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Speaker 1: Okay, today I'm going to mention it all about the

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Speaker 1: Housewives reboot a k A legacy show and this other

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Speaker 1: new iteration of the Housewives of New York that has

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Speaker 1: been announced. Okay, so I've gotten so many messages on

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Speaker 1: social media about whether I will come back to The

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Speaker 1: Housewives two and these are not my words, quote unquote

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Speaker 1: save the franchise and do the reboot, and the show

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Speaker 1: needs me and it's not the same without me. And

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Speaker 1: it's honestly really flattery because I have been gone for

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Speaker 1: a while, and compared to people who've been on for

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Speaker 1: twelve and thirteen seasons, maybe even like fifteen seasons. I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure how, I don't remember, but it's over a

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Speaker 1: dozen seasons people have been on. I was only on

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Speaker 1: I think maybe seven or eight seasons. So I'm flattered.

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Speaker 1: And the Entertainment came out with, uh, the Greatest Housewives

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Speaker 1: in History list, and there, I think are a hundred

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Speaker 1: and I was number one. So that was also flattering

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Speaker 1: and fun and fodder and ridiculous. And it's always fun

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Speaker 1: to kind of talk to the Housewives fans about this stuff.

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Speaker 1: And Housewives fans are very very loyal, I have to say, uh,

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Speaker 1: and they like when you, you know, mentioned that you

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Speaker 1: and tell you to be humble or anything. They kind

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Speaker 1: on it, and it's just fodder. It's just campy, and

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Speaker 1: uh appreciate the fans and I get it. It's like

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Speaker 1: being inside of something, It's like being part of some club. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So many of you have been asking me for a

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Speaker 1: response to Housewives announcement. So a couple of weeks ago,

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Speaker 1: I gotta tell from you know, the powers that be

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Speaker 1: is there a chance? Meaning what I come back? And

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Speaker 1: I then saw this article and the picture on the

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Speaker 1: that the Leah, the Ebony and the Sonja Ramona Luanne.

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Speaker 1: And that an article about two new iterations coming of

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Speaker 1: Real Housewives of New York. So one isn't a group

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Speaker 1: of new people that will be one show and another

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Speaker 1: that is like a legacy show, like a mashup of people,

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Speaker 1: you know, the Ghosts of Housewives passed in New York.

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Speaker 1: So I didn't understand what it would be coming back

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Speaker 1: to because it wasn't really an announcement. It was like

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Speaker 1: from a bunch of producers and people in the industry

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Speaker 1: that they're casting the show of new people and that

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Speaker 1: they clearly don't know who the show of old people

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Speaker 1: will be because I was asked to be on it,

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Speaker 1: so it's not been crafted. So it felt like sort

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Speaker 1: of a half baked announcement. I didn't really understand it.

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Speaker 1: And um, I know that there have been years ago.

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Speaker 1: I said to Andy, there should be on an all

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Speaker 1: The shows have had a great run, the franchise has

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Speaker 1: good less forever. Even trees that grow high don't grow

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Speaker 1: to the sky, so um clearly they're trying to you know,

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Speaker 1: called bologny. So I guess it's roney bologney. Listen. I

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Speaker 1: at all. What else when when someone's throwing their leg

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Speaker 1: You gotta keep going and and and reduce it and

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Speaker 1: all about the Benjamin's baby. And there are plenty of

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Speaker 1: women who are so excited to do that, who want

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Speaker 1: repeat and do another you know product line. Um, So

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Speaker 1: I have left my mark on the legacy because I

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Speaker 1: personally housewives who have said once they get fired, they're

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Speaker 1: that makes them feel relevant and important, particularly at an

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Speaker 1: smarter for them to just keep, you know, mixing together

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Speaker 1: But unless you're creating some new thing that you're reviving

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Speaker 1: even see how that applies to me because I didn't

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Speaker 1: It just means that that's when it became a media darling.

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Speaker 1: the whole franchise became a media darling. But back when

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Speaker 1: like a friends reunion and that's a different version. That's

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Speaker 1: a concept. Uh. The goats Paul wants asked. Paul once

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Speaker 1: who I think are the goats? Me, Nanie, Lisa, vander Pump,

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Speaker 1: not just like a hodgepodge garage sale of people. That

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Speaker 1: seems arbitrary. So to me, I like concepts and it

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Speaker 1: is business, um. And I did say to Bravo there

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Speaker 1: is a number, but you can't pay it. And I

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Speaker 1: do believe that because a rebrand is expensive, they might

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Speaker 1: be our studed to just continue with a throwing spaghetti

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Speaker 1: on the wall because it's much cheaper the other women

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Speaker 1: across the entire franchise. Yes, and it's true and sorry

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Speaker 1: to disappoint, but yes, are much less expensive. And that's

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Speaker 1: been enraging to people because the least interesting party always wins.

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Speaker 1: And I don't need to come back. Okay, interesting conversation.

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Speaker 1: When I did a TikTok about the reboot, there's a

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Speaker 1: using was a housewife of one of the cities of Australia.

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Speaker 1: I think they probably, I think they have, maybe Sydney

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Speaker 1: and Melbourne. I think it is I don't know. I

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Speaker 1: think I don't know who the person is. But that's

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Speaker 1: funny too that I chose a voice and I recorded

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Speaker 1: that weeks before I even applied it to Housewives. I

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Speaker 1: just thought that the voice was funny, and um, I

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Speaker 1: didn't even know I was going to use it for that,

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Speaker 1: so it all ended up coming really full circle now

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Speaker 1: that I think about it. So uh, that is my

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Speaker 1: long fucking story that's really boring. Answer to the Real

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Speaker 1: Housewives mash up reboot, New Ship