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They’ll Be Friends When (Slam) Pigs Fly! (Real Housewives of Rhode Island S1 E8) · 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 on our radio.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Almost Famous podcast. We are here
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  Speaker 2: today doing something I love so much. We were recapping
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  Speaker 2: a very explosive and deep episode of the Real Housewives
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  Speaker 2: of Rhode Island. We had awkward dinners, to mom confrontations
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  Speaker 2: to a fight that I think Laura and I are
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  Speaker 2: gonna have a lot of fun talking about.
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  Speaker 3: I know my heart was racing this whole episode.
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  Speaker 2: I had to do. There's four moments, Lauren during this
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  Speaker 2: episode where I had to do the thing where I
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  Speaker 2: cover my eyes like I can't watch, I can hear,
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  Speaker 2: I just can't watch it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like secondhand embarrassment, but like not even embarrassment,
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  Speaker 3: but just like, oh my god, if I was in
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  Speaker 3: that scenario, I don't know what I would do.
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  Speaker 2: I have zero idea what I would do. So stressful,
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  Speaker 2: so so stressful. We have a huge episode. I love
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  Speaker 2: this episode, Lauren. This was a good epis It was
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  Speaker 2: so there was so much happening, and we're going to
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  Speaker 2: start at Alisha's house. Yeah, this storyline is amazing, and
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  Speaker 2: they're playing into it just as much as I want
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  Speaker 2: them to. I don't want it to be the main
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  Speaker 2: storyline of Alisha the whole season, But it does feel
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  Speaker 2: like the show really wants us all to be very
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  Speaker 2: aware that Alicia has some quirks yes that, yes, that
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  Speaker 2: make her different dolls and the lack of ability to
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  Speaker 2: drive and crackers.
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  Speaker 3: Ashley told her. I told the Lasha that she should
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  Speaker 3: start a cracker line, which would be iconic. But the
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  Speaker 3: driving thing infuriates me so much. Like, I know everyone
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  Speaker 3: says they're a good driver, I am the best driver,
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  Speaker 3: Like I am actually very good. Like if I were
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  Speaker 3: to go over and start over again this life, I
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  Speaker 3: would be a race car driver. So when I see
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  Speaker 3: someone driving like so close to the steering wheel, so nervous,
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  Speaker 3: it makes me so irrationally mad. But yeah, I guess
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  Speaker 3: they're like trying to portray that she can can't let
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  Speaker 3: go do normal errants, pick up her daughter, pick up,
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  Speaker 3: drop off, all that stuff. So her husband is pissed
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  Speaker 3: at her. And I know what bridge she was worried about,
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  Speaker 3: which is so funny because ron is so small and
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  Speaker 3: there's like three bridges, but there are actually very scary.
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  Speaker 3: I'll give her that bridges are scary.
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  Speaker 2: Her her husband, my wife is is very capable. I
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  Speaker 2: have been in moments in life and I'm sure she
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  Speaker 2: would say the same about me where you just want
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  Speaker 2: to like directly say what you're feeling, like, hey, Alicia,
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  Speaker 2: get over it, Like yeah, it's driving. People do this
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  Speaker 2: at sixteen years old. People do this at eighty five
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  Speaker 2: years old. Suck it up and like move on. It's
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  Speaker 2: sounds like a.
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  Speaker 3: Five lane road here, it's always two macs. It's not
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  Speaker 3: that crazy.
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  Speaker 2: And he's holding it together. But there isn't this like
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  Speaker 2: at some point in marriage, there isn't the sensitive, sweet
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  Speaker 2: way to communicate exactly what it is you want to say.
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  Speaker 2: And I was watching this in sant Alicia. You realize
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  Speaker 2: you make everybody else's life a little bit harder because
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  Speaker 2: of your problem. And one of the things I was
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  Speaker 2: told growing up is don't make your problems other people's problems.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And you could tell by the way she was
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  Speaker 3: her daughter, I guess has to coach her through. And
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  Speaker 3: she's in the backseat and Alicia's driving. She's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: my daughter says, it's okay, Mom, it's okay. It's like
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  Speaker 3: now the daughter is going to have issues with the road.
