A Very Potomac Catch-Up: Season 10 So Far

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SPEAKER_01 0:13

Welcome back, No Takers. This is Aiden, and I'm wondering which Potomac Housewife has the best McDonald's order.

SPEAKER_00 0:19

Well, and I'm Noah Aaron, and I'm prepared to ponder on that. Well, first of all, so you have to go to order if you're vegan. Well, if we're if if what I was saying, if we're in the United States, the French fries aren't even vegan, so there's not really anything I can get at McDonald's.

SPEAKER_01 0:42

You can have a Sprite.

SPEAKER_00 0:43

So I I I could have a Sprite. I could have a Sprite with extra ice. But are we only counting current or can we count former too?

SPEAKER_01 0:54

We could count former. We know Katie loves her some McDonald's.

SPEAKER_00 0:57

Well, I was about to say, literally, I think Katie Ross, because I mean she seems the most eager to go to McDonald's. So I I feel like there's gotta be I feel like she's gotta have a good order, something that she's looking forward to. Right?

SPEAKER_01 1:06

Well, I also feel like Katie Ross, like when they ask for the cards, she's gonna be looking at you.

SPEAKER_00 1:12

Right.

SPEAKER_01 1:12

You know?

SPEAKER_00 1:13

That's true.

SPEAKER_01 1:15

But um, you know, I'm not fond of her as a housewife, but I I know Duzelle would throw down. And she would definitely get an apple pie. We know she loves a dessert.

SPEAKER_00 1:24

She loves a sweet. So I feel like I would have a good order. Especially at her age, I really do worry about her blood sugar.

SPEAKER_01 1:33

Well, that's them twins' job and um Grace. That's not really yours yet.

SPEAKER_00 1:38

Not Sherman.

SPEAKER_01 1:42

I mean, not Mr. Baldon Chocolate, one, two, three, four, five. No, not at all. But I just got the logic. I loved she would get some shit. And she would pay, so I didn't call her a broke bitch.

SPEAKER_00 1:54

I loved when the girls simultaneously all turned their head at the same time. Is he hot?

SPEAKER_01 1:58

I was like, right, did y'all rehearse that? Because it was insane. It was perfectly insane. Right? Well, you know, let's just get into it. But I see, I'm gonna start with I see what you're doing, Wendy. You're building an alliance. And if you didn't do frog, it'd be the smartest thing you ever fucking done on this show. Because now she has her little jazzy, Stacy, Wendy block. Kay is cooking, cooking down. Nobody really cares to get Angel, and she's kind of building herself up to be, you know, alongside Giselle. Which it should be Ashley, but Ashley has been coaxing so long she forgot how to clock in. But she's getting it now. And I'm just I like how Wendy is moving. Like this would really be her best season if she didn't do frog.

SPEAKER_00 2:41

Right, exactly.

SPEAKER_01 2:42

Frog kind of come out like like right at the beginning of the fucking season. It's a it's like you played a survivor, somebody played a perfect game the whole fucking time, and they get the final trail council. And they don't know what they do it. They don't know what to do.

SPEAKER_00 2:56

I can't. It that sends me you're not not her being the Amanda of this shit.

SPEAKER_01 3:00

Literally, it was like a it's like it's gonna be a great teaser for her. You're growing your brand, you know, you're you're cackling, you're fun, you're like in the line of it all. But you know, you're still a vet, you're an OG, you're creating a little group. Because I think with Wendy, she didn't really have a good little alliance. And the you know, the OGs are always pushing her out, but now with Karen gone, she's carved a space for herself.

SPEAKER_02 3:23

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 3:23

But now we don't know if she'll return or not. But I was gonna say when they were doing the rooms for the vacation, I was like, oh, they're gonna all hype when Wendy, Jassy, and Stacey were together. But these are definitely the dynamics of the group.

SPEAKER_00 3:37

Right. One um one thing I do know for sure is that the first lady of Maryland will not be coming to the show because she she she didn't even want her face showed for that little half a second she was on screen.

SPEAKER_01 3:48

Right. She said the camera cannot even veer anywhere close to my face. You will not have me pictured. Which at first I was like, this is not first lady business to be mixing them England like this. I'm like, is this kind of like a Monique ish first lady? Did they just you know, did he pick her up off the street? But then I was like, okay, she wasn't shown. She has some sense, she has some sense.

SPEAKER_00 4:06

Well, I part of me wonders if that was the agreement from the beginning that she wouldn't be shown, or if more recently after you know the fraud arrest, if she was like, oh no, like she knew this was coming up. Yeah, she knew this was coming up and she called she sent her people after a bravo, like uh-uh-uh-uh, no.

SPEAKER_01 4:22

That is so true. I forgot I forgot about that part even.

SPEAKER_00 4:27

So I I really want to I really would like to know that. I feel like I feel like um I feel like boots right now. I would like to know that. I would really like to know that.

SPEAKER_01 4:35

I love I love transition crossovers. Me can also that, but I love a little pop.

SPEAKER_00 4:44

And the one um the the one was he the governor of New York that was legally blind, and Ramona got into it with him about which one of them is more blind.

SPEAKER_01 4:56

I forgot about that.

SPEAKER_00 4:57

They were in the Hamptons or something. This was like a season one or two rowney moment.

SPEAKER_01 5:04

Ramona would have been a wild first lady with her mouth.

SPEAKER_00 5:07

Oh Lord, oh Lord. Well, she'd fit right in in the current administration for the United States.

SPEAKER_01 5:12

I mean, yeah, yeah. I'm surprised she doesn't have a cabinet position.

