Dark Energy Tuesday (SLOMW, The Toast, RHONY, Next Gen NYC, KJ Biermann, Sydney Sweeney)

25:20And I'm curious, like what about it was so great? Okay. So I actually loved it and I obviously was not expecting to. This is like the reboot of the reboot. So obviously, you know, hopes are not high at this point. But two of the new girls, Daisy and Haley are really fun and I really enjoyed them. So we start with Daisy and her very like average apartment and Martha Stewart comes over because she's Martha Stewart's makeup artist. So I will say like where where is the wealth that we are you know searching for when we watch Real Housewives because you are like it's it's not a super like it's a very regular apartment but it's like you know we're we're used to I think our Real Housewives being wealthy obviously.

26:10But that said, I so really liked her and thought she was really fun and down to earth and just, I think that's why I like her is that she's a regular kind of person. She seems down to earth. I was going to say really quick, sorry to interrupt. I was just going to say that I feel like the wealth on Roni kind of started to dwindle when we had, I just remembered this, Leah McSweeney's apartment being, it was nice, no doubt. Yes. But it was just more average than, say, Ramona Singer or Bethany Frankel's or Dorinda's. Totally, totally. And then there's Haley Glassman, who used to date slash was the mistress of John Gosselin, which is fun.

26:46But she is very, very, very quirky. We first see her. She is rollerblading through the streets like Kelly Benzema style, but rollerblading with a fur coat, like smoking a J. And she calls her own marriage a lavender marriage because they both, I guess, step out on each other. And she hooks up with women and she talks about getting her nose broken by a woman that was uh fucking her with a strap on and um her her her big fake boobs uh broke her nose so this is all in the first episode this is like our first introduction to her wait that's so funny so definitely appreciate her candor and you know quirkiness i still love jessel i think jessel obviously was a good keep from the original reboot.

27:37Cy and Erin, I still struggle with. Oh, they were the worst. I only watched, I think, the first season. They were the worst. I know. I really struggle with both of them. Erin is just, like, boring to me. Cy also is boring to me. They're both just, like, kind of, like, rude. And I just, I don't really enjoy them. I don't think they're fun to watch. But But Cy and Daisy, one of the new girls, goes way back. So that's kind of nice that they have like history. And I'm willing to give them another shot. It's just, again, like I just I still struggle with them. There's also a new girl who is I forget her name.

28:18She is like a billionaire and she is the wife of the founder of Bilt. And they got married at the pyramids in Egypt. You guys all have seen that wedding. It took over Instagram. Okay, so the CEO and Built Rewards founder is Encore Jane, and his wife is Erica Hammond. Yes, Erica, that's what it is. Thank you for looking that up. So I am curious what you guys thought about the Roni premiere. I am optimistic about it. So I want to segue into the next Dynamics finale, which also segues into something a little darker that I want to talk about. Yeah, we need to talk about this because I don't watch Atlanta.

28:58So I'm curious just your thoughts and all of that. And I know you don't watch Next Gen NYC, even though it's like the best show on Bravo right now. I heard it. It's making so much noise right now. Like everyone is talking about it. It's so good. So Next Gen NYC wrapped up. And I mean, not much to say there. It was a really, really, really good season. But basically, Liam gave our Ariana Beerman has been our breakout star and she is kind of playing the field between Charlie, Liam and her ex-boyfriend Hudson. Liam clearly gave Ariana the ick and then she makes up with Charlie, the bad boy, the crypto torture Charlie.

29:38And then it cuts to her saying months later that Charlie is dead to her and he actually manipulated her with Jesus because she thought that she could fix him and he got a tattoo that said only God can judge me. So he she basically said he pretended to be a Jesus lover to manipulate me, which just is hilarious, honestly. Despite that, I still love Ariana. She seems very down to earth and is clearly the breakout star of the show. There has unfortunately been a lot of discourse about her TV future because of the accusations against her younger brother, her younger half brother, KJ. Incredibly disturbing.

30:20Incredibly disturbing. Trigger warning. Trigger warning. Skip ahead. There is incredibly disturbing accusations of sexual assault. So KJ Beerman, Kim Zolciak's son and Kroy Beerman's son and half brother of, like I said, Ariana Beerman, was recently accused of sexual assault and sodomy by a young female classmate at a gym changing room that allegedly happened in April 2026. He was accused of digitally penetrating her and forcing her to give him perform oral sex on him. And his mom, Kim, put out a statement immediately defending him saying the woman who accused the woman, she was like a very, very, very young girl, a young girl, a preteen girl, preteen girl, accused this woman, quote unquote, of lying.

31:15Just absolutely disgusting. He was, when he was originally denied bail, people were like, he's a child. Let me look up his exact age. He is young. So when he was denied bail, people were like, they must, he's 15 now. And he was 14 at the time of the alleged assault. I mean, that's like eighth grade freshman in high school. So people were like, they must have something on him if he is being detained like this as a young man. He was ultimately indicted on seven felony charges, including aggravated child molestation, aggravated sexual battery, aggravated sodomy, false imprisonment, and three counts of sexual battery against a child under 16.

