#2943 RHOM S7E7 Part 1: It’s My Party, and I’ll Shame if I Want To

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1:54Ben Mandelker: Hello and welcome to Watch What Crap Ends, a podcast about all that crap on Bravo that we just love to talk about i'm ben mandelker and joining me today is mr ronnie carham hi ronnie how are you time what a special time in life ronnie i hope you're enjoying this episode because in a little bit later i'm going to put all of our text messages on screens behind me and you will be humiliated so just brace yourself dare your ass to do it as well yeah no one is safe in our texts no one is safe we are talking about real housewives of miami today and before we get into that first of all thanks to everyone who came over and watched us on amazon live we're doing it again this monday we're actually doing double duty there'll be an amazon live and there'll be a crappy hour so lots of live time with ben and ronnie uh can't wait for that it's gonna be so much we had so much like we literally had so much fun hawking sheet pans and and regular pans and other things coffee items that like it was a blast come join us for the next one um also patreon.com slash watch your crappins is where you can watch us not just listen with crappins on demand we also do bonus episodes we'll have a bony up next week ryan and i are going on a little little baby trip this weekend and uh maybe we'll have some reports from there you never know and i think that's basically all the real stuff little vegas vacay we're gonna have some fun we'll try and record while we're there for our next bonus episode we'd love a little out of town bonus yeah going back to vega vegas oh vega we're making it vega vega um yeah we're excited for that and also the amazon live is going to be at 4 p.m pacific time okay so it's going to be this monday and the following monday so join us for that um also what was i going to say also i'm still wearing my douchebag glasses because I did get my eyes done and I'm still punched in the face.

3:50I don't know how long these bruises are going to take to go away, but I'm sick of walking around like this.

3:55Ben Mandelker: It's very exciting. Well, you're mainly healed. I don't know. I think you're being your own worst critic right now. It's bruised. I'll show you. I just don't want to do it for the whole time. See, I'm still like bruised. And also I have bruises under here where I didn't get any eye work, which I don't really understand, like down here. But, you know, happy with the results hello look at these gorgeous peepers oh so um anyway i'm just hiding the breezes for a little bit but okay well okay you just have to tell people because then if you don't they only watch this not the other ones are going to be like what the is this douchebag or i'm just regular flavor douchebag i'm not usually glasses plus my regular douchebag personality okay well uh today we are talking miami as i mentioned this is episode season seven episode seven It's called Textual Tension and a real good humdinger of a Miami episode.

4:48Ben Mandelker: This season is so good. This cast is so good. I was cringing so hard during this. People are mad on the internet, which is always fun. Always good when a show can get people on Twitter angry. Everyone's really angry at Julia. Well, actually, they're angry at the cast. At Julia? What are they mad at Julia for? I thought they were mad at Gurney. no people are mad at the cast because it's like julia threw a whole ass glass of water on julia on gertie and the cast just stood there but then when gertie does her thing the cast walks out yeah like i'm morally especially marisol like really of all people marisol's like i'm leaving i'm morally opposed to this oh really aren't you the lady who has people followed by private eyes and etc etc i mean i don't have time to like even list all of mary soul's crimes on this show over the years i think that what we are learning or what we probably have already learned is that when it comes to things like throwing glasses flipping tables things like that physical elements people are pretty i'm going to say they're chill but they're used to it they just sort of sit there and they react or whatever but they don't really it doesn't really make them want to leave They're just like, oh, okay, well, we're going to be in the trailer.

6:05Ben Mandelker: But when it comes to like infractions of private offscreen stuff, that's when they really get themselves all, you know, in a tizzy. I mean, just look at last week's episode about Katie and the recording of Shannon Medore without her, you know, didn't know the recording was even happening. I mean, like they are, they lose their minds because so much I think of being a celebrity is like, you know, I am coming here and I'm presenting a version of myself. And what I choose not to put on camera is like sacrosanct to me. Sacrosanct. It's, but like, and so like when someone violates that, that's like, like you can pour all the drinks on me you want.

6:44Ben Mandelker: But like the moment that you show people that I sent like a smile emoji in a private text message is like privacy is like the is the final frontier of decency when it comes to like a real housewife, it turns out. I mean, I guess, but they share their texts all the time. They literally we've seen so many episodes where people I mean with consent. Lisa Vanderpump showing up with poster boards or whatever when she had Ken print out in like very large. Remember she had Ken print out in very large things. The text that she had shared with Lisa Rinna or whoever it was about all the Lucy Lucy Apple Juicy.

7:21Oh, no, it was was it? Who were those texts from? Don't you remember that? It was very heavy. She went out the texts. We've seen fights over text and printed text and what people are saying in text forever. I don't understand how everybody's making this a huge thing now. Give me a break. Now that I said, I don't think it really helped Gertie's case because the text proved nothing. But whatever.

7:44Ben Mandelker: I mean, I was sad to see. It was hilarious to watch. But I'm like, I didn't like Gertie seating the high ground. But that being said, wow, it was hilarious. There's no high ground. This is Real Housewives of Miami. There's like literally no high ground. And there was nothing in those texts. it was like oh i'm cheating on my wife there was nothing like that it was like she bet she says she begged me to come to a thing and she didn't beg me that's what i proved and i mean she never really said that you begged her to go anyway yeah but also the whole thing was just so silly i loved it gertie also showed kenya moore how to do a proper public stunt which is you know you gather your friends for what's supposed to be an uplifting event and then uh you actually air stuff out but you don't get yourself fired in the process and you don't cross any true moral lines like this is what this is what kenya should have done something like this gertie gertie did the thing where you appall your cast but you still have your job afterwards but yeah she did it right i mean listen i loved it i thought it was great so let's start we'll do like miami does two hours ago before ben and ronnie ended this recap here we go textual tension julian martina arriving at their farm and they've brought home their little boys their new little adopted boys which i guess are not adopted yet i think to this day they're still not adopted i don't know what's going on over there don't know don't care just know that they have some children living in their house with them and that's all that's all that i the technicalities are not something i am going to personally look up because i don't care about the i'm not saying you can't care i'm just saying i don't you know i'm like whatever about the adoption status i mean i care because are you allowed to just bring children on that you're not adopted just kidnapped kids like are you do they get to do they get paid are they do they sign waivers like how does that work i don't i didn't know you're allowed to just shoot random children i mean shit well maybe i'll have a show where I'm a parent and just get some kids off the street and be like, hey, you want to be on TV today?

9:48You're playing my kids.

