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- 1:00Speaker 1: Yes, So on today's episode of Reality with the King,
- 1:05Speaker 1: we have to recap the season premiere of the Real
- 1:10Speaker 1: Housewife of Salt Lake City. I want to be able
- 1:15Speaker 1: to really talk about this show in a way that
- 1:21Speaker 1: doesn't recap scene by scene, because when I do recaps
- 1:25Speaker 1: of shows, I don't want to go through scene by scene.
- 1:28Speaker 1: You guys seen it. We ain't got to do that.
- 1:31Speaker 1: I want to have an overall discussion about this season premiere. Okay,
- 1:37Speaker 1: on a scale of one to ten, drum roll, please,
- 1:46Speaker 1: I give the premiere a seven, and hear me out.
- 1:49Speaker 1: It's not that it was a bad premiere, because it wasn't.
- 1:53Speaker 1: I love the new girl Bronwin. I think she's a star.
- 1:58Speaker 1: She's beautiful, fashionable. We'll get into her a little bit later.
- 2:03Speaker 1: But you know, the thing for me, rain Drops is
- 2:05Speaker 1: the fact that I didn't feel anything. I watched it
- 2:10Speaker 1: and I was like, Okay, it was a premiere that
- 2:17Speaker 1: had these girls argue at a dinner table.
- 2:20Speaker 2: I've seen that before. Do you know what I mean? Like,
- 2:22Speaker 2: I okay, they had a dinner party and they argue
- 2:25Speaker 2: at a dinner party. Okay, got it?
- 2:28Speaker 1: And the words of Miranda Priestley from A Devil's Re
- 2:33Speaker 1: a Praduct, it's not necessarily groundbreaking. And for me, I'm
- 2:40Speaker 1: gonna give y'all my real opinion as if I don't
- 2:44Speaker 1: do that anyway. But for me, I felt like all
- 2:49Speaker 1: the ladies were being performative. Do not get me started
- 2:53Speaker 1: a hurricane ang and her scroll who the fuck? Ooh
- 2:58Speaker 1: excuse me, I'm sorry, listen. I know some of you
- 3:02Speaker 1: guys are Christians or even Mormons.
- 3:05Speaker 2: So I apologize, Hey, Hodey, I'm the audience.
- 3:09Speaker 1: I apologize for Cussy because listen, I'm trying to do better.
- 3:14Speaker 1: But who in the world breaks a scroll to a
- 3:19Speaker 1: party that's not real?
- 3:23Speaker 2: That's not real like it's performative.
- 3:28Speaker 1: Listen, I'm gonna use the premiere of the Real Housewives
- 3:32Speaker 1: of Salt Lake City to have a real discussion about
- 3:36Speaker 1: the state of reality television and how people are doing
- 3:39Speaker 1: things for moments instead of being the moment. I like
- 3:43Speaker 1: Hurricane Angie. When Tamra Judge, who's a friend of mine,
- 3:48Speaker 1: her and Teddy another friend of mine, on their podcast,
- 3:52Speaker 1: they called me because Cynthia Bailey, another friend of mine,
- 3:55Speaker 1: justin Key Key and Angie happened to be with them
- 3:59Speaker 1: and Aedgie, Edgie is aware of who I am at
- 4:05Speaker 1: my podcast, she said, oh god, it's Carlos Cake. I've
- 4:09Speaker 1: heard all the things you have to say about the show,
- 4:12Speaker 1: and I'm like, Aedgie, I like you, but you are
- 4:15Speaker 1: Hurricane Angie. You come in hot, you breathe into the scene,
- 4:19Speaker 1: and you go with the windblows. That's why I call
- 4:22Speaker 1: her Hurricane Angie. You know, the weather man says a forecast.
- 4:27Speaker 1: It's desperate and to bring a scroll inside of your
- 4:31Speaker 1: hermez bag was just late and tired. Four o'clock in
- 4:37Speaker 1: the morning, late and tired. It's looking for a moment
- 4:42Speaker 1: instead of being the moment. And that's the problem that
- 4:45Speaker 1: I have with the premiere. Let's have a real conversation.
- 4:49Speaker 1: All of the girls said to themselves and to each other,
- 4:53Speaker 1: we have to show the network, the producers, and the
- 4:57Speaker 1: world that we do not need Monica Garcia for the
- 5:01Speaker 1: show to be great. They all were performing like they
- 5:05Speaker 1: were at the halftime Super Bowl, Okay, rehearsing with Kendrick Lamar.
- 5:11Speaker 1: It was a rehearsal. It was Dance Moms. Where is
- 5:16Speaker 1: Abby Lee Miller when you need her? These ladies were performing.
