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Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip: Roaring 20th Ep 1 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 with.
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  Speaker 2: On our radio. Welcome back to the Almost Famous podcast.
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  Speaker 2: It's been back together with Lauren. It's been way too long.
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  Speaker 1: I know I miss this.
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  Speaker 2: I miss it. We are recapping a new show, Real Housewives,
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  Speaker 2: Ultimate Girls Trip Roaring twentieth. Like I said a few
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  Speaker 2: weeks ago, with my like our inability to say ours
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  Speaker 2: roaring might be the hardest word for me to say
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  Speaker 2: in the dictionary, yet they decided to name it the
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  Speaker 2: thing I can't say.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, how do you say rory?
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  Speaker 3: Then?
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  Speaker 1: Real Housewives of Rhode Island? Oh is that hard? I
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  Speaker 1: didn't know you couldn't say you're ours.
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  Speaker 2: You're right, I can't say my ours roar, roaring, roaring,
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  Speaker 2: Real Housewives of Rhode Island. It's bad. It's bad. It's
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  Speaker 2: a test.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, No, that's that's rude of them, honestly to you.
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  Speaker 1: But I've never known you couldn't say you're as So
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  Speaker 1: that's funny.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty wild. If you've listened long enough, you've
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  Speaker 2: probably heard me like stumble over it a few times.
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  Speaker 2: But it's not good. It's you know, it's it was
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  Speaker 2: really hard as a sixth grader can you imagine.
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna say, the worst time is sixth grade,
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  Speaker 1: where people are like just figuring out how to say
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  Speaker 1: there ares you know, and you're.
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  Speaker 2: The one guy that's going to speech class going Yeah, Lauren,
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  Speaker 2: before we get started, I was with your brother in
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  Speaker 2: law for the last four days.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he needed a break.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, And I don't think he'll mind me
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  Speaker 2: saying this because it's really just a sweet thing, but
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  Speaker 2: you need to talk to him, oh God, because he
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  Speaker 2: had a blast. He's one of the best dudes I know.
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  Speaker 2: And he's a good golfer he is. He's good. He
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  Speaker 2: doesn't play enough, but he's good.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't he only does like nine holes at a time,
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  Speaker 1: like go along.
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  Speaker 2: He was stressed about leaving, like he I could tell
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  Speaker 2: he felt anxiety over being there. Yeah, and there was
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  Speaker 2: really no reason why, like nothing was going down outside
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  Speaker 2: of like golf and dinners. But I could tell he
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  Speaker 2: felt like he was should have been somewhere else. And
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  Speaker 2: I was like, dude, you, out of anybody, give everything
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  Speaker 2: to everything else. Yeah, like this is where you need
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  Speaker 2: to be.
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  Speaker 1: Yes the most, like mead time he has, which isn't
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  Speaker 1: even mead time because Ashton, the kids go a softball
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  Speaker 1: like every other Sunday or something for an hour, and
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  Speaker 1: he was he thinks like, oh then if I'm gone now,
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  Speaker 1: then it's like that's four hours more I need to
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  Speaker 1: spend with the kids or working at Audrey's or something.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, he definitely needs more trips like that. I agree,
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  Speaker 1: And that's very rare for a woman to say that
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  Speaker 1: a man needs to go on more golf trips, but
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  Speaker 1: he does.
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  Speaker 2: He does. Yeah, that's sweet. I think it's healthy. Everybody
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  Speaker 2: was excited to go back home, which is also I
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  Speaker 2: think Jared kind of led the charge of like how
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  Speaker 2: great is it that we go away, but we are
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  Speaker 2: excited to go back home. I think that's why you
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  Speaker 2: do those things, like I want to be back with
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  Speaker 2: my family. The first like day, you're like, this is awesome. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: the second day you're like, this is good. Second half
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  Speaker 2: of the day you're like, I'm ready to go back home.
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  Speaker 3: To my kid.
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  Speaker 1: And exactly, I love that a hunter will send me
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  Speaker 1: text like that too, be like I won't hear from
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  Speaker 1: for the first two days, and then the third it's
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  Speaker 1: like I cannot wait to get out of here. So
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  Speaker 1: it's perfect. A tount of time it's so good.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, let's talk about this a little background. The Real
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  Speaker 2: Housewives have now been around for twenty years, which is crazy.
