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Speaker 1: On today's episode of The King, you all have me
Speaker 1: all to yourselves. Yes, now, I know it's been a
Speaker 1: minute since I did a solo episode because with a
Speaker 1: lot going on with New Jersey, I had to bring
Speaker 1: on special guests. So that all of you who swear
Speaker 1: up and down I'm on Teresa Julyi's payroll, that I'm
Speaker 1: up Teresa's ass that I bring on people. So which
Speaker 1: one is it? Do I bring on people to talk
Speaker 1: shit about Teresa or am I up Teresa's ass? And
Speaker 1: I'm biased. I'm confused, child, I really I don't know
Speaker 1: which direction or the wind that I'm blowing in. Am
Speaker 1: my teen Teresa or a'm my anti Teresa. Look, I
Speaker 1: know it's strange for some people to realize that. Look,
Speaker 1: I am a real friend to Teresa. Okay, So I
Speaker 1: want to talk about Jersey really fast. Although I ended
Speaker 1: the conversation last week with David from the Behind the
Speaker 1: Velvet Roa podcast, and we'll get into that in a second.
Speaker 1: And then after that, you know, I want to talk
Speaker 1: about the Real House Squash of Orange County because this
Speaker 1: season is spectacular. I'm loving the season. Okay, first things first,
Speaker 1: maybe you all don't understand the definition of a friendship.
Speaker 1: I am not on Teresa's payroll. I'm on my own payroll, honey,
Speaker 1: because I own my own company. Thank you. So now
Speaker 1: she's not paying me. Okay, I'm not up Teresa's ass.
Speaker 1: I have a mind of my own. And I said
Speaker 1: this in nauseum that my friendship with Teresa is not
Speaker 1: predicated on me agreeing with everything she does. I tell you, guys,
Speaker 1: all the time that I'm one of the few people
Speaker 1: who am who's able to really tell Teresa when things
Speaker 1: are right, wrong or indifferent. We have that friendship and
Speaker 1: that's why she loves me and she respects me. So no,
Speaker 1: I'm not on her payroll. I have an opinion, and
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. My opinion, Hey, Tammer, judge, my opinion is
Speaker 1: there is no Jersey without Teresa. There is no peanut
Speaker 1: butter without jelly. There is no halt without oats. Okay,
Speaker 1: like it is what it is. I'm sorry, and I'm
Speaker 1: never going to like apologize, although I just said I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I'm not apologizing though, I'm sorry if you all don't
Speaker 1: understand that I have an opinion, okay about that, And look,
Speaker 1: it's okay to disagree with me. That's why I love you,
Speaker 1: rain drops. It's okay to disagree with me. But to
Speaker 1: make these false accusations that I'm on her payroll, it's
Speaker 1: hilarious and it's crazy. I strongly feel there's no Jersey
Speaker 1: without Teresa, just like some of you all feel like
Speaker 1: she needs to be gone. That's fine. I've had guests
Speaker 1: on my podcasts who says she should stay. I've had
Speaker 1: guests of my podcasts, who says she should leave? I
Speaker 1: have guess on my podcasts, so our team, Teresa, I've
Speaker 1: had guests on my podcast to our team, Melissa, I
Speaker 1: am a journalist. Hey Portia, Hey Tamar Braxon. I'm a journalist,
Speaker 1: and as a journalist, what I was trying to do
Speaker 1: these past couple of weeks was to give you all
Speaker 1: a different opinion from the people who are also podcast hosts,
Speaker 1: entertainment journalists, and fans of the show, because I wanted
Speaker 1: you all to hear a very different opinion other than
Speaker 1: my own. Okay, and I think think I succeeded in that, right,
Speaker 1: So there you have it. Now. Look, as of the
Speaker 1: past couple of days, a lot of the housewives have
Speaker 1: been on a press tour to fight for their jobs.
