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The Gilded Rager (RHUGT EP 9 Recap) · 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 almost famous. It's Ben and Lauren back
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  Speaker 2: to breakdown the final episode. Are you sad, Lauren?
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  Speaker 3: I'm kind of sad. I feel like they left us
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  Speaker 3: with like something to be desired.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Hear more about that in a second. Final episode of
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  Speaker 2: the real housewives ultimate girls trip roaring 20th. Before we
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  Speaker 2: get into the breakdown, um, You just said, Lauren, that
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  Speaker 2: it left you with something to be desired. Can you
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  Speaker 2: please elaborate?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I guess we did see like some fighting from
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  Speaker 3: the Rhode Islanders towards the end. And they didn't tell
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  Speaker 3: us what they were fighting about. And that was kind
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  Speaker 3: of like leaving me on a cliffhanger. But I guess
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  Speaker 3: that's just supposed to have us watch Rhode Island. Um,
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  Speaker 3: and then they were like, okay, let's pop champagne fireworks
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  Speaker 3: and we're going to go party away. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I thought there'd be a little more conclusion with like the, um,
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  Speaker 3: the core group from the girls trip.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Like we didn't get that final scene of them. Um,
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  Speaker 2: we did hear from Andy during this episode that he
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  Speaker 2: had heard the trip was going well. I was actually
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  Speaker 2: surprised by it a little bit because I felt like
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  Speaker 2: the trip was not going well for many that were
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  Speaker 2: on the bus.
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  Speaker 3: I guess all things considered in Housewives world, this was heaven. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I think this is pretty even keeled. People like Luann
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  Speaker 3: was taking criticism really well, actually, after a drunken night
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  Speaker 3: that we saw. Yeah, I think it was going pretty well,
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  Speaker 3: I think. just enough drama to keep people going. But
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  Speaker 3: I enjoyed watching this season because it was like palatable.
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  Speaker 3: Like it wasn't just full on screaming all the time.
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  Speaker 2: I agree with that. I actually think I, looking back,
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  Speaker 2: learned a lot about the housewives franchise from this. I
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  Speaker 2: learned about my new favorite character on the house. No,
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  Speaker 2: I do like Kyle. It's Chanel, right?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Chanel, yes.
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  Speaker 2: I think Chanel's, every scene that she's in, it makes
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  Speaker 2: me laugh.
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  Speaker 3: Gold, gold, yes.
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  Speaker 2: She just, I feel like she's a good hang. She's funny.
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  Speaker 2: She's logical. And she's just going to go after. I
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  Speaker 2: think she's hilarious.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I will concur. And now I watch Housewives of
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  Speaker 3: Dubai because I've never seen that either. She's definitely a
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  Speaker 3: new favorite. Vicky is a new favorite because I love
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  Speaker 3: how she wants to just be in her bed and
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  Speaker 3: warm and cozy. And then obviously we got the OG Luann,
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  Speaker 3: who is still my favorite after, after all of this.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk a little bit about Luann. This episode does start, um,
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  Speaker 2: with the solution to the cliffhanger from last episode where
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  Speaker 2: she is in the bus. She's late to the bus
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  Speaker 2: and it is brought to her attention that she has
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  Speaker 2: been annoying and is annoying. Most of the people I
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  Speaker 2: found it fascinating that, because you don't usually see this
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  Speaker 2: on television too often. I do think it's something I'm
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  Speaker 2: learning to appreciate about the housewives. They didn't back down.
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  Speaker 2: They said, no, Luann, you have annoyed all of us.
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  Speaker 2: Now let's move forward. How do we, you know that truth.
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  Speaker 2: What do we do about it now? And Luann, as
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  Speaker 2: you said, did respond well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. she was like, sorry, I've actually just been having
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  Speaker 3: such a good time that I haven't realized that everyone
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  Speaker 3: isn't like kind of on my level right now. I
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  Speaker 3: feel like she just felt safe with all these girls
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  Speaker 3: was like, we're on vacation. We're having fun. There's drinks.
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  Speaker 3: It's all the way in once. And she thought that
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  Speaker 3: everyone's like just talking and singing all the time too. Um,
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  Speaker 3: but some people need like a breath.
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  Speaker 2: Do you, do you ever find that happens with you
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  Speaker 2: where like, You're in an environment, you're having a blast
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  Speaker 2: and you at some point look back and you're like,
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  Speaker 2: maybe I was not seeing things the way everybody else was.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely. It's just like overthinking central after a big.
