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Speaker 2: Welcome to Reality the King. It's me Carlos Kings, the
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Speaker 2: after executive producers in reality television with over ten years
Speaker 2: a production experience. Twice a week on Reality with the King,
Speaker 2: we'll sit down with my friends across the entertainment industry,
Speaker 2: recap our favorite reality shows and revisit unforgettable moments that
Speaker 2: we are still talking and tweeting about. Oh, rain Drops,
Speaker 2: hold on to your Daddy's girls, Gretchen is bad sound effect? Please?
Speaker 2: We are going to have fun in this episode. Let
Speaker 2: me tell you something. So a lot of crazy things
Speaker 2: that's been happening in the reality world that's a little
Speaker 2: like exhausting and dark and negative, and I want this
Speaker 2: episode to be a fun one. And that's the reason
Speaker 2: why we are going to talk about Gretchen ross SE's
Speaker 2: return to the Real Housewives of Orange County Baby just
Speaker 2: in time for their nineteenth season. I'm super thrilled, super stoked.
Speaker 2: And later on in this episode, we have to recap
Speaker 2: the most recent Part two reunion of Salt Lake City.
Speaker 2: But first we have to get into the Blonde bombshell.
Speaker 2: Hey lack Lee Blonde, Hey brings me the phone. Gregora
Speaker 2: Rossi is coming back.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: I have to admit and mistakes between us raindrops.
Speaker 1: I've been asking for this for a very long time.
Speaker 2: Yes I have. I've been talking about my podcast.
Speaker 1: I've been talking about it at.
Speaker 2: The plant based restaurants that I go to an Orange
Speaker 2: County but I'm there. I talked about it to my
Speaker 2: friends on the podcast when I am a guest on
Speaker 2: their shows. I told this to Teddy. I even told
Speaker 2: this to Tamra. Okay, that's the type of producer and
Speaker 2: a friend that I am. I don't talk behind your back.
Speaker 2: I say it to your faith. I told Tamara, like, girl,
Speaker 2: we need Gretchen back on the show. And one thing
Speaker 2: I love about Tamara, Tamara wants that show to be great,
Speaker 2: and if that means bringing back her arch ne nemesis
Speaker 2: to make it happen, trust me, y'all. Tamar ain't worried.
Speaker 2: She ain't scared. If anything, she cannot wait to be
Speaker 2: reunited with the woman that gave her some iconic reads.
Speaker 1: And so did she.
Speaker 2: Yes. So it was announced, okay, on Wednesday, that Gretchen
Speaker 2: Rossi is returning to the Real Housewives of Orange County.
Speaker 2: But this is the gag. She's not returning as a housewife.
Speaker 2: She's returning as a friend to the show. As you
Speaker 2: all know, she did four seasons of show, okay, seasons
Speaker 2: four through eight. Y'all may not know this, but y'all can.
Speaker 1: Find out now. Child.
Speaker 2: I started watching The Real Housewives of Orange County during
Speaker 2: season four, okay, and I'm gonna tell you why. Oh gosh,
Speaker 2: my phone is going off. My phone is going off.
Speaker 2: Let me put it off. Do not disturb because somebody
Speaker 2: read me in the convent is that Carlos, Can you
Speaker 2: please cut your phone off?
Speaker 1: It's distracting.
Speaker 2: So to the lovely person who still gave me a
Speaker 2: five star review and told me I've a rage job,
Speaker 2: I love you, but please please please turn your phone off.
Speaker 2: The beats distract us. I apologize. I'm a busy businessman. Okay,
Speaker 2: so I keep my phone off, but I just turned
Speaker 2: it on.
Speaker 1: Do not disturb.
Speaker 2: See, I listened to the ray drops, So there we go. Okay, stop.
Speaker 2: Gretchen was on season four, and I did not start
Speaker 2: watching the Real Housewives of Orange until season four. I
Speaker 2: did it and dabble season one, two and three. I
Speaker 2: was like a Diehart fan. I wasn't even like a
Speaker 2: true die Heart fan of reality TV as relates to housewives.
Speaker 2: I was into Desperate Housewives, and baby, I was into
Speaker 2: the Hills. Okay, this is a Heidi and Spencer stand account. Okay,
Speaker 2: and shout out to Heidi Montague. Download her latest song
Speaker 2: so that her and Spencer cannot only get a reality show,
Speaker 2: they can also get some money to rebuild their home
Speaker 2: in California as well. And our thoughts in prison go
Speaker 2: out to them and everybody who has suffered a loss
Speaker 2: in California. Okay, so look, baby, when Gretchen and her
Speaker 2: Jordash jeans giving you a broke down, Denise Richards, Honey,
Speaker 2: a broke down, Taylor Swift and Gretchen is gorgeous. But
Speaker 2: we're talking back in season four, Baby, where you know
Speaker 2: you wore there wasn't on Lulu Limmon Baby, Baby. It
Speaker 2: was Jordanash jeans or guest jeans, okay, and a top
Speaker 2: from thirteen below or dots okay. I would never forget
Speaker 2: the moment Gretchen fine ass strutted down the street, Honey,
Speaker 2: looking like a video girl from a Nirvana video. Baby,
Speaker 2: and you had Vicky at Tamar at the libel Z
Speaker 2: along with the other housewives at Tamra the icon. The
Speaker 2: legend you are said, hold on to your daddy's girls,
Speaker 2: goes Gretchen. That's when I fell in love with this
Speaker 2: genre of reality docuseries that we now call the Housewives.