Speaker 1: Child Once they were allowed to do these interviews, honey,
Speaker 1: what's the season end? They all said, please please put
Speaker 1: a microphone in my face so I can tell you
Speaker 1: all about how I feel. So Margaret and Melissa went
Speaker 1: on to teas in a pod high Tamera, High Teddy,
Speaker 1: and pretty much try to get in front of the
Speaker 1: story in the event that they may not be asked
Speaker 1: back to the show. Melissa has said this verbatim and
Speaker 1: I quote because of all the rumors that are out there,
Speaker 1: I am fully prepared for anything. I think I would
Speaker 1: realize that I'm gonna insert She's gonna say Teresa's name,
Speaker 1: but I'll insert it. I think I would realize that
Speaker 1: Teresa and I are two extremely different characters. So if
Speaker 1: Bravo decides to go that route and kind of the darker,
Speaker 1: whatever it is, route, then I need to say, this
Speaker 1: is not a show that I want to be on anyway,
Speaker 1: which it truly isn't. I do not want to be
Speaker 1: on it. I do not want to be on that
Speaker 1: toxic shit. So as long as she is there and
Speaker 1: that whole thing will come Girl, are you calling Teresa
Speaker 1: a thing and that whole thing will come back? I
Speaker 1: wouldn't find it as a loss. Ladies, gentlemen, and they,
Speaker 1: this is what happens when you are afraid of being
Speaker 1: on the chopping blog and you're trying to get a
Speaker 1: hit of the story. Melissa knows, because she's a very smart,
Speaker 1: pretty girl, she knows that her time may be up
Speaker 1: on this show, and like similar housewives who have come
Speaker 1: and gone, what she is doing is trying to get
Speaker 1: ahead of it so that if the axe comes down
Speaker 1: on her, then she would have said, see, I told
Speaker 1: you guys, I did not want to come back anyway,
Speaker 1: because let's have a real conversation. Melissa enjoys the cameras
Speaker 1: more than Kodak. I mean, it is what it is,
Speaker 1: and there's nothing wrong with it. You know, there's nothing
Speaker 1: wrong for being thirsty. There's nothing wrong but being dehydrated.
Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong with, you know, wanting the fame. It's
Speaker 1: not every day that a middle aged woman is able
Speaker 1: to have a second win in life, and that is
Speaker 1: being a housewife. And this is a really big reality
Speaker 1: gig to have. It's the biggest reality gig to have.
Speaker 1: And we're all being honest because the moment you're a housewife,
Speaker 1: you are instantly famous, like overnight success. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. You're marinated, you know, you are stuck in
Speaker 1: the refrigerator, honey, overnight like my oats, and you are
Speaker 1: cooked up and you're brought out and then you get
Speaker 1: to sprout and become a star. You are a fully
Speaker 1: cooked star. You go from anonymity to a powerhouse in
Speaker 1: a matter of weeks and months, and there is no
Speaker 1: way in the world that Melissa would turn down an
Speaker 1: opportunity to get back on that show, because there's no
Speaker 1: difference between what happened last season when her and Theresa
Speaker 1: where I was and Bravo said, y'all both coming back,
Speaker 1: and you said, Okay, last season, not this one. That
Speaker 1: rap the season before that was much more darker. So
Speaker 1: when she talks about this toxic shit and if Bravo
Speaker 1: wants to go the darker route, Melissa, you are the
Speaker 1: darker route. You being on the show was a dark route?
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? Melissa? And I like you, I
Speaker 1: think you're pretty. You are the dark route that they
Speaker 1: decided to cast opposite of Teresa. The show was always
Speaker 1: hints of like mystery and darkness in a sense with
Speaker 1: Danielle style. You know the country club and the book
Speaker 1: and you know prostitution whore engaged seventeen nineteen times. You know,
Speaker 1: the show was never Pollyanna. But Melissa, they didn't bring
Speaker 1: you on the show for your outfits, like what are
Speaker 1: we talking about? You were brought on the show because
Speaker 1: you were a dark route that they wanted to go
Speaker 1: down the road in to give the star of this show,
Speaker 1: Teresa Judais you know, the main marquee moment. You have
Speaker 1: been the dark route for the entirety of your presence
Speaker 1: on the show. So to sit up there in front
Speaker 1: of Tamra and Teddy and make those comments, it's just
Speaker 1: as confusing as the NB Fashion Show. I just don't
Speaker 1: understand it, and I find myself to be a very
Speaker 1: smart guy. And again, I like it with people keep
Speaker 1: it real. I love that Cynthia Bailey, for example, has
Speaker 1: said Rabo wanted me to be a friend of so
Speaker 1: I said no, thank you, and I walked away from
Speaker 1: the show. You know, that's honesty. I like it when
Speaker 1: the women are honest. Robin Dixon said, I was fired
Speaker 1: from the show. They did not want me back. I
Speaker 1: got fired. That's honesty. There's power in honesty. And I
Speaker 1: think the reason why you know, it's a hard pill
Speaker 1: to swallow, like my vitamin D take that as you may,
Speaker 1: wink wink U double ton drum, but it's the reason
Speaker 1: why it's a hard pill to swallow for some of
Speaker 1: the people who may not like Melissa, is because we
Speaker 1: like honesty. And I think Teresa's somebody. If Teresa was
Speaker 1: to ever get let go up from the show. I
Speaker 1: don't think Teresa would say, Hi, guys, love love love, love,
Speaker 1: love you. I decided to take a break from the
Speaker 1: show to focus on me, my kids going to college,
Speaker 1: and Louis like, I don't see Teresa doing that. Teresa
Speaker 1: would be like, look, Bravo did not want me. They
Speaker 1: decided that they wanted to go in a different direction.