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  Speaker 3: loud get together. So, I mean, it's, it's rare for
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  Speaker 3: me because I'm an overthinker like that, but I definitely
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  Speaker 3: could see how that's happening. Like everyone's having such a
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  Speaker 3: good time. It's like, you're ignoring like the person in
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  Speaker 3: the corner who's like Vicky, who's just like, please, I
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  Speaker 3: need silence.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I get that way sometimes. There's a few moments
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  Speaker 2: where it stands out to me where I'll look back
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  Speaker 2: and be like, I read that situation completely inaccurately. And
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  Speaker 2: now I'm the idiot in the room.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I know that Luann will watch this and see,
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  Speaker 3: especially the Miami trip, I think, where she was at
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  Speaker 3: the dinner table or the lunch table and just spewing,
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  Speaker 3: spewing words, words. And she's like, yeah, that was actually
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  Speaker 3: pretty bad. So she's going to actually have the instant
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  Speaker 3: replay or not instant replay, months replay and see it
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  Speaker 3: firsthand rather than our memories just making this shit up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's tough. I don't want to shut up on anybody.
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  Speaker 2: I'm actually shocked I ever did TV.
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  Speaker 3: I think about that every day of my life, Ben.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. How did I do that? Because I beat myself
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  Speaker 2: up over the stupidest of things. And the idea that
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  Speaker 2: I had to watch myself back. How did I not
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  Speaker 2: have an absolute meltdown?
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's why you were so good, though. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it must have been exhausting being in your head, but
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  Speaker 3: you did play it all very well.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you. That does give me peace of mind.
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  Speaker 2: I need to hear that because there'll be many nightmares.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, you wake up like, why did I do that?
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  Speaker 2: Why did I say that?
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  Speaker 3: You can't fall asleep. Do you fall asleep with a
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  Speaker 3: TV on or anything to distract yourself from your thoughts?
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 3: Just raw dog it?
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  Speaker 2: No, I just... Just raw dog it.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I love that. This means so many different things now,
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  Speaker 2: and it's not what it meant when I was growing up. No. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I just raw dog life, really.
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  Speaker 3: That's so great.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's fun. Hey, so the solution with Luann does exist.
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  Speaker 2: I do feel like it's a very special moment, and
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  Speaker 2: it's the moment we kind of all want to see
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  Speaker 2: at the conclusion of this really fun trip. They all
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  Speaker 2: come together. They mention how much they love each other.
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  Speaker 2: And it does set up for what I feel like
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  Speaker 2: is kind of a team coming into this final episode.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to walk into that mansion as a team
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  Speaker 2: in support of each other more than some isolated events.
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  Speaker 2: Before we dive into what actually happens at the mansion
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  Speaker 2: and all the details of who we meet and who's
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  Speaker 2: there and if it's special or not, there is a
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  Speaker 2: very weird scene. That just pops up in the middle
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  Speaker 2: of the show with a guy. Wendy's?
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  Speaker 1: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: What'd you say?
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  Speaker 3: Wendy's?
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  Speaker 2: Going to Wendy's? No, it goes for Wendy's. They paid
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  Speaker 2: a lot of money for that stop.
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  Speaker 3: They paid a lot of money for that stop. Okay, yes.
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  Speaker 2: What guy? So Vicky checks into the hotel. She's exhausted as,
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  Speaker 2: you know what? I get it, Vicky. I'd be too.
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  Speaker 2: All you want to do is go to your room
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  Speaker 2: if you have 45 minutes and just close your eyes,
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  Speaker 2: lay on the bed without anybody talking around you. And
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  Speaker 2: there's this guy that carries her bags up. He's holding
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  Speaker 2: a glass of wine. I watched it three times trying
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  Speaker 2: to figure out if at any point we get clarity
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  Speaker 2: on who this man is. We don't, and then it
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  Speaker 2: never comes back around. It just ends. Who was he?
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  Speaker 2: Was he endangering Vicky? What's his role there? He's in
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  Speaker 2: her room.
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  Speaker 3: I guess there was a collection of fans in the Berkshires,
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  Speaker 3: and they were welcoming them. And it ended up being
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  Speaker 3: like four in the morning, which is weird that they
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  Speaker 3: would stick around. And obviously they were all drinking while
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  Speaker 3: waiting because this man was drunk. I think he was
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  Speaker 3: just a fan. And then Luann was like, do you
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  Speaker 3: want to be funny if you help Vicky with her
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  Speaker 3: bags to her room? And Vicky was unaware of who
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  Speaker 3: he was either. But he was just a fan that
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  Speaker 3: was doing what he was told by Luann. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: he was not leaving quick enough, though.
