#3574 Real Housewives of Potomac: S11E01 Part Two: Book Em’, Psalms!

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2:22Ronnie Karam: Recaps, go back and listen to part one, okay? It's before this one. Bye. Enjoy the show. So now Tia goes to work, and she's wearing an outfit. It's pretty. It's like a pretty blouse and like an untied bow tie. So it looks like she just got off of work. Yes. I don't know. It's an interesting look to be at work. To be like, ah, my tie is on done. It's the style. Yes. It's like she's doing a role on Broadway. like she's just some sort of cabaret singer or something like that so tia says that she's expecting a client and her supervisor or someone who works there is like well the market has really been improving so i hope you'll have some great houses to show she's like absolutely mortgage rate mortgage rate pre-approved square footage okay realty so then we go it's all gonna go great because the real estate market is on the up and up and I could be mayor soon.

3:20Yeah, it's gonna be mayor soon. Sorry, it's a little slow to keep up.

3:23Ronnie Karam: Yeah, but you know, all of the numbers are coming back down and people are now able to afford their mortgage and get back into the house. So let's get back out there, house market. That's so upsetting. No, no, it's not upsetting at all, Camille. So even more upsetting. so now we go to a gym called train which is funny because there's a train station there called gym i'm like what's going on in potomac um but ashley is working out with her friend cory and then we see just it's just you know it's like the everyone's doing things in potomac moment so giselle is measuring space for chairs uh which is a thrilling way for giselle to open up the season.

4:04And then we wind up back at Tia with her undone bow tie.

4:08Ronnie Karam: So Giselle has one of those circular things in the middle of her backyard. You go down some steps and it's like a stone circle. And in the middle is like a stone circle for a fireplace. And there's no cushions or anything. It's for when you have a bunch of people over and you're sitting around a fire. But Giselle just goes down there and sits on the stone to take her call. Like my glamorous back out you need a cushion you need to go sit down somewhere with the cushion this looks very uncomfortable you tell her so she pulls out the tape measure and she's like three feet how many inches is three feet i was like oh god the circle is never going to get down the circle uh her stepmother comes around like i actually own this circle sorry you can go back inside so then uh tia tia's we go back to tia and she's you know what it is here's the thing tia's outfit with the bow tie undone it's definitely like a look i'm not i'm not opposed to the look i think it looks fine but what it sort of reminds me of is like if abc were running a show on thursday nights at 9 p.m that was like abc presents real estate like some show about real estate where everyone walks around and looks, but you're like, real estate agents don't dress like that, do they?

5:26But it's like the ABC version. It's not like the Netflix selling sunset version. It's just like the ABC, Thursdays at 9pm, you gotta tune in for House on Fire Thursdays on ABC. And everyone would have that look, like a bow tie that's undone, or people just sort of have a sassy look about them around the office. Does this make sense? Am I just caffeinated?

5:49Ronnie Karam: Yeah, I think she looks like she just got off work at It's a Living. Oh, a dream. There's a Living reboot with Tia. Amazing. So then we go to Tia back at work, and she's saying, Well, I'm never somebody that you will see fall completely apart, but I will refuse to tie a bow tie. And that's where we stand right now. So she sends out a text. And as she sends out the text, we see it come up on the screen. And then it flies away from her and flies through the streets and the telephone tolls. Yes. And then flies into Giselle's house while she's trying to figure out how a measuring tape works. It's like I'm trying to say it's very Forrest Gump feather.

6:34You know, it's like, ooh, where is fate taking us? So it's like, good afternoon.

6:41Ronnie Karam: Tom Hanks is really killing it in today's recap, by the way. He's everywhere. And we've only just begun. Okay? We've only just begun. Anyway, this text message arrives like a bunch of soldiers landing in north of France on D-Day.

7:03Ronnie Karam: This text gets to Giselle's house, who really only has a volleyball to talk to. That's accurate. She should be grateful. The text arrives and tells Giselle, I am the captain now. I was like, whoa, text message. Giselle calls Tia, and she's like, wait a minute, basketball. Like, we are going to a basketball game for sure. Well, I have a new client, and her husband is a coach for the Wizards. It's the last home game, so she invited me so I could extend the invitation to all of my friends. Oh, a new cast member. I hope she makes a splash. Think about it. Think about it. So we see pictures of Tia with her client, Courtney.

