Speaker 1: I'm Jonathan Walton and this is Queen of the con
Speaker 1: The Unreal Housewife episode eight, a bonus episode. She's running
Speaker 1: that joint. In this episode, I talked to housewives connoisseur
Speaker 1: Kate Casey, host of the podcast Reality Life with Kate Casey,
Speaker 1: and veteran Real Housewives producer Carlos King, host of the
Speaker 1: Reality with the King podcast. We fuss and discuss all
Speaker 1: the craziness Genshaw is up to now in prison and
Speaker 1: the fact that she's not the only housewife pretending to
Speaker 1: be wealthier than she is. And Kate and Carlos also
Speaker 1: give me their best predictions on what happens to Genshaw
Speaker 1: after prison. Enjoy. Carlos King is our first time meeting.
Speaker 1: I'm so impressed with you. You produced on Real Housewives
Speaker 1: New Jersey and Atlanta.
Speaker 2: Yes, that is my protein shape because I need to
Speaker 2: make sure that I am fueled to do the job.
Speaker 1: Yes, all right, What was it like producing on Real
Speaker 1: Housewives New Jersey, Real Housewives Atlanta?
Speaker 3: You know, producing both of those shows.
Speaker 2: Looking back on it, it was very, very very fun,
Speaker 2: but also very challenging. But when you're a new producer,
Speaker 2: you just are happy you have a gig, and for me,
Speaker 2: The Real Housewives of Atlanta was my first foray into
Speaker 2: reality television. So I'm just happy to have a job
Speaker 2: in reality TV. And then my first time on set,
Speaker 2: the producer said to me, you're going to be assigned
Speaker 2: to Nini Leaks and the rest is history in terms
Speaker 2: of our relationship and our friendship. Jersey was the same thing.
Speaker 2: They said, You're assigned Teresa judaizing Danielle style. I'm like, okay, so,
Speaker 2: but it goes to show you that I was the
Speaker 2: person who had to handle strong, opinionated women and it
Speaker 2: allowed me to stretch my muscle in telling women's stories
Speaker 2: and to have the career that I have today.
Speaker 4: And what were the Real Housewives like in your experience?
Speaker 4: How real were they?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: Very real? You have to think about it.
Speaker 2: The Real Housewives of Atlanta debuted in October of two
Speaker 2: thousand and eight. At that time, the only big reality
Speaker 2: shows were The Hills and Laguna Beach, which a lot
Speaker 2: of people at the time even now would say it
Speaker 2: was soft scripting.
Speaker 3: Is this show real?
Speaker 2: The Real Housewives brand from the inception has always been
Speaker 2: to follow the reality and to showcase these.
Speaker 3: Women in their real form. These women did not have any.
Speaker 4: Sort of.
Speaker 2: Person to idalyze to say I want to be that person.
Speaker 2: They truly were being authentic. So what you saw was
Speaker 2: women who were truly being themselves. Teresa, I fig you
Speaker 2: can see thirteen years later Teresa still Teresa, and Niemi
Speaker 2: is still MEMI very big, very bold, very loud, very opinionated.
Speaker 2: So it was the greatest example of how reality show
Speaker 2: works in the sense of you always have to cast
Speaker 2: women who are able to go through their personal story,
Speaker 2: and these women went there and.
Speaker 1: I'll ask each of you this, what's your take on
Speaker 1: overall on jen Shaw.
Speaker 5: Jenshaw to me personified a savvy viewer who studied every
Speaker 5: frame of Real Housewives and plotted an opportunity for them
Speaker 5: to become a housewife. I think the minute someone got
Speaker 5: word that the Real Housewives was looking at Salt Lake
Speaker 5: City or her antennas went up and she was like,
Speaker 5: I'm bringing my a game. I think she's like the
Speaker 5: perfect housewife in terms of somebody who really believes, well,
Speaker 5: where have the cameras been my whole life? Like, of
Speaker 5: course you're going to fill me. Even though they're not
Speaker 5: a celebrity. They may not have built like an incredible business.
Speaker 5: There's not something that's spectacular in terms of their life
Speaker 5: success or career success. They still believe. Well, of course
Speaker 5: cameras would follow me, I'm such an incredible person. She
Speaker 5: kind of is that personality for me. So when you
Speaker 5: started to watch her on camera, you thought, I think
Speaker 5: she's overdoing it. And sometimes when you watch it like
Speaker 5: a movie, you think someone's overacting. She was almost overdoing
Speaker 5: it in terms of a reality star. The first time
Speaker 5: I knew she was completely bombastic was when I realized
Speaker 5: she was living in a rental home and she had
Speaker 5: nailed shelving units into the wall. I thought, you're a
Speaker 5: monster who rents a house and nails shelving into the walls,
Speaker 5: somebody who believes they don't need to live by other
Speaker 5: people's rules.
