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The Orange Doesn't Fall Far: Alexis Janssen and Mackenna Bellino · Two Ts In A Pod with Teddi Mellencamp and Tamra Judge

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Hi, guys.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to The Orange Doesn't Fall Far with myself,
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  Speaker 2: Tamara Judge, and my daughter, Sophia Barney.
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  Speaker 3: Hi.
• 0:08
  Speaker 2: Why do I feel like I haven't seen you in
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  Speaker 2: like a year?
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  Speaker 4: It kind of feels that way. I think the last
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  Speaker 4: time we saw each other was my birthday, right?
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  Speaker 2: No, you came out, you came.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, no, we went to the mall.
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  Speaker 2: It was a week ago.
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  Speaker 4: It always feels like I never see you though, especially
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  Speaker 4: when you're busy.
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  Speaker 5: I know.
• 0:25
  Speaker 2: So, you know, when we did the mother daughter with
• 0:29
  Speaker 2: Melissa and her daughter, the fans loved it and it
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  Speaker 2: was highly rated. So I think that's going to be
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  Speaker 2: our niche now is we're just going to And I
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  Speaker 2: have a bunch, our niche, is that right?
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  Speaker 5: Niche, it's niche.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, that's our niche. So I have a few mother-daughter
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  Speaker 2: duos lined up to come on, but today we're going
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  Speaker 2: to have Alexis Jansen and her daughter McKenna, who McKenna
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  Speaker 2: has never done a podcast before.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, really?
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  Speaker 2: But before we get them on, I just wanted to
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  Speaker 2: do a little catch up because a lot of things
• 0:59
  Speaker 2: have changed since you were on the pod last.
• 1:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Since.
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  Speaker 2: But I mean, your hair is brown now.
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  Speaker 4: My hair is brown. Yeah, I cut my bangs, of course.
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  Speaker 5: I'm back in school. You turned 21.
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  Speaker 2: I turned 21. Have you gone to a store or
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  Speaker 2: restaurant and.
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  Speaker 4: Bought alcohol now that you're 21?
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  Speaker 6: I have.
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  Speaker 4: Did you get carded?
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  Speaker 2: I did.
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  Speaker 4: It was actually awful because I was so overstimulated. I
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  Speaker 4: went to Trader Joe's and anyone who goes to Trader
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  Speaker 4: Joe's knows the parking situation is always awful. And there
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  Speaker 4: was no parking. I was doing circles. I was sweating.
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  Speaker 3: I was angry.
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  Speaker 4: I go into this Trader Joe's and I don't know
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  Speaker 4: what it is, but Trader Joe's employees are always very.
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  Speaker 5: Like, hi, oh my God, hi. And I was just
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  Speaker 5: not having it.
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  Speaker 4: You're not in the mood. No, the woman carded me.
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  Speaker 4: She's like, oh, my God, birthday girl. I'm like, I
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  Speaker 4: went to Laguna. She's like, shut up. I'm just like,
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  Speaker 4: I want to get my wine and get out of here.
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  Speaker 4: It was so crowded, so hot.
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  Speaker 2: It's like that at Trader Joe's. And besides the peppy talk,
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  Speaker 2: it's also like 40 degrees inside Trader Joe's. If you
• 2:07
  Speaker 2: guys are like, don't have air conditioning, go just hang
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  Speaker 2: out with Trader Joe's right now. There is a huge
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  Speaker 2: heat wave. It's so hot. How hot is it where
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  Speaker 2: you're at?
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  Speaker 4: I think it's 102 today.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm in Big Bear, as you know, and it
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  Speaker 2: is a nice 68, 69 degrees with a little cloud covering. Yep.
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  Speaker 2: So I have been in Big Bear since the reunion.
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  Speaker 2: I filmed the reunion the other day.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: How'd that go?
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  Speaker 2: As far as reunions go, I mean, I had a
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  Speaker 2: pretty good season, so I wasn't really in the hot seat.
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  Speaker 2: I was so joking with Andy and Alex before we
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  Speaker 2: went out there because we never know where we're going
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  Speaker 2: to sit. And I just said something like, it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be so weird to be third seat or at
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  Speaker 2: the end. And they're like, yeah, okay, sure.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I was first seat.
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  Speaker 4: That's awesome though. I mean, a win is a win.
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  Speaker 2: But we are going to be in Big Bear for
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  Speaker 2: the next few days. Bryce Sanders is coming over to
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  Speaker 2: the house tomorrow with his crew.
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  Speaker 4: That's exciting.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're going to do a home tour of Big Bear. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I've been asked by several different outlets to do this,
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  Speaker 2: and I've always said no, no, because I felt like
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to protect this place.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But literally... People drive down the street and yell my
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  Speaker 2: name all the time.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 4: You told me about that. You said some fans showed
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  Speaker 4: up and it's just like, how are they even finding
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  Speaker 4: the address?
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  Speaker 2: Well, Eddie was out there working on his motorcycle and
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  Speaker 2: they're like, Eddie, Eddie.
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  Speaker 5: How did they find the address? It's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: I have no idea.
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  Speaker 2: That's kind of scary. No idea whatsoever. Now, you and
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  Speaker 2: Nico will be in Big Bear in a couple of
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  Speaker 2: weeks to attend the Oktoberfest. Yep.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm putting him in lederhosen, whether he likes it
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  Speaker 4: or not.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: He has to wear the little Peter Pan hat. And
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  Speaker 4: he has to wear the little suspenders. He has to.
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  Speaker 2: So Oktoberfest is going on the whole month of October,
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  Speaker 2: parts of November. I think it actually started in September.
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  Speaker 2: It's one of the biggest Oktoberfests.
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  Speaker 3: I heard.
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  Speaker 2: Like around. So it's really fun. This is, I think,
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  Speaker 2: our third time going. Second time going dressed up. But
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  Speaker 2: I'm getting Eddie a more elaborate outfit.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you got to get a better outfit than the
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  Speaker 4: Amazon one. You got to go like crazy. Some of
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  Speaker 4: them are expensive.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 4: I'm willing to shell out a few bucks, honestly.
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  Speaker 2: You are?
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  Speaker 4: I was looking into it. I was looking on Depop.
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  Speaker 4: I was looking on eBay. I'm trying to find something good.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. So now you're allowed to drink, but
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  Speaker 2: also you're allowed to be in the audience at Watch
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  Speaker 2: What Happens Live. You will be the bartender when I go.
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  Speaker 2: So what are your thoughts on.
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  Speaker 4: I'm excited, but I'm nervous as anyone would be. I
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  Speaker 4: realized as we're talking about the bartending role, I'm like,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what that means.
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  Speaker 2: It just made you stand there.
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  Speaker 6: I know.
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  Speaker 4: But I realized like all these times I went with
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  Speaker 4: you to watch happens live all these times. I've never
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  Speaker 4: really watched it. I've never watched the show before. I've
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  Speaker 4: always just been there to support you. And I'm like,
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  Speaker 4: I'm like. wait i don't even know what the bartender
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  Speaker 4: role is so i've been doing research i've been looking into.
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  Speaker 2: It it's not it trust me it's about the easiest
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  Speaker 2: job yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I saw some very cool people have done it before
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  Speaker 4: and i was like you know what i'll it'll be
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  Speaker 4: a breeze i just hope i don't have to make
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  Speaker 4: any drinks because.
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  Speaker 2: You don't you don't you can drink though you can
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  Speaker 2: drink yeah good pictures um I remember, when was it?
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  Speaker 2: Four years ago? Well, when I came back, I think
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  Speaker 2: my first year back, I wanted you to sit in
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  Speaker 2: the audience. I didn't know you had to be 21
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  Speaker 2: years old. So you were really bummed about that. So
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  Speaker 2: they let you come out and give a gift.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was allowed to come out, but I wasn't
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  Speaker 4: allowed to sit in the audience.