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  Speaker 2: No, it was like... You know, we all have had
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  Speaker 2: moments where it's like, hey, it's time for things to depart.
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  Speaker 2: We all move on. It's better. He was lingering.
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  Speaker 3: He was soaking in that Housewives moment with the OG Vicky.
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  Speaker 2: He did get a screen time. So he will watch this.
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  Speaker 2: And I mean, even if he looks odd, he's going
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  Speaker 2: to get a screen time.
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  Speaker 3: And Vicky's like, who are you? I don't know who
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  Speaker 3: you are. Get out of my room. So I think
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  Speaker 3: she was actually, she handled it pretty well because she
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  Speaker 3: was just as confused as us. Love her for that.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder if there was a prompt for the girls
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  Speaker 2: to play pranks on their cast members because Kyle also
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  Speaker 2: pulls a prank then on Portia with the producer hiding
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  Speaker 2: under the bed and grabs Portia's leg because the hotel
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  Speaker 2: they're staying in, the Red Lion Inn, is allegedly haunted.
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  Speaker 2: And so I'm sure this was a play on that.
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  Speaker 2: So they're having fun with each other, I think is
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  Speaker 2: the point. That's nice.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Keep it light, everyone. I hope that no one
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  Speaker 3: takes a prank too far. This prank reminded me of
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  Speaker 3: a prank I played on Ashley when we were younger.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if I've said this, but she was
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  Speaker 3: in seventh grade watching all classic horror movies. And so
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  Speaker 3: she just saw The Exorcist. And I hid under her
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  Speaker 3: bed for like an hour and a half waiting for
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  Speaker 3: her to go to bed. And the second she like
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  Speaker 3: kind of started falling asleep, I like rocked the bed
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  Speaker 3: and she, cause you know, the bed moves in the
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  Speaker 3: exorcist and she flew off. And then I grabbed her
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  Speaker 3: foot from underneath the bed.
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  Speaker 2: It was the funniest.
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  Speaker 3: What did she do? Like my mom said she was
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  Speaker 3: waiting to see her reaction for also the hour and
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  Speaker 3: a half. And she just went white and just, you know,
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  Speaker 3: obviously leaped and screamed. But like, I was like, that
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  Speaker 3: is a very, very uh, perfect prank on Kyle's part because.
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  Speaker 2: It actually get mad at you. Yes. Yes. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Very, very mad. And then my mom was like, what
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  Speaker 3: kind of mother am I facilitating this prank to my
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  Speaker 3: young daughter? Anyway, that was funny.
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  Speaker 2: That is, I want to ask Ashley about this. I
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  Speaker 2: want to hear.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Um, if she, you know, if she remembers it, she does,
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  Speaker 2: she remembers everything. Yes. The Bluestone Manor is the reason
• 10:30
  Speaker 2: they're in this area. The final party of the ultimate
• 10:38
  Speaker 2: girls trip is themed the Gilded Age. Now, who thought
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  Speaker 2: that asking a bunch of housewives to dress like the
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  Speaker 2: Gilded Age was a good idea? I'm not saying these
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  Speaker 2: housewives are very, very intelligent people. That is not what
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying here. But we've learned through this season that
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  Speaker 2: references and historical events are maybe not their expertise. It's
• 11:04
  Speaker 2: not where they spend their time studying.
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  Speaker 3: All I kept thinking about was Joellen when they asked
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  Speaker 3: her what the 4th of July was about.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, how is she going to know what the
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  Speaker 3: Gilded Age is?
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  Speaker 1: 100%.
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  Speaker 2: And so I know they're all Googling this. We're definitely
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  Speaker 2: going to get a bunch of fur jackets, which is,
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  Speaker 2: you know, great. Does Ashley own a fur jacket?
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  Speaker 3: Well, she owns a fur jacket, but I don't think
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  Speaker 3: she ever thinks to wear it. She always has this
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  Speaker 3: stupid trench coat-looking thing from Abercrombie that she wears over
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  Speaker 3: formal attire, and it drives me nuts. So I asked
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  Speaker 3: her after watching, I was like, which coat did you bring?