Speaker 1: And was that publicized that she was renting, because I
Speaker 1: thought she was trying to portray as if she owns
Speaker 1: the place.
Speaker 5: Actually, during the first season, it was a real housewife
Speaker 5: of Dallas on their podcast that noted, well, I have
Speaker 5: a friend who owns the house that Genshaw is renting
Speaker 5: right outside of Salt Lake City. And then everybody it
Speaker 5: spread like wildfire. And once that happens in the Real
Speaker 5: Housewives ecosystem. Then the vultures come out and they will
Speaker 5: pick apart every detail of your life. And if you
Speaker 5: are presenting yourself as someone who's wealthy and you are not,
Speaker 5: God bless you because people don't take that to that lightly.
Speaker 2: Carlos, your take on Genshaw, I agree with everything Kate
Speaker 2: just said. I will say this, She's fascinating, She's a star.
Speaker 2: Kate's right. There's a handful of women who were born
Speaker 2: to be on television, and Genshaw was born to be
Speaker 2: on TV. Not necessarily prison in my mind at the time,
Speaker 2: but she was born to be on television. She is
Speaker 2: an attractive woman with the big personality. She has the
Speaker 2: type of bravado and arrogance that makes a great housewife.
Speaker 2: But she also had this sort of lifestyle that you
Speaker 2: thought was real at the time. And I think Jenshaw
Speaker 2: represents the new age of reality stars. Because Jonathan, you
Speaker 2: asked me earlier, how was Nini and Teresa where they
Speaker 2: rail in two thousand and eight. Yes, But in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty beyond, the newer housewife started to become a caricature
Speaker 2: of the icons Jenshaw wanted to be the Teresa Judais
Speaker 2: of Salt Lake City, and we did not know she
Speaker 2: would go that far as to being somebody who also
Speaker 2: was going to go to a timeout or camp, as
Speaker 2: Teresa calls it.
Speaker 3: So we didn't know to that degree she was, you.
Speaker 2: Know, mocking her idol, but Jenshaw had to fake it
Speaker 2: in order to make it dot dot dot on a
Speaker 2: housewives show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's so interesting because in a sense, you know,
Speaker 1: while she's running these telemarketing scams, she's simultaneously in a
Speaker 1: way scamming Bravo because she was not anything she appeared
Speaker 1: to be. She didn't own the house, she leased the cars,
Speaker 1: the Fendi's, the Louis Vton's. Fake fake, fake, like she
Speaker 1: was a fake real housewife pretending to be really wealthy.
Speaker 1: Not to say that she wasn't wealthy, but she certainly
Speaker 1: wasn't as wealthy as she portrayed, otherwise she would own
Speaker 1: the homes. But our legal analyst who we interviewed throughout
Speaker 1: the podcast, the amazing Emily D. Baker, said it's by
Speaker 1: design almost that she doesn't own a home or own
Speaker 1: anything because she knows they're coming for her one day,
Speaker 1: and she knows if you own a home. You're saving
Speaker 1: a ton of money. Within the United States, they're gonna
Speaker 1: take that. The Feds are gonna take that and give
Speaker 1: it to the victims as restitution. So we fear maybe
Speaker 1: she has all this stuff offshore in Kosovo somewhere because
Speaker 1: she doesn't own much.
Speaker 5: I have to say, I think you're incorrect in saying
Speaker 5: that that she was swindling the network making them believe
Speaker 5: she's wealthy. That's what makes her a great star, is
Speaker 5: that they know she's not wealthy, but she's presenting herself.
Speaker 5: That makes an interesting character. If you go to a
Speaker 5: dinner party and you see someone dripping in luxury, and
Speaker 5: then you start talking to them and you find out
Speaker 5: that they work in telemarketing, you start to go, well,
Speaker 5: that doesn't really add up. That makes someone fascinating because
Speaker 5: the longer they're on television, the more the layers get
Speaker 5: peeled back of the onion, and that makes a great story.
Speaker 5: So it's not actually true that the network is somehow
Speaker 5: scammed by all of these women. They know exactly who
Speaker 5: they are and that is why they are chosen to
Speaker 5: be on the show.
Speaker 4: They wanted it.
