Watch What Crappens - 3144 Crappy Hour 1526 Catty Cults

Episode Date: January 11, 2026

This week on Crappy Hour, we talk about the takeaways from Mary’s RHOSLC Cult documentary and how all of the Bravo nuts have started the New Year. We go live every other Monday at 5:30 PT at Patreon....com/watchwhatcrappens and youtube.com/watchwhatcrappensFind bonus episodes at patreon.com/watchwhatcrappens and follow us on Instagram @watchwhatcrappens @ronniekaram @benmandelker Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Well, welcome to the first crappy hour of 2026. I'm Ronnie and that's Ben. Hello, Bam. Hi. Hello, Ronnie. How are you doing? Good. What's going on with you this fine New Year night? Oh, what is going on? Well, I don't know if you heard, but I had to leave my mom group. It was just too toxic. No, they were. God. I went on to Instagram and I saw it. that that Hillary Duff was hanging out with Megan Traynor without me and I just started to cry, tears of joy. And I thought, this joy is too intense for me. I need to leave this group because I'll be just too happy knowing that Megan Traynor does not want to hang out with me. I'd rather just be in a state of wondering if she'd want to hang out with me. So that's where I'm in.
Starting point is 00:01:09 Yeah. For those of you who don't know what Ben's talking about, Ashley Tisdale just came out with a bombshell article about being very upset about what transpired in her mom group. So who's in this mom group? Megan Traynor. First of all, don't be in a mom group with Megan Traynor.
Starting point is 00:01:24 That's where begins and ends. Honestly, one of the most obnoxious people on the planet. Why would you do that to yourself? And who else is in there? Hillary Duff, Mandy Moore.
Starting point is 00:01:34 I don't know who else. Can people tell us in the comments? I was honestly, the big takeaway from me is that Ashley Tisdale is 40. Like, that was the thing, that was the record scratch moment for me.
Starting point is 00:01:44 I was like, I mean, I know our millennials are aging now, our elder millennials are now, our elder millennials are now when they were 40s, late 30s and 40s, and I, I'm barely accepting that. But Ashley Tisdale from,
Starting point is 00:01:54 from high school musical is 40. What? Next, you know, that makes me have to realize that like our Laguna Beach kids who are like 38, 39. It's very difficult for me. But I don't know who else is in that group. Does anyone know?
Starting point is 00:02:07 Anyone in the, in the, people are saying, let me see here. Let me read some of these comments. Somebody said, I think Mandy Moore was the real hit. Yeah, it was Mandy Moore. Oh God, Mandy Moore's. She unfollowed. She unfollowed, I think, Mandy Moore and Hillary Duff.
Starting point is 00:02:23 But then Carrie in the comments says, Ashley Tisdale is also MAGA, and I think the others are not. So that could be, that could be an issue. I will say this. You know, I know this is big news in the world, you know, this whole thing about her leaving the mom group. Some of us have been watching people leave the mom groups for years, which is called the end of a real housewife season.
Starting point is 00:02:45 Okay. This isn't our first step. Probably in general. Yeah. this forever. Remember they had that show on Bravo about the moms? It was like, there goes the momberhood or something like that. And you refused. That was one of the only shows, Ben, was like, I refuse. I think we did the first one and you were like, I'm putting my foot down. This is a no. Because it was so scripted. It was too scripted for me. It didn't feel authentic at all. Like,
Starting point is 00:03:06 you know, I understand that these shows have a degree of production and there's producer manipulation. But like, I don't want to see the seams. And that's why I like Bravo shows, because I feel like by and large. They are really well done. Whereas if you go on to E or you go on to like certain Netflix shows, Hulu shows, it's just like you almost can see the producer off camera waving their arms and holding up signs saying, ask this question. I mean, it's just it's too much, you know. Yeah. Michael Horn says Crystal Kung Minkoff said one of her childhood friends is in this group, which is hilarious. She just called Kung Minkoff loves a getting kicked out of a mommy group story because, you know, she had her own of like the 16 friends or the 14 friends whatever. So I like that she's even
Starting point is 00:03:51 friends with somebody in a group that kicks somebody out. A lot of kicking out going on in these friend groups, these mom friend groups. The kicker or the kicky? Yes. He's going to be bitch. Well, I, you know, Ashley Tisdale, I don't know about her politics. I don't know really anything about her except her name's stupid. And I will say this, though, I don't want somebody in my mom group who's going to like go run to the press every time there's a problem in mom group. So I think that that's just like a symptom of what kind of person that is okay because mom group is mom group we don't talk about mom group outside of mom group only our gay sons are allowed to go talk about it by the way ashty tisdale is denying that she's a republican according to a very quick
Starting point is 00:04:31 google search so who knows who knows what's what's at the core of this Aaron said crystal called herself a trend center that's funny um i met crystal was wearing oh yeah go on no i was saying she was wearing ugly leather pants. Go on. I went to Shane Douglas's birthday party. Shane Douglas of the Jeff Lewis show and camp. The Jeff Lewis camp. It was his birthday. He's so cute. And Ben was busy, but I went to his birthday party. It was so much fun. I finally met Crystal Kung Minkoff. What a lovely lady. We've met on DMs because she used to listen to Crappins when she was on it and told us. And we said, please don't. I'm not apologizing. to you, so please stop listening. So we didn't know her in real life. And it was so nice to meet her.
Starting point is 00:05:20 What a lovely, lovely lady. Hopefully we'll have her on here soon to talk because, of course, you know, I was like, give me your number. You're coming on our show. But that was really fun. And Shannon Bador was there as well. Huh. Looking gorgeous. She looks great. Now, Shannon, I did talk to a bit, but I don't, I'm not like as like, hey, girl, what's that? Like with Crystal, I was like, Okay, let's talk and be friends. But with Shannon, you know, I'm still talking shit about Shannon, so I can't get too close. But she is so fucking funny.