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  Speaker 3: That's true. And what I'm also getting from this is, oh,
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  Speaker 3: just get a driver, you know, because normal housewives from
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  Speaker 3: other seasons would be like, I have a driver because
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  Speaker 3: I can't drive. But they're not at that level of
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  Speaker 3: wealth that we're normally seeing from the other seasons. So
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  Speaker 3: she has to learn and suck it up.
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  Speaker 2: She has to suck it up. She has to. But
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  Speaker 2: it is a funny little storyline. I am learning to
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  Speaker 2: become more endeared to Alicia episode by episode, just because
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  Speaker 2: she is Cariacture and she's funny, and she is I think,
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  Speaker 2: desiring to be a good friend to get along to
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  Speaker 2: the good heart. She has a good heart. Speaking of
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  Speaker 2: good hearts, we get to meet Rosie's dog again, Clemmy,
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  Speaker 2: who's in a princess outfit. This is where we get
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  Speaker 2: a look at the house outside of what anybody else
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  Speaker 2: wants to say. That is a massive build on. It
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  Speaker 2: is easily five thousand square feet. That is a huge
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  Speaker 2: piece of concrete that they're putting in.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I definitely believe her. Now, I don't think
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  Speaker 3: they fully showed the whole like square edition before the
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  Speaker 3: first time we went over to her house. The plans
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  Speaker 3: are laid out on the kitchen counter, We'll get to
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  Speaker 3: that later. Yeah, I mean everyone should believe her.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 3: This is an absolute ridiculous sly. I don't even think
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  Speaker 3: we need to address it anymore.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of jumping around during this episode from
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  Speaker 2: storyline to storyline, So if you don't mind, I kind
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  Speaker 2: of want to lead us into making sense of each
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  Speaker 2: of these stories separately. Yeah, before we go back to
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  Speaker 2: the house situation and Rosie and Kelsey, I want to
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  Speaker 2: talk about Joellen and the interaction that Joellen has with
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  Speaker 2: her sister and her mom. That was hard for me
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  Speaker 2: to watch. It was. It was heavy. The mom I
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  Speaker 2: think was caught off guard a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: I know, I wonder if she was like prepped, like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: we're about to talk about our childhood right now, or
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  Speaker 3: I was just like, no, you're gonna go to Grandpa's
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  Speaker 3: house and then you're gonna talk about Grandpa and then
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  Speaker 3: Joellen bringing up that mom you never liked me?
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  Speaker 2: Hmm, what'd you feel about this? I mean that's one
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  Speaker 2: of those I had to cover my eyes. Well.
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  Speaker 3: What I thought was great was like, Mom, give me
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  Speaker 3: examples of like what I did that you know, h
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  Speaker 3: hissed you off so much to have me sent away,
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  Speaker 3: and she was like, your behavior is outrageous, and it's like, well,
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  Speaker 3: it happened like the lies. I'm like, if every teenager
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  Speaker 3: is gonna be sent away for lying to their parents,
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  Speaker 3: there would be no more teenagers in any home around
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  Speaker 3: the country. And I thought that, you know, it was
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  Speaker 3: basically Joeellen. I think her sister may have more like
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  Speaker 3: sympathy for her mom because she's not coming at her
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  Speaker 3: as hard. But I thought it was very interesting when
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  Speaker 3: Joelan's mom said I had a lot of my plate. Guys,
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  Speaker 3: that was basically it. She was like, I had to
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  Speaker 3: send in one of you away because there was just
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  Speaker 3: too much going on. I was overwhelmed, and I was like,
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  Speaker 3: that's exactly probably what it was. She was like, how
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  Speaker 3: do I get rid of some of this stress in
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  Speaker 3: my life? Oh, yeah, I'll send I'll send joel on
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  Speaker 3: a way.
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  Speaker 2: And I guess her sister, the promiscuous you know, went away.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I you know, you obviously have had conversations that are
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  Speaker 2: probably at confronting a situation like something with your mom.
