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Belly Dancers & Bombshells (Real Housewives of Rhode Island S1 E11) · 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. I'm here today
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Speaker 2: with Lauren and we're here to break down another episode
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Speaker 2: of the Real Housewives of Rhode Island. This episode eleven.
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Speaker 2: We're so close to the end of this season, which
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Speaker 2: is absolutely crazy. It's gone back very fast, so fast, Lauren,
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Speaker 2: way too fast.
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Speaker 3: I know.
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Speaker 4: I was like, wait the finale. I'm not ready for this.
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Speaker 4: America isn't ready for to be over.
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Speaker 3: I don't think so. I think this is keeping a lot.
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Speaker 4: Of people afloat emotionally.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, a float emotionally. That's a great especially as the
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Speaker 3: summer hites us.
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Speaker 2: We've got confrontations, we've got half apologies, belly dancers. Let's
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Speaker 2: jump into it, Lauren. Another great episode, Another fun episode.
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Speaker 4: So fun. What I failed to mention or even a
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Speaker 4: dress last week or like connect the dots. So we
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Speaker 4: start off episode with Joellen calling Alicia and kind of
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Speaker 4: giving her the rundown I guess of their their meetup
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Speaker 4: Liz and Joellen's meetup, and Liz literally said, like earlier
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Speaker 4: in the last week's episode about like menopause and how
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Speaker 4: how crazy it makes you should we have put those
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Speaker 4: two and two together, like maybe Liz. We were like,
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Speaker 4: she's crazy, she's evil, like maybe she's in menopause.
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Speaker 3: See, Okay, great point, m hm.
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Speaker 2: But I left last week feeling like almost convinced, I
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Speaker 2: don't know, by you or just by our conversation that
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Speaker 2: Liz was in the right during this argument.
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Speaker 4: Liz was in the right with the whole homeless argument.
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Speaker 2: Still, yeah, and that discuss she said to Joellen was actually.
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Speaker 4: Right because Joellan did some crazy stuff, and yeah, I
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Speaker 4: think it was maybe, like you know, it's funny the
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Speaker 4: internet has diagnosed Liz not only is she in menopause
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Speaker 4: and maybe you write out this entire situation in general,
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Speaker 4: but diagnosed with hold on intermittent explosive disorder, which is like,
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Speaker 4: I guess, just when you lose your randomly so we
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Speaker 4: all have it. Yeah, I'm like, that is not a
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Speaker 4: diagnosis everyone. You can lose your shit at anytime, at
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Speaker 4: any age. But yeah, she I think there are there's
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Speaker 4: things that Liz was right about that she is not
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Speaker 4: ready to disclose. Maybe that's a season two but yeah,
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Speaker 4: I just want to address the menopause thing because I
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Speaker 4: didn't I was watching this week. I was like, wait
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Speaker 4: a minute, that is a that is the reason to
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Speaker 4: blame your behavior.
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Speaker 3: I know many who have gone through that, and that
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Speaker 3: is uh is up there.
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Speaker 4: My mom was really scary during scary Saturday mornings.
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Speaker 3: Uh, we do get what you talked about. They do
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Speaker 3: get to catch up a little bit.
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Speaker 2: It feels like, at least to me, this is the
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Speaker 2: setup for joe Ellen to try to in a lot
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Speaker 2: of ways become the victim, which she might be. Again,
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Speaker 2: I don't know exactly where I see this, but I
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Speaker 2: do think there was a outside of everything else, I'm
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Speaker 2: standing firm that Joellen was hurt when Liz pretty much
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Speaker 2: said we aren't friends. I really think, no matter what
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Speaker 2: Joellen's actions have been or will be, I think she
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Speaker 2: thought she had a friend in Liz and this was
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Speaker 2: a moment of discovery that did hurt Joellen. And it
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Speaker 2: does seem to me throughout this whole episode Lauren, that
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Speaker 2: Liz doesn't really back down from this common of we
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Speaker 2: aren't friends.
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Speaker 4: I know, and then even Kelsey later on when they're
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Speaker 4: at the beach like clamming, She's like, have you ever
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Speaker 4: been wrong before? She's like no, It's like, oh okay,
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Speaker 4: that's crazy to admit bold and I'm sure I'll be
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Speaker 4: disproven later on.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and just not something that any human should feel
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Speaker 2: confident in saying publicly, the actually feeling even I think
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Speaker 2: we should. All any bait listens to this. You and
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Speaker 2: I included, need to at some point today sit down
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Speaker 2: and be like we've been.
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Speaker 4: Wrong one hundred percent.
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Speaker 2: That is a mindset I need to sit in that
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Speaker 2: I'm not always correct.
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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, humble Ben Kelsey so not. I'm not even
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Speaker 4: a big fan of her. Even Kelsey would admit that
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Speaker 4: she was wrong about sir.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're gonna get into Kelsey. Kelsey had a good episode.
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Speaker 2: I thought little like side things happening, Ashley and the
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Speaker 2: family is making tacos. Rula shows up to Brian's office
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Speaker 2: because Rula, my goodness, has an accident. She this poor
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Speaker 2: woman has been through it.
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Speaker 4: During this happened to her toeail again.
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Speaker 3: She like hit it on something and she said it
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Speaker 3: pulled back. Oh sounds awful.
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Speaker 4: I do that to Ashley's tonel when we were younger,
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Speaker 4: like she was like wait wait, WHOA. I think I
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Speaker 4: was like ten and she was like twelve or thirteen.
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Speaker 4: She wouldn't let me in her room and she opened
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Speaker 4: it like a crack and like kind of put her
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Speaker 4: toe out, and so I slammed it back in her
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Speaker 4: face and her just ripped off. And now I feel
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Speaker 4: so bad, But I was so mad at her, like
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Speaker 4: you know those again hormones. I was just so pissed.
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Speaker 3: So you have that same thing that they're diagnosing, Lizabeth.
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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, yes, yes, I was pissed with me in
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Speaker 4: her room and then she was obviously her Tonail Gagne.
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Speaker 4: But now it's fine, it's grew back.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, So I guess it's so painful.
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Speaker 4: So bad.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, not really a lot there, But other than the
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Speaker 2: fact that I did watch it and I felt for
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Speaker 2: Rula as she explained it, and I thought about her
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Speaker 2: sickness during this season, I thought about the toenail. I
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Speaker 2: thought about her her becoming slowly aware that her husband
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Speaker 2: might be not as loyal as she was hoping for.