Starting point is 00:05:50 First of all, she looks amazing. She was sitting there. I think she came close to me to get a break, which little did she know. You're not going to get a break coming to stand next to me. So she sat there. She's going through her phone and just kind of in her own world. And finally, I'm talking to somebody.
Starting point is 00:06:05 And 10 minutes later, I turned around. I was like, what are you doing? You've been on your phone. And I looked at what she was doing. I said, why are you just looking at all these pictures of yourself? Because everyone kept coming by and taking pictures with Shannon. I said, what are you doing? A photo booth?
Starting point is 00:06:18 And she said, no, I just, I have to find a good picture. Don't even worry. Don't worry about it. I'm just trying. I said, well, they all look fine. You look good. Like she literally, she legit looked gorge. I'm like, what do you?
Starting point is 00:06:29 Who cares? And someone's like, oh, Jeff is trying to set her up with Steve Gutenberg. So it turns out on his, I don't even know how this came up. But apparently Jeff is trying to set this lady up with Steve Gutenberg. So we're all going through his, well, by we all, I met me. I immediately brought up his insta. And I was like, whoa, Steve Gutenberg. But then there's some shirtless pictures.
Starting point is 00:06:50 And I was like, well, Steve Gutenberg, Shannon, you deserve this. You deserve a break today. Okay. McDonald's is this shit. And she's like, well, I don't care about what's in your heart. I said he has a tiny robot. Shannon has not seen Short Circuit, so she didn't get that. I was like, read the fucking movie.
Starting point is 00:07:06 You're not allowed to date Steve Gutenberg. Also, what kind of mother were you that you didn't show your child's short circuit? Did you also remind Shannon that he is a proud protector of the peace as a member of a police force? I have to assume he still has that given that he did graduate from a police academy once or three or times. I was like bloop, bloop, bloop, Steve Gutenberg. I love that. That's why I was, listen, I only watched Police Academy for the sound effects guy and Sharon Stone. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:07:37 And someone said, yeah, Jeff is just trying to give you a happy life. I said, yeah, what Jeff is trying to do is give you a very happy relationship so then he can ruin your relationship. You know how this goes, right? It's like, oh, I don't know. It's not a relationship. It's not a relationship. I barely know him. So we'll see.
Starting point is 00:07:53 I mean, he just in the 1980s. I mean, he does like to take care of children. That's why he raised a child with two other men. So I enjoy that. Stevenberg as a hero these days, it was almost exactly a year ago that he failed. famously helped evacuate many people from the Palisades fire. So like that is that is a, if that happens, Shannon's going to wind up with a hot commodity.
Starting point is 00:08:18 And I'll tell you one thing, I have a feeling that Steve Gutenberg eats vegetables. So I hope that works out. Yeah. Yeah. So that was that, but that was a really fun night. A lot of people were there.
Starting point is 00:08:31 All the, you know, a lot of the chumpy chumps were there. Ryan Bailey, Lecendra Chooks, you know, Joey Zousig, who's very,
Starting point is 00:08:39 himself. So how's it going? Happy New Year. Happy New Year. You know, oh my God. I don't know. I saw my ex. It's great. I'm not even thinking about it. I don't even think about it anymore. I don't even think about it anymore. I don't even think about it anymore. It was a good breakup. It was a good breakup. I mean, the guy just goes on and on about the most personal. Personal things. I'm like, well, good to see you. I don't even think about it anymore. Like you're talking about it to a almost stranger at a party, but good for you. I wish you're getting over this, buddy. wish I could have been there. I had a long time previously scheduled a board game to play that started at 11 in the morning and ended at 2 in the morning. So, you know, one does not say that without cause huge ripples. Okay. So that's sexy. Sorry, but I had some spaceships to move around a table for 12 hours. But I honestly, I would have loved to have gone. And I hope that they had
Starting point is 00:09:35 a great time. And everybody was really sweet. Jeff was sure to tell me he loves having you on his show without me, which was very kind. He's like, wow, Ben is so much better without you. I was like, okay, thanks. You know, people are asking, was Kelly Dodd there? No, Kelly Dodd was not there. So that saved my lungs. I think she was actually, I think Kelly, I think she was actually at like Mar-a-Lago for New Year's.
Starting point is 00:09:58 Oh, well, there's a shocker. So there's that also, also that show came out. This member's only Palm Beach since we've been. Speaking. Gone. Yeah, people have gone crazy for this show. Have you seen it? So I did not watch it because I took the break to not watch board games till two in the morning. Did you not hear I was saving the galaxy? I really, when the trailer dropped in December, I was like, I absolutely need to see this. It looked amazing. And so I do fully want to watch it. I love watching rich asshole older ladies. just cavortch so I am totally excited to see it originally I was going to propose that we cover it when we get back but this week Bravo has dropped
Starting point is 00:10:49 we have the valley coming back they've dropped the valley and it's a two episode premiere and then the traders is going to premiere on Thursday on the same night as the valley and that we have to assume is a three episode premiere because that's how they usually do it and so we just our dance card is full like our dance card is actually already full and now we're getting all this stuff so it really bobbled like to dance.
Starting point is 00:11:09 I don't even like dance. It really bugs me out because I really want to not only watch the show, but I already know I want to recap it. And I think it's just going to be, at least for this first season, I don't think it's going to be possible. It's just a shame. Like there's just so much we could do. Honestly, if I had my druthers, honestly, I would drop. No, I don't know if I drop anything. All these shows are so good.
Starting point is 00:11:30 I was going to say Southern Charmer or Beverly Hills. But the truth is that like the shows can not be great. I know, I know. But I'm just saying they're so fun to make fun. of. Even when we have bad seasons, they're so fun to make fun of. Well, I did not watch it either because I was reading, oh, this, mega, that. And I just, whatever, I don't, I didn't want to make myself mad over the holiday. And we had talked about heated rivalry a little bit before the holidays.