- 5:20Speaker 1: The only one to me who was being themselves in
- 5:22Speaker 1: this premiere, and I'm being honest and.
- 5:24Speaker 2: I love all the girls was Mary.
- 5:27Speaker 1: Mary is herself like she shows up, she does her
- 5:31Speaker 1: one two's, and she keeps it moving.
- 5:32Speaker 2: I love Mary. Mary was great. It was nice to
- 5:35Speaker 2: see Mary.
- 5:36Speaker 1: To me, the rest of the girls were being performative
- 5:40Speaker 1: and they had to try hard to prove that they
- 5:43Speaker 1: do not need Monica Garcia. Monica Garcia was the elephant
- 5:47Speaker 1: in the room, okay, because it showed that they need
- 5:53Speaker 1: to prove that they're coming together.
- 5:58Speaker 2: To prevent her from being on the show. Show had
- 6:00Speaker 2: to work. Okay.
- 6:03Speaker 1: I did not want to watch last season's Salt Lake
- 6:07Speaker 1: City because the force multiplier Jen Shaw left the show.
- 6:12Speaker 2: Well, she didn't leave.
- 6:17Speaker 1: You know, she got handcuffed and you know, play guilty
- 6:20Speaker 1: and did some crime and now she's paying the time. Okay,
- 6:24Speaker 1: I'm just waiting for the Hulu you know, true crime series.
- 6:28Speaker 2: Okay, but I digress.
- 6:30Speaker 1: But everybody said to me, my rain drops and my friends, Okay,
- 6:34Speaker 1: you have to watch the Real House of Salt Lake City.
- 6:36Speaker 1: It's amazing, and they all said, this chick Monica is
- 6:39Speaker 1: bringing it. So I watched it last season and I
- 6:42Speaker 1: was so into it. And the reason why I was
- 6:45Speaker 1: so into last season after not even trying to watch
- 6:48Speaker 1: it is because I felt like, oh my gosh.
- 6:51Speaker 2: This is some real personal story.
- 6:53Speaker 1: It felt so real to me, and what Monica brought
- 6:57Speaker 1: to the show was so rich, and I felt like
- 7:02Speaker 1: all the ladies were being real because they really either
- 7:05Speaker 1: loved her or hated her. And listen, you don't have
- 7:10Speaker 1: to be a fan of Monica's to appreciate the fact
- 7:15Speaker 1: that she had all of these girls clock in. All
- 7:19Speaker 1: of these girls put in their time card, clocked in,
- 7:23Speaker 1: worked over time, got have time pay like they they
- 7:28Speaker 1: they got bonuses, do you know what I mean? Like
- 7:32Speaker 1: she allowed them to clock in. And Lisa Barlow's bestse's party,
- 7:39Speaker 1: although gorgeous, was not giving to me. It was predictable.
- 7:45Speaker 1: It was We're going to have her dinner party. We're
- 7:48Speaker 1: going to distract the audience by having this.
- 7:51Speaker 2: Amazing editing. The editing was amazing.
- 7:54Speaker 1: Shout out to the editor who had their hands onto
- 7:58Speaker 1: this episode. The editing of this show, the way it
- 8:02Speaker 1: opened up the flashbacks, it was now that was a
- 8:07Speaker 1: ten out of a ten. It was, in my opinion,
- 8:10Speaker 1: it was one of the best editing I've seen on
- 8:13Speaker 1: a premiere.
- 8:13Speaker 2: It was fantastic. Shot out to the editor.
- 8:17Speaker 1: The half time show performance left me less to be desired.
- 8:25Speaker 2: I cannot promise that I'm.
- 8:29Speaker 1: Going to stay tuned for the entire season because I
- 8:33Speaker 1: want to feel something. I want to feel it injected
- 8:37Speaker 1: in my veins. I want to feel the reality of
- 8:40Speaker 1: these women being themselves and showing up as themselves and
- 8:46Speaker 1: allowing us to appreciate their authenticity. Hurricane Angie. That had
- 8:53Speaker 1: to be the most cringe worthy moment I have ever
- 8:57Speaker 1: seen in the history of the Real Housewives franchise.
- 9:02Speaker 2: It was bad, stale, molded. No one does that in
- 9:07Speaker 2: real life.
- 9:08Speaker 1: Do you see Kathy Hilton having her Christmas party and
- 9:14Speaker 1: those women who can afford an ermez bag taking out
- 9:20Speaker 1: a scroll to read a girl that's not reality. First
- 9:25Speaker 1: of all, I can't believe that she did it. I
- 9:28Speaker 1: would have cut that scene out. I would have been like,
- 9:30Speaker 1: what are we doing here? It's not exciting, it's not real.