SPEAKER_00 5:16

Oh my god, I could see it. I could see it.

SPEAKER_01 5:20

So we finished up the preakness drama and then take our asses to Nevis, but how do you feel about the Preakness overall? I love the looks, like I love a little, you know, Derby Beaumont Stakes, Horse Day outfit with the big ass hats. What were they called? The prosecutors? They had a name for them, but no, the fascinators, the fascinators.

SPEAKER_00 5:39

The fascinators, yeah. No, I I mean I like the fun headwear and stuff like that, and I thought, yeah, I thought everyone looked cute. Um, you know, I I feel like now at this point, every time I see Wendy and something, I'm like, and how'd you pay for that?

SPEAKER_01 5:55

Uh but happy, and that's we're sitting. And she had her little binoculars, and she wanted you to know that she had that.

SPEAKER_00 6:02

Right, and I I I loved her to sit around, can I get I want five dollars. Can I get five dollars?

SPEAKER_01 6:08

And then Keanu being a little a little gracious with Greg's little coins to give everyone twenty dollars each. I mean, you know, backers can't be choosers, but I feel like if it was Karen Huger, she would have she would have, you know, made Ray give a hundred each.

SPEAKER_00 6:26

Right, right. She she would have she would have made the Black Bell Gates like fork up some cash.

SPEAKER_01 6:30

Right. Even if they had to, you know, pawn something.

SPEAKER_00 6:37

Not them pawning a few of her season one wigs. I mean will they take wigs in a pawn shop?

SPEAKER_01 6:45

I don't know, but maybe Karen donated those to Miss Sheila. Because her wigs didn't move.

SPEAKER_00 6:53

Oh, her her her wigs went her wigs went from like Atlanta season one to Potomac season one. I'd say that, I'd say that. They went from Kim Zolsiak to season one, Karen Huger. Got it.

SPEAKER_01 7:09

But then uh we get to what I call the the bat the battle for the housewife spa, the battle for the champagne glass. Even though Kiara already has one, but it's kind of still giving that competition between her and Jazzy. As we see you literally Jazzy making the group.

SPEAKER_00 7:25

I literally thought you were gonna say there's condensation on Keanda's glass, like she's about to drop it, because that's what it feels like.

SPEAKER_01 7:32

I mean, the glass is definitely cracking. She better hold on tight.

SPEAKER_00 7:35

It's slipping right out of her hands.

SPEAKER_01 7:38

She better enjoy these solo scenes in that rented condo.

SPEAKER_00 7:43

I did I did cackle um when they were about to start with Wendy, and Wendy was like, uh-uh, wait, hold on, hold on. That's the first lady of Mary Lynch.

SPEAKER_02 7:51

Hold on.

SPEAKER_01 7:52

And they all did stop and hold on. They all did stop and hold on. She's like, time and place, time and place. She even got the group real quick. She's like, uh-uh-uh-uh, you're not going to embarrass me in front of the first lady.

SPEAKER_00 8:03

She's like Well, I'd say, I mean, yeah, I mean, especially with Kiana's behavior this season, I'm like, you're not gonna do what it is you like to do in front of this lady. I know you'd be the one to do it. I know you'd be the one to do it, Kiarna.

SPEAKER_01 8:16

It's just the way Stacey's that like that would have pissed me off if I was Kay.

SPEAKER_00 8:22

Right. Well, but then but then like Ashley trying to be like, oh, that was too far. It's like, okay, Ashley. Right. Like, you're you're the one to talk about going too far.

SPEAKER_01 8:31

Right, she's so annoying. And the Jazzy and Kay are chirping at each other a little bit. And Jazzy kind of disengaged to talk about I know you're going through a lot with Greg. You and Greg going through a lot in the condo. You know, they're just some lightweight shade, but also not playing into it, which I thought was a good approach for her because Kay already looks crazy this season. I don't know if she knew that because she's only in part of the scenes. But I think it just even made her more endearing to the audience, and it just makes Kay look worse even. She did kind of get ate up a little bit. But I was going through a lot of crying.

SPEAKER_00 9:03

Well, I'll see. I was crying though at the realityt.com uh recap of this episode because I was just curious what they were saying. So I was reading it and they quoted that moment, like, I know you're going through a lot with Greg, Jossie said. And then it showed um Karen's response, You're marrying a man that had two kids on you. So I can understand how you're going through a lot. I ain't going through nothing. It said here, after that messy moment, Jassy officially earned herself a seat on the Nevis Cast trail. It was an economy seat, but it's a seat.

SPEAKER_01 9:30

I mean, that's how it felt with everyone else in first class. I was like, oh, do they run out of seats? Or the champagne tastes the same back here. I was like, I know that's right. That's I'm literally boarding a plane less than 12 hours after recording this. And well, it's a lot. I mean, I could have some champagne. It goes tastes great in 14C or wherever Lisa Barlow said. 18B. Well, I definitely don't do no middle seats. I got more money than that, but I'm too damn big to book a middle seat. Honestly, I think if I see a man in the middle seat, it's just like why? Pay the money. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 10:08

Right.

SPEAKER_01 10:09

I think a grown man in a middle seat is crazy. Unless you're a twin.

SPEAKER_00 10:13

Twins can do it. Y'all are allowed. You can get away with it. Um well so I so uh what did you think about like the trip location of them go going to is it is it Nevis or Nevis? I keep I feel like I'm doing that.