Starting point is 00:11:53 We had both only watched 20 minutes of it. I liked it. You didn't like it so, so much. I mean, it was only the first 20 minutes we watched. I'm gonna finish. I watched it. I loved this show. I cried. I loved it. I thought it was beautiful. And I, I, a little bit of it. And I, a lot of it, people are like, oh, it's gay porn. I mean, yeah, there's like a lot of that. But it's such a good show beyond, I mean, I have the internet. I don't need the porn on.
Starting point is 00:12:15 Like, I'm not like a Skinimax kind of a guy. I have the internet. I can see penises going in in butts. But it was such a good show. I just loved the show. I love that. I'll finish watching it. I'll finish.
Starting point is 00:12:28 It's just, I watched 20 minutes of it like when I had some time. And then I was just like, I wanted more buildup. I enjoy I enjoy the courtship a little bit more but that big said I know it's be great there was a whole thing is a long course I mean you know you know gays we fuck first we ask names later so it was that um so uh let's get into some oh go ahead I just want to say some people in the comments seem a little alarmed they're like the valley's coming back already this is the valley Persian style it is basically the Shah's reboot where they've changed out um Mike and added in some new folks. So it is just the valley spin-off. So if you think about it, you have the valley
Starting point is 00:13:12 Persian style, which is a spinoff of the valley, which is a spinoff of Interpump Rules, which is a spin-off of Beverly Hills, which is a spinoff of Orange County. The lineate goes deep. Oh, it's not a spinoff of Orange County. Beverly Hills is. No. Real House is of Beverly Hills is a literal spinoff of the Real House House of Orange County. It's a franchise. Well, sure, sure, sure. But it's... Is the spinoff of McDonald's? The point is there is a bloodline that goes...
Starting point is 00:13:45 Yeah. That goes from baby shams now to Vick Gunnelson. Which is mostly just because they do not want to pay for any set. Bravo is cheap. Their asses are spending everything. All their money goes to Beverly Hills. They don't have money for any of this other shit. They won't even hire a cleaning crew to go clean, sir.
Starting point is 00:14:04 That restaurant has not been cleaned for two decades. Okay. They are using the same backgrounds, interview sets and all that stuff for the valley. So they're saving a little money. Oh, by the way, I went to the old pump the other day. It's roosterfish now and weho. I went out the other night. It's pump.
Starting point is 00:14:22 They didn't take out the trees or anything. They just like tart it up Trump, which is like, you know, the trees were the nice part and they kept the bar, but they took out a lot of, you know, the really Lisay things. But it was still, it was still pump. I was like, good for you guys. You didn't let her sue you to get her olive trees back. Good for you. Yeah, exactly. It's time for a commercial.
Starting point is 00:14:43 It's time for a crappence commercial. Okay, so you were trying to transition into headlines. I am here. I am locked in. What do you want to start with? Well, the big one, obviously, was you. You are the headline. Because the cult of a real housewife, the Mary, Cosby, tell all.
Starting point is 00:15:06 on the classiest channel of all time, Tulsa. Ben was on there. They always said, don't become the story. Don't become the story. Yeah, you were on there. One of the big controversies of this was that they were taking people's social media stuff and putting it on there without any kind of permission or, you know, a lot of people were really pissed off about that, that besties by Caitlin, not happy.
Starting point is 00:15:36 I think Gibson was not happy. Yeah, people were not happy. How did you feel about being blatantly ripped off, having your face splashed all over national television without your permission? I literally could not have been happier. I'm not going to lie. Okay, I'm sorry.
Starting point is 00:15:50 I'm sorry, guys. I'm sorry. I want to have a united front with everyone. I know it's wrong. This is like the most delightful the way to start the New Year for me. I'm so sorry. I know, I know. But like, no network is going to pay for this content.
Starting point is 00:16:04 Okay. They're not going to pay for it. I don't know. I just don't care. I don't care. It's like a stupid documentary on TLC. I literally don't care. I think it's like whatever.
Starting point is 00:16:13 You know, I think I would be upset if they used it in a way that totally misrepresented me. I'm not, but like they don't pay for this shit anyway. Right? And like I was like for a moment. I was like, I said shit.
Starting point is 00:16:24 I'm like, I forgot we're not on Amazon Live. But like honestly, yeah. Yes, they may have exploited my vagina. Sure. I just am like.
Starting point is 00:16:33 Your vagina is exploitable. Here's why I don't have a leg to stand on. Here's why I don't have a light stand. I have built a career. We have built a career off of Bravo TV. Okay. And all of a sudden I'm going to act precious. I can't.
Starting point is 00:16:48 Sorry. Other things I'll get mad at. Yeah, we got. We got a little. I can't be mad. I don't know. We're part of the leach ecosystem. I got a couple of DMs from our friends who were on it as well,
Starting point is 00:16:59 featured against their, you know, wishes or whatever. Yeah. And they were like, oh, Benny's going to be pissed when he sees himself. Do you think he's going to be mad? I said, girl, Ben is not going to be mad. I said, Ben, this is like a gift. This is like a Hanukkah gift to Ben. So please don't ruin it.
Starting point is 00:17:15 Don't message him. Don't take away his joy. Don't make him mad about it. You'll message me. People message me and they're like, aren't you upset? And I just sort of gave neutral responses because I didn't want to make, I don't want to make them be like, I don't want to trivialize what they were feeling because other people are more upset than I am. And that's fine.
Starting point is 00:17:32 You know, other people are like, this is just not like they felt. violated. They felt like it wasn't right. It wasn't the kind thing to do. You know what I thought was so funny about it was they took all these they took all these accounts right. They took clips from people's TikToks and stuff. But then they jacked up the numbers. They fit they lied about their numbers and said like oh this person has four million followers and they're talking about it. So first of all, how truthful is this TLC documentary? Because there's that you're not even taking the real foot you're taking the footage and then adding sauce to it so you look more. legitimate. It's like these people have like 4,000. And the people were saying it online.