Speaker 2: It's because of Tamra's bite. You gotta give it to
Speaker 2: the girl Tamara Bite. Maybe stay tuned to that episode.
Speaker 2: And then I was so enthralled with who is this
Speaker 2: than Nicole Smith, woman that is in the Orange County
Speaker 2: at the time. She was seeing this guy who looked
Speaker 2: like Colonel Sanders. You know he was a handsome guy.
Speaker 2: Mad he rest in peace. But she was dating this
Speaker 2: guy who was very attractive, right, a silver daddy, if
Speaker 2: you will, not from Silver Lake, but a silver daddy.
Speaker 1: Okay, so here he was.
Speaker 2: He's fine. I thought he was so handsome. But long
Speaker 2: story short, the girls gave Gretchen hell because let's have
Speaker 2: a real conversation about the icon that Gretchen Rossi is.
Speaker 1: Let's have a real conversation.
Speaker 2: Gretchen is the original portche.
Speaker 1: I just.
Speaker 2: Y'all gonna read me for filth. I don't care, Mike drop.
Speaker 2: Gretchen is the original portie. Gretchen is the first housewife
Speaker 2: that stepped on the scene that was a certified baddie.
Speaker 1: I mean a battie.
Speaker 2: I mean you looked at her and you said, this
Speaker 2: woman belongs on the cover of Playboy. Like, Gretchen set
Speaker 2: the tone for the baddies to follow along, baby, and
Speaker 2: she was that she was very young, and she was
Speaker 2: like who you expect a quintessential housewife to be. Because
Speaker 2: remember at that time, Ma, we had the scripted show
Speaker 2: Desperate Housewives, and we had the character played by the
Speaker 2: beautiful Eva Longuria. You know, the young, pretty housewife who
Speaker 2: was married to the older businessman. Now, granted he wasn't
Speaker 2: as old as Gretchen's man was at the time, but
Speaker 2: you know, she fulfilled that eva long girlier role, right,
Speaker 2: So Gretchen set that tone for the girls. Gretchen was young, bad,
Speaker 2: and very likable, and I remember being like, why are
Speaker 2: y'all so mean to this baddie, Like she's so sweet.
Speaker 2: I did not understand it, and then she just to me.
Speaker 2: She became the thing favorite and she became iconic. And
Speaker 2: we have to talk about how iconic Gretchen is because
Speaker 2: Gretchen and Tamra are like Kenya and Porsche, and that's
Speaker 2: what I want to see. And on top of that,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get back to Kenya and Portia comparison.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: Is also the fact that Gretchen is friends with Jen
Speaker 2: and Katie, who are current housewives, so she's coming in
Speaker 2: through them, obviously, and it's nice to let me just
Speaker 2: say this. It is nice that Jin has somebody on
Speaker 2: her side. You have these two blondes, Gin and Gretchen,
Speaker 2: come on freaking frack these Atlanta comparison is everything because
Speaker 2: they just announced the trailer, so I'm stoked about that too. AnyWho,
Speaker 2: Gretchen and Jin. You see how that rhymes, The new
Speaker 2: freaking frack. Okay, we're gonna call it the vanilla an extract. Okay,
Speaker 2: not ebting, ivory, vanilla and axtract.
Speaker 1: There we go.
Speaker 2: So you got vanilla an extract. Gretchen and Jen the
Speaker 2: new freaking frack. They are going to come in and
Speaker 2: pretty much team up on Tamera. You're gonna have these
Speaker 2: two beautiful blondes team up against another beautiful blonde. And
Speaker 2: I'm here for it. Listen, I don't care what y'all say.
Speaker 2: OC to be in his nineteenth season. They are killing it.
Speaker 2: They are killing it, and to know that we get
Speaker 2: to see that, I'm thrilled. But yeah, Gretchen and Tamra
Speaker 2: are definitely the Kenya and Porsche of the OC. They
Speaker 2: just don't get along, and their arguments and their reads
Speaker 2: and their shade towards each other is going to make
Speaker 2: compelling television. But there is a caveat that we have
Speaker 2: to address. Gretchen is coming back as a friend. Let's
Speaker 2: have a real conversation. Gretchen is coming back at a deficit,
Speaker 2: and we have to bring up Alexis Belino, who also
Speaker 2: came back as a friend.
