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Tracking The Drama at Block Island (Real Housewives of Rhode Island Finale) · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
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  Speaker 1: with iHeartRadio.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Almost Famous podcast. It's been here
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  Speaker 2: and my beautiful co host Lauren is with me today.
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  Speaker 2: Here to break down everyone. Oh you had to speak then,
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  Speaker 2: huh we got. We're here to break down season one
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  Speaker 2: finale of the Real Housewives of Rhode Island. What a
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  Speaker 2: joy it's been breaking this down the whole season. It's
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  Speaker 2: been fantastic. I've had a ton of fun with it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna have more fun today than I think I've
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  Speaker 2: ever had doing it because it's over. We made it
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  Speaker 2: to the season finale. Yeah, we did it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm happy it's over.
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  Speaker 4: I'm also very happy to be closer closer to the
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  Speaker 4: reunion because that's where all the tea happens. But also
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  Speaker 4: I'm happy this season is over because I feel like
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  Speaker 4: all of like the little side stories have been like
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  Speaker 4: beaten down, Like I am, over all the storylines we've
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  Speaker 4: seen them, So I think it's time for fresh content
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  Speaker 4: with season two coming.
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  Speaker 2: I would agree with that. I closed this episode out
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  Speaker 2: and I said, Wow, I can officially say I've watched
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  Speaker 2: a full season of Real Housewives, something I never thought
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  Speaker 2: I would say.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I thought that Real Housewives had longer seasons
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  Speaker 4: rather than what is it?
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  Speaker 3: How many episodes? Is that like twelve?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Ten twelve?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought that were like twenty four. Maybe they
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  Speaker 4: did a shorter season because it was the first go.
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  Speaker 3: But jam packed.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And they show a block island and never ever ever
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  Speaker 4: been a block island, but it looks gorgeous.
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  Speaker 2: It does. It's a hidden gym. I've never even heard
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  Speaker 2: of it until this episode, Lauren, Before we go, like
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  Speaker 2: kind of scene by scene breakdown all the things, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I did want to start with a few general topics
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  Speaker 2: because I'm assuming anybody listening the show has probably watched
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  Speaker 2: the finale at this point and is listening in to
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  Speaker 2: get a breakdown of the details that happen, and that's great,
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  Speaker 2: But there are some general ideas as this is the
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  Speaker 2: finale and questions that I have won you are spot on.
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  Speaker 2: The storylines this season were fantastic, and I want to
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  Speaker 2: be honest here and say I enjoyed watching The Real
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  Speaker 2: Housewives of Rhode Island, not only because of Ashley. I
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  Speaker 2: just enjoyed it. I enjoyed it a lot more than
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  Speaker 2: I thought I would. Yeah, I did not have high
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  Speaker 2: expectations for doing this. I was so happy you were
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  Speaker 2: joining me because I knew that you'd be glued in.
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  Speaker 2: But I got excited when an episode was airing, and
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  Speaker 2: I have enjoyed watching the season. But this finale, in
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  Speaker 2: a lot of ways, ends with most of them being
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  Speaker 2: very friendly. Yeah, and that is not what we saw
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  Speaker 2: most of the season. So how are they going to
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  Speaker 2: capture new moments, new things when this group, I know,
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  Speaker 2: the finale or I know the reunion looks like its
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  Speaker 2: own mess. We don't know what that is yet, we
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  Speaker 2: don't know how that goes yet. Let's assume that what
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  Speaker 2: we see in the finale is kind of going to
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  Speaker 2: move into season two? Yeah, how do they create what
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  Speaker 2: storylines exist?
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  Speaker 4: What we still have going obviously is the Rule of
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  Speaker 4: Brian situation, because we're left on a cliffhanger at the
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  Speaker 4: end there where Rosie says, what are you gonna do?
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  Speaker 4: And then she literally goes, I don't know and then
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  Speaker 4: gotta go to the reunion. Season two looks like Joelleman
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  Speaker 4: Liz kind of squashed everything, Kelsey and Rosie kind of
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  Speaker 4: squashed everything. Alisha was drunkenly saying I love you to
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  Speaker 4: everyone at the table, and Ashley said that it was
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  Speaker 4: even like more adorable than what we saw, like just
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  Speaker 4: crying tears of love and happiness for everyone. So I
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  Speaker 4: don't really know what's going to go on. I think
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  Speaker 4: that if I were to create this show, I would
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  Speaker 4: create following new dating storyline really closely. I think that
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  Speaker 4: would be very interesting. I'm sure she's having a lot
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  Speaker 4: of suitors come after her and her trying to keep
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  Speaker 4: her relationship with Billy or Bill or William or whatever,
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  Speaker 4: and then yeah, Alicia could get married.
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  Speaker 3: A whole bunch of different things.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, the Cracker line. She's coming up with a Cracker line.
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  Speaker 4: That could be a great storyline.