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  Speaker 2: Did this feel like how a daughter and mother would communicate.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously there's a lot of like personal stuff here. It
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  Speaker 2: was a little bit more like in your face than hey, mom,
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  Speaker 2: sorry that I broke your pot kind of conversation or yes,
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  Speaker 2: I snuck out last night. But does this feel like
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  Speaker 2: how a conversation would go between a daughter and a mother.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's kind of exactly how it goes, because
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  Speaker 3: it started off a little bit lighthearted, like oh, I'm
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  Speaker 3: a bitch, and then it's like, oh, I'm a bitch
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  Speaker 3: because of you, and it's like, what are you talking about?
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  Speaker 3: And then it's like no, for real, mom, and then
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  Speaker 3: like goes deep, deep, deep, and then everyone's scrambling, and
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  Speaker 3: then everyone's crying and they're like, I'm sorry I did
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  Speaker 3: this to you, and then eventually it kind of hopefully
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  Speaker 3: ends up in some common ground, and it seems like
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  Speaker 3: there was common ground. She was just like, I am
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  Speaker 3: my mother and it's a cycle thing, and she said
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  Speaker 3: she'll try and be around more going forward. But I'm
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  Speaker 3: just like, the damage is kind of done. Like I
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  Speaker 3: don't I don't think that everything's gonna change. I need
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  Speaker 3: to get more. I need more in depth conversation about,
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  Speaker 3: like step by step what she did to get sent
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  Speaker 3: away a little bit more. But I think for now,
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  Speaker 3: I think they'll probably have a better relationship.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know until her mom watches the show.
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  Speaker 3: Oh well, it seems like she's pretty upfront about it
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  Speaker 3: with her mom. But yeah, but she is being thrown
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  Speaker 3: under the bus a lot. She's like, I got didn't
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  Speaker 3: sign up for this show? You did, Joellen?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of you know, it's it's not gonna
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  Speaker 2: be an easy watch because leading up to this episode
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  Speaker 2: there is a lot of references too, I don't do
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  Speaker 2: things properly. It's there's a moment in there where Joellen
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  Speaker 2: mentions that she's like hard because of her upbringing, like
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  Speaker 2: she doesn't know how to be likable and not be mean.
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  Speaker 2: That you know that takes a lot of work to
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  Speaker 2: get to a place to be able to admit that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: And it's it was a little bit surprising coming from
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  Speaker 2: Joellen because so much of this season she's come out
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  Speaker 2: as the confident one who maybe doesn't have the greatest
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  Speaker 2: awareness of self, and in this moment, you see her admit, hey,
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  Speaker 2: I have stuff and I think it's because of you.
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  Speaker 2: So my hope is, you know, this is not a
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  Speaker 2: thing that I don't love in family fighting. I would
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  Speaker 2: love to see this get settled and healed and be
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  Speaker 2: able to move on through the rest of the season
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  Speaker 2: in a healthier way. I hope that to be true.
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  Speaker 3: I think it may be true. But also I just
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  Speaker 3: want to say, like, I think Joe Allen's doing great.
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  Speaker 3: Like I think she's actually very well round it. She's
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  Speaker 3: got great kids, she's a great husband, she has great friends.
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  Speaker 3: She so she may dig in drama a little bit
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  Speaker 3: too much. I think that she's doing pretty well, a
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  Speaker 3: great career all around, you know, pretty good for like
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  Speaker 3: the upbring that she.
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  Speaker 2: Had's that's really like, you're right, and she is doing
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  Speaker 2: great and she's representing herself very well. As I said
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  Speaker 2: last week, I thought she was going to be the
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  Speaker 2: poster trouble starter, the drama one, and she hasn't really been.
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  Speaker 2: She's just been the one that's got caught up in
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  Speaker 2: this whole rule of situation that we'll get to in
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  Speaker 2: just a bit.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yes, yes, yes, But.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get to that, we do have to talk
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  Speaker 2: about Liz and Dolores. We're gonna give them a free
• 10:06
  Speaker 2: ad here for their menopause gummies that they're just popping
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  Speaker 2: like candy. The two of them are starting a business together.