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  Speaker 2: I remember when the first season came out. You and
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  Speaker 2: I are both new fans to the House Size Housewives franchise.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's very obvious why we became fans, and
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  Speaker 2: will be clear, I really loved watching Rhode Island. I
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  Speaker 2: thought it was a really enjoyable, wild mix up for
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  Speaker 2: the chaos of the world, and throughout it, our producer,
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  Speaker 2: Heather has kind of coached us on past seasons. Who's
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  Speaker 2: the players, who's the characters, What's happened in each location?
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  Speaker 2: Why are certain locations better than others. We've gotten like
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  Speaker 2: a feel, at least for me. I'll speak for myself.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I've gotten a feel for the Real
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  Speaker 2: Housewives franchise, but I don't still think I understand it fully.
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  Speaker 2: And watching the first episode of the reunion the Real
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  Speaker 2: Housewives road.
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  Speaker 1: Trip, you know thing, Ultimate Girls Trip.
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  Speaker 2: Ultimate Girls Trip. Yeah, I do feel like my education
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  Speaker 2: on The Housewives has gotten better.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, each each day we're growing more and more key
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  Speaker 1: in to these women I love. I mean, it's probably
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  Speaker 1: such an honor to be picked for the Ultimate Girls
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  Speaker 1: Trip because there's been twenty years in so many seasons
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  Speaker 1: and so much rotation in each cast, and then these
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  Speaker 1: are the ultimate, the Ultimates of the Ultimates. Did you
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  Speaker 1: know who Teresa Judas was before this from New Jersey?
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  Speaker 2: I think I did, and here's why, and Heather correct me.
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  Speaker 2: So we're gonna be calling Heather in a little bit
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  Speaker 2: during this episode because she is our coach, like we're
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  Speaker 2: the players. She's coaching us, and so sometimes you need
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  Speaker 2: to take a time out and make sure that you're
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  Speaker 2: on the right track. Heather, is it? What is Teresa's daughter,
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  Speaker 2: the one that has the other podcast with you?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, you have met Dia because we do her Dirty
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  Speaker 3: Rush podcast. You met her Tahoe.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I knew who she was, Lourene, because I
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  Speaker 2: met her daughter in Tahoe and like was promoting the
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  Speaker 2: Dirty Rush show and looked up her mom. Okay while
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  Speaker 2: we were there, and I was, and she for whatever reason,
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  Speaker 2: I did recognize her, Like I did say, oh, I've
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  Speaker 2: seen her somewhere on TV before, but I'm not familiar.
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  Speaker 2: Like that's about as big as i'd know her.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Because when I look at this this group of women.
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  Speaker 1: She seems to be the most like widely known because
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  Speaker 1: she has the classic where she flips the table at dinner.
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  Speaker 1: I'm you've probably seen a mema that she like flips
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  Speaker 1: the table over. Also, she went to prison, Okay, that
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  Speaker 1: is why she's been widely known, and then her daughter's famous.
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  Speaker 1: And she was also on Special Forces, which is one
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  Speaker 1: of my diehard love that show. So that's why she
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  Speaker 1: is like the most iconic to me.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so you know who else stood out to me? Porsia.
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  Speaker 2: I do know of Porsia because I think she's referenced
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  Speaker 2: a lot when it comes to the icons of the franchise. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I have a couple of gay buddies who love Housewives,
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  Speaker 2: uh huh, And every once in a while, like when
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  Speaker 2: we're together, they'll like like like inside talk I don't
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  Speaker 2: know how to say it, Like they have these inside
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  Speaker 2: jokes about life and things that I never understand. But
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  Speaker 2: The Housewives is typically those jokes, and Porsicha's like referenced
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  Speaker 2: a lot. Like they'll say I think things like that's
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  Speaker 2: so Porsia or something. I'm like, I have no idea
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  Speaker 2: of them.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, amazing, Well, we'll definitely learn more about her, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm over like all these ladies. The Countess Luanne is
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  Speaker 1: my is my number one in any franchise of all time,
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  Speaker 1: like like my sister, and then the Countess Luyne because
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  Speaker 1: she is so unintentionally funny and so herself and she
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  Speaker 1: she just loves boys, and I think that's the most
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  Speaker 1: fun The most fun thing to watch is anytime there's
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  Speaker 1: a man in the vicinity, she turns on all the
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  Speaker 1: sexiness and and she you'll see, you'll see, I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: we'll go down when they get to New York. Like
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  Speaker 1: all of herly classic moments, this is an also loves
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  Speaker 1: boys of any kind.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and twers. I'm look out. Okay, Now I do
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  Speaker 2: recognize her from yes, sixty one years old and still loving.