Speaker 1: I thank them for the many years of being on
Speaker 1: the show. I'm looking forward to my next chapter, like
Speaker 1: Teresa is gonna keep it funky. And the fact that
Speaker 1: Melissa isn't is the reason why there is this debate
Speaker 1: in terms of does Melissa really have fans or are
Speaker 1: Melissa fans just Teresa Hayters? Does that make sense? Like
Speaker 1: does Melissa Gorga have fans or are Melissa Gorga fans
Speaker 1: just Teresa Hayters who are by default fans of hers.
Speaker 1: Because I don't understand any of this commentary, I would
Speaker 1: have a firm Melissa say, look, I love the show.
Speaker 1: I love doing the show. Yes, the show needs to
Speaker 1: change if they want me and Teresa to come back.
Speaker 1: I respect the powers that be. They know more than
Speaker 1: I do, and I will be a willing participant in
Speaker 1: trying to make the best show possible because at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, I love this show. I love
Speaker 1: this gig. It's a second win for me and my family,
Speaker 1: and I want to be able to rye this bitch
Speaker 1: into the sunset. That's what should have been said. And
Speaker 1: when you talk to Teresa, for example, so Teresa said
Speaker 1: this on Live with Kelly and Mark Kelly Ripper. That
Speaker 1: is she said, no, I'm not leaving. I started the show,
Speaker 1: and when Bravo wants me to leave, that's when I'll leave.
Speaker 1: That's called honesty, transparency, truthfulness, that's what that is called.
Speaker 1: So if Teresa's not asked back to the show, she
Speaker 1: said it right there, I will leave when Bravo wants
Speaker 1: me to leave. So that you have it there, you
Speaker 1: have it. Should Teresa leave, Should Melissa leave? Y'all know
Speaker 1: how I feel? Let me know in the comments. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, shifting gears, we have to talk about the
Speaker 1: most recent episode of the Real Housewives of Orange County.
Speaker 1: If you are not watching The Real Housewives of of
Speaker 1: Orange County, you are missing out. It is a fantastic season.
Speaker 1: It's tense across the board. There has not been one
Speaker 1: filler episode. The star of this season goes to Gina, bitch, Yes,
Speaker 1: Gina is I'm loving Gina. I'm loving Gina. Gina is funny,
Speaker 1: She's she's clocked in. Gina is being authentic and funny.
Speaker 1: Gina is like Lucille Ball. To me, Gina is funny
Speaker 1: without even trying to be funny. She is hilarious. She's clumsy,
Speaker 1: her outfits and her confessionals are questionable, but I love
Speaker 1: the fact that she can own it. She is a
Speaker 1: contradiction of herself because the way she befriended Katie and
Speaker 1: then dissc Katie when Heather checked her, talked shit about
Speaker 1: Emily behind her back, and then, when confronted, tried to backpedal, Like,
Speaker 1: these are all things that I love and a complex housewife.
Speaker 1: She is having the best season ever. Gina is the
Speaker 1: star of the Real Housewives of Orange County this season.
Speaker 1: She is a joy to watch. I want to see
Speaker 1: more of her. Seriously, I've always liked her, but I
Speaker 1: wasn't a stand right. It's kind of how I feel
Speaker 1: about Heather bro. I don't dislike Heather Debro. I think HEATHERN.
Speaker 1: Debro's having another great season. I think she's a great housewife, right,
Speaker 1: I'm not a Heather Debro stand right because you know, again,
Speaker 1: I just spoke about Teresa Icon legend, Force Multiplier, Judies.
Speaker 1: I like a woman who you know, stands up and
Speaker 1: like no, this is how I feel and fuck you,
Speaker 1: like I don't care what you think. And Heather sometimes
Speaker 1: goes back and forth with it because she cares so
Speaker 1: much about her image, which again, she makes a great
Speaker 1: housewife for that. But I would have loved if she
Speaker 1: would have said, like, look, bitch, do I call the paparazzi?
Speaker 1: And if I do, who gives a shit? I'm a celebrity.