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  Speaker 2: I could see this becoming very successful. Good for them,
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  Speaker 2: and it is one of the only moments of this
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  Speaker 2: episode that we see Liz. It kind of felt like
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  Speaker 2: they had to figure out a way to plug her
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  Speaker 2: in and they did it with this kind of lab visit.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, very interesting. Got to say, Dolores's hair looked amazing
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  Speaker 3: in that day. I was like obsessed. Yeah, Li Liz
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  Speaker 3: said something that I had no idea about that Rhode
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  Speaker 3: Island was the first date to like recognize menopausal women
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  Speaker 3: as a protected class or something. Not even sure what
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  Speaker 3: that means quite honestly, but it sounds very interesting.
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  Speaker 2: I guess it's like, wouldn't that mean that they could
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  Speaker 2: get time off work and work?
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  Speaker 3: Okay? Yeah, so I thought it was like a pregnant
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  Speaker 3: woman or something like that. Very interesting. The gummies kind
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  Speaker 3: of seemed delicious. I don't like the full effects of it,
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  Speaker 3: if you actually feel high or not, or if they
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  Speaker 3: take different properties.
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  Speaker 2: Lauren, we have a few key components about this episode
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  Speaker 2: that we got to dive into. Yes, Ashley doesn't have
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  Speaker 2: a huge role of this episode. We can just kind
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  Speaker 2: of get filled in on where she went last week.
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  Speaker 2: This isn't her episode because the episode is taken up
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  Speaker 2: by so many other things. We're gonna start with what
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  Speaker 2: I think was one of the most interesting scenes of
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  Speaker 2: this episode, which is at Rula's house. Rula has invited
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  Speaker 2: Alicia and her husband or her boyfriend. Oh yeah, are
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  Speaker 2: they engaged? Yeah, they're engaged, Yeah, over to have dinner
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  Speaker 2: with Brian Rula. It's a very nice dinner. They're doing
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  Speaker 2: some catchy to Pepe, some filet mignon. They're drinking. Brian's
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  Speaker 2: getting liquided up for this.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he had to have a couple of shots tequila
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  Speaker 3: before they came over. Courage to confront the lady who
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  Speaker 3: knows the secret, which he I guess doesn't even know.
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  Speaker 3: He can we talk about first. That's what stood out
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  Speaker 3: to me most is okay, is that Brian, I guess
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  Speaker 3: is a little drunk. Doesn't seem that drunk. He's saying
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  Speaker 3: like stupid like every husband does. Honestly, I was.
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad you said that, because I understand that he
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  Speaker 2: was rueless sensitive right now with le Cast, but it
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  Speaker 2: did feel like she was being really hard on him.
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  Speaker 3: Like everything he said was like, oh sweetie, oh you're crazy,
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  Speaker 3: You're Crad's like I it is a very normal dinner
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  Speaker 3: conversation actually, but he said that when they met, he
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  Speaker 3: was like, tongue the bartender, give her doubles and give
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  Speaker 3: me singles. Ew what a weird, weird thing to admit.
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  Speaker 2: Uh huh is it? Does it make it better that
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  Speaker 2: they got married?
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  Speaker 3: Ew?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I think it's weird. Like I do think
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  Speaker 2: when when you hear that, Like if a buddy of
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  Speaker 2: mine his single and he's like, yeah, last time I
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  Speaker 2: met this girl knows great. Like I was getting singles
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  Speaker 2: and I was telling the bartoner give her doubles, I'd
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  Speaker 2: be like, hey, buddy, that's not good.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's that's bad behavior.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would expect that from Brian for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Though. Sure, but now that he's saying it about his wife.
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  Speaker 3: It's a little bit funnier.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like but it's still not good. It just
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  Speaker 2: traces back to I think, pointing to the character of Brian.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, yeah, to me, there was no giggles
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  Speaker 3: after that conversation, unless or they edited the giggles out. Yeah, no,
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  Speaker 3: one is really impressed. He was saying other things like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: I get the botox, the ozempic, the steroids and blah
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  Speaker 3: blah blah blah blah, and because he sells it at
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  Speaker 3: his dietrist office, which is kind of bizarre to me.
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  Speaker 3: Why would a but I just be doing that. But
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  Speaker 3: I do know the mistress next door is providing all
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  Speaker 3: those services, So I think he's actually just getting for
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  Speaker 3: the mistress, cause why would a pediatrist be giving out ozembic?