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  Speaker 2: I mean. And I do think the Brian rule of
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  Speaker 2: thing will obviously roll over. There will be the stresses
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  Speaker 2: and drama around wedding planning. I hear that. I do
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  Speaker 2: think Kelsey will have an interesting run at this. I
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  Speaker 2: still think Rosie has more to give in terms of,
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  Speaker 2: you know, not drama necessarily, but engagement into the different
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  Speaker 2: relationships and how she grows in her friendships. The one
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  Speaker 2: that sits out there for me. The other question I
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  Speaker 2: have as we kind of kick this off, is Ashley
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  Speaker 2: the show ends. Oh yeah, Yeah, she's still around. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the show ends with this kind of you know that
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  Speaker 2: she's still raking in social media deals and still trying
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  Speaker 2: to convince Jared to alleviate himself from Audrey's. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: think now's a good time to speak into it, Lauren.
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  Speaker 2: Does she actually want Jared to leave Audrey's because I'm
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  Speaker 2: I'm not convinced that that is where she's pushing him.
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  Speaker 3: She just wants him.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I think leaving Audrey's would be best. She wants
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  Speaker 4: him to leave Audrey's. It takes up too much time
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  Speaker 4: and he could be doing something that makes him actually smile,
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  Speaker 4: So that's the main thing. You know, she wants Jared
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  Speaker 4: to do whatever he wants. It could be bringing zero dollars,
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  Speaker 4: but as long as it's making him come home with
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  Speaker 4: a smile and be home more, then that's great.
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  Speaker 3: Do I know if Audrey's will be around next season?
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  Speaker 3: I think it will be.
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  Speaker 4: They were renewed for another year, so it's going to
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  Speaker 4: be part of the storyline again.
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  Speaker 3: Jared does have a new gig.
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  Speaker 4: He is a host of First Look Now, so I
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  Speaker 4: feel like that could be a storyline where they go
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  Speaker 4: and he's gone, like one week out of the month
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  Speaker 4: or something. So more juggling with the two little ones
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  Speaker 4: and her.
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  Speaker 3: New beauty line.
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  Speaker 4: Ash's coming up with a beauty line that she's creating,
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  Speaker 4: and that maybe part of the show. And I think
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  Speaker 4: she wants to redirect the drama away from Jared and
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  Speaker 4: more onto herself. She would rather talk about herself than
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  Speaker 4: you know, Jared, because Jared didn't sign up for this
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  Speaker 4: and obviously, like a lot of the husbands didn't sign
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  Speaker 4: up for this. Yeah, So she was said that she
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  Speaker 4: would feel more comfortable if it was like the women
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  Speaker 4: yelling at her rather than them making fun of Jared
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  Speaker 4: in any kind of way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Ashley creating a beauty line makes a lot of sense.
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  Speaker 2: She's obviously been known for her makeup. Yeah, for a
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  Speaker 2: long time. I always tell the story of the first
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  Speaker 2: time I met Ashley. She had a like treasured trunk.
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  Speaker 3: That she yes, I forgot about that.
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  Speaker 2: Where she was doing makeup in the hotel room before
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  Speaker 2: we went to some event. That was my first interaction
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  Speaker 2: with Ashley, and I said, Wow, this girl is so
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  Speaker 2: high maintenance.
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  Speaker 3: She's not I remember when you said that to her,
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  Speaker 3: and she was like, it's good thing that I madeenance.
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  Speaker 3: It's like you actually are.
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  Speaker 4: Actually I'm probably more high maintenance than her, honestly, but
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  Speaker 4: because she can't handle like being uncomfortable for a long time,
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  Speaker 4: being awake for a long time. But like she does
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  Speaker 4: enjoy beauty things and treatments and yeah, just like kind
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  Speaker 4: of Joelle and said too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's a big deal. Is you think that
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  Speaker 2: will be a storyline in season two? I mean it'd
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  Speaker 2: be good for.
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  Speaker 3: Her, it'd be good for her. They want it, they don't.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think they think it's gonna be that juicy enough.
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  Speaker 4: It's just gonna be like the menopause gummies sort of situation,
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  Speaker 4: like no one really cares about it.
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  Speaker 3: It's good press, but it's.
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  Speaker 4: What she's It's what's going on in her life, Like
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  Speaker 4: what's going on, Like I'm creaty beauty line, so that's.
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  Speaker 3: That's what's happening.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, good for her. That'll be a lot of fun
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  Speaker 2: and I imagine that it will be as successful as
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  Speaker 2: she dreams. M You know, the cliffhanger at the end
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  Speaker 2: of season one was a great one, and it does
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  Speaker 2: feel like the frustration with Rula has finally alleviated, because
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  Speaker 2: the whole season she's spending in denial and pushing facts
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  Speaker 2: aside and living through this. It feels like blurry shade
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  Speaker 2: of glasses where she doesn't see things clearly, or she
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  Speaker 2: doesn't want to see things clearly, or again, as we
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  Speaker 2: said last week, she's either totally okay with all of this.
