worry about her, to be honest with you.
Every time a headline comes out about Sonia, just...
I worry. I worry.
I worry too, but Sonia has made it longer than I thought.
I thought there was a time there where I was like,
Sonia is just gonna go out into the middle of the ocean
on some stolen yacht and sink.
Like, I just thought there's no way this woman is gonna make it.
And she's still kicking, demanding free shit
wherever she goes. I mean, I have to say I'm kind of proud.
Yeah. Yeah, well, you know...
They should have given it to her.
They should.
BOTH LAUGH
Just give Sonia the free meal at this point.
Like, you know, Sonia, she has given us a lot,
and she seems to be down on her luck,
and could maybe use the free meal. So, I worry, Sonja, she has given us a lot, and she seems to be down on her luck, and could maybe use the free meal.
So, I worry, but also maybe just...
BOWEN Sonja hasn't been up on her luck
since we met Sonja on the first episode of this show.
TROY But you know what? They all got good press out of this.
Sonja was in page six, and the restaurant was in page six.
They all got... Everyone came out a winner.
BOWEN Yeah. I mean, she's got a lot of nerve, though.
So she went to this restaurant with, I think, like five guys.
And...
I'm not sure.
Yeah, like five dudes.
I think, I don't even know dudes, people.
And she went in and tried to get them all free meals.
Like, what...
I don't think that, I don't think you do that,
even if you are a star, man.
And she was going, I'm a celebrity, I'm a celebrity.
And I think she thought she was at Stanley Tucci's restaurant, because I Stanley Tucci would have done it because the restaurant is called Tucci. And you know, it feels like Stanley would have some pity.
But it wasn't it was Max. Max is a real bitch. So he kicked her out. And then she got put
in some ambulance. And the rumors are that they gave her the they were like, we can arrest
you or we can put you on an ambulance.
Which I think is celebrity treatment, don't you?
Yeah, the thing that I was worried about
was after that when she came out and said like...
Her explanation of that just seemed really dark-sided
because it was just like, yeah, it had...
Like, she didn't seem to have...
any concern over what happened.
I don't know, that's what worries about me.
It's like, I don't feel like she sees herself as being out of control ever.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Why don't you do, do you?
I don't think when you're out of control that you see it.
I don't think you're ever like,
oh my God, I'm so out of control.
I think other people lock you in somewhere
and then it takes you a couple of weeks.
But it's happened too many times.
Remember that was, there was like a story
where she was in Philly and like was, you
know, there's so many stories that come out where she, yeah, like she can't stand or she
can't, it's like, I don't like, I don't like that.
Like I like quirky Sonia and whatever being a little messy, but I don't like when I see
the stories and she's like in an ambulance or can't stand upright or.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's like, I'm like, Oh, that's like a little too far for me.
It's too dark.
Yeah.
And, um, you know, I do wish I would have loved her on that love hotel show, like, cause
I think she would have been more fun on it.
But, but obviously she's, she needs to like get it together.
She's too much of a mess.
I think because they tried, they tried the crap thing with her and she, it was just too
much.
I think she was just too much.
She was so... She was doing the fall down drunk thing on that too
and like fucking dudes from the little,
I don't know, piggly wiggly bar.
What was that bar called that they went to?
And it was just... It crosses the line, I think,
to where it makes people uncomfortable.
It's like she'll poop herself.
Remember that was one of her big stories was like,
oh, I love taking the chitney.
I take the chitney all the time to the Hamptons
because I could just wear the pins
and I never have to use the bathroom.
It's like, that's your story that you're...
I know.
...pooping yourself on purpose?
I will say though, that entire cast,
the amount of shit they shit themselves with
throughout their run was shocking.
Like, for a group of adult women to like...
I mean, there were times...
You can probably go through the footage.
I don't know if anyone has ever done this,
but you can probably go through those first 13 seasons
of the show and count how many times
they've pissed or shit themselves.
And, like, they're adult women, and it happens a lot.
There were times where people would comment,
I think on the girls' trip they did,
the New York girls' trip, where people were like,
did you guys catch that pile of poop that Ramona,
like Ramona's walking and then there's like a pile of poop
by Ramona. And so I saw it in the comments
and I went back and I looked at the footage
and it was not poop, it was like a water,
because you know that we're in bathing suits,
so it was water on the wood and so it looked kind of,
it was shaped maybe like a clump and I think,
but I thought that's where New York has taken us,
that you're on, you're in the mood where you're always like looking for poop. Like where did Ramona poop today?
Where did she shit? It happened so much. Like it wasn't just one trip. It was like every
time they went on a trip, somebody would be like, Dorindo would be like, oh, Ramona shit
in my bathroom or something. It's like, how does this happen?
Yeah, that show about too dark.
Or miss the toilet. It was on the. Yeah. Yeah.
OK, so that's enough of that.
But we love our Sonia, you know, Sonia, get it together.
We're wishing her the best.
Just enough. Just just get it together enough, you know, to stay with us
because we love you.
OK, here's a really good one that I don't know that I can believe.
And I wasn't going to bring it up, except that I don't know that I can believe, and I wasn't gonna bring it up,
except that I see it getting repeated everywhere.
And this is repeated in hardcore intellectual media now.
Boss Magazine.
So I believe it. Which is...
Dolores Catania joining...
the Real Housewives of Rhode Island.
Have you heard this? What do you think?
Do you think this is a bunch of bunk?
You know, I have heard it.
My opinion is that she'll appear on it or something.
Like, I don't...
She probably maybe knows one of the people or something,
and so maybe she'll, like, guest.
But I don't think it'll be more than, like, a guest.
That's my gut instinct, but I don't know anything.
I think you're right. I think you're right.
I think what they're gonna do is, like,
have the first season be Dolores, like, have the first season
be Dolores, like, handing the baton in some way.