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  Speaker 1: Boys, loves them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go.
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  Speaker 1: Good for her, I know, good for her, But yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Who else did out? Don't?
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  Speaker 3: We?
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  Speaker 2: We have Vicky from Orange County. Vicky is a Is she.
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  Speaker 1: Chrisly She's not, but I see what I see the resemblance. Yes, okay, yes,
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  Speaker 1: Vicky is obviously og first first housewife ever the most wild, screams,
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  Speaker 1: says everything very Ramona esque. You probably don't know Ramona,
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  Speaker 1: but she has romona qualities from from Housewives of New
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  Speaker 1: York just says anything like like she'll be in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of a conversation about taxes as we see, and
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  Speaker 1: then she like, we'll start talking about a clothing brand
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  Speaker 1: and then scream and then cry and the most quintessential
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  Speaker 1: housewife you could have ever asked for.
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  Speaker 2: As we kicked this off, obviously we mentioned I think
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  Speaker 2: this is a fun breakdown to do because you and
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  Speaker 2: I are not experts on the Housewives, but we are
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  Speaker 2: becoming fans. We are getting educated from the people that
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  Speaker 2: are on the road trip that you know, Lauren, who
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  Speaker 2: would you be most likely to enjoy hanging out with?
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  Speaker 2: Like who would you.
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  Speaker 1: Want to take a fun question? I would kick it
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  Speaker 1: with Luanne for sure, but like they do have other
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  Speaker 1: people pop up, but like from the starting the starting
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  Speaker 1: lineup here, I would say Luanne because she's so funny,
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  Speaker 1: so dry. I think she's the hottest thing ever and
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  Speaker 1: she loves boys and we all can relate to that,
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  Speaker 1: or I can relate to that.
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  Speaker 2: You and your like, uh what ten years ago? Maybe
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  Speaker 2: years ago? Ye are very similar on the prow always
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  Speaker 2: yes yeh. Turning on the sexiness, making sure you're seene,
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  Speaker 2: who here would you be least likely to hang out with?
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  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, Well, I just don't know Lisa Barlow.
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  Speaker 1: From what I've said, I don't know her truly at all.
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  Speaker 1: Her vibes in this first episode I don't really vibe with.
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  Speaker 1: She seems like super materialistic and there was like a
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  Speaker 1: video of her on the plane being like here I
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  Speaker 1: am in first class where I belong La, la la,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm just like, I don't really give a Luanne
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  Speaker 1: does it in such a way that's kind of like
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  Speaker 1: tongue in cheek, but Lisa Barlow's not tongue in cheek
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  Speaker 1: about that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, fair, Okay, I get weird just from this, And
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  Speaker 2: please Heather come in and say I'm a crazy person.
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  Speaker 2: Vicky is somebody that I think will get on my
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  Speaker 2: nerves quickly because of her input into situations where she
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  Speaker 2: should not be giving an input. That's what I see so.
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  Speaker 3: Far is that there unhinged. You would not get along
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  Speaker 3: with Vicky. I don't think. I think Ben, you'd probably
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  Speaker 3: get along with Kyle.
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  Speaker 2: H Yeah, Kyle. Kyle has been a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: I know know her and they talk very highly of her.
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  Speaker 3: She's no g for a reason. She's the longest running
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  Speaker 3: housewife consistently. Yeah, people love Kyle. She's very mellow for
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  Speaker 3: the most part.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I was gonna say she's the appropriate amount of
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  Speaker 1: like stir. She does just enough to stay relevant, but
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  Speaker 1: not crazy enough to like to isolate herself with her
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  Speaker 1: arguments and stuff. And what I think she does best
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  Speaker 1: is she argues with her sisters, which is such a
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  Speaker 1: safe place to argue. But she didn't know two of
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  Speaker 1: her sisters are on Real House of Beverly.