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Speaker 2: She's been through it this season, Rula. I know that
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Speaker 2: you agreed to be on this show, and I'm happy
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Speaker 2: you did because you've been such a steadfast storyline for
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Speaker 2: us to follow, but not good.
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Speaker 4: For it now and now she feels comfortable enough to
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Speaker 4: and buy all the ladies except for joelan over to
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Speaker 4: her house for Arabia Nights, very fun theme.
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Speaker 3: Everybody's looking really good? So good?
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Speaker 4: How good did Ashley look?
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Speaker 2: I mean, Ashley's a beautiful human. I've told her over
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Speaker 2: and over, but she I do feel like Ashley's best.
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Speaker 2: She's Jasmine. I know when she really wants to shock
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Speaker 2: the world. You know, she walks out in that Jasmine
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Speaker 2: Halloween costume or dresses up for like Arabian.
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Speaker 4: Nights her true form.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think she really shines.
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Speaker 4: I agree. Everyone looked really good.
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Speaker 2: Can we talk about how Jared opens up a can
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Speaker 2: Why is he doing it this way?
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Speaker 4: I guess they said that the can opener was broken,
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Speaker 4: it wasn't working.
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Speaker 3: It makes me very nervous.
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Speaker 4: I really need those beans.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it made your dad very nervous. It was
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Speaker 2: very dangerous how he was going about doing this.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, my dad is such a stickler about like cutting
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Speaker 4: and knives. I guess like at the hospital every day
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Speaker 4: he sees like maybe like forty knife accidents, So this
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Speaker 4: is like his one bugaboo. So seeing that was very alarming.
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Speaker 2: Well, I think it would be alarming for anybody. Your
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Speaker 2: dad has been exposed to it.
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Speaker 3: And here's my question.
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Speaker 2: Jared knows that he's being filmed cooking dinner for a
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Speaker 2: family or supporting in the cooking for a family, and
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Speaker 2: he knows that this can is not going to be
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Speaker 2: opened by the can opener that is supposedly broken, and
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Speaker 2: he still decides to cut it with a knife, knowing
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Speaker 2: that it's going to be shown to millions of people
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Speaker 2: throughout the United States of America.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think he's like, this is so manly. I
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Speaker 4: got a show. I can do it, guys, Like, I'll
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Speaker 4: get it done.
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Speaker 3: Guys, let me take off my sweater and show my
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Speaker 3: arms as that exactly slice open a can.
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Speaker 4: Mm hmm of beans or corn or something.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I don't know. That whole scene was kind of like unnecessary,
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Speaker 4: but I guess it was to discuss, yet again the
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Speaker 4: future and fate of Audrey's I love my Dad's cameo.
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Speaker 4: I thought it was very funny when Ashley was like,
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Speaker 4: you're to cry, It's no, I'm absolutely fine because she
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Speaker 4: just assumes everyone's gonna cry. Yeah, there wasn't much to it.
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Speaker 4: We saw a beautiful Dawson.
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Speaker 3: Again, there isn't a lot to it.
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Speaker 2: I don't know why the Audrey storyline continues because it's
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Speaker 2: not convincing me that it's closing. Like nothing about this
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Speaker 2: season and I'm unaware if it's staying open or not
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Speaker 2: still to this day, I don't know. I mean, I
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Speaker 2: would assume it is based on the success it's having,
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Speaker 2: but I'm not convinced this storyline is compelling to anybody.
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Speaker 2: I don't think anybody's on the edge of their seats
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Speaker 2: right now.
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Speaker 4: I don't eat. I don't either, and it is my family,
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Speaker 4: and I don't really care. But I think what would
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Speaker 4: be more interesting. I guess if they made like not
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Speaker 4: so much odd, like if Audrey's Close closes, then will
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Speaker 4: you stay in Rhode Island or not? I think that
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Speaker 4: may be slightly more interesting. And then like what's gonna
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Speaker 4: happen with these friendships and blah blah blah rather than
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Speaker 4: just like, okay, no more Audrey's than what you know,
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Speaker 4: we can just move on by no one cares. They
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Speaker 4: watched it, and they didn't care then, so I'm gonna
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Speaker 4: make them sit there any longer about this.
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Speaker 3: I mean, there's a lot of this was a good episode.
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Speaker 2: I want to be clear on that, but there was
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Speaker 2: a lot of filler moments, like when the Rhode Island
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Speaker 2: State House came into play and they wanted to talk
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Speaker 2: about their menopause gummies. It's an important conversation, don't get
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Speaker 2: me wrong, very important to bring to light. And I
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Speaker 2: know that they're getting support, and I did enjoy hearing
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Speaker 2: that it was explained to the committee. And the committee
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Speaker 2: is full of men, and they were shocked and surprised
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Speaker 2: and educated not only for themselves but for their spouses
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Speaker 2: at home. But my, I guess my only thing here
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Speaker 2: outside of everything else. This had to be a contractual
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Speaker 2: obligation by the show to say.
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Speaker 3: We were going to have you on this show.
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Speaker 2: And Liz came back and said, that's great, but you're
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Speaker 2: gonna highlight my menopause gummies a lot. All these ladies
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Speaker 2: have stuff going on, they have their businesses, they have
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Speaker 2: their careers, and it's a it's awesome, great, But why
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Speaker 2: are the menopause gummies such a topic of conversation so
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Speaker 2: often in this season? Their free publicity has been incredible.
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Speaker 4: Really yeah, so true. We don't know like the name
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Speaker 4: of the company. I don't think they've shared that explicitly.
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Speaker 4: So it's going to be, I would it would make
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Speaker 4: more sense, like contractly, Oh, you have to say the
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Speaker 4: name of my company and the name of my gummies
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Speaker 4: and stuff, and if it was already out then it
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Speaker 4: would make sense. I just think like some of the
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Speaker 4: side plots are like, you know, your eyes kind of
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Speaker 4: like glaze over and you think of something else. That
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Speaker 4: happens a lot, But when the girls are together is
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Speaker 4: the meat of the episode. So they just need like
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Speaker 4: a little breadcrumbs to get you to the next fight.
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Speaker 2: Really, yeah, it is cool to see how they are
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Speaker 2: leading the way in education on the Northeast for menopause
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Speaker 2: and what people go through.
