#3586 The Golden Life S1E1 Part Two: Qualm Royale

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1:50Ronnie Karam: Well, hello and welcome to Watch What Crappens. This is part two of a two-part recap. if you're like, hey, wait a minute, I didn't hear part one. Guys, it's because we put out a lot of recaps. Go back and listen to part one, okay? It's before this one. Bye. Enjoy the show.

2:07Ben Mandelker: I think what it is, Sonia is a mess, and I think that she picks up on the vibes of the women who are not always treating her as an equal, but treating her as this thing that must be taken care of and contained. I think she picks up on it. There's a different energy. It's, you know, like when you're, if you're dealing with someone who's like really wasted at a party, like, like the hardest thing is to keep talking to them. Like you were talking to them when they were sober, you start like, you sort of automatically be like, okay, come over here. You start talking like this in the sing songy way.

2:39Ben Mandelker: And like, you know, you're not, you really shouldn't do that because people, even when they're wasted, they can tell when they're being patronized. And I think Sonia picks up on that, but she also can't stop being a total mess.

2:52Ronnie Karam: yeah uh speaking of we go to sonia being wacky in this pilates section and being oh my god is my vagina out this is crazy pilates i don't work out i don't work out girls so then um uh they do that there she's talking to kelly about harry again it's like oh my god the only way it will work with harry is if i velcro is asked to the bed you know that's why i always tell them i'll see you when i'm in the old folks home like you can no longer run sucker

3:24Ben Mandelker: so what happened between you and dorinda last night on the boat she was oh well you know what she didn't want to talk about anything last night she feels like she's in the crosshairs i could tell and she's like yeah but i don't understand this whole thing of like leave the past in the past right right because if i'm still hurting and she's my friend wouldn't she want to discuss it

3:41Ronnie Karam: and move on that's what i want and uh sonia's like makes the point that is one thing if she says something about something in her cabaret show but it's different when dorinda says it on national television i mean i can kind of see that and um she's like and she didn't have me in the berkshires and that's how my life that's my livelihood and she took the daughter money food out of my daughter's mouth and then to say i was fucking around in san tropez i mean that's very hurtful not only to the morgan name and my daughter but to me is the mother to quincy so she's i mean she's holding on to a lot of old stuff yeah she is i mean i i get it like it's

4:25Ben Mandelker: like even though it's old if she has unresolved hurt she is entitled to be like look this thing has bothered me for years i never really said it the question that i have though is has she had that conversation already because with Sonia, she's such an unreliable narrator. It's perfectly feasible that she did have this conversation with them many years ago. Like I felt left out, that really hurt me. And they all thought they had resolved it. And then she brings it up again. And so they're like, okay, we're not doing this again.

4:53Ronnie Karam: We're not. They definitely did it at the reunion, you know, and Sonia just doesn't help herself because she's so, she's such a mess in this whole episode, but also thinking back to all of that, like the reunion i mean dorinda was dorinda gets nasty i mean nasty wasn't didn't she get kicked off right after that no the ball she was like in you and you're such a slut your husband was sick and you were fucking around on in the whole time and that's why he dumped you and that's why he left you for that younger woman and i mean it was i don't remember the timeline between the reunions

5:32Ben Mandelker: and when Dorinda got kicked off. I just know that Dorinda's last scene was in the turban yelling at you. Yes, the glitter turban telling off the entire crew.

5:45Ben Mandelker: Amazing. So Sonia is saying like, oh, but now Sonia's saying, I don't want to lose a good friend. I'm invested in her, you know, but that's why she shouldn't be talking about my husband in the Morgan family because she's not walked in my shoes. and Kelly's like, well, you know, I also think that you need to let that go. Cause you know, she basically is like, we're in our fifties and sixties. We need to focus on other things right now.