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  Speaker 2: But I think moving into season two and the reunion,
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  Speaker 2: we are going to get clear down is she actually
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  Speaker 2: okay with any of this? Because even the scene at
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  Speaker 2: the end of this episode, she mentions that she believes
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  Speaker 2: she's being tracked and then she goes to BMW to
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  Speaker 2: get clear any but she actually has to go to
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  Speaker 2: the police, which then automatically kind of sets off the misdemeanor. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and then she gets a no contact order against him.
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  Speaker 2: I still don't know where she stands on all of this.
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  Speaker 2: Does that make sense? Like, I don't know if she's
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  Speaker 2: actually seeing this as a problem.
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  Speaker 4: Doesn't show anger she doesn't, Yeah, yeah, I would be
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  Speaker 4: Like she cried a little bit at the end of
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  Speaker 4: the episode. I think she was just overwhelmed with everyone
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  Speaker 4: staring at her, But we don't see a lot of
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  Speaker 4: emotion from her, which is hard to read. If she
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  Speaker 4: is okay with Brian doing this or not. Maybe she
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  Speaker 4: just wished that he was a little more uh what's
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  Speaker 4: the word, uh, normalier about his indiscretions.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, not a little more normal.
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  Speaker 3: I hate this man so much.
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  Speaker 2: I just can't.
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  Speaker 4: Every ward that's out of his mouth is crazy. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if you want to just jump into
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  Speaker 4: when Gary is like talking to him?
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  Speaker 3: Is it Gary?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll come back to the end of this episode. Now,
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  Speaker 2: let's just start breaking it down seen by scene pretty much,
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  Speaker 2: we'll set up the show. Everybody's heading the Block Island,
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  Speaker 2: not only spouses but also the women who are on
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  Speaker 2: Real Housewives of Rhode Island. They're going to Block Island
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  Speaker 2: because it is this beautiful place that everybody seems to
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  Speaker 2: love from Rhode Island. It is their own little Bahamas.
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  Speaker 2: Why would you go to the Bahamas when you can
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  Speaker 2: go to Block Island.
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  Speaker 4: They say, you go to Bahamas for warmth, because they
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  Speaker 4: were freezing ninety percent of the time here and it
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  Speaker 4: was in August.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, you go a little south for warmth. You
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  Speaker 2: go to Block Island for the views. It does look
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  Speaker 2: very romantic. It looks like there's a bunch of little
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  Speaker 2: spots to shop at and check in at This trip
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  Speaker 2: is set up by Kelsey. This is kind of Kelsey's
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  Speaker 2: you know, idea and play is the way it's communicated
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  Speaker 2: to us as the viewer, But everybody chooses to go
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  Speaker 2: coming into this island. There are still some things missing
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  Speaker 2: that Joellen and Liz, you know, argument or disconnect is
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  Speaker 2: definitely still a topic. It has not been cleared up.
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  Speaker 2: But very early on at Block Island, the two of
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  Speaker 2: them do sit down and talk and it does seem
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  Speaker 2: like they reconcile. Lauren for you here where I need clarity.
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  Speaker 2: You know. Joellen the whole time was hurt. I believe
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  Speaker 2: she was because Liz told her, hey, we aren't friends, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and Joeln's like, I see you almost as family. This
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  Speaker 2: conversation points more to Joellen being right than Liz being right.
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  Speaker 2: That Joellen was communicating we do have a friendship. It
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  Speaker 2: might not be the best of friends, but we do
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  Speaker 2: have a friendship. I care about you, you care about me,
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  Speaker 2: And Liz was saying, no, that's not the case. But
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  Speaker 2: this does show that they do have a history. They
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  Speaker 2: do have a friendship, right right, Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And it's interesting because in Joe Allen's interview, she was
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  Speaker 4: like I'm hurt, and I am used to this because
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  Speaker 4: my mom and I'm just hurt and I'm trying to
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  Speaker 4: get back and i want everyone to be on my side.
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  Speaker 3: It's a pattern.
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  Speaker 4: And then in front of Liz, she goes, you didn't
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  Speaker 4: hurt me, you didn't hurt me, And I'm like, well,
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  Speaker 4: what the fuck? You know, like you obviously are hurt.
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  Speaker 4: You can just own up to that. That would Why
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  Speaker 4: was that so triggering for her to say that.
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  Speaker 3: She was hurt to Liz.
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  Speaker 4: But we did get a slight more clarity on why
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  Speaker 4: Liz escalated so much in the fight. I think when
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  Speaker 4: she was like you put your hands on me, and
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  Speaker 4: it's like, you put your hands on me, and when
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  Speaker 4: when Liz was like you put your hands on me, Joellen,
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  Speaker 4: she's referring to like the soft touches in the car
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  Speaker 4: and like the trying to calm down, like calm down,
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  Speaker 4: hand on your shoulder, a hand on your thigh. But
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  Speaker 4: sometimes that kisses people off more so I think that
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  Speaker 4: was just like triggering Liz and escalating a little bit
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  Speaker 4: more so. That's something we didn't really notice in the fight,
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  Speaker 4: And that kind of made sense to me if I
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  Speaker 4: was really like irritable and someone kept touching me, I'd
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  Speaker 4: be pissed too, And.