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Speaker 4: I'm sure people other states will follow. I think it.
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Speaker 4: I think it actually is very interesting. And this hearing
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Speaker 4: all those statistics and all the things she was talking
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Speaker 4: about kind of made me think that her behavior has
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Speaker 4: something to do with it. That's what made a click
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Speaker 4: for me.
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Speaker 3: But she needs to take more gummies.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, actually, terrible advertising. I definitely bad idea. Yeah, so
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Speaker 4: we see them. Dolores doesn't really say a lot there
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Speaker 4: looking like twins again. Then we go to Alicia's house
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Speaker 4: where Rosie's trying to make Alicia feel better by decorating ducks,
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Speaker 4: which I thought was a very cute scene because Rosie
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Speaker 4: is so good with her daughter and honestly so good
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Speaker 4: with Alicia, because Alicia is ten years old at heart.
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Speaker 2: Well, you make great points. This scene is a great
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Speaker 2: transition into what the rest of the episode has to come.
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Speaker 2: It also shows, I think, for the first time, that
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Speaker 2: Rosie is making friendships outside of Ashley.
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Speaker 1: I know.
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Speaker 3: This was a good moment, and it is a It's
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Speaker 3: a fun moment to watch because ultimately, at the end
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Speaker 3: of the day, in the perfect world that none of
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Speaker 3: us would ever watch on TV, these ladies would get
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Speaker 3: along great.
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Speaker 2: They'd have all these great moments together. That's not what
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Speaker 2: makes the good television for the Real Housewives. But it
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Speaker 2: shows that Rosie is sweet and cares, and it feels
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Speaker 2: like Alicia is very appreciative for you know, this investment
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Speaker 2: of time, absolutely and for Rosie to invest into the
12:34
Speaker 2: ducking and explaining ducking.
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Speaker 4: Did you know duk ducking was?
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Speaker 3: I didn't. I know that they have a wave, Like
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Speaker 3: I know there's a wave when you drive it.
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Speaker 4: Oh, oh, I didn't know that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like a certain wave that they do to
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Speaker 3: each other.
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Speaker 4: I think so on the I don't get a podcast.
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Speaker 4: Rip nas are our good friend Nasperez. She has a
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Speaker 4: wrangler and she loves ducking. So that's how I learned about.
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Speaker 4: But I was like, I think every car brand needs
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Speaker 4: to have their own version of ducking. And I was like,
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Speaker 4: I have an Accura. It should be like an Accura
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Speaker 4: bat or something like you put a little bat or something,
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Speaker 4: because why did they get to have all the fun?
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Speaker 2: Well exactly, I mean I have an F one fifty
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Speaker 2: from twenty sixteen. It is one of the most dry.
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Speaker 2: Like there you see a thousand of them on the road. Yeah, Ard,
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Speaker 2: obviously it's done fairly well for themselves. It'd be great
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Speaker 2: if I felt like I had a community with my community.
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Speaker 4: We need to start it, start it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I love communities that I actually don't have to talk
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Speaker 2: to that often that I just get to like leave
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Speaker 2: gifts at and then absolutely feel connected to them in
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Speaker 2: some way.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, do you have a gift that you would give
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Speaker 4: your F one fifty brothers?
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Speaker 2: You know what I'm thinking, Because ultimately, I just believe
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Speaker 2: that anybody drives a truck. One, it's very useful for
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Speaker 2: living in the mountains. Two you know where it's it's
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Speaker 2: like a very manly vehicle to drive, and so that
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Speaker 2: makes me feel little cooler when I get into it. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I don't have the big tires, it's not super lifted,
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Speaker 2: so I don't have much to prove. I'm not trying
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Speaker 2: to send a secret message, so true. Yeah, but I
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Speaker 2: think like a little like cowboy hat, like a nice
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Speaker 2: adorable yeah that all of us could have on our
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Speaker 2: like windshield would be sweet.
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Speaker 4: That's really cute. We should start this.
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Speaker 3: Maybe Ford will reach out.
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Speaker 2: Like the Arabian party is the big conversation. Joellen is
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Speaker 2: not invited and she's communicated with. Actually thought this was
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Speaker 2: great that Alicia and Rosie tell Joelan about the party
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Speaker 2: that she's not invited to. I think that's a good
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Speaker 2: friend move. I would appreciate that move as a friend
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Speaker 2: to be known to at least know, Hey, we're all
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Speaker 2: getting together night. You're gonna see it on social media,
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Speaker 2: you're gonna watch it on television, and you're not invited.
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Speaker 2: And I know this is gonna hurt, but you should
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Speaker 2: be aware and not shocked, and you can talk through
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Speaker 2: it with your spouse before.
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Speaker 3: Things get ugly. It it's probably a good move from
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Speaker 3: Rula too.
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Speaker 2: You know that if Joelan's going to be there, not
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Speaker 2: that it didn't happen without her there, but you know that,
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Speaker 2: you know the Brian stuff is going to be brought up.
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Speaker 2: It's been brought up every time. And if this is
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Speaker 2: your party, you get to invite who you want.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it makes it more realistic for me too, as
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Speaker 4: like a friend group. Like we know that these hangouts
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Speaker 4: are produced semi like the girls. All the girls have
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Speaker 4: to be there contractually or not contractually, but like they're
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Speaker 4: trying to get as many girls together as possible. But
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Speaker 4: what makes it organic is no one would invite or
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Speaker 4: no one who's in Rula's situation wouldn't invite a Joe Ellen,
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Speaker 4: you know. Yeah, so it makes it be like, Okay, yeah,
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Speaker 4: she wouldn't go to your house. You may meet up
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Speaker 4: for trivia or something or a winery, but you're not
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Speaker 4: going to have her to your home where she's been
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Speaker 4: trying to sabotage your home life.
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Speaker 2: Sabotage your home life. But I would also add into that, Lauren,
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Speaker 2: she would allegedly be sharing deep truth about your home
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Speaker 2: life that she feels is specifically beneficial for you to.
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Speaker 3: Know about MMMM, which is interesting.
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Speaker 2: We obviously get all the ladies together at the party,
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Speaker 2: Ashley and Jared are there. Jared's short time at this
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Speaker 2: party is full of him just being so kind.