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  Speaker 3: She goes, and I'm waiting for the answer. And she goes,
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  Speaker 3: I think it was the Abercrombie one. I'm like, I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to kill you. Because these women are wearing... the
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  Speaker 3: most extravagant Fox furs ever, which I know is also
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  Speaker 3: a touchy touchy subject, which is probably why she doesn't
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  Speaker 3: wear fur all the time.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, I don't enjoy the idea of a Fox being
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  Speaker 2: on somebody's head. I love a Fox.
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  Speaker 3: I know. And so every single woman there had a,
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  Speaker 3: had a, a fur jacket on and I just want
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  Speaker 3: her to blend in a little bit. You know, I
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  Speaker 3: want her to not stick out so much by wearing
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  Speaker 3: an Abercrombie trench coat. So it was freezing. It was
• 12:19
  Speaker 3: freezing there. Yeah. I'm sure a lot of them were
• 12:20
  Speaker 3: fake too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, like just rock a fake fur. It doesn't have
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  Speaker 2: to be real. Nobody's going to be more impressed that
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  Speaker 2: you have alpaca on your back.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: You can find a fake fur that looks great and
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  Speaker 2: is warm and cozy. Ashley, as we've learned through doing
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  Speaker 2: this with you, doesn't think about her fashion as much
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  Speaker 2: as some of these others.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely not. But she would want to be warm because
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  Speaker 3: you could literally see the breath.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting note from this party too is there's no food
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  Speaker 2: to be found it looks like through this whole party.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, you know, as I mentioned, one of my
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  Speaker 2: favorite Chanel is commenting on the fact that she's so hungry,
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  Speaker 2: she's going to eat the decorative grapes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's, it's rude. It's a terrible host. One of
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  Speaker 3: the rules by Dorinda is no food upstairs. Guess what?
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  Speaker 3: No food to be found. You can't even bring the
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  Speaker 3: food upstairs. So maybe she's actually a big stickler and
• 13:17
  Speaker 3: worried about her home being destroyed that she didn't even
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  Speaker 3: offer food this time.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you obviously and I both know Ashley and we
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  Speaker 2: know that if there's no food somewhere, Ashley does not
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  Speaker 2: do well. She is not one to just like stay
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  Speaker 2: quiet about it. She's going to be going through your
• 13:34
  Speaker 2: refrigerator if there's no food in the house.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: What did she do?
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  Speaker 3: It's so true. This whole party, I was thinking, I
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  Speaker 3: don't know how Ashley's surviving. So much socializing with people
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  Speaker 3: she doesn't know in uncomfortable dresses, not a warm coat.
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  Speaker 3: freezing heels no food it's a nightmare for her i
• 13:57
  Speaker 3: don't know how she survived but there were hors d'oeuvres
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  Speaker 3: being passed around i'm sure like you know a little
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: piece of salmon or something isn't gonna keep your belly
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  Speaker 3: full but she obviously had a one-liner in here one
• 14:08
  Speaker 3: of line was like i never say no to food
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: or something so there she is being absolutely classic ashley
• 14:15
  Speaker 3: and what's it Since we're just talking about Ashley, let's
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  Speaker 3: just do the other time we saw her in this
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  Speaker 3: episode and that'll be it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: She is introducing herself to Luann. And I'm just like,
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  Speaker 3: can you just be confident and look at Luann? It's
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: so nice to meet you. I've been watching you for
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: so long. You're blah, blah, blah. Rather than just be like, hi,
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  Speaker 3: I don't really know what I'm doing here. The double
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: kiss on each side of the cheek. like the kiss
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  Speaker 3: kiss is like classic Luann. She should have known that
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  Speaker 3: going in to prepare for that. You know?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: She's just like, wow. Wow. This is just a loud
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  Speaker 3: and crazy. I'm like, they're going to treat you like
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: you're a child. If you can't just say hello normally,
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: but I love you. Yeah.
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: But it's her and Rosie together. They're both doing this.
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  Speaker 2: Rosie is, if you look at that scene again, everybody's
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: talking amongst each other and Rosie's, Like doing what I
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: said I did last week where she's repeating herself over
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  Speaker 2: and over until somebody hears what she's actually saying.
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  Speaker 1: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Because she's nervous. Yes. And she's excited. And she thinks
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  Speaker 2: she has something cool to say that's going to make
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  Speaker 2: her fit in. And so she's just repeating herself. And
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  Speaker 2: it gets really awkward to watch because nobody's paying attention
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  Speaker 2: to her. And they never do.
