Speaker 1: Yeah, so I talked about Teresa Judice being on Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 1: I need to say that when someone's been announced first,
Speaker 1: it doesn't mean that they are more iconic than the
Speaker 1: other Mount Rushmore housewives. It just means someone who to
Speaker 1: me undeniably needs to go on there. I could have
Speaker 1: said the second person as well, and then it made
Speaker 1: me realize that there are men, there are house husbands
Speaker 1: that are iconic and should be on the Mount Rushmore
Speaker 1: of house husbands, and I have a criteria. It has
Speaker 1: to be someone who adds to the sauce. They add
Speaker 1: some sort of a zipper spice. They're not just a
Speaker 1: side piece to the character that's been hired for the show.
Speaker 1: It's the real housewives of Blank City, and their partners
Speaker 1: are often accessories, meaning there the main character is the
Speaker 1: main character, and their kids and their husband is sort
Speaker 1: of an accessory. I'm also going to do the Mount
Speaker 1: Rushmore of house children because this is the same concept.
Speaker 1: It means who else is driving their own story, creating
Speaker 1: their own drama, and your eyes glue to that person
Speaker 1: and they can. It's like there are stars that can
Speaker 1: carry a movie themselves. They can just headline a movie,
Speaker 1: carry it and get ratings. There are people like that
Speaker 1: also on reality television, and then there are house husbands.
Speaker 1: It was intended to be a secondary supporting character that
Speaker 1: could hold a scene and your attention and you're not
Speaker 1: fast forwarding through on their own. They could sit in
Speaker 1: that interview chair on their own because you're interested in
Speaker 1: what they have to say. You may not like them,
Speaker 1: they may not be up to your moral standards, but
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, your eyes are glued to them in
Speaker 1: the screen and the drama and the entertainment that they provide.
Speaker 1: So with that criteria in mind, my second Mount Rushmore
Speaker 1: house husband is Simon van Kempen. You're like, wait for it,
Speaker 1: take a bait. No one would have predicted that. Here's
Speaker 1: the reason why he created drama. Think him crashing girls
Speaker 1: night with Ramona getting crazy asking why he would think
Speaker 1: that he could be on a girl's night and are
Speaker 1: they co dependent? And them him and him and he
Speaker 1: wore like a a banana hammock. I think it was
Speaker 1: like an animal print bathing suit. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: In sembach st Bark, he drove story on his own.
Speaker 1: It's arguable, like Joe Gorga, he could be more entertaining
Speaker 1: than the primary character. It's the sum is greater than
Speaker 1: it's parts. Alex and Simon or the housewife. Melissa and
Speaker 1: Joe were the housewife, So Simon himself deserves to be
Speaker 1: on Mount Rushmore. He performed on Watch What Happens live
Speaker 1: on his own, singing a song in red leather pants. Right.
Speaker 1: Think about that. He was live tweeting. He would text
Speaker 1: Andy and have gripes about the series and what was
Speaker 1: going on. He himself is the main character. When he
Speaker 1: was on, your eyes were drawn to him. You may
Speaker 1: hate him, people liked him, people hated him. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: He had his own scenes. He was the manager of
Speaker 1: a hotel. We we knew that. You don't get that
Speaker 1: from just You didn't get that from Mario. Mario was
Speaker 1: an accessory. Simon was a main character. Simon is my
Speaker 1: second Mount Rushmore house husband choice from the Real Housewives franchise. Understand,
Speaker 1: I don't watch Miami. I haven't seen Dallas or Potomac
Speaker 1: or d C or Salt Lake, so I'm skewed. If
Speaker 1: you're seeing something that I'm not seeing, Listen, make an
Speaker 1: appeal in re Wives Court and I'll go back and
Speaker 1: look at footage because I don't know those shows that
Speaker 1: intimately it is. I am also jaded and thinking that
Speaker 1: this is a lot of the old school. The drama
Speaker 1: wasn't the same level, so I'm partial to the old
Speaker 1: school content. So based on that, you need to know
Speaker 1: that that is my second choice for Matt Rushmore. But
Speaker 1: I don't think in seeing any of those shows, based
Speaker 1: on the press, based on the clips, based on the media,
Speaker 1: that any of those husbands hold a candle to Simon
Speaker 1: as a Housewives character. The Rushmore choices are not in
Speaker 1: any particular order, meaning it's not a favorite, and one
Speaker 1: is not more of a Rushmore than the other. They're
Speaker 1: just I'm just doing them m arbitrary, really doing it
Speaker 1: in this order. Ninie Leaks is an iconic o G housewife.