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  Speaker 2: Hills, so it's more of a sister show, oh for
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  Speaker 2: different seasons.
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  Speaker 3: And she's Paris Hilton's aunt. That's what she's famous for
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  Speaker 3: in one sense. I mean, she's also famously the ex
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  Speaker 3: wife of a huge mortgage broker, Mauricio, and he runs
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  Speaker 3: the agency that is all over the world, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the real estate group, the agency that's her ex husband.
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  Speaker 2: I know Mauricia. I've played golf with Mauricio.
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  Speaker 3: There you go, there's your connection. So some would say
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  Speaker 3: that Kyle is maybe the richest of all housewives.
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  Speaker 1: God, I had no idea.
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  Speaker 3: Well, because they speculate that's why the divorce has not
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  Speaker 3: ever been finalized between her and Mauricio because people say
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  Speaker 3: allegedly that there's no prenup between them because they got
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  Speaker 3: married so young, and.
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  Speaker 1: That she developed it after correct and thought.
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  Speaker 3: She would be owed a substantial amount of money if
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  Speaker 3: they were to finalize their divorce.
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  Speaker 2: Heather, why wasn't Bethanie Frankel on this.
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  Speaker 3: I can't even go into it then, but she is
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  Speaker 3: not in cahoots with anybody at Bravo these days. Andy
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  Speaker 3: Cohen and her had such a falling out that he
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  Speaker 3: doesn't even call her by name. He calls her the
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  Speaker 3: Margarita lady.
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  Speaker 2: Oh goodness, Yeah, she wouldn't do it.
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  Speaker 1: Also, the hugest like Bravo fallout because she created Skinny
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  Speaker 1: Girl Margarita and Skinny Girl Cocktails, and Bravo was like,
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  Speaker 1: we're owed like x percent of it, like so much
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  Speaker 1: percent of your sales and your profit. And they went
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  Speaker 1: to war about it because like, you wouldn't have such
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  Speaker 1: a successful company if it wasn't for Bravo. So now
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  Speaker 1: in all the Bravo contracts it's called the Bethany Frankel clause,
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  Speaker 1: Like if you come up with a company after your
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  Speaker 1: own housewives, we get a certain amount.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, this is fascinating. She makes so much money on that.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, at the time it was the biggest beverage sale ever.
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  Speaker 1: That's not.
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  Speaker 2: Let's dive in a little bit the should one's up
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  Speaker 2: with famous soundbites from the iconic Housewives. The women are
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  Speaker 2: all dancing at a party at Bluestone Manor. That's Derrenda's
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  Speaker 2: house in the Berkshires, Lauren, We've learned that they call
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  Speaker 2: it the there's a nickname for the Berkshires, right, the Berserkers,
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  Speaker 2: the Berserkers. And we've gotten a highlight in a picture,
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  Speaker 2: and I think this is where I really learned a lot.
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  Speaker 2: We've gotten an impact, an idea of the impact that
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  Speaker 2: the franchise has had on pop culture over the last
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  Speaker 2: twenty years. You have celebrities that are fans. They've been
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  Speaker 2: spoofed on SNL. People like I said, my my friends
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  Speaker 2: reference Housewife stuff and like normal conversations. This has been
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  Speaker 2: a crazy show when it comes to impact, and it
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  Speaker 2: has really span and I think this is always interesting.
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  Speaker 2: The Bachelor used to do this. I don't know how
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  Speaker 2: much it does anymore. It might still be able to
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  Speaker 2: get back to it, but you get people from all
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  Speaker 2: walks of life, enjoying the show, watching the show, celebrities
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  Speaker 2: to my Midwestern neighbors, to anybody, they just love housewives.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, seeing the clip of Julia Roberts basically being like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I watched this season, this sea, this season I do,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, you would think that she'd have something better
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  Speaker 1: to do, but it transcends classes and occupations and it
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  Speaker 1: is so it is so fun to see.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's also wild to think that now our good
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  Speaker 2: friend Ashley is being watched by Julia Roberts.