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  Speaker 2: I understand that. I just think them reconciling makes a
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  Speaker 2: lot of sense. It didn't make a lot of sense
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  Speaker 2: on how the two of them were gonna go about
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  Speaker 2: hating each other when at the beginning of the season
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  Speaker 2: they were so close of friends. It seemed like, or
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  Speaker 2: at least they knew of each other in some sort
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  Speaker 2: of a way. Plus it really is. It did consume
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  Speaker 2: a few episodes, but it is not the storyline that
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  Speaker 2: sticks out this season. The storyline that sticks out this
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  Speaker 2: season is Rula and Brian.
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  Speaker 4: They know.
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  Speaker 2: Rula makes the speech and apologizes for not being around
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  Speaker 2: a lot. It still is her season. It's her and
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  Speaker 2: Brian are the focus of so many episodes.
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  Speaker 4: I know, And I just gotta say, the thing in
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  Speaker 4: this entire episode that stuck out to me the most
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  Speaker 4: was when they were at the final clambake and Brian goes, well,
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  Speaker 4: thank you to all of you for making us the
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  Speaker 4: most popular couple, and I'm like, oh my god, the
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  Speaker 4: fact that you will take popularity over like any kind
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  Speaker 4: of moral.
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  Speaker 3: Compass is wild.
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  Speaker 4: He's like loving the attention, and he finally owns up
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  Speaker 4: to it, because why would you ever think in your
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  Speaker 4: mind if you're this target.
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  Speaker 3: To be like, well, at least I'm popular.
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  Speaker 2: Like yeah. It also points to why he continues to
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  Speaker 2: show up.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, in his versaces, Water is discussing.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know that, Vie. Is that what he's wearing? Yeah, yeah, yeah, no,
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  Speaker 2: well that's that's that's a look. But it does make
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  Speaker 2: sense now on why he continues to come to events
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  Speaker 2: knowing he's going to be the target, knowing he's going
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  Speaker 2: to be the topic of conversation, knowing that his wife
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  Speaker 2: is going to walk away from most of these gatherings
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  Speaker 2: hurt and sad or confused. Is because he's just happy
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  Speaker 2: to be known. He's happy to have the popularity. He's
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  Speaker 2: happy to be the one being talked about. Which is
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: which is a very dangerous and slippery We see it
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  Speaker 2: in reality television a lot. This doesn't end well. It
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: might be a lot of fun for a few years,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm telling you it will eat you up and
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  Speaker 2: spit you out very quickly into a place where you
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  Speaker 2: don't like it or enjoy it, and then nobody's talking
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  Speaker 2: about you. And so not only does your reputation absolutely destroyed.
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  Speaker 2: The flame has burnt out, and you are sitting on
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  Speaker 2: the sidelines twiddling your thumb.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Can you think of like a villain like this in
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  Speaker 4: like reality television that's like actually made like a good
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  Speaker 4: living afterwards.
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  Speaker 2: No, not necessarily. I mean I think they it's it's
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: a very quick flame, yea. You know, they're a huge
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: deal for a bit, and it's maybe a couple of
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: years even but over time, and most of the time
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  Speaker 2: we see this with people in their twenties. They want
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: to start families then, or they want to settle down,
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: or they get in their thirties and they're tired and
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  Speaker 2: they don't have the energy to be villainous anymore. And
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  Speaker 2: then this all goes away because and but that they're
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  Speaker 2: trying to backtrack on, you know how people know them
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  Speaker 2: and be like, no, I've changed, And that's true. Problem,
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: that's so true.
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  Speaker 3: I have two guys from Bachelor Nation in my head
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  Speaker 3: right now.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if I want to call him out,
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  Speaker 4: but like, yeah, there were bad bad boys and now
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  Speaker 4: they're nowhere to be found.
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  Speaker 2: Who is it?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, well, we got a shout out Joe Bailey, but
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  Speaker 4: he wasn't a bad bad boy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and then Chad Johnson.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Chad Johnson had that flame. You know that,
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  Speaker 2: You're right, And I think they all go on to
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: do their own thing at some point and this whole
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  Speaker 2: you know stuff disappears. But yet fans of the show
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  Speaker 2: still know them so true on the show they were never.
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  Speaker 4: Had an active medical practice that they were trying to
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  Speaker 4: keep afloat too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're also about thirty years younger at this point. Yes, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 2: so we kind of get this whole thing set up.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: Billy and Gary talk at the bar. Billy says that
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people are always giving him and Alisha
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: a hard time because they aren't married. Now. Last episode,
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: Alisha confronts Billy and says, hey, you never really propose
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  Speaker 2: to me. We get more details of that during this episode.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: We see the flashbacks and the pictures of her being pregnant.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: We hear her side of the story on how things
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: went down for the proposal. And this a storyline that's
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: not talked about a lot, Lauren, but has been a
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: thread through every episode, is that Alicia and Billy have
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: been together for a long time. They share a child together.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: Her name's not on the house. We do see her
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: put her name on the business in some way, shape
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: or form, but she's wanted more responsibility. I have to
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: before I pass it off to you. Yeah, Alicia drove
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: me crazy this episode.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: Tell me why one.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: Maybe it's just the thing. Do people from the Northeast
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: interrupt a lot?