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  Speaker 2: I have no idea. I think it's a great question.
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  Speaker 2: Or botox. It feels very weird. That was a very
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  Speaker 2: uncomfortable Now, don't get me wrong here. I don't want
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  Speaker 2: somebody to hear me and say, hey, it's not weird
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  Speaker 2: that he was like trying to get his wife drunk
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  Speaker 2: when they were dating. I think it's odd. I'm saying
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  Speaker 2: it points to his character. But they did get married
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  Speaker 2: from it, she said. At some point she said, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that is my guy, and she's an adult and she
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  Speaker 2: makes those decisions too. The conversation about him taking you know,
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  Speaker 2: supplements or what's the word for him?
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  Speaker 3: Why am I healthy ones?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but peptides and taking peptides, it felt weird to
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  Speaker 2: me because he's pretty much talking about how like his
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  Speaker 2: body is panicking and freaking out and so then he
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  Speaker 2: pumps steroids in and then he does something else. It's Brian,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not like looking at this do me like that's
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  Speaker 2: my model person, the weird one and Ida. I'm actually
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  Speaker 2: I love Billy in this because Alicia is like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: how zimpic and all that, and Billy's like, stop Alicia,
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's such a good moment for somebody
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  Speaker 2: that creates. He's like, you don't need it, like.
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  Speaker 3: Stop playing and very interested.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, like get this out of your head, like you're beautiful,
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  Speaker 2: you're wonderful, Like you don't need this, and so like
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  Speaker 2: this whole intrigue that you're saying that you need all
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  Speaker 2: this stuff done, you don't. And I actually heard him
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  Speaker 2: say that. I was like, that's a good Like that's
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  Speaker 2: very caring and sweet to look at your wife and
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  Speaker 2: be like, hey, you're beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: Stop yeah, and not getting wrapped up in the conversation
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  Speaker 3: just to talk about ozambic or whatever. It's like, no, girl, stop,
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  Speaker 3: you're literally so skinny, like stop it, you're beautiful. Yeah, No,
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  Speaker 3: I I love that. Actually didn't pick up on that
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  Speaker 3: until you mentioned that. Yeah, she just seemed like very
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  Speaker 3: like leaned into that conversation, but the whole point of
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  Speaker 3: her being there also is to be like, I think
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  Speaker 3: she's distracting herself from the real issue at hand. Is
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  Speaker 3: I have to tell Rula at some point that he
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  Speaker 3: there's another video circulating and he goes to the bathroom
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  Speaker 3: for a work call. I don't know if it's a
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  Speaker 3: work call or not. All speculation. Obviously they showed us
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  Speaker 3: that to talk about. Maybe it is the mistress, but well,
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  Speaker 3: Alicia's like, I can't do it. Never mind, this may
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  Speaker 3: be opportunity to do it. I can't do it. I
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  Speaker 3: can't do it. I'll let that simmer for a little
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  Speaker 3: bit and maybe have someone else tell her. It doesn't
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  Speaker 3: look like from the preview though, that we address it
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  Speaker 3: for next week, but I hope we do.
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  Speaker 2: At some point they're gonna have to. Yeah, this is
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  Speaker 2: going to drag on. I don't know if Alisha is
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  Speaker 2: the right person to do that, and I was actually
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: kind of hoping she wouldn't do it, because it felt
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: like Rula was already so much on edge, so uncomfortable
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: with how things have gone. She invited people over for
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: their house, it did seem like they were semi excited
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: for it, and that Rula wanted to put on a
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: good dinner for them. Yeah, that it would have been
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: kind of crushing. And I think there's some is them
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: and Alicia deciding, Hey, this isn't the time or the
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: place to bring this up. I'm just going to enjoy
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: dinner with friends that taste good and is good. Brian's
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: Brian during it. The dude isn't helping himself no matter
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: what scenario he gets himself in on this show. He's
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: just not winning us over by any means.