Speaker 1: It's hard when you're a friend to the.
Speaker 2: Show to be able to tell your full story because
Speaker 2: you're not a main character, you're not a main cast member.
Speaker 2: You are a friend to the show. You're literally a
Speaker 2: friend to the show. You're the psidekick to Johnny Carson.
Speaker 2: You are the Ed McMahon of Housewives. Okay, yes, Ed McMahon,
Speaker 2: there you go. What we saw with Alexis Belino was, Yes,
Speaker 2: she came in with John and it was the whole
Speaker 2: drama between them and Shannon. Now, Alexis who I love,
Speaker 2: who I got a chance to meet, and she's beautiful
Speaker 2: inside and out and I love John two. But Alexis
Speaker 2: did share to me on my podcast that, you know,
Speaker 2: it was hard for her to be able to have
Speaker 2: AVO and a lot of that had to do with
Speaker 2: her being a friend of because she wasn't able to
Speaker 2: show her full life outside of being Shannon's ex boyfriend's
Speaker 2: new girlfriend, and she felt that was a dark cloud
Speaker 2: over her entire storyline that she was unable to, you know,
Speaker 2: get out of a lot of people close to the
Speaker 2: show has said no, U lessus came in. That's who
Speaker 2: she was, and we try to tell her not to
Speaker 2: talk about it, but she did any way. Child, So
Speaker 2: listen TIF for tat. That's what both sides are saying. Okay,
Speaker 2: Gretchen coming back as a friend of is going to
Speaker 2: be very tricky, very tricky. Number One, we want to
Speaker 2: see Slade, Okay. I want to see and dive into
Speaker 2: and settle in their relationship. What was going on between
Speaker 2: her and Slade, you know, I want to understand what's
Speaker 2: going on with their family life. I need to know
Speaker 2: all of that, and that's exactly what I want to see.
Speaker 2: My concern is if they're able to show us a
Speaker 2: deep dive in terms of their relationship due to the
Speaker 2: fact that she's a friend to the show. That's my concern.
Speaker 2: My concern is will Gretchen come in and be a
Speaker 2: one trick pony and just go out the camera or
Speaker 2: will she really try to come in and settle into
Speaker 2: this cast and be authentic and really just provide us
Speaker 2: with some commentary that doesn't seem one sided. It's going
Speaker 2: to be very hard, very hard, because as a friend,
Speaker 2: you are the b character. And one thing about Gretchen,
Speaker 2: she's an a character. She's a great reality star, okay,
Speaker 2: and she has so much potential to get an orange.
Speaker 2: So my advice to Gretchen is, if you're listening, Gretchen,
Speaker 2: my advice to you is this, Yes, come in and
Speaker 2: read Tamor for filth. I mean look, because Tabra, well,
Speaker 2: think about my girl, Tabra.
Speaker 1: Tamba likes a fight. Listen.
Speaker 2: Tabra is Mike Tyson. She was signing up for a
Speaker 2: pay per view fight any day of the week. And
Speaker 2: when I say a fight, I don't mean physic, call
Speaker 2: me verbal. Tamra loves a verbal spat, so trust me,
Speaker 2: Tamra's like, bring it on, bitch, right. So my advice
Speaker 2: to Gretchen is yes, read Tamor for fil so we
Speaker 2: can get us some good, you know, blond bombs. But
Speaker 2: I really would like to see Gretchen immerse herself outside
Speaker 2: of the friendship she already has with Katie and Jen.
Speaker 2: I want to see Gretchen try to befriend Shannon, Heather,
Speaker 2: Emily and Gina. I want to be able to see
Speaker 2: her really immerse herself in that collective and in the
Speaker 2: end we can see if she's able to score a
Speaker 2: friendship bracelet. Okay, that the they're not OG's, but that Heather,
Speaker 2: Emily Gina, Tamra and Shannon did at that pickup scene
Speaker 2: towards the end of the three part reunion.
Speaker 1: Okay, there you go.
Speaker 2: Let's see if Gretchen is able to score a friendship
Speaker 2: bracelet at the end of the season. We love Slade.
Speaker 2: Slade is the original Peter Thommas. Peter is Patricia Slade.
Speaker 2: Are you Sally or are you Sloan? Are you Sloan?
Speaker 2: We need to know these things, so Slade aka Sally.
Speaker 2: We want to see Slade in the women's business. We
Speaker 2: want to see Slade also insert himself in the ladies drama.
Speaker 2: Slay is fantastic when it comes to his commentary on
Speaker 2: the Girls. We want to see that. I want to
Speaker 2: see Slay on the girls trip. I want to see
Speaker 2: Slade on the Girl's trip.