32:00Then last week's hearing revealed a previous sexual battery case involving him and a young female family member where apparently he had video footage on his phone of him raping a young underage relative. And there's been a lot of speculation about who this relative is. I don't want to speculate. We don't know. I will say that there also is speculation that Kim has been trying to protect him because she sees KJ as a potential future moneymaker because he's apparently a talented football player. So she sees dollar signs when it comes to her kids. We know that she stole money from her daughter, Ariana Bierman.

32:46So it's just absolutely disgusting. Not only the accusations here, but also the parenting that has led to this. I think these parents are absolutely disgusting and horrible parents. I'm sorry. So, yeah. At KJ's September alum at the bond hearing, prosecutors disclosed that he was already under juvenile court supervision in connection with that separate sexual battery matter. matter when the alleged April Jim incident occurred. So that means the previous, it apparently happened end of towards the latter half of 2025 when he allegedly raped this underage relative. And it hadn't been publicly known at the time because juvenile proceedings are generally confidential.

33:37So he had been under court supervision since October 2025 when this again happened in April, a separate sexual battery incident. And so at that point, that's when they're like, OK, we need to take this seriously and charge him with felonies. So, yeah, again, they discovered multiple videos on his phone of him allegedly raping a female family member who was under the age of 12. Jesus Christ. Including what prosecutors characterize as penetrative sex and or rape. I hate when the word sex is used when it's rape, but like that's that's what they describe it as. and they allege that he used predatory derogatory language toward the relative in the recordings and he had these recordings on his fucking phone.

34:21Sick man. So Kim and his sister Brielle Bierman were both at this bond hearing in bodycon dresses mind you. I'm like why are they dressed like this? They're dressed like they're going to the club and despite being 14 at the time of the alleged April assault and 15 now the seriousness of the charged offenses means his case is presently in Fulton County Superior Court rather than ordinary juvenile court. So they're taking this very seriously because he is a repeat offender, which they should. And he was ultimately granted him a two granted a two hundred thousand dollar bond. And the conditions are pretty restrictive.

34:56He must live at Kim's house, which, again, it's like, oh, great. He's going to live with Kim, his horrible mom. He has to wear an ankle monitor, attempts will virtually have no contact with the alleged victim or people associated with her and notably have no contact with anyone under 16, Good. Good. Exactly. So our thoughts are with the victims, first and foremost. Like, this is so disturbing. Fuck this. I know that he's only a 15 year old kid. Lock him up for life. He's a creature. A monster. Lock up his parents for life. Lock them all up. And separately, because I know I was just talking about Ariana.

35:34I don't think that Ariana should be held accountable by what her family is doing. So I think that, you know, those conversations, I don't even get why they're happening. But I've seen so many conversations of people saying, Ariana, like, get her off Next Gen NYC. Like, she needs to be off the show. I don't think that's fair to her. So that's just a separate thing that I just wanted to say. But in terms of Kim, Croy, and KJ, jail for life. Quick question. So I remember when all the divorce proceedings are splitting up between, sorry, what's her name? Kim and Croy were happening. Is KJ, Croy, and Kim's son?

36:12Okay, got it. Yes, he is both of their sons. And then him and Ariana have a different dad. Gotcha. And I was going to say, what is Kim's vibe on Atlanta? Like, is their family dynamic weird? Obviously, it seems like Croy and her were very unhealthy, just from the videos I saw from the body cam footage. They don't seem like the healthiest couple, but what is Kim like? No, they're not. So I haven't watched Atlanta since, like, the early seasons. Okay. It's been a while since I've watched Atlanta. So I can't speak to their dynamics on TV, but I can speak to what we have heard about their relationship, which is incredibly messy that there is debt, gambling.

36:52Like I said, Kim stealing money from her own daughter. Just incredibly dysfunctional and disturbing. And I don't doubt for one second that Kim has always tried to protect KJ because she sees dollar signs. She's like, this is a future NFL player. Yeah. And it is just like so fucking disturbing, sickening. and just absolutely disgusting. And also, I get wanting to protect your son, but at the same time, it's like, this is clearly very nefarious. There is now two strikes against this. To an extent, exactly. It's like, yeah, at some point, maybe it's like, yeah, like, this is my child. I'm going to protect him.

37:33Of course. But then there's a line where it's like, wait, no, actually, like, I can't defend this. Yeah. If you're a rapist or a murderer, like, I can't. That's where you should trow the line. We can't support that. If your child is a rapist or a murderer, you don't have to defend them. Right. A pedophile, like, we're not here for that. And maybe you protect your son and care for him offline, but don't make this sweeping generalization online that this woman is spewing, you know, vile. No. A young girl is telling you that your son attacked her. That's not okay. Period. Yeah. Come on. It's absolutely disgusting.

38:11Kim defending him with her public statement, her showing up to the bond hearing in a bodycon dress. It just. Yeah. Read the room. Like, yeah, read the room and look inward. So, yeah. And ask me how you and Croy. Like, how did you raise this? Completely, completely failed as parents, which is not surprising, honestly. Very, very much unsurprising. Right. That shouldn't be a controversial statement. Like, you failed as parents if your son is running around. attacking women. Yeah, horrible. We all know how much it sucks to have to wait for your paycheck when all you want is to access your own hard-earned money.