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: Oh my god, yeah all the time. And Ashley and
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: I get in trouble so much for doing it. And
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: that's why I like honor. I don't get a podcasts.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: It was just like no one can get a word in.
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: But we were like doing fine, like dodging around each other,
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: but like guess we were like we got to remember
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: to shut up. Yes, she interrupts a lot Northeastern. Yes,
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: you blur out everything. And Hunter's family is so calm
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: and they don't blur out anything. And I can't stand it.
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: I can't you.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: Want people to blurt things out.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: Yes, I'm like, just get it out, spit it out.
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: He'll be like so, yes, I'm like what happened?
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: I can't do it.
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: I can't do it, And then his parents will say
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: something like like I'm sorry, this is actually not about me.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna say no.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: Good, just like like hey, I'm how are you like,
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: like this is a thing. I was going into labor.
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: At like four in the morning, Hunter calls his mom.
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: He goes hi, She goes hi, honey, and he goes,
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: how are you? And I'm like, we don't need the
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: pleasantries and waiting for what your mom's gonna say in response,
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: Just say, Laurence water broke, We're going to the hospital
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: right now, Like we don't need the extra bulls, you know,
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: and there will always be the extra bulls with like
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: people below, I don't know. I would say Maryland.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean yeah, I don't understand how. And I'm
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: using Alicia as an example here. Now I preface this
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: with saying Alicia is a person that I think I
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: would enjoy being around because she is so cute, innocent
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: in a lot of ways. She's naive in a lot
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: of ways. She says all these phrases and sayings like
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: I thought Brian was going to blow his load and
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: doesn't really know what it means, like doesn't know that
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: she has that whole season. And I find that endearing.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: I find it like cute in a very like funny way.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: She makes me laugh. I do think she had a
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: lot to drink, but she I don't understand how anybody
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: hears anybody else or understands the intention or heart of
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: anybody else when you're constantly interrupting them at the point
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: where you think you understand what they're trying to say.
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, this kind of now brings me back to
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: the Mask Dinner. Was it the Mask Dinner.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: The Masquerade Ball?
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: Oh no, no, no, it was breakfast at the Newport Mansion.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: And Alicia interrupts and says, it's kind of like Beyonce's other.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: Half or whatever the.
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: What is that called when you have an alter ego,
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: It's kind of Beyonce's alter ego. And Liz was like,
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: enough enough with the blah blah blah blah.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: Because you're not listening. No one's listening to you. It's
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: a lot.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: So that's what she kept doing, and apparently all night
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: I just talked to Ashley. Aliciha was going Billy Billy
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: because he was saying, sweetie, stop, sweetie, you're going all overboard,
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: trying to like, yeah, you know, let her like everyone's
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: looking at you like that, you won't stop talking, and
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: so she was getting mad at Billy.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: And that's where I got frustrated because it's it started
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: really with the proposal. She ruined it. Oh, it was
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: so bad, Like it was really hard for me to
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: watch because you've asked this guy for something. He granted,
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: he has years of not doing stuff, and so I'm
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: not supporting him in his lack of attention to his
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: spouse or his you know, person he loves. But he's
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: trying here, and he did a lot to try. But
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: she keeps seeing saying things that I take as dismissive
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: or degrading in a lot of ways where she keeps
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: saying I'm proud of you, billy as he's doing it,
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: and it's like I don't need your sympathy here, like
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: I need you to be a part to me, and
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: you're making me feel less than and I for years
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: could have made you feel less than because you have
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: not done anything.
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: M h.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: I got really frustrated.
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, even when the waiter comes over at the champagne,
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: she goes like, oh, it took ten years for this
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: or the little like final ease and stuff, and I'm like,
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: you weren't even present in this moment. He was trying
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: to make things right and granted he wasn't doing the
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: greatest job of, you know, expressing himself, but he could
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: have done better if there wasn't someone interrupting him every chance.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: I just got very frustrated with her watching it, Like
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: I really was frustrated with her, and I thought it
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: was it was a hard watch for me in those moments,
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: and it kind of did go into the dinner that
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: night where she continues to when Rula's trying to share
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: something from her heart, interrupt Rula and then be like
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: but Joelle and Joelle and Joellen's like, stop bringing me
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: into this. This was not about me.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, it's like what are you doing? What are
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: you saying? Like we already squashes.
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: I don't need your facilitating and like you saw how
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: facilitating went and fights last week when you were in
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: that escalade with Joel and Liz, like just let them
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: take care of it.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: That was wild. Yeah, I was.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: I was actually really more irritated than I thought now
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: that you're pointing things out. But I will say the
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: conversation with Billy and Alicia and the pros and everything
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: and getting her name on the house is the next step.
