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Speaker 1: On today's episode of Reality with the King, we have
Speaker 1: to talk about how Mary Cosby changed the game. And
Speaker 1: when I say changed the game, I mean what we
Speaker 1: have seen on reality television, especially on the Real Housewives
Speaker 1: franchise in years. We are now entering a moment here
Speaker 1: that really speaks to where the franchise as a whole
Speaker 1: is going All of you, child, not some of you.
Speaker 1: All of you know that I got my start in
Speaker 1: reality television back in two thousand and eight being an
Speaker 1: associate producer on this little show called The Real Housewives
Speaker 1: of Atlanta. Okay, is my first foray into reality television,
Speaker 1: and I fell in love this genre because I enjoy working,
Speaker 1: meeting and producing real people who had real issues. And
Speaker 1: it was at a time where there was no social media, right,
Speaker 1: There wasn't a blueprint in terms of how a reality
Speaker 1: star should behave. It was out of time where everybody
Speaker 1: was being their authentic selves, okay, And it gave a
Speaker 1: birth of you know, the amazing Nini League, Charae Whitfield,
Speaker 1: Kim Zosiac, you know, the list goes on and on,
Speaker 1: Lisa wou, Deshaun Snow, the whole nine yards, and the
Speaker 1: show ultimately became number one for like, I think, ten
Speaker 1: consecutive years. I'm around that even more, I think, I
Speaker 1: don't know, but that show was number one for a
Speaker 1: long time, and then something happened. Something happened with the
Speaker 1: state of reality television where it became a genre where
Speaker 1: people were entering the space for the wrong reasons. Yes,
Speaker 1: everybody who in reality television obviously wants to fame, and
Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with that. Right, but there is this
Speaker 1: sort of exchange that you have right with that goal
Speaker 1: of yours, and that was always Look, I am going
Speaker 1: to have to be real and I'm going to have
Speaker 1: to talk about real life stuff. Season one of Atlanta Housewives,
Speaker 1: we had Ninni Leaks discussed the paternity of the man
Speaker 1: she thought was her father, and the season finale of
Speaker 1: the Real Housewives of Atlanta Season one, Nini Leaks took
Speaker 1: a DNA test and found out that the man who
Speaker 1: she thought was her father was not her dad. Okay,
Speaker 1: you had Kim Zosiak Honey drinking out of a wrist
Speaker 1: solo cup, smoking her cigarette in a car, dating a
Speaker 1: man who was married of calling him Big Papa. He
Speaker 1: bought her a freaking escalade that was sixty five dollars.
Speaker 1: She wrote the check. It was real life stuff. Those
Speaker 1: days are gone, unfortunately, because you know, look is what
Speaker 1: I talked about last week in terms of how Vanda
Speaker 1: Pump Rules is getting a whole new cast, and I
Speaker 1: did talk about the fact that the reason why a
Speaker 1: lot of us fell in love with Vanda Pump Rules
Speaker 1: is because we love seeing these young adults on the
Speaker 1: come up actually working at the bar, being a host,
Speaker 1: a hostess, a bar back, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: a bartender, and how they had this very close relationship.
Speaker 1: Some were sleeping with each other, some are best friends,
Speaker 1: some are enemies, friendemies, the whole nine yards. And then
Speaker 1: on that show, they became so famous that they obviously
Speaker 1: could not work as sir anymore, and they just became
Speaker 1: celebrities and the plot was lost. And now we have
Speaker 1: the scene that truly was the best emotional scene that
Speaker 1: I've seen a long time, and that is the scene
Speaker 1: between Mary Cosby and her son Robert. Mary Cosby is
Speaker 1: probably the fan favorite of the Real House of Salt
Speaker 1: Lake City because she's hilarious, she's whimsical, she's a little kookie,
Speaker 1: the best compliment possible. But ultimately she's herself. You know,
Speaker 1: she's an evangelist. I don't want to say the wrong thing,
Speaker 1: but she passes at a church. There's different titles from
Speaker 1: a pastor to a preacher to an evangelist, So I
Speaker 1: don't want to call her the wrong thing, but she
Speaker 1: speaks at the church. Let's just say that to be safe.