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  Speaker 2: And remember you were so nervous you ran off?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Let me explain my side because I saw a lot
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  Speaker 4: of people talking about like, oh my God, she ran off.
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  Speaker 4: What is the problem? The problem is you don't realize, guys,
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  Speaker 4: when you walk out there, you are blinded by lights.
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  Speaker 4: It is negative zero degrees. It's like you're doing a
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  Speaker 4: cold plunge. So I walk out there. I'm completely blinded.
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  Speaker 4: It's freezing. I don't know what's going on. I didn't
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  Speaker 4: get any direction really, except for like, oh, give this
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  Speaker 4: to Andy. It's a gift. And so I walk out there.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, there's a whole audience. I'm like, I don't
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  Speaker 4: know what's going on. I give him the thing and
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  Speaker 4: that's all I thought I was doing. So I give
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  Speaker 4: it to him and I walk away because that's what
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  Speaker 4: I thought.
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  Speaker 2: And as you're walking away, he's asking you a question
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  Speaker 2: and he's like, okay, well, there she goes.
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  Speaker 4: Dude, not my proudest moment, but... That's okay. It happens.
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  Speaker 2: So today we have Alexis... I want to say Bellino,
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  Speaker 2: but now she's married to John Jansen. So Alexis Jansen
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  Speaker 2: and McKenna Bellino on the pod. You know, like I said,
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  Speaker 2: people really love this mother-daughter duo interviews. Now you met McKenna. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: In season five at a pool party at our house.
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  Speaker 2: And we're going to talk to them about it because
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  Speaker 2: we actually watched the clip. All of us, me, you, Alexis,
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  Speaker 2: her daughter, everybody watched the clip. And I heard what
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  Speaker 2: Alexis had to say. You told me stuff, you know,
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  Speaker 2: what you noticed. So we're going to actually have a
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  Speaker 2: little conversation about it before we actually get into the interview.
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  Speaker 2: So let's go ahead and bring in Alexis Jansen and
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  Speaker 2: McKenna Foligno.
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  Speaker 4: Hello.
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  Speaker 3: Hi.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, guys. Welcome.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to The Orange Doesn't Fall Far. And you are
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  Speaker 2: the second mom and daughter duo to come on to
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  Speaker 2: our podcast. So thank you so much for being here. Now,
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  Speaker 2: Sophia and McKenna, I think there's a Sophia, you're a
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  Speaker 2: little bit older, right? You're James's age. I think you're James' age.
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  Speaker 3: I'm 18.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. A little bit older.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So we talked about earlier before you guys got on
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  Speaker 2: that we all watched season five, episode three. And you
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  Speaker 2: guys met then. You were so little. Sophia was four.
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  Speaker 2: You had to have been two.
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  Speaker 7: She was two and a half to three.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: A year and a half apart. A year and 14 months.
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  Speaker 2: The scene starts out with me getting ready for the
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  Speaker 2: 4th of July. We're having a party. I think it's
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  Speaker 2: the first time that you guys came over to the house.
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  Speaker 2: We're having a pool party. And then Simon's, I'm like saying,
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  Speaker 2: I'm hungry.
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  Speaker 4: I'm hungry.
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  Speaker 2: He's like, eat. And I'm like, you know, I don't
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  Speaker 2: eat when it's summertime.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my God.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know how much like shit I got for
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  Speaker 2: saying that?
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  Speaker 4: Dude, that was gnarly. I can't even lie. I saw that.
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  Speaker 4: That does not age well.
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  Speaker 5: It doesn't.
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  Speaker 7: But you know what?
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to blame, I'm going to blame Alexis.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: We saw that rock and body that she came out,
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  Speaker 2: you know, how she had, Three kids at that time,
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  Speaker 2: a set of twins.
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  Speaker 4: It was also the 2000s.
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  Speaker 3: It was the 2000s culture for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Alexis, do you remember telling me about a diet
• 8:41
  Speaker 2: that you did and I tried it? Do you remember
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  Speaker 2: what it was?
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  Speaker 5: I don't remember it, but I gave it to a
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  Speaker 5: lot of my friends.
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  Speaker 2: Saltine crackers and cottage cheese.
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  Speaker 5: No, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 7: It was a doctor.
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  Speaker 5: It was actually done by a trainer that gave it
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  Speaker 5: to me. And you even had a scoop of vanilla
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  Speaker 5: ice cream at bedtime.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no, this was a different one.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, because he was regulating this doctor or this trainer
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  Speaker 5: was regulating like your blood sugar and all this.
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  Speaker 7: And what you would eat was very regimented through the day.
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  Speaker 2: But it was so much on this one. Sophia recently
• 9:14
  Speaker 2: sent me a TikTok that popped up on her for you.
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  Speaker 2: It was a TikTok of you taking this tiniest little
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  Speaker 2: bite of bread and you go, I just, I just
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  Speaker 2: need one more bite.
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  Speaker 3: She still does that too.
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  Speaker 5: I remember that. I do eat like a mouse. I
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  Speaker 5: eat little amounts all through the day.
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  Speaker 7: So I eat like a mouse. I'm a bird.
• 9:32
  Speaker 5: I'm a rabbit.
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  Speaker 7: I love vegetables.
• 9:35
  Speaker 2: So you, Jim and the kids come to the house and,
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  Speaker 2: you know, me and Simon, you could tell there was,
• 9:41
  Speaker 2: you know, like our foundation was breaking. That's for sure.
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  Speaker 2: And I remember saying like, Oh my God, you and
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  Speaker 2: Jim have just the perfect marriage.
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  Speaker 4: That aged well. Okay.
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  Speaker 6: That's when I watched that scene with you, I was like,
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  Speaker 6: this is, is the only scene that I think Tamara
• 10:01
  Speaker 6: actually liked my ex the entire time I filmed the
• 10:05
  Speaker 6: next three or four years.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we all know what happened there, but I will
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  Speaker 2: say like, I don't remember like looking back at it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, she was very nice. And he was
• 10:13
  Speaker 2: in my refrigerator getting ketchup and everything was fine. It
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  Speaker 2: What did you girls take of it? Because I seriously
• 10:22
  Speaker 2: doubt either one of you are watching old episodes of
• 10:25
  Speaker 2: Housewives when you were little, right?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I haven't watched any of the Housewives, actually. That
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  Speaker 3: was the first one that I've actually watched. And I
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  Speaker 3: was just like, the whole culture, I think the 2000s
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  Speaker 3: is so different. And I was just laughing the whole time.
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  Speaker 1: Like, it just didn't look real because my mom is like, what,
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  Speaker 1: late 30s.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm like a I was 32, late 30s.
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  Speaker 4: I started in my 30s already.
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  Speaker 5: How old am I right now, Kenna?
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  Speaker 3: Well, because I feel like everyone was a little bit
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  Speaker 3: older than you.
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  Speaker 7: No, how old am I right now, Kenna?
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  Speaker 1: 49.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, because next year's my, this January's my big one.
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  Speaker 3: Good job.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. Now we see you in your bikini
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  Speaker 2: and I'm going to tell you right now, in my confessional,
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  Speaker 2: they did this a lot back then. They don't do
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  Speaker 2: it so much anymore. They asked me a million different
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  Speaker 2: times to say, I'm jealous of Alexis because they wanted
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  Speaker 2: that bite when you took your cover up off and
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  Speaker 2: you got in the pool and your body was flawless.
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  Speaker 2: And I kept saying, I'm not saying that, guys, because
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  Speaker 2: I don't really feel that way. Like, yeah, she's beautiful,
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  Speaker 2: like all this. But I'm like, it's not something I
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  Speaker 2: would say. So they cut together and you could hear
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  Speaker 2: where it's cut a line where it said, I've got
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  Speaker 2: jealousy issue with Alexis.
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  Speaker 5: I totally caught it back. But Tamara, back then I
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  Speaker 5: wasn't savvy enough to catch it. I thought it was,
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  Speaker 5: and now it's like, I was like, okay, that was
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  Speaker 5: completely spliced.