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  Speaker 3: No one's listening to what anyone's saying, truly. No.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's not just Rosie. It's just that everybody's like
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: speaking past each other. And she's so excited to meet Luann. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: You have a legit celebrity moment. I've seen this with Ashley.
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: The one best memory is the first time she met
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: Lance Bass.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, gosh.
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  Speaker 2: It was one of the funniest interactions I've ever witnessed
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  Speaker 2: with my own eyes is her excitement and her nervousness
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: and her spewing these random things as fast as she
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: possibly could.
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  Speaker 3: Uh-huh. Yes. Yes. Like I was in a magazine when
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  Speaker 3: I was little and I had the most posters on
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  Speaker 3: my wall.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Um, at least like with Lance Bass, she had like
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  Speaker 3: a lineup of, of good things to say. Luann, she's
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: just like, it's cool to me. Yeah. Well, whatever. We'll
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: give Ashley some grace there. It was a rough night, rough,
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: rough night. It's also like a whole bunch of ladies
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  Speaker 3: just like trying to talk over each other. So no
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: one's having substantial conversation. So you're just trying to make
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: like a good enough impression.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: We really don't see any conversations existing until the Rhode
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: Island ladies sit down in the parlor room. Honestly, I
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: am loyal to Rhode Island. It's the only season I've
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: watched front to back. They really annoyed me during this episode.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: Like I did not enjoy who they were at this party.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: And I don't know if that's just because they did
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: feel like outsiders. And so they kind of had to
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: sit together. And I don't know if any of them
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: actually really like each other that much. In general, they're
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: just comfortable seeing another person. But they did... I mean,
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: they did kind of distract from the party in a
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: lot of ways.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: But I think that's kind of what a Housewives party
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: feels like it is at this point. All season, we've
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: seen people distract from the party.
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: So true. So true. I mean, I think it was.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: You know, like, they're... their turn to, to argue, I
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: guess like everyone along the way has already had their
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: little arguments and it's just cause they're the unknown ones
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: that it seemed to be even more disruptive. Cause they're like,
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: we don't even know you. Like, what do you even,
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: what are you even arguing about? It's like, well, we
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: just filmed our season and awaiting the reunion. So they
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: didn't get the re like this was before they filmed
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: the reunion. So they didn't get to a chance to
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: hash it out yet. Like this was the first time
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: to hash it out.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Okay, that makes sense timing-wise.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so they haven't seen each other since filming Wrapped,
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: but not the reunion Wrapped.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so emotions were strong. And everyone was coming for
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: Joellen for some reason. We don't really know. She's the Antichrist,
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: according to Liz. What else did we see? Oh, Rosie
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: yelling at Kelsey. It was just all classic, but we
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: don't know what any of it was virtually about.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it just was a lot of yelling. It did
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: feel distracting. Dorinda is hosting this party. And it does
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: seem at the core of all of this, Dorinda's hope
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: for this evening is to celebrate 20 years. It does
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: feel like she wants it to be a celebration and
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: emotional as they look back on the time together for
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: the Real Housewives franchise, which helps that Andy Cohen shows up.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: It makes sense that he shows up. Once he shows up,
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: it does feel to me like the vibe in the
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: house changes. It goes from more of everybody talking over
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: each other to when Andy at least is in conversation.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: People listen.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: Yes, you can't piss off Andy. He is the.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Does Andy ever get pissed off? Have we ever seen it? Yeah, yeah.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: I think he's a very short fuse. He has his favorites. Um,
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: it's like almost scary. I'd be very scared to piss
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: him off. Um, because it's very obvious when, when he
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: dislikes you or just like something that you said.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: So yeah. Interesting. So he's got like this little sass.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: So much sass, like scary sass.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Really? I've never seen that yet.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Am I completely out of it?
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: It's like, I think sometimes it happens when I watch
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: what happens after the show.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: Um, when he's interviewing, um, certain people and doesn't like
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: their answers and stuff. It's like kind of like, Like,
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: you have to know his personality a little bit to, like, notice. Like,
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: it's not so obvious for the outsider person to understand, but, like...
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: you can see when he's mad it's like ashley i
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: think he likes ashley yeah.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Okay and then obviously if we think about this in
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: detail there are we've mentioned this and now i'm making
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: sense of it there are our housewives who have been
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: on the franchise who have left or spoken ill about
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: the franchise and are never brought up again. You know?