7:52Ronnie Karam: Courtney's the noob. And Giselle's like, really? Wow, I love that. Yes, it's going to be interesting. By the way, what is going on with Ashley? I saw Ashley salivating at the mouth about me in my marriage, apparently. And we see a flashback of Ashley giving that interview. And Giselle's like, oh, oh, really? I haven't heard anything about this. I'm Giselle, completely innocent of gossip. We will have things to discuss later. Ashley definitely did not workshop with me that response before she went to that event. I knew nothing about it for sure. So now Ashley's working out. And now she reads Tia's message.

8:32And Ashley's like, look at it. Look at how she writes. The tone is like, good afternoon, period. Hope you're having a good week, period. Why is she being firm? Like maybe because she's like a professional and at work. So she's like in work mode. So she's going to write like a text message. I don't know. I'm just like coming up with a reason just to negate Ashley. Maybe it's because she likes punctuation, Ashley.

8:59Ronnie Karam: You ever think about that? Yeah, exactly. It's funny to see someone so shocked that someone's using punctuation in a text. I know. Like what? What is she yelling at me? It's called a period. okay we learned them in school so cory is like well i mean you were a little chatty at the event ashley and she's like well that's you know that she needs to watch out for that husband of hers but like what i've heard is shady and weird and i don't think that's that that's somewhat something someone who is married should do i'm like yeah but but she also has like kids who are young and you're just like out there cavalierly just being like oh yeah um he's cheating sorry oh sorry kids did you hear that you're also the girl who stood up for your husband after like sexually molesting one of the camera people so i don't know ashley you're also the girl that made out with ralph which has nothing to do with this but i just like to remind you that like that really like anything you say i just always have to filter it through like your judgment of making it with big shrek and if anybody doesn't remember how gross that sounded here's a sound clip

10:15you don't when i did that interview sorry that was just shannon that was just shannon in the

10:20Ronnie Karam: background being you don't eat vegetables earl i can't even believe it just in the background well when i did that interview i totally spoke out of place like literally i just learned that information about rob fairly recently uh when when someone asked me it did provoke me and i just couldn't hold it it provoked you that question provoked me i have feelings towards him because i actually do like tia but you know these men will embarrass you in a heartbeat uh so now we go yeah yeah uh a man a man will embarrass you or you will embarrass yourself it's the rule of ashley so then we go to Weddy I was going to say sorry I love this transition of these men will embarrass you cut to Wendy and Eddie I'm not buying this whole it's all Eddie's fault story that they're about to peddle us we knew it was coming we all got the audience all guessed that this was going to come but I can't with this it's all Eddie's fault and you guys cannot come here and have a scene and pretend that you're not a united front and that you're on the brink of divorce when you're wearing matching outfits.

11:35Ronnie Karam: Like nothing says we are united and we agree with everything each other says, like wearing pink outfits together to the park. Stop it. So Wendy says, it feels good to be outside. For me, it's like once everything happened, I was completely shut off from everything. And the outside world was also so mean. You know, the world that I know is completely different. In the past, I was whipping into this keynote speech, teaching a class here, doing a speaking engagement. But now it's all been wiped away. It's something that I think of every single day when I give a keynote speech to my children because they're the only ones who listen.

12:17Ronnie Karam: On YouTube. so um eddie is like whoa i hope you can forgive me what this whole situation has taught me is that you never know what tomorrow will bring you know the process takes a long time and she's like yeah well i need my my legal team right now is just trying to get all of what's needed and they ask if they have separate legal teams and wendy's like yes yes we do so um they do this whole like will i stay with eddie can i trust eddie but then the editors keep flashing on screen the email where he's like uh we need uh i'm trying to get this total to exceed four hundred and twenty thousand dollars which is our maximum policy so send me more expensive shit you know like chanel shoes anything expensive just list them here yeah you know if we're going to make it through this storm together, it's really important that we are more honest and open to each other and trying to remember the love and not remember the hurt.

13:19And it's challenging at times to do that. Because you know what I know to be true, that no one tells you about marriage, that there's come certain situations in marriages where you go, am I going to fight this or am I going to walk away from this? You know, people don't talk about in marriage how hard it is when you commit insurance fraud and then have to defend it on TV. That's a real challenging, universal experience. Yeah.