Speaker 1: Needy Leaks deserves to be on Mount Rushmore. We're talking
Speaker 1: about a woman who has paved the way and laid
Speaker 1: the groundworks and is an iconic housewife. I'm saying the
Speaker 1: facts that Needy Leaks is undeniably one of the people
Speaker 1: that contributed to the success of the Housewives franchise, and
Speaker 1: like Teresa, has been polarizing, has been entertaining, has been funny,
Speaker 1: has driven story, has been loved, can handle, and is
Speaker 1: strong enough to be hated. Is iconic. She is arguably
Speaker 1: the funniest housewife ever. Teresa's funny Nani is hysterical. And
Speaker 1: she was there in the beginning. And I say this
Speaker 1: too because we talked about people like Porscho work wildly entertaining,
Speaker 1: and she's a star in her own right. There were
Speaker 1: people that did lay the groundworks because they were walking
Speaker 1: into something that they hadn't seen in US Weekly. They
Speaker 1: hadn't seen clips from They hadn't seen other people entertain
Speaker 1: and dress and get glam and and flip table so
Speaker 1: they could then top it in seasons later. They were
Speaker 1: people cast into a show, paid peanuts to do something
Speaker 1: no one had ever done before, and no one understood
Speaker 1: this was a new genre that would become a cultural
Speaker 1: phenomenon in the zeitgeist. So you got to give extra
Speaker 1: credit to people like Simon van Kempen that were there
Speaker 1: in the beginning, to people like Theresa that were there
Speaker 1: in the beginning, to people like Vicky gum Wolson. In
Speaker 1: the beginning, they hadn't seen someone throw a leg onto
Speaker 1: the dance floor. They hadn't seen Erica Jane where head
Speaker 1: to toe Gucci, then have Dorit start doing it and
Speaker 1: start making crazy diamond hairstyles and full glam squads. This
Speaker 1: was the beginning. This was when you wore a kashmere
Speaker 1: sweater and a shitty outfit you pull from your closet
Speaker 1: to a reunion and did your own hair makeup half
Speaker 1: the time. This was not after years of getting savvy
Speaker 1: and smart and reading and studying the playbook to then
Speaker 1: come from j I and were gone with the wind
Speaker 1: gala gown. Because you've seen it done for hundreds of
Speaker 1: women before Nini walked in in her own living room,
Speaker 1: was doing shitty lighting housewives interviews with no HD and
Speaker 1: there didn't exist Twitter. I was fucking making people laugh
Speaker 1: their asses off. You wanted raw truth, humor, entertainment, and homemade,
Speaker 1: not manufactured, big b roll helicopter shots in Morocco. It
Speaker 1: was like just a fucking homemade garage band puppet show
Speaker 1: that was entertaining that she presumably was making seven thousand
Speaker 1: dollars a year to the first season. She was a nobody,
Speaker 1: but she brought it and she was Andy Cohen's favorite
Speaker 1: housewife because I remember I was not shiny and brand new,
Speaker 1: and they came in and Andy was taking I didn't
Speaker 1: find it from Andy, but Nani told me this is
Speaker 1: this is behind the scenes t I pop off with
Speaker 1: the skinny girl Margharita. This brand, the brand f Angelico
Speaker 1: paid me hundreds of thousands of dollars to do a
Speaker 1: promotional thing. And it was at the Plaza and they
Speaker 1: were going to have warrant Tricomi that salon do an
Speaker 1: event for me. Why they were involved, I don't know.