Speaker 2: Let's be very clear, Jennis Shaw is not the only
Speaker 2: housewife who is faking it today. If I had to
Speaker 2: do a I would say more than fifty percent of
Speaker 2: current housewives are leasing cars. It's the name of the game.
Speaker 2: Because I create shows. I produce shows. Right when it
Speaker 2: comes to the Real Housewives brand, it's affluent. It's a
Speaker 2: certain lifestyle. You can't live in a middle class neighborhood right,
Speaker 2: drive a Nissan Ultima, be a school teacher who takes
Speaker 2: out the trash themselves every Thursday morning and become a housewives.
Speaker 4: You just can't. You just can't.
Speaker 2: You could be on Naja de Fiance, you can be
Speaker 2: married at first sight, but you cannot be a real housewife.
Speaker 2: A real housewive has a certain order of affluence that
Speaker 2: you need. And these women who are dying or attention
Speaker 2: and relevance and fame, they will become broke at bankrupt
Speaker 2: in order to have fifteen men as a bank.
Speaker 1: I had no idea because so before this season of
Speaker 1: Queen of the Khan on Jenshaw, I've never watched an
Speaker 1: episode of Housewives only because I'm a reality producer and
Speaker 1: all the shows I work on a couple similar types
Speaker 1: of shows, and they were very heavily staged and we
Speaker 1: do multiple takes and we'd be like, hey, next time,
Speaker 1: when you shout at her, look that way. You know,
Speaker 1: Take two, take three. So I always thought as a
Speaker 1: Real Housewives was one of those, but you're telling me
Speaker 1: it's more real than that.
Speaker 5: The beauty of housewives is that you take women who
Speaker 5: perceive themselves as very glamorous, royalty adjacent and you put
Speaker 5: them in a room together. You don't actually have to
Speaker 5: do that much because all of them have such big
Speaker 5: personalities and they're so complicated that the intersection of those
Speaker 5: women creates the most interesting conversations. That's why Real Housewives
Speaker 5: is so beloved by reality TV viewers, because it's a
Speaker 5: window into a world that not many people know, a
Speaker 5: world of affluence, and whether it's real or it's faked,
Speaker 5: it's a window into a world that very few people
Speaker 5: get access to.
Speaker 1: And from what the both of you were telling me,
Speaker 1: which is news to me, the majority of these women.
Speaker 1: It kind of attracts scammers to a certain well.
Speaker 5: But it's also affluent areas bring con artists. It's a
Speaker 5: perfect stage to set for con artists because everyone seems
Speaker 5: to be wealthy. It's like it's a level playing field.
Speaker 5: And no one really asks in depth questions. It's a
Speaker 5: very surface level place. So no one's asking you, well,
Speaker 5: where did you go to school? And what was your
Speaker 5: first job? And did that company go public? And who
Speaker 5: are the directors of those companies? It's questions like do
Speaker 5: you have a boat? Do you? Are you a member
Speaker 5: of the Bay Club. So no one actually asks anything,
Speaker 5: so very rarely will people's bullshit story be unraveled.
Speaker 3: It's sort of like imagine Birding Madoff's wife. Do you
Speaker 3: know what I mean?
Speaker 2: On paper, a quintessential housewife, archetype married to this affluent man,
Speaker 2: super rich, super wealthy, has a boat, has a private plane.
Speaker 2: If that person on paper came across your desk and
Speaker 2: you were casting them, she would be cast just based
Speaker 2: on what's happening on paper. But to Kate's point, you
Speaker 2: don't dig deep in terms of asking the preblic questions
Speaker 2: as if you were part of the FBI. But look,
Speaker 2: that's not our job. You know, that's not our job.
Speaker 2: And that's the reason why you can't blame networks production
Speaker 2: companies producers, because we're not asking you to show true
Speaker 2: proofs of income of W two income text that dates
Speaker 2: back to two years in order to be on the show,
Speaker 2: because for us, it's all about do you fit the
Speaker 2: Quintin Central standard for this particular program, and if you
Speaker 2: have what it takes to showcase that on a zoom
Speaker 2: call Ben Honey, you.
Speaker 4: Have a job.
Speaker 5: But I also think people, it's just the way it's human,
Speaker 5: the way the humans operate. Rich people attract friends. So
Speaker 5: if you're a horrible person but you have a lot
Speaker 5: of things, people want to be your friend. Now, if
Speaker 5: you live in a shack and you have a degree,
Speaker 5: and you're interesting and you like to talk about political theory,
Speaker 5: probably don't have many friends in an affluent area. But
Speaker 5: if you're horrible and you have like a Lamborghini and
Speaker 5: you have a house in Hawaii and you give parties
Speaker 5: where you have a to go bag, you're gonna have
Speaker 5: a lot of friends.