SPEAKER_01 10:29

It's usually attached to their other islands. So when I heard Nevis by itself, I was like, huh? I was like, oh, St. Kids and Nevis, which I was like, okay, new location, something nice, and you know, my family's Caribbean, so I like seeing these islands explored a little bit and seeing, you know, some of the lesser Caribbean islands get some love. Because now I want now I want to go to Nevis. Like it seems like it seems lovely. I was excited to seem something more, you know. I mean they usually do like a little island thing, but it just seems a little more glamorous than what they usually do. Or it seemed also unique and something new to the housewives landscape, but Potomac has earned a bigger trip. I hope they get Japan or something next year. That'd be fun.

SPEAKER_00 11:06

I know. It's it's crazy to me, especially with this being their tenth season. It's kind of it's like, you know, we're we're uh we're in a decade of Potomac, like Bravo, like I feel like they have not got a flight longer than five hours, and that was Portugal season five. Right. Well that that's the thing, is like I feel like when you look at like Beverly Hills, I mean those women they've gone to Dubai, they've gone to Japan, they've gone to South Africa, they had Japan as well. Yeah. American passport is losing some power, so well, so I just I don't really get why Potomac has always had such like low budget trips for the most part. Like I feel like I mean they went they went they went to Paris, but I mean Paris, like in Paris.

SPEAKER_01 11:55

That is true, they went to Paris. They went to Paris.

SPEAKER_00 11:57

But it's like Paris really that great.

SPEAKER_01 12:00

Not really. Yeah, maybe trip budgets have gone down overall. Because also maybe the Beverly Hills girls pay it out of pocket. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 12:07

But right.

SPEAKER_01 12:09

Yeah, they they went from there. It was it's been a bunch of islands, but I appreciate that Nevis is something unique. And the resort seems nice and cute. But overall, it's like the standard Caribbean island backdrop, you know?

SPEAKER_00 12:20

Yeah, and they're like and their little in their little boat trip out onto the water.

SPEAKER_01 12:25

Right. Oh yeah, that would that was cute. I love the setup.

SPEAKER_00 12:32

I guess for comparison's sake, because the Orange County women right now, because Orange County's also airing, they're on their cat, they're on their like end of the season trip, but they're in Amsterdam right now, and they um they're they were doing this thing where they are like in these like little boats that are like hot tubs, and they're like going down this dirty ass lake in Amsterdam. Oh and and you know, Emily, who was classless, um, she brought them all hats to wear, and all the hats say things like iHeart Cox, Hurtin' for a squirtin', um, all kinds of crazy stuff. So, I mean, the Orange County women, they they they also have no class.

SPEAKER_01 13:17

And Salt Lake isn't much better. I think, like, at least for this, I don't know if it's like a full trip or just an excursion, but they're doing their little collab with below deck, so they're doing a little boat yacht thing, but that's low-key work. They're they're promoting another show. So Bravo's getting some you know cross promotion out of it.

SPEAKER_00 13:33

Well, right. It it's it's like when you it's like when you get married, but like the show is paying for your wedding and you're doing all these sponsorship deals and stuff with all these companies and stuff, like to get your wedding paid for. It's kind of like, I mean, like, yeah, it's your day, but it's everybody else is making the choices here.

SPEAKER_01 13:50

And yeah, you probably know what the dress you got. I don't I know some people would be mad as uh like what the fuck? I'm talking about better help, honey. But before I present my vows to my man, have y'all heard of BetterHelp?

SPEAKER_00 14:14

I would be rolling my damn eyes.

SPEAKER_01 14:18

My eyes would be damn near out their sockets about I mean you your speech has a sponsor too, bitch. Him and hers.

SPEAKER_00 14:23

So Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 14:26

Make sure we get this wheel is in the full hall.

SPEAKER_00 14:29

If you if you make me Oh wait, no, I thought you were talking about Adam and Eve for a second. I was like, if you make me hold up a dildo at the reception table.

SPEAKER_01 14:37

I'm talking about them little hair growth pills. I mean, they got all kinds of pills for men and women.

SPEAKER_00 14:42

Well, you well, because in hymns, I've seen the I've seen the ads for it. They have they have like their own osempic thing.

SPEAKER_01 14:48

You know, they literally have everything. They got hair, I bet they got it all.

SPEAKER_00 14:52

They got erectile dysfunction, they got hair growth, they got fucking Ozempi.

SPEAKER_01 14:57

And they got ads all over the subway trying to prey on your insecurity while you're going to work.

SPEAKER_00 15:02

Right. Have you ever seen someone on the subway look at the ad and then pull their baseball cap down a little further?

SPEAKER_01 15:08

Um, not necessarily. Okay. But I guess you're also more than a little bit more. I mean, when I'm in the subway, I'm just trying to get to where I'm going, too.

SPEAKER_00 15:19

I'm not Yeah. Um, how are you feeling? So I was really curious, how are you feeling about Tia so far? Because like I feel like they're barely showing her. Like, she doesn't really get that much screen time, but I'm enjoying her when we do get screen time. Right?

SPEAKER_01 15:33

I feel like it's a little, it's like impactful screen time. And one, there's a comparison because there's two newbies, and one is struggling very much right now, so she looks much more intuitive in comparison. But I don't know if it's just the accent, but she's just interesting and like funny. Like one, we see her shut Ashley the fuck down. So I appreciated that. She's like, first of all, bitch, it was tongue in cheek. And then she got her another time, like, I don't know what you're losing here. I don't know what's hard to get.

SPEAKER_00 15:57

What?

SPEAKER_01 15:58

Call her a dumbass, bitch, which she is.

SPEAKER_00 16:00

Was Kiana the one that asked what tongue in cheek means?