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  Speaker 7: Like, I mean, it's funny.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Um, Sophia, do you, what do you take away? What did,
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  Speaker 2: when you watched it, what is, what was it like
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  Speaker 2: for you?
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  Speaker 4: You know, McKenna, it's funny. Cause same for me. I
• 12:01
  Speaker 4: haven't seen like any housewives at all. None of it.
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  Speaker 4: I don't watch it. I've never watched it. I've only
• 12:06
  Speaker 4: seen little bits and pieces on like social media. So
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  Speaker 4: like actually sitting down and watching an episode was very like,
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  Speaker 4: especially because it was my old house I grew up
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  Speaker 4: in and it was like, my dad was there and like,
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  Speaker 4: it's just so bizarre to see it now. But it,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I think looking back through like a 2020s lens,
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  Speaker 4: you can definitely see like the parts of it that
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  Speaker 4: are very two thousands, whether it's like the eating part
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  Speaker 4: or like the edited part where it's like, I'm jealous
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  Speaker 4: of Alexis, you know, at the time everyone was like,
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  Speaker 4: this is crazy. Like, Oh my God. And now you
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  Speaker 4: look back and you're like, okay, come on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Can I ask you guys something, though?
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  Speaker 5: What did you think about how, Tamara, our voices were
• 12:47
  Speaker 5: so high.
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  Speaker 1: Is that because of the film technology back then?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think gravity is even affecting our voices at
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  Speaker 2: this time in our lives.
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  Speaker 7: Well, we're both almost 50 and over, so okay.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm at the end of the 50s, so throw
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  Speaker 2: that out there.
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  Speaker 7: I know, but I'm almost 50 and over, but yeah.
• 13:07
  Speaker 2: McKenna, you're at college right now.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I'm in my apartment right now.
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  Speaker 2: Are you in a dorm or apartment?
• 13:13
  Speaker 4: I have an apartment.
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: So I'm living with three other girls and we're all
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: in different bedrooms, but we have like a living room, kitchen.
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  Speaker 3: It's all in one room, but yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Two shared bathrooms.
• 13:23
  Speaker 7: They get two to a bathroom, which is better.
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: It's really nice, honestly.
• 13:26
  Speaker 4: Better than a dorms.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's get into the mother-daughter questions. So if I
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  Speaker 2: can start with that.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 13:34
  Speaker 4: McKenna, how are you liking being at college?
• 13:37
  Speaker 3: I love it here.
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: We've been doing like camping trips and Just hanging out
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: with my friends. I've met a ton of new people.
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: I'm actually having some people over for dinner tonight and
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: we're doing game night.
• 13:49
  Speaker 3: So just really fun. Great community.
• 13:50
  Speaker 4: That's awesome.
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: Alexis, I have a question for you. How has this
• 13:55
  Speaker 2: transition been for you, mama? Because I... I have a
• 13:58
  Speaker 2: lot to say about that.
• 14:00
  Speaker 5: Well, I'm sure I'm going to ask you the same thing,
• 14:02
  Speaker 5: but we were both lucky, Tamara, because we had, you
• 14:06
  Speaker 5: did too, but I still have one here.
• 14:08
  Speaker 7: So it's not like I all of a sudden was
• 14:09
  Speaker 7: an empty nester all at once.
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 14:11
  Speaker 7: That part's nice.
• 14:12
  Speaker 5: It's been kind of tough. I mean, I miss her,
• 14:14
  Speaker 5: but I know she's flourishing. We've been gone almost every
• 14:17
  Speaker 5: weekend since she left. She's only been gone, they started
• 14:19
  Speaker 5: late at the school, but she's only been gone about
• 14:22
  Speaker 5: a month, but we've been gone almost every weekend. So
• 14:24
  Speaker 5: that has helped because I'm like, it's a whirlwind around here, but-
• 14:27
  Speaker 5: I missed the heck out of her. I told her
• 14:29
  Speaker 5: I'm going there for parents weekend this weekend. And I said,
• 14:31
  Speaker 5: I'm probably not going to stop hugging you or touching you.
• 14:33
  Speaker 5: You're going to be, I'm going to hold your hand.
• 14:35
  Speaker 5: I'm going to grab your arm.
• 14:36
  Speaker 7: I'm going to hold you. I'm like, like I need
• 14:38
  Speaker 7: to get my, what about you?
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: You know, Sophia is not far away. She's 45 minutes away. So,
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: and Spencer was the same distance. They actually live in
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: the same apartment building. So it's really nice that it's
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: not the same apartment, but the same apartment building.
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: And it's nice that I know that Spencer's there to
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: kind of look after her, you know, I'm here to
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: look after each other, but it's actually probably more Sophia
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: looking Spencer, you know, right.
• 15:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: So, I mean, it's definitely been an adjustment more so
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: like at home, you know, like we still talk a lot,
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: but at home, it's just different around the house. Like
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: the first few months you get up and you like,
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: you know, I'd see her in the morning at the coffee,
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: you know, and things like that. And it's like, it's
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: a lot to adjust to, but we got a puppy.
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: That's kind of filled a little.
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: Bit of a void.
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: I got replaced by a puppy.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: Sophia, I completely.
• 15:34
  Speaker 5: Think your mom was going through like the empty nesting
• 15:37
  Speaker 5: thing when she came home with that dog.
• 15:39
  Speaker 7: I'm like, okay, that is, you, ask them.
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: They said they're getting a dog after they said they
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: were never getting a dog again.
• 15:45
  Speaker 5: I know. I was dying and I was laughing and
• 15:48
  Speaker 5: I'm like, she's empty nesting. I swear I cannot handle
• 15:51
  Speaker 5: another dog right now.
• 15:52
  Speaker 7: I'm not doing that.
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: Golly. Yeah, but I definitely miss, I also miss being
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: at home. I miss the moments in the morning when,
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: like she said, like I'm making coffee, my mom walks in,
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: she's like, what are you doing? What do you have
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: to do? I miss it. But I think also it
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: kind of like grows into this thing where you appreciate
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: the moments more when you're hanging out with your mom.
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: I mean, do you guys feel that?
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely. We haven't had that yet.
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: This weekend is going to be that. But we would,
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: Ken and I would dance around the kitchen the whole time. Like, oh, oops, sorry.
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: Bumping in in the refrigerator. And then, oh, we're both
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: at the coffee espresso machine at the same time. And
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: then we're, like, we would do that little kitchen dance.
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, somehow we'd always bump into each other before school.
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: We were always going to the dishwasher at the same
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: time instead of one of us going on the other side.
• 16:35
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 16:35
  Speaker 7: It was weird.
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: So I miss all of that. But, like, this is
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: our first time, guys, of seeing each other since she left.
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: So we– Oh, aw. But the good news is– oh, oh, oh.
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: The reason mom is happier than a heyday is Ken
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: is coming home for a week in October, a week
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: in November and a week in December. So I will,
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: it's been a hard month without her, but now I'm
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: going to get my fix. So it's good.
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: This is the longest stretch that we have to go.
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: So yeah. Do you guys talk often? How many times
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: do you guys talk a day?
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: We text a lot.
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: Sometimes three times a day. The most I'll go without
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: calling her is I'll let one day go by. If
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: 24 hours go by and I haven't heard her voice,
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: I'm legit like texting and calling that, you know, I
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: have to talk. So yeah.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: Alexis, out of all your kids, who do you talk
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: to the most on the phone?
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: Well, it's her because she's there. James lives only 10 minutes,
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: 15 minutes from my house. And I still text him
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: every day. Miles lives with me.
• 17:31
  Speaker 7: And then Ken has gone. So I call her.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: Can you give us an update on James? Because you
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: recently posted that he got married and Fire Academy. So
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: how's he doing?
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: He's doing amazing. He's in the running for a position.
• 17:45
  Speaker 7: It's very.
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: It's very competitive in the firefighting field here in Newport
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: Beach area. So we've been doing a lot of getting
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: that done. He's moved into an apartment. It's with his wife.