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16:48Ronnie Karam: I can go to the country club, the city club, with the club club, any club. Club club. Great place. Somewhere Georgia's like, yes, I knew it. It's finally taken off. I love that. Oh my god. I'm going to send her a bottle of yuck. So, so, Courtney says, I'm married to Alexis Ajink. He has a last name who I don't want. I will not say it right now because I forgot how it's pronounced. Ajinka. And he is coach for the Wizards. During his basketball career, I went everywhere and I followed this man all over the world, okay? And now we have been here for three years. Yeah, she tells us about her kids and that her husband is 7 '2".

17:31Ronnie Karam: And she just crawls into his arms like a little baby and she just loves that about him. He's just so big. So, um... His last name is, it's actually, it's Ajinsa. Ajinsa. So I was like, Ajinka? I was like, that does not sound right. Ajinsa. Okay. So Tia comes and they hug and we see all this food because they're in like the special box. And Tia's like, well, I met Courtney at the office, actually. She was looking for some properties and she was referred to me because I'm the best. And we've been hanging out quite a bit. I've seen her two times since we met when she was cast on this show. Let's not even pretend that there's a long, long story involved.

18:14Ronnie Karam: Hopefully, I will make some money off of her. All right. So, Courtney asks who's coming, and Tia tells her, Well, one of the ladies, I've never hung out with her. Her name is Karen, and she was away for a bit, but now she's back. And then Wendy, who's my fellow Nigerian sister, and then there's Stacy, who claims to be Nigerian sister, but that runs up in the air. Not really sure about that one yet. So Courtney says, I hung out with Ashley and it was a time. We had a great time. Oh, good. Well, she's definitely coming. I'm avoiding Ashley like the baddest rash you've ever had on your bottom. I mean, I'm not completely raised by animals.

18:55So she says hello. I'm going to say hello as well. And that's about as far as that's going to go. And the producer says, have you spoken to Rob yet? And she goes, Hmm, well, I don't want to create a scene And matters will be handled at a later time

19:11Ronnie Karam: Yeah, she does not want to talk about it So then the rest of the women come Stacey is wearing sneakers And Karen is mortified She's like, oh, Stacey, before you get dressed, call me I mean, what are you going down that road with Giselle? You're neck and neck with fashion, zero, zero You're both winning at zero Karen, by the way, is wearing upholstery on her head while she says this. But Stacey's out there is legitimately crazy. I mean, I'm sorry. I don't think it's crazier than anybody else's. No, I think it was. Like the sneakers, and it was not just the sneakers. It was like the dress was like, I forget specifically what it looked like.

19:49I remember looking at it and saying like, oh, this has gone wrong somewhere. I know you're going to pull up the image soon, but I can't get behind this look.

19:59Ronnie Karam: I don't know what I think it's pretty it's just like a sundress um just and compared to what the rest of them are wearing they're all dressed crazy she's wearing a sundress with some tennis shoes they're at a basketball game literally they cut to the crowd and everybody is wearing tennis shoes then Courtney is wearing some like backward it's like a Denise Richards fur thing it looks like she put it on backwards um let's see who else looks great Ashley is wearing a pleather crop top and matching like little pants i mean they all look crazy it's a basketball game what are they getting mad at the lady who wore tennis shoes i don't know it didn't it didn't quite either way it didn't work for me uh regardless of if everyone else was was dressed crazy i think stacy specifically this is actually yeah i mean come on it's like um it's like a it's not like a capelet it's just like a it's like a woman i don't know what she's doing but you know it's housewives they're supposed to look crazy leave stacy alone this is what i'm saying i don't know i don't know um so uh yes everyone is showing up and uh and karen uh talks with courtney and courtney was a wedding planner and she actually did cynthia bailey's wedding and we actually see footage from that wedding back in what 2019 2020 it was 2020 because it was or 2021 um and we see that courtney was there and courtney was on camera and organizing that whole wedding well i was there it was beautiful so um karen sees wendy and wendy also looks crazy she's in like some kind of cat outfit with fur on the boobs.

21:51Ronnie Karam: And Karen sees her and she's like, oh, Wendy, hello, Wendy. And Wendy just stands there stiff. She's like, oh, good to see you. We'll talk when you're ready, Wendy. Well, I'm here for support. I'm open to conversation if you are, okay? That was just an invite and you're welcome. I'm confused because the Cowan I saw in New York told me to shut the fuck up. And I had supported Cowan when she was going through her darkest moment. and then she used my lowest moment to kick me. So yeah, nah, I don't think so. Yeah. So Giselle comes in and gives Stacey some crap about her fashion choices. Man, she's Giselle, you know?