Like, being girls, I love Rhode Island.
Like, do you have Pebbles Isles here?
What a gorgeous city.
And I've always loved this girl. She loves her girlfriend.
Just like I love my girlfriends.
And she'll go to a party and that'll be it.
Yeah. Yeah. She'll know one of them or something.
And they'll... Because Andy has said
that there's
like an Italian angle for Rhode Island and it feels very New Jersey. And so, yeah, I
think there'll be some sort of baton, baton, baton, baton, baton, baton, the Rhode Island
version of a baton. It's like a rattan baton. Yeah. Yeah. So she'll pop up. I would imagine.
But you know, I'm more, I'm more interested in seeing what happens with Jersey,
because I think they will ultimately figure that cast out
and bring back half of them.
I think they're insane for what they're doing.
Jersey is the second highest rated Housewives.
It was almost tied exactly with Beverly Hills this year.
So for them to just say,
we're not bringing it back because it's too toxic.
Jersey's always been toxic. What are you talking about?
I actually enjoyed the season. I thought it was really good.
And I personally don't need Teresa or Melissa
filming together for it to be a good season.
I don't care.
I liked what they did with that weird...
Um...
That weird ending where they got together
instead of a reunion. Like, to me, that worked.
It was like, I kind of just think,
yeah, give them another, give them a season. And if a reunion doesn't work, I'm okay with that. Like if you give me something else instead of it,
great.
So that was a beautiful episode that last episode and then everybody getting mad and
storming out anyway. And then Dolores like drinking everybody else's drinks off the table
was really,
and it did really well. Like ratings wise, it did really well.
And so I don't understand why.
And if it's just like the Teresa and Melissa thing, then it's like just get rid of one
of them and, and figure it out from there.
Yeah.
Who would you pick between three?
Well, maybe I shouldn't say that to you because I feel like you'd get in real trouble with
these people because I don't know these people.
But
I mean, I, I, to me, like the, the,
even aside from my opinions on it, production wise,
I think what makes the most sense is like having Theresa
do like a spin-off with Louie.
What I also don't think like production wants to,
I think they see so much story with Theresa and Louie
ahead of them.
And obviously there's been stuff that's come out since then.
Like, you know, it's her, it's, I think like it's kind of her show
and it's like, but so I would, if I was them,
I would do like a Teresa spin-off and then, you know,
they could keep Melissa on the other show.
Like that to me production-wise makes sense.
Oh, I don't know what Teresa spin-off, mostly because I don't want to recap it
and it sounds hard. All the Teresa spin-offs have been like bloody hell.
Although the wedding was pretty funny.
That was pretty funny.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But like a full, a full reboot.
I mean, a full spin-off of Teresa.
I don't want that.
But I do agree that I think Bravo sees the story.
They know that Louis is going to jail at some point.
And the way it's looking now,
he's probably taking Teresa with him.
Again, it looks like it could happen any moment from everything I'm reading. So I want to
see it.
And I want to see the headlines in a way that the other women don't like Teresa, no matter
what happens, she's going to get headlines because she's, you know, she's been with the
show since the beginning. So I think like that's how Bravo looks at it is like, well,
how do we do it without Teresa?
Because that's like built in story.
It makes all of their jobs easier
because they have built in storylines.
Like Melissa doesn't have built in storylines.
I think Melissa, like people like her
and she's very likable and stuff.
And I enjoy Melissa sometimes too,
but I don't know if that's like a good TV show,
but Teresa's like a, even if you hate her, if that's like a good TV show. But, but Teresa's like
a, even if you hate her, I think it's a lot of stuff.
Melissa can go. Melissa needs to go. I think her story has played out. It's like the fight
with the sister and the brother, that's over, they're not speaking. Okay, it's done. I think
they just keep her for Joe, really. I mean, I think that's what everyone thinks, right?
They keep her for Joe. Teresa's, you know, a monster. I'm not saying like, oh, Teresa's
amazing. She should win because she's the best person.
It's not that. I just think that the entertainment value is Teresa.
So, you know, just don't reboot the whole thing.
Please don't put us through this again.
I can't take anymore. It's hard.
And no one wants the full reboot.
I don't think it works. I think like they need to do it.
If they want to get rid of it, even, I would even take them
like getting rid of both Teresa and Melissa and keeping a few like Dolores and a couple
others. I don't know who else I would keep Dolores.
I'd keep Margaret. I love Margaret. I like Jen Fessler too. I don't know if that's
a popular thing. I like Jen Fessler. Yeah.
You know, they keep some of them. Ah, it's that Frittani soprano.
I like her too. I like her too. And I like Margaret, you know, I like those people. So I think
that would work too. As long as they need to keep some anchors or even like just keep
Dolores even is the only one like just keep Dolores. Like, but I can't do a full cast
reboot. Like I can't do it.
No, I can't either. I say bring, um, Rosie and Kanoli back.
Bring the Cathy, Cathy the Kanoli lady.
Keep Teresa, keep Margaret, keep, uh, Danielle Cabral.
I like her. Don't keep Rachel Foda and don't keep, uh, Melissa.
That's what I say.
I sort of, I didn't like Rachel.
I liked Rachel, but not the husband.
Rachel just went too into it the second season.
She thought she was too big the second season.
And I'm like, honey, the show's not built around...
I'm sorry to say honey, that's condescending.
But I just mean like, the show's not built around you, lady.
You know, she's very like, well, I won't film with her.
Like, who cares? Who are you?
Who wants to watch you? Get the hell out of here.
JONAH I know. I wish there was some world
where they could just be like, look, you're either lose... you're all losing the show
or you all have to film together.
Like, and then we could just keep the same cast.
I think they did and they're still being hardheaded about it.
Yeah, so that's the problem.
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