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: We need like a buffer situation, you know, like like
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: you need to have two good times and then a
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: bad time and then and then two good times. Not
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: just bad by bad, but bad our also rules continuously
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: being sick in bed. So I think that, Yeah, great,
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: great move on Alicia's part. Okay, we're gonna talk about
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: it now.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: We're going to talk about it. The Rosy and Kelsey
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: situation happens. Kelsey is on the phone. Well let's start here. Actually,
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: Kelsey shows us her new apartment during this episode, with
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: her sister and mom coming over to help her set
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: it up. We're seeing more and more how how much
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: of a lack of life wisdom there's been to Kelsey,
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: but Kelsey actually does a decent job of explaining it,
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: where she says, you know, when she was younger, she
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: wasn't thinking about what she wanted in her thirties. She
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: still doesn't really know what she wants in her thirty thirties.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: But she was given everything, a driver, a chef. To
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: her credit, I think it would have been hard for
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: me at nineteen if I had all those things to
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: be like, yeah, I'm not gonna want these because I
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: want to learn on my own. I think I would
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: have done the same thing.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: You're so right, Yeah, why would you say no, thank you? Yeah,
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: I'm good obviously, you know, squeeze every ounce of that
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: out in your twenties, and now that her biological clock
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: is ticking, obviously her mom wants her to have a child,
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: Now is the time to learn how to put together
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: a key of.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: Furniture, which is which is still something I struggle with.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: And I do a lot of home projects, and I
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: hate Aikia for it's her apartment's fine, you know, it
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: definitely is lacking in luxury compared to what she's used to.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: This is a great start for her to get going again.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: I am getting the sense Lauren that Kelsey actually is
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: fairly excited about this chapter.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: Yes, it's fresh, it's new, it's not tied to anyone.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: She did mention that Billy Billy offered to have her
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: move in with him, and she's like, no, like, let
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: me have my own time for a little bit, which
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: I think is great. She still has a range rover.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: I guess that she's gonna try and give up because
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: the sugar Daddy still pays for it.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: I think be greateful to have at least a year
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: living on her own, taking care of her own, and
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: obviously after Housewife she'll be able to afford it a
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: little bit more.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's going to be kind of perfect timing
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: for Kelsey. She's going to be entering into this space convenient. Yeah,
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: and now Housewives is happening, she'll have an income. Billy's
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: still there, Billy's being Billy the guy. I couldn't be
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: him in this situation, playing second fiddle until she was
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: done playing around like that would be hard.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: It's actually so bad when you say it out loud
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: like that, it's really what it is. He was just waiting.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Is that not what it is?
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: You know, it's exactly what it is. But like for
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: him like to actually hear that, probably it's like, oh, yeah,
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: I love this girl, but uh just waiting for her
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: to be kicked out by the other old man.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: And he's still going to pay for her stuff. Yeah,
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: like he's still going to be the one this other
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: guy is going to be supporting the girl that you're
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: taking on.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: Dates and masculating.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: I think it is either so I said it gonna
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: be me. Maybe he like is like, cool, I don't
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: have to spend in a dime here.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: She's actually so true. You could go it the other way.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I would not love this. But Billy's still around.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: He's loyal to a fault. And now we get into
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Rosie and Kelsey have the interaction that we so anxiously
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: anticipated based on the previews from previous episodes. Kelsey is
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: going to go over to cut Rosie's hair. This is
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: kind of a hey, let's try again last time. I
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: was mad at you for not posting about it. Rosie
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: is very clear that the expectation is to share about
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: the haircut that she receives. Kelsey is on the phone
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: driving up and talking about the situation and the kind
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: of where their relationship stands. Kelsey feels like they're past
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: a lot of things. It's all got brought up, it's
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: all under the rug. They can move on, and so
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: she is going to make light of conversations they've had
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: in the past. Rosie obviously is still very sensitive to
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: the situation. She I don't think agrees that they have
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: moved past this. I think Rosie is feeling very much
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: like she has kind of been the punching bag for
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Kelsey since the beginning. Lauren, I'm gonna stay quiet now, okay,
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: and let you break this down from here. Obviously you
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: know more. You are watching with wide eyes because you
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: know and like Rosie. I want to be clear again,
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: you like Rosie. The only thing I will say before
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: you take it away is I don't think I'm on
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Rosie's side.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: Okay, So this is exactly this is exactly what I'm thinking.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: I heard about this five we've seen we've seen clips
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: of it.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: I heard what Kelsey did, which was basically come up
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: with a bullhorn and start saying, house police, house police,
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: I have a measuring tape. Let's see what this is.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: I would say, maybe that was a terrible idea. Obviously
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: it was a bad idea. I'm sure someone's in her
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: ear saying this would be funny, but it's not funny.