9:51Ben Mandelker: I just like that. Like, originally, like three episodes ago, it's like, we are keeping them off camera because it is sacred. Then last episode, it's, well, we are having, no one can come over because they see strangers and they are traumatized and they don't want to move or talk or anything like that. Like, we want to protect the children because when they see strangers, it's triggering to them. And then this episode, they're like, okay, we'll show the kids. And we're going to show them the craziest face ladies that they'll ever see. Do you want to see some real life Dr. Seuss renderings? Here we go.

10:23If there was any trauma in these kids lives previously, before they found these parents, it is about to be completely erased in their minds by the new trauma they're about to face with these faces.

10:39Ben Mandelker: The Lenny Hochstein effect. and fighting. Because, you know, these ladies are, these are the Miami ladies. They will start fights with these children. They'll be like, what did you say to me? What did you say? Did you hear what he said to me in front of Frankie? Did you? So we meet Luca and Jackson. So cute. Why would you bring a baby on to Bravo and name it Jax? Are you fucking kidding me? Do you guys have the channel that you're on? Like, do you subscribe to this channel? What terrible juju for a child. yeah that's that's bad so um julia is sort of showing them off and um then they're like walking around this farm and martina is holding the kids and it's all it's all very cute the kids are getting a nice farm life and then julia's like how do we smile mama has big smile can we do smile or leave a smile and then the kids smile and at least one of them smiles and he's one of them smiles and the other sticks his tongue out at the camera that's probably the jacks he's like no i a smile.

11:38You'll be a little butthead. They're so cute, by the way, these kids. They're adorable little kids. And who else is cute, Ben? Who didn't get any credit in this episode? The cow. There was like a little cow and it came running up. It was so cute. I want a cow.

11:54Ben Mandelker: I want a cow with children. Is it too late? The goat on the leash. The goat on the leash was adorable. Martina and Julia are, they seem like they're actually very lovely parents. They're being very warm and And even Martina, you know, it's funny because it seemed like Martina had no interest in children. She loves like a sleek, modern home that does not seem kid-friendly at all. But she seemed actually quite warm with the kids. And Julia's like, oh, Martina's acting 20 years younger. And she has so much energy. Look it. She's jumping around. She's tweeting even more about surrogates being terrible.

12:30Ben Mandelker: I mean, God, she has so much love to give. Yeah. Yeah, and Martina is like, oh, this is a chicken coop. Look, this is where eggs come from. This is where eggs come from. And she's like, yes, this is where egg comes from, not supermarket. Do not break egg. Whatever you do, do not break egg. We will kill you if you break egg. He's like, oomph. You broke egg. Oh, well. We let dog eat egg. We let the goat eat egg. Let me tell you something. Julia Martina, just going to put this out here. Don't give your toddler an egg. It's just not going to last. It's too soon. Too soon. Give them something soft and plushy.

13:10They need some time.

13:11Ben Mandelker: Yeah. Speaking of soft and plushy, here comes Adriana. She's like, hello. I dress like school kid crayon so they would like me. Okay? Am I okay to get close to them? Is it okay if I get close to them? I have French cowboy in the car. Do they want to meet? Do they want to meet him? Want to meet? Want to meet? we have sex seven times so martina they're like oh this is adriana and so one of the kids is there and then she's like where's the other one julia goes he is walking goat on leash and we see this kid is walking a goat on a leash and he's i think it's the younger one too it's like the one-year-old is walking a goat on a leash and it was actually so cute i was like wow i am impressed i feel like a one-year-old walking a goat that's a tall i feel like at that point the goat's walking the one-year-old, but whatever.

13:58Ben Mandelker: The two of them together, I was like, okay, my heart is melting a little bit. Well, I was impressed with the goat because goats will not be leashed, okay? Goats are those animals' faffo. That's what I will say about goats, faffo, okay? You know about my aunt's goat, Habibi, who charges me every time it sees me. And any version of Habibi, there's been many versions over the years, and whenever she gets a new damn goat, she names it Habibi, and every time my cousins pushed me into his little pen and he charges me every time and comes at me with those satanic little eyes so i was really impressed to see a non-habibi goat i'm wondering if it's my aunt who makes her goat so evil i just always figured it was in their nature but maybe she well goats aren't goats like uh don't they represent the devil yeah but you know so does my aunt sometimes like she's scary she she ran the bowling alley she was like the property manager and she wore like polyester suits and had like a big crazy afro and glasses like mine.

14:58Maybe that's why I like these glasses. And she would walk around with like the big chain of keys on her key ring and she was the Habibi owner. And I'm wondering if she ever just trained Habibi to come for people. Maybe. Are goats a lesbian thing, by the way? Because Josie is a lesbian and these ladies are lesbians and they all have goats.

15:17Ben Mandelker: Well, there was a season of The Amazing Race where two gay guys won and they had a goat farm. so maybe it's just a maybe it's just an lgbtq i a plus thing maybe it is maybe i should get a goat maybe i should get over my trauma by getting a goat that doesn't charge me maybe all this time the reason why goats are associated with the devil is because it's it was homophobes who pushed that narrative when actually goats are really just a gay thing maybe gays love goats you heard it here first everybody um so well actually no you shouldn't say that because i remember growing up really religious and my uh i remember someone in the church saying well if you you allow gays to be with each other then who's to stop a man from marrying a goat that was always the thing so and maybe don't don't say gays love goats because they'll take that like see i told do you now he wants to marry a goat yeah and they did do goat yoga on that first episode of king's court so it was like yoga has gay in it minus the why well the why is just in a different place that's true if you if yoga and i am if you scramble yoga yoga change that changes to a gay okay look it's a gay just move the wide of the back so now alexia comes and um julia is like oh look at this boy so strong carrying egg he we're going to make omelet with egg and he drops the egg and so um they let lulu eat the egg i don't know who lulu is i'm assuming it's the dog i hope it's not i hope so they've got hanging around it's like the child that no one likes like lulu eating stupid child no jack's not you we love you lulu is the one we don't like lulu is the christy of this what's the tennis player's name that martina hates steffy graf or lulu is the steffy graf of this household you don't know chris chris um chris jenner no she probably it's chris jenner too chris everett chris everett yeah no no it's chris everett stepping left of of goat so so um they're cool about the egg being dropped which is nice and then um just one point that wouldn't happen in my house we've been talking about this egg we've been talking about this egg for 15 minutes i just want to point that out the scene it's an important I haven't seen.

17:51This is like a new gay family. We have to judge every moment that passes. So the kid gets some apple juice, which I don't know if you should, like, reward your child for dropping an egg, right? I think you should say, it's okay, we won't beat you for dropping egg, but no apple juice for a week. Yeah.