- 9:35Speaker 1: Kenya Icon legend More season five of the Real Housewives
- 9:40Speaker 1: of Atlanta showing up to Nini's Shoe Dazzle party dressed
- 9:45Speaker 1: up in a costume as Phedra. That's comedy, that's funny.
- 9:50Speaker 1: We're in on the joke, Like Kenya, was it being serious?
- 9:54Speaker 1: Kenya having the butt pads and the fishnet bathing suit
- 10:00Speaker 1: walking in with Miss Lawrence like that was funny. It
- 10:03Speaker 1: was comedy. It wasn't meant to be taken seriously. Showing
- 10:06Speaker 1: up with the scroll, it's just cringey. So that threw
- 10:10Speaker 1: me off. And then let me talk about something I
- 10:13Speaker 1: did like. I really like Bronwyn. I think she's a star.
- 10:18Speaker 1: She's a mixture between Mia Thornton on Potomac and Derete
- 10:23Speaker 1: first season Derete, Let's be very clear because Derit hasn't
- 10:28Speaker 1: dereted since her first season. Let's have that real conversation
- 10:32Speaker 1: another day. Bronwyn is a mixture of Deret's first season
- 10:37Speaker 1: on Belly Hills and Mia Thornton, who, by the way,
- 10:42Speaker 1: has become the face of Potomac, but we'll talk about
- 10:44Speaker 1: that later. Braunman as a star shot out to the
- 10:48Speaker 1: casting person who cast her. She's perfect, she's amazing, she's beautiful,
- 10:54Speaker 1: she's a kept wife, She's a star.
- 10:58Speaker 2: I would have love real talk.
- 11:00Speaker 1: I would have loved to invested in what her home
- 11:06Speaker 1: life was like in the first episode. Honestly, I would
- 11:10Speaker 1: have loved to see her at home. Let me see
- 11:12Speaker 1: the husband, let me see the stepchildren, let me see
- 11:16Speaker 1: the stepchild who is six months older than she is.
- 11:19Speaker 1: I want to see her family life. I want to
- 11:21Speaker 1: see her closet. I want to see her dynamic. I
- 11:24Speaker 1: want to see that. I don't care to see Whitney
- 11:28Speaker 1: arguing with Meredith and Lisa over a podcast interview. We
- 11:35Speaker 1: had nice things last season. There was not one filler
- 11:40Speaker 1: episode last season. We have real conversations, we had real receeats,
- 11:46Speaker 1: we had real moments, we have real arguments, we had
- 11:50Speaker 1: real shade. And now we are stuck with Hurricane Angie
- 11:54Speaker 1: giving props the same way drusep Dora brought Doggie treats
- 12:00Speaker 1: bringing props. Can you legend icon More is the queen
- 12:03Speaker 1: of props. Stop trying to make fetch happen.
- 12:08Speaker 2: Be yourself. So now I'm subjected to an argument.
- 12:13Speaker 1: Over bath bowls, and you stole my idea of the
- 12:18Speaker 1: bath bowl and I'm mad at you because of that.
- 12:22Speaker 1: And then Whitney's in the hot seat at the table,
- 12:26Speaker 1: Lisa Barlow gets up and screams at her in front
- 12:29Speaker 1: of her group of women. That was so performative as well,
- 12:34Speaker 1: because one thing, because I do watch the show, so
- 12:37Speaker 1: hear me out the real Lisa Barlow. She is so
- 12:41Speaker 1: put together and classy, and she's aware of her surroundings
- 12:48Speaker 1: when she's in a group setting outside of her cast.
- 12:51Speaker 1: That the real Lisa Barlow, who spent so much money
- 12:55Speaker 1: to make that dinner party look gorgeous, and in fact
- 12:58Speaker 1: it did be real Lisa Barlow would never allow herself
- 13:03Speaker 1: to get up at a dinner party of her own
- 13:07Speaker 1: event and argue with a woman across from her. She's
- 13:13Speaker 1: too put together and she's too conscious of her surroundings
- 13:18Speaker 1: and her brand. Now, if she was around the girls
- 13:20Speaker 1: on a cash trip, yes, but not that Lisa Barlow.
- 13:25Speaker 2: I fell in love with. I fell in love.
