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Speaker 1: it not real. In Beverly Hill's case, it's at least

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Speaker 1: entertaining because they were in such costume and it's so

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Speaker 1: elaborate that it's something to look at and it's expected now,

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Speaker 1: but that wasn't the case when they first started either. So,

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Speaker 1: and they have those big houses and everything, and places

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Speaker 1: the same price as some of the houses in um

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Speaker 1: in Beverly. Also, the girls who are on The Girls

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Speaker 1: don't they don't their houses aren't interesting to watch that

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Speaker 1: they don't have real estate porn, they don't have you know,

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Speaker 1: the houses aren't that interesting to watch. The relationships are

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Speaker 1: forged and forced and contrived and not from any sort

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Speaker 1: of honest place. Uh. They are casting based on what

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Speaker 1: society wants them to do and not based on who

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Speaker 1: these people are really associating with, and so it just

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Speaker 1: becomes the manufactured show with manufactured conversations, and the audience

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Speaker 1: is so savvy and so smart, but it's hard to

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Speaker 1: create freshness and newness and authenticity, so something new has

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Speaker 1: to happen. Overall, the word housewives is like an antiquated

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Speaker 1: fifties concept. So we're in a situation where everybody's woke

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Speaker 1: and people are politically correct and you know, women equal

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Speaker 1: pay for women. We're watching shows called housewives, you know,

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Speaker 1: so Frank, you know with nobody is a housewife. But

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Speaker 1: and I know, it's just a phrase that's been coined,

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Speaker 1: and I get that because that's very important to recognize.

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying it's a fifties concept, so it's not

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Speaker 1: that easy for them to keep things fresh. And they're

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Speaker 1: doing a very good job of attempting me, that's for sure.

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Speaker 1: But I did not see, so I just read what

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Speaker 1: they say. Keep submitting questions. I love them. I hope

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Speaker 1: the answers are helpful at least fun Watch alpha more questions,

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Speaker 1: post more questions. I love answering them. Thank you so much,