• 18:00
  Speaker 7: It's lovely.
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: They've decorated it so cute. humble beginnings, I will say.
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: And I think their whole.
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: Apartment is the size of my bedroom.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: It's very small.
• 18:11
  Speaker 7: My entire bedroom and closet is their entire apartment.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: And James is like a giant. He's like 6'5. So
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: then you walk in and he's taking up the whole room.
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: But he's so happy. They're both so happy. They're doing great.
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: So I'm very proud of him.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: Awesome.
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: He's working as an EMT right now until he gets,
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: and he's going, you know, he still had, he started
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: the Fire Academy journey with still a year and a
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: half of college left. So he's, finishing up some college
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: while he's waiting to get, you know, hired.
• 18:37
  Speaker 7: And then he'll be doing college and a firefighting at
• 18:39
  Speaker 7: the same time.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: Well, like, it sounds like, like his height, he's also
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: an overachiever. Like he's reaching for the stars for everything.
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: No, he's been like this since he was out of
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: my womb though.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: Good job, mama.
• 18:52
  Speaker 7: He has not stopped. No, it's him. It's not me.
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: He, he has been, you know, 10 when he was two,
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: he's always, he's always been very old soul.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: Old soul. For sure.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: That's how Spencer is. But like, he's a really old soul.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Like he's.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: He's like 80.
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: I call him grandpa.
• 19:13
  Speaker 7: Just instead of James, it's just grandpa. Okay, grandpa. Let's
• 19:16
  Speaker 7: go to lunch.
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: That's like you and Spencer.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: But it's interesting because I feel like I just have
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: such a great relationship with each kid, but it's so different.
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: And now seeing him grow up, I understand why parents say,
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: because I've always said I just miss them a little.
• 19:36
  Speaker 7: I want them back. I want all of them in
• 19:38
  Speaker 7: my house. But now seeing them as.
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: Adults, and I'm sure you see this, Tamara, because yours
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: are a little bit older than mine, but it just
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: feels good to see who they're becoming, the path they're taking.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah. don't know.
• 19:50
  Speaker 7: It's really cool.
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: Like I said, since I've moved out, me and my mom,
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: you know, when we talk, it is way more important
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: now because it's not as frequent as it used to be.
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: Do you think the distance has made your guys' conversations
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: more important? I don't know.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: Sometimes we talk about just dumb stuff.
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: I guess not more important, but more near to your heart.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely.
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: For me, for sure.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: It's not like we just see each other walk by
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: in the house. It's like, oh, what's up?
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: You have to make the intention to call them and
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: have a conversation. The intention to send a text.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: But when Kenna has actually a moment and I get
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: her like, we'll be on the phone for maybe two hours.
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: There was one day that we were literally on the
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: phone for two hours.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh.
• 20:39
  Speaker 7: And Johnny was like busy. He's like, what the hell?
• 20:43
  Speaker 7: And I'm like, well, I miss my kid. And he's
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: just like, well, we were supposed to be at lunch
• 20:47
  Speaker 7: 45 minutes ago. And I'm like, well, you could have
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: knocked on my head or something.
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: He's like, I didn't want to interrupt you guys.
• 20:52
  Speaker 7: It was so cute. And I'm just like, yeah. So
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: I'll stay on the phone with her as long as
• 20:57
  Speaker 7: I can have her when I don't have her.
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: McKenna, now that you're in college, what is one thing
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: you appreciate your mom did for you that you can't
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: do anymore that she's not there to do or something
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: you guys would do together? What is it?
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: I love her cooking.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: She's always been like the best cook. She cooks almost
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: every night when I was home. And like now it's
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: definitely a lot different because I'm falling on a budget
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: and like just trying to get by. So I just
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: meal prep and stuff. So I miss like.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: Coming home and having Like, a really intricate home-cooked meal.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: That's something Sophia doesn't miss.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: No.
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: Really?
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: I do not miss your cooking at all. I love you, Mom,
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: but you're not good at cooking. I mean, you're not
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: bad at cooking.
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: Sorry.
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: You're not bad at cooking, but, like, I do not
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: miss coming home and seeing the crock pot on the
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: counter and being like.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm like the cook that doesn't put like a
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: lot of seasoning and spices in it because I've always
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: had like a really bad stomach.
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: White mom core.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 21:58
  Speaker 7: That's your mom's tummy though.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's my tummy. But Sophia has a very strange palate.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: Like she likes.
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: Oh my God.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: She eats sardines.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: That's grandma Penelope. That's this one. She would put out
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: of the can.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: That's what she does.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: They are so good for you. They're so good for you.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: That's what my mom.
• 22:21
  Speaker 7: And that's exactly what my mom would say.
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: It's true. They're so good for you. There's so many
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: like Omega somethings in them and they're good.
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: There's something.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: They taste good.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: It's easy.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: They're fishy.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: You guys will get on my wavelength one day.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: And you try to push them on your boyfriend too. Yes.
• 22:42
  Speaker 7: They have to have the same bad breath.
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: Oh, exactly.
• 22:45
  Speaker 7: He's got to have it.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: That's a good point.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: He's got to have the pickled onions, the sardines, the kimchi.
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: If you take a bite of garlic. My gut microbiome
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: is very well developed.
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, she's got it.
• 22:57
  Speaker 7: Your flora is perfect.
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: Yep, exactly.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I don't like that stuff. And one
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: of the things I always thought about when she's eating
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: all this stuff, I'm like, oh, God, what does her
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: breath smell like? And I'm like, so you're just like
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: getting him to eat all the same shit.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he doesn't mind, I think.
• 23:13
  Speaker 7: Like, have you guys ever noticed a truffle?
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: Like I'm not a big truffle girl, but I've noticed
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: when you take one bite, it stays with you for
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: like a day.
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: Yeah. Like I will force.
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: John to have a, if I accidentally have a bite
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: and I'm like, Oh, baby, try this.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: And then I'm.
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: Like, fun fact. If you eat anything super strong, like
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: garlic or anything, and it stays on your breath. If
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: you eat an apple, it'll go away.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: What?
• 23:34
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: This girl knows a lot about everything. Like she knows
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: a little bit about everything. Like it's just like the
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: weirdest stuff.
• 23:42
  Speaker 7: I'm like, she's like, okay, a jeopardy you'd win.
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: I just love doing research and I love just going
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: on social media.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: McKenna, is your mom a cool mom? And when it,
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: how about dating?
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: Like, Answer this honestly, Kenna, because I didn't ask you
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: a question.
• 23:59
  Speaker 7: I want you to be honest. You can say no.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Is she the kind of mom that you talk about dating,
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: you tell her everything?
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: Well, I don't tell her everything.
• 24:10
  Speaker 7: Your Christmas stocking is at stake right now, girlfriend.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: Okay, well, I always thought when.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: I was younger, I was like, she's such a helicopter mom.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: She's overly involved. But I think that the older I get,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: the dynamic changes and.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: She's definitely a cool mom.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: She's, she tries to be hip and cool moms don't
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: say hip, but she says hip.
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: She tries.
• 24:34
  Speaker 7: Did you hear that girl?
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: She tries.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Before we get into the family and questions about that,
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: how do you respond to backlash that your mom has
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: gotten on the show? Like it hasn't been easy for
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: her the past few years. She came back for one
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: season and then she was on a recent episode and
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: it's just like, How do you get... Do you read
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: this stuff? Do you get protective?
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: Does it.
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: Well, I like follow her Instagram and stuff.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: And I think the main thing was season 18 that
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: she was on recently was really hard to see because
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: it's just like mean girls and just talking crap behind
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: each other's backs.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: And I know she doesn't stand for that.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: And I feel like it kind of brings out the
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: worst side of a person to be on a show
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: like that.