Speaker 1: All celebrities do. If j Loo allegedly can call the
Speaker 1: paparazzi while she's in the Hampton's riding a bicycle licking
Speaker 1: an ice cream cone, then why can't me and my
Speaker 1: husband that's on botched go to Disneyland and take a
Speaker 1: picture as I'm pointing at a star in the sky.
Speaker 1: That's what I will have love and have that to
Speaker 1: have said. But I digress. Gina is the star of
Speaker 1: the show this season. I'm loving her. The dynamic with
Speaker 1: her and Emily is so interesting because Emily and Gina
Speaker 1: are the Tamra and Shannon of the season in the
Speaker 1: sense of they're real life best friends who are funny together,
Speaker 1: but they're also able to call each other out when
Speaker 1: they were playing pickleball. I love the fact that they
Speaker 1: were able to have this intense conversation and then get
Speaker 1: emotional about it and was able to resolve it. That's
Speaker 1: the type of friendships this show needed, and these two
Speaker 1: ladies are definitely the reason for the season because it's
Speaker 1: so real and it's so amazing that I would love
Speaker 1: to see more of that dynamic on the show. It's
Speaker 1: it's spectacular, it really is. It really is. So shout
Speaker 1: out to Gina, this is your best season. The award
Speaker 1: goes to you, baby. Now, Gina, with this award, go
Speaker 1: to the pawn shop, okay and get the money. Hire
Speaker 1: a stylist, baby, higher stylists because you got to invest
Speaker 1: in yourself. Hi, you're a stylist, Okay, and have them
Speaker 1: pull looks for you. There's always some stylists in Los
Speaker 1: Angeles who is on the come up and he, she
Speaker 1: or they. They need to be able to work with
Speaker 1: one housewife so that their bulletin on their Instagram is
Speaker 1: able to showcase their their reach. Okay, they need a portfolio,
Speaker 1: just like Tarred Banks taught the top models how to
Speaker 1: go on a look see and get their portfolio together
Speaker 1: so that when they leave the show they can have
Speaker 1: a book of the best photos. A lot of these
Speaker 1: stylists in Los Angeles needs that, and Gina, you need one. Okay,
Speaker 1: invest in yourself, invest in some maybeling, invest in a
Speaker 1: pressing curl, invest in a shampoo, wash, wash out the die,
Speaker 1: and you have all the potential in the world, sister,
Speaker 1: But we got to work on these confessional looks. Baby.
Speaker 1: I appreciate the fact that you acknowledge that silver number
Speaker 1: was not as silber fox. Okay, it was awful, But
Speaker 1: but you have potential. Okay, just know that. Know that,
Speaker 1: So take the money that you're gonna make from Elizabeth
Speaker 1: var Ogust, you know, selling her home, and invest in
Speaker 1: a stylist. Okay, baby, you're welcome. Now let's get into
Speaker 1: the Tamar Judge and Shannon of it all. Y'all know,
Speaker 1: I love Tamra, but one thing about me, like Teresa,
Speaker 1: I'm always going to keep it a buck. Tamar is
Speaker 1: very harsh on Shannon, and it's uncomfortable to watch at
Speaker 1: times because Tamra is constantly giving digs, okay, And while
Speaker 1: I understand that, unfortunately we did not see all of
Speaker 1: the history of Shannon's alleged alcohol issues the way Tamar
Speaker 1: has as the audience. And again this is when I'm
Speaker 1: being very fair and balanced. As the audience, we haven't
Speaker 1: seen as much as Tamar has, okay, And I think
Speaker 1: Tamra's frustrations is rooted in love, right, because she she
Speaker 1: has seen more. They're best friends, they hang out, they
Speaker 1: went on tour together, So Tamra has seen way more
Speaker 1: than we the audience have, right. But as the audience,
Speaker 1: we look as Shannon as a wounded bird. And to
Speaker 1: know that this person who at one time was your
Speaker 1: best friend, who is constantly doing dig by dig by
Speaker 1: dig it is a lot. It's it's a lot, and
Speaker 1: at some moments it is uncomfortable to watch. And I
Speaker 1: think what Tamra has to realize is the fact that
Speaker 1: in order for us the audience, to understand the venom
Speaker 1: that Tamar has for Shannon, we have to be let
Speaker 1: in in a very calm and concise way in terms
Speaker 1: of what we're what she has witnessed, because all we
Speaker 1: see is Tamra giving it to poor little Shannon. And
Speaker 1: while Shannon isn't innocent by any means, you can tell
Speaker 1: that she's going through a lot, right. She's going through
Speaker 1: having DUI, She's going through John suing her for seventy
Speaker 1: five thousand dollars. She's going through not being in a relationship.