Speaker 1: And the thing with Mary is Mary is who she is,
Speaker 1: and that's why people like her and the kookiness is,
Speaker 1: but we thrive on when it comes to Mary checking
Speaker 1: these girls. Mary not feeling some of these girls. But baby,
Speaker 1: this whimsical kookie woman named Mary Cosby Gabe Salt Lake City,
Speaker 1: the best scene that show has ever seen. To see
Speaker 1: this woman be vulnerable with her son who is twenty
Speaker 1: one years old, Okay, her son, Robert Cosby Jr. It
Speaker 1: reminded me of what I did for Housewives in New
Speaker 1: Jersey and we had Caroline Manzel speak to Albi about
Speaker 1: the fact that he was dyslexic, and Albi pretty much
Speaker 1: spoke about like what that meant for him and Caroline
Speaker 1: Manziel this tough woman. You know what I'm saying. A
Speaker 1: lot of people call her tough broad. It was the
Speaker 1: first time we seen Caroline Manzel break down and become vulnerable. Now,
Speaker 1: look not comparing both scenes, so stop it. What I
Speaker 1: am saying, though, is we thought Caroline Mansa was one person,
Speaker 1: and that scene showed us another person At that time.
Speaker 1: Mary Cosby sitting down with her son talking to him
Speaker 1: about the addiction that he is going through, showed us
Speaker 1: aside of Mary Cosby, that I don't think any of
Speaker 1: us ever expected to see and she has cemented herself
Speaker 1: as the face of the show. She has cemented herself
Speaker 1: as the woman who was carrying the torch about bringing
Speaker 1: back real reality to this oversaturated genre of people who
Speaker 1: are using it to become famous and not giving their
Speaker 1: real lives anymore. Hence the lack of enjoyment all of
Speaker 1: us are having with real housewats of New York City.
Speaker 1: But I'll get to that later. Let's stick to Mary Cosby.
Speaker 1: In the amazing scene she ever with her son. It
Speaker 1: was emotional to watch. I personally cannot watch that scene again,
Speaker 1: that's how much it impacted me. I literally was stoic.
Speaker 1: I was stuck. I didn't know. I don't know what
Speaker 1: to do except continue watching it and seeing this mother
Speaker 1: hear her son talk about his addiction and saying that,
Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna cry. When her son said that
Speaker 1: she is the only reason why he's not going to
Speaker 1: kill himself, I mean, wow, just wow. My heart goes
Speaker 1: out to Robert, Mary, Robert Sr. In the family. I
Speaker 1: think everybody has at least one person in their family
Speaker 1: who has suffered through some form of addiction, whether it's
Speaker 1: drugs or alcohol. And I think all of us sat
Speaker 1: in that moment and watch the bravery and the courageousness
Speaker 1: that Mary and her son displayed. My heart goes out
Speaker 1: to them. I am super proud of Robert Junior, who
Speaker 1: is twenty one years old. You know, he's not a minor,
Speaker 1: he's not a teenager, He's an adult. And the fact
Speaker 1: that his bravery and courageousness and honesty allow us to
Speaker 1: witness that, my heart goes out to him for that.
Speaker 1: And my heart obviously goes out to Mary for that,
Speaker 1: the strength that she displayed during the scene and even
Speaker 1: allowing it to air, because let's have a real conversation.
Speaker 1: I have been privy to moments in my career where
Speaker 1: scenes were so emotionally real that as a human being,
Speaker 1: and I'll speak for myself, I'm not gonna speak for
Speaker 1: anybody else but me. I personally would take someone aside
Speaker 1: and say, I am okay with you telling me you
Speaker 1: don't want that aired. I know that goes against every
Speaker 1: single rule that I signed up doing this show or
Speaker 1: this genre, you know. To be more specific, but in
Speaker 1: my career there has been two moments where I really
Speaker 1: sat down and said, this scene is going to be
Speaker 1: shown around the world, and while I appreciate your bravery,
Speaker 1: your courageousness. I also know that, unfortunately, there are people
Speaker 1: out there who aren't as nice. And if you're telling
Speaker 1: me that after the next day, after you thought about it,
Speaker 1: you don't want this aired. I will speak to the
Speaker 1: powers that be. I've had that twice in my career,
Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna say because that's her business. And
Speaker 1: both ladies said to me, I appreciate that, Carlos, but
Speaker 1: I signed up to do reality television, so I'm okay.