Speaker 4: That is that is very true.
Speaker 1: Well put on during the entire criminal proceeding against Jenshaw,
Speaker 1: she was, you know, proclaiming her innocence to no end.
Speaker 1: How did you both handle that? Did either of you
Speaker 1: at any point think she was actually in acent? Did
Speaker 1: you think she was guilty the whole time? What was
Speaker 1: your process?
Speaker 2: I always thought she was guilty. What I have learned
Speaker 2: is when the FEDS do that sort of deep dive
Speaker 2: of an investigation and they finally say, okay, you're about
Speaker 2: to become arrested, it's because it took them years in
Speaker 2: order to come to that conclusion and it's hard to
Speaker 2: get out of. Like, they're not going to run the
Speaker 2: risk of saying we got it wrong here. That's what
Speaker 2: I was told. I'm not a lawyer, I don't pretend
Speaker 2: to be one. Don't cast me at all. So that's
Speaker 2: why I thought, like, Okay, it has to be true
Speaker 2: that she's guilty of this, but I will take it
Speaker 2: a step further. The one thing that annoyed me and
Speaker 2: made me as a black person is when she tried
Speaker 2: to make it about race, and she said, you know,
Speaker 2: and I took personal offense to that, because we do
Speaker 2: know that there's this there's this situation going on between
Speaker 2: law enforcement and people of color.
Speaker 3: It's real, it's true, it's been going on for years.
Speaker 2: Don't take something that is actually affecting this culture and
Speaker 2: apply it to your situation and to make it seem
Speaker 2: like they got it wrong and you're being targeted because
Speaker 2: you're a woman of color. That alone bothered me because
Speaker 2: it's sort of like, just admit to it or guess what.
Speaker 2: If you want to say you're innocent, that's fine, but
Speaker 2: please don't make it about race, because there are people
Speaker 2: of color who are dealing with stuff where we are
Speaker 2: accuses of christ we did not commit.
Speaker 1: So that part bothered me. I mean that bothered me too,
Speaker 1: And I'm glad you brought that up. It was it,
Speaker 1: you know, and we profiled it throughout the podcast several
Speaker 1: times publicly she would say it's because I'm a woman
Speaker 1: of color.
Speaker 4: I'm being falsely prosecuted.
Speaker 1: They were attacking me because I'm a woman of color,
Speaker 1: and it made me sick because I knew that's not true.
Speaker 4: And you bring up a brilliant point.
Speaker 1: One hundred percent of federal prosecutions end with a conviction,
Speaker 1: so you are correct. By the time the Feds arrest you,
Speaker 1: you are guilty. They know it, they can prove it.
Speaker 1: They're confident. So that's interesting. You thought she was guilty
Speaker 1: from the get Kate Casey, what about you?
Speaker 5: I thought she was guilty too. I thought it was
Speaker 5: absurd the way that she would berate other people for
Speaker 5: asking any question that's usually like a red flag someone's
Speaker 5: done something. Yes, I thought that, in particular the way
Speaker 5: that she would manipulate the friendship of Heather Gay. Heather
Speaker 5: clearly is someone who grew up in a Mormon church.
Speaker 5: She felt abandoned by her church and therefore perhaps hangs
Speaker 5: on to friends longer than she should. And I felt
Speaker 5: like Jen weaponized that. And I hate seeing relationships like that.
Speaker 5: So I don't like what she did to the people
Speaker 5: in her life who dared to ask questions.
Speaker 1: I mean, and that is a narcissist through and through.
Speaker 1: When you ask them something, they're offended and turn it
Speaker 1: back on you.
Speaker 4: How dare you? Yeah? Wow?
Speaker 1: For Do you think Genshaw is sorry, actually sorry for
Speaker 1: what she did?
Speaker 4: Or you think she's just sorry she got caught.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what quote recently attributed to her quote,
Speaker 1: I'm committed to doing the work necessary to make my
Speaker 1: victims whole and prove worthy of a second chance. I've
Speaker 1: learned to focus and what I can and cannot control.
Speaker 1: Do you think she's actually sorry?
Speaker 5: No, I think she's sorry that she's missing time away
Speaker 5: from her kids. I think she's sorry about that. I
Speaker 5: think she's sorry she's missing time away from the television show.
