Speaker 1: Do you know about the Caroline Manzo and Brandy Glanville thing.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, a tiny bit.
Speaker 1: Caroline has filed a lawsuit because of a trip to
Speaker 1: Morocco on an Ultimate Girls trip. Allegedly there was a
Speaker 1: sexual assault incident.
Speaker 2: And was it? Did they describe what that was?
Speaker 1: A grabbing of a boob? Was what was discussed. So
Speaker 1: my feeling is that Caroline Manzo who had a quote
Speaker 1: saying like, if you're hang out by a dumpster, you're
Speaker 1: gonna end up smelling like trash, something like that. And
Speaker 1: I knew that she left the show. She was one
Speaker 1: of the few people that have left the show versus
Speaker 1: being fired. Ninety nine point nine percent of people that
Speaker 1: say they've left, it's been they've been fired. And she
Speaker 1: did leave, and she didn't want to go back, but
Speaker 1: like the pandemic hit everybody, and I'm sure it would
Speaker 1: have been nice to have a gig and it's a
Speaker 1: lift for the money, one week trip, but she goes
Speaker 1: in and now we're in the land of the fired housewife,
Speaker 1: which is the most desperate house of all. The fired
Speaker 1: housewife is the most desperate housewife because they want to,
Speaker 1: you know, jump through hoops and set themselves on fire,
Speaker 1: set somebody on fire, to rate and maybe get asked back,
Speaker 1: or just like to be relevant again. There's a thousand reasons.
Speaker 1: So now Caroline goes in and she knows who the
Speaker 1: cast is, so now Brandy's want of the cast. And
Speaker 1: in my opinion, I don't know exactly what happened. It's
Speaker 1: alleged and Brandy and everyone else have said, you know,
Speaker 1: different versions of it. Nothing happened to it's Bravo's fault too,
Speaker 1: you know, it's Mickey Mouse's fault. But Brandy is known
Speaker 1: to get wild and wasted and has done that even
Speaker 1: when she since she's left, she's gone back in as
Speaker 1: a guest to get wild and wasted. So this environment
Speaker 1: wants you to get wasted. It encourages drinking and train
Speaker 1: wreck activity. So is it surprising that this would go
Speaker 1: down there there's a ledge that they were smoking pot
Speaker 1: and morocco and go to jail. Painting a picture for
Speaker 1: you to get your take on this whole situation, because
Speaker 1: mine is, don't hate the player, hate the game.
Speaker 2: I am so.
Speaker 3: Cynical about reality, right and like how things go down,
Speaker 3: and also just cancel culture, like somebody can say, like
Speaker 3: I don't fucking know.
Speaker 2: I don't fucking know. Like, yes, I do agree.
Speaker 3: I dated somebody that worked in real filmed reality, and
Speaker 3: there would be stories that like people would text on
Speaker 3: the side about like storylines that they wanted to dump
Speaker 3: on the show to boost their ratings, right like hey,
Speaker 3: or like news that would break. But they're like, hey,
Speaker 3: I want to you know, I want to break the
Speaker 3: news when I'm on air.
Speaker 2: Whatever, So no, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 1: The producers will hand you the New York Post and say,
Speaker 1: tell Jennifer about this, like Christina kirkmana squat with their
Speaker 1: pants down at Starbucks, and I'm supposed to say that
Speaker 1: to somebody else. Obviously you were that yeah that yeah,
Speaker 1: So they want so they wanted Brandy to be Brandy,
Speaker 1: and Brandy went there and was Brandy. I mean you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like we want enter the wild
Speaker 1: girl who's gonna drink? The people that fall off the wagon.
Speaker 1: I've heard them say, well, of course we know this
Speaker 1: person's gonna drink. And they are excited, they're drooling because
Speaker 1: that means that this is a story someone fell off
Speaker 1: the wagon. Like they're not like and you're.
Speaker 3: Also you're you're throwing all these people together that are
Speaker 3: like have such different personalities and like, especially when there's
Speaker 3: alcohol involved, you have people that just like.
Speaker 2: Party and let loose so differently that like.
Speaker 3: It's just it's hard to it's hard to make sense
Speaker 3: of any of it and be like this was done
Speaker 3: with this intention, or this was.
Speaker 2: I don't fucking enough. I don't know, Bet, I don't know.
Speaker 1: And it's also the activity, the activation, the adrenaline is
Speaker 1: another level from anything I've ever expected. What's going on
Speaker 1: inside your mind and your body while your heart is
Speaker 1: pumping out of your chest and you're having a conversation
Speaker 1: and you don't stop down, like in acting like you're
Speaker 1: the train has left. You just said something that's bad
Speaker 1: or that could be perceived as inappropriate, tone deaf, or racist.