Starting point is 00:18:10 They're like, I have 4,000 followers. Why are they saying I have 4 million? No, whatever followers. Well, the funny part was it wasn't even from watch or crap. Actually, if there's anything, I don't know if I got, honestly, I haven't watched it. I feel like one of those real house, I feel like Jack's being like, I haven't watched it. I haven't watched it. I haven't watched the valley, but I really haven't watched it because you guys know how much I hate TLC. So I haven't watched it. Um, I don't know if I got, I'm assuming they did not say Ben Mandelker or whatever, But the funny thing is that the footage that they used was when I was guesting on the Elvis Duran show on Z100 or Iheart, whatever. So it wasn't even crappins.
Starting point is 00:18:47 I was actually, if anything, I'm upset that couldn't promote crappins on it, you know. But luckily, I love the people over at Elvis Duran. And so I was happy that that that was part of it. But just kind of like bizarre, you know, and the thing that my first thought was this. Here's my first thought. By the way, I love that I'm giving like a behind this. scenes, BTS and my three second clip on a documentary. But when I went on to the Elvis Duran show, I wore this like shirt that was really fun that had like, it's like a corduroy shirt with like
Starting point is 00:19:17 depictions of little cabins. And after I went on, my parents, you know, my parents always call with notes. My mom was like, so why did you choose that shirt? I was like, because it was fun. And my mom's like, I wouldn't have chosen that. It wasn't, it wasn't a very good shirt for you. It's just not the shirt that you should wear on something like that. Like it's just, it's not, it's, you shouldn't have worn it. And. My very first thought was when they put the documentary footage up was like, my mom's going to be mad because they got me in the shirt. He's finally on TV and he's in that shirt.
Starting point is 00:19:45 He's in that damn shirt. That's funny. For the record, I love the shirt and I was very happy about it. So the documentarians were saying in an article on the reporter, Hollywood reporter, they were saying that the reason they used so many clips is because this story about Mary's temple or whatever, her faith temple or whatever, was already told through social media from the beginning of the show, which is true. I mean, I felt like we didn't have to watch it because we talked about this as it was happening as it was coming out online. We had a lot to say about it back then. And by the time it gets on
Starting point is 00:20:15 TV, I mean, look, it's like the Epstein list. Everybody's like, oh, my God, the Epstein list. I've been telling you people about the Epstein list for years. And now everybody's like, oh, now the Epstein. What do you think? Before, when I was saying it, it was like a conspiracy and I was a crazy person. And now everybody's going crazy over it. And I'm tired. Like, I've already read it all. You know what I mean? And that's how I felt about the Mary documentary. It's not. not that it's not a big deal. It's that I was already so mad about it back then. And I'm like, oh, well, I guess I like Mary now because she's just stayed on. And it's like to me, she's weathered the storm, but she has not weathered the storm. The storm has just to start it. Because not everybody
Starting point is 00:20:53 is as obsessed with Reddit and social media gossip as I am, apparently. So this is new news for a lot of people and they're pissed. There's a lot of pissed off people. Yeah, but it's gonna, you know what, like there's just bigger fish to fry. I think if this had come out maybe a year ago, even two years ago, I think maybe more outrage. They're just bigger. They're just bigger shit in the world to worry about stuff that's like bigger and scarier. I mean, like literally, our country just abducted the president of another country. And so we're going to really devote time to Mary Cosby. It just seems like there's just bigger things to be worried about and scared about. So I think this is just going to blow over, you know.
Starting point is 00:21:34 And also, like you said, this is old news for all of us. You know, I think either for newbies or casual watchers it is, but like, I don't know. I mean, it's not good. I'll tell you. A lot of it's not good. Some of the biggest revelations to me were just the lies that Mary was kind of caught in on the show. Because on the show, Mary says that she, the reason she married her grandpa, her step-grandpa, guys, it's not gross. Okay.
Starting point is 00:21:58 The reason she married her step-grandpa is because her grandmother willed it, basically. She said in her will or whatever that she wanted Mary to marry the husband and take over the church. And that's just not true. Mary was actually married at the time to somebody else, which I don't think I knew the timeline of all this back then. But Mary was married to somebody else. And then the husband, Robert Sr, took over the church after the church. grandmother died and that he became closer with mary bought her a bmdb and then basically started to kind of i guess groom her to bring her in and then started telling everybody that god was willing him to marry
Starting point is 00:22:42 mary and so they got married and took over this church but that kind of contradicts everything that mary said about it um what else in here um do you love that that's the most defense i'm about to say this really this really just makes the ashley and shri's son thing just seems like a fun walk in the park. Well, that's only like 10 years apart. And they're not related. And even in a stepway, why is there a little flying here? Get the hell out of here.
Starting point is 00:23:10 So then, well, let's see what else happened in here. I'm taking this from The Daily Beast, who did a pretty good article, summing up this stuff. Then they went over the walkout, the mom, you know, had a fit that she didn't get it. She ended up suing over forged documents. There was a lot of allegations, there were a lot of allegations of forged documents that they were saying, you know, Mama willed this and Mama willed that and Mama wanted her money to go here. And basically those were found to be falsified. And she, the Mary's mother won a $1.2 million settlement, which is pretty good. And then she forced, she had a big walkout where the Mary talked about this a little bit recently. There was a walkout. The mom made a big stink at church. She took half the church with her. Mary kept. half the church, the people that stayed in Mary's side of the church were forbidden from ever speaking to the people that her mother took. And to the point where one of the, one of the mothers in that congregation passed away and her own daughter who stayed at this church was not
Starting point is 00:24:15 allowed to go into that church. I mean, so none of it's good. The stuff with Cameron, not good. Apparently, he claimed to have had an affair with Mary. Cameron's the guy we saw on Real Housewives of Salt Lake City who died of a brain tumor after. But apparently he claimed they had an affair and that she was giving him like $2,500 shoes. And, you know, he felt very brainwashed and he had to, you know, get rid of his house to give the church money. And none of it's good. That's for sure. But it's all kind of old.