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  Speaker 1: Probably I know, well I thought that was like a
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  Speaker 1: Bachelor too. I mean, obviously there's some like a list
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  Speaker 1: celebrities that watch Bachelor and Housewives and just to know
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  Speaker 1: that they know who you are is such a crazy
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  Speaker 1: concept because all you're doing just like living your normal life.
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  Speaker 2: I was I was mentioned in two presidential addresses. Did
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  Speaker 2: you know that?
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  Speaker 1: Then put that on your gravestone.
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  Speaker 2: That's it's still like that when somebody has like, what's
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  Speaker 2: the one in like dinner fact that like is a
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  Speaker 2: is a brag? I'm like, oh, at two times that
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  Speaker 2: the president mentioned me because his daughter was like not
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  Speaker 2: coming to something because the Bachelor was on.
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  Speaker 1: That's so good and not to mention that everyone will
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  Speaker 1: admit that you were like the Golden Year, like that
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  Speaker 1: was the height of the Bachelor franchise as well.
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  Speaker 2: Ohor and you're sweet and we've had a lot of
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  Speaker 2: heights of It's it's another side comment. It's kind of
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  Speaker 2: interesting if you're a fan of The Housewives showed it,
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  Speaker 2: think about, Okay, you have all these icons, you have
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  Speaker 2: all these memories, and the height could be right now,
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  Speaker 2: meaning Rhode Island was one of the most successful season
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  Speaker 2: ones ever, if not the most successful. So twenty years
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  Speaker 2: later and you could be at the height of the
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  Speaker 2: show twenty years in. That's not only really encouraging for
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  Speaker 2: the fans of the franchise, it's also just a wild
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  Speaker 2: thought that you could have twenty more years of the show.
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  Speaker 2: That's a forty year run on television.
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  Speaker 1: I really think it could go that far because I
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  Speaker 1: don't think the viewership is going down. These Bravo fans,
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  Speaker 1: and now that we have Bravo con like, you're getting
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  Speaker 1: closer to these celebrities than you've ever have and you're
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  Speaker 1: also like following their life on social media as well now,
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  Speaker 1: so people are just becoming even more die hard. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so we get a little intro from all of them,
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  Speaker 1: and we start off in Atlanta where we meet Portia
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  Speaker 1: and Nini. Nini Leaks is obviously iconic, and she's been
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  Speaker 1: on so many different reality shows and spin offs. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure you're even well aware of who she is. And
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  Speaker 1: Porscha's saying that she's now in a lesbian relationship, which
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know about, but I love that for them,
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  Speaker 1: and I think it's so funny that they made the
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  Speaker 1: comment that Portia can't have long nails anymore. It's like,
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  Speaker 1: that's so iconic, so funny. My favorite part of the
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  Speaker 1: episode was basically, I'm allieving that she didn't have long
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  Speaker 1: nails anywhere because she's in that relationship. So fun little PG.
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  Speaker 2: Thirteen, so good. The ladies start out in Orange County.
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  Speaker 2: They meet in Orange County, I'm assuming because Vicky is
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  Speaker 2: the original housewife and Orange County started twenty years ago,
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  Speaker 2: as we've kind of like alluded to. And what we
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  Speaker 2: learn is that it to celebrate this twenty years of success,
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  Speaker 2: the ladies are going to be kind of traveling around,
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: not only inviting fans in, because you obviously saw the
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: fans taking pictures of the women, kind of walking onto
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: the boat, but just to reminisce on things that have happened.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: I'm also assuming within this, Lauren, new things will happen
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: because you're getting these ladies together, and I don't know
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: how you have this many personalities sitting together in close
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: proximity without new iconic moments popping up.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: I know, I feel like we're already getting them. I
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: mean the egos also, because everyone is saying I'm most iconic,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: I'm the most iconic, and they have the cardboard cutouts
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: of all of them from their first season on the boat. Yeah,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: and that was the start of it, I think. And
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: they all look great, but I honestly think they all
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: look more beautiful now than they did before. And Vicky,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: they're all like who looks the most different or whatever?