18:10Ben Mandelker: I mean, you never know. This may be where the youth of America has gone wrong, is that they're spoiled too much. And the chief spoiler is Alexia, who enters with gifts. she has like donuts and stuff and so adriana immediately is feeling insecure because adriana came with nothing and uh she's just like she's like well i you know she's like i don't you know i don't come bearing gifts my present is a heart full of love and to be here for them anytime they need me and i don't need to bribe them my intentions are pure it's like no you forgot you forgot to go cvs beforehand yeah also adriana is not as rich as everybody else she's like i'm not paying for shit for these kids she's like your mother is mean housewife your mother is not a good friend to me so don't ever beat me to a text there there's some advice from your auntie okay there's some advice for you but i did love the way that i did love the way that adriana and alexia like really just like souped up these kids like it was like a big mommy moment like yeah it's kind of like one of those moments where it is it feels like it is the village and everyone soups in and hugs them like there's something like as much as i like i'm always being like oh my god that's so mommy it's so mommy but i'm like there is actually something really incredibly lovely about like when moms to come together and support each other women supporting women okay but just like that maternal love that just started to flow through the scene was really very warm to me you're touched i was touched i dropped all my eggs it's time for a commercial it's time for a crappin's commercial.

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22:28I was very touched by the donuts. I was like, that is a good ant right there. Don't bring me some goddamn toy. Bring me some carbs. Carbs dripping in sugar. So Adriana and Alexi are both wearing really bright things to impress the kids. And they're wearing neons. And Adriana's like, oh, wow. It's like a neon off. Like, oh, my God. So then Alexi's like, oh, my God. They already found out. I'm the cool Tia. I'm the cool Tia. I'm the cool one. And then we get a call from Karamo from Queer Eye.

23:02Ben Mandelker: Yes, Karamo, America's favorite. And Julia's like, oh, hi, my friend. This is Jackson and this is Luca. And Jackson, Luca, this is Karamo, who will be harvesting marcellos for his face very soon. And Karamo's like, hey, if you ever need me to babysit, you need me to take them out. I can do that. I'm Karamo. I may not be coming back to Queer Eye but I am coming back with my new show Queer Eye for the possibly straight babies okay change your shirt Balenciaga already everyone knows you didn't earn it okay back to the drawing boards he's like oh I have to say this is so much better than shooting with Mary from Selling Sunset so Julia's like he'll shoot on any of these shows Karamo just shows up anywhere He does.

23:51Ben Mandelker: He really does. He does that big fake laugh. And so Julia is like, Caramo is friend. And I met Caramo at some event for goat and we hit it off. Well, we hit it. We hit an orange juice off the goat's back. And his energy, he is so warm. And he's such an activist and great man and put smile on my face. so he's like listen i just want to give you a call because i'm coming to miami you know the national lgbtq task force i'm getting honored and i just had to invite you and your cameras isn't the task force like an army thing i don't really know what a task force is who's too killing for that i always hear them like military shows you know and i call the task force and then the task force it's an armed force organization for a special operation so you heard it here forest first karamo has started up a private army for gayness gay goats damn it the unit specially organized for a task who you know there was some some honestly look look some small dick person came up with the term task force because someone was like i need you to get some people to do this task for me like okay everyone we need to do a task we will be the task force like who's gonna could you just bring me a water it's like some busboy somewhere it's like i'm sorry but i'm in a task force now you'll have to talk to my union leader who thought about pairing the term force with task task is task isn't even as like maybe if it was called like a chore force maybe an errand for a task is like this a task is like the smallest thing right it's like a cleaning duties force someone really had to elevate their stature they're like because they're only getting assigned tasks instead of chores or obligations or duties they just had tasks so they get there they're like you know what i'm really good at picking up dry cleaning for people i'm joining the task force and then they get there and they're handed a gun they're I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

25:54Don't fuck around on the task force. What's the task force, bro?

25:58Ben Mandelker: What'd you think you were going to be doing? It's called the task force. I thought I'd be watering your plants while you were out of town. Yeah, that's a chore. This is the task force. For the task force to know what you're going to do, you're going to get me a sweetened loaf in the cupboard. Refill my bread or I'll shoot you. The task force never forgets. so martina is playing hide and seek with luca um and he's like i found ellen degenerate so then martina's i found ellen degenerate's haircut martina's like hey wait a minute i thought long and hard about this haircut lucas like oh my god it's tom petty so julia's like the national lgbtq task force is all about fighting for freedom and justice and getting splendor for lgbtq people if every event in miami is a party but this one is a special party because it's all about my people and all about my community and no surrogates allowed okay martina i'm gonna need you to be quiet about that so wait what do you you this is the second time you've mentioned it what is martina's surrogacy thing oh this is another thing i thought you knew about this this is the maybe you missed this on your on your recovery week martina tweeted out and she tweeted out and said surrogacy is just wrong sorry sometimes you can't have it all and everyone got mad at her so then she had to erase it but it was kind of like what the fuck we're sitting here watching your adoption storyline like all their your storyline for two years well not for two years but there's been a big through line about starting a family and like what we can do to start a family and how family is so important and you're going to be all of a sudden shitting on surrogacy like when that's really an the only option for some people and for some people that's also like a viable way to gain income it was just so it was it just was so obnoxious so yeah everyone's been rat raz and martina about it including me oh this fucking lady my god hurt her tweets i read one last week and i was just like you know what i need to stop doing is reading martina tweets and it's not like i follow her or anything they just keep showing because she's always pissing people off So they keep showing up in whatever I'm reading, whatever social media thing I'm reading.

28:13And I just need to stay away from her because she infuriates me. And then I watch this show. I would never I'm never infuriated by her on this show. But oh, my God, I just need to not ever read another tweet. I know I'm like guns and black people tweet last week. Did she? Oh, God. Like Martina, I tried. I tried to. Yeah, it's too. It's too. I don't even know what it is. I'm not even I tried to find it to read it. but I just I guess the point is stay away from Martina tweets if you're me I know I used to love

28:42Ben Mandelker: her I always loved her like it's like oh my god Martina Navratilova and then she was on the show and I'm like oh my god Martina Navratilova but you know social media is a bitch and like really also you're gonna do these terrible tweets while your wife is having a villain edit this season like with at least way to go and also Andy Cohen had a surrogate so like think about your boss for moments but whatever so um okay so anyway they're talking about this karamo thing and the task force and julia is very proud to serve her community because they get her dry cleaning so we go to oliver brazilian furniture where larsa's meeting karen the most exciting the most excited furniture store worker i've ever seen on one of these shows she's like oh my god i'm so happy to design your dream closet i'm karen karen from oliver i was like can karen from oliver can someone get karen a benzo she's about to fucking explode all over the screen well she's been trapped in this closet showroom for you know who knows how many years before someone finally walked in so she's like i'm so happy to design your dream closet i'm basically they say i'm the caramo of karamo of closets so lars is like oh my god i'm the non-lgbtq plus um task force leader okay there is nothing taskier than designing a closet i've been put on the national closet task force and um it's our mission to make sure everyone has a closet so that way gays like karamo can come out of them lars is like oh my god like like i really love like the closet task force because like they're like part of my community like yeah I want a closet like where I can see them and get to like everything that's important to me because like I love this color and I can put my gun in the closet and then Karen's like and Lars is like I don't really have a gun lol lol I'm like you have a gun and you just said that on TV you're in Florida it's okay to say that you don't have a gun in Florida I think would be the more remarkable thing.