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: I'm getting my name on my house now. Because Hunter
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: and I watched it together he's like, do you want
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: your name on the house? But absolutely so progress has
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: been made over here.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: I mean I think once you're married, though I don't
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: know what the laws are in.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: The state of I still get it right.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah you're still good. So, yeah, she's not married. I
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: think that's the protective thing marriage. There's a little bit
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: of risk. It was the first time all season, all season,
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: I've laughed at Alicia, laughed with Alicia, laughed at her
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: for her funny sayings. This was And I bet I
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: wonder if when she watched it back, if she was like, yeah,
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: I had too good of a time. Like I was
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: a little too intoxicated for my own liking, and as
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: a result, my oversharing, over talkative, oversensitive side came out.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: It's a great side to have if you're intoxicated, is
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: if you just get more lovey. However, she wasn't helpful.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: So true and if you could, you could see the
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: pattern because usually on the ferry you have a drink
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: and then when they arrived at the place on the beach,
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: they had a drink, and they were out at the hotel,
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: they had a drink, and then they had the bottle
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: of champagne and then you went to dinner.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: So that's at least that's a couple. That's a lot.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: That's a lot of drink, A tiny, tiny woman.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Yes, okay, they're at the Atlantic Inn lauren Lock Island.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: It's a beautiful escape for all of them. This is
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: set up with the proposal reproposal. That day all the
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: groups gathering together also a Rula and Joellen individual conversation.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: This was hinted at then that dinner, but this conversation
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: I felt like was the most productive conversation either, especially
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: the two of them, have had since we started watching
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: this year.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: M Yeah.
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: I mean it was basically like enough, I don't really
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: need to know anymore, right, Rula was like, it's over
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: to stop doing what you're doing. And then she's like, okay,
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: then I'll stop. And that's and they respect each other.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: And I could tell that Joel and actually felt bad
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: because it was getting to a point that she that
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: Rula was probably going to break down. So she's like,
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: I'm really sorry you're going through this. This is absolutely embarrassing.
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: And I thought it was interesting at the end of
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: the conversation when Brian walks in and Joel and Brian
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: pass each other and then Brian was like how was that.
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: It's like, oh, we just had a chat, and then
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: Brian was like, oh yeah. And Gary also talked to
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: me and asked me about this video. To me, that
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: was an extremely important scene because it showed how Brian
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: is such a liar, because he talks like a liar,
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: because he rambles and rambles and rambles and says buzzwords
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: that makes you think that he's agreeing with you and
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: admitting to things without giving specifics, like there's a video
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: and he's like, I've made mistakes. There are videos, but
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: you know what, I think that I don't know if
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: it was the hormones, I don't know, boo. And it
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: was like you're saying nothing, Like okay, Brian calmed down.
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: There is this video from a June second. Is this
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: the video that you admit to or not? But like
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: they he talks so much you can't get a worded
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: and you can't get a straight answer, and it's awful.
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: It's the most awful thing I've ever seen, and I
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: really despise him.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: It also, Lauren speaks to kind of who he is is.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: If you are cheating on your spouse knowing it's going
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: to hurt them, and you are making excuses to why
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: you did that that to me, I mean hormones or whatever.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: You know, we're all human, right, we have desires, we
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: have urges, we have excitement, right Like it doesn't once
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: you get married, doesn't mean that every other good looking
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: person in the world suddenly disappears. Like that's not a thing.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: But you're making a commitment and a decision to say, I,
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: as a human, am committing to this person to not
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: hurt them in whatever way possible. And if I do
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: make the decision somehow, some way and it hurts them,
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: I have no right to make the excuses to make
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: me the victim of whatever scenario I'm gonna put out there,
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: like hormones or timing or whatever.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah what, I don't remember what else he said.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: It was like it I don't know, but it would
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: be so attractive, honestly if he was just like a
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: woman gave me attention and it felt really nice, and
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: I went too far with it and I own up
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: to it, and I cheated on you until this date.
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: And then if you can start clean, because she's obviously
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: gonna hear you out and forgive you. It's not like
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: you have to keep lying. Just that would be such
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: a better start rather than making the excuse that was wild.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: It's wild to me, and it also showed I think
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: it is a big mark on his character of how
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: he walks through life. Is I when I make a mistake,
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: I'm now going to be the victim. I'm going to
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: turn this and make this about me at some level
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: so that everybody either feels bad for me or we
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: go toe to toe on who actually the victim here
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: is It's very clear in this scenario who's getting hurt.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: It's Rula. Brian has been called out multiple times throughout
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: this season and still continues to pursue this other person
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: down to the point where allegedly, as Joellen said, this
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: woman picked him up from jail.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: I bet that's the only person that would be on
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: his side at this point.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: It's again and I and I get criticized for this,
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: and I know it goodness, I am far from perfect
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: and have made a bunch of mistakes in my in
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: my wake, but it's very frustrating for me to watch
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: this behavior and it actually like irks me to watch
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: his behavior. And I do think I would be in
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: the majority there where I have a feeling I'm not
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: a lot of people are saying, hey, poor Brian in this.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: If anybody, I'm sure there are some trolls out there
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: that love Yeah.