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: And Vicky was like, I think Teresa. But Vicky said
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: it more as a compliment I think in Teresa probably,
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: and everyone's like, why would you say that? Why would
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: you say that? Because you're eluding like, oh, twenty years later,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: you look different, you must look old. No, Teresa looks
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: banging now. And I feel like that needed to be
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: like dissected a little bit more because I think drama
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: is coming, and then she goes, I just got the
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: tip of my nose done, and I'm like, well, sure,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: maybe that's the most the only thing you got done
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: under general anesthesia, but other things have definitely happened, so
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: that here come the arguments.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: Well, and yeah, it's one of the best things about
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: this show so far that I love is it's all
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: like a lot of arguments come from misunderstandings and miscommunications.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Like people have decent intentions and they say it and
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: they can't help but put their foot in their mouth
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: even when they're trying to compliment. I took it the
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: same way you did. Thank you, Vicky was like, but
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: it wasn't like a negative. It was a yeah, you
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: just looked the most different. But it's not like you're
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: unrecognizable and you look great but amazing you can see
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: the things happening. Yes, the stand up cutouts were a
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: very I think we're a good thought. It's a good
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: little shtick that the show thought of is to put
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: those up so good.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: And it obviously was a compliment to Teresa. She took
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: it the wrong way. But what I thought was actually
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: shady was I think it was Gizelle. I think in
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: looks at Luallan and goes, what were you twelve? And
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: it's like, oh, well, that's actually alluding to the aging,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: which would have pissed me off, But the other one
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: looking different doesn't piss me off. So I wonder if
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: lu Aenne's going to have that ruminate over the next
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: couple days.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Is we have some iconic moments that are highlighted during
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: the past seasons. Vicky says she has a lot of
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: iconic moments. As Lauren mentioned, everybody here wants to be
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: the most iconic. The kig stand at her son's college
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: is one. Kyle says the Amsterdam dinner running in her
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: cape is hers. It kind of reminds me of an
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Ashley moment.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: I thought the same exact thing, just avoiding conflict, running
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: out of there, running away.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: My wife would do the same thing.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, yeah. It's like, I am so embarrassed by
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: you guys. I'm not being a part of this.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: I'm out. Lisa says her hot Mike moment talking about Meredith.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: You can tell that that's not a moment she necessarily
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: wants to relive. It sounds like it's been she's regretful
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: for it.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Heather quickly, could you just I didn't understand that
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: part because I never watched that. What did she say?
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: She says that Meredith like sleeps with everybody in New York. Uh,
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: Meredith is very married and has been for a very
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: long time. So when she made those kinds of comments
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: and Meredith was her quote unquote best friend, that was
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: very dramatic.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: So was it true or she was just making applies?
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: Meredith claims that it was not true, and Lisa pretty
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: much doubled back on it after she heard the mic
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: stuff was used and apologized, okay.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: Great. Porsia talks about Kenya with the megaphone, the reunion
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: set up when people started bringing in little trinkets to
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: the reunion.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I love a trinket at a reunion.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Giselle talks about her birthday party where she sat in
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: the middle Teresa's obviously her table flipping moment. Probably the
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: moment not being a fan that I've heard about the
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: most and that everybody now like references around me. In fact,
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: I've become friends with the producer of that episode and
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: they talk and like when we have meetings, that is
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: one of the first things talked about. And I guess
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: from a production standpoint, he's a legend for the producer
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: of that show.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: That's amazing. Yeah, that was some amazing content. And you
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: could see the security coming in after she starts flipping
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: the table and be like, all right, we got enough.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: That was that was great. Guys don't actually kill each other.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Oh and my final favorite moment was Luanne when she
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: brought home a guy again and then one of the
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: other ladies was like, like judging her, and she goes,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: be cool, don't be like all uncool, and I'm like, yes,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: the lens so funny. She's just so an. That was
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: so unintentionally funny.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: You kind of run through this whole episode with throwbacks
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: and memories and moments. Now we have flashbacks to past seasons.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: We have Porsche doing twerking lessons on the boat. And
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: one thing I didn't understand watching it was during this
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: and they're gonna go to an eighties Bunco party, a
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: van comes and picks up the women and I guess
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: this is a throwback to an iconic moment with Vicky
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: and a van. Kyle says that this is just a
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: joke and not their ride to the party. There's again
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: I just I think, Lauren, what I'm learning is there's
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: so many inside jokes to this ranchos.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I wasn't aware of it, but they do clip
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: it and then you can see what she was referring to.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: What I took away from this was that, like, the
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: women don't really remember it because or I'll say, like, oh,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: this is a joke. But also how rude they are
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: to this man driving this van.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: You know, I hope he was warned.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: I'm sure he was warning, like this is going to
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: be a joke, But what if it wasn't a joke
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: because people are so mean?