SPEAKER_01 16:03

I think it was her dumb ass.

SPEAKER_00 16:05

I was like, girl, you're not helping nothing right now.

SPEAKER_01 16:09

And then and then she's like, actually, if you were rude, I would tell you you're rude. And she switched it right back to a joke, had them cackling. And I was like, okay, Tia.

SPEAKER_00 16:18

That's the thing, isn't Tia's limited screen time, she does, like every single time she does have a moment, she makes me laugh. So that's good.

SPEAKER_01 16:26

And then her phone call with her kids. I was cact. Like, usually solo seems like that. I'm like, whatever, but she would just cact. Her title was like, Oh, I want a new family, I want to get adopted. Because they made him clean up or something. And she would just cact, like, oh, okay, well, don't get adopted before I come back. I'm gonna miss you.

SPEAKER_00 16:46

So I'm thinking that's like just like a very like natural, like, like you can tell that wasn't like some planned rehearsed moment that they set up or whatever. Like, it was just like her talking to her kid.

SPEAKER_01 16:56

Oh, yeah, no, for sure. Our kids seem like some characters, but it's only gonna work for one or two seasons before we get tired of MTS. So yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:04

Appreciate it now. You'll have to bring something eventually, and I'm sure Giselle will probably bring up your marriage at some point.

SPEAKER_01 17:10

I mean, she she always has driving lessons. I don't know, her her bratty older daughter, I would love to see her drive a car. Maybe she could run over a cameraman like Grace did. Oh Lord. Well, Candace needs to come back.

SPEAKER_00 17:21

Candace needs to come back to lend us her car for driving lessons.

SPEAKER_01 17:25

Okay, if a second housewife child crashed my car, uh no more. No more, not happening at on the second. But you know, I'm like too. I feel like she almost had that second season secured. I mean, uh obviously there's a lot of swapping going on with, you know, Karen's definitely coming back for a spot. We don't know what's happening with Wendy, but I feel like Tia she has to go just not show up at the reunion, I feel like I have a very flap reunion as of right now, I think to not get a renewal. Because she's looking solid.

SPEAKER_02 17:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:58

But they might jump hard in that second season. She needs to watch out. But she seems to be navigating it well enough.

SPEAKER_00 18:04

Yeah, one I think that thing, I think Tia's have I think Tia's doing fine, especially like in her specific role. Um and then I think Stacy's having I think Stacy's handling her second season well, even though these women are kind of coming for her. She's handling it well and she's really not feeding into it and letting them get to her. Um it definitely it feels like the Stacey what was supposed to be the Stacey takedown season is already flopping, and we're just a few episodes in, so still she rises.

SPEAKER_01 18:33

Still I rise. Like a freaking Phoenix from the ashes.

SPEAKER_00 18:37

Yeah, Kiarna is just sinking her own ship and she's doing it fast. I mean, I I would not be shocked to see Kiana get fired after this season, to be honest.

SPEAKER_01 18:46

I wouldn't either. And the fans are not feeling her either. I'm sure she is here yet. But I don't know what her plan was if she got too big for her brittures because she had like a friend in the group, or what it was, but this one coming at Wendy, and it doesn't seem like it was blunder after blunder. I don't know if she was trying to make up for it or she just felt buried, but I think she should take a step back. And I think a trip is a great time to do that, but she's already kind of well, I'm talking about the previews for episode five, but you see her disengaging, leaving like their little, you know, drinking moment. But even in this episode, you know, just arguing, walking away, somebody to calm down. Just like enjoy the moment and have fun. Because now you're painting your film as more of a hot head than they already think you are, you know.

SPEAKER_00 19:28

Yeah, I mean, I'm definitely I mean, I'm fully convinced what it is. I really do think that it was a conversation with production before, like, you know, in between seasons where it was very much like they were like, Oh, you need to like because I mean that's the thing with Kiana, is like she had a slow star, she, you know, everything like she's kind of been considered boring in her initial seasons and whatnot. And so I feel like it was only production being like, you need to turn it up, like you need to really turn it up this season or you're done.

SPEAKER_01 19:56

And I think turn her friend off season. It was her first full season, they were like, This is bored asshole.

SPEAKER_00 20:02

Yeah, when I think just it's like I think that um when those kinds of conversations happen, I think it can go a few different ways. I think one way it can go is the housewife just doesn't listen and keeps doing their own thing. Um, another way it can go is I feel like they can lock in and like really do good and do well and kind of up their game. And then finally, I think you can go in the direction which is Kiarna is going in, where they just completely they take they they take away the wrong things from that discussion and they just do and they just like go way too hard, they try too hard, they start acting way too out of character.

SPEAKER_01 20:41

And it's also just like not potomac. I mean, like how does Zao and Ashley and Wendy do it, you know, asking Shane questions, zoom surprise information. Kiana's just like, you have a problem with me, you have a problem with her, you have a problem with her. It's like that's not that's not how they do things here.

SPEAKER_00 20:56

Yeah, for sure. And I I see some fans theorizing that they think this is like more so the real Kay, and that she's just kind of like showing it more. I don't I don't know if that's the case. Like, I really because my thing is I think she's just trying too hard, but I mean that could also be the case. It's just maybe this is more so her real personality just kind of coming across now.

SPEAKER_01 21:16

I mean it might be her real personality. I think she's stressed the fuck out. I do think she has a lot going on with Greg, as Jazzy said. I think she has a lot going on with her position on the show, too. Yeah. And it's stressful and it's like hard. And then she's going with a lawsuit as well. And we don't know how that's going at this time. Because like during this episode, it's still active. I mean as we know now it was dismissed or whatever, but so I don't know. I feel like she's dealing with a lot, but yeah, it's just not landing.