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: So if he doesn't like you, you're done, you're done,
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: done out of you.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Couple other questions I need to ask my expert Lauren here. Yeah. Um,
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: We get a few flashbacks this episode of past scenes.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: One of them is including Luanne and Dorinda. And the
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: whole thing is this insider joke of feeling Giovanni. And
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: I don't get it. I was lost the whole time.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: Okay, so it was intentional that... Dorinda and Luann wore
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: the same dress from Giovanni because when Luann was doing
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: her cabaret shows, she got all Giovanni dresses, but only
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: got Giovanni dresses because Dorinda introduced her to Giovanni. So
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: she was drunk in the audience. Dorinda was screaming, that's Giovanni,
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: that's Giovanni, taking like full credit for Luann's like outfits. Also,
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: fun fact, my boyfriend, made of honor dress at Ash's
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: wedding was Giovanni. Really?
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: So it's a good designer. Yes.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: It's kind of funny. Cause it's not like the most
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: like expensive thing of all time. Like if you're having
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: a big wedding or something, Giovanni would be acceptable. So
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: I actually clocked that Luann was carrying a Giovanni, um, dress,
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: a bag, um, getting onto the sprinter van. I was like, Oh, Giovanni,
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: it's so funny. Like I've actually have a Giovanni dress.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: So I felt like in the club. And then this
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: whole thing happened.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: So let me, side note, Lauren, because you have a
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Giovanni dress and you wore it for your sister's wedding,
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: would you ever wear it again for a different event?
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: No, but I would keep it. Yeah, I mean.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: That's why our closet in my house is stocked full
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: of clothes because that's the mindset.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: It's sentimental. So you need to have like a vac
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: seal there storage bin of dresses that you want to
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: like pass down to your kids, you know? Cause like,
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: I'm just keeping, I have a son. What am I doing?
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: I don't know, but like, I want someone else to
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: wear it and be like, Oh, she wore that, you know,
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: to a big event. So, but I would never wear
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: it again.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Uh, okay. So that helps me make sense of the
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: Giovanni moment. Uh, I did mention Andy Cohen does show up, uh,
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: to bluestone manor, everybody in the room, seems to be
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: very excited to see him. He gives a very special
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: toast in celebration of the women who have done this franchise.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: And I don't think it's lost on any viewer, or
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: us especially, that filming The Housewives is a very difficult process.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: You are opening your life up to criticism and praise
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: and exposure that most of the world never has to
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: open up to. But They've done it, and they've done
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: it successfully for 20 seasons. And we obviously started this
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: show in support of their newest season, or their newest show,
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: which is The Road to Highland, Housewives. But we now
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: know a housewife. There's only 200 of them, Andy says,
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: in the world. but there's many housewives that are existing
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: out there amongst us.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: So true.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: It's so true.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: He welcomes Ashley and Rosie into the club, or I
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: guess he welcomes all the new cast. And it's just like,
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: what else can you say other than like, wow, this
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: is so crazy. So crazy. Thank you so much. So crazy.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: Like there's no words to Andy Cohen being like, welcome
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: to the club. It's, it is just so crazy.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: As we close up this breakdown of this episode specifically,
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: what else stood out to you during this episode that
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: I think we should touch on?
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: Let me think about it. We did see Heather and Lisa.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Oh yes.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: This is what I wanted to bring up. Heather and
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: Lisa talking, talking to Andy or Andy was actually just
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: standing in between them while they were talking essentially. Um,
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: and Heather called Lisa, like, I can't remember the word
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: she said, like phony or something or, or, and then she,
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: and then Lisa goes, I had Charlie XCX in my
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: dressing room. You think I'm phony? It's like, well, I
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: pause it and I go in what world does one
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: have to the other? like at her lounge, she had
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: her at her lounge. So she just needed us. She
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: was like, how can I fit in that? I know
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: Charlie XCX, or I was in the same room as
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: this girl. And she took the opportunity then and no
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: one even addressed it. I thought that would be a
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: great opportunity for someone to make fun of her. And
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: no one made fun of her.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: That was big.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: And then also another thing is I saw the Wendy's thing.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: And now I know Lisa does a lot of ads
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: for Wendy's. Um, but Wendy's, she, she did an interview
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: and she was, they're like, how many times do you
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: actually eat Wendy's? And she goes three times a day,
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: three times a day. She's at Wendy's three separate times.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: And they're like, okay, well, what do you get?