Speaker 1: Your mind is on that thing you've just said. Your
Speaker 1: body's still in this conversation. It's the most present scene, ironically,
Speaker 1: more than acting ever, because you must be present and
Speaker 1: listening to the other person right there, even though you're
Speaker 1: in your head a little in the about the past thing.
Speaker 1: But like the cameras aren't stopping. And if you go
Speaker 1: in the bathroom to throw up about what you've just said,
Speaker 1: the cameras are there to get the throw up coming
Speaker 1: out of your mouth, Like it is not a joke.
Speaker 1: So it's why it's hard to judge a circumstance based
Speaker 1: on something that is so heightened, that is designed to
Speaker 1: be heightened, and you're then doing what you were supposed
Speaker 1: to do. Like did you ever see the movie A
Speaker 1: Few Good Men with Tom Cruise? These two okay, so
Speaker 1: these two so soldiers are working for Jack Nicholson, who
Speaker 1: gave we find out in the end of the movie,
Speaker 1: gave them the order to beat the ship out of
Speaker 1: this guy in the unit. And the guy died from
Speaker 1: the the beating. And these two guys didn't get criminally
Speaker 1: prosecuted because they took the order, but they got all
Speaker 1: they ever wanted was to be in the army and
Speaker 1: they got fired from the army. And they were like,
Speaker 1: but what do you mean we we gave we took
Speaker 1: the order. He gave the order. Like they were basically
Speaker 1: like crying because like there were soldiers. So it's like
Speaker 1: your housewives.
Speaker 3: You're supposed to specifically housewives, right, like you have you
Speaker 3: have a you have a brand of keep as a
Speaker 3: as a housewife, like you gotta be wild and wacky
Speaker 3: and crazy and like you said, you're in fucking Morocco.
Speaker 3: Everyone's drinking like you're at a heightened Jela.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah yeah and concentrated and everyone's been fired. And
Speaker 1: then Bravo likes it's like, we do not condone. We
Speaker 1: do not condone the what the promoting and suggesting and
Speaker 1: the providing of alcohol and crazy behavior, and you know
Speaker 1: that then we're gonna.
Speaker 3: Be are they feeding you guys alcohol?
Speaker 1: Like before, it's not, No, they're not feed Everybody can
Speaker 1: order whatever they want and it's all readily available there. Okay,
Speaker 1: but they're loving there's no inter In any other workplace,
Speaker 1: you'd possibly see some interference if one person had eate drinks.
Speaker 1: If when Sonya crashed on the floor, I'm the one
Speaker 1: who was like, stop this and we need to call
Speaker 1: a metic because I don't know if she hit her head.
Speaker 1: That wasn't the show that said to do that.
Speaker 3: Like yeah, then there's that line with reality where it's
Speaker 3: like what what is journalism?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: Because I think some reality is is journalism right? Where
Speaker 3: it's like we're not going to step in, like where
Speaker 3: is the line between like we're highlighting these people's lives.
Speaker 2: We're telling this story.
Speaker 3: Right when you're a journalist and you're reporting on a
Speaker 3: news story that this was always like in my journalism classes,
Speaker 3: this debate of like if you see if you're you know,
Speaker 3: documenting something that's happening and something bad is about to happen,
Speaker 3: do you step in? And the argument with journalism is like, no,
Speaker 3: you are unbiased, you are what is happening, And I think.
Speaker 1: With but then, but you're not editing that this gets edited.
Speaker 1: This is selective editing for journalism and storyline, you know, supporting.
Speaker 1: So if you're just watching a war and something happening,
Speaker 1: that's different. This is like you have a narrative and
Speaker 1: that's the most overused word in but this is the
Speaker 1: one time to use it. Like there is literally a
Speaker 1: narrative that the producers on the whiteboard already know they're
Speaker 1: moving with at this time tomorrow. It could change like
Speaker 1: based on something that happens in a scene, but they're
Speaker 1: going with what this is. So that's why there. You know,
Speaker 1: it is an interesting thing. But you're paying these people.
Speaker 1: They're technically not employees because they're the contracts are shadily designed,
Speaker 1: so they're not legal employees. So it's not really a workplace.
Speaker 1: So we were in Colombia on a b so that
Speaker 1: the production rented and we took on water and we
Speaker 1: had this crazy situation where like feats of waves were
Speaker 1: coming on the boat and we then realized there were
Speaker 1: only two life jackets on the whole boat for including
Speaker 1: the crew and the cast that had to be over
Speaker 1: twenty people or fifteen twenty people. So that was like
Speaker 1: our life was in danger, and we're in Colombia and
Speaker 1: our life was in danger, Like who's that's We're not
Speaker 1: supposed to trust the network that got us a boat
Speaker 1: and we're just supposed to be like journalists now, Like
Speaker 1: even if a if a camera person went for NBC
Speaker 1: and the boat had two lifevest and something happened, the
Speaker 1: camera person would have a problem with NBC, which is
Speaker 1: their employer. So it's like a hybrid weird situation. So
Speaker 1: it's like a weird time in reality television because of
Speaker 1: the reckoning where they don't know what to do because
Speaker 1: they want all that good, meaty content, but now there
Speaker 1: are guardrails starting.