SPEAKER_00 21:46

Yeah. It's unfortunate too, because we really did have high hopes for her.

SPEAKER_01 21:50

Um I just feel like I don't know. Why I guess Giselle gave her no reason to go after her, but it's just another reason of like you're going after the wrong person if you want. If you want to beef with somebody for some screen time, why don't you just go after Giselle? But I could never see productions like, okay, we're bringing you a friend, your second season, you barely got that first one, what have flu. So do what it do.

SPEAKER_00 22:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:18

Well, I mean, more brazen because Angel is there, but we see how that's working.

SPEAKER_00 22:24

Right. And well, speaking of Angel, that's like another person that based off like the initial trailers for the season stuff, I kind of like I ha I didn't say I have high hopes for Angel, but I have I like was interested. I was kind of like, okay, let's see what Angel got.

SPEAKER_01 22:39

I remember in our little recap our premier record. Yeah, look forward.

SPEAKER_00 22:43

And I feel like so far she's been disappointing. Because I mean I feel like for one, it feels like she it feels like she does not want to be on this show, first of all. Like she does not want to be here. This is not this is not her group, this is not her vibe, this is not like how she lives her life. And then also it just seems like in general, like it seems like she's fucking petrified of Kiara or something.

SPEAKER_01 23:01

Right? I don't know if Kiara beat her ass when they were younger, because we I feel like K got low hands, but you know, I think it's a mix of deer and headlights or something. I saw Carlos King say that he feels like Angel has watched the show like since season one, and now she's like still watching the show while she's there, and needs to like not do that. And I mean I can definitely see that. She could be kind of caught up in it. Because it's hard to kind of like jump in. Because when she's confronted, it's kind of like ah or something direct. When she's like interjecting to the side, or it seems more casual, it's like, you know. But I will say it's still only four episodes. I want to give her some time. Your first dinner ambush, you know, it's tough. And they have to go right back to another event. It wasn't like she could, you know, just kind of chill. And then they went from the trip from there. So I think it's a lot of events, and I think through the trip she can maybe find her footing, but it's not looking great, especially because she's attached to a sinking ship of Kay, which is very unfortunate.

SPEAKER_00 23:59

Yeah. Yeah, it sucks. And I just I like I feel bad for her because Kay, I mean, Kay is so nasty to her. I'm like, girl, this is your friend. Um, and it just seems like what was really weird too was um, I mean, this is going back to the previous episode, but when they were at Kay's house, it's like Kay was being not so kind to her friend Angel. And it was like she had her freaking, she had her mom and Greg like lurking around in the corner, like ready to pass.

SPEAKER_01 24:25

She always got her mommy there. Like, you know, I thought I saw people calling for her mom to come on the show. Like, you know, she's more the girl's age, so all right. Well, and like and her mom, like in a pretty as fuck. Her mom is a bad bitch.

SPEAKER_00 24:38

Oh, yeah, she's gorgeous. But like her mom, though, like the way she looked at it, like she looked like she was ready to hop on in if she needed to.

SPEAKER_01 24:46

Are you staying with us? Giselle wanted somebody her age there.

SPEAKER_00 24:49

Right. Well, and it's just like, yeah, I feel like swap out Kiana for her mom, honestly. Ice cream.

SPEAKER_01 24:54

Can you imagine you lose your your fucking flu to your mother?

SPEAKER_00 24:57

Oh, that would definitely cause some some issues in the relationship. But I mean, also, like, I feel like Bravo shouldn't allow her to have her mom there because like I know my mom, and my thing is like if my mom was present and people were coming for me, she would jump in. Like, she just would, you know. There's no if you're not.

SPEAKER_01 25:14

That's what a lot of the moms do. And I feel like um the mom is just like a staple on Potomac at this point.

SPEAKER_00 25:20

Right. But I feel like Miss Bower Theme is Sheila.

SPEAKER_01 25:23

Miss Winson is establishing herself. I don't know what Miss Kearna's mommy's mom is called, but yeah, Miss Miss Beautiful Ass Stewart is what I'm gonna call her right now.

SPEAKER_00 25:33

Right.

SPEAKER_01 25:34

I we we can add her to the roster, we can add her to the roster.

SPEAKER_00 25:37

I I guess even even Chris Samuel's mama.

SPEAKER_01 25:43

We loved her. Did I get that half a strap? She was waiting for them.

SPEAKER_00 25:46

Oh yeah. Well, I mean, I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_01 25:48

I miss Stacy's shady aunt too. Bring Stacy's shady aunt back.

SPEAKER_00 25:52

Right. I just and I feel like honestly, with Mo even though it wouldn't really make sense with Monique coming back, can we get another scene with Chris Samuel's mom?

SPEAKER_01 26:03

That's honestly. Imagine Stacey sitting out with her.

SPEAKER_00 26:07

Oh my god, that'd be hilarious. I honestly the thing with Chris Samuel's mom, though, like if she hadn't been introduced to us in a scene where she was with Chris, I would have thought they had Chris in a wig. Like I'm I really would have.

SPEAKER_01 26:18

You're evil. You're evil, you're evil.

SPEAKER_00 26:20

Well, but I'm not incorrect. I'm not incorrect. I'm not incorrect.

SPEAKER_01 26:23

You're evil.