22:29Ronnie Karam: And they say she looks nuts. And Ashley and Kourtney talk about how they went out and had a great time. And Ashley partied so hard she doesn't even remember, but she's sure that Kourtney can party. And then Robin Dixon. while we're talking about fashion robin dixon comes in i'm back boo so they're all like oh my god it's robin and stacy's like i am so happy to see robin she and i met at the ultimate girls trip and we see that they had met at that was at atlanta and um and so they had bonded there i guess and stacy says they immediately hit it off robin's like i'm back here i am since you last met me i opened my business glow 30 that's right i'm the first person to ever name a business after a promo code i'm still making people mad on reasonably shady and you know getting under people's skin which you can make look nice using the promo code glow 30.

23:32Ronnie Karam: um so she hugs everybody and the editors keep cutting to her bra coming out of the bottom of her shirt which i thought was funny because it's like nobody else they do that but robin every shot they're like get robin's bra again and she's like well like geez a lot a lot seems to have changed with the ladies i mean karen has street cred now way to go karen so wendy tells her wow robin you've gotten smaller well glp1 you know you can see it you can see it right here in your face olympic face and uh she goes well you too i mean look at you she goes no this is pilates and thwest.

24:11Well, it's a powerful combination. Yeah, probably stress first, then Pilates. Yeah. So Wendy is asking us, why is Wob here? Like, Wob, welcome back, I guess. So Robin says hi to everyone, and Karen's just like ignoring her, just looking at her phone like, sorry, I'm just going to see any messages from Jesus. I am nominating myself to be a vessel. And Karen's like, hold on, Robert. Hold on. I'm checking my text messages. She goes, really? Really? You're starting to call me Robert? Really? Then they have a little hug. And Karen tells us, I checked. Robin is sitting on a podcast, shaking a tin can, calling my name, hoping somebody will drop a nickel in.

24:54And I'm just saying, stop calling my name.

24:58Ronnie Karam: I'm paying you a mortgage. I'm feeding Juan. Not for free. I'm charging 10 % commission. Andy, can you work that out? Thank you. So people are trying to get to know Courtney. And she says that she's trying to get pregnant with the girl next. And Ashley's like, so are you actively trying? She just said that. What does that mean? Yes, she's trying. She just said she's trying. Inactively trying? Yes, she's trying. Well, we are actively trying. So this year is now or never. I just want to be pregnant in June so I can have a Pisces. um ministers super into astrology notoriously i think she's gonna this woman i think everything's gonna fall apart for her i'm the reason why i'm saying this is because i feel like it's the people who come on this show with like a set plan of exactly how their family is supposed to be like i want to have i want to get pregnant now so i can have a pisces i'm gonna do this and that and like have everything put together and then reality tv comes and destroys everything and reveals the affairs and the the issues and the financial problems the tax evasion and all this and that i feel like all this is going to come out for for poor courtney she may have like a nice first season if she and if she makes it beyond that you know we're seeing it happen with tia right now like all the shit's gonna gonna come to the to the fore especially if she makes it to a second season because that's when you know ashley will make sure to dig some stuff up and and get it on tv yeah so um wendy's like so they start dancing and ashley's dancing around and wendy says how are you going to blow up this family's life and here you are drinking drinking her liquor did ashley steal tia's drink i didn't understand that so any no i think it's because he arranged the tia arranged the event oh i see what you're saying so ashley's like uh dancing and she says Ashley continues along with her impish behavior.

26:56Impish. So then Stacey, yeah, they're looking at the food and everything. There's chicken tenders and stuff. And then Giselle's like, Courtney, I thought you were part of the talls. And Courtney's like, no, I'm not. I am short. But my husband, he's 7 '2". Like, wow, wow.

27:18Ronnie Karam: Speaking of, you know, I know someone who's 7 '2". It's Josh's hair. So Josh comes in, Beavis, and apparently he works at this place. And he's like, hey, everybody, I'm Josh. Just want to say hey, ladies. He is so nice to everybody there. And they are all giving him a smile like, ew, Josh's hair. It's like when you go to a dinner party and someone comes out to do a performance. Like that's Josh coming around, circling around. This is where Giselle actually said, well, actually circle the block. And it means he's back in her life because she couldn't do any better. But yeah, I guess he works in some capacity at this arena.