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: But.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Now, I mean, when I was younger, I didn't get
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: any backlash from it because I, I don't know, I
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: didn't even really know what Housewives was.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: And now it's just funny when my friends are like, oh,
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: your mom's a housewife? Like, that's so funny.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: I don't, because she's not, she's on like three seasons,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: you know, so she doesn't, she did get recognized on
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: move-in day though.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: That was really funny.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: Oh, really?
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: By the girls in the apartment across from me. And
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: the girl was like, um, is.
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: Your mom Alexis Bellino?
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: She's like, can I say hi? And then she came out.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: I was like, this hasn't happened in a while.
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: How do you feel when your mom gets recognized and
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: you're there?
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: I feel like it's just kind of funny. I just
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: laugh at it because it's just like, I don't know.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: She's just my mom.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: But then I watched it today and I was like,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: she kind of was like baddie.
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: No, that's honestly so real. Like whenever people talk to
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: my mom, they're like, I'm a big fan.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: I'm a big fan.
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: I'm just like... but that's just my mom. Like, what
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: are we doing here guys? Like, but looking at the video,
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: I'm like, I guess she was kind of a big deal.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Whatever. Whatever.
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: Whatever.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: With my bleached short hair.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: Very bleached hair.
• 26:31
  Speaker 7: Tamara, our style. Oh my gosh.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: You were fine.
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: It's iconic. No, I was. I love it.
• 26:38
  Speaker 7: You see my jorts, my skin.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: No, the jorts are coming back.
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: The jorts are coming back.
• 26:43
  Speaker 7: It looked good.
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: I'm like, okay, can I, I'm glad you thought I
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: was a baddie.
• 26:47
  Speaker 7: Cause your mom needed a little fashion help back then.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: You fit in the trend back then.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: Let's get into the family portion here, a little section.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: And we have a few questions for you.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: McKenna, what is it like being a twin?
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: I love being a twin.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: It's like my favorite thing to talk about because I
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: have a tattoo and it says one half.
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: That's my writing. That's my writing.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: It's in my mom's writing.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: And so people, especially now that like I don't live
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: with Miles, people are like, what's your tattoo for?
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: And no one knows him. And I'm like, I actually
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: have a twin. And then we're polar opposite.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: So I think that it's so funny when we go
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: out back home, he's wearing like all black, like big piercings,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: like spikes.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: And I'm like a little like beach girl. I'm like,
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: I wonder what people think about us, but we're so close.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Like our personalities are the same. And I don't know,
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: being a twin has always been like my favorite thing.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Oh, not always.
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: Not always.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: Not when I was like eight.
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: And they hated having the same birthday. And it was like,
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: I went through this like two or three years stint
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: where it was like, but mom, we have to share
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: the same cake. So then I had to start buying
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: two gourmet cakes. And I'm like, oh my gosh.
• 27:57
  Speaker 7: They're like, why do we always have to share the birthday?
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: I'm like, well, someone can have it Friday and someone
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: can have it Saturday or whatever it was.
• 28:01
  Speaker 7: You know, I'm like.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 28:03
  Speaker 7: It hasn't always been that way, but they are best.
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: Best friends.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: Well, since you showed your tattoo, I wasn't, I didn't
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: know about that, but I'm going to throw this in here.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: Sophia has gotten several tattoos.
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: I can see 18. Um, how did your mom or
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: dad deal with tattoos?
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: Well, my mom knew that this is going to happen.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: We got on our 18th birthday. Um, they're actually two
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: separate ones. I don't, she doesn't like the other one, but, um,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: the one half too.
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: I mean, why the one half.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: Is in her handwriting. Um, So she loved it and
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: it was really small. And then my dad didn't.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: I mean, James kind of broke the barrier since he's
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: older and he got tattoos first. So he kind of
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: like took the brunt of the lecture from my dad.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: Do all you guys, do Miles have tattoos as well?
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: Yes. I have the least out of all of us.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: Miles has a ton of tattoos.
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: I have the least.
• 28:50
  Speaker 7: I think I have the least.
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: I mean, out of the kids.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: But and then I got the other one in Colorado
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: with my friend's.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: And she didn't really like that one, but.
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: What is the other one?
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: It's just.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: It's literally on here.
• 29:02
  Speaker 7: The leaf under... The vine under.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: Oh!
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: But that's so sweet.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: It's just leaves. But.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: I think it's pretty.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: Thank you. Both of you guys went through very public
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: divorces with your parents because we, you know, we were
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: public figures and a lot was talked about. And how
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: did you deal with that, McKenna?
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: And.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: How did you, Alexis, navigate introducing a new male figure
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: into your kids' lives?
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: Well, for me, I don't know.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Like when I was growing up, it was never really
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: like the celebrity portion. of it was never really that
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: affecting to me.
• 29:42
  Speaker 7: We kept the kids very private from it. We didn't
• 29:44
  Speaker 7: talk about any of it. And they were only 10.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: You were young.
• 29:48
  Speaker 7: Probably 11 or 12.
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: But the divorce was like, I feel like to me,
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: the divorce and then my mom being on house, I
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: was like two separate things. They don't really overlap.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: But I think like, Now looking back, it's kind of
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: crazy to see like all these articles about my dad
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: and stuff, but I was too young to like realize what.
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: Any of it meant on online, you know?
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. And we didn't have social media until like
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: seventh or eighth grade. I didn't have Instagram and Snapchat
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: till high school. So I didn't really like know what
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: was going on.
• 30:19
  Speaker 7: I actually did that on purpose.
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: And the only reason I even gave them a phone
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: was because they were, I was, they were in a
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: different household and I was like, I need to be
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: able to get ahold of the kids. And, and, So
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: I gave them a cell phone before I even wanted to,
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: but I did keep social media out of their life
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: on purpose because of our life, Tamara.
• 30:36
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Well, we both have moved on. We both are happily
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: married now.
• 30:42
  Speaker 7: And you asked about how I brought about John.
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: So the funny thing about John, well, Drew, I didn't
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: bring up my fiance before. I didn't bring around until
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: we knew we were going to.
• 30:52
  Speaker 7: Take the next step. And then, so that was a few,
• 30:55
  Speaker 7: that was a while longer.
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: But then John, what happened is things were starting to
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: come out in the media, the press about it. And
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: so then my kids were like, why are we hearing
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: about him and we don't meet him? Like I want,
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: what's the deal? And so then I'm like, okay, well, okay,
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: we're going to do it. So that one I brought
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: around a little too soon for what.
• 31:10
  Speaker 7: I would have chosen. But the, you know, I was
• 31:13
  Speaker 7: out of my, I don't.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Think so because we were older and like, we, we've
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: already been introduced to a guy and to my dad,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: like had girlfriends. So it didn't really matter. I think that,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Like once you meet the first guy, it's like, well,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: my parents are going to start dating again, you know? Yeah.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 31:30
  Speaker 7: Good point.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: I mean, I can't even imagine as a parent being
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: in that situation because it's kind of like there is
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: no right time. There is no easy time to bring
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: in a person, especially if you're a public figure, you know,
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: it's eventually going to come out.
• 31:43
  Speaker 7: Well, my whole role.
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: Once I divorced Jim, my whole rule was I'm not
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: inviting them around anyone unless I know that person's not
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: just going to be a boyfriend. If it's just a
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: boyfriend or someone I'm dating, it's going to be the
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: next step. So when Drew and I were talking and
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: we decided we were. I wasn't just going to have
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: a revolving door.
• 32:00
  Speaker 7: You know what I mean? I dated people before Drew.
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: I dated other people between Drew and John.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: Daniela.
• 32:08
  Speaker 7: Oh, you know what the kids would do, though? Oh,
• 32:09
  Speaker 7: I'd go in my car to talk because I didn't
• 32:11
  Speaker 7: want to hear them talking.
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: And they'd come in and open my car door and
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: be like, who's on the phone, mom?
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the first one she said was Daniela and lied
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: to us and said her friend was Daniela.
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: And guess what? It was a guy named Daniel.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. Well, now you're remarried and you just
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: celebrated your one year wedding anniversary.