SPEAKER_00 26:24

But I'm not incorrect. Um but speaking of like Monique and Chris Samuels, obviously, you know, at the uh this kind of where the episode kind of leaves off is at the dinner table with basically Stacy had had enough of being picked on, and she finally kind of threw, she was like, you know what, Giselle, let's bring up your business. She's like, let's talk about your man.

SPEAKER_01 26:48

Um he played in the NFL.

SPEAKER_00 26:51

Yeah. What the you know what? And and and he's chocolate. Well, John Springs. John Springs. Is he chocolate? What's funny to me is you know, like, I saw somebody pointed this out, and like after they pointed it out, I totally saw it. Somebody said that, like, because first of all, Giselle really didn't even seem upset that like Stacy brought that up. But also, like, I saw somebody point out that like Giselle looks kind of proud of Stacy. She she did. She's like, okay, girl.

SPEAKER_01 27:17

I think Giselle's truly like, I need some, I need one of you to take the I I need one of you to step up without Karen here. Because even though I feel like her calling on Angel for the face tune, it was very low-hanging fruit. It was very much like, and we all do a how about it? Like, you know? So I feel like she wasn't even I feel like she was she threw Angel on a lob there. I don't even like Giselle, but I feel like she's trying to get these girls involved.

SPEAKER_00 27:39

Right. Right. She's she's incur you know, she's welcoming in the new guard a little bit.

SPEAKER_01 27:44

But Giselle, yeah, she didn't even see your face. She's like, yeah, he's still around, what about it? And like, you know, she moved on. But here come Captain Save a how Ashley.

SPEAKER_00 27:52

Yeah, yeah. Then Ashley had to jump in to like save Giselle when she didn't need saving. Like it wasn't that deep. Right. And she wants to bring up Chris Samuels and hit and like whether or not Stacy. Okay, well, but here's my first thing is first of all, so even if it's true, even if Stacy did try to like get with Chris Samuels, it's like she was a grown-ass single woman at the time in between relationships. He's he was a grown-ass single man at the time. And Stacy does not like she's never met Monique, she doesn't know this woman, she has no relationship with her. So if she if if if all of it's true, if everything Ashley is saying is true, literally, why does it like what what's wrong with that?

SPEAKER_01 28:33

Exactly. Because Ashley is don't want to talk about her life. If she wants to try to find a gotcha or some tea on somebody, she just go down the list, she just go down the list.

SPEAKER_00 28:41

And it's just it's just stupid. It's really stupid. Because like like I said, even if it's 100% true, it really doesn't make stay, in my opinion, it doesn't make Stacey look bad. It's not like a problem. She didn't do something wrong. Now it's like if one of the women in the group that has uh known Monique and has had interaction with her and has a relationship with her, if one of them did that, that would be messy as fuck. But not in this case with Stacy. It definitely feeds into me belie because I've seen a lot of rumors that a lot of people think that the sole purpose for this Stacy and Chris Samuels rumor being brought up is that it's a way to kind of like organically bring Monique back into the group and like kind of make it a storyline for that. And watching how it kind of came to fruition in this episode, it makes me believe that rumor even more that production just had Ashley and Giselle bring that shit up.

SPEAKER_01 29:30

Oh, that makes sense, especially because Ashley was a damn mouthpiece. Because we know that's all her and Giselle do.

SPEAKER_00 29:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:36

Well, yeah, just Ashley was like, I feel like even the angel face tune thing. I think production was like, you didn't affect the bitch. Bring it up. Because they were like, we gotta see something out of her.

SPEAKER_00 29:46

We gotta do something at this table. But what was fun, and like it, and it even felt like with Stacey being like, I've never met Monique, maybe one day I will. It's like, oh, you're about to, but that's the fucking storyline. So that's what I think. And then I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_01 29:57

I think she knows it with her TV CS. She she knows TV.

SPEAKER_00 30:01

Right. Well, and then like what was weird to me is because like Angel, uh not Angel, Stacey was like, Well, you're all friends with Monique, right? And like, which is weird to me because like I think at that table, the only one that's really friends with Monique is Ashley. The rest of them either haven't met her, are indifferent, or Giselle, like Giselle left. The last time they were in a room together, they were like hating each other. So I was confused. Especially because I think Giselle like nodded in agreement, like when she was like, Y'all are friends with Monique, right? It's like, Giselle, you're not supposed to be friends with her yet. Did you forget y'all haven't filmed that scene?

SPEAKER_01 30:30

Well, I think it was more like in the fourth wall housewives term, like, oh, you are familiar with her. She used to be on this. I think it was in lieu of, oh, she used to be on the show, right?

SPEAKER_00 30:38

That's true, I guess. Well, and at least at least Stacy knows how to like not break the fourth wall and like Kiana.

SPEAKER_01 30:44

Oh god, I've been staying with it, but I don't blame her because I would be B on TV too. Well, I want to be at the trip because it's a paid filming of that, you dumbhow. Why else do you think I want to be there?

SPEAKER_00 30:54

Well, I think, yeah, Kiana can't play ball for five seconds without mentioning like acknowledging the fact that they're on a chef.

SPEAKER_01 31:01

That's probably also why she's gonna get fired. Somebody tell her to get back to reality. Where's that white boy from Beverly Hills?

SPEAKER_00 31:08

Well, I think, well, especially because clearly, because like the thing is if she was just doing it a little bit, they would just edit it around it. But the fact that they like that they're showing it means that she's doing it so much that they can't edit around it.

SPEAKER_01 31:18

Right. I mean, even her whole thing with Wendy is like off-shell, on-show, like behavior, which is a kind of thing. I don't no one cares.