Speaker 5: But I think someone like Jenshaw spends an enormous amount
Speaker 5: of time every day plotting what am I going to
Speaker 5: do when I'm out of here? What can I pitch
Speaker 5: to my agent? What networks are going to be interested
Speaker 5: the way she even posted on her Instagram a story
Speaker 5: about the woman that she came to Joe with Kashara,
Speaker 5: It's all part of this ongoing story of like angst
Speaker 5: and pain, and there's a total disregard for the elderly
Speaker 5: victims that lost their fortunes, people who have had health
Speaker 5: problems as the result of stress from losing all of
Speaker 5: their money. When there's a total disregard for the people
Speaker 5: that you've affected and it's all about you. No, I
Speaker 5: don't think she cares at all.
Speaker 4: Can you read that? Do you have that quote up
Speaker 4: nearby that Instagram? Yeah? Read it. It's important to say.
Speaker 5: It's a carousel, so they're actually like six slides on it.
Speaker 5: But she says journal entry number two. Kashanna, whose nickname
Speaker 5: is Special K, also surrendered with me yesterday and this
Speaker 5: is from March tenth. We've kind of stuck together the
Speaker 5: first full day as we both walked and shocked stunned
Speaker 5: and scared, trying to figure out where we go from here.
Speaker 5: I would also just like decide. Note I don't think
Speaker 5: she wrote this. Today is Saturday. There is a six
Speaker 5: am brown bag breakfast brought into the common area of
Speaker 5: our unit. I was so tired and didn't wake up,
Speaker 5: but special K got one for me. She is kind,
Speaker 5: and there are not many kind people in this place.
Speaker 5: It had one piece of wheat bread and apple, two
Speaker 5: packets of jelly, and a packet of instant oatmeal. I
Speaker 5: ate the piece of bread. A lady was offering instant
Speaker 5: coffee in the common area, but I didn't have a mug.
Speaker 5: I saved the apple an oatmeal packet in my locker
Speaker 5: since I don't go to the commissary until next Tuesday.
Speaker 5: If I get hungry, I can at least have something
Speaker 5: to eat. First of all, somebody on her staff that
Speaker 5: she still employs with whatever five cents she has in
Speaker 5: her bank account, went on Canva to recreate a carousel
Speaker 5: based on entries that she emailed or gave to coach,
Speaker 5: you know, at a visit. And she's like continuing this
Speaker 5: narrative like that she's a victim. I don't give a shit.
Speaker 5: If you have one piece of wheat bread, how about
Speaker 5: the people have four skittles in their bank accounts.
Speaker 3: Because you screwed them over.
Speaker 5: She relentless in the pursuit of making herself a victim
Speaker 5: and a martyr, and it's unbelievably whack job. But you
Speaker 5: know that's the reason she was cast because she is melodramatic,
Speaker 5: she is bombastic, she is delusional, and she is manipulative.
Speaker 5: And I think even in prison, she's still trying to
Speaker 5: manipulate anyone who's willing to.
Speaker 4: Listen, Carlos your tank.
Speaker 3: Is she sorry, no, listen, I don't think so.
Speaker 2: Because the thing is this, you have to have a
Speaker 2: sense of humility when you are accused of a crime
Speaker 2: that you did commit. So when you first start off
Speaker 2: your statement saying I'm innocent, I'm being targeted racial profiling,
Speaker 2: that doesn't sound like a woman who's STARp at what
Speaker 2: she did, knowing she did it.
Speaker 3: Then when she.
Speaker 2: Played guilty, she apologized to the victims and said I
Speaker 2: knew what I was doing. I was blah blah blah
Speaker 2: blah blah. If she would have started off that statement
Speaker 2: when she first got accused of it, then I would
Speaker 2: have believed like, Okay, you feel sorry for what you did,
Speaker 2: but I think you have to know the type of
Speaker 2: personality she is, and listen, I'm not judging.
Speaker 3: Her, because that's not my job.
Speaker 2: I take her at face value in the sense of
Speaker 2: who I see on the show and who I see interviews,
Speaker 2: and whose behavior I witness, and I'm like, I don't
Speaker 2: think there's anything about her based on what I've seen
Speaker 2: that reeks of a woman who's sorry for anything she's
Speaker 2: done outside of the crime. I think the way she
Speaker 2: behaves is because she believes that she is the best
Speaker 2: thing that happened to Salt Lake City, and she just
Speaker 2: has that arrogant personality.