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43:02There's various balls hiding her private regions, and she is fully undressed behind those balls. and it's to a lot of female athletes, they see it as her essentially walking sports and I came across a couple of quotes from various Olympians, female Olympians, athletes. So Olympian champion swimmer, I'm gonna botch this name, I'm sorry, Ariane Titmuss says that this campaign was a kick in the face. Not only is a kick in the face to every woman who has dedicated her life to perfecting her craft, but every woman who enjoys sports for what it really is. teamwork, friendship, dedication, excellence, unity.

43:40How do we still live in a world where we're monetizing a woman's body and sexualizing women's sports? How is this still a thing? And then world champion boxer Sky Nicholson says, there's a big difference between looking quote unquote sexy because you do sport compared to using sex to sell sport. And at this point, Sydney is throwing caution to the wind and 100 % leaning into sexualizing herself to the nth degree. And this campaign with sports is also, like I say, very similar to the siren birthday boobs campaign that she did for her lingerie line, where she's in a very provocative ad where she's kind of leaning into this 1950s housewife.

44:20There's like 1950s music in the background. She's baking in the kitchen. She's blowing out candles. She's seductively walking across the table on all fours. It's very, very suggestive. Borderline, like soft pornographic material. if you ask me. And it's really sad because I feel like we've talked about this. I know you feel a certain way about Sydney's acting career and her acting chops. Like, I think from what I've seen in Euphoria in the earlier seasons and in Handmaid's Tale. She has potential to be a really good actress. Like, she's not a terrible actress. She's not. And I thought that she portrayed Cassie so well.

44:56And it was a character that had a lot of depth, complex, layers, all the things. she was so talented in those works of art but now it seems like she's exclusively catering to the male gaze a hundred a hundred percent and i was talking about it with a girlfriend of mine at dinner last night and we're like what will we compare her to like earlier her predecessors like is it megan fox no she like could have had a jennifer lawrence type career honestly agreed like i was gonna say she could have a hundred percent because she was so talented and people are really recognizing her so talented but i was saying my friend said maybe she's trying to lean into like maybe being like a Pam Anderson, all up Baywatch, Carmen Electra.

45:33No, I don't even think it's that. I don't even think it's that deep where she's like, here's who I'm going to replicate my career after. I think she literally is like, how can I make the most money as quickly as possible? I think it's literally about like, I am hot right now. I'm never going to be this young and hot again. So I'm going to cash in while I can. I think that's literally all it comes down to. I don't think she's making some strategic move about her career. And it's funny because I saw this tweet, Shin Kale Ryder on Twitter tweeted, there was a brief moment where Sydney Sweeney seemingly was trying to be a serious actor, but now she's just doing commercials where she's like, the only thing bigger than my Arian double D's are the gains you can make on the newest crypto trading platform, Wallet Inspector TM.

46:16It's like, that's all she does now is like, show off her body and try to get you to buy some sort of like crypto or gambling app or whatever it is. The lingerie signed by Jeff Bezos. Yeah. And like the lingerie isn't selling because it's like the people that are trying to buy things from her are men. Like women aren't. Yeah. No, I actually think you're spot on because now that I think about it, and we've talked about this so many times on Snarkbait, where she had that really funny quote where everyone's like, give me a break, where she's like, it's actually really hard to be a celebrity because you have so many expenses.

46:50You have a publicist. You have a lawyer. You have a PR team. You have a manager. Brand flakes. And I can barely pay. What? Like brand flakes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. where Brand Flakes is like, I make a million dollars a year now. OK, just in the name of transparency, I went from making$70 ,000 in my corporate job to I make a million dollars a year now. But I have PR. I have legal. I have publicist. That's hilarious about her and Brand Flakes. Yeah, I think at this point she is just dying to pay her mortgage and get all her expenses paid for without cause or without issue. and, you know, thank God that she's, I feel like she's not going to have an issue with money, seeing as her and Scooter Braun's relationship is becoming very serious, seemingly.

47:35It was her birthday last week and Scooter Braun wrote such a shady Instagram post about Sydney wishing her happy birthday. And I'm sorry, it was just like disgusting to me. He writes, I'm not going to read the whole thing, just the first paragraph. Happy birthday to the woman who is the exception to every role. The person who surprised me and showed me how life with true partnership can be lived. That's such a shady fucking thing to say when Yael Cohen is the mother of your children and you're saying now that the only way you were able to see true partnership. When you have an ex-wife. Yes. Yeah.

48:05Right. The only way that you're able to see true partnership is when you're with Sydney Sweeney. Like that's such a shady, unnecessary comment. And do you know what it reminds me of? Guess. I don't know. It reminds me of when Chris Pratt wrote about Catherine Schwarzenegger about giving him a healthy child when his son with Anna Faris, Jack. Oh my god. Ew. I hate that. Doesn't it remind you of that? I'm like, you are just shady. Yeah, I hate that. Yeah. So unfortunately, guys, we cannot do DEOs and LEOs this week because we're having some technical difficulties and we need to wrap up the show.

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