• 32:30
  Speaker 6: What?
• 32:31
  Speaker 7: Yesterday, right?
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: Saturday.
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: Congrats.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:34
  Speaker 7: Thank you.
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: I'm glowing because we had two days away, like just
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: to just like chill. Like I literally kind of went
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: off the like I didn't do a ton of my phone.
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: I refuse to answer any emails or things that were important.
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: I'm like, I'm checking out for two days, guys.
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: Awesome.
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: Now you've blended your families together. McKenna, what is your
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: relationship with John?
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: John is.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: I think that it's very different when you're older because
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: he was in my life, but they never lived together.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: You didn't have to do the whole, oh, his kids
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: are my siblings now because they're all 25 to 30.
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: So it was a little.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Different, but John is just very much... I said this
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: at their wedding. He's very much the peacemaker of the household.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Our household has a lot of chaos sometimes, but he's
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: very steady and a voice of reason.
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: Miles gets along with him great.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: And I don't know, he's just like always there trying
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: to make other people feel better.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: But the transition hasn't been too hard at all.
• 33:38
  Speaker 7: Awesome.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: That's good. I love to hear that.
• 33:40
  Speaker 7: What about you, Sophia, with Eddie? Do you remember how–
• 33:43
  Speaker 7: that's been.
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: Long time ago.
• 33:46
  Speaker 7: But what was that like for you?
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: I feel like I remember it going pretty smoothly. Like,
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: I remember he came in– I think I was too
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: young to, like, really, like, comprehend a lot of stuff
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: that was happening at the time.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: You were, like, five.
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was, like, five years old. So I just remember, oh,
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: there's this cool guy that watches Looney Tunes with me laughing. And–
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: He's still, I guess. Yeah, he's still.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: But at different age, you went through different ups and
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: downs with Eddie as I think all the kids did.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: You saw him as some fun guy that played games
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: with you and you put stickers all over his face
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: and you wanted to paint his nails and you watched
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: Looney Tunes and all that kind of stuff. And then
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: it got to middle school. Then it was like.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: He became more of a disciplinary and it, then it
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: gets to a point where don't tell me what to do.
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: You're not my dad.
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: To be fair though, to be fair though, I was
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: like 14, 15. I would say that to everybody. I
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: was like, I know what's best. No one could tell
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: me what to do. And I was in middle school
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: and high school. So now looking back, like I can
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: see like, okay, you know, obviously.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: Is that what you're going to say?
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: You said it.
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: I didn't say that.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: I mean, the day that he went through the pantry
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: and took all the junk food, including your, what was it?
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: Crave or Cocoa Puffs?
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: I can't remember what it was. As a kid, I
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: loved sugar. I was so into sugar. And they had
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: a day where they went through our pantry and they
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: got rid of all of our junk food and they
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: got rid of the Oreos. It was the Oreos. And
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: I cried. I was probably like 10 years old or something, right?
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: I was like 10, 9.
• 35:22
  Speaker 7: And I cried.
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: I was like, about the Oreos, but you know what?
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: Looking back is not so bad.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: Well, now, you know, now they have a really good
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: relationship and I think even better now that Sophia has
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: a boyfriend and Sophia's boyfriend Nico is a lot of
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: similarities to Eddie. He is from, uh, he's Mexican. His
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: family's from Guadalajara, just like Eddie. He doesn't have, um,
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: his biological father and his life. So there's a lot like, wow.
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: It kind of gives me like a new perspective on things.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 35:57
  Speaker 7: When it comes to editing.
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely.
• 35:59
  Speaker 7: Growing up just does though, guys.
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: And I tell people this every day. I'm like, I'm
• 36:03
  Speaker 5: so excited for your adventure. You're going to make mistakes.
• 36:06
  Speaker 7: You're going to flub up.
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: You're going to learn a lot, but this is like
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: one of the best times of your life and the
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: most fun times of your life.
• 36:11
  Speaker 7: And you're going to learn and you're growing up.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: Let's get into Orange County Housewives. We have a few
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: questions for that. Then we're going to play a rapid fire.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: And then we're going to talk about a little bit.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: I wanted to give you the floor, Alexis, because in
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: the last couple episodes, it was at my Vena party.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: Sophia was there as well. But she didn't. I asked her,
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: did you see any of this going down? No, I
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: didn't see any of it. You know, you really gave
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: us the ratings that day. And we're going to get
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: into that. So I want to give you a little
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: bit of a platform to talk about it. But before that,
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: let's get into Orange County.
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah. McKenna, how is it having a housewife as a mom?
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: Has anything crazy happened? Anyone say anything to you at all?
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: It was more funny growing up because obviously the kids
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: didn't know about the show, but like people would like
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: come up to me and be like, my mom said
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: that she watches your mom on TV. And I was
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: in like sixth grade and I was like, yeah, that's
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: pretty cool.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: And then like we'd go on field trips and we'd
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: go to Legoland and people would take pictures with her
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: when she was volunteering. And I was just like, it didn't,
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: I couldn't really grasp it. So I was just like, well,
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: I guess people like her.
• 37:22
  Speaker 5: And then I don't like her, but they do.
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: And even now it's, it's just like, it's just kind
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: of funny to me. It's just like people, like my
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: roommate walked in and she was like, what are you watching?
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: And I was like, Oh, I'm watching my mom.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: She's like no way that's so cool so then she
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: sat down and watched it with me and like I
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: think it's I haven't been like too much in that
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: world online because I just don't really go on like
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: social media that much but yeah like I definitely do
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: see some miles my twin sends me some funny tiktoks
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: of like edits of my mom in the 2000s dude.
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: I totally get you it's like such a niche situation
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: to be in but it's like when I look at
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: my mom it's just like my mom And then I'll
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: like be scrolling on TikTok and some, I recently saw
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: an edit of my mom and my dad to a
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: Lana Del Rey song.
• 38:11
  Speaker 7: What?
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: Yes. And it was ultraviolence. If you know, you know.
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: But I was like, whoa. Like that really caught me
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: off guard. I was like, oh my God. I want
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: to see it.
• 38:21
  Speaker 7: We should have had that be.
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: A part of this.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: Oh my God.
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: I'd have to find it. But I was like.
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: Pull up the receipts.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: So I wanted to know, McKenna, do you notice a
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: difference in your mom when she's on the show versus
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: not being on the show? Cause she had, she came
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: back for season 18. Do you notice like, is she
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: more stressed? Is it more attention in the house? Like
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: anything that you noticed?
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: I think that it was so unhealthy to be honest,
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: like even watching it back.
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: But when she was.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: On the show in season 18, she would just come
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: home and like, all her phone calls with Spencer and
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: whoever would be about housewives and who said what, and like,
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: what am I going to wear for the next event?
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: Blah, blah. Like it was very high stress for her.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: And like, she did a good job of not putting
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: that onto us, but I could definitely see a difference
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: in just even her like happiness level from being on
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: the show versus not.
• 39:21
  Speaker 5: It's a full-time job. Yeah.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: I mean, it definitely, our kids are affected by it
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: as much as we don't want to bring the kids
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: into it or it's just like you just end up
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: talking about it it's your.
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: Life 24 7 yeah yeah.
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: The thing with like reality tv and any entertainment job
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: is there's no clocking out of it. Like a normal job,
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: you know, you clock out of it as soon as
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: the clock hits whatever time, you know, five.
• 39:47
  Speaker 7: But not answer your phone. Just like, nope, you can
• 39:49
  Speaker 7: take that work call.
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: Tomorrow at nine.
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: Exactly. But when you're in entertainment, I think people don't
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: realize like it doesn't just stop once you're done filming.
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: Like it continues and continues and continues 24 seven. And
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: it could be a big toll on people.