27:56And so he just comes by to say hello. And they're like, hi, Josh. Thanks.

28:01Ronnie Karam: Bye. Bye, Josh. So now they go eat and drink and stuff. And Ashley's like, maybe put some tequila in it, Karen. I've hurt your eyes. Tequila's going in a drink. Well, Ashley, I was a bit taken aback about something that you had said about Tia. And I just want some quality on it. You think, yes, well, you had an overwhelming schnodderfroder on your face. Schnoddenfreuden. What? What's that word? Schnoddenfreudenlesen. Hey, it's not schadenfreude. It's called schadenfreude. Don't you forget it, okay? Schadenfreude, remember? Remember? You have a certain sort of schadenfreude. It's when somebody takes glee at somebody else's misfortune.

28:47Ronnie Karam: I'm sorry, what was that word? It doesn't matter, Ashley. You looked quite delighted that there was some misfortune coming my way. I don't understand. It's when you watch Glee and someone's having a bad time? Is that what it is? Please, just stop. You're a bitch. That's it. Who is misfortune? I just don't understand. Meanwhile, Karen's starting to nod off. And Ashley is like She's like what I was alluding to Was something I had recently seen And I was really bothered by what I saw And so then Tia's like So you're like oh Haha this is not my tea Well whose tea is it? Well they can speak for themselves Because your relationship is maybe closer to them Than it is to me But who?

29:41Ronnie Karam: Who could you mean? And Giselle's just looking at Ashley like Ashley. So finally Giselle's like, okay, it's me. I'm the problem. It's me. It's me. I already knew it. I knew it was Giselle. Well, somebody sent me some information and I'm not on dating sites. So I showed Ashley like, hey, could this be true? And it's a verified account, by the way. Yes, I've seen it. But then when would you have brought it to my attention, Giselle? Do you not think that I need to know this. And Giselle's like, well, we get made-up stuff and DMs all the time, mainly from Ashley. And Tia's like, well, I would have appreciated receiving that from somebody I considered my friend, but I had to get it from my non-friend, this ding-dong over here who wore sneakers to this basketball game with that ridiculous dress.

30:29And I feel like, sorry, Stacy, I feel like you're catching strays. And she's like, no, it's fine.

30:35Ronnie Karam: Giselle, the only reason we know Tia is because of you, so pull her to the side. Why Why are you telling her instead of her? Well, I showed it to Ashley, like, girl, is this real? And Wendy goes, why? Is Ashley Steve Jobs? What is she now verified? What is she verified? Who is she verifying? No, but she's been on dating sites, and I've been on dating sites. And Wendy's like, well, that's what she's verifying? It's like, well, have you been on dating sites? And Ash is like, well, I haven't actually. But I've seen them before. and Stacy is like, guys, this woman was not my friend, okay? She was mean to Timo, but we didn't even like each other and I brought it up, which is such a funny defense or not defense, piece of evidence.

31:22Like, I fucking hate this bitch and I brought up something that would hurt her and that actually makes me a good person.

31:29Ronnie Karam: Congratulations, Stacy. Give yourself a gold star. It's about having a moral compass. Doesn't anyone understand? Honestly, I'm ever so disappointed because especially with your own history, Giselle, I would have thought that you would have messaged me. Wendy's like, not own history. And you know what, baby? And Giselle's like, well, I wanted to find out if it was true first. Let's say that to me. You don't take it to Ashley. I'm actually shocked that this is coming from you. Commercials. Here comes one right now. He lurks in shadow, he slips into dreams, he casts no reflection. Audible presents Bram Stoker's Dracula, a full cast audio thriller starring Ella Pernell from Fallout as Mina Harker, Jonathan Bailey from Wicked as Dracula, and an A-list cast including Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Dark Knight as Van Helsing, Amy Lou Wood from The White Lotus as Lucy, David Johnson from Industry as Dr.

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34:51Ronnie Karam: Meanwhile, Karen's falling asleep still and Robin goes, there's so much going on in this room and Karen's just over here sundowning. Robin's like, I don't know if she's still on that prison schedule. So Giselle. Giselle's like, by the way, Giselle is so caught here. Giselle was being messy with Ashley. And you know what? I firmly believe that Giselle was planning to have like a scene with Tia, but like the rule on these shows is whoever does it first is the one who is like totally like off scot-free. And I think Stacey got there first, not that Stacey got there first, but the conversation was had with Stacey first.