30:52Larza's having an interesting trajectory this season. Last week she was watching Trump in the restaurant, and this week she's talking about her guns. Like, what the hell? I also like Larza's closet design aesthetic. She's like, you know what? Like, here's what I want in a closet. Like, I want to be able to find things in it. Who goes in there and is like, you know what? I want the most confusing fucking closet. I don't want to know where anything is.

31:17Ben Mandelker: Make my closet look like MC Escher. A lot of times I would never say that. She would know who that is. Who's AMC Usher? Do they still have that? That's crazy. Do they have ushers at AMC? That's cool. Yeah, so I want a gun in my closet. Mala, make America Larsa again. So Karen's like, okay. She's like, I love my penthouse. I love it. It's easy. It's literally a mansion in the sky, except it's not a mansion. It's a penthouse. But I just feel like the condo is like, it's just like not a family place for us. So I purchased a nice house and it's not moving ready. But now I have a house for when my kids never visit me.

31:58Ben Mandelker: I'm like, when does Larsa have her kids around? They're all, first of all, they're all like grown up and they're all like in LA, aren't they? And she, and Larsa buying houses. This is like, this is, this is a storyline that's been plaguing America for a few years now. Cause we even had to watch Larsa on selling sunset, look at houses to buy. It's never ending with her. She's just always buying houses and she never settles on one. Yeah. Didn't she already say the line? Yeah, but like this house, like this is like my first, like first house, like that I've like ever like owned like on myself. Like, I think we've already heard her say that.

32:31Why does she keep saying that all the time? You already owned a house that was already yours. Or is she saying that about the penthouse? Like, finally, it's like my own like penthouse. Like, like finally.

32:39Ben Mandelker: She literally says it about everything. She's like, finally, this is like my first Starbucks that I've ordered by myself. Like, it's like you cannot keep milking this divorce for some sort of independent storyline. Yeah, the kids all moved away because they're sick of Larsa trying to date their friends. So, Larsa's like, yeah, like my friend, like Stephanie, like it's not like I'm so like coming. Like, like she's going to like redo her home too. Like, so like I feel like, like I want her to like feel like I'm like to get ideas. Like, yeah, this is the first host. Yeah, I'm really excited for Stephanie to come.

33:11Ben Mandelker: So then we're looking at like digital renderings of the closet and the designer's like, this is your closet. Hold on one second. I don't know how Karama wound up in my rendering, but there he is. He's really prevalent with all gay things. Even just the mention of a closet, he just shows up. Wow. Karama's like, as the head of the LGBTQ plus task force, I would like to have a parlay with the head of the non-LGBTQ plus closet force.

33:45Ben Mandelker: Do you feel like my closet is big enough? She's like, well, it's not small. I mean, it's good. It's good. It's like, you know, it's definitely not small. And she's like, I just want to maximize every corner of that closet. I felt bad that Marissa shot a whole closet scene and they cut it and just used it in a flashback. Because that's like Marissa's storyline this year. You know, she needs this closet storyline and they just relegated it to a flashback. Yeah, that's true. I didn't even realize I'd gone into a flashback. I thought they were just still sitting there talking about the closet. but little did I realize they were actually walking into her closet.

34:19Ben Mandelker: I thought they were looking at a rendering. I'm so confused. You didn't notice because at the bottom, they put a little Chiron that said, we are sparing you from an actual Larsa scene this season. You're welcome.

34:32Ben Mandelker: So Larsa says, this is a new chapter for me. And I think it's like more of my style and more of my, Larsa, you have so many chapters without actually having an interesting book. It's like, it's like what you said, Ronnie, every single episode, she's always announcing a new chapter in a new home everything every single time and every episode she's announcing a new chapter on her face every single time like who gets plastic surgery between episodes like you have a different face every episode now i don't even know who you are right now and i think at this point she's just getting surgery from a phlobe because i swear her features are just getting more sucked into the center it's like she's attaching something to her face and just pulling it all forward yeah it's like a black hole it's all being sucked in you know she's like an elbow with eyes so Larsa's like yeah I'm here from the LGBTQ plus elbow task force gay elbows picking up coffee only so Stephanie comes over and Larsa is showing her the closet stuff and showing her samples and uh lars is like yeah i was thinking something in this family would be nice and stephanie's like yeah i you know i have something very similar to this one so i guess i'm just like a closet innovator i guess i guess really i should be in the task force i guess that's just what i'm saying um and lars is like yeah well i'm doing it first so give it back um anyway um so here look at this here's something glass do you like glass glass is nice right she's like no because it has fingerprints larsa basket's fingerprints and she's like no but like there's like a handle like she's yeah but you're still gonna touch it larza just well but would you why would you touch glass like you're not gonna touch the glass you're gonna touch like only the handle like of the door and she's like because i'm ocd i don't know what i don't know what that has to do with being ocd like where you you touch glass when you're ocd i don't think that's what it is i think it's the opposite yeah i don't think she's just saying i care about this stuff because i'm ocd because i'm concerned about i'm i'm i'm concerned about fingerprints because i'm ocd and she's like no You have to think these things through.

36:42Also, a lot of this is dumb because people do touch glass. Have you ever seen a glass door going into like a Nordstrom's or wherever? I just really fancied myself up there. Or like opening a mall door. People don't grab the handle. They press on the glass because they think that everybody's hands are dirtier than their hands. So they don't want to touch the hands. They want to put their dirty hands all over the glass. People are fucking monsters. And if you don't think you're one of them, you got another thing coming, okay? We are all from the same human monster DNA.