SPEAKER_00 31:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:29

Well But you know, without Karen, they're making it work. I'm entertained. This is better than like that Candace filibuster season where they bullied her off.

SPEAKER_00 31:38

Right. Well, I think no, I definitely better than the NECA season too.

SPEAKER_01 31:41

I think it's better than that so far.

SPEAKER_00 31:43

Yeah, for sure. And definitely, I feel like I while I do miss Karen, I'm not I'm not missing her as much as I thought I was going to. Because like I thought like I thought that like pretty much throughout every episode I'd say we seen that, like, oh, I wish Karen was here, I wish Karen was here. And like I wish she was there, but like it's not like her absence isn't necessarily like bringing the show down.

SPEAKER_01 32:08

I agree.

SPEAKER_00 32:10

In my opinion.

SPEAKER_01 32:12

I fully agree.

unknown 32:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:15

Because it's just, I mean, the other girls are trying their best to fill the gap, and we don't have like that Karen energy, but yeah. We're getting a lot more of everyone else. I mean, Ashley's a little bit of a backseat, but I think Wendy is picking up some of the slack, and then I think all of the new girls are you know filling up the rest of the airtime.

SPEAKER_00 32:34

Yeah. I know I saw I saw somebody on Reddit say that they're like they're like, Jesus, Giselle and Wendy are running circles around the girls this season. They they really are. But just like Wendy. So you have to go to the body. They're just like setting things up perfectly, they're getting things together, they're organizing. Like it's like they really are like keeping the show afloat. And then Stacey's just giving us what we need, which is just like that unbothered energy.

SPEAKER_01 33:05

So he's just giving us everything.

SPEAKER_00 33:08

Well, and so do you think do you think we're finally getting Monique next episode? Because I feel like they've been like they've been like really drawing that out all season. Because I feel like as early as episode two, we were getting like the little preview of Monique coming back, but like that still hasn't happened.

SPEAKER_01 33:24

Well, I think they're gonna finish up Nevis, so that might be like a whole nother episode, or maybe like into the end of it. But I can see it being as early as like two episodes. Like when they get back, it's just they'll talk about, well, I got a call from somebody. Or maybe Ashley meets her first, but yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:39

Well, I definitely think what's the only thing makes that thing, definitely I think when Monique makes her return, they're gonna have it like at the very end of an episode, so then we it's and then we're gonna get it to be continued and have to wait until the next episode.

SPEAKER_01 33:51

Right. Um, because we know she we know that she was there at DC World Pride with them on that little float.

SPEAKER_00 34:00

Well, and that's the thing is. Well, and I guess what confused me was I think because it was like the second or third episode, it was one of those two where like at the end of the episode when they were like, you know, next on Potomac, like they showed Monique popping up, and and it was and I could tell from the outfit she was wearing the outfits of the other woman. It was like the Pride event, so I think that's gonna be her first filmed event with the girls. Um but it just confused me because they showed it like next week, basically. So I thought it was gonna happen at the end of the next episode, but it didn't happen, and they haven't shown that in any of the previews since. So I'm like, what's like that's a weird choice to me, right?

SPEAKER_01 34:41

But according to worldprotspridedt.com.org, the that loan parade thing is on June 7th. Wendy's birthday is May 21st, so it's only two, three weeks before Monique starts filming, so yeah, it's very soon that she's coming.

SPEAKER_00 34:54

Yeah. So I almost feel like I almost feel like that's gonna be her introduction, is the Pride event, and then like maybe at the Pride event, her and Giselle are gonna have a moment where like, oh, we need to like talk one-on-one. We're gonna get the side. The Pride event, and then Giselle and Monique, yeah. I'm curious to see I'm curious to see how in how involved Monique is in the season because I feel like we haven't seen much. Right? We see the little sit down and the pride, but well, I think yeah, that's all we that's saying, yeah, because like as far as like like when the season was filming, we were getting like leaked pictures from like filming, all I saw was like you said, the pride event and the sit down with Giselle. And I feel like in the previews we've gotten so far this season, it looks like every preview we've gotten shows her at the Pride event or at the sit-down with Giselle. So I'm like, I'm hoping we get more of her than just that. But I did read somewhere that there were rumors that um M Monique was being very difficult with her contract for coming back this season. I heard that they were like contract because there was a lot of back and forth and everything. So that could explain A why it's taking them so like why it's taking them so long into filming to actually bring her in. Um, but I'm also wondering if that means that like her stint is gonna be very short.

SPEAKER_01 36:17

Right. I do wonder. But I believe Monique, you know, she doesn't have Chris money anymore. She got to support herself. I mean, I'm sure he pays the mortgage, but if she's still in that house, I wonder if she's still in that house.

SPEAKER_00 36:28

Well, and just it just in general with Monique. I mean, like, I I've always liked Monique, but the idea of her being really, really fucking difficult to work with and really difficult to negotiate with in a contract, like I believe that 100%. I think even if she does like I think even if I don't know if she does, like on her social media, if she does like sponsored posts and ad deals, but I can even see her being difficult with those people. I can see her being difficult with you doing a formula.

SPEAKER_01 36:55

I'm not gonna say that. It's alright, Monique. But I mean, yeah, no, unfortunately. But I mean, she had the leverage because clearly it worked, and I guess they thought they needed something at this point. I'm sure they were like, oh fuck, this angel girl sucks. We gotta call Monique.

SPEAKER_00 37:11

Yeah, which is funny.

SPEAKER_01 37:13

Each angel scene that they got mad at, they were like, okay, Monique, we'll give you the extra 50,000.