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think mean is definitely one of the top
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: words I would use to describe the house spot wives.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: So far as they can be mean, they can be vicious.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: They had to an iconic dinner spot the Quiet Woman
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: in the OC, and there we get to meet a
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: few more iconic franchise housewives. Tamera, Joe, Gina, Heather, and
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: Shannon are at the dinner.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: I was not aware that Heather was an OC housewife.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: I thought she was a Beverly Hills housewife. Heather, am
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: I missing something? Did she switch franchises?
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: No, So she's always been an OC housewife, but she
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: lives in Beverly Hills in these later seasons. So her husband,
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: famous plastic surgeon Terry Dubrow, has always had a practice
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: in Beverly Hills and I believe one in OC. So
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: they famously sold their forty million dollar house in Orange
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: County that they custom built I want to say, three
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: years ago, and then got a place in Beverly Hills
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: in a high tower.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: And I'm gonna call you chat ebt from now.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Really, it's really actually insane the amount of knowledge
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: I know on these women. But yes, so you're not
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: wrong in the sense that she lives in Beverly Hills
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: but is part of the OC cast. And trust me,
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: people in the Bravo verse have said for years, when
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: is Heather going to transition to the Beverly Hills cast?
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: Which I think happened. Okay, great, and they have Vicky
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: make a speech or Vicky makes a speech about you
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: know how it's been twenty years. This is crazy, all
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: these people in a room, and then she refers to Slade,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: who is Tamra's husband.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: No, okay, so Blade actually is an iconic real housewife's
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: husband because he actually was with two women on the
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: OC cast. So he was first introduced to us on
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: season one or two and he was Joe's fiance at
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: the time, so that's why Joe was at this party.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: So they were engaged. They ended up not getting married,
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: and then a couple seasons later he popped up and
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: started dating Gretchen, who was the new girl on the
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: scene who had just lost her husband. Her husband had
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: passed away. Fast forward all these years later and Gretchen
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: and Slade have been together for over eleven years. She
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: proposed to him, Oh but they've actually she proposed to
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: him on the show, but they've actually never gone through
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: with the wedding and vows and all of that. They
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: talked about it, but they basically just call each other
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: husband and wife. They've been together for like over eleven
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: years now.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Okay, So Slade just somehow has been making fun of
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Vicky's appearance like throughout the years.
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: Now, that was just what he used to do when
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: he was like on the show, Gretchen Slade Vicky did
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: not get along, so yes, he called her miss Piggy.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: Okay, it's so mean, and you can obviously see that
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Vicky is like still traumatized by this she's still traumatized
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: by her divorce and she's traumatized by being called miss
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Piggy and why that's why she got surgery and it's
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: really sad. And then Luanne picks up a picture of
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Slade that was framed like a memorial or something, and
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: I love the smashing of that. And then was it
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Tamra that was like, VICKI, you don't need surgery, You
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: don't need surgery. She's like, I got the surgery. It's done.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Am I right.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: I don't remember who said it, but it was definitely
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: one of them who's like, you don't need it. But
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: she definitely already had this done years ago. It was
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: talked about on the show that she had history.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and all the other women that aren't OC seemed
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: to be shocked at how loud the OC women are.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: It's is that like a known thing where OC women
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: are loud.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: They're always yelling, even when they're saying the most simple
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: of things.
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: As a woman who was born and raised in the OC,
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: I will say that I don't think we're all loud,
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: but I do think that the women on this show
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: are exceptionally loud.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: That's a good clarification.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: Yes, Heather, did you grow up with any of these women?
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: Like did you know any of them? No?