- 13:27Speaker 1: With Lisa Barlow because her face. Clark never declines. Lisa
- 13:31Speaker 1: Bralo's face is an American Express card. It is unlimited funds,
- 13:37Speaker 1: it gets charged back, you get points, You get to
- 13:40Speaker 1: charge that bitch to a trip to Pari. You know
- 13:44Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Like, the woman is stunning. Lisa Barlow
- 13:48Speaker 1: is so conscious of her image that when Jen Shaw
- 13:53Speaker 1: got pulled over by the FEDS while she was on
- 13:57Speaker 1: the Sprinter two seasons ago, and she whispered to her
- 14:02Speaker 1: brand manager.
- 14:04Speaker 2: I'm shaking. I'm literally shaking.
- 14:06Speaker 1: She made sure to like whisper because again she's very
- 14:09Speaker 1: conscious of her image.
- 14:11Speaker 2: So you guys know I'm not lying here.
- 14:14Speaker 1: So when Lisa Barlow gave the halftime show performance of
- 14:18Speaker 1: The Evening, I'm like, that's not who she is.
- 14:21Speaker 2: She would never do that.
- 14:23Speaker 1: The real Lisa Barlow would have taken Winny aside and say, hey,
- 14:27Speaker 1: can I talk to you for a second, because I'm
- 14:29Speaker 1: not gonna sit up here and argue in front of
- 14:31Speaker 1: all these rich women at my event and embarrass myself.
- 14:35Speaker 1: She would have had a one on one. So when
- 14:37Speaker 1: she's arguing to Whitney, I'm like, that's not the Leasta
- 14:41Speaker 1: I fell in love with. And you guys know I'm right.
- 14:44Speaker 1: I'll just give you a freaking example.
- 14:47Speaker 2: I didn't like that.
- 14:49Speaker 1: And then Angie, Angie, I really do like you, so
- 14:55Speaker 1: please don't get offended when I say this. Angie is
- 14:58Speaker 1: the poster child of I'm here to save my job.
- 15:03Speaker 1: And I loved Angie last season because I said this before.
- 15:08Speaker 1: To me, she was this animated cartoon character. You know
- 15:13Speaker 1: what I mean, Like, do y'all remember when she was
- 15:15Speaker 1: like running down like the hall when they went on
- 15:17Speaker 1: the cast trip and she had her glasses and her
- 15:20Speaker 1: heels and her bathing suit like I thought she was
- 15:24Speaker 1: so animated and authentic. And I feel like the problem
- 15:30Speaker 1: with the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. I feel
- 15:33Speaker 1: like nobody's authentic except Mary. I think Mary does what
- 15:37Speaker 1: she wants to do and because Mary has not changed
- 15:41Speaker 1: since season one. She says the most off color comments,
- 15:46Speaker 1: and she doesn't mind removing herself from a scene when
- 15:51Speaker 1: this new woman Britney came to sit between her and
- 15:55Speaker 1: Bronwin and called Bronwin's amazing, gorgeous fifteen thousand dollars heart
- 16:02Speaker 1: shaped shaw baby and cause it a costume. Then said
- 16:08Speaker 1: to marry you a hoarder, you know, like Mary said, bitch,
- 16:13Speaker 1: I'm out of here. And that's why we love her,
- 16:16Speaker 1: That's the reason why we see it for her. I
- 16:19Speaker 1: don't feel like the cast is being authentic anymore, and
- 16:25Speaker 1: that's the sad part. And I'm not certain that this
- 16:29Speaker 1: season can't survive with Almonica. I'm sorry. Let me tell
- 16:34Speaker 1: y'all something about reality TV one oh one. You always
- 16:38Speaker 1: need a force multiplier to bring out the best in
- 16:44Speaker 1: these women. Kyle Richards is a force multiplier because she's
- 16:50Speaker 1: able to get every woman activated and come out unscathed.
- 16:55Speaker 1: Kyle Richards knows that her job is to get all
- 17:02Speaker 1: of those women to be honest and real and make
- 17:07Speaker 1: sure that once they become uncomfortable, she comes in and
- 17:13Speaker 1: tries to make things right. That's who Kyle Richards is.
- 17:17Speaker 1: The other force multiplier is Tamra Judge, who's able to
- 17:22Speaker 1: poke and prod to get the best moments out of people. Okay,
- 17:27Speaker 1: there's not a force multiplier on the Real Housewives of
- 17:31Speaker 1: Salt Lake City. There's not a Queen Bee. To me,
- 17:34Speaker 1: I'm not sure who the face of this franchise is.