Speaker 5: I remember I was interviewing one of the housewives and
Speaker 5: the housewife kept saying, I'm so sorry I keep getting
Speaker 5: a FaceTime from Jenshaw. I said, well, like, tell her
Speaker 5: you're in an interview, and I was witnessed to how
Speaker 5: captivated they all are to her. I don't know, Maybe
Speaker 5: I should text her back like you're in the middle
Speaker 5: of an interview, are you kidding me? Later, I had
Speaker 5: a conversation with that same housewife and I said, how
Speaker 5: can you be supportive of someone that does this? And
Speaker 5: has obviously lied. And their response was, but she's so fun.
Speaker 1: I mean that hits it on the head. The power
Speaker 1: and the magic of every con artists. They're charismatic, they
Speaker 1: suck you in, they get you like them, they get
Speaker 1: you to love them, and that's the coercional control they exert.
Speaker 1: Even in the face of accusations and evidence.
Speaker 4: People support her. Still she's in jail and people support her.
Speaker 2: But I find so fascinating. I think you and I
Speaker 2: had this conversation Kate how Erica Jane, for example, who
Speaker 2: wasn't directly accused of stealing from the orphans and doing
Speaker 2: all the things that her husband Tom Giraldi was allegedly
Speaker 2: accused of. Right, she had no direct line into handling
Speaker 2: those alleged accusations. Right, she was guilty by proxy by
Speaker 2: being this man's wife who benefited from it by courtesy
Speaker 2: of private jets and Glam Squad and fifty thousand dollars
Speaker 2: Glam Squad Davies.
Speaker 3: But people said she's.
Speaker 2: Not likable, and they railroaded her and read her for film.
Speaker 2: When it came to Jenshaw, who actually did the crime,
Speaker 2: like actually physically did it, people worshiped her and I
Speaker 2: thought that was very strange because on one hand, you
Speaker 2: have Erica Jane, who did not have her hands in it,
Speaker 2: so to speak, but Jenshaw did. But because Erica Jane
Speaker 2: is so stoic, who who really comes across like I
Speaker 2: am who I am, people dismissed her.
Speaker 3: But for Genshaw, because.
Speaker 2: She's witty and she's fine and she's whims the call,
Speaker 2: it's like they gave her a pass. And I thought
Speaker 2: that was fascinating in terms of how the audience judges
Speaker 2: people based on their personality trade.
Speaker 5: I also think there's a micro judgment too, because one
Speaker 5: is from Beverly Hills, where it's so out of people's
Speaker 5: realm of understanding their wealth, versus Salt Lake City, which
Speaker 5: I think in the there's this mindset that it's a
Speaker 5: more down to earth place like Jenshaw's wealth seems far
Speaker 5: more relatable to someone like Erica Jane. So that's a
Speaker 5: part of it too. Another nuance to it, it's not
Speaker 5: relatable for most people to consider the highest paid plaintiff
Speaker 5: attorney who had multi million dollar settlements and his pop
Speaker 5: star adjacent wife dripping in Cardier versus jen Shaw, who
Speaker 5: presented herself as almost like a stay at home mom
Speaker 5: and at a side business and a football coach husband.
Speaker 5: So of course the audience is going to feel more
Speaker 5: connected to Jen and her husband. That's far more relatable
Speaker 5: and more Americana than the plaintive attorney.
Speaker 4: Very true.
Speaker 1: I hadn't thought of it that way, but yeah, so yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll ask again, what's Jen Shaw up to in federal prison?
Speaker 5: She's running that joints like this story of like there
Speaker 5: was one weak piece of bread in the bag. I
Speaker 5: don't believe that for one minute. I think she is
Speaker 5: running some scam there where people are giving her money.
Speaker 5: She's probably got a bunch of snacks in the pod.
Speaker 5: I think she she did some statement where she said
Speaker 5: she's other women ESL. I was like, wait what. I
Speaker 5: just can't imagine her sitting and taking the time to
Speaker 5: listen to someone's personal story and to help them read.
Speaker 5: I think she's just running the whole place. She's running
Speaker 5: plays left and right.
Speaker 2: What do you think, Carlos, I'm sorry, I think Katy's hilarious.
Speaker 2: I was actually envisioning what you were saying as you
Speaker 2: were talking about it. I actually listen. I agree with
Speaker 2: you in the sense I think she's running the joy.
Speaker 2: I think she's Big mo from the movie Chicago, Queen
Speaker 2: my Teeth's character.
Speaker 3: I think I think she is like, I'm Big Mama,
Speaker 3: and what I say goes yes. I think she's pipping
Speaker 3: out the women.