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: It's like we should have just been like, how are
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: you great? Oh my god, amazing haircut. Let's start fresh,
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: kind of like the rule of situation. Let's just give
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: it a beat, and then maybe we can down the line,
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: we can have jokes with each other. They're about square footage,
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: not immediately jokes about square footage.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Let me pause you here. I said I wouldn't say anything.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: That's all good, but Rosie has the blueprints on the table.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: She obviously was willing to talk about this right away. Anyways.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: I guess yes, she was willing to talk about it.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: I think Rosie really just wanted to clear her name. Honestly,
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: she was like, I just want to say, like, please
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: don't lie about me. Okay, So I hear, I hear
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: what's going on that she comes in. Rosie seems okay
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: about it kind of, and then and then she comes
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: into the kitchen and then something switches where she's like, actually, no,
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: screw this. I'm so tired of these jokes. I just
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: want everyone to be nice. I want to get over this,
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: actually not make jokes about it. And then Kelsey's like,
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: it's funny, it's funny. It's not funny to Rosie anymore.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: Rosie flips. I've never seen someone flip like this before.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: And then you can hear Kelsey's voice like shaking, like
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: I don't know if it's shaking because she's so mad, confused,
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: gonna cry. But it was obviously shocking to Kelsey. I
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: think I think Rosie took it too far. I really
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: think she took too far. It was really bad, pushing
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: her out of the house, taking her kit and like
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: almost throwing it down the stairs. Kelsey couldn't even get
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: a word in. I don't even know what she would
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: say in defense. She's just saying, you're not Rolsi's like,
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: you're no one, you're no one. You're a slam pig.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: Everyone knows you have sex with married men.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: What does a slam pig mean?
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: I think it's just, honestly, I think it's just someone
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: who's unattractive about sex with men. But I'm like, obviously
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: that's not She's not a slampig because she's gorgeous. I'm
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: pretty sure that's what it is. She takes it too far.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: It doesn't look good for Rosie. I thought that it
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: was gonna be more warranted. I thought that Kelsey was
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: gonna say more evil things to her unless they cut
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: it out to make Rosie look extra crazy. I'll have
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: to ask Ashley if there was something else that we're
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: missing here, because I don't think just the bullhorn could
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: have could have done it like that? Would you agree?
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: I mean that was my take. I knew leading up
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: to this that there was a fight. I didn't know
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: what it was over. Was it in bad taste what
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: Kelsey did? Yes, I do. I mean, I only think
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: it's the funniest joke. I don't really know. I don't see.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: You know, if I was in a fight with a
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: human and I pulled up to the house to confront
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: that fight and try to free myself from the fight,
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: I would not pull up yelling it. I might say
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: it right away to get the elephant out of the room, like, hey,
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: it's good that we can actually meet, and I see
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: that there's five thousand square feet being built over there,
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: like that might be the way to do it. Yes,
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: I think it was in bad taste. I don't think
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: it was meant to, cause I don't think Kelsey in
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: the back for mind was doing it intentionally to like
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: piss off Rosie. I don't, and that's where it gets
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: really hard for me.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, And then I guess the final straw was
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: that Rosie was like ever knows that your sugar daddy
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: paid for you to win Miss Rhode Island.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: That really make ke Ma turn like.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: Just twisting the knife and she's like, I did that
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: all on my own. I did it all on my own.