6:10Ronnie Karam: You know? Yeah. Kelly, Kelly, always reasonable. Kelly. That's what cracks me up. So then, um, then at Lou's place, Michael comes, he arrives finally. And she's like, ah, that was me squirreling like a little girl. Okay. Michael's arrived. This is amazing. I haven't seen Michael in weeks. You know, I miss him. He's great. He's fresh air. Also, I'm really horny.

6:33Ben Mandelker: Okay. He's like, oh, this place isn't too shabby. What? She's like, well, Michael. Michael is into the place already. He loves real estate. Wow, look. Do you like that window frame? He loves it, guys. He loves it. Well, so it's not you're going to meet the girls. Well, you've already met Ramona. I apologize again for you meeting her. But you're going to meet Kelly and Dorinda and Sonia. Oh, God, Sonia. So get ready for that. Wait till she gets a load of you. She loves to flirt, especially with any man that's mine.

7:01Ronnie Karam: So Dorinda comes over and she's going to wait for Luann. They're all going to go together, which turns out to not be the best decision. And this is where I started cracking up to because the whole first part of the episode, it's like, oh, my God, Sonia, she's so late. And even I was getting annoyed and I'm not even there. And I was like, oh, God, I would never hang out with somebody who's just like two hours late. And then an hour late to an entire class where everybody's sitting around waiting for you. and the whole crew's sitting there. It's so rude. And now Luanne is going to make them all wait for another hour and a half.

7:37Ronnie Karam: Well, I get right. Well, that's what's so funny.

7:40Ben Mandelker: I mean, and Luanne did the exact same thing on Girl's Trip. She got so mad at Portia for being late. Portia was really late, but she's got so mad at Portia for being late. But Luanne is like famously late all the time on like so many different scenes. So, yeah, Dorinda's just sitting there and she's like losing her mind privately and Luanne is changing. She's like, Roger, Roger, Roger, Roger. I need a bangle. Roger, where's my necklace? And it's like, it's not funny.

8:04Ronnie Karam: Because Bernd is like, what is even going on here? I mean, Luann's house is chaos. He's here jingling, jingling around up there, just saying people's names. And it goes to Luann like, Roger, Rog, Rog, Rog, Rog, Rog. But it's always Roger. She keeps calling him different versions of the name. She's like, oh my God, who are you even talking to?

8:25Ben Mandelker: so then um the we're seeing this like countdown to this party and then we go over to the party it's a place called five story ramona's having a sipping shop okay so she says i'm doing a collaboration with karen of five story for a trunk show not everyone's invited though and obviously you want people who are socially prominent and financially able to buy those beautiful expensive dresses and if you can't find those people find people who look like a low rent when no judd kai because there's that one woman like big red hair that's going up and all the way down and her her face she had like just taken her first ever contouring tutorial so she had all these like these colors and like gradients on like her cheekbones it's like well there are so many

9:09Ronnie Karam: characters in the background on this show i mean it's in a totally different place obviously so it's very colorful and bright and just the people on it it's like what is going on with these people. I hope that as they get further into it, they start talking to the ladies around them, too. Because I was cracking up. They all seemed like such characters. So Ramona's... Yeah, so Ramona's like, I hope everyone behaves today, okay? And then Ramona turns around. She's like, whoa! Who are you? This lady's like, um... I'm just... I'm just a lady in a store. It's like, no! You're not invited here. this is a private trunks show do i know you have we been to lunch have we ever had dinner i don't know you you have to leave nobody's like oh okay no you have to leave right now very private

10:02Ben Mandelker: production is not even trying to stop people from coming in because they know this is going to drive ramona crazy so people keep over the course entire scene ramona's like being like girls i'm so happy It's just nothing but prominent women of Palm Beach. Wait, whoa, whoa. Who are you? No, I don't know who you are. We're filming. We're filming. It's a private event, okay? I'm sorry. I'm sorry, but you can't come in here. You've got to leave. Get out of here. I don't know who you are. It's only my friends, okay?