Speaker 1: Child.
Speaker 2: Slay has never met a female's business that he did
Speaker 2: not sign up for. Honey, he filled off the application,
Speaker 2: he got his EI N number. Okay, girls, he has
Speaker 2: a website. Okay. Sally loves to be in the women's business.
Speaker 2: I love Sally. So to see Gretchen and Sally be
Speaker 2: with the girls and have dialogue, I'm here for it.
Speaker 2: So I am super thrilled with the fact that Gretchen
Speaker 2: and Rossi and Sally are back on the Real Housewives
Speaker 2: of Orange County and Gretchen please listen to me. Now,
Speaker 2: come in, be authentic. We miss you, we love you.
Speaker 2: We just want you to be authentic. Okay, don't come
Speaker 2: in too thirsty. Okay, you could be a little dehydrated, baby,
Speaker 2: you know that's fine.
Speaker 1: You know, quench your thirst.
Speaker 2: Okay, but don't come in feeling like you're in a
Speaker 2: coma or on a ventilator. We need to be able
Speaker 2: to understand your motive, your motivation, and we also want
Speaker 2: to see some progression in who you are. We haven't
Speaker 2: seen you in a lot of years. A lot of
Speaker 2: things have happened. And what's also very interesting about Gretchen,
Speaker 2: She's just fascinating to watch and I want to see
Speaker 2: if there's some growth there. I'm excited. I'm excited. Gretchen
Speaker 2: and Sally Slade Sloan, welcome.
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Speaker 2: rain Drops, so shifting gears. We are going to now
Speaker 2: get into Part two Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Reunion.
Speaker 2: Let's kick things off with Meredith Marx. Meredith Marx, round
Speaker 2: of applause. I enjoyed her this reunion. I like when
Speaker 2: Meredith is activated. I like when she is very expressive.
Speaker 2: I want to say this and I love Meredith. I
Speaker 2: did get the sense. This is my opinion. Meredith is
Speaker 2: an og and Meredith is great for the show. I
Speaker 2: did get the sense. And rain Drops tell me if
Speaker 2: y'all agreed disagree. It did appear that with Meredith having
Speaker 2: the last seat, I wonder if she felt that she's
Speaker 2: on the chopping block and the performance that she gave.
Speaker 2: Although I loved it and I'm here for it, it
Speaker 2: did give rehearsals at the Grammys.
Speaker 1: You know, it was very rehearsed to me.
Speaker 2: When she got up and threatened to leave and you
Speaker 2: saw her husband set in the background like, Okay, I'm
Speaker 2: following the script. I'm going to see how far you're
Speaker 2: going to take this because we all know you're not
Speaker 2: leaving the couch, You're not leaving the show, and you
Speaker 2: damn sure ain't leaving the reunion set. So let's you know, Steth,
Speaker 2: look like, look, what are we doing. I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 2: gonna follow your lead. And my thing is this, when
Speaker 2: a person leaves, they never announce it.
Speaker 1: No one says I'm leaving.
Speaker 2: Especially the Queen up you can leave, okay, especially the
Speaker 2: Queen of disengagement.
Speaker 1: No one announced this leaving.
Speaker 2: When you said you're leaving and your toes are still
Speaker 2: touching the ground, if you're gonna leave it, leave right.
Speaker 2: She wasn't leaving. She literally stood there with her Luberta
Speaker 2: stuck on the carpet and said, I'm going to leave.
Speaker 1: I'm going to leave.
Speaker 2: I was told that you guys would show all of
Speaker 2: the footage.
Speaker 1: I'm going to leave.
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, she didn't move an inch, she didn't move a mile,
Speaker 2: she didn't move a pinky toe. Meredith stood there because
Speaker 2: she knew, like, look, I'm trying to give a moment.
Speaker 2: Because Meredith between Ohio and Salt Lake City, She's trying
Speaker 2: to save her job. That's how I took it. Y'all
Speaker 2: could disagree with me if you want to, child, let
Speaker 2: me know the comments like y'all do. I felt that
Speaker 2: it was a very deep sign that we may not
Speaker 2: see Meyritith next season. And I'm not saying that I
Speaker 2: want that. I like her a lot on the show,
Speaker 2: and I think she provides great things for the show.
Speaker 2: I just got the sense based on her behavior alone,
Speaker 2: and this based on the frustration from the couch and
Speaker 2: even Andy. When the whole conversation came up about the
Speaker 2: behind the ve Vibro podcast, shout out to my friend David.
Speaker 2: Hey David, about the whole conversation about whether or not
Speaker 2: my friend David David.
Speaker 1: You are messy bitch.
Speaker 2: How David could have allegedly been leading into Angie's husband
Speaker 2: by suggesting the gay thing with Brooks, whatever the case
Speaker 2: may be, out of him, I don't know. I was honestly, y'all,
Speaker 2: I'm just being real. I was confused by it. I
Speaker 2: was lost.