Speaker 1: It was at their salon or something. It was the
Speaker 1: night I met my ex husband Um. I was at
Speaker 1: the Plaza hotel. I don't know how I knew Niny
Speaker 1: or we had met through this situation and she texted
Speaker 1: me she was in town. Or I invited her, I
Speaker 1: don't know how, and she stopped by with two girlfriends.
Speaker 1: She said she had to leave because Andy had invited
Speaker 1: her to be his plus one at an event. You
Speaker 1: didn see Andy inviting me to be a plus one.
Speaker 1: She was his new favorite shiny toy. She was the favorite.
Speaker 1: She was bringing in the ratings, the press like she
Speaker 1: was needy leak. She was. It was iconic vintage Ninny leaks.
Speaker 1: That night I was trying to be a hot stepper
Speaker 1: at this event with her two friends. It were really
Speaker 1: nice and I invited them out. I went to a
Speaker 1: Gotham Magazine event with them and as a surprise, Beyonce performed.
Speaker 1: Fucking Beyonce performed. They thought it was the coolest bitch
Speaker 1: in town. I don't know why it happened. It was
Speaker 1: like two fifty people. Beyonce performed. Don't ask me why
Speaker 1: Beyonce performed? Was she on the cover? I don't gotta be.
Speaker 1: And then I took them out to Um to a
Speaker 1: club called ten June and they wouldn't let them. They
Speaker 1: wouldn't let us in. I know the people there and
Speaker 1: they're like, we'll let you and won't let them in.
Speaker 1: My hand to God, they will confirm the story. We
Speaker 1: then went to St. K Steakhouse next door. They were
Speaker 1: having a great time. We're having a great night. We've
Speaker 1: seen Beyonce. We were buzzing it up, drinking. I had been.
Speaker 1: I thought I was cool. I didn't event I was
Speaker 1: paid all this money. We were at St K, which
Speaker 1: is above ten June. It was driving me fucking nuts
Speaker 1: that they didn't let them in on everything. I hope
Speaker 1: to be. I texted the guy the two one of
Speaker 1: the two owners, and I said, and he wasn't at
Speaker 1: the door. He didn't know anyth about it. I I said,
Speaker 1: listen to me, if those two girls look like me,
Speaker 1: you would have let them in. I said, you get
Speaker 1: that bouncer to let us in because we're coming back in.
Speaker 1: They were like, we're fine, we're having fun. STK was
Speaker 1: playing great old school music. We're having a great time.
Speaker 1: It was just driving me nuts. It was bothering me.
Speaker 1: Walked back around. They let all three of us and
Speaker 1: we went into ten Juniors for their anniversary. It might
Speaker 1: have been year anniversary, two years anniversary. I don't know
Speaker 1: their anniversary party. And this photographer took a picture of me.
Speaker 1: And that's when my ex walked up to me and
Speaker 1: he said, are you ready to get the stick out
Speaker 1: of your grass and dance? And I met him that night.
Speaker 1: If it weren't for Needy Leaks and Andy, if it
Speaker 1: weren't for Andy Cohen inviting Needy Leaks with him, me
Speaker 1: taking her two friends out that night going to ten June,
Speaker 1: the two women I was with not being let in
Speaker 1: the door, me raising a stink making them let us
Speaker 1: in the door. Us going downstairs, me meeting my ex.
Speaker 1: There'd be no Brant. I wouldn't have been married, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't have had a ten year divorce. All that ship
Speaker 1: wouldn't have happened. But it's all because of the Rushmore. Unintentionally.
Speaker 1: You need didn't know any of this would happen, but
Speaker 1: it was because Needy such an iconic Rushmore housewife. But
Speaker 1: she was Andy Cohen's plus one. It happened for seats
Speaker 1: and all