10:30Ronnie Karam: She's so fucking rude. Oh, my God. And it was so hilarious. And people were trying it, too, because it looked like that lady, when she got kicked out, she just went and looked and she opened the door to leave. And then she just looks back at the camera like, what?

10:46Ben Mandelker: And then we see, after all this time, finally Luana and Dorinda leave, which was one of my favorite slapstick visuals. They go out the door and Luana's like, to the right! She's, oh shit, wrong way. And we just see him come back to the doorway, the other way, this way. This is great, right, left, slapstick farce moment. Physical comedy, I love it.

11:06Ronnie Karam: So Kelly comes to the party late and then Sonia comes really late, an hour and five minutes late, okay? And the Ramona sees another party crasher. She's like, this is a private party. Sorry. Did you read the sign on the door? Okay? We don't go. We've never been to lunch together. We don't have dinner. You have to leave.

11:27Ben Mandelker: You know what? If we haven't had dinner together, then you can't come to my sipping shop, okay? This is supposed to be an event where people patronize my friend's store, but only prominent people get out, okay? Go back to yogurt land. I get thrown off by people I don't know.

11:41Ronnie Karam: That's it. That's it. So Luanne and Dorinda. Wait, wait, wait.

11:46Ben Mandelker: Her amazing metaphor. You know what? I like to bring people together, okay? It's like making a floral arrangement, okay? You have to have people that blend well. So do I want some random flower coming into my floral arrangement like a dandelion? Absolutely not.

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15:02Ronnie Karam: I'm sick of things stressing me out. The other day I was running late and nearly ran over an armadillo. I felt so bad.

15:08Ben Mandelker: I'll tell you about stress. Imagine performing a cabaret ten times a week.

15:13Ronnie Karam: Or learning a 17th language like French Peruvian. Bon Gisissimo.

15:19Ben Mandelker: This is why I watch so much TV. And Amazon Prime definitely comes in handy.

15:23Ronnie Karam: It's a great way to shift your mood.

15:25Ben Mandelker: Yeah, but everyone's always like recommending a million shows. Like you got to watch this, you got to watch that. I'm at a point where I don't say, what do I have to watch? Now I'm all about how do I want to feel?

15:35Ronnie Karam: Yeah, the feeling I chase is dark and moody. That's why I go towards crime shows.

15:39Ben Mandelker: Oh, I'm a comedy girly. I will rewatch the same comedy over and over again because it's so comforting to me. Or actually, sometimes it's actually sports. There are times where I don't even care about the teams. I just like being part of a live event. especially with some snacks.

15:52Ronnie Karam: Snacks are a part of the feeling. I love a cracker.

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16:19Ronnie Karam: Shows you can't wait for. Deliveries you don't wait for. From streaming to fast shipping, it's on Prime. So Luan and Dorinda finally come at 5.16. So they're even later than Sonia. And they come in, and it's just a store. There's maybe 15 people there. And they come in, and they're super late. And they're just like, whoa, no one's going to greet us? I mean, what the hell? Who walked into a party? I know.

16:50Ben Mandelker: They just stand there and be like, hello? Hello, cabaret star and radio person. Anyone? Anyone at all? No one?

16:59Ronnie Karam: Yeah, look at over there. Tony's not even acknowledging us. She's here. She's like five feet away from us. Oh, yes, you didn't even say hello? You guys are still standing at the entrance. I feel like when you're this late to a party and you're at a mixer in a store, you can go up and say hello to people. What the hell are they going to do?