Speaker 1: I didn't get it. I just didn't get it.
Speaker 2: And I think I didn't get it because it just
Speaker 2: didn't make any sense to me, and clearly it did
Speaker 2: not make any sense to like Andy, and I just
Speaker 2: felt like everybody was just, I don't know, trying to
Speaker 2: make a moment happen that just didn't seem genuine. It
Speaker 2: did not seem genuine to me at all. I just
Speaker 2: I didn't get it, and I'm just being honest here.
Speaker 2: I just felt it was a reach. It was a
Speaker 2: reach to try to possibly make a storyline bigger than
Speaker 2: what it is. And I think that's why you saw
Speaker 2: the frustration. And I just gotta be honest. It just
Speaker 2: it felt desperate, and that's the energy it gave to me. Again,
Speaker 2: I love mayorag and I want her back on the show.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying the performance gave desperation, that's all. I'm saying,
Speaker 2: but maybe I was seeing things through another lands child.
Speaker 2: So let me know the comments of y'agri or not.
Speaker 2: But that's what it gave to me. It really did.
Speaker 2: We have to get into Brahmba and Todd, and I
Speaker 2: know I promised this will be a fun episode and
Speaker 2: it will be. I really do love Brahman. Yes, I
Speaker 2: love all the girls. I love Brahmen. I love, love
Speaker 2: love her. I think she's super authentic, super real. Let's
Speaker 2: have a real conversation. Bromwin is married to a very
Speaker 2: powerful man. And when I look at Bronwyn, she gives
Speaker 2: me childlike behavior when she's around Todd. And when I
Speaker 2: say that, it's sort of like, well listen, what she
Speaker 2: said to the audience into the world is how she
Speaker 2: pretty much looks for his approval. And that's what I
Speaker 2: mean by childlike, because that's something that a child says
Speaker 2: about their parent, right. A child looks for their parents' approval,
Speaker 2: and when they do that, they are very careful with
Speaker 2: how they behave because they don't want to piss off
Speaker 2: their parents. And that's the energy that I got from
Speaker 2: Bronwin when she's with him. Brom is a firecracker. When
Speaker 2: she's not around him. And I know that when you're
Speaker 2: married to a powerful man who is older than you
Speaker 2: and he's not you to seeing you so activated because
Speaker 2: in your everyday life, Bron went up until she got
Speaker 2: on Housewives. She wasn't hanging out with these girls and
Speaker 2: arguing with them, and they weren't going over her house,
Speaker 2: you know, drinking tea and looking at fine jewelry on
Speaker 2: a platter.
Speaker 1: Right, So.
Speaker 2: I think a lot of conversation happened while the show
Speaker 2: was airing, and I believe that Todd didn't like.
Speaker 1: A few things he was singing.
Speaker 2: And because Brahmin is so much of a fucking natural,
Speaker 2: she's so good. I think browin taped the season was
Speaker 2: her real self and the moment she wrapped the season,
Speaker 2: her husband said, how did it go?
Speaker 1: Was fine for me? I was myself, right.
Speaker 2: I think once the episode started airing, I I think
Speaker 2: is when a lot of conversations happened in the household.
Speaker 1: And Bron.
Speaker 2: When even Part one reunion brown when who is a Firecracker?
Speaker 2: I felt like she dimmed her light. I felt like
Speaker 2: she dimmed her like this entire reunion. She wasn't as
Speaker 2: quick in the Part one reunion. You know, when she
Speaker 2: was having a tipper table Lisa Barlow and how Lisa
Speaker 2: Barlow accused her of not buying the jewelry, you know, honey,
Speaker 2: the braun and I know what a clap back baby
Speaker 2: when she said it's my goddamn credit card based on
Speaker 2: fucking me right.
Speaker 1: I added some sauce to it, but you know, I
Speaker 1: felt that.
Speaker 2: She did not want to behave that way in front
Speaker 2: of Todd because Todd was in the building. That's my opinion,
Speaker 2: and that's the energy that it gave. And it made
Speaker 2: me feel bad for Broadwin. And the reason why it
Speaker 2: made me feel bad for Broadwn is because she is
Speaker 2: such a star. She's such a beautiful woman. I've had
Speaker 2: the pleasure of meeting her and rain drops when I
Speaker 2: say to you, she is equally beautiful inside and out.
Speaker 2: Is a She is the literal definition of a sweetheart.
Speaker 2: She's so sweet and so beautiful and she understands the assignment.