Starting point is 00:24:50 Yeah. That's my feeling. And someone brings up this point. Didn't Morgan Freeman date his step-granddaughter from as ex-execkel? wife there was something like that there was some work improvement did do something odd like that um uh yeah it just feels old and it feels like the only reason why they did this documentary is because mary became popular because this i feel like all this stuff was just floating around several years ago and at that time people were busy making documentaries about jen shaw uh because jen shaw took up all the
Starting point is 00:25:20 air in the room and what's funny is that like if you go back to season two of real house as a salt lake city it's as much about Jen Shaw and her legal issues as it is about does Mary, does Mary have a cult? Like a big part of that season was questioning Mary and everything going on over there. So it just felt like there was like a moment where people were like, what should we exploit? We can exploit Mary's cult. We can exploit Whitney's vagina or we can exploit Jen Shaw and they went Jen Shaw. And now they're circling back because Mary's popular. And I just feel like I'm not saying, oh, this is good.
Starting point is 00:25:55 but we were all thought like, we already had our outrage. I just don't feel like I can be outraged again. I feel like it's over. The scab has healed over. The outrage has moved to other things. And I think that it's, you know, I read a lot of outrage, but it seems temporary. I think that you're right that it's going to kind of blow over. Does it deserve to?
Starting point is 00:26:16 I don't know. I'm not really saying it's not a big deal. I think it's horrible. I think a lot of this stuff is horrible. And I think the way a lot of churches pray on their members was terrible, you know? Yeah. But at the same time, you know, people try and compare it to Jen Shaw and stuff like that. I'm like, nah, you know, Jen Shaw was like going after the most vulnerable people and promising them things and take, I mean, I guess you could say that Mary was doing that. But I don't know. Look, look, I'm getting tired even talking about it. So I think it's over for me. Yeah. And unless they bring it up on housewives. Like if they bring it up, then, then sure, we'll take a stance, more of a dance. But like, when an outsider like TLC comes in, then I'm like, I'm going to circle my housewives. wagons my pioneer wagons because it's a sisterhood it's the late channel okay because you're late yeah it's the it's the president tlc is jojo singing it's just a little too late
Starting point is 00:27:07 a little too late yeah okay so what do you want to talk about today um okay well here's you know let's talk about one of the most compelling people in the world of bravo Kyle Richards. Two things, hit the news news headlines this week. First is that Kyle has moved to Tennessee. Oh, what a shocker.
Starting point is 00:27:31 Yeah. Yeah. So actually this is great news because she sold her Encino House. And I could not be happier because, as people know, I hate that house. I'm so glad that house with its stupid, tall, suffocating hedges around the driveway. And it's generic, like white colored facade.
Starting point is 00:27:54 I don't even know what style of house it is. It's just so generic. So she did sell it? I feel like I read that that she sold it. Oh my gosh. So she's moving there for good? Let me read the official this one. This is from Bravo's own website.
Starting point is 00:28:12 Because I read in a different one that she sold it. Maybe that wasn't, maybe that was incorrect. Maybe it's just a fever dream, a wish for me. So I just love real estate, Kyle confessed in an exclusive interview with the Daily Dish. Kyle is the, I love her generic statements. I love shopping. I love real estate. She's just like a bot.
Starting point is 00:28:34 So she bought a house. It's like, wait a minute. I generally am very passionate about it. And she's calling real estate one of her favorite things since she and Mauricio, founder of the agency luxury real estate brokerage, announced their split. So suddenly she loves real estate out of nowhere. Um, so she says, this is something that I'm doing. It's my investment because even now, Maricio will share things like, oh, I'm making an investment and these investments. And I'm like, what can I do on my own that I can feel good about? And I've
Starting point is 00:29:05 always been good at real estate, you know, has she? And I've chosen the majority of our homes. And I've always, it's always worked out well for me business wise, except for when I choose a home and then it gets burgled. So, um, I just love that Kyle is still just taking other people's passions. This one says, this would be the second home cause bought on her own. One's in California. One's in Tennessee.
Starting point is 00:29:28 Okay. She said she did in- house. Yeah. The other article I read was, was poorly referenced, but she did at the very least. She did buy a new home in Tennessee.
Starting point is 00:29:40 So the other thing was a little bit more alarming because it, like, it's like if you sold your house and you know and you bought a house in Tennessee, it's like, what's going on with that. But it looks like it's just a second property.
Starting point is 00:29:52 And I'm sure there'll be a cast trip there next season on Beverly Hills, if we are so blessed. The other piece of news from the Kyle Richards front is that Jim Maricio went to a New Year's Eve bash and were very touchy and warm and very obviously, quote unquote, together according to page six. So how about that? Yeah, I mean, that's kind of what I figured was going to happen, was she was going to end up back. with Mo and this other thing was either a phase or I don't know I don't know what it was but buying a house in Tennessee doesn't that mean you're going to be with Morgan I think Kyle's just fucking with people now she's like about a house in Tennessee but I'm still all over Mo options who knows yeah it's it's too much also I just want to say something when I was reading this article she referenced Mo and it's
Starting point is 00:30:40 spelled MAU I think we need to normalize when we refer to Maricio as Mo we just call it M-O because that's not M-A-U is ma-ma. Like, I'm sorry, if you, I understand the whole, the large word is Maricio, M-A-U-R-I-C-I-O. But it's like, you know, it's just, it's when you say Mo, it's spelled M-O. I'm just going to say it right now. Okay, new role. Or M-A-U-X, but I cannot do M-A-U and say Mo. It's just my brain will not allow it.
Starting point is 00:31:10 Yeah, I mean, you know, all this Kyle news happening at the same time, the Mary Cosby stuff happened. And it came out all during a holiday. And it's just like, I don't care. You know what I mean? I think that's the time where you're supposed to release news that people don't care about. So I love that Kyle's huge news and this other news. It came out in the don't care period of life. I just don't care.