17:18Ben Mandelker: we need to get um we need to get micah on the horn from ladies of london to find out what the etiquette is is the etiquette like in a in an event like this that like the the onus is on the people walking in to go up to those who are already there like i'm here or is the onus on the people that are there to stop what they're doing and and welcome the truth is it should have been ramona

17:40Ronnie Karam: who should have gone up as the hostess and bring her in that's what it should have been but i did

17:46Ben Mandelker: think it was hilarious they were so furious and by the way uh i feel like it has to be mentioned that after all that talk about like um we don't wear black in palm beach that at the yacht party ramona was wearing black and the way i was like oh she can't follow her own rules yeah so ramona's

18:03Ronnie Karam: like whoa you're here you're finally here you're very late but you know what i'm not gonna fight today just glad to see you girls okay now come here and i'll show you what's going on this store is Harvey Legere. He's having a drunk show. Darling, it's Harvey Legere. Harvey Legere. Harvey Legere.

18:24Ben Mandelker: Hova, Hova, Hova Lova. No, Harvey, Hervé. Dua Lipa. No, Hervé, Hervé.

18:33Ronnie Karam: Why are you even coming to my door? Jehovah Witness, get out of here, okay?

18:40Ben Mandelker: I'm a French, and I don't want her to say it the wrong way. I'm a French.

18:49Ronnie Karam: So now it's later, and Dorinda and Luann and Ramona are chatting. And Dorinda's like, oh, really? Did Sonja say hello to you? She didn't say hello to me. She didn't even acknowledge us, right? What the hell? Well, you know what? Did something happen between you and her that you guys don't know about?

19:08Ben Mandelker: Yeah, what about me? What about me? It's like, you know what? I don't know what's wrong. I'm going to have to call her on it when I'm alone with her, okay? I'm going to call her on it, okay? So then she's like, you know what? We're going to do a toast, okay? We're going to do a big toast. And so they're like getting into a, they're getting into like a line to do a toast. And Ramona's like, okay, everyone, I did this one. I did this offensively. Oh yeah, that's okay. Oh wow, you know, guys, Ramona's bossy. I heard it from a church. They all say that she's bossy. She's like, Sonia, stop it. She has to yell at Sonia like a child.

19:40Ben Mandelker: Which I think is actually like It's such an expression of intimacy with this group.

19:46Ronnie Karam: God, well, they do this at so many of their events where it's like, okay, we're just going to have a positive event. And one of them just starts screaming and yelling at the other one. Whoa, you are embarrassing me. I'm sick of this. Shut up. Okay, ladies, I just wanted to say I'm so happy to have a positive event with classy women who know how to behave.

20:10Ben Mandelker: You know what? It's very interesting. You know, I met, you know, look like Kelly already met someone that she already met 20 years ago. So it's like, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop. I'm putting flowers together. It's a big arrangement. No dandelions. And I guess I want to welcome you all here. And everyone have fun and shop unless I don't have dinner with you. Okay?

20:27Ronnie Karam: At one point, there's somebody behind the counter. It looks like somebody who's working and they blur out her face and she's on the phone. Like the staff phone or whatever. It's like, leave. What are you doing here? I don't know you. She's like, okay, well, I guess I gotta get off the phone. They're filming here? This lady's yelling at me, go! Go, right now! I think she works here. I think she works here.

20:52Ben Mandelker: It's like, I think, you know, all, like, the new classes of housewives, like Salt Lake City and everything, Miami, they've learned from Roni that, like, what the audience wants are housewives just to say exactly what's on their mind at any moment. And so it's now becoming more commonplace that we're getting more over-the-top women on these shows, more over-the-top interactions. But we still don't have housewives like Ramona who will be completely rude and obnoxious to just strangers in the space where they're shooting their show. No one has still crossed that line except for Ramona, who will literally kick someone out of a room.

21:33Ben Mandelker: Sorry, you don't belong here. You don't matter enough. Get out of here.

21:36Ronnie Karam: We're shooting a show. Look, everybody. Look, everybody. Even probably a store employee. It's just so vile. And the part where Sonny is like, she's bossy. I heard it. And then it cuts to Ramona from another scene going, she's putting on lip liner and she starts yelling at the camera guy. Don't take a picture of me doing this. Go away.