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: Trolls that have cheated on their wives and want like
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: I get it.
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: They're too yeah, uh yeah, Now I don't. When they
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: all come down, they've all had their conversations. Joellen and
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: Rule a talk, Brian and Gary talked. Gary pulls Joel
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: on the side and says, he just admitted that the
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: video is real and that there is a video.
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: Do you feel like he admitted to that.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: I do think he said, hey, there's I know there's videos.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: He never denied them. He has actually denied it. I
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: don't know if he's denied any of this other than
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: coming out with excuses, but in saying, hey, it's AI
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: and stuff like that, I don't think he's denied any
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: of it. He's just said and maybe it's not real
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: or there's a lot of ways you can manipulate things today,
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: and yeah, he's using all these other, you know, excuses
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: to surround it. But I do I did feel like
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: he admitted to it in a very passive way.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I do think you could walk away from that conversation.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: I don't think Gary was in the wrong to go
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: to Joel and and say he I don't know if
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: I would have said he admitted it, but I was like,
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: he pretty much just admitted that all of this is real,
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: and he's coming up with excuses now to you know,
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: go around it. Lauren. This brings us to the clam bake,
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: and I will say that I talked to Ashley and
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: Ashley said this clam bake felt like I don't know
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: if she said the first, but at least one of
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: the major times that this group really bonded together, it
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: felt very bonded. So when we watched it and it
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: did feel romantic and lovely and connected, it's because it.
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: Was hmm, yeah, no one had grudges that weren't squashed,
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: and everyone could like look at each other in the eye,
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: because I feel like a lot of times they'll all
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: be out together and one person's ostracized because everyone's mad
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: at them, so they can't like look at them in the.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: Eye, and it's awkward for the whole table.
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: The clam question thing was fun, fun for everyone, but
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: Rula and Brian, and they also made Jared look silly
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: and I felt bad.
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: But also, what do you say? That's your question? You know, like,
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: what's something that no one knows? It's like I don't
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: know what, Yeah, I.
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: Don't know, but yeah, they had they have a great time.
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: And then Alicia has tears running down her face for
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: a reason we don't really know. Happiness, sadness, drunk goodness. Yeah, yeah,
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: And then we already talked about her talking with Joellen
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: and saying, like, you know that drama that was unnecessary, Lauren.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: Do you Ashley gets very excited for this game that
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: they're playing at the table, overly excited, as she's full
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: of moments of overreaction.
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, because she's like, oh, this is something I
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: can actually contribute. I'm so excited. And they did not
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: do the game justice. It wasn't the love and marriage
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: game show from Cruises. It was more just like ask
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: hard questions to the table. Usually it's a spouse thing.
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: And as she got really excited, she goes, oh, I
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: know everything about Jared, so I can win this game,
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: and she gets very competitive.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: So it wasn't what she thought it was going to.
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: Be, and I gotta say she wanted me to alert
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: everyone that the fake bangs was a bad choice for
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: that weather.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: I just think fake bangs.
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, she had fake clip on bangs at that dinner
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: and it was terrible.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: Lauren, Have I told you that? I just think bangs
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: in general are a bad idea.
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: Depends on your forehead size. But we won't get into it.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: That's just my That's what I tell my wife.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: I guess is oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: I mean they're They're not great for everyone. She doesn't
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: need bangs, though, she should show off that face every
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: chance she gets.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: That's true. The lovely Ashley was looking mature and elegant
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: in her sweater. Good for her, that was a good
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: look she chose. The game feels organic but also wildly
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: produced because people are getting the right questions at the
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: right time.
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: Do you think that they were pulling out the clams,
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: being like, this one's for you, this one's for you.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: I don't because Alicia.
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: Said that it's God, Yes, sir, I'll.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: Love untrusting much of Alicia's commentary this episode.
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: Honestly, it's God God.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: The as we close up here, Lauren, this evening this
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: clam bake is really wonderful, and it does, outside of
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: a few unique scenarios, it does bring about a closure
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: of the summer that we've gotten a witness on our
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: televisions of a bunch of women sharing life together, sharing
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: stories together, sharing interconnected love relationships together, and then for
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: the most part, healing relationships. At the end of this season,
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: Rosie and Kelsey feel like they're in a fine place now. Again,
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: the reunion will speak for itself, but it does. I
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: know they showed Rosie's reaction to Kelsey saying that I
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: don't I think that was editing because it does seem
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: like they're at least better than they were better at
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: that point. Yeah, a few weeks ago. Things will be said,
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: obviously during the filming or airing of this show that
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: probably will come up at the reunion need to be rehashed.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: Maybe that will be another storyline coming into season two.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: But for all the crap I've given Alisha during this breakdown,
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: she is very sweet in her love for these ladies.