37:08Ben Mandelker: Yeah, that's correct. We're all Georgia from next gen New York City. So boogers are gross, except our own. You know, you better not pick your nose. But guess how I spend my afternoons? You know, it's like humans are disgusting. Like your cold is disgusting. But I'll go on a plane sneezing all over everybody. I mean, there's truth. Monsters. Monsters. So Stephanie is lecturing Larsa about the closet choices now, which is my favorite. You know, Stephanie is so obnoxious, but I really enjoy the way she lectures people because they kind of all deserve it. She's like, you have to think these things through, like the fingers, the makeup.

37:42Ben Mandelker: You have to think it through. Like, you don't want to get it dirty, Larsa. Like, why do you want to have this here? You're going to get it dirty. You don't want to do that. You have to think these through, Larsa. Larsa's like, what? Think things through? I don't understand what that means, though, like. She's like, yeah, but like, I'm self-diagnosed OCD. And I like everything clean. And I don't like fingerprints. And that's why I say boogers and Birkins just don't mix. Which I also said, I think, two episodes ago. But I'm going to keep saying it so you guys remember that I said it. and it's turned into a gift.

38:10Ben Mandelker: I'm just like hoping that this becomes a t-shirt that I can sell from the Shoma group. I'm like, yeah, you're trying too hard on this. This is the side of Stephanie I don't like is when she tries really hard to, you know, promote that she is rich and she loves a rich lifestyle. She's like, yeah, no gifts for me. Thank you very much. And then they get some champagne and she's like, yep, that means that you're the VIP and you're spending a lot of money. Larsa, I think we are like an XYZ and such and that. And she loves her personality She's like I love Stephanie's like personality Like cause like she's like not a pet like The bootleg shit like So three days earlier we see Stephanie scolding Lisa about Arriving to the sprinter van late And Larissa's like yeah see like She's like not fake and she yells at the people That I don't like like so I like her That's fun like So she's like by the way like I met Lisa for lunch and I was just like telling her that like i think she needs to be a better like a better friend and she's like running on empty in the friend department like because everyone's sick of her playing the victim all the time like and then we see like a flashback to their launch and uh with you know this is where larsha's like you're running low on friends like this is like my new thing you're running on empty with friends like you're a gas tank you're a tank you look like a big tank you should be on a task course where you could be the tank and everyone else could be the army they can get inside you because you're a tank um stephanie's like um i can tell that larza's not really over it i can tell you that right now i know her really well um because larza's like which is like and like who exists like so now they're talking about this big gala coming up and larza's not going because she has a dinner but um stephanie's in good hands because julia really loves to have fun so don't worry about it she loves fun so now let's go to the national lgbtq task force gala so people are arriving julia's on the step and repeat there's an entertainment reporter interviewing her asking how she feels she's like i am feeling so loud and so proud to represent this community and also have really happy news to share but unfortunately you'll just have to look at another media outlet because you weren't on the zoom in time i'm so sorry hopefully you have a news a news program that can tell you good news so um karamo's getting awarded with the national leadership award for his work tackling hiv stigma and advocating for mental health in the black queer community so we see karamo and um he's posing and stuff and she's invited all her friends and so stephanie comes and marisol comes and steph marisol and stephanie get in the car together and marisol's like oh it's you it's my girl my girl she goes i got a mini shaker because i know that the cockies are the weight of your heart she's like cockies and cash am i right because there's like a little bar set up in the armrest in this rolls royce so marisol's like well i guess i got the nissan version of the rolls royce because i don't have a mini bar in mind i'm like no you you got a nissan that's why don't try to make us think that you're living in that small house with a rolls royce you have a nissan lady and there's no bar in there because you're driving it yourself illegal just puts a little rr sticker over it like that it's basically a nissan juke not anymore it's called a rolls royce road i love the idea of marisol driving around a little nissan juke just coming out with her giant flower dresses like whoa whoa i wasn't expecting that i didn't know there was a nissan called a nissan juke oh yeah you've never seen it they're like the little boxy they're kind of boxy but then they tilt down i like them i like the little boxy but i think they're so cute yeah look up nissan juke oh god it's like they want to be a mini cooper but they're not i love them i love that they're like a little toy they look like a little toy they look like a shoe they look like a sneaker cars though you know i drove a one of those little fiat cars like despicable me that was my despicable me era i was like almost 400 pounds and balls and driving this little tiny car i could barely fit in and out of it it is a really cute little car but it looks honestly like a toy it looks like a toy this does not look like a real car i like that car and look at the inside and the insides of it that the uh interior very cute i think they stopped making it actually well no there's one in 2024 all right juke we're back we're back in business i'm going to the juke store today that's it nissan juke is the marisol of of cars.

42:51Ben Mandelker: You just wait around long enough and you're back. So Mary Stoll's like, wow, this car is gorgeous. Almost as gorgeous as my colon. All right. You want to talk about my colon? My colon is gorgeous. It looks like a colon of a newborn. I got my colon done. It was my first colonoscopy. You know, I just never went to do that. I guess I waited too long. I didn't know what the hell was going on down there. That was going to be a big black hole like Lars's face, but it turned out it's got an amazing colon. It's gorgeous. And I got the picture to prove it. So then Stephanie's like, but what about your liver?

43:28Ben Mandelker: She's like, oh, ow. Caught a stray right there. I mean, you realize you just fed me this booze in the back of your Rolls Royce. Or is this a Nissan Juke? Am I right? Commercials. Here comes one right now.

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45:33Ben Mandelker: Back at the party, Adriana arrives and poses. She says hi to Julia. and Julia is like, oh, I sent a message to Marisol earlier to check on her colonoscopy. And she said, everything is good. And Adriana's like, oh, yeah, well, look, I know you're all up Alexia's ass, but I didn't know you were all up Marisol's ass too. I mean, so much so that when her doctor's there looking for polyps, he's going to find a little miniature Julia's head in there being like, I'm here, I'm here. I'm like, what I, It was actually like unsettling this metaphor This joke that Adrienne was saying Because Adrienne like pushed her head forward And was like Really kind of sold the image of like Lots of little Julia heads inside of Marisol's colon

46:23So Lisa comes and she's like I'm definitely not going to be late with Stephanie Because she yelled at me I don't want to hear that again You see guys yelling at people does work sometimes It works Even Marisol's like wow she did something we couldn't do for a decade

46:36Ben Mandelker: so god colon's off to you stephanie she did something we couldn't do for a decade which is bring the nissan juke back to a marketplace so back congratulations stephanie nissan juke powerhouse influencer so gertie arrives she's like oh yes she said loud so look see look i'm loud she is loud everyone and um julia's saying that she feels like everything is good like everything's good with her and gertie because after the goddess party vibes were good they good talking, etc. And she thinks that everything is going to be totally fine today. But we know it won't be. No, it will not be. I believe with baby steps we could get hopefully where we want before we're.