21:58Ben Mandelker: So then Dorinda's just now they're shopping. So Dorinda puts on this dress. It's like, it's, you know, it's, she tries on some different things. So it puts on a yellow dress with like some florals and everyone loves it on her everyone's like she's like this is cute right and everything and so sony goes does it come in another color she's like well everybody loves the color sonya she's like well not on you it's kind of like you need like a suntan for it to work

22:23Ronnie Karam: you'll be quiet sonya you know what's the color of sunshine okay well she needs a suntan you know everyone says she needs sun everyone says it you know what so rude you are so rude get out of here who even are you? She'd be nicer to people, Sonia.

22:41Ben Mandelker: The way this group is so effortless and the way they are just able to stab each other nonstop, you just, it makes you see all the other casts that work so hard and work so hard and are quite frankly very successful, but they do have to work so much harder and this cast is literally like Dorinda puts on a dress, she's happy and Cindy goes, do they have any other colors? I mean, it's so, like it sets off a whole, you know, series of calamities.

23:09Ronnie Karam: One of the random ladies there goes, well, I like the dress. And Sonny goes, you're colorblind. She walks off.

23:17Ben Mandelker: Everybody tiptoes around Dorinda, but she needs to know it's not your size, first of all. Does it come in any other colors? Because that color's like not good on you, Dorinda. I'm just being a good friend.

23:28Ronnie Karam: You know what? What time is it? 6.15? I'm leaving my own party, okay? You know what, ladies? I set up another event for us. This episode is going to just keep going, okay? So listen, we're going to have a reset, then we're going to meet at Kima. It's a restaurant. It's happening. It's a great place. It's got music, sparklers, Mexican food, probably, I don't know, napkins. Napkins. She mentioned napkins.

23:56Ben Mandelker: The fact that she listed napkins as like to build her case, this restaurant has everything. It has napkins, doorways, windows, four walls. That's impressive, right? Also, I feel like -

24:10Ronnie Karam: Running water? You know what? It's a happening place. So she tells them, you can bring one friend. Lauren's like, what? One friend only? Yes, one friend, Luanne. Okay, only Michael. Nobody else. Wait, really? But I want to bring the boys. I've got so many boys, they're so cute.

24:27Ben Mandelker: No, they're not your boys. They're workers. They're your workers. She's like, they're not my workers. They're my people. You know what? We don't want quote unquote people. Okay. Sorry. I'm sorry. We don't want workers or people or servants. Okay. Nothing but that. Only Michael. Okay. Which when she said they're workers, oh my God. Like no one is as awful as Ramona. No one is as awful as her. It's, it's so pure. It's so purely awful. Commercials. Here comes one right now.

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27:19Ronnie Karam: So now we go to this dinner at Kima. and Sonia is first which is the first time this season that we've seen her actually show up so she shows up first and she's just talking really loud talking to the owner I'm gonna order this I'm gonna order that and now she's completely manic I mean we've seen her the entire I think she just did like a whole dime bag like she looks coked up out of her mind she's screaming and yelling for no reason and it's getting this this part i was like oh no this is holding out already it's only

27:53Ben Mandelker: the first episode yeah and like you can see that like when she holds court she she also is like i just need to say anything i need to fill in the dead air i need to and so she's doing that um also by the way the hardest working people on e right now is the sound team on this poor show that had to shoot in this restaurant and they had to isolate all that audio and try to make it sound good it was like 15 minutes of terrible terrible audio because you know the sound is blaring and they have to like move out all the background noise that was i felt really bad for those the audio engineers on this or the post-production department for shooting this scene that was rough

28:31Ronnie Karam: yeah it was really loud so um ramona comes and she's like you know what sonia i want to ask you question. Why don't you say hi, Luanne and Trinta? They were very upset. Just give me your weather report, okay? Cloudy with a chance of Hermes Lambleis, okay? No, set it.