Starting point is 00:31:33 But it's Kyle. You know, I mean, God bless her. God help her. So God, just God, do something with Kyle. Do some, make Kyle better. God. So some other stuff happened. Wait, well, I don't have to say.
Starting point is 00:31:46 after my little rant, someone says, Ben gets a little TV fame and is making all the rules now. You're Famos. It's time for a commercial. It's time for a crappence commercial. So, some other stuff happened over the holidays.
Starting point is 00:32:07 Rich people got stuck in places. Okay. St. Bart's huge stuckage. There's a lot of stuckage happening there. Okay. Shep, namely Shep, got stuck with a lot of other people who were probably horrified
Starting point is 00:32:20 to be stuck with Shep. And I felt really bad. For them. Yeah. So I didn't read the fine details. I have to assume that because of the situation with Venezuela, like air traffic around the Caribbean was maybe paused a bit. So that way, because who knows what might happen. So as a result, people were stranded in the various Caribbean islands they went to over a break.
Starting point is 00:32:44 So Melissa Gorga is stuck in. Aruba. Shep is stuck in St. Barts. He took a video at Nikki Beach and he was like, gosh, I'm stuck in St. Parts. Look at this. I guess there's worst place to be stuck. And he like pans around and Giselle is there on like in the shot with her daughters. And I just and he doesn't even say like, oh, she's the nice lady from my network. He just keeps on banning by and everyone's like, uh, Dazel was there. That was Giselle. Yeah. Doesn't even notice. Doesn't know where she is. Well, he also got stuck with tinks from Sirius, and she went up to him to say hi. And he posted on his story, well, of course.
Starting point is 00:33:23 I was in a bathroom line with this girl, with this gal chatting it up. And two girls ran up and asked for her picture. And I was like, who is this? And maybe I was bizarrely jealous, laughing face. She's tinks, and she writes. So I'm impressed. And it's a picture posing with tinks. Here's the picture.
Starting point is 00:33:45 And she wrote, she reposted this and wrote, then he asked me, how many followers do you have anyway? And that's how I met Shep. Well, I'm just sad that Shep was stranded on St. Bart's set of Bahamas because then he could have spent some real good quality time with Sienna and her perfect little lips. Oh, God. I'm sorry.
Starting point is 00:34:06 Perfect freckled little lips. So as you mentioned, Melissa Gorgo was stranded in Aruba. And this is even better because there were no. rebooking options for weeks. So good luck, Aruba. You're going to be eating some dry ass cookies. Yeah. It's really funny. It's also hilarious because we, I think it was about like a year ago, we actually didn't add for Aruba. I'm imagining people like, you know, I heard that ad on Watcher Crapins. Ben and Ronnie were saying a lot of warm things about Aruba. I think this is the year we finally go. And now they're stuck there with Malifical Borgo. How many people did we get stuck there?
Starting point is 00:34:40 So Monica came out with a post this week. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, go ahead. I don't want to, I know Monica, but since we're on the topic of celebrities having gone to St. St. Barts, et cetera, and stuck there.
Starting point is 00:34:56 There was one celebrity who went to St. Barts, who did get stuck there. And she emerged with a bit of an issue. It's Bethany Frankel. And she contracted a face infection after parting in St. Barts. So I've only ever been once.
Starting point is 00:35:15 I've been to St. Bart's dozens of times off season. I booked it to bring my daughter because we went once before. We liked the food, the beaches, the shopping. This time it hit different. So every day you'd go to either a beach or a beach club at a hotel. And it would be the hunger games of fashion and money and no one is just dressed casually. I bethany acting like she is part of the old money establishment that was there before the other bethany's arrived bethany you are the hunger games you're literally hungry
Starting point is 00:35:50 you're literally hungry she uh so she's on there she's talking like oh my god like oh my god my god my god hunger games it's like people came here it's like it's like it's like crazy it's like so many people like you are going there and you're being like oh my god i'm insane parts i'm in same parts how do you think the people like insane parts liked it when you showed up with camera cruise. Yeah, you know the original people who complained that every loser is starting to come to St. Bart's when you started to come. That's those are the, there wasn't TikTok then, okay? There was like Facebook stories or whatever the fuck. It was them. It was those people like this lady won't stop going into restaurants and giving reviews on their chicken salad that nobody asked for.
Starting point is 00:36:32 I volunteer not in tribute for this. But anyway, so she went to to St. Bart. And then she posts on TikTok, PLV, you left same parts three days early and brought home a bacterial infection. And her face has a bacterial. She is just full of bacterial infection on her face. And it's just like, I'm just so impressed how
Starting point is 00:36:53 she's able to just step on so many rakes in her life. She's always something with Bethany. I saw her posting the other day something about like, you know, I was there. I was there, you know, like we were trying to enjoy ourselves. But it's like the Hunger Games, you know, like trying to go anywhere. Like social invitations. It's like this, this, that.
Starting point is 00:37:15 Who's invited to here? Who's invited to that? But you know what? I had to realize at the end of the day, it's like who you're there with. It's like, love the one you're with, you know? And I'm with my daughter. And I love my daughter. And I was like, what a nice post to say you're pissed that you weren't invited anywhere in St.
Starting point is 00:37:27 Barreth? Like, what a sad post to say I couldn't get into any fucking party that I wanted to go to. Fuck this place. Yeah. When you're making a post about your daughter on New Year's Day, like, oh, wow, really glad I got to spend time with this little brat instead of all of the rich people I came here to hobnob with. Yay me. Anybody want to see Wicked for Good again? I just love the woman who started the Be Strong Disaster Relief Initiative to help countries that are like stricken by a natural disaster and other things, specifically, you know, Puerto Rico and hurricanes, whatever.