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: I did not, But it's so funny because I mean,
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: like the quiet Woman is like not only like a
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: staple on the show, but it's like a staple in
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: my family. And like a lot of the places that
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: they've they've gone throughout the years, like even they were
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: at the surf and sand for the filming of this episode.
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: These are all just like really well known spots, like
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: in the area of where I grew up.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: It's not it's not like a huge area. So you
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: really love watching your hometown.
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: Oh it's the show premiered when I was graduating from
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: high school, so like I did not know these people,
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: but I feel like they were like my friend's moms
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: that I grew up with. Like they're very indicative of
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: the o C.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: The star is a line for you because that's like
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: a time where you start watching rally television and it's
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: your own hometown. And that's probably why like you you like.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: Trust me, Lauren, we also have the o C at
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: the same time, like with and Laguna Beach, Like my
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: hometown was poppin' when I was growing up.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's so amazing. Oh, I love that for you
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: so good.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: The rest of this episode, leading up to what will
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: for sure be a very fun watch, you know, for
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: the rest of this road trip includes drama between Shannon
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: and Tamra. Yes, also drama between Vicky and Tamra.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: M h.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Shannon and Tamra I don't really know about, but I'm
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: assuming Shannon was an alcoholic in Tameras holding that over
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: her head for some reason. And then Vicky was kind
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: of talking about Tamra to all the girls and especially Gazelle,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: and Gizelle took it upon herself to be like, hey,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Vicky was talking shit about you, and then that turned
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: into something that was kind of a very small fight.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: But it seems like what we're getting here is Gizelle
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: likes things being out in the open, in disgust and
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: not talked behind each other's back, and that she goes,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: that's how we do in Potomac. So I think we're
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: gonna get a lot more pop stirring from Giselle.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: Is there anything that we haven't mentioned from the first episode, thoughts, excitement,
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: disappointments Lauren that we should bring up.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Not really, but it is making me want to watch
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: like the first season of OC just to kind of
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: like get my bearings. And it seems like amazing drama
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: between Shannon and Tamra that I'm missing out because I
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: don't know anything really about that, but I love that.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: And we do see clips of when they do go
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: to the Berkshires, which is where Rhode Island comes in,
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: and we're obviously excited to see that because we see
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Rosie screaming and I don't know if we see who
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: she's screaming to, but it's very on brand for her.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: We also have I think it's next week when we
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: see Kyle kind of struggling with the fact that Herr
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: and Murraycio are no longer together. And then all the
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: ladies basically in this entire group have been divorced, and
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: so they all have been there and they basically say
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: it's the curse of being a housewife is a divorce.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: Oh goodness, let's hope, I know, let's hope not a thing. Hey,
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: this will be a fun watch. If you haven't tuned
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: in to The Ultimate Girl's road Trip, it's worth going
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: back to, especially if you're a fan of the Housewives franchise,
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: or if you're like Laura and I and are just
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: being introduced to it through the Real Housewives of Rhode Island.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: I think Bravo's hope is not only can they pull
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: off this really fun twentieth year celebration, but that they
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: are doing exactly what Lauren just said. They're bringing in
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: people that maybe watched Rhode Island or haven't watched any
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: of it and are now now hearing about Housewives for
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: the first time, and they're going, I have to go
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: back and watch the previous season. It's a necessity for me,
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: and I think this is their hope, and it's always
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: fun to see if their hopes get pulled off or
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: not right. It's fun to analyze the ideas that happen
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: at the very top of these franchises, and these ideas
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: if they play out and increase the fan base or
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: makes the fan base go I'm so tired of so
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: much Housewives.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: I cannot I don't think it's gonna go that way.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: I can't wait to look at my Peacock account Peacock
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: and just see like number one is like og Orange County,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: It's going to be number one. I feel it because
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: it is stirring up like, oh, that's amazing, and everyone
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: is craving the era of like what two thousand and nine?
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: What year was this? Other that the first one came out.
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: Twenty years ago at two thousand and six.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: To have the six, Yeah, yes, and two Have six.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Fashion is back, so we're here for it.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: Hey, we'll be here breaking down every episode of this
• 36:02
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• 36:07
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• 36:11
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• 36:17
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• 36:20
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• 36:24
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