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: What do you get?
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: What do you get? I'm like, you're a liar, Lisa.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: You're a liar. And now I'm certain of it. No,
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: one's going to Wendy's three times a day.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Nobody's going to Wendy's three times a day and looking
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: like you do. Yes.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: Like, okay, sure, maybe you go three times a day
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: for a Diet Coke. That's not it.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. For a Diet Coke, great. But you're not
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: eating the spicy chicken with a side of fries and
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: dipping it in that Frosty like I am.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: No, no.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: That's what I like.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: Great order, great order.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you very much. What about you?
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: Anything else?
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: I just think it was a good celebration. The fireworks
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: were a great touch. I'm with you where I would
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: have loved to see the cast that we followed this
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: whole season maybe in one last scene. talking and amongst
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: each other as they send each other back off to
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: their respective homes. But we didn't get to see that.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: But I do think this, what this whole thing in
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: closing Lauren did for me, it made me believe that
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: the housewives are in a really good spot. Not only
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: with the send off to the start of a new
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: season of the real housewives of New York, but also
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: we have Rhode Island. And then I got to meet
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: my favorite Chanel and, who's doing Dubai that we now
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: need to tune into. It just, I'm not that curious
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: about Utah because it just feels like it's too much
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: drama for me. Oh, Dubai is over. I'll go back.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: You can still go back.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: I'll go back.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: Chanel back there.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Isn't that what we all do? We just go
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: back and watch past seasons.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: That's it. That's exactly what.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah. No Utah for me either. For some reason, I
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: have no desire to watch Utah. I'm sorry. It just
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: seems too convoluted at this point. I don't have the energy.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not really my thing. I don't really want
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: to watch people yelling at each other the whole time.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: I mean, Housewives, or Rhode Island's kind of like that,
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: but then we get to watch Ashley, who's our little,
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: you know, light in the... Yeah, glimmer of hope. So yeah,
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: it just seems like the Housewives is in a really
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: good spot, and it's cool to see 20 years celebrated. Selfishly,
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: I would love to see The Bachelor do something like this.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: You know? Yeah. It's been a long time since I've
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: felt connected. And I'm sure there's reasons.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: Well, you have a cruise coming up.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Let's celebrate there.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: Let's just do that. We'll make it nice, right? Making
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: it nice. I love their ending celebration. I'm like, who
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: uses their own quote as like the final cheers, but
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: make it nice.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: Make it nice. And we'll make it nice here. Hey,
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: if you've loved listening to the ultimate girls trip with
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: Lauren and I, thank you for listening. But it doesn't
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: mean that Lauren is going anywhere. We know the Almost
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Famous family has not only adopted her in, she is
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: now our shining sweetheart when it comes to breaking down
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: the episodes of The Real Housewives of whatever franchise we
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: choose next. Hopefully it is Rhode Island. This doesn't mean
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: Lauren's going anywhere. it doesn't mean that I'm going anywhere.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: So make sure you continue to tune in to everything
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: the Almost Famous Podcast is putting out there for your
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: little beautiful ears to listen to. We're excited here to
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: announce right now that myself and Bob Guinea are going
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: to be breaking down his season of The Bachelor. That
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: means I get to watch it, get to talk to
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: the man himself about it. If you know Bob, you
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: know he's funny. He is insightful. He is also transparent.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: So please follow along on that journey to give a
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: little flashback to the, the golden years.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: That's an enjoyable watch.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: That's going to be good.
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: That's fun.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah. There's a lot of talk in there.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: About how he was the most promiscuous bachelor of all time.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: I would have never thought that.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: No, come on. Sweet. Our sweet Bob. I know. All right.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: Well, I'll watch along with you.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Thanks, Lauren. Appreciate it. Hey, you're great. Well, uh, We'll
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: be back on here, hopefully breaking down season two of
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: The Real Housewives of Rhode Island, if it ever does.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: gets confirmed, has it been confirmed yet?
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's definitely confirmed.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Um, you don't know who's on it, but we'll be
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: talking about it.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: Right. Filming's confirmed. Cool stuff's happening. Some drama's already gone down.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: So excited to watch it. Um, whenever that does come out.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: Awesome. Hey, uh, until next time I've been Ben, I've
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: been Lauren. We'll talk to you soon, everybody.
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: Bye.
• 30:03
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