Starting point is 00:38:03 then also going to St. Bart's and complaining about people like, you know, flooding Nikki Beach. It's just like, this is a crisis. The perspective is amazing. And so Andy Cohen went on his show this morning. He was talking with John. And he was, Andy Cohen was like, oh, so I went on to TikTok, which I never do. Oh, man. And the first thing I saw was the Margarita lady.
Starting point is 00:38:29 And wow, just suffocating. It's so much. And so, of course, it was hilarious that he won't even call Bethany, Bethany by name. He calls her the Margarita lady. And he says, he also says that she doesn't show up on his Instagram algorithm. So he never sees her. So, like, when he went on to TikTok, like, that's the first time he'd seen her content in a while. Which was also like, there was like layers of shade in that, which is like Andy Cohen somehow like,
Starting point is 00:38:55 she's not important enough that the algorithm serves her to him or he doesn't see it. Like, it was all, it was all pretty hilarious. but that was the big takeaway was that he will not refer to her as Bethany. And for those wondering if the status of their relationship, it sounds like it's still not healed. Yeah, yeah, no. Not healed, Margarita Lady. Something else not healed, Monica Garcia from Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,
Starting point is 00:39:24 still piping up wherever she can. She goes on Carlos King often to talk about Salt Lake City. she posted on her TikTok. I'll pick a video of her dancing, which, I mean, you do you. And it says, you guys stay believing the wrong ones, six exclamation points. It's always the one projecting the most. And that's on people thinking I can't keep real housewives of Salt Lake City out of my damn mouth. I haven't said shit, trust, but it's a new year.
Starting point is 00:39:53 Let's see what happens. And the post says, when everyone wants to accuse Meredith of being an alcoholic, but she wasn't the one that was taken away in an ambulance to the ER for alcohol poisoning and demanded the footage never be shown and Casta stayed locked in their rooms while she got wheeled away to get her stomach pumped allegedly. So everyone was like, who is it? So my God, it's Heather. Who else would it be?
Starting point is 00:40:16 Who else? Heather's the one who pooped on herself and peed on herself and barfed on herself. We all saw it in that Palm Springs best. Like who else could it be? Yeah, she was really drunk that season, really, really, well, especially in Palm Springs that one night, for sure. And the black eye night with Jen Shaw, the waist, did. So, I mean, listen, I'm not against anybody getting their stomach pumped, but I am against
Starting point is 00:40:44 the hypocrisy of that storyline. And sometimes, you know, it takes a non-hero to be a hero. So at least somebody is saying it, because that's, that storyline is making me crazy. You're all drunk. You peed and barfed on yourself on TV. You do not get to call. people are drunk. Whitney, we're falling off the stage of BravoCon. You don't get to either. But I also don't know what Monica's really trying to do here. Like, like, people,
Starting point is 00:41:09 people get too drunk all the time without being alcoholics and they get their stomachs pumped. I don't know. Like, I don't see when she's like, mm-hmm, someone, she had alcohol poisoning. I'm like, that happens to a lot of people. Now, I mean, I think it's, yeah, I think after you're like 24, it's weird that it happens. Is it weird? I started to brawn with myself. I'm like nodding my head. Like, is it weird?
Starting point is 00:41:32 It's weird, but like, I don't know. I don't know. Like, for some reason, I guess you're saying, like, don't throw rocks in a glass house and in a glass med spa. Don't throw olives when you live in a Tito's bottle. That's what she's saying. And I agree with that. You know, it's the hypocrisy. But, you know, I just think it's funny because it's been a week of people being like,
Starting point is 00:41:51 who could she be talking about? What do you think? Come on, Pete. Do you watch the show? Also, who got Monica off the show, Heather? I mean, Monica's going to come for Heather for the rest of her life. Do I care of that Heather's a drunk? No.
Starting point is 00:42:06 It's you calling other people a drunk. So let's see. You know who else may have some issues with substances? Grace Lily. Grace Lily was arrested over the break. Now, notably, Grace Lily was not a BravoCon. And when we asked some people, some of the cast members, whereas Grace Lily, they just sort of hedged and were like,
Starting point is 00:42:26 they sort of did that. So I don't know, is Grace Lilly not coming back to Southern? I don't think so, because Bradley from Southern Charm went, oh, hey, hey, yeah, yeah. I've heard your show before. Oh, but your girl, Grace Lily. Mm-mm.
Starting point is 00:42:42 And I said, what does that mean? He said, I'm not saying anything. I thought, I don't care. I know she's a mess. I still love her. And he was like, yeah. Mm-mm. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:42:52 I mean, she was barely on the show this past season. And it seemed like she didn't really have strong relationships with anyone. And she really, she's shown brightest the first season. And then she's sort like, she's just not. I think she did this, the saucy thing originally of where she was, she was working at the restaurant. And then she stepped away because she thought she was a star. And, uh, yeah. So she was, she was pulled over at a traffic stop at Circle K.
Starting point is 00:43:15 I mean, already, if you're pulled over at Circle K, it's just rough, you know. And, um, she had, I think it was, was a pills. Yeah. She had a container that said happy pills written on top. I mean, also like, could you be subtle? Maybe. It's like she has a thing that says TNT on it. She's like rolling around a big barrel that says Acme.
Starting point is 00:43:40 She has a bottle that says X, X, X, X.X. Yeah. Grace Lily. Yeah, so she was charged with second degree harassment at a Circle K at Mount Pleasant, which is so funny to be at a arrested in a place called Mount Pleasant. It's so cute. Um, she was arrested. Well, she was stopped for an illegal lane change and possible wanted party. Um, and it was right by the Ravenel Bridge, which is hilarious as well. Traffic cameras flagged a vehicle near the Ravenel Bridge, which I don't know. I would not be surprised that those traffic cameras were just Thomas sitting at his
Starting point is 00:44:17 plantation like doing a sliver thing with that bridge like, hey, there's a pretty waff. I'll take her. Pull her over. Pull her over. But don't you think it's also hypocritical? Are you even a lot? Should you even be allowed to be pulled over for drug use next to the Ravenel Bridge? I mean, isn't that bridge built from cocaine? It's built on a lot of bad things. I'll tell you that much.