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Speaker 3: He being kind, He's telling everybody it looks so good.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, And Jared has to leave early to go
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Speaker 4: do trivia. Audrey's very like authentic again. But I called
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Speaker 4: Ashley in the middle of watching this and I was like,
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Speaker 4: you are so funny. I don't know if anyone else
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Speaker 4: thinks you're funny, but the way you're obsessed with food
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Speaker 4: and you're so awkward, it's like never fails to amaze
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Speaker 4: me how awkward she can be, Like her double kiss
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Speaker 4: with Rula, Like, oh, I just try to do that
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Speaker 4: because I made you. Wouldn't just stop talking age.
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Speaker 3: Does it make you cringe a little bit?
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Speaker 4: It's like it used to because I thought it would change,
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Speaker 4: But now it's like so hard that I'm like, I'm
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Speaker 4: like used to it, and I think it's endearing, but
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Speaker 4: I just wish there was one smooth greeting by her,
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Speaker 4: like a smooth evening with nothing embarrassing.
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Speaker 3: I just can't.
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Speaker 2: I mean, like, the the moment that will live in
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Speaker 2: my head from this whole season is her and not
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Speaker 2: that she chose it, but the full mask at that
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Speaker 2: party and she's just everybody else is looking like sexy
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Speaker 2: and cute and she's just got like a full on mask.
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Speaker 4: That imagery is actually going down in real housewife history.
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Speaker 4: People are loving that. It's like it's it's a meme now,
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Speaker 4: it's just a full bow meme for people who don't
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Speaker 4: even watch it.
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Speaker 3: It's so good.
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Speaker 2: It makes me get before we dive into the party itself. Yes,
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Speaker 2: let's touch back on, and I want to hear your
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Speaker 2: explanation of kind of the Liz situation with Joellen and Alicia. Obviously,
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Speaker 2: this is still a storyline that comes through this episode,
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Speaker 2: and Liz is telling her husband or in this episode
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Speaker 2: that she did apologize to Alicia and has not heard back.
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Speaker 2: Alicia admits that Liz did call her, and she's not answering.
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Speaker 2: She's just not ready for it yet. What what's your
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Speaker 2: take so far.
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Speaker 3: On how this is playing out and maybe how it
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Speaker 3: will play out.
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Speaker 4: I mean, the fact that she's not answering the phone
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Speaker 4: when she knows that Liz is probably calling to apologize
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Speaker 4: is kind of annoying to me, Like if someone's trying
18:31
Speaker 4: to reach out and like, you know, own up, I
18:34
Speaker 4: would answer the phone. But the way they handled it
18:37
Speaker 4: at the party seemed kind of like, let's just brush
18:40
Speaker 4: this on the surface. But then we're always going to
18:41
Speaker 4: look at each other differently, like it'll never be the same,
18:44
Speaker 4: it's not what we.
18:46
Speaker 2: Know too much, Like it'll be hard, it'll be hard
18:49
Speaker 2: to move forward and it will be intriguing to me, Lauren,
18:53
Speaker 2: how Joellen comes back into this, like what her relationship
18:57
Speaker 2: with Liz looks like, if there is.
18:59
Speaker 3: Any at all, I couldn't.
19:00
Speaker 4: I could never imagine coming back from that. It was
19:03
Speaker 4: crazy fight.
19:05
Speaker 3: It was a crazy fight.
19:06
Speaker 2: But I do since that if Liz led the way
19:11
Speaker 2: and told Joelan, hey, I said a lot of things
19:15
Speaker 2: I didn't. I mean all the things I said, but
19:20
Speaker 2: the one thing that was maybe overstated was how much
19:23
Speaker 2: we aren't friends. I do think Joelan would jump right
19:26
Speaker 2: back in head first.
19:27
Speaker 4: Yeah, But I don't think she would jump back in
19:30
Speaker 4: with like good intentions. She would be like, I am
19:33
Speaker 4: have more dirt and I'm collecting dirt and ever since then,
19:37
Speaker 4: ever since, like the disrespect, I think Joelan's probably knowing
19:42
Speaker 4: her plotting something else against Liz like she'll she's not
19:46
Speaker 4: gonna take it lying down. I mean, I think she
19:48
Speaker 4: everyone wants to be Liz's good graces though, because she
19:51
Speaker 4: is like the matriarch of this whole group and she
19:53
Speaker 4: is like very influential. But I don't think Joellen's gonna
19:58
Speaker 4: she's gonna have some ammo after all this. She's the
20:01
Speaker 4: queen of gathering information, she is.
20:05
Speaker 2: And it does feel like where she resorts to when
20:09
Speaker 2: things get tough. But at right now where we sit
20:14
Speaker 2: during this season, it feels like Joellen has been softened.
20:19
Speaker 3: She's tried a couple.
20:20
Speaker 2: Things and not maybe even intentionally trying to do them
20:24
Speaker 2: for harm. She's tried to bring you a light to
20:28
Speaker 2: Rula that her husband is having an affair. She has,
20:33
Speaker 2: you know, tried to stand up for Alicia and confront Liz,
20:39
Speaker 2: and that hasn't really worked. And Liz is still invited
20:41
Speaker 2: to the parties and Joellen is not. It seems like
20:47
Speaker 2: she's kind of gotten softened or beaten down, that her
20:51
Speaker 2: attempts at gathering information and being the fearless leader of
20:57
Speaker 2: this group has not worked in her favor.
21:00
Speaker 4: Yeah, when you really break it down, you make a
21:03
Speaker 4: lot of sense. And you're like, well, is anything she'd
21:05
Speaker 4: done really that crazy?
21:07
Speaker 3: Yeah?
21:08
Speaker 4: No, like she should probably still be invited.
21:10
Speaker 3: It makes me think there's more going on.
21:13
Speaker 4: Yes, exactly, I think there's more going on. There's certain
21:15
Speaker 4: things that I have heard. I am currently in the
21:18
Speaker 4: gorgeous state of Rhode Island right now, so there's been
21:21
Speaker 4: whispers in Rhode Island of alleged awful things that Joan
21:26
Speaker 4: has done. So maybe I'm looking at her in a
21:30
Speaker 4: different light than I have been. Yeah, I don't want
21:33
Speaker 4: to say too much. Actually, I'm going to leave it
21:36
Speaker 4: at that, and we'll see what happens in season two
21:38
Speaker 4: because that's going to start off filming and very very
21:41
Speaker 4: very soon.