35:33Probably the producers knew it and set it up that way. And so whoever tells this, whoever like tells it to you first, like, I think you should know about this. Even if someone else comes next and says, I think you should know about this. They will, no matter what their intentions are, they now have to go up against the logic of, you should have told me first. And the fact that you didn't tell me first means that you are actually shady. So no matter how, even if it's just like, I couldn't get to you first, which in this case, I don't think that was the case with Giselle. I think she was being shady.

36:05But I'm saying that like, if two people were driving in a car, like an SAT question, and they were going 60 miles per hour, but one has a toll booth, has to stop at a toll booth for five minutes. The other person gets there first and tells the information. The second person, even if they were on the way and five minutes late, it's like, well, why didn't you tell me first? It shouldn't have even had to come down to a five minute difference. You should have told me yesterday. Every single time.

36:27Ronnie Karam: Yeah. And Ashley and Giselle are always so transparent at this point. Like Ashley goes and she says something in social media. So everybody sees it. She knows that everybody's seen it. So Giselle knows she doesn't have to do anything because the fight is going to be between Ashley and Tia. So she already knows this. But unfortunately, Stacey beat them both to the punch. And Ashley is going to make Giselle take credit for also knowing she's not going to just let Giselle push her under the bus. So it's nice. It's like a nice change. Because normally Ashley will be like, OK, I'll carry this bone.

37:01Ronnie Karam: Whatever. I don't care if anyone's mad. But this time she's like, Giselle, you're coming in on this with me. So then Ashley tries to change it around a little where she's like, but the reason I brought it up was because it pissed me off. I just got really mad at him. Tia's like, but didn't you feel any sort of empathy or support for me? What? Empathy. Sorry for me. Did you feel sorry for me? And she's like, yeah, I did. Well, I beg to disagree. And it didn't look like you were pissed off at him. You look like you were super happy. Super happy, Ashley. And then Courtney goes, well, she obviously feels bad about it, Tia, which means that already we are getting the classic new person that gets brought on the show.

37:45And either the new person betrays the person who brought them on or the person who brought them on sets them up for failure. So Courtney is already turning on her. And Ash is like, if I could go back, I would definitely do things differently. And Wendy's like, you know, Ashley, you said in New York that you were going to do better and be a better person. and we see at the reunion when Ashley said that she's going to be more sisterly. And so Wendy goes, and here goes Ashley, Ashley-ing like she has never Ashley today in her life.

38:16Ronnie Karam: Well, if I could do it over, I would do it differently. I mean, I wouldn't have said anything. I think that it was the drag queens and the alcohol. It was Ash Top. It wasn't me. I mean, how many times does Ashley have to do this every single season? Well, it wasn't my place to say it. If I had to do it again, I never would have said something. Oh, God. Well, at this point, I'm just tired of men embarrassing us. And Wendy's like, one thing a man will do is embarrass you. Cheers, everybody. Eddie's probably going to get me thrown in prison. So, cheers. And Karen's falling asleep still. So, Giselle goes, well, is it true?

38:54Ronnie Karam: Is it true, Tia? And Courtney's like, now, Giselle, we came so far. That's a conversation I'm going to have with my real friends. that includes stacy now so giselle says tia is my friend and i was trying to figure out a way to tell her because this is actually marriage damaging stacy on the other hand just held that thing in her back pocket and as soon as the cameras went up she was like guess what ho stacy you're a dirty girl no i don't think that's stacy's not friends with tia she wouldn't go out of her way to tell her and then like when confronted she was like look i thought stacy brought it up to Tia in a, I think in a caring way, meaning like she didn't weaponize it.

39:36She wasn't taking glee in it. And if she was internally, I didn't see it externally.

39:42Ronnie Karam: Well, she came to take it in. She came to give that information in either way because she didn't like Tia. She knew she's about to meet Tia. She knows she's about to have a fight with Tia. So in her mind, it was probably like, oh, now I can use this against Tia. But then when Tia apologize. That's why Stacey took so long to respond because she was forming in her mind like, oh, well, I would like to thank you for apologizing for what you said about my husband. And now I apologize for what I'm about to say about yours, because either way, Stacey was going to come drop it. But, you know, I mean, that's what they're going to do.