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: I think Kenna probably doesn't know, understand this or know this,
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: but for me, the stress, the majority of the stress
• 40:07
  Speaker 5: really happened once I saw what was actually shown, like
• 40:12
  Speaker 5: the portrayal of, I think that is when my stress
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: level hit. I mean, I was crying a ton. And
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: I'd just been crying after my mom died. So they're
• 40:20
  Speaker 5: just kind of like, okay, now his mom ever stopped
• 40:23
  Speaker 5: being a basket case, you know, but.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: Well, even before the episode aired, it's just like, you
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: don't know what the editors are going to put in,
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: what are they going to splice and like how they're
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: going to portray you.
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: And I think you were also worried about that.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Would you ever return full time, Alexis?
• 40:41
  Speaker 7: Well, I have the answers. My team has told me
• 40:44
  Speaker 7: to say, and.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: My answer is no.
• 40:48
  Speaker 7: I'm just going to plead the fifth on that.
• 40:50
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: Fair enough.
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: Fair enough.
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Let's get into season 20. You know, season 20
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: was about celebrating 20 years of Housewives. Orange County has
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: been on for 20 years. And I invited you to
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: my Vena party.
• 41:11
  Speaker 7: As you should have.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: So I just want to.
• 41:14
  Speaker 7: You hadn't invited me.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: I want to start out by saying this. I went
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: to lunch with you prior to the party, and we
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: talked a little bit. And there was no, how do
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: you feel about this? We're not talking about Shannon. We're
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: not having engagement there at all because it's just too hard.
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: The last time you had seen the girls was at
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: the reunion, and it wasn't good. So I know that
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: you had a ton of anxiety going in. You told
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: me I'm only going for you. I don't really want
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: to be miked. I just want to go and have
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: a good time. Now, when you show up, there's a
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: press line. Production is holding you there, right? And Heather
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: says you gave her a look. I have said this
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: a million times. I never saw a look. But can
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: you just explain in your words, because people are going,
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: why did she react like that? What was going on?
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: Just like, explain what was going on in your head
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: and then what happened there.
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: Well, I'll preface it by, I definitely overreacted. I mean,
• 42:22
  Speaker 5: we can all see that we could all see. I was,
• 42:24
  Speaker 5: it was, it was like an instantaneous reaction and I'm
• 42:27
  Speaker 5: not super volatile or reactive to.
• 42:30
  Speaker 7: A lot of things.
• 42:30
  Speaker 5: I'm not, but this one, because of the fact that
• 42:34
  Speaker 5: I didn't really want to go, you had asked me
• 42:37
  Speaker 5: and I said back and I went back and forth
• 42:39
  Speaker 5: and you were just like, come do it for me.
• 42:41
  Speaker 5: I said, you know, I had to go to lunch
• 42:42
  Speaker 5: with you to get you to go.
• 42:43
  Speaker 7: Well, yeah, I bribed you a burrito. Yeah. So, so I,
• 42:50
  Speaker 7: I don't know.
• 42:50
  Speaker 5: I was just, and even in the car, I kept
• 42:53
  Speaker 5: telling John, my stomach is in knots. And I think
• 42:55
  Speaker 5: it was my gut saying, be prepared. And so then
• 42:58
  Speaker 5: when I didn't Mike, well, first of all, the thing
• 43:01
  Speaker 5: that happened, which is kind of like, I understand why
• 43:03
  Speaker 5: the audience is kind of like, why did she, why
• 43:06
  Speaker 5: did John wave?
• 43:06
  Speaker 7: Why is she doing that? And then why does she
• 43:08
  Speaker 7: like blow kisses?
• 43:09
  Speaker 5: So what happened is we're walking up to the press
• 43:11
  Speaker 5: line and I'm getting ready to walk through to the
• 43:12
  Speaker 5: next thing to come say hi to you guys.
• 43:13
  Speaker 7: I saw you and Heather. I'm coming over to walk.
• 43:15
  Speaker 5: And then behind the camera, they were like, no, no, no,
• 43:17
  Speaker 5: you're on holding. And they mouthed that to me.
• 43:20
  Speaker 7: And I go, oh, okay. So that's when you see
• 43:22
  Speaker 7: me kind of back up like that.
• 43:23
  Speaker 5: And then once I was regrouped and I'm like, okay,
• 43:25
  Speaker 5: so we're going to be here for a few minutes.
• 43:28
  Speaker 5: And you and Heather were finishing something up. And that's
• 43:31
  Speaker 5: when I was just like, okay, I was trying to
• 43:32
  Speaker 5: get your attention.
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: Hi.
• 43:33
  Speaker 5: And then we proceeded to the next one. And by
• 43:37
  Speaker 5: the time I get to the second holding spot is
• 43:39
  Speaker 5: when you came out and said, Heather thinks you gave
• 43:42
  Speaker 5: her a dirty look. And at that point, I was
• 43:45
  Speaker 5: already nervous. I already had a feeling that it was,
• 43:47
  Speaker 5: I didn't want to, everyone thinks I made this moment
• 43:50
  Speaker 5: about me. The whole point is I didn't even want
• 43:52
  Speaker 5: to mic up. I didn't want to be a moment
• 43:54
  Speaker 5: at all. So then when you come to me and say,
• 43:56
  Speaker 5: you know, Heather thinks you gave her a dirty look
• 43:59
  Speaker 5: in my mind.
• 44:00
  Speaker 7: I'm like, here we go.
• 44:01
  Speaker 5: I'm being used as a plot. I'm being used to,
• 44:03
  Speaker 5: you know, as something. And keep in mind what happened
• 44:06
  Speaker 5: to me season 18, Tamara. I'm still living in that.
• 44:10
  Speaker 5: So probably a little PTSD there. And also just the,
• 44:14
  Speaker 5: also my nerves just, I should have not just gone.
• 44:16
  Speaker 7: And I've taken that accountability. I've said that in several interviews.
• 44:19
  Speaker 5: I should have just stuck to my gut and known
• 44:21
  Speaker 5: I wasn't strong enough to be there and be confronted.
• 44:25
  Speaker 7: I did not want to be confronted.
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: I didn't want to be the center of anyone's drama.
• 44:29
  Speaker 5: And I definitely knew that Shannon was going to talk
• 44:31
  Speaker 5: under her breath about me.
• 44:32
  Speaker 7: So I was just like, I didn't want to even
• 44:34
  Speaker 7: have to deal with any of that.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: You know?
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: Well, you did a good job. Like you didn't, Shannon
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: even came for you. You didn't say anything. You stayed
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: clear of that. Now, John walks past the table and
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: he goes gross like that. And I instantly, I thought,
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: are you talking about Shannon? And I know that we
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: went to dinner recently and he was so worried that
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: that was going to air because he thought, oh God,
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: people are going to think I was saying that about her.
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: I wasn't. By the way, guys, we had a full
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: spread of food in the kitchen and we had a
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: munchie table. and there was Cheetos on the munchie table
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: and somebody grabbed it. We were just eating it. It
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: was gross, but whatever.
• 45:05
  Speaker 5: I love Cheeto.
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: Do you have any regrets from that? Can you move
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: forward with Heather? Do you think you can move forward? I,
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: I regret overreacting for sure. I mean, anyone would, I
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: didn't want to cry. I don't, I don't want to
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: cry on camera. I mean, no, it's not ever a
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: good look, but, um, I, yeah, so I regret that.
• 45:24
  Speaker 7: I regret that.
• 45:24
  Speaker 5: I regret going, honestly. But I did want to be
• 45:27
  Speaker 5: there for you. But I mean, I would hope Heather
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: and I can, but I think it takes, I think
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: it takes accountability and saying you're sorry for the things
• 45:36
  Speaker 5: that we've both done.
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: So somebody from the past popped onto social media. It
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: was Peggy Tanis, who was on the show for one season,
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: I believe. She recently commented about you at the Vena
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: party and said that you were acting thirsty. She also
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: said that she was invited and I did not invite her.
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: And I was the one that invited everybody. Wait, so you.
• 46:01
  Speaker 5: Did invite her on... Where was this post at?