21:42
Speaker 3: Very soon.
21:43
Speaker 2: Season two will be interesting to see all the ladies
21:45
Speaker 2: come back together. We have a few more weeks of
21:48
Speaker 2: this season. A couple of things that stand out during
22:02
Speaker 2: the party. I said it last week because it was
22:04
Speaker 2: in the teaser. Having Brian with the belly dancer was
22:09
Speaker 2: a chef's kiss. Perfect. It was so good, it was
22:13
Speaker 2: perfect timing, it was perfect. Voice over.
22:17
Speaker 3: Your sister gets very excited about the about the food dance.
22:25
Speaker 4: What was it? She goes, ooh, cheese puffs or something. Yeah,
22:29
Speaker 4: oh passworders, and I'm like, you're so funny. She'll never
22:32
Speaker 4: say no to the food.
22:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's a big fan of cheese pop. It's very exciting,
22:39
Speaker 2: very animated. Kelsey and Bill show up. Bill is not
22:43
Speaker 2: dressed for the celebration at all.
22:46
Speaker 4: I don't know the boys really know what to do
22:48
Speaker 4: with Arabian nights. You're not gonna wear a puffy the
22:51
Speaker 4: ladin pants.
22:52
Speaker 3: No, Jared could, you could, but he wouldn't. He wouldn't.
22:56
Speaker 2: They just kind of doesn't have fun. Yeah, they just
22:59
Speaker 2: all come rest nice and looking good. Really, the big
23:04
Speaker 2: moment for me at this party, Lauren, was the conversation
23:08
Speaker 2: that rich and Bill had to try to bring peace
23:11
Speaker 2: to their partners.
23:13
Speaker 4: Yeah.
23:14
Speaker 3: I don't want to speak into this. I do.
23:17
Speaker 2: I do think there's a protective mentality for both spouses.
23:20
Speaker 2: I'm not saying it's like the man or the woman,
23:24
Speaker 2: But if something is going on with my wife and
23:29
Speaker 2: somebody else and it's gone on for longer than I
23:32
Speaker 2: feel like it should.
23:34
Speaker 3: I have I feel almost an obligation to step in.
23:40
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like infiltrating your marriage, yea, infiltrating You're like,
23:46
Speaker 4: I can't listen to this anymore. It's a cloud over
23:49
Speaker 4: our heads. Let's please put it to rest. And especially
23:52
Speaker 4: because Bill and Rich just seem like two good bros.
23:55
Speaker 4: Like I love both of them. They seem like good dudes,
23:58
Speaker 4: so I'm sure they don't want to hear at nauseum
24:00
Speaker 4: like Kese Kelsey Kelse. So it's like, these guys, you're
24:04
Speaker 4: actually fighting over nothing.
24:06
Speaker 2: You're fighting over nothing. If the two of you actually
24:10
Speaker 2: laid out on the table what you don't like each
24:12
Speaker 2: other for, there would be very little substance to that argument.
24:16
Speaker 2: So the men are kind of saying, hey, we're clearheaded here.
24:20
Speaker 2: I like you Bill, Bill saying I like you Rich.
24:23
Speaker 2: I think we can kick it. Let's see if we
24:25
Speaker 2: can figure it out. So it brings the ladies into it.
24:30
Speaker 2: Rosie and Kelsey are asked to confront the issues that
24:35
Speaker 2: at least are sitting in front of us today. It
24:38
Speaker 2: seems to be kind of around Kelsey's entrance into Rosie's house.
24:42
Speaker 2: I would still say yes, maybe too soon. Kelsey admitted
24:46
Speaker 2: to that not the appropriate time. We weren't ready to
24:50
Speaker 2: joke about it yet. We were still have some healing
24:52
Speaker 2: to do But I don't think it was done with
24:56
Speaker 2: ill intentions. I do think Kelsey thought Rosie could get
24:59
Speaker 2: a lot out of it, which would bring them closer together.
25:03
Speaker 3: Was it an.
25:04
Speaker 2: Unwise decision, Yes, but we've all made unwise decisions. I
25:08
Speaker 2: do think that it's possible to like heal that same look.
25:13
Speaker 4: At Kelsey owning up to her actions. I think that
25:16
Speaker 4: they'll have a better friendship in the future. Yeah, hope, Yeah, yeah,
25:21
Speaker 4: I think that. I wonder if Rich if they have
25:23
Speaker 4: a ring camera or anything, got to see any of
25:26
Speaker 4: her like pushing Kelsey out of the house that of
25:28
Speaker 4: the iconic Yeah.
25:30
Speaker 2: And also probably a motivation to be like, yeah, let's
25:33
Speaker 2: fix this because what I saw there is not cool.
25:37
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, yes, he's like I've never heard Rosie scream
25:39
Speaker 4: like that, probably, And then the other meat of this
25:42
Speaker 4: party is, oh, basically Rosie telling Does Rosie tell Alicia
25:49
Speaker 4: that she should tell her tell Rula about this video?
25:53
Speaker 4: I think she's like, you should tell her, and she's like,
25:55
Speaker 4: I'm not ready. And then Rosie, I may have had
26:00
Speaker 4: one too many and just kind of like I gotta
26:02
Speaker 4: tell you, like there's a video, you know, and do
26:05
Speaker 4: you know what's in it? And what I find amazing
26:07
Speaker 4: at this scene is I would have as like the
26:10
Speaker 4: wife who's like gathering the information, like, okay, tell me,
26:13
Speaker 4: tell me. She immedates, like Brian, Brian, they're they're talking
26:16
Speaker 4: about a video and getting him in on this conversation.
26:20
Speaker 4: I would have gotten as much intel as possible and
26:22
Speaker 4: then maybe I've talked to Brian. She almost crying right
26:28
Speaker 4: there to contradict it and make her feel better immediately.
26:32
Speaker 3: I'm shocked that Brian still shows up one.
26:35
Speaker 2: I'm shocked shocked that he continues to say, yes, I
26:40
Speaker 2: will come to this party, knowing that every time I've
26:42
Speaker 2: come to one of these public events, the end of
26:45
Speaker 2: the night ends with me leaving early because you guys
26:47
Speaker 2: are making accusations against me that I am uncomfortable with,
26:52
Speaker 2: either either because they're real or not real. He is
26:56
Speaker 2: still yet really defended himself in a way that even
26:59
Speaker 2: makes me think he's a liar.