Speaker 2: I think she definitely has so much money in her
Speaker 2: books courtesy of other people's family members donations. I think
Speaker 2: jen Shaw, listen the type of personality trait she has,
Speaker 2: she doesn't come across as a woman who is going
Speaker 2: to drown her sorrows. I think she's going to make
Speaker 2: the best out of her situation the best way she
Speaker 2: knows how, and that's by running the joint. I think
Speaker 2: she's a ruler. I think she has found her team.
Speaker 2: I think she has found in the worst of the
Speaker 2: strip club. Don't ask me how I know this, but
Speaker 2: I think she's found her her bottom bitch.
Speaker 3: That's the woman, right Kate.
Speaker 2: She's found her bottom bitch, which is the woman who's
Speaker 2: like her right hand person. I think she's, like Kate said,
Speaker 2: I think she is the star of that prison.
Speaker 5: The minute she leaves, she's on the phone with her
Speaker 5: agent on standby and she's like, I've got an idea
Speaker 5: for a script. I have an idea for this, We're
Speaker 5: going to do merch. She is plotting the entire time
Speaker 5: she's in there. Now, she was sentenced and she's to
Speaker 5: serve six and a half. Here's I'm sure that will
Speaker 5: be reduced. I'm gonna say she walks out after four.
Speaker 1: From what I've read Jenshaw, she's keeping a diary and
Speaker 1: selling subscriptions for her diary in prison. She's creating a
Speaker 1: real Housewives of Brian prison play with other inmates.
Speaker 4: She claims to be tutoring them.
Speaker 1: She recently completed an anger management course and reportedly said
Speaker 1: she wished she had this when she did The Housewives.
Speaker 5: Let's put it this way, I would not be surprised
Speaker 5: if she made an appearance on Love After Lockup, Like
Speaker 5: someone she's in a pod with is dating somebody from Idaho,
Speaker 5: and she weasels her way into the plot line, and
Speaker 5: we see her next season on Love After Lockup my
Speaker 5: friend Jen here and they're like, She's like, everyone's amazing.
Speaker 5: I mean, I wouldn't put a papist. If Josh Mangowitz
Speaker 5: and Keith Morrison show up too the Brian jail to
Speaker 5: interview someone, she will figure out a way be in it.
Speaker 5: It'll be an interview with somebody who murdered their husband,
Speaker 5: and she'll somehow find her way an opportunity to also
Speaker 5: be interviewed.
Speaker 4: I'm sure.
Speaker 1: Just a few days ago, it appears she posted on
Speaker 1: threads that's it. Yeah, and the post was I hope
Speaker 1: everyone's shaw amazing. I mean clearly that was one of
Speaker 1: her pr people, because I don't think you can post
Speaker 1: from threads in prison. What's the strategy there, like to
Speaker 1: keep in the public consciousness and you can.
Speaker 5: To keep people talking. She's making calls, she's emailing, she
Speaker 5: takes every opportunity. She's like, keep my name in people's mouths.
Speaker 5: But you know what, that's Real Housewives strategy one on one. Listen,
Speaker 5: you can take the girl off of Real Housewives, but
Speaker 5: the girl never leaves Real Housewives.
Speaker 1: No, when Jenshaw gets out of prison in five or
Speaker 1: six years, do you think Bravo will have her back.
Speaker 1: I'll preface this with a quote from Andy Cohen, who
Speaker 1: was very supportive of Jen before she pled guilty, and
Speaker 1: then was shocked when Jen pled guilty, and he said,
Speaker 1: I'm upset, and I'm especially upset for her victims.
Speaker 4: I'm upset that she was accused.
Speaker 1: If you remember sitting there in the reunion show, she
Speaker 1: was so dogmatic about it, I felt, Okay.
Speaker 4: Let this woman have her day in court.
Speaker 1: I'm extremely upset about what she said, because, frankly, you
Speaker 1: get to know someone, you get to like them, you
Speaker 1: get to have a personal relationship, and you work with
Speaker 1: someone and you want to cheer them on, and you
Speaker 1: hate to think that they're capable of this behavior.
Speaker 4: Andy Cullen is pissed that she's guilty.
Speaker 5: I think he's hot and pissed for a hot minute
Speaker 5: because he thought that they were going to do an
Speaker 5: interview and then she pulled out which anybody who does
Speaker 5: the show can understand. In my opinion, she serves her time.
Speaker 5: It says that she has had a forfeit six point
Speaker 5: five million dollars, thirty luxury items, seventy eight counterfeit items.