SPEAKER_00 37:17

Right. Well, I think it kind of it it it makes me laugh because actually, because Angel, like when they first were introducing her, she kind of reminded me of Monique, but clearly she don't have to fire Monique ass.

SPEAKER_01 37:28

Right. I wonder if Kay and Monique will get along with him caught from the same club.

SPEAKER_00 37:33

Oh Lord, can you imagine if they start if they ski if they get physical, I'd be gap.

SPEAKER_01 37:37

Oh lord, I know Stacy would be like someone's with me at chin chat.

SPEAKER_02 37:41

She would say something messy.

SPEAKER_01 37:43

I'm very curious to see how Wendy and Monique interact, because of course they know each other, but like first season, and then you know, Monique beat Candace ass and then you know wasn't really around anymore.

SPEAKER_00 37:53

Well, because I completely forgot now you mentioned that, because in the trailer we did see a sit-down with Wendy. Like, it looked like Wendy and Monique were having lunch or something or whatever. Because she was like last time I saw you. You had a binder.

SPEAKER_01 38:06

Which was true. You think Wendy's asking five years later, what was it on her? What was it her task? Because I would be. I mean, you just met me, how? What'd you all be?

SPEAKER_00 38:15

I mean, Wendy couldn't even help herself from looking at Nikki's cue card, so I'm sure she wouldn't. Clearly, she's inquisitive. Clearly, she's inquisitive. She's inquisitive. Wendy is inquisitive, you're right. Uh, but overall, kind of like as we wrap this episode up, like, how are you how are you feeling about the season so far? You know, four episodes in, we're going into episode five next week.

SPEAKER_01 38:42

I'm liking it. I think this is stronger, a strong start. I remember being, what was the one we covered? Like there were the one we covered was. Yeah. Yeah, that one was just so terrible from the beginning, and I was just so drained by it. And this one is starting off livelier. I think that was season eight then. In season nine, even I think had like a you know, a softer beginning, but I caught on to it and was supporting Stacy. But no, I this has been, I think, the stronger back, um, you know, canvas-less seasons, as we call it.

SPEAKER_00 39:14

Yeah, for sure. And I and I love how we keep calling that season the Lynecca season, because she was like season one.

SPEAKER_01 39:19

I mean, yes. Which you know, I wouldn't be opposed to seeing her as a friend or like at an event, a guest, a charisse role.

SPEAKER_00 39:27

I mean, I wouldn't be sh I wouldn't be shocked, especially if especially if Wendy does stay on the show, which I don't think she will, but if she were to stay on the show, I could see like someone, even if they don't bring NECA around Wendy next season, I could see someone, you know, um, like going and sitting down and having lunch with NECA or something and bringing up Mo and bringing up Wendy to her and being like, oh, what do you think about that?

SPEAKER_01 39:52

I mean, they could do it next season if Wendy's had to stay on.

SPEAKER_00 39:56

Well, that's not true.

SPEAKER_01 39:57

They should bring her as a friend next season just to just to push Wendy.

SPEAKER_00 40:01

Oh Lord, because NECA would definitely have a fraud girl. Well, especially because like if if we could watch NECA bring up the damn shrine every time every opportunity she got for a whole season, she'll definitely bring up the fraud charges every chance she gets for a whole season.

SPEAKER_01 40:14

Well, you know what? If somebody's mom allegedly put worshiped me to a shrine, submitted my name, I'm bringing it up every time I could too.

SPEAKER_00 40:22

Submit my name to a shrine. My mother praises Jesus Christ. Maybe by day, but by night she's submitted names to shrines.

SPEAKER_01 40:30

That season was, I think, too much. I think that season should have just been. I think the Nigerians should have, you know, got that season sanctioned.

SPEAKER_00 40:39

One thing, yeah. That season definitely could have been left on the cutting room floor.

SPEAKER_01 40:42

I didn't even feel comfortable covering that stuff. I didn't feel qualified. Like when you said to Ashley at the reunion, you're not qualified to speak on it.

SPEAKER_00 40:51

Right. One thing, yeah. It's just like stuff like that. It goes, it goes a little too deep where it's like, oh, this isn't this isn't fun anymore. But you know what it is?

SPEAKER_01 41:02

At some point it stops looking at Angel's husband.

SPEAKER_00 41:05

Oh, yeah. So hopefully she gets it together so we can keep looking at him. Otherwise, you know, he might be a one-season wonder, too. We have to book one of them fucking tours in Colorado, which I might not go to Colorado just to look at that man.

SPEAKER_01 41:20

I have to ride a horse or something. Fly fish. Actually, fly fishing sounds lit. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 41:24

Oh Lord. I feel like on a horse, you'd be like that episode of Flavor of Love where New York was on the horse and she was falling off.

SPEAKER_01 41:31

All I gotta do is buck one time about get me, get me, get me off this, get me off this fucking machine. Get me off this thousand pound bit. Get me off this thousand pound bit, because I'm not doing it.

SPEAKER_00 41:41

That's it. Well, that's it. You say I'm not Karen Huger, I don't need a car with horsepower. You know what? And on that note, don't drink and drive. Call an Uber. Please don't. Especially with Halloween coming up. Please don't. But y'all have y'all have a great rest of your day. Um, this is gonna be coming out a few days before Halloween, so have a wonderful, spooky day. I hope you do have you know safe, good, clean fun. Um, I feel like Stacey right now.

SPEAKER_01 42:09

Uh drinking a 40 out of a paper bag on Halloween.

SPEAKER_00 42:15

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