Speaker 1: I'm okay, And that's why my heart goes out to Mary.
Speaker 1: I'm speechless right now, and y'all know I can talk.
Speaker 1: I'm speechless right now because Mary really does what she
Speaker 1: wants on that show. And when I say that, like
Speaker 1: Mary is there to just coexist. You know. She if
Speaker 1: she doesn't want to go to an event, she won't go.
Speaker 1: If she wants to go to McDonald's for a happy meal,
Speaker 1: she's gonna have the bus driver take her child. If
Speaker 1: Mary don't want people at her house, honey, you can't come,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like that's the beauty of Mary.
Speaker 1: She's not fronting for the cameras, She's being really honest.
Speaker 1: And I have never seen a more beautiful scene in
Speaker 1: my life. It is to really talk about a drug
Speaker 1: addiction with your child. You know. I was there when
Speaker 1: Nini Leaks and her son Bryson, had the conversation about
Speaker 1: what he was going through while he was in high school.
Speaker 1: And that scene comes up on Twitter slash x every
Speaker 1: once in a while where Nini said, you lost your
Speaker 1: damn mind and if you think I'm hard on you,
Speaker 1: then blah blah blah blah. And I thought that was
Speaker 1: like the most emotional scene. But this scene with Mary,
Speaker 1: it raised the bar. It raised the bar for the
Speaker 1: state of reality television that we're in right now, where
Speaker 1: we are suffering through insufferable individuals who are taking advantage
Speaker 1: of this quick instant fame and wanting an exchange for
Speaker 1: Instagram followers, popularity and a possible endorsement deal, okay with
Speaker 1: a brand. And that's the reason why we are all
Speaker 1: not into a lot of shows anymore. And look, I'll
Speaker 1: speak for myself, honey. That's the reason why you don't
Speaker 1: see me or in this case, hear me. You don't
Speaker 1: hear me talk about a lot of reality shows like
Speaker 1: I used to because some of this shit is fake
Speaker 1: and boring, and I don't give a fuck. I just don't.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't care about a prank. I don't
Speaker 1: care about you know, a scene between two women who
Speaker 1: are orchestrating a caff fight because they know that it's
Speaker 1: going to trend on Twitter. I do not care to
Speaker 1: watch it. In the words of Eileen Davidson, send it
Speaker 1: back in the mail. You ps that bitch. Put a
Speaker 1: post stamps on it, first class priority mail. Ship it back, Okay,
Speaker 1: refund me please, okay, return to send her. She doesn't
Speaker 1: live here anymore. Apartment is not occupied, it's vacant. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm over it. I'm over it. I'm over it. Child.
Speaker 1: We are just getting started. This is reality with the King,
Speaker 1: and I'm Carlos King. Let's get back into the show.
Speaker 1: It was the reason why a lot of times when
Speaker 1: it came to Salt Lake City, I was like, Ugh,
Speaker 1: some of this shit I just don't care about. But
Speaker 1: you know the rain drops, y'all. Let me watch last season,
Speaker 1: which was fantastic. And I love last season because it
Speaker 1: was so real. I'm liking this season because of bron Win,
Speaker 1: because she's real and she's funny and she's activating the girls.
Speaker 1: She's making me fall in love Lisa Barlow because I
Speaker 1: think li alos being herself when Broad when you know,
Speaker 1: checks her, honey. And that's the reason why I appreciate
Speaker 1: what Mary brought to the show. And for those who
Speaker 1: want to know, Mary Cosby did open up about her son.
Speaker 1: She said on a recent after show that her and
Speaker 1: her husband are supporting their son on his road to recovery.
Speaker 1: She said, and I quote Robert SR. He tries to
Speaker 1: share with Robert Junior his situation before Robert Sr's mom
Speaker 1: made him go through the army. He enjoyed getting high too.