27:00
Speaker 4: He just kind of keeps an aneurism.
27:04
Speaker 3: It's very confusing, Laura.
27:05
Speaker 4: He goes, oh, you know, you know, dates can He
27:08
Speaker 4: look never looks at anyone in the eye, He looks around,
27:11
Speaker 4: he looks down. He goes, you know, dates could be altered,
27:13
Speaker 4: dates could be doctored. Hell, you know no, No, it's like,
27:17
Speaker 4: this is crazy, the denial.
27:20
Speaker 3: And it's crazy to me that Rula hasn't at some point.
27:23
Speaker 3: I mean.
27:25
Speaker 2: Benefit of the doubt here, but if my wife was
27:28
Speaker 2: getting told by close friends multiple different ways, hey, Ben
27:33
Speaker 2: is doing something that I don't think you'd be proud
27:35
Speaker 2: of or supportive of, and she's like the first time,
27:39
Speaker 2: she's like, no, I know my husband, he wouldn't do that,
27:42
Speaker 2: and then it is there's different evidence, should go Okay,
27:49
Speaker 2: still know my husband, but I'm gonna ask him, yeah,
27:53
Speaker 2: and then a whole another third video. I think at
27:56
Speaker 2: some point Jessica would be like, what is going on here? Ben, Like,
27:59
Speaker 2: please tell me exactly what's happening to where there's so
28:05
Speaker 2: much backing to this now and so many people are
28:08
Speaker 2: involved in it, people that supposedly care about me at
28:11
Speaker 2: least a little bit, that this can't be all wrong
28:16
Speaker 2: and false.
28:17
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know what's going on behind the scenes.
28:19
Speaker 4: I know, like we're still talking about this affair and
28:22
Speaker 4: like all this evidence is coming out, but it's still
28:25
Speaker 4: just as wild to me as the first time we've
28:28
Speaker 4: heard about it, because there's just more and more evidence
28:31
Speaker 4: and there has to be something tying them together. And
28:34
Speaker 4: the only reason I can think of that he keeps
28:37
Speaker 4: showing up and talking to these people and doing what
28:40
Speaker 4: he's doing is because he is a fame whore. He
28:43
Speaker 4: just wants his face out there for some reason, and
28:45
Speaker 4: he just loves attention, good or bad.
28:47
Speaker 2: It's bizarre, yeah, but it's not uncommon in reality television.
28:51
Speaker 4: Lord, and these people are nuts. I saw some it
28:54
Speaker 4: was like another podcast and they were talking about Jared.
28:56
Speaker 4: They're like, can we just use Jared as an example
28:59
Speaker 4: here of he has the capability of being like more
29:04
Speaker 4: famous and using a platform, but all he wants to
29:06
Speaker 4: do is make coffee. He's like, that is the exact
29:09
Speaker 4: opposite of Brian, who's literally just trying to get more
29:11
Speaker 4: followers and fame to show how bad of a person
29:15
Speaker 4: he is.
29:16
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, and that that has been since my first
29:19
Speaker 2: time on reality television and getting to know people intimately
29:23
Speaker 2: through the shows, it has been one of the biggest
29:27
Speaker 2: con it's most confusing dynamics of a human behavior that
29:32
Speaker 2: I've ever experienced, is Hey, why are you okay with
29:37
Speaker 2: being famous yet not respected? Mm hmm, and also continuing
29:45
Speaker 2: to like get punished in life by public opinion why
29:50
Speaker 2: do you continue to pursue this? Sometimes it's unwarranted, Sometimes
29:54
Speaker 2: the public is wrong. But in this case, at some
29:57
Speaker 2: point Brian Rula has to say or Brian has say.
30:00
Speaker 3: Hey, maybe the public is right. When does the arrest
30:05
Speaker 3: come into play here? Like, what's so?
30:06
Speaker 4: Next week is the finale? So I guess it happens
30:10
Speaker 4: like right after this the Raymi Knights party.
30:13
Speaker 2: So Bri, Yeah, we got a lot to learn there.
30:16
Speaker 2: I think that's a storyline, as we've said throughout the season,
30:18
Speaker 2: and one that we want to follow. Is so if
30:21
Speaker 2: Rula is the one that is getting told Brian's up
30:25
Speaker 2: to something, Brian's following Rula for obvious reasons, and that
30:33
Speaker 2: feels like my expectation of that would be that all
30:37
Speaker 2: of a sudden, Rula's eyes open up a little bit, yeah,
30:41
Speaker 2: to the stuff that's been happening that she has been
30:43
Speaker 2: denying or pushing aside.
30:45
Speaker 4: Mentally, why do you think that she that he's tracking her?
30:50
Speaker 4: You said for obvious reasons, but I feel like it
30:52
Speaker 4: could be miss not misinterpreted, interpreted in a couple different ways.
30:56
Speaker 2: I feel like he's doing it because he wants to
30:59
Speaker 2: know where she's at all times. In case he is
31:04
Speaker 2: canoodling at his office, he wants to know she's on
31:06
Speaker 2: our way.
31:07
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, that's what I think.
31:08
Speaker 3: Okay, that would be my guess. Yeah, that would be
31:11
Speaker 3: an alleged guess by me.
31:14
Speaker 4: Yes, alleged guess. I think that, yes, that is that
31:18
Speaker 4: as possible or maybe like he is going to try
31:23
Speaker 4: to like flip it or something and be like, well,
31:26
Speaker 4: where were you? I saw that you were here or
31:28
Speaker 4: something and make her look like the bad person because
31:31
Speaker 4: there's so much AMMO for him that we have to
31:34
Speaker 4: make her look bad if there is an impending divorce,
31:38
Speaker 4: you know. But I think it's a multiple of reasons. Crazy, crazy, crazy.
31:43
Speaker 2: Arrested, arrested in the midst This season has not been
31:48
Speaker 2: good for Brian. Out of everybody else, I feel like
31:50
Speaker 2: it has been the worst for Brian.
31:52
Speaker 4: Okay, can I just say one more thing about the
31:53
Speaker 4: about Brian. He calls Joellen ho Ellen like ho Ellen, sir,
32:01
Speaker 4: you're literally cheating on your wife in front of all
32:03
Speaker 4: of Rhode Island. How is Joeellen hell wellen? Because she's
32:07
Speaker 4: calling you out. That's so aggressive.