Speaker 2: I couldn't, I could not, I couldn't do any bit
Speaker 2: of that. No part of that.
Speaker 3: That's like or I also just think about how you know,
Speaker 3: we will show like the previews for shit, and they'll like,
Speaker 3: you know, edit out the tail end of what someone
Speaker 3: said to make you believe that they were saying something else.
Speaker 2: And then in some situations people don't watch the show.
Speaker 2: They just take that little Oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah I hate that person. Yeah, ruin's that person's life. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it goes on for the rest of time.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So I can't fucking be bothered. Man, that shit is.
Speaker 2: I like the idea, Well, it's like acting too, right, where.
Speaker 3: It's like you do this work, do you do your thing,
Speaker 3: you whatever it is, and then you put your trust
Speaker 3: in someone that's editing it. And then you want and
Speaker 3: you're like, oh fuck man, like you picked the take
Speaker 3: that I, in my opinion, did the worst act.
Speaker 1: But you still get to hide behind the character and
Speaker 1: the writing. It wasn't you that did the crow sometimes yes, yes,
Speaker 1: he wasn't either did the craft. So then the next
Speaker 1: question I have about popular culture is what do you
Speaker 1: think about Victoria Beckham and David Beckham's goal like personality,
Speaker 1: glow up their humor and entertaining love it, blow up
Speaker 1: wild right, I love.
Speaker 2: It, I love I love Uh, was it uber eats
Speaker 2: when they Yes, I just saw it today. That's why
Speaker 2: I asked genius, genius. I love that.
Speaker 3: I love. My thing for me in comedy is like
Speaker 3: people that can make fun of themselves, Yes, like make
Speaker 3: that part of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which is why I love you like people that
Speaker 2: are so self aware that they make fun of themselves.
Speaker 3: Because then also it's like you're kind of uncancellable when
Speaker 3: you're like that, right, Like you if you have your
Speaker 3: things that obviously in circumstances, in certain circumstances, but it's
Speaker 3: like if you have your shtick and you kind of
Speaker 3: just own it and you're aware of it. I feel
Speaker 3: like people find that like very endearing.
Speaker 1: And well, everybody wants you to catch somebody in something,
Speaker 1: so when somebody that was Ellen's biggest problem with the
Speaker 1: show was it was be kind to each other every day.
Speaker 1: If she was on that show as like you know,
Speaker 1: bitch and slightly, it would be a different it would
Speaker 1: be a different juxtaposition.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Or what's your favorite Housewives franchise and what's your
Speaker 3: least favorite?
Speaker 1: I haven't watched any of them in years except for
Speaker 1: individually for my podcast, Like I'll watch an episode and
Speaker 1: it's great to do because it's like I'm a new
Speaker 1: person walking into the show. So I enjoyed the one
Speaker 1: episode I watched. It was a little too Now. Atlanta
Speaker 1: was always my favorite because it was so I mean,
Speaker 1: Atlanta was really entertaining and ridiculous. So that was always
Speaker 1: my favorite. I don't really watch that many anymore. They're
Speaker 1: so produced, and I liked it back when it was
Speaker 1: more sloppy. Back then, I actually enjoyed Jersey too sometimes
Speaker 1: because it's like it's a little fucking messy. They get dirty,
Speaker 1: they look like Beverly Hills is very canned, like they're
Speaker 1: very produced and very aware. And the New Housewives of
Speaker 1: New York, which I only saw, I think the premiere,
Speaker 1: they were very savvy and very self produced, and I
Speaker 1: just that's not the nature of what the train wreck
Speaker 1: we started was. What about you?
Speaker 2: I used to love again, I haven't, like I keep
Speaker 2: up with Beverly Hills now.
Speaker 3: I used to Jersey was like, well, because Jersey like
Speaker 3: it feels like home. Watching Jersey like Jersey New York, it.
Speaker 2: Just feels like home.
Speaker 3: I loved Atlanta, I loved Potomac. Those were like I
Speaker 3: never I couldn't get into Salt Lake. I couldn't get
Speaker 3: into Miami.
Speaker 2: Now. It's just really I just gave up with Beverly Hills.
Speaker 1: I don't even know the difference anymore. Yeah, Beverly Hills
Speaker 1: is like another level that's like, you know, not landing
Speaker 1: now