47:19So Karamo comes over and he's like, oh, Julia, thanks for coming, baby. Oh, God, thanks so much for coming. Hold on. Oh, my God, this necklace. Who's this little person? God, I love your necklace. I smell money. I smell money, honey.

47:32Ben Mandelker: oh my god is he always like this this guy he is this guy is a lot this guy's a lot too much he's too much he's so fake um so you smell money you're not getting any of it so back the fuck up off off my girl okay i don't even like this girl but even on protecto i'm like putting my arms out like no this is not for you you marry your own old rich senior citizen in i think he did actually so for him yeah well yeah living the dream so stephanie's like listen i can smell mine from a mile away too and i like it i like the way it smells it's a great compliment i mean who wants to smell like something else other than money i'm like yes who wants to smell uh on like something that's like sat in someone's like butthole it's full of nasty germs in someone's crotch or pocket people at the 7-eleven are wearing plastic gloves to touch the cash okay because it's nasty and i like when he's like oh my god you can smell money too right and she goes yeah my husband smells delicious she's so gross this girl stephanie i don't i don't like this she tries to she's definitely a try hard i like her a lot but she is a try hard.

48:45Ben Mandelker: You do not like her yet. I'm still trying to give my housewives grace period, you know, but for right now. She's totally obnoxious. But I like the way she stands, she holds her own in a way that I really appreciate with this group. So that's really all I want. But as you were saying, Kiki arrives and she has brought Carmen Carrera, known as a model and former drag race contestant. And is this the first time, I could be wrong, but is this the first time we've seen a friend of introduce a new friend of to the show? Oh, that's true. That's a good point. I don't know. I just saw that she was going to be on because there was a Bravo post.

49:24It was like, welcome to a gorgeous new housewife. Carmen. Yeah. But I don't really know anything else about her. So Julie is like, oh, let me give you prompt new person. Goat. I'm sorry. I don't know what to do with that. Okay. So you did Victoria's Secret show? Did this sound natural? And she's like, yes, well, I almost did about 10 years ago. But there was a petition for me to walk in the show. But they didn't allow it because there were no transgenders allowed. And so that's why we do things like this. That's when I became the first transgender coffee fetcher for the LGBTQ plus task force.

50:05Ben Mandelker: And that was Carmen, everyone. Everyone, that was Carmen Carrera, her big debut. That was the last thing that she'd said on the episode. um they really like all week long bravo was like introducing carmen here comes carmen here comes carmen and she's like yes i was i was i was almost in a fashion show but people are bigots so anyway and then it goes she tried it she tried she tries later in the episode but they cut her off so she's gonna need to learn to be a little bit louder if she's gonna stick with this group so alexi is now uh grilling lisa about her lunch with larsa and she's like but you also had lunch with larsa and she's like yeah we're working on it you know i don't want to be negative but like one thing was kind of funny so like larsa's like you're narcissists because like i got the most flags or whatever but i go listen to this everybody i go yeah well you're a narcissist everyone's like the host in that restaurant comes up to her is like excuse me ma 'am you're still being a little bit too loud for our customers you just keep it down that scene was fucking amazing i was so upset not to be on the last recap it was what an episode what an episode it was pretty amazing you were missed um marisol's like oh monkey you're a wordsmith

51:24Ben Mandelker: so dismissive and lar says you know that you know that lisa's probably like thanks thanks so um marisol let me tell you what i don't have a colon cyst okay little lars says it all looks like a five-year-old juke so small so now um they go and they sit at their table it's the big you know like welcome to the 2024 national lgbtq task force gala each of you has a trivet on the table and we want everyone to bring their trivet to a different table and you've completed your task for the evening thank you so much so Alexia gets a ding and she's like oh look what Todd said because I'm wearing the dress and Mary's soul's like oh what how did you know you you were wearing that oh my god because of last night because of last night and she's like oh you saw him last night you made out what's on oh come on come on how could you how could you well you know last night I ran into Todd and we just like hung out all night and you know like I don't know like why we're texting each other it's just like this is what happens when we see each other we want to be with each other and like I love this man and he loves me and I'm just going by my heart.

52:35I'm like, yes. Oh, God, I need a real drink. This is too sweet. I can't. Oh, God.

52:40Ben Mandelker: Does anyone have a Nissan Juke teeny? God, I need something strong around here. And Stephanie says that she doesn't know Todd that well, but from everything I've heard, I think Alexia is very blind to Todd's narcissistic tendencies. She's not blind to it. She just had a party. I don't care what she says. That party was a party about Todd last week. She even said, she's like, I dated someone like this for a very long time named Todd. And, you know, I want to be very subtle about it. I want to be subtle. But, you know, I was dating this guy and he had like all these qualities of a narcissist. So we're going to have this party and we're going to talk about narcissism.

53:17And now she's like, what? That party wasn't for Todd. What are you talking about?

53:21Ben Mandelker: She literally had a breakdown in a restaurant where she said, Todd is a narcissist. I fucking hate narcissists. All the narcissists should die. And then the next episode, she's like, I've been thinking about narcissism a lot, so I decided to throw an anti-narcissism party. And then they get to the party, and she goes, well, people think this is about Todd, but it's not about Todd. It's actually about all of them instead. I'm like, what? You literally, you demanded his death. This one is hilarious. I was laughing so much. She's so ridiculous. So while they're here, like, they're in this gala, and like a presentation is happening, because we can hear a presentation.

53:57Ben Mandelker: and Gertie's like, ladies, ladies, ladies I don't want to scream, but I want to be demure, and I just want to make sure you got my text message about the party on Tuesday it's a celebration of life, it's a white cocktail, I'm like, Gertie, there's a thing happening on stage she's like, just so you know, I'm going to be publicly shaming Julia, and I want to make sure you're all there

54:19oh, did you freeze you froze, and you froze like this and your face was like this you guys guys yeah I'm having a party to talk about what an asshole Julia is but my face is going to be blown up there's going to be blown up posters of my face it's going to be amazing so I didn't want to yell right now I just wanted to interrupt somebody talking about the black gay LBTQ community whatever okay are you coming

54:48Ben Mandelker: and they're like okay sure and then I got lots of wives so many wedding dresses well i went to do some sort of donation of some sort so like to my group support your girlfriends uh they are wanting to present a check to a non-profit to embed it in that whole breast cancer sphere so we're going to do support your girlfriends but maybe not support the lgbtq uh platform because i'm going to talk all the way through it okay so then uh please welcome to the stage 2024 national leadership award recipient karamo so he goes on the stage and he's like tonight's theme is karamo gets to be on bravo and i realized a long time ago that any cult action starts with a call to andy cohen saying when are you shooting another housewife show i will be there just tell me when and here i am thank you everyone so much for being here yeah so then lisa is uh talking to julia's like i'm so proud of you thank you so much for bringing us here you know and i'm so proud of you for adopting two boys i'm so proud to be your friend and say, oh, thank you, little gravelly person.