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: But then I think I remember Kelsey at the beginning
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: of the season saying something like I really didn't get
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: into pageantry until I was with this mystery man, So like, oh,
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: maybe that is true.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Out of all the things Lauren that are said during
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: this yeah, all of the things, as Kelsey's leaving, the
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: one thing that she wants to clarify because that she
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: actually won the padget.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know. It's like, okay, yeah, I do. We'll
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: go with Mary Matt, I do that, but I won
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: that pageant, Okay, yeah, square because we have seen that
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: tiera a million times in the past ten episodes, so
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: we know it's very important to her. And then there
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: is a moment where I guess Kelsey pushes her a
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: little bit hands on and produce like, no touching. This
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: whole thing is going to be cut, this whole situation,
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: We're gonna to cut filming. I know that was a
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: big issue. They had a big production call after that because.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: No touchy, no touch Yeah, it felt like it could
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: get physical. It did get physical ish. I think it
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: would have gone further because Kelsey came back into convince
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: Rosie of the pageant and that she did win the pageant,
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: faired and square, and Rosie is very upset. The reason
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: I said I am not on Rosie's side on this
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: is because I do think the joke was made in
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: bad taste. It wasn't a funny joke. It wasn't gonna
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: work out well. But I do think the intention was
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: to get the elephant out of the room right away.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: I'm giving Kelsey the benefit of the doubt by saying
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: she meant to just bring it up, squash it, get
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: over it, move on. It didn't work that way, And
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: I think Rosie is very sensitive because Rosie has been
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: the punching bag for so many of the slanderous and
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: joking like things throughout the season, so she's over. No
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: more jokes for me. I just want to move forward
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: and try to make this whole thing work. I don't
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: think that through this season I've ever been on Kelsey side.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: I think Kelsey has continually been a bully, has been
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: a hypocrite when it comes to her claiming different things
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: against others when she's doing the same thing herself. But
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: Rosie was so sensitive that I did feel like it
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: was an overreaction. I would be curious to hear from
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: Rosie on would she take it back, would she do
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: it differently?
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: I would love to hear that. I would assume yes,
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: it's amazing that me, like, like not a Kelsey fan
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: in the slightest, felt bad for Kelsey at the end
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: of that fight because hearing someone's voice shake and be
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: seemed very uncomfortable and startled, is like, really sad for me.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: You can tell like she didn't really know what to say,
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: and she was like, I can't believe we can push
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: on this girl's house. I don't really know what I did.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: So on that note, Rosie, I'm sorry it didn't look
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: good for you, but I wish we could get her
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: on here and just ask her real quick.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: I agree. Maybe we can just get a statement. I
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: wonder if you can get a statement. Yeah, can we
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: send some of our sources out to ask Rosie? Would
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: you do it differently and get that statement to read
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: on air? Actually, I think we might be able to.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: We should give it a shot, Lauren. Why not. We've
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: been talking about them every week. Might as well have
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: them talk to us. Overall, Lauren, this is a good episode,
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: action packed. It's still building to something right. We still
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: have storylines that are not We really don't have a
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: storyline that was started this season that's been concluded yet.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: We still have the rule of Brian scenarios sitting out there.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: The Joelle and her mom scenario does feel better than
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: it was before. We'll see where that goes. Kelsey and
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: Rosie really don't like each other. Final comment. Liz is
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: cracking me up with her menopause comments that her feet
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: are so fat.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah what she called them, like what some sausages or something.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: But it is so weird to see her feet bloated
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: when she's the skinniest, like most muscly woman on top.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so sausages a bag of sausages. I don't even
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: know what that means. But it's awesome. It's so good. Yeah, Hey,
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: a great episode, Laura. Next week we see the rundown.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Kelsey shows up to meet the woman wearing a sash
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: that says miss slam Pig. Yeah. It obviously is a
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: very uncomfortable moment for Ashley, who we get to see
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: says can we just not all get along? And Alicia
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: and Liz get into a fight with Joel and caught
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: in the middle. The ladies are fighting, the drama is continuing?
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: Is love going to continue for Brian Arula? Or is
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: more information to come? We're gonna see how the video
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: is is shown to Rula. Lauren, Yes, sir, you got
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: a big day. Thanks for taking the time to jump
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: on with us. It's always a pleasure to break down
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: the real Housewives of Rhode Island with you. Than until
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: next time, I've been Been.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: I've been Lauren.
• 31:24
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