32:10
Speaker 3: And there's a lot I want to say here, Lauren.
32:13
Speaker 2: Okay, I guess when it comes to Brian, he just
32:18
Speaker 2: consistently looks so bad during this whole season that it
32:24
Speaker 2: almost feels like him using a derogatory term towards another
32:29
Speaker 2: woman is not even the thing we talk about, Like,
32:32
Speaker 2: that's how bad he looks.
32:33
Speaker 3: That's like so far downe the list.
32:35
Speaker 2: If I go on television and I was to call somebody,
32:40
Speaker 2: that it would be a.
32:42
Speaker 4: Headline, headline, headline, headline everywhere.
32:44
Speaker 3: I'd be canceled, crush destroyed, and.
32:48
Speaker 4: That was brushed over. I forgot about it.
32:51
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not even a thing with him, because I
32:53
Speaker 2: think there's so many other things that were confused by
32:58
Speaker 2: or talking about.
33:00
Speaker 4: Call. And then Rula calls to a cockroach. That's Rula's
33:03
Speaker 4: favorite term is calling people cockroaches. And it's just you're
33:07
Speaker 4: directing your anger and another in the wrong place yet again. Anyways,
33:11
Speaker 4: after the party, they we show Kelsey and Liz again
33:15
Speaker 4: doing clam stuff, right, I don't know that's where That's
33:20
Speaker 4: where Kelsey says, our Liz, do you think that you're
33:23
Speaker 4: ever wrong? And she says no, and that's pretty much it, really,
33:27
Speaker 4: And then they show us show them all getting ready
33:29
Speaker 4: for Block Island, where the husbands all come and uh,
33:32
Speaker 4: I think that's where Brian gets arrested before. I don't know.
33:37
Speaker 4: I don't know where that plays out. Actually, that'd be
33:39
Speaker 4: very interesting if if Brian couldn't go to Block Island
33:41
Speaker 4: because he was arrested, But we don't know that yet.
33:54
Speaker 2: The rest of the show, the rest of this episode
33:56
Speaker 2: is really just kind of RecA it feels like in
34:00
Speaker 2: a lot of ways. So the rest of the episode,
34:03
Speaker 2: we see Kelsey and Liz on the beach, where Liz
34:06
Speaker 2: is very happy. We get to see, as you said,
34:09
Speaker 2: Liz admitting that she's never been wrong. We do see
34:12
Speaker 2: Joellen talking about how hurt she is by this whole scenario. Lauren,
34:17
Speaker 2: The final thing I want to talk to you about
34:20
Speaker 2: is something that could be nothing. But Rosie is the
34:24
Speaker 2: one that brings the video to Rula's attention. It is
34:28
Speaker 2: not Joellen, it is not Liz, it's not Kelsey. It's Rosie,
34:34
Speaker 2: who has also not had an easy got during this
34:37
Speaker 2: season at making friendships. Does this backfire on Rosie?
34:42
Speaker 4: That would be awful if it did. But Rula did
34:46
Speaker 4: seem very offended that her best friend in the whole group, Alisha,
34:50
Speaker 4: didn't bring this video to.
34:51
Speaker 3: Her Alicia's not the person though.
34:54
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, like you said, Alicia is like this,
34:57
Speaker 2: like sweet innocent, yeah adult who's a ten year old
35:03
Speaker 2: who just wants to be have fun and be around.
35:05
Speaker 4: And yeah, I really hope it doesn't back far on Rosie.
35:10
Speaker 4: I couldn't imagine it doing so, so I'm just kind
35:16
Speaker 4: of scared for Alicia. I guess it doesn't really matter, though.
35:20
Speaker 4: I feel like this fight would be so stupid, like
35:23
Speaker 4: to redirect more hate on someone who's just trying to
35:28
Speaker 4: deliver information on Rula.
35:29
Speaker 3: But it's why she got mad at Joellen.
35:32
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're so stupid. I don't understand this hatred. I don't.
35:37
Speaker 2: It's there's hatred towards Joellen because of her continuing to
35:42
Speaker 2: kind of bring information to the forefront. We do see
35:45
Speaker 2: the whole crew going to block Island if Joellen is there.
35:50
Speaker 3: Which she is.
35:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, we know this video is gonna get shown immediately,
35:56
Speaker 2: right t Arrula like that.
35:58
Speaker 3: Our expectation is that.
36:00
Speaker 4: Well, did Rula not see it at the Arabian Nights party?
36:04
Speaker 4: She just heard the description of it.
36:06
Speaker 3: She has heard the description, Oh.
36:08
Speaker 4: Okay, so yeah, she has to see it, has to
36:11
Speaker 4: see it. I would I would hold her eyes open
36:13
Speaker 4: with toothpicks and be like, watch this video now, try
36:16
Speaker 4: to disprove this.
36:18
Speaker 3: Yeah, the dates are unaltered.
36:20
Speaker 4: Unaltered, verified, not ai, not Ai gross. I hate this woman.
36:29
Speaker 4: I hate this woman the mistress too. I just don't.
36:32
Speaker 4: I'm getting like ached out by an entire situation because
36:34
Speaker 4: Brian's just looks so bad, worse and worse and worse
36:37
Speaker 4: and worse every week.
36:38
Speaker 2: Who said this isn't the first time that Brian's had
36:41
Speaker 2: bellies and titties on them or something like that, I
36:45
Speaker 2: don't remember.
36:47
Speaker 4: I think it was Kelsey. I'm gonna give Kelsey the
36:49
Speaker 4: credit there. It's so true. There was one part that
36:52
Speaker 4: Ashley was so mad they didn't put in. It was
36:55
Speaker 4: with when everyone was fighting or discussing, like like rose
37:00
Speaker 4: See and Kelsey were making up or whatever they were doing,
37:03
Speaker 4: and then Rula was getting information about the video and
37:05
Speaker 4: Ashley is belly dancing with the belly dancer because she
37:08
Speaker 4: has nothing contributes, and I was like, I would have
37:10
Speaker 4: loved if they panned over to Ashley just trying to
37:13
Speaker 4: belly dance, literally riding solo.
37:16
Speaker 3: Just I don't want to be around this stuff. I
37:19
Speaker 3: feel a lot more comfortable here.