Speaker 1: She's going through the demise of her friendship with Tamra,
Speaker 1: and she's going through the fact that she's like, well,
Speaker 1: fuck not gotta hang out with Heather, Like, who That's
Speaker 1: not fun? That's that's you know, that's not fun. Heather's
Speaker 1: not a fun girl. You know, she has nice gowns
Speaker 1: and a nice house, but happit, the bra is not
Speaker 1: getting on top of the naked, wasted flipping her top
Speaker 1: and running you know, in the pool, skinny dipping. So
Speaker 1: Shannon's going through a lot this season. And when I
Speaker 1: look at Shannon, I do look at someone who is
Speaker 1: trying to find their place, not only on this show,
Speaker 1: but on this earth. I think Shannon is very sad.
Speaker 1: So let's remove the show for a second. I think
Speaker 1: Shannon is very sad about the state of her life.
Speaker 1: She's an empty nester, a divorcee, and she lost a
Speaker 1: man that she was with for many years, and I
Speaker 1: think Shannon is lonely. And again, I'm not here making
Speaker 1: excuses for her. But when I look at her, I
Speaker 1: see someone who is lonely and to me, somebody who
Speaker 1: was also crying out for help. And I think the
Speaker 1: one thing she wants from Tamra is to yes, hold
Speaker 1: her accountable, but also to hold her physically, physically hold
Speaker 1: her and tell her that everything is going to be okay.
Speaker 1: I think bare minimum what Shannon is yearning for is
Speaker 1: for Tamor to just say to her, I have my opinions.
Speaker 1: I don't think what you did was right. However, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to tell you that right now because what
Speaker 1: you don't need in this moment is another I told
Speaker 1: you so. What you need in this moment is a friend.
Speaker 1: And what I can do as your friend is take
Speaker 1: five minutes, hold you and tell you that everything is
Speaker 1: going to be okay. And then when the cameras are rolling, bitch,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna cuss you out, you know, like, because Tamer's
Speaker 1: gonna make good TV. Hey, there's no show without Tamer either.
Speaker 1: Let's be very clear. Tamer's making good TV. Guys. Let's
Speaker 1: not forget that either. Okay, she has to give us
Speaker 1: some good things to talk about, because without Tamra, come on, now,
Speaker 1: there's only so much work Gina can do. Okay. So
Speaker 1: I did like the fact that Tamra and Shannon hugged
Speaker 1: it out because I do believe that there was love
Speaker 1: there and Shannon also and Tamar's defense and Tamar's defense
Speaker 1: when she was fired from the show, Shannon stopped talking
Speaker 1: to her. And that's when I tell you guys all
Speaker 1: the time that these housewives, they're friendships are predicated on
Speaker 1: our alliances, and that the only real friendships across all
Speaker 1: housewives was Robin Dixon and Giselle Bryant and then you
Speaker 1: have Marisol and Alexia from Miami Housewives. That's it. That's
Speaker 1: the only true, genuine, I love you, die hard friendships
Speaker 1: that without this show, we will be friends. Okay. What
Speaker 1: Tamara's suffering through is the fact that she knows that
Speaker 1: deep down inside, Shannon may not love her the way
Speaker 1: that Tamara loves Shannon, and that's tough, and that's tough,
Speaker 1: and that's very tough. My hope is that they're able
Speaker 1: to work it out, because what's not working out for
Speaker 1: me so far is Katie Katie, I give your food, Baby,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know if I see it from
Speaker 1: its Katie girls, rain Drops, what do y'all think? Katie?
Speaker 1: You may be a one season wonder. Where is Noela?
Speaker 1: I want to see Noela. I don't, Katie. I'm trying, Baby,
Speaker 1: I'm trying. Baby. I need CPR, baby, Baby, I need
Speaker 1: something to wake me up before our go go. Give
Speaker 1: me wham, give me a V eight let me stand
Speaker 1: up straight. I need, Katie, what are you going to
Speaker 1: bring besides a text message of somebody confirming that I
Speaker 1: have to call the paparazzi. That was a cute moment,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna need more from your baby. The jury
Speaker 1: is still out, but Katie, I'm gonna need some more.
Speaker 1: But again, please rain Drops. If you're not watching, watch
Speaker 1: the Real Housewatch of Orange County. It is by far
Speaker 1: the best housewives on television today. Okay, and news, rain Drops.
Speaker 1: So next week is Labor Day, so we will not
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