55:55Tonight, there's no drama, just how it should be. And now, all I want to know is that my boys are growing up with lovely, lovely P.S.

56:05Ben Mandelker: And then Karamo's like, now everyone, before I leave, turn to neighbor and say, neighbor, never stop fighting. Are you sure you want to do that when you've got a Housewives cast here? no one's ever said that in the same room with these people yeah didn't karamo didn't he like moderate the like vanderpump rules panel uh at bravo con no i don't know i thought he i thought he like he moderated some panel and everyone was like he he clearly has not watched the show i don't know here's what i did at bravo con i went to like the first two minutes of panels and then i was like this is stupid and boring and then i would go gamble that's that was my that was my bravo con experience i'm just imagining him saying this at the vanderpump rules panel being like okay i want everyone to look at each other and say neighbor never stop fighting and so they do this they all they all do it and then of course the screen like kind of like glitches and freezes and it says 72 hours later and then you see Gertie publicly shaming Julia I was like oh no so uh we go to Gertie's party and um you know of course Gertie's like this party it's about cancer and the cancer struggles but it's huge pictures of Gertie's face and then things like Gertie you know like big words and say like Gertie you got this girl i'm that bitch yes and that's and this is like sponsored by the knot the knot was so excited the knot was like posting content yesterday being like watch the real house house in miami tonight like we're on it i'm like you're at an event where you publicly shamed you're part of like like the star publicly like it was you're part of an event of public shaming but like that's fine i guess any publicity is good publicity we got the box for this we didn't we get the box for this party?

58:01I did not. It was from The Knot. Do you remember? We got a box from Gertie. Wasn't it for this?

58:07Ben Mandelker: No, that Gertie box was something else. That Gertie box was... Oh, it was from Gertie box. The Gertie box for The Knot, yes, happened. Yeah, we got that. And it had the sushi kit in it. Was that where that sushi kit came from? I was wondering where that sushi stuff came from. Yeah, it was like a sushi kit making, like a sushi making kit thing in there. It was like, Gertie, the best sushi you'll ever eat! And a candle. I go to find sushi. Go to find. So she comes, so there are texts, oh, so then we see, she's like, tonight? Oh, yeah, we're seeing a clip of what's happening 72 hours later. Gertie's like, tonight I feel it's necessary to set the record straight by exposing the lies.

58:47The lies. And then we see texts projected on the screen. And Mary Sill's like, oh, this is dirty. This is fucking dirty.

58:56Ben Mandelker: Yeah. So we see that it's going to go bad. But now, now we're back in the regular timeline and we're doing set up for this party. It's Gertie's Celebration of Life. And people are adjusting pink decorative twill and placing a large sign that says Gertify on it. And Gertie's saying like she feels like this is her debut. It's her post-cancer debut. It's going to be a year that she's been cancer free. And it's a party of life because she's alive and she did it, which is great. And by the way, both events this episode are celebrating great things. Uh, but of course it's Miami. So they're also both messy.

59:32Ben Mandelker: And so Gertie is, uh, just really excited. her family's going to be there. I was like, this is when I started to really get like, I felt and talk about the, talk about the, not I felt one in my stomach and my chest when she said her family was going to be there. And we already saw a preview of her publicly shaming Julia. I was like, is she going to be doing this in front of her sons? I am already cringing. Her sons aren't babies. They'll find, but still like they're their mother. I think, I don't think this is the first time. And I feel like Gertie's probably practiced this in her living room.

1:00:02Like, okay, boys, come in here. You be Julia. You be Martina. And Russell, you can be just Marisol. Just talk about Collins. Okay, here we go. Here we go. Are you ready? I also get my poster boards. Can you read them? Can you read these?

1:00:15Ben Mandelker: The boys probably, like, turned the screenshots into PDFs to be put into the slideshow. That's true. They probably, like, set it all up for her. Like, okay, mom, have fun. So Gertie is like, oh, it's going to be one for the books. this party's going to be amazing because what else would it be i'm girly this party's going to be gratified cancer just got it from me i told cancer i'm that bitch cancer and it left it left my body it left my body it's my party i can wear what i want i can drink what i want i can say what i want i can do what i want in fact i once heard a beautiful song that says i do whatever i want whenever i want with no explanation it's richard marx go look it up speaking of real housewives of Orange County.

1:00:57It's interesting that we're getting two episodes in a row this week that take place in a church. Like Bravo is really trying to bring us to Jesus this week because Orange County has a church scene coming up soon.

1:01:10Ben Mandelker: And then with South Park last night, I mean, like, you know, Christian, Christian narratives are everywhere all over pop culture. Did you see that South Park? You watch South Park? Did you hear about that? Well, I watched last night's South Park because everyone was talking about it. Really? Well, I'll let you just basically they. So so on, I think, Monday, Matt Parker and Trey Stone or Trey Stone, Matt Parker, whatever the names are. Those guys, Parker, they signed a one point five billion dollar deal with. Oh, good for that. And then on Wednesday's show, they just savaged Paramount and Trump and all this stuff.

1:01:50Ben Mandelker: and basically they were like it was you know like in the wake of all the stephen colbert stuff which was total bullshit everything stephen colbert getting canceled they just savage so everyone's like oh my god i can't believe they got their 1.5 billion dollars from paramount and then did this episode so i was like okay i have to watch and my girls it's wild and you should definitely definitely watch it you will i will now i didn't know about you will not believe you will not believe it and it's hilarious because people are already mad at it and it's like all these people who talked about free speech, free speech, free speech or something like well this show should be taken off the air.

1:02:29Ben Mandelker: So it's great. It's a fun time to be in pop culture. That a girls you go girls. I was wondering about that deal because that's been a long time coming and there's been a lot of you know threats of lawsuits and all this stuff. It's not been an easy deal that. So I'm glad they finally signed it. Get your bags y 'all. Yes. So that's some fun homework for you, Ronnie, to enjoy. You will have a field day with it. But there was a lot of Jesus talk in it, too. So it was just a whole lot of Jesus happening on my TV the past day. Well, those guys are little rabble-rousers. They're the best in the game, that's for sure.