Speaker 5: If she serves time and she does all those things,
Speaker 5: who cares if she goes back. She served her.
Speaker 4: Time, and you can it for her.
Speaker 5: I mean, if she's interesting enough. I mean I would
Speaker 5: assume that's a storyline you want to chase, Like, how
Speaker 5: do Heather and Meredith cope when she returns? What is
Speaker 5: her life like? Does she still have relationships with her kids?
Speaker 5: What about her family members, because they certainly supported her too,
Speaker 5: and I think they got swindled. I mean, I think,
Speaker 5: of course they're going to follow that storyline. Will people
Speaker 5: embrace her the same way? I don't know. Unfortunately, in
Speaker 5: the world we live in, if you're funny and you
Speaker 5: look like you have Carrie a nice bag, they might No.
Speaker 2: I do agree, I think Listen, I do think she'll
Speaker 2: be asked back.
Speaker 3: I think I think in.
Speaker 2: Terms of a pr move, they may say, come back
Speaker 2: as a friend and earn your housewife title. I want
Speaker 2: thousand percent thinks she'll come back. You want to follow
Speaker 2: the story. I'm being very honest. I'm going to watch
Speaker 2: to see how she is. Am I going to watch
Speaker 2: the entire season? I don't know, But am I curious
Speaker 2: enough to see who she's become after present apps of
Speaker 2: freaking Lately? I'm going to watch to see that. And
Speaker 2: the difference between her and Teresa is at the end
Speaker 2: of the day, I think almost every woman, especially almost
Speaker 2: every housewife, understood that. Okay, I can understand how Teresa
Speaker 2: were signing her name on papers that she wasn't aware
Speaker 2: what she was signing. As a housewife and a woman's husband,
Speaker 2: you do trust her husband, and I think there was
Speaker 2: empathy for Teresa, because again it wasn't No one believes
Speaker 2: Teresa knew what was going on. I think a lot
Speaker 2: of people understand that Teresa was bamboozled by her husband,
Speaker 2: and like most women, not all, but most, if the
Speaker 2: husband puts the papers in front of you, hey, babe,
Speaker 2: there's our income tax. Sign your name here, they're gonna
Speaker 2: do it without questions asked. But that's why Teresa was
Speaker 2: able to come back and the show became bigger. They
Speaker 2: put the show on pause for Teresa. I think Jenshaw
Speaker 2: would have to earn her housewife title. But I do
Speaker 2: agree with Kay. I think you haven't seen the end
Speaker 2: of Jenshaw. If so, Lake City last the next four years.
Speaker 5: But if it doesn't come back, there'll be some other show.
Speaker 5: She will be on reality television shows for the rest
Speaker 5: of her life. If it's marriage boot Camp, if it's
Speaker 5: the Food Network SmackDown how to make a cast role,
Speaker 5: she will find a way.
Speaker 3: I assure you.
Speaker 2: That with one wheat bread, Kay, how to make a
Speaker 2: casts all with one wheak bread, Yes, that will.
Speaker 5: Be the SmackDown on the Food Network what to do
Speaker 5: with one piece of wheatbread, an apple, and an instant
Speaker 5: oatmeal pack, and it will become full circle.
Speaker 3: She'll get that on T shirts.
Speaker 5: That's going to be the shirt. She leaves the jail
Speaker 5: in one piece of wheat bread and says that what's
Speaker 5: the merch line right there?
Speaker 1: Yep, sounds like something she'd do for sure, and FYI
Speaker 1: already Jenshaw's six and a half year federal prison sentence
Speaker 1: has been reduced by an entire year. She's now scheduled
Speaker 1: to be released August thirtieth, twenty twenty eight. Thank you
Speaker 1: for listening to this season The Queen of the Con.
Speaker 1: If you're new to the podcast, we have three previous
Speaker 1: seasons about three distinctly different con queens you can venge.
Speaker 1: Season one, The Irish Heriss, chronicles how con artist Mayor
Speaker 1: Smith tricked her way into my life and scammed me
Speaker 1: out of close to one hundred thousand dollars using a
Speaker 1: series of unbelievable confidence tricks that literally brought me to
Speaker 1: my knees. In season two, The OC Savior, we meet
Speaker 1: con artist Lizzie Mulder, who impersonates a cast of made
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Speaker 1: scam her close circle of friends and clients out of
Speaker 1: more than a million dollars. And season three, The Rich
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Speaker 1: social media influencer, full time scammer. Danielle figures out a
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