40:16Ronnie Karam: And Tia already knew it was coming. So she's just ready to get mad at whoever is the first person to bring it up. But, you know, I'd rather watch you pack your husband's shit up and put it on the curb. Right. So Robin says, can I just say real quick, y 'all are my girls, but sometimes you have to put yourself in the other person's shoes and ask, how would I want this to be handled? Oh, okay. Robin. And Giselle goes, yes, and just so you know, we're not going to talk about this on the podcast at all, dear. Wait, to explain that. You don't want to talk about that on the podcast, but you'll talk about my situation multiple times.

40:57Ronnie Karam: Well, yours was national news, Wendy. They're going to talk about yours. I'm sorry. Wendy's whole I'm a victim in all of this is hilarious. And she's like, that's not what friends do. Oh, she wanted us not to talk about what's all over social media. Well, Giselle, what do we know to be true is we're all going to go through stuff. So right now, how about you tweet me will dictate how people tweet you when it comes for you. When you take FWOD insurance, people are going to be mean to you now. You better watch out. You better not be faking any burglaries anytime soon. I'm going to tell all the ducks to stay away from you because one of them will be an Aflac.

41:37So Giselle is like, you're trying to act like you're innocent.

41:40Ronnie Karam: I know him. I know him. Yeah, he's a good guy. He's not a duck, though.

41:48you're trying to act like you're innocent over there and you're not. It's like innocent about what? And so Karen all of a sudden wakes up. What's going on? Jeopardy.

41:59Ronnie Karam: So then, uh, Wendy, this is my favorite Wendy line. If my shoe and Wobbins shoe was on the same foot, you wouldn't joke about Wobbins legal issue. That doesn't even make any sense. How are you wearing two shoes on the same foot? And your shoe were on the same foot. that you'd be a person trying to get into your shoes that neither fit you right. So Giselle's like, I need to think about that metaphor. So, and when he goes, thank you. Giselle goes, yeah, this is true. And so Karen's like, I'm lost. Sitting in a room for an hour yelling. I mean, I was in satitude for six months. It was very peaceful.

42:38I sit here and listen to all of you guys going back and forth yelling and we're accomplishing absolutely nothing. This is a fresh new start, right? even for Robert and I. Sounds real fresh. Sounds real fresh. Real fresh start right there, calling her Robert.

42:54Ronnie Karam: I couldn't help calling her Robert. Karen, why are you calling me names? Do you want me to call you names? Well, for the moment, calling you Robert, I can't promise you I won't do it again. Was that an apology? I think so. Thank you. Do you want me to call you Carl? Is that what you want? So Giselle's like, Courtney, I'm going to apologize for the behavior because they don't know how to act at a basketball game. No, I know you're not talking. I know you're not talking, Giselle. So they all start to laugh, and most of them leave. But Tia, Stacey, and Wendy hang back, and Tia's like, so you guys are probably wondering what happened with Rob.

43:37Ronnie Karam: I waited until I put the twins down, and then I asked him. I said, are you on any dating apps? and he paused and then he said, yeah. And then I heard, I got very upset. Oh my God, does Ron, does Juan Dixon know about this? No, not that, Rob. Geez, keep up. I thought we just agreed. We're not going to call her Carl. Oh, for Christ's sake. So dun, dun, dun, cliffhanger. Rob is on dating sites. yeah what a fucker i'm excited to find out where this one goes um tremendous premiere so good potomac is one of the best they're just so funny on this show my god even that whole opening segment where they're showing and then this is gonna happen in the future and they show people fighting and then they would cut to a cherry blossom that's like was it decaying i mean it like there was smoke and then when it looked like just a kilo of cocaine was coming off of the cherry blossom and every time then they're like the cherry blossom is melting will cherry blossoms even survive the season we'll have to wait and see yeah i love this cast you know what i think one thing i really like about potomac is i get the feeling like they're all like very sharp women they're very very sharp in their own different ways and i think that comes through and i i just i just love it i love it so funny show all right everybody thank you so much for being with us um go get tickets for the in the mix tour over at watch what crappens.com we are doing amazon live this week at 1 30 pacific time we are on wednesdays now for that so join us for that and we'll talk to you next time bye watch what crappens would like to thank its premium sponsors ain't no thing like Alison King.

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