28:48Ben Mandelker: Set it. You know what? I'm really social. I mean, I didn't see them. I didn't see them. You know why? Because I was hanging out with John John. It was very hard. You know, I've got all these boyfriends. They're always waiting in line for me. I've got to talk to all these boyfriends. It's a lot. It's a lot of distraction. Harry Jubin's calling me up. I'm like, Harry, I don't want it. I'm like, I'm not in love with you, okay? Like, you don't have time for me. It's not time. I can't even see anyone. There's so much that's going on.

29:08Ronnie Karam: Yeah. So Ramona's friend, he all comes to join. And then Dorinda comes. They all start filtering in. And Dorinda's like, oh, thanks for today. It was great, Ramona. Oh, well, so I talked to all of your guests today. All of them. Except Luanne and Dorinda.

29:26Ben Mandelker: It's like, you know what? You know what? Do you want to say something to Dorinda? Do you want to say something to Dorinda right now? You want to say something? No, don't poke the bear. Usually if I let it go, they'll get over it. You know, then they're mad about the next thing. I'm like, I know you're not the one saying that, who's like bringing up grievances from 10 years ago on this show.

29:43Ronnie Karam: Yeah, and you are poking the bear. And Dorinda is being nice and calm, Dorinda, so far. But why would you put yourself through that trauma? I mean, of all the things you remember, you remember something she said about you and not being invited to a thing. but you don't remember how she dragged your ass through face down across her reunion stage don't do it don't do this to yourself so luann shows up and she has brought michael and the gays

30:11Ben Mandelker: and ramona is not having it she's like five people because everyone's like no anyone who knows me knows that i like control and i specifically told the win yeah bring michael bring one guest, but now she shows up with Roger? Is that his name? What's his name? Roger? It's a worker. Someone. I don't know whatever his name is. But whoever it is, it's not someone who's rich enough to sit at this table, okay?

30:37Ronnie Karam: So Roger is trying to be kind of sarcastic and funny and he's like, oh, well, I guess employees aren't allowed. We're just workers. So Ramona, we're going to go to the bar because the employees do not need to have a seated meal. She goes, yeah. I mean, yeah, you are. I mean, she pays for you.

30:56Ben Mandelker: so your employees well because this one this guy max like so is that that's it we're just employees we're just only employees yeah because she pays for you that makes you employees i mean

31:05Ronnie Karam: like i mean the boys just sit with us and she's like no you know what it's a private invitation that's it you cannot come to my trunk show at dinner it's possibly greek place they have napkins

31:18Ben Mandelker: here okay honestly i actually don't think ramona was wrong here i mean she was rude but she wasn't wrong. She said, I've got a table. She said, you're allowed to bring one person. It's a dinner table. You can't just bring four other people. I mean, you could. The restaurant would accommodate it. But honestly, for someone who has a book about class and manners, if you're given a plus one, that's not the same as getting a plus three. I'm sorry. Oh, yeah.

31:43Ronnie Karam: She knew. She was just coming in to fuck with Ramona. Yeah, Luann does this whole thing. I'm standing up for my gays. Because this was a party, too, on the other hand. They were having a seated dinner, but then it moves into like a party and there's lights and music and everyone's dancing. So Ramona could have just said, you know what? They can come to the party part after we have a dinner, you know, but Luanne's like, Oh hell no. I'm bringing them all. I'm bringing the boys. And let's see if she will even say to your face, if she has the nerve to say to your face, boys. And then she does. She's like, you're close.

32:17Ronnie Karam: You're employees. Disgusting. They have a different entrance for you.

32:21Ben Mandelker: Ramona doesn't care. And she's in Palm, Palm beach now. and she's just like whatever she's like no this is my table okay i'm sorry sorry and luann knew it was a dinner i'm sorry she's like you never said it was a dinner luann knew it was a dinner but she's like but like you can bring one person only one but we do see in the flashback that ramona never explicitly says it says it's a dinner but it's not a restaurant but either way so luis like well this is you know what i love you and i'm sorry that you didn't understand me correctly I'm sorry that your head is so big and your canals are so small, okay, that the message got lost somewhere in your hair.