Speaker 2: What made me sad is and again I'm basing this
Speaker 2: off of what I saw. Okay, what made me sad
Speaker 2: is I don't want Broadwyn to dim her light so
Speaker 2: that it can be a happy home. You know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying, that's that's what made me feel sad. And again,
Speaker 2: I hope I'm wrong, but I missed my Firecracker and
Speaker 2: I felt like she wasn't present. She was there, obviously,
Speaker 2: but she wasn't present. It was sort of like, Okay,
Speaker 2: I want to ship gears a bit. Have y'all seen
Speaker 2: that movie The Substance with Demi Moore.
Speaker 1: Ray Drops.
Speaker 2: I'm sure ninety eight percent of y'all watched it, But
Speaker 2: for those who are living under a rock, Demi Moore
Speaker 2: want a golden globe for this performance. So in The Substance,
Speaker 2: Demi Moore, listen, I'll give you the quick synopsis.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: I can't believe I'm comparing The Substance to the Situation,
Speaker 2: but I thick you guys would understand it.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: The Substance is a moving starring Demi Moore and Demi Moore.
Speaker 2: She's playing a fading celebrity who takes a black market
Speaker 2: drug which pretty much is like a self replicating substance
Speaker 2: that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself. But
Speaker 2: they have to switch roles, right, So, like Demi Moore
Speaker 2: plays the older version of herself and this other actress.
Speaker 1: Her name is Margaret Quayley.
Speaker 2: I think she's gorgeous, and she plays like the younger
Speaker 2: version of the Demi Moore character.
Speaker 1: So I saw that.
Speaker 2: To say, it was sort of like at the reunion,
Speaker 2: instead of Demi Moore being there, it was like another
Speaker 2: version of her, That's what I was saying. So instead
Speaker 2: of Brahman being at the reunion, it was sort of
Speaker 2: like the other version of Brahman was present. That's what
Speaker 2: I've been about compared to the substance. So yeah, I
Speaker 2: didn't see Brobert Hoodie. I saw the other version of herself.
Speaker 2: And I want I want bron When to not dim
Speaker 2: her light. I want bron Win to own the star
Speaker 2: that she is. She is a fucking star and she
Speaker 2: is meant to be on television. She is a huge
Speaker 2: part of the success of this season. And let's be clear,
Speaker 2: she's the reason why I started watching it again because
Speaker 2: you rain Drop set. We know you love Monica and
Speaker 2: last season was epic. But you gotta watch this season
Speaker 2: because Brahm is killing it and I love the cast.
Speaker 1: I'm a big chi K fan too.
Speaker 2: I love Lisa Barlow obviously, I love me some Mary,
Speaker 2: and I love Mary Listen I love all the girls,
Speaker 2: but they said child Brahman is bringing it, so watch it.
Speaker 2: And I watched it, and my rain drops never ever
Speaker 2: ever failed me. They never fail me. So I missed
Speaker 2: seeing the Demi Moore version of Brown Men at the reunion,
Speaker 2: and then to go even further, the topic of the
Speaker 2: infidelity happened, and this also made me like, this part
Speaker 2: was hard to watch because let's talk about powerful men,
Speaker 2: and when I say powerful men, I mean men who
Speaker 2: have a shitload of money, like over one hundred million dollars. Right,
Speaker 2: Todd is rich, He's wealthy, he's powerful, he's all those things.
Speaker 2: One thing that I know about powerful men of that
Speaker 2: stature they don't like to be embarrassed and they don't
Speaker 2: like surprises. They're very much in control of every aspect
Speaker 2: of their life and they have a lot of people
Speaker 2: on their team to handle a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1: Again, based on.
Speaker 2: What I say saw obviously, Todd said in this episode
Speaker 2: that he didn't watch the episode where broadmem revealed that
Speaker 2: there was some infidelity there. He did not watch it.
Speaker 2: Do I believe it? I mean I don't. I mean,
Speaker 2: why wouldn't you. I'm not saying he watched it. In
Speaker 2: front of Bronwin in the living room on the plasma
Speaker 2: TV with the remote control. You know, I'm not saying that,
Speaker 2: but let's be clear when he would when he went
Speaker 2: to that office, honey, and his assistant said, last night
Speaker 2: episode detailed X, Y and Z. His assistant cued up
Speaker 2: that clip allegedly and played it for him.
Speaker 1: He saw it. He saw it.
Speaker 2: There's no way you don't want to watch that. That's
Speaker 2: the one thing you want to watch. I don't buy
Speaker 2: that he didn't watch it. I don't buy it. When
Speaker 2: you are a powerful man of that magnitude, you are
Speaker 2: more than likely a control freak and you have to
Speaker 2: control everything. And the only way you're able to control
Speaker 2: any situation when you're that powerful, you have to know
Speaker 2: every single piece of information because when you get something wrong,
Speaker 2: you can lose the deal, you can lose the argument.
Speaker 2: You gotta have all of your facts. Stray Todd watched
Speaker 2: that scene. If he didn't watch, let's have a real conversation.