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: You.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: At the end of the day, outside of everything else
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: that annoyed me during this episode that she did you,
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: I do believe that Alisha just wants these ladies to
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: love each other, and she wants us to be the
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: most fun thing. Ever.
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: I know she would have a great time if no
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: one fought, and she loves everyone equally, and it's really
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: nice to see like she doesn't have like a personality
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: type that she must be with. She would have a
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: great time with everyone. So I think she is a
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: great little anchor for the group.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: It does make me wonder though, how why Ashley and
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: Alicia are similar in a lot of ways. Ashley has
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: probably uh, definitely has more social awareness. However, they're desire
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: for friendship and for people to get along. Their love
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: for people of all different you know, walks of life
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: is both like consistent with each other. How are they
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: not better friends?
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: I think that they are better friends. I don't think
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: they show it a lot in there. She's definitely someone
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: she hangs out with and always gets along with. I'm
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: sure they text a good amount. And if you see
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: I don't know if everyone went to Hayden's first birthday,
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: but if you see in like the final little clip,
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: Alicia was one of the girls that did come.
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: Because they are close.
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I just don't think they really displayed it a lot.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, we've really gone over the last couple of
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: scenes of this episode. We do see Rula telling the
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: ladies of Brian's arrest. How did Ashley get the invite
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: to that scene when Liz didn't.
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: Well, they wanted Liz and Joellen and the other in
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: the other house okay, to talk more shit, and I'm
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: sure Reula wouldn't feel comfortable telling Lizard Joe Ellen. Yeah,
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: because if you tell Liz and she's gonna tell Joellen.
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: So they had to have their own separate house for
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: this party. I'm so glad as she got to go
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: to the house where she'd get more information. Though I
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: would have loved that.
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: That would have been very interesting.
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: I would have asked way more questions as she's like,
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: oh yeah, yeah, I'm like, how did you find out?
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: What did you say to him? Word for word?
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: Rula does offer up something that is a little different
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: than what we thought. She does think, Oh, he wants
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: to see where I am so he can go out
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: and do whatever he wants and knows where I am.
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: But he may have been.
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: Worried that she was going to do a drive by
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: at the Mistress's house and see how close just to
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: confront her or something that is something I never thought about.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: Rula did mention that she had a feeling that she
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: was being tracked. This is why she went to BMW
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: in the first place, and she had a feeling she
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: was being tracked by Brian. This story is still developing.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: We're obviously going to get to follow it during the
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: reunion when we see the two of them sit down together.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: I'm unfamiliar, Lauren, if they've been in contact with each
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: other before the reunion, I mean she did have no
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: contact order or will the reunion be one of the
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: first times the two of them hash this out?
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: Oh you may be between Rule and Brian.
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I think that he like moved back in
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: the week later.
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: Oh goodness, I know, all right. As I mentioned, Joelan
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: does say that she has heard allegedly that the mistress
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: did pick Brian up from jail, which would just add
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: to the confusion on how he would be back in
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: a house with Rula. But she does show a lot
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: of emotion during the reunion. The reunion looks wild. We
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: won't go through everything that's said in the preview for it,
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: but I will say, if you aren't watching real Housewives
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: of Rhode Island. I do believe the reunion and will
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: be worth the watch, Lauren, can you attest to that.
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: Yes, I think a lot of receipts were allowed in
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: the filming of it, which they don't usually do. Yeah,
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: so I think some people were allowed to bring their
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: phones down and show proof of things.
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: It's only going to get more interesting on the Real
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: Housewives of Rhode Island. Lauren. Final minute here your thoughts
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: break down on the first season of the Real Housewives
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: of Rhode Island.
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: Again.
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: Only watched one season of Housewives before and it was
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: funny and good, but this one was the most jam
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: packed with drama. It's kind of crazy that this was
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: a show that I could watch with my husband and
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: he equally enjoyed it. Yeah, that is crazy. That's never
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: been heard of in the housewife history. Usually that is
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: a ladies thing and the men will watch sports. Hunter
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: was watching hockey last night, very important games, obviously, and
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: he didn't watch it because you watch Housewives with me,
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: and that's how good it is.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: It is so good. I've enjoyed every second. I am
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: on the edge of my seat for the reunion and
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: to continue to watch our very own and favorite human,
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: Ashley thrive at the reunion while controversy and arguments are
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: being thrown around. I can't wait to see what her
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: face does and what she says in the midst of it.
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: Yes, and husbands are all there too, so that is
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: probably the juiciest thing. That's probably episode two of the reunion,
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: Brian really gets his ass handed to him.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: Let's go, Let's go. It's been a blast with you, Lorn.
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: We'll be back obviously breaking down the reunion and then
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: still here for season two whenever that airs. But this
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: has been a really fun season to talk about with
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: you specifically and hear all of your details and expertise.
• 40:53
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• 40:55
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• 40:57
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• 41:06
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• 41:08
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• 41:24
  Speaker 3: I've been Ben, I've been Lauren, and I'm going to
• 41:27
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