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: She said production invited her. Production had nothing to do
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: with this party. I had the guest list. I'm the
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: one that invited. There's a few people that had me
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: blocked on social media, so I wasn't able to invite them.
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: And that was Lydia. And then there's no way I
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: would have invited Gretchen.
• 46:19
  Speaker 5: There's no way.
• 46:20
  Speaker 7: I could have texted Lydia for you.
• 46:22
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: I was just like so overwhelmed just putting the party
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: together and then taking off for Japan. But so she
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: said you were thirsty. And I'm like, coming from the
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: girl that just lied that said that I invited her
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: to the party?
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: No.
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: Not that I'm aware of.
• 46:37
  Speaker 7: My comment's just, who is this? Who are we talking about?
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: Well, let's get into a rapid fire game.
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: Ooh. Aha.
• 46:45
  Speaker 6: Oh, no.
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: Oh, no.
• 46:48
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: McKenna is answering about her mom.
• 46:51
  Speaker 7: I don't get to answer?
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 46:52
  Speaker 5: Wait, I'm ready.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: Nope.
• 46:54
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: So I'll read the first one. And this is McKenna
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: for you. My mom's favorite phrase is?
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: When you pop a baby out, then you'll know. It
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: always says that.
• 47:10
  Speaker 5: That's always when I'm mad at them or that they
• 47:12
  Speaker 5: don't understand.
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: When you're a mom, when you.
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: Pop a kid out, you'll get it.
• 47:17
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: That's funny.
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: Fair enough. All right, McKenna. The most embarrassing thing my
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: mom does is.
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know. She's just a loud person. Maybe
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: just being loud.
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: But also I kind of got that from her.
• 47:32
  Speaker 4: So.
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: Well, the next one is my mom is obsessed with what?
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: Lettuce.
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: Lettuce?
• 47:42
  Speaker 5: I love salad.
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: Literally, I love salad.
• 47:45
  Speaker 7: I'll take a salad over anything every day.
• 47:47
  Speaker 5: If I have to pick one thing, I'm not going
• 47:49
  Speaker 5: to eat pizza, although I want that once a month,
• 47:51
  Speaker 5: but I'm going to eat a salad.
• 47:51
  Speaker 7: I want a salad.
• 47:53
  Speaker 4: Loki valid, honestly. I'm a rabbit.
• 47:56
  Speaker 7: My mom always called me a rabbit.
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: I'm a rabbit.
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: You guys would get along.
• 47:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 48:01
  Speaker 7: I'll take you out for our next salad.
• 48:03
  Speaker 4: How's that? Hell yeah, I'm so down. The next one is,
• 48:06
  Speaker 4: my mom's biggest pet peeve is.
• 48:10
  Speaker 7: You should know.
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: I need to think about this. Wait, I actually don't know.
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: I have two.
• 48:15
  Speaker 5: And yes, when I say them, you're going to fall
• 48:17
  Speaker 5: off your chair.
• 48:18
  Speaker 7: Wasting food. Wasting food.
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 48:22
  Speaker 7: And road rage.
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: Really road rage is on there I don't know oh
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: road rage is my I don't really jive with you
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: that much though.
• 48:29
  Speaker 5: I don't like road rage I don't like people that
• 48:31
  Speaker 5: get all mad and flip you off I'm just like.
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: Hi sorry definitely wasting food though she'll.
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: Have like a million containers of food in the freezer
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: that we have we don't know what they are they're
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: just mystery containers by.
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: The way they probably never get eaten right you just
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: don't ever get.
• 48:44
  Speaker 5: Eaten There are starving people and I hate wasting food.
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: So I will take- So you're just going to take
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: up room in your freezer?
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: So it's going to take up a little bit of
• 48:53
  Speaker 4: room and then get thrown away.
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: Dude, if you reach back into the freezer, then it
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: makes her feel better.
• 48:58
  Speaker 5: No, because sometimes when I'm starving and I have like
• 49:00
  Speaker 5: two minutes before my next meeting, I'll throw it in
• 49:02
  Speaker 5: the microwave and then I'll send some with James or
• 49:04
  Speaker 5: I'll be like, James, there's a steak in there.
• 49:05
  Speaker 7: You can just, and that third Tupperware, just warm that up.
• 49:08
  Speaker 4: I do.
• 49:09
  Speaker 7: Some of them do get eaten. It works out.
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: My mom's biggest red flag is?
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: Oh, it's red flag.
• 49:19
  Speaker 7: I don't even know the answer to that.
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: Wait, I feel like it's good that I can't really
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: answer this.
• 49:27
  Speaker 5: No, what is my biggest red flag about people where
• 49:29
  Speaker 5: I'm like, Ooh, I don't like that about them.
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: Oh, about someone else. Probably just like aggression or like violence.
• 49:36
  Speaker 4: That's a good one.
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. All right.
• 49:39
  Speaker 4: My mom's guilty pleasure is.
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: Probably pizza. Pizza once a month.
• 49:49
  Speaker 4: Only once a month though.
• 49:50
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 49:52
  Speaker 5: No, now it's like three, twice a week because John's
• 49:55
  Speaker 5: onto this new pizza. He can take it. What do
• 49:59
  Speaker 5: you think?
• 50:00
  Speaker 7: We're going there tonight to get pizza again. Cause he's
• 50:02
  Speaker 7: on this pizza. Every has to have it.
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: We went to truly pizza a couple of weeks ago.
• 50:07
  Speaker 4: It was so good.
• 50:08
  Speaker 5: Was it a week ago?
• 50:10
  Speaker 4: I can't remember.
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: My mom, the one thing my mom spends way too
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: much money on is.
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: Just like getting her makeup done. She gets her makeup
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: done so much. Jen is just, she's living her life.
• 50:30
  Speaker 7: She didn't do it today.
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: I did.
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: Oh, wow.
• 50:33
  Speaker 4: All right. This next question, there is a right answer.
• 50:37
  Speaker 4: My mom's favorite housewife of all time is Tamara, hopefully.
• 50:42
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: My mom's biggest fear is?
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: I think losing one of us, probably. Yeah.
• 50:53
  Speaker 4: Very mom fear.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 50:55
  Speaker 4: We got one more, guys. My mom deserves an award for?
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: For being a mom.
• 51:03
  Speaker 5: For being your mom.
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: She's the best mom. She makes being a mom her
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: whole life.
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: Well, I will say to a lot of people out there,
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: anybody that's listening, Alexis, you have the biggest heart of
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: anybody I know. And a lot of people want to
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: judge you off of social media. And I don't know
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: if you saw this, but on this week's episode, I
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: say Alexis is the kindest person I know. if Shannon
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: needed her, called her and needed her right now, Alexis
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: would be there. So that might be a stretch, but okay.
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: Other than that, I'm going to say anybody that would
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: call you. Yeah. Take the call. Anybody that would call
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: you and say they needed help. I would, you would
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: be there.
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: I would.
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: She's very selfless for sure.
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: She is. And I think she's a very, you're a
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: very godly person as well. So you're always going to do,
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: you know, those nice sweet over the top things that
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: most people would be like, screw that. I ain't doing that.
• 52:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah. But you guys, thank you so much for
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: being this month's mom and daughter duo. It was so
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: great to see you, McKenna, to hear what you're up to.
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: And we only wish big, giant, amazing things for your future.
• 52:17
  Speaker 4: Yes, go back to school and congrats.
• 52:19
  Speaker 7: And I get to see you in a couple of days.
• 52:24
  Speaker 4: Thank you, guys.
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: You're so welcome. And thank you for taking the time.
• 52:28
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• 52:30
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• 52:41
  Speaker 5: Bye.
• 52:42
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: Well, that was amazing. That was great.
• 52:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: You did a good job, Sophia.
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 52:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 52:49
  Speaker 4: I'm learning.
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: So I have a couple more call. Well, I contacted
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: a couple housewives and daughter duos that are willing to
• 53:00
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• 53:02
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• 53:09
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• 53:11
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