Speaker 2: If he did not watch that scene, why was it
Speaker 2: such a very sad state of affairs to even talk about?
Speaker 1: I would have said, what are you talking about?
Speaker 2: I know she told me that, but yeah, it wasn't
Speaker 2: shit like I would have been so confident, like, don't
Speaker 2: she told me what it was?
Speaker 1: I didn't watch that shit? Who cares?
Speaker 2: No, it was the opposite. It was very much like guilty, embarrassed.
Speaker 2: I have to go to the country club where the
Speaker 2: nosy ho a people. Because let's talk about country clubs.
Speaker 2: I've been to a couple. I may even belong to one,
Speaker 2: but I'm not on the docket. Okay, let's talk.
Speaker 1: About country clubs.
Speaker 2: Country clubs are very affluent, astute. You know, it's a place.
Speaker 2: It's a place where you're able to like have a
Speaker 2: pondussa with your peers and you talk about everything from
Speaker 2: politics to the stock market, to your you know, about
Speaker 2: your kids, your vacation home that you have in Palm Beach.
Speaker 2: You talk, you talk about how you are. You know
Speaker 2: you have a vacation home. It's it's it's it's that's
Speaker 2: the atmosphere.
Speaker 1: Of a country club.
Speaker 2: I'm telling too much of y'all about my life. Okay,
Speaker 2: that's a country club, child, So that's a coutry club. AnyWho. So,
Speaker 2: then one thing about the country club atmosphere, it's like
Speaker 2: the set of the Real Housewives Reunion there's tons of gossip.
Speaker 2: Everybody talks about everybody because everybody in the community knows
Speaker 2: your business. Did you see the Smiths over there? Did
Speaker 2: you know that they had a big argument and the
Speaker 2: cops were called to the neighborhood and then we had
Speaker 2: the Reynolds peaked through the blinds because you know their
Speaker 2: neighbors and honey, they saw Suzanne come out in her neglige. Ay.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure if it was Victoria's secret. I digress,
Speaker 2: but you know something happened. And listen, I'm not saying
Speaker 2: it was a marital issue, but you know, when it
Speaker 2: comes to Reginald, there's allegations of affairs. I don't know,
Speaker 2: so anyways, these are like cybar conversations. I say all
Speaker 2: of that to say, Tod's embarrassed, and I'm gonna be
Speaker 2: honest with you guys. I don't blame him for being embarrassed,
Speaker 2: because that's not what he signed up for. Okay, Todd
Speaker 2: did the show because his wife wanted to do the show,
Speaker 2: and that was his way of telling his wife, I
Speaker 2: support you. You have support to me all these years.
Speaker 2: You have, you know, supported me me not being home
Speaker 2: a lot because I work, me always traveling.
Speaker 1: Brahm and doing Housewives, to me, was.
Speaker 2: Todd's way of saying, this is my form of saying
Speaker 2: I'll support you. I do believe he never watched a
Speaker 2: Housewives episode ever in life. I do believe that up
Speaker 2: until his wife got on the show. I do believe that.
Speaker 2: I think he saw her arguing with the girls and
Speaker 2: was like, this is weird. I've never seen her act
Speaker 2: that way, and he said it, I've never seen you
Speaker 2: act that way, Todd, this is Housewives. And then I
Speaker 2: think when the when his business became a topic of conversation,
Speaker 2: that's to me when it was hard to deal with,
Speaker 2: and I think he and Brahman had some tough conversation.
Speaker 1: Is about that.
Speaker 2: Whether or not Todd had a physical affair versus any
Speaker 2: emotional one, I'm gonna be honest. I thought it was
Speaker 2: a physical affair, just based on how Bradin told the
Speaker 2: girls on the boat. I was surprised to learn in
Speaker 2: this part to Reunion that it was an emotional affair. Allegedly,
Speaker 2: Heather didn't buy it. I think there's more there. I
Speaker 2: don't it's I would have to go to the country
Speaker 2: club and ask a few friends what that note Joab
Speaker 2: note whether or not Todd had any emotional or a
Speaker 2: physical AffA fair.
Speaker 1: We will.
Speaker 2: We may never know, and I can guarantee you Todd,
Speaker 2: being the staunch businessman he is, he hates the fact
Speaker 2: that he has built this empire and that his name
Speaker 2: is now attached to the word of fair.
Speaker 1: He is not happy with that.
Speaker 2: I can promise you that, I can guarantee you that
Speaker 2: this self made gazillionaire does not like the fact that,
Speaker 2: of all the hard work he's done over the years,
Speaker 2: that the word affair, whether it was emotional or physical,
Speaker 2: is attached to his name.
Speaker 1: He doesn't like it. I promise you that. So that
Speaker 1: was hard to watch.