Speaker 1: I don't have that to share with him. I can't
Speaker 1: see through his eyes, but I do understand him and
Speaker 1: I and I don't judge him. Mary has said that
Speaker 1: she talks to Robert every day about his issues. She
Speaker 1: added that she feels like dealing with that in anybody's
Speaker 1: life is really hard because it's almost embarrassing because at
Speaker 1: some point your child has to tell you, mom, I
Speaker 1: have a vulnerable sigh and I failed and I wasn't
Speaker 1: able to bring myself back up. Yeah, it's sad, It's
Speaker 1: really sad. She also wanted us to know that Robert
Speaker 1: Junior is steady, which for her is healthy, and that
Speaker 1: he is doing good. Shout out to Robert. Our prayers
Speaker 1: and thoughts and everything is with you. Get the help
Speaker 1: that you need, and I'm happy to hear that you're
Speaker 1: doing well. But a couple of people had a difference
Speaker 1: of opinions, and I want to talk to your Raine
Speaker 1: Drops about that. A lot of the fans know is
Speaker 1: that none of Mary's castmates showed any public support for
Speaker 1: that scene, which does say a lot. It says a lot.
Speaker 1: I don't I mean, listen, I don't know if that
Speaker 1: means they're trying to respect her privacy, although I don't
Speaker 1: think Mary will be mad at a public statement saying
Speaker 1: that our heart and thoughts and prayers are going are
Speaker 1: being sent to you guys. So I don't know about that.
Speaker 1: That's pretty odd that we didn't see that. I don't
Speaker 1: know what that means, rain Drops. What is that? I mean,
Speaker 1: it's weird. You have Porsche Williams from Atlanta Housewives, Shall
Speaker 1: Marry Some Love and a lot of other BRA celebrities,
Speaker 1: but the time and air, none of the ladies on
Speaker 1: the show said anything, and that is a little bit odd.
Speaker 1: It's odd. Well, also maybe deemed as odd is Jill
Speaker 1: Zaron's daughter Ali Shapiro. She slammed Salt Lake City for
Speaker 1: using Mary Cosby's son's addiction issues as a storyline, and
Speaker 1: she said, honey, that it is not okay. So this
Speaker 1: is what Ali, who is the daughter of Jill Zarin
Speaker 1: from the Real Housewives of New York City. Ali said this.
Speaker 1: Maybe because I'm a former housewife kid, I had a
Speaker 1: completely different take on this scene. I don't think it's
Speaker 1: okay that this was filmed like this. I think that
Speaker 1: it should have been once he was in or out
Speaker 1: of rehab with a therapist, et cetera. He does it
Speaker 1: seem like a public person and this will follow him
Speaker 1: for the rest of his life. While it was a
Speaker 1: powerful moment between a mother and her son, it's a
Speaker 1: moment I think should have been shared off camera or
Speaker 1: after he was healthy. These are real people and a
Speaker 1: twenty one year old kid who needs help. I was
Speaker 1: you to think a storyline at what cost? Okay, here's
Speaker 1: my thoughts. We're not going to vilify a reality star
Speaker 1: for sharing her reality, Okay. I why do we watch
Speaker 1: reality TV to see someone phoning it in like I'm
Speaker 1: not here for that. I'm not here for that on
Speaker 1: The New York City Housewives. I have not given that
Speaker 1: show my eyeball second season. I don't care to watch
Speaker 1: women on a show who refuse to have their partner
Speaker 1: be a part of it. I think that shit is whack.
Speaker 1: I said it it it is what it is. I
Speaker 1: grew up, okay, watching the Real World. I grew up
Speaker 1: with Tammy Relman on the Real World Los Angeles, Okay,
Speaker 1: trying to lose weight by getting her teeth shut with
Speaker 1: wires to prevent her from eating food. And you mean
Speaker 1: to tell me there's a problem with an adult woman
Speaker 1: and an adult man. He is not a twenty one
Speaker 1: year old kid. Okay, at twenty one, you are an adult.