32:59Ben Mandelker: But guess what? It's a dinner. She's like, well, I don't want an apology. These are my people, workers, people, and I can't just drop them off. So I thought it was a party. So Luann, out of solidarity, goes to the bar. She's like, I'm going to be with my boys. But she can only stay away from the cameras for so long.

33:16Ronnie Karam: Yes. And she's like, wait a minute. They're shooting with them. I'm going back over there. I'm going to go sit down. You guys stay here, okay? They're like, well, I guess the employees will stay here. So the man goes back over there and they apologize. Not apologize. They all applaud her because she comes back over. And she's like, oh, hey, son. And she goes, I'm good. I was here over an hour ago. I don't know what you're talking about. She's like, I said, hello. I mean, what the hell? I said, hi.

33:46Ben Mandelker: Why were you here an hour ago? No, I just said hello. That's it. She's like, you know what I said to her? I said, Sonia, Dorinda and Luan feel like you ignored them. She's like, oh, and now she's ignoring me tonight. Same fucking thing. Dorinda's like, you know what? Sonia, does Sonia, like, Sonia does what Sonia wants to do. And Sonia spent the whole evening not even saying hello to us.

34:08Ronnie Karam: I didn't even know you were there. Sorry, I didn't even know you guys were there. I didn't see you. There were like 12 people in this place. Well, there were like 15, but then there were 11 by the time Ramona got kicked. you know, got done kicking everybody out. So Dorinda's like, yeah, you know, she didn't even know we were there that night. That's funny. That's the best one with her. Yeah, she's, did you guys hear that? She said she didn't even know we were there. Okay.

34:32Ben Mandelker: Luanne said, I gave the side eye. Oh, you didn't give us any eye. Okay. You knew we were there. You didn't give us any eye. And Kelly, who was actually there too, was like, yeah, you didn't talk to anyone except for me. And so he's like, well, I didn't move. It's like, okay, that's a bunch of bullshit. Small bullshit. Small bullshit. Now you're a bullshit.

34:49Ronnie Karam: And then he told Dee you didn't like the color of her dress. I wasn't very nice. I was like, no, I didn't. Oh, God. Yes, you did, Sonia. Yeah, she shoveled the shit, Sonia. Yeah, but that's the first time I saw her was when she was in that terrible dress, which I never said was terrible. I don't know what you guys are talking about.

35:07Ben Mandelker: Oh, really? First of all, if you don't say hello to somebody and then the first thing that comes out of your mouth is, I don't like the color of the dress on you. I mean, what is that? So I was like, well, I mean, why didn't you come say hello to me? so she's like well maybe say hello before you tell me you don't like something on me and the room was this big the room was this big and you didn't know we were there you're six feet tall look the wind's six feet tall she's practically no she's like bigfoot over here look how tall she's she had to dip to get into the store you don't even see her meanwhile what we're not saying

35:36Ronnie Karam: is sonia's veins are popping out of her forehead she's red she's sweating she's yelling you know She's talking really – they're all talking really loudly, but she's like manic. And so they're giving her shit. But then Luanne goes, was she in the sun all day? I mean, why is she like this? Yeah, why is your face so hot, Sonia? I'm feeling her face very hot. Because I'm freaking out in the middle of this. It's a tsunami. You know what? I'm going to be sick. I need to burp. I need to burp. I'm going to go home. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I've just got to get up. I don't feel good. I'm not right.

36:07So she gets up, and she goes to the bathroom.

36:10Ronnie Karam: This is so nasty. So she goes, they're following her with the cameras, which we don't need to see this, but they follow her. We don't need to. She goes, I got a burp. I just got a burp. And then she goes in there. She goes, oh, my gosh. I just burped, and it came out, and it came out in there. They don't even have any towels. And then they give us a close-up of barf in the sink, which is just, oh, my God. I don't.