Starting point is 00:44:42 But, yeah, apparently it was Xanax. Oh, that's not so bad. Oh, well, that's where everybody should have that. I don't think you should be in trouble for birth control. well oh someone in the comment says that she was arrested for possession of crack back in 2016 crack I don't know the I don't know the veracity of that but yeah grace silly it seems like it's a troubled path for her I feel like she's not
Starting point is 00:45:08 going to be on the next season and maybe like she's now in the next chapter of post reality stardom and then other news real house was at Potomac is in Colorado, currently on the show. And the big thing that happened last night was that they went to Angel's house, quote unquote house, which wasn't her house at all. And they had to stay at this cabin. Well, in the wake of this, some people remembered that there's footage from over the summer of the Potomac cast being caught at the four seasons. So of Denver. So what do you think this is, Ronnie? Do you think they actually stayed in that cabin? Or do you think it was they say that the four seasons of Denver or maybe it was once the cast trip wrapped up they went to
Starting point is 00:45:55 the four seasons of Denver because I'm looking at the video now they're all there the whole cast is there it's dated July 18th we know that this trip is happening in July so they all ditched the house that would be good that would be funny because angels maybe they fake much with that whole house they maybe they pretend maybe they didn't sleep in that house that's sort of like Melissa gorga how she didn't sleep in the house for white swap oh so you think they were just faking it and just acting mad but staying there. I don't know. That seems like so much work to like go to our way from Denver too. I think this is probably, my guess is that after the cat after the trip was done, they then went down to Denver and had like a nice night in the four seasons. Yeah, because isn't this
Starting point is 00:46:35 near the end of the season? Is it? Yeah, I think the season's close to being. I think it's going to end on vacation. I think the season will end on vacation. Yeah, so maybe they just had a nice ending vacation. I don't know because I figure if it was on the show, they would have hinted to it. It's It's not like they're huge secret keepers. Yeah. And the previews, you know. But I don't know. I have to say this goes, I don't, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:46:59 But I think it would be funny if they ditched Angel's house. I was about to say I don't care, but I'm trying to stop saying I don't care as much in 2026. Not to you, just in general. You say, I don't know. You say, I don't know. And I don't know. And I'm really trying to care. Does that work?
Starting point is 00:47:18 So here's something I do care about. Heather Dubrow, one of the biggest red crumbs. Heather Dubrow sparks rumors of crossover to Beverly Hills with Diamond Post. As husband Terry and fans react, she posted with herself in a really terrible outfit that would not pass on Beverly Hills. And says, excited for the new year, what the new year may bring. Diamond, Diamond, Diamond, Diamond, LFG, 2026. And so people are like, oh my God, is Heather moving to? wherever and then her husband Terry commented diamonds are forever and she said love you honey I
Starting point is 00:47:56 heart heart heart I'm gonna say this is a tease I don't think Heather's going to Beverly Hills I think I think she wants to I think she likes toying with this rumor I think this is really fun but for her but I think that like ultimately I don't know she's got OC stink on her and I think that that that that Bravo views the Beverly Hills as like their most like prestigious franchise that's like very fancy and even though she's really wealthy and everything I don't know that being said like yeah I don't know I I don't know how she fits in with the people of Beverly Hills maybe she would be great on it I think that she would try to do like Beverly Hills cosplay but eventually her Heather Debrowness would come out and then Kyle would be like wow she was really intense right
Starting point is 00:48:43 like that's kind of weird she's kind of weird that Heather Debrough and I think Kyle would treat her as like a try hard. It could be a really interesting dynamic. But it could be because, you know, on O.C. She acts like she's, everyone treats her like, oh, my God, she's a goddess because she's got so much money and they kind of defer to her because she's got all the money. And I think on Beverly Hills, they would treat her like the poor one, which I would love. Yeah, I think they would. Even though she's actually like totally, you know, I think she's not because of money.
Starting point is 00:49:11 Yeah, not because of money. Just because she's like the girl from the OC. Yeah. Right. Like the, exactly. Like she basically came from some other school and joined those news. She's like new at the private school. Right. And they're like, they would look down.
Starting point is 00:49:25 Like I don't, she's not actually poor, especially compared to like Dorete and Erica and people like that. So it's not like she's really poor, but they would treat her like the poor kid. They'd be like, oh, wow, nice Fendi. Where'd you get that? They let you into the store. Oh, you live next to Drake. Oh, well, Drake follows some of us. So that's, that's nice.
Starting point is 00:49:44 But I know him. We are good friends. Let me into the circle. please let me be the one i can be part of you please drake's over drakes over no um as real this is this is from reality blurb as oc fans may have heard heather has been facing rumors of a potential exit in recent weeks especially after crystal kung minkoff claimed on her podcast humble brag with cynthia and crystal that a cast member had been replaced by vicky whose return was confirmed at Bravo con.
Starting point is 00:50:14 So I guess Crystal said that she took someone else's orange and I just don't see that being Heather. Well, people were, people said, I thought originally it was that it was what's her face? Why am I blanking on her name? You know, Katie, Katie Janella. Oh, yeah, she's out. Is she officially out? Yeah, yeah, she's out. Yeah, she's officially out, right.
Starting point is 00:50:39 Yeah. Katie Janella, Crappin's listener, like to add. But we met her. Do we ever say that we met her at BravoCon that we saw her in the four seasons? And she was like, you guys are so funny. And she's a fan. But alas, she's also now no longer with us on Broadway. The comments are saying, please let it be Emily.
Starting point is 00:50:59 Please let it be Emily. They are never going to get rid of Emily and Gina. I'm telling you this. They will not get rid of them. Maybe Emily. I mean, I don't know. I don't know. Okay.
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