Speaker 2: The other thing that was hard to watch, as we're
Speaker 2: sticking with Brahmin and Todd, was the revelation that Meredith
Speaker 2: and Seth they go back and forth between Ohio and
Speaker 2: Salt Lake City, which translation, y'all, it means Meredith flies
Speaker 2: to Salta City to film the show. I mean, I'm
Speaker 2: just saying that's why she's staking of Airbnb. So clock it.
Speaker 2: When Seth pretty much revealed that, you know, he and
Speaker 2: Meredith have a above average marriage and that they see
Speaker 2: each other on the weekend sometimes and then Todd interrupted
Speaker 2: and said, yeah, I get that. I get that I
Speaker 2: travel a lot, and that's that's kind of like what
Speaker 2: we do, like he compared it, and Brahma just sat
Speaker 2: there like yikes, you know, like okay, now I'm embarrassed.
Speaker 2: Let me let me go back to the Meredith. I
Speaker 2: think set and Meredith are a couple who have been
Speaker 2: together for so long that their marriage, in my opinion,
Speaker 2: is just a marriage of convenience. I don't this is
Speaker 2: my opinion, Hey, Tamera. I don't see a lot of
Speaker 2: deep love. And I'm not saying there isn't any there.
Speaker 2: I am also aware that when you've been married for
Speaker 2: so long that you go through different seasons in your life.
Speaker 2: Some seasons you guys can keep your hands off each other,
Speaker 2: and in some seasons you're like married on paper. I
Speaker 2: think Meredith and Seth are going through there. We're married
Speaker 2: on paper season. That's the phase they're in, and I
Speaker 2: don't have an opinion or thought and whether or not
Speaker 2: they will.
Speaker 1: Get out of that phase.
Speaker 2: I don't see a lot of their marriage displayed on
Speaker 2: the show, unfortunately, so I'm not going to guess where
Speaker 2: things are going to end.
Speaker 1: Up.
Speaker 2: But I definitely think they're in a season of their
Speaker 2: marriage to where they don't mind seeing each other.
Speaker 1: Like roommates.
Speaker 2: Where you wake up, you have morning breath, and you're
Speaker 2: trying to get your cup of orange juice and you
Speaker 2: run into your roommate in the kitchen and you say hi,
Speaker 2: and y'all walk by each other and y'all go about
Speaker 2: your day.
Speaker 1: I think that's what they do.
Speaker 2: Their kids are older, they're out the house, they're empty nesters.
Speaker 2: I just think they're like, whatever Meredith is, you know.
Speaker 2: I just think Merediam wants something else, child and what
Speaker 2: that is, hopefully we can find the next seas. Okay,
Speaker 2: So when Todd said that he could relate to what
Speaker 2: Seth was saying about seeing his wife on the weekends,
Speaker 2: Unfortunately that's Brahmin's life and Bronwin is not somebody, in
Speaker 2: my opinion, who likes that anymore.
Speaker 1: I think Bromwn wants.
Speaker 2: I think Bromwin is one hundred percent in love with Todd,
Speaker 2: in love with him, in love with him. I think
Speaker 2: she's grateful that he came into her life and was
Speaker 2: able to help her right, not only financially but emotionally.
Speaker 1: I believe one.
Speaker 2: Hundred percent that Bronwen is in love with her husband,
Speaker 2: and I think Bronwyn is fighting between her own happiness
Speaker 2: and keeping the house happy. Okay, this wasn't sad for you, yah,
Speaker 2: So I'll just say my heart goes out to Marry
Speaker 2: and her son. I'm happy to have found out that
Speaker 2: he did complete his thirty day rehab program and that
Speaker 2: he does have, you know, friends within the program of
Speaker 2: AA that he's friends with, and that he stays at
Speaker 2: home a lot more and doesn't really hang out a
Speaker 2: lot with his old pals.
Speaker 1: That makes me very happy to hear that.
Speaker 2: My advice to the son, Robert Jr. Just gradually get
Speaker 2: away from the people that will make you get back
Speaker 2: into the lifestyle.
Speaker 1: So just gradually.
Speaker 2: It's not don't do it sudden suddenly, right, just gradually
Speaker 2: get out of it. The Princeship and then after that
Speaker 2: Meredith and Mary Huggs. So you know it's fine. Listen,
Speaker 2: This re union was okay, wasn't fantastic. Part three looks
Speaker 2: good because baby Brittany. Brittany is in part three reunion
Speaker 2: and I don't care what any of y'all got.
Speaker 1: A baby.
Speaker 2: I love me some Brittany Brittany is a tall, blonde
Speaker 2: wacka do and that's a compliment. I love me some, Brittany.
Speaker 2: She looked good. She is giving Merrow's Place teas.
Speaker 1: Honey.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to part through reunion. I am, I
Speaker 2: am all right, Drops, That's all I have for you. Okay.
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