1:03:06So Gertie is like, Baby, baby, Russell, come here. Kiss me. You look so good, Russell. Russell and Miles. Miles, oh God, look at you. I know you don't like when I cried. Everybody, get super tight, super tight. Remember, pearly whites, we're smiling. We're good at all.

1:03:27Ben Mandelker: So Julia arrives first, and Gritty's like, oh, hello, hello, hello. And they have like a nice quick hello, and then Gritty sort of like finds a reason to get out of there. And Julia's like, oh, well, you know, Gritty made an effort to come to my event, and I am here to support her with goat, but unfortunately, goat got loose. But I'm still here, and I'm optimistic. sick at least she's trying to move forward which is already a huge step unfortunately i also took a huge step and i stepped on an egg oh well so gertie is you know doing her whole preamble one thing with cancer is it's it's your attitude your attitude can be cancer to you and if you don't let things get you holding you down if you let things hold you down that's called stress and stress ain't good for nobody so damn with stress like every time they go to gertie this episode she's like and let me give you another lesson it's all leading up to the big reveal so funny so julia so julia goes up to russell and she's like beautiful event and he's like yeah you know it's gertie this is what she does yes how are boys they're good well you know we have two boys now he's like yeah congratulations and good luck just like we get an awkward and it's super awkward which is saying something because russell's just awkward all the time anyway i mean he's not he's never like comfortable but it's awkward even for russell and so she does that thing where she narrows her eyes and say well i don't know if gertie shared with you but we had a moment and that i wish we did not have but we are on good path now i feel and he's like hmm well i hope that everyone's able to move forward excuse me i need to go make sure that the 90 foot image of my wife's face uh smiling and saying f cancer is uh properly taped onto the wall okay this this this was starting to feel like the red wedding like i felt like julia walking in and russell be like oh yeah we it's so nice to see you like i was just like waiting for the orchestra to like duck out and step out and all the doors are shut on Julia.

1:05:40Ben Mandelker: So Adriana is like, Adriana and Kiki and Larsa arrive and Gertie says hello. And, you know, Adriana points out that Julia is talking to Russell, et cetera. And Kiki is now talking to Larsa. And she's like, you know, this is like my mom old church. Larsa's like, really? Like what? She's like, yeah, this is a church. my mom, my son, and I used to go to. And there was a lot of Baptist church, lots of penis in this room, lots of Baptist penis. And now it's party event space. I mean, we have so much memories being like, ah, amen, amen, strange bald man, penis everywhere. But you know, it's great. It's a perfect place for Gertie to have a party.

1:06:20Ben Mandelker: She's funny. She's like, oh my God, this church was crazy. You jump, you dance, you do all this stuff, you know? And then we're speaking in tongues. Yeah, it's a perfect place for Gertie's party. Yeah. so she introduces carmen um to her and she's like okay well now that you're meeting larsa you met the rest of the girls what do you think about everyone and so this was carmen's chance so she was well i've really only known everyone for like five minutes but and uh then she's cut off yeah okay i thought she was about to start some shit but no, she said nothing. So then Stephanie joins up and she's like, oh, well, aren't you a statement?

1:07:06Ben Mandelker: And Gary's like, yes, this necklace is a statement after your everything's a statement, my goodness, a statement. Like, okay. So then Marisol arrives and she's like, oh my god, I guarantee you look like you belong on the top of a cake. It's like a Nissan Juke sales event and they put a cake in the showroom and you're on top of it. So Marisol is talking to Julia. She's like, oh, I saw Russell's here. Did you talk to Russell? She goes, well, I did. It was all the most awkward, you know, but he was uncomfortable. And I guess he heard Gertie's side of the story because he looked like I'm bad guy, but I guess I'm glad we had the conversation with Gertie.

1:07:44Things are moving forward, I'm sure. I'm sure no projection screen will be used tonight against me.

1:07:50Ben Mandelker: I don't know why I'm bad guy, just because I refuse to get seat for Gertie for Captain Sandy and pour water on her head during wedding. Like, what is so wrong with that? I have two young boys now. So Gertie introduces her friends that she calls the Glossy Posse because I'm a breast cancer survivor. And Julia is still talking to Marisol. She's like, wait, something else. I went out with Alexia and Todd and apparently Todd was saying to me he's trying to win Alexia back. And Marisol's like, oh, my Dios, madre, por qué No, it's possible. Oh, my God. Oh, excuse me. Excuse me. Are you talking about the star?

1:08:30Ben Mandelker: Because I thought I heard you guys talking about the star. So I assume you're talking about me. No? About me? Because I was like, I have a feeling these two love talking about the star right now. And Marisol's like, wow. She was telling me you ran into Todd. And you guys, like he's trying to win you back. I mean, what's going on with that? And then Stephanie like plops down next to them. Now they're all four in this tiny little sofa thing. And she's like, hi, here. Sorry, I was getting away from some boogers. Can't get them near my Birkin. That could be a T-shirt, right, guys? Just think about it.

1:08:57Well, why do you think he wants to win you back? You don't look like you are pulling away from him. And Stephanie's like, oh, my God, are we talking about Todd? Todd, Todd, Todd, Todd. We had a party for him. Remember? We had that party for him, the Greek party. And she's like, oh, that wasn't a party for Todd. It was for all of you that are a bunch of fucking narcissists, by the way. By the way, it's about all of you. And Stephanie's like, I guess including you, right? And she's like, no, actually, no. No, I'm not. I'm not because I can't be a narcissist because I'm too much of an empath. Okay.

1:09:27And I'm not full of myself. Like maybe you are. Okay. And then she starts doing that thing where she, how can a star be full of herself? I'm a star and an empath.

1:09:35Ben Mandelker: I can't be full of myself. I die. Oh my God. Like she nods her head, like aggressively at you. Like she's beating you with her head. She's just like, Oh really? Yeah. I can't do that because I'm an empath like you. i also love how like these women really can push push the limits of passive aggression like you you know like that that that that fine line between passive aggression and just aggression and and and they just their passive aggression is so on that threshold i mean that whole thing like this entire dialogue was so amazing it's like well i'm an empath so i can't i'm not myself maybe like you are i don't know but i'm not i'm empath no like see i'm not following myself no i'm not i'm not unless the only thing that's full around me is my birken bag full of money see because i'm rich well don't say things about todd then and she's like no but the party was based around todd she's no it was not based around todd and she goes but he the quotes were for todd like the quotes there were about todd she's no they weren't about todd yes they were why are you lying why are you trying to gaslight all of us congratulations you've reached the end End of part one of a two-part recap.

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