36:32Ben Mandelker: Well, she doesn't really burp. She says, I'm going to burp. I just got to put my fingers in my – I'm just going to burp. I'm like, that's not burping. and then she says yeah i put my fingers in a burp so like she obviously just went and puked and so well i mean you don't need me to say that that's but like meaning that like she's acting like she needs to burp but she's not so um then she comes back she's like luann i need to talk to you she's like hugging on luann now she's like i went to burp and i brought up a little bit can you smell my breath she's like oh yes sonia rita i can smell it and and now all of a sudden luann and dorinda have been furious at her now luann is like cradling her it's just so wild with this

37:08Ronnie Karam: Well, it's because she comes out and she's like, I just barked. I was in the toilet. I burped. Can you smell it in me? She's just completely fucked up. And everybody knows she's completely fucked up. It was like Crazy Island, or Scary Island, rather, sorry, when they were yelling at Kelly. Everyone's going against Kelly. And at one point, Sonia was the one to say, you know what? She's clearly, something's wrong here. And at this point, we're kicking somebody who's down. We need to stop. you know she stopped everybody and i think that that's kind of what luann's doing here she's like okay yeah they all are like okay this isn't okay anymore like like something's wrong and so we need to stop yeah so now so now she's telling us like i'm worried about sonia something's clearly wrong she's red in the face she's sweating like yikes it's not good so now it's party time the servers

38:01Ben Mandelker: come up with the sparklers and the napkins and it's like everyone's dancing and having fun and And now the gays come back from the bar and Roger starts dancing by the, by the table. I was like, no, no, you can't be here. This is our space. It's not for workers. He's like, fine.

38:16Ronnie Karam: Stop trying to get in the cameras. Okay. Not for you.

38:21Ben Mandelker: Oh, sorry. She's, she is on him like white on rice. Like she, she's like a security guard at like a, at like a baseball game and trying to stop people from streaking across the field. She's like, no, no, no, you gotta go. She is shooing people out of her scenes left and right this episode.

38:40Ronnie Karam: So then she goes up to the boyfriend, Luanne's boyfriend, and her and Sonia start dancing with him. And Ramona's just kind of doing it like, oh my God, she's so cute. And kind of, you know, I don't think being like crazy sexual, but Sonia is rubbing up on this guy and lifting his shirt and rubbing him and like, like doing that to the cameras and trying to kiss him. like she keeps trying to bring his face around to make out with him when she just barfed by the way and he's kind of going along with it at first and then tries to walk away but she won't stop

39:15Ben Mandelker: hanging all over him and oh yikes don't worry though now it's time for luann to pull a remote you know what get out of here bitches guess what uh this is embarrassing i'm your queen michael don't you forget i'm your queen hit it boys three two one i'm your queen michael i'm your queen michael i'm your queen line michael so yeah she's pissed and uh suddenly is beyond reasoning with

39:46Ronnie Karam: and she's like don't you forget i'm your queen he's like okay geez and that's how it ends so pretty good i mean i went from being very scared at the beginning of it to being like oh my god this shit is laugh out loud so i was laughing and then to being worried again at

40:02Ben Mandelker: the end with sonia yeah i thought i thought it was overall like like really good i thought it was really good and i agree i thought it was a little shaky in the beginning and again i'm looking forward to like a one hour episode which will be hopefully a little bit tighter and it is hard when it's like not on bravo because it's like small things like music use like for me the music sounded like very low it was like very quiet it was like weird music cues i have a big hang up with music cues when music cues are not like bravo style i'm like what is this garbage um but uh i think this cast is they have they have a chemistry that's like really unparalleled and even in like they just they just work to me it just works it was great

40:43Ronnie Karam: yeah well great job great job ladies and everybody thank you so much for being with us we will talk to you tomorrow for a little real housewives of salt lake city thanks for being here we love you guys

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