37:20
Speaker 4: She's puffing her hand in belly.
37:21
Speaker 3: Yeah, is actually a good dancer.
37:24
Speaker 4: The worst dancer actually of all time.
37:27
Speaker 3: I wondered that.
37:28
Speaker 2: Okay, so like she doesn't have that in her like
37:31
Speaker 2: to even try.
37:34
Speaker 4: But I will say she has a great stomach, so
37:35
Speaker 4: if it were any kind of dancing she would succeed
37:38
Speaker 4: that it would be belly dancing.
37:39
Speaker 2: Okay, but it just yeah, it's not like it's not
37:42
Speaker 2: something that she would be doing. And like impressing the masses, I.
37:46
Speaker 4: Would love for her to do Dancing with the Stars
37:48
Speaker 4: one day and go home the first day, because there's
37:50
Speaker 4: no way she would deserve to go further than that.
37:53
Speaker 2: Hey, for the preview for the next episodes, Lauren, we
37:56
Speaker 2: got the crew going to Block Island. As we said,
37:59
Speaker 2: it is the Road Island Caribbean, because Rhode Islanders cannot
38:02
Speaker 2: seem to leave Rhode Island. They just find new places
38:05
Speaker 2: in that state to visit. We kind of get a
38:09
Speaker 2: comparison to this whole weekend with the waters being rough,
38:14
Speaker 2: and if this is going to be a rough weekend,
38:16
Speaker 2: we'd have to expect it would be. Why would they
38:18
Speaker 2: all get together and not have some type of issues.
38:23
Speaker 2: Brian is admitting to Gary that he messed up, and
38:27
Speaker 2: there is videotape, so we do at least get that
38:31
Speaker 2: hint at what is to come. Rula's crying at the dinner,
38:35
Speaker 2: Brian is arrested, and Rosie asking Rula, what are you
38:39
Speaker 2: going to do?
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Speaker 4: I love that part. I've been excited for that part
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Speaker 4: of the whole season because it's so point blank like, Okay,
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Speaker 4: now you know this, who's arrested. You have to make
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Speaker 4: a decision. And I just hope that she says something
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Speaker 4: like meaningful, not like I don't know, I don't know.
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Speaker 4: It's like now you know, now you know you're gonna do?
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Speaker 4: That's she with the title of the episode.
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Speaker 3: Again, we've said it the whole time.
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Speaker 2: My own personal values, morals, convictions taken out of it.
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Speaker 2: If Rula at some point says, hey, guys, I know
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Speaker 2: he's been doing this. I've known he's been doing this,
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Speaker 2: and I'm good with it.
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Speaker 3: End a story.
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Speaker 2: Fine, fine, Hey you guys, do you I can't change you.
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Speaker 2: I'm not going to try to change you. I don't
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Speaker 2: know you. I'm watching you on television. How I would
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Speaker 2: operate my life. No, But does that matter here? Not
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Speaker 2: at all? But she's yet to even give us that it's.
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Speaker 2: This whole thing has been so frustrating, I think for me,
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Speaker 2: because I don't know where Rula stands. Does she not
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Speaker 2: believe the stuff she's been confronted with and is that
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Speaker 2: why she's in denial?
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Speaker 3: Does she believe it and just not care okay?
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Speaker 2: Or does she really think all of this has been
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Speaker 2: manipulated and created by AI and none of it's real.
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Speaker 4: She knows it's all I mean, in my head as
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Speaker 4: a viewer watching this, I think she knows it's all real,
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Speaker 4: and she's just choosing to believe what Brian's telling her
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Speaker 4: because it's easier.
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Speaker 2: Wait and find out. We've got more episodes that come.
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Speaker 2: The season is coming to an end, but we do
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Speaker 2: know that around the corner there is another season of
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Speaker 2: The Real Housewives of Rhode Island being filmed because of
40:25
Speaker 2: the success of this season. So if you've enjoyed the
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Speaker 2: breakdowns and listening to us converse about all things Real
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Speaker 2: Housewives Rhode Island, the behind the scenes, our opinions and takes,
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Speaker 2: there is more to come if you just follow along. Lauren,
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Speaker 2: We're gonna chat next week.
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Speaker 3: I know.
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Speaker 2: Coming up, we have the finale and also a reunion,
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Speaker 2: and we're gonna plug in some episodes in between then
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Speaker 2: because we can't just do it all at once. We
40:52
Speaker 2: want some special guests that will come on and help
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Speaker 2: us break it down. It's gonna be very fun and
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Speaker 2: exciting here at the almost famous podcasts.
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Speaker 4: Such Driven in Content to come. I'm so excited for
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Speaker 4: the reunion.
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Speaker 3: And you're in Rhode Island right now?
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Speaker 4: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, is like the vibe different? Is Ashley a star
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Speaker 2: there right now?
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Speaker 4: Let me tell you When I landed today in this
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Speaker 4: Providence airport, I was like, it's got a it's got
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Speaker 4: a facelift. There's way more restaurants than normal. And I
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Speaker 4: was like, Ashley, you're actually bringing commerce and bring up
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Speaker 4: the economy because of Real House with Royal housewifs of
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Speaker 4: Rhode Island. And she was like, I know, like Newport
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Speaker 4: is going to be crazy this summer because people are
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Speaker 4: probably gonna do Newport Pizza, Mama Audrey's the Dispensary, like
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Speaker 4: hitting it up on like bachelorette parties and stuff. I
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Speaker 4: really think it's changing here.
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Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, the power.
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Speaker 4: The power of Bravo.
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Speaker 3: Would we want anybody else to have the power that
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Speaker 3: actually has right now in the whole world.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. Just we just want Ashley to hold that power, honestly,
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Speaker 4: and I want her to continue holding the power because
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Speaker 4: she needs a bigger house. Guys, this is insane. I'm
41:59
Speaker 4: trying to find one place to sit here and quiet,
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Speaker 4: and there's nowhere to go.
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Speaker 3: Maybe next season the storyline could be We're building a
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Speaker 3: five thousand square.
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Speaker 4: Oh yes, it's very good.
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Speaker 2: Hey, we'll be back next week breaking down the Real
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Speaker 2: Housewives of Rhode Island. Until next time, I've been been.
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Speaker 4: I've been Lauren.
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Speaker 3: We'll talk to you soon, everybody.
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