- 17:38Speaker 1: I strongly do not think it's Heather at all. If
- 17:43Speaker 1: I'm being very honest, I think Lisa Barlow had the
- 17:46Speaker 1: best chance of being the force multiplier because she's able
- 17:51Speaker 1: to be entertaining and seeing, and she's and she and
- 17:56Speaker 1: she's capable of asking the questions. I think Meredith has
- 18:03Speaker 1: an opportunity to be a force multiplier. She's another one
- 18:08Speaker 1: who is gorgeous, and she's funny, and I like watching her,
- 18:13Speaker 1: and I believe she also is able to be authentic
- 18:18Speaker 1: because I've seen it in the past. I do not
- 18:22Speaker 1: believe that Heather can't be authentic. Whitney can't be the
- 18:28Speaker 1: leader because they don't respect her. Mary ain't got time
- 18:34Speaker 1: to be there all the time, and Mary doesn't care
- 18:38Speaker 1: to clock in to get these girls to work. Mary
- 18:41Speaker 1: is like, I'm here to do my job, and when
- 18:43Speaker 1: I do it, I'm out of here right giving my
- 18:46Speaker 1: happy meal, my McDonald's cheeseburger with a small fries, a milkshake,
- 18:51Speaker 1: and a possible Sunday with nuts on it.
- 18:53Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
- 18:54Speaker 1: What Monica did last season that that show needed was
- 19:00Speaker 1: she made everybody work. And I thought that show could
- 19:06Speaker 1: not survive without Jenshaw. So when they cast Monica Garcia,
- 19:11Speaker 1: I gagged because I was like, wait a second, you
- 19:14Speaker 1: mean to tell me you have somebody arguably that can
- 19:19Speaker 1: hold her own and gave us personal story, personal story
- 19:24Speaker 1: with her mother, sleeping with her brother in law, like
- 19:28Speaker 1: being flawed, you know what I mean, Like that's what
- 19:31Speaker 1: we want to see. I don't care about a podcast
- 19:35Speaker 1: interview where she called you a villain. I don't care
- 19:39Speaker 1: about bath balls. And then when they all were like, well, Whitney,
- 19:43Speaker 1: you know you're always lying on people, blah blah blah,
- 19:46Speaker 1: and then they had like a montage on them like
- 19:48Speaker 1: coming out Whitney, and then Lisa's like you can leave. Girls.
- 19:51Speaker 2: She's like I'm gonna leave.
- 19:52Speaker 1: I'm gonna leave, and she walks out and it's like child,
- 19:57Speaker 1: I really did not care.
- 20:00Speaker 2: I want to hear from you guys.
- 20:01Speaker 1: Did y'all care did y'all care enough to want to
- 20:06Speaker 1: be invested in the rest of the season, because look,
- 20:10Speaker 1: this is what I'm gonna do. I'm going to watch
- 20:13Speaker 1: the next two episodes of this current season, Okay, so
- 20:19Speaker 1: that I can promise you I am going to watch
- 20:21Speaker 1: the next two episodes of this current season.
- 20:24Speaker 2: And if I don't see.
- 20:25Speaker 1: Any real authentic moments, if I don't really get a
- 20:28Speaker 1: chance to see braun Win's personal.
- 20:30Speaker 2: Story in her life and really see these.
- 20:35Speaker 1: Women not try to show Monica that they don't need her. Girls, guys,
- 20:40Speaker 1: and they I'm not sure. I'm I'm gonna stick with it.
- 20:46Speaker 1: And look, I could be the minority in this. A
- 20:48Speaker 1: lot of people could could say, don't I don't know,
- 20:51Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it was great. Yes, yes, honey, we
- 20:53Speaker 1: lived for it. Yes, And that's okay, that's what you want.
- 20:57Speaker 1: And maybe you're the audience that they're catering to.
- 21:00Speaker 2: The girls.
- 21:01Speaker 1: You know, this ain't it, baby, This ain't it. The
- 21:04Speaker 1: Real Housewives of Orange County is where it's at. So
- 21:07Speaker 1: The Real Housewives of Orange County remains the number one
- 21:11Speaker 1: best housewives on air right now.
- 21:15Speaker 2: It's real, it's authentic.
- 21:17Speaker 1: What Shannon is going through Alexis Bellino, John Janssen, Real Gina, Katie, Heather,
- 21:25Speaker 1: Real Emily versus Gina's friendship, Real Jen going through the
- 21:30Speaker 1: stuff with Ryan and her personal life Real Real, Real, Real.
- 21:35Speaker 1: So to the ladies of Salt Lake City, hear me
- 21:40Speaker 1: and hear me loud and clear. You guys, not wanting
- 21:45Speaker 1: Monica Garcia to return just may have cost you.
- 21:53Speaker 2: Thank you for listening to Reality with the King.
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