Speaker 1: Why are we vilifying a mother and a son who
Speaker 1: knew cameras were there. It's not like it was behind
Speaker 1: the scenes and somebody was hiding in the closet shooting
Speaker 1: it the way they shot Lisa Barlow talking to the
Speaker 1: producer about how Meredith allegedly fucks all of New York City.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like Mary wasn't aware there was a camera
Speaker 1: her face. This is what reality TV is, And excuse me,
Speaker 1: for screaming, turn down the volume if you're driving in
Speaker 1: your car. But it makes me annoyed that we lost
Speaker 1: the plot is and I'm hearing that on Botomac Housewives.
Speaker 1: We don't like me a Thorn's storyline. It's not it's
Speaker 1: too love and hip hop? First of all, what does
Speaker 1: that even mean? Number one? But that's a whole nother
Speaker 1: discussion for a whole nother day, because don't get me
Speaker 1: started on y'all making that reference. It ain't loving hip hop?
Speaker 1: What the fuck is that supposed to mean? Some of
Speaker 1: y'all just hate y'allselves in y'all community, But I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna go there. On this podcast. It's all about Mary,
Speaker 1: hence the title of this podcast being there's something about Mary, Okay.
Speaker 1: The only way I could understand this truly is if
Speaker 1: Robert Junior was like, thirteen, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: I'll even give you sixteen. That's the only way I
Speaker 1: would be like, Uh, he's sixteen. Because he's a miner.
Speaker 1: That's the only reason I'll be like only because he's
Speaker 1: a minor. Right, Robert Junior is twenty one years old.
Speaker 1: He's an adult. He's over the age of eighteen, and
Speaker 1: he signed up for it, and so that his mom,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't a hidden camera. They knew what they
Speaker 1: were doing. So I don't like it when the world
Speaker 1: judges reality starts for showing the reality. But you guys
Speaker 1: think it's okay to watch a prank on a show
Speaker 1: about this person. Huh. Get the child, girl, honey, boo boo,
Speaker 1: and then listen. A lot of the girls read Ali
Speaker 1: for filth okay, cuz they cause. Let me tell you something, baby,
Speaker 1: before you go off on a tangent that is unsolicited
Speaker 1: and listen. I do a y'all on my podcast. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is a solicited podcast. I do it because I
Speaker 1: want to write. But girl, they're trying to read you
Speaker 1: to Ali, Honey, they're reading you. Boo. They got receipts timeline, Okay,
Speaker 1: they're reading you. So a lot of the people brought
Speaker 1: up the fact that Ali's mom, Jill Zaren, mentioned on
Speaker 1: camera about her going to a fat camp okay, and
Speaker 1: a lot of people were challenging Ali saying, oh wait,
Speaker 1: so you don't like that. So did you not like
Speaker 1: it when your mom mentioned on camera about you going
Speaker 1: to a fat camp? Which I mean, look, let's have
Speaker 1: a real conversation. A lot of people will look at
Speaker 1: that like that was too much. And I think at
Speaker 1: the time Ali was under twenty one on allegedly, you know,
Speaker 1: that's what it looks like. So was Jill Zaron wrong
Speaker 1: for having that type of conversation on camera just saying
Speaker 1: it's something that people are talking about. They're talking about it,
Speaker 1: so look like I said, I applaud Mary, applaud Roberts Jr. Mary,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for giving us back for reality television.
Speaker 1: It's what's missing in this genre today. And I just
Speaker 1: give you so much credit for your courageousness, your bravery,
Speaker 1: and again to Robert Jr. Of course more importantly for
Speaker 1: your courageousness and bravery and honesty. And what I would
Speaker 1: like to say in closing is this, you never know
Speaker 1: the power of what the camera can do for someone's
Speaker 1: life life. And it is my deep, deep, deep hope
Speaker 1: that that scene airing will allow Robert Jr. To know
Speaker 1: that he has a lot of support from the world.
Speaker 1: And I believe in energy first and foremost, I believe
Speaker 1: in God and prayer, So we're all praying for you,
Speaker 1: Robert Jr. And my belief is the fact that your
Speaker 1: honesty not only is it going to help you, you know,
Speaker 1: that's our hope, that it helps you recover and have
Speaker 1: a clean bill for the rest of your life, but
Speaker 1: that you are also helping lots of families who are
Speaker 1: dealing with this. So we love you and Mary Cosby.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for listening
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