Transcript of #3172 Crappy Hour 1/19/26: Girls Trip Cast Announcements and Ben Affleck Denouncements

Well, hello. It is January 19th, 2026. Welcome to Crabby Hour Live. I'm Roni. That's Ben over there. Hello, Ben.

Hi, Roni. How's it going?

Good. How are you doing, baby?

Well, I'm doing great. It's a Monday. It's our first Crapy Hour in two weeks. I mean, that's how they always are. I'm just excited. We have a lot of... It's our first and our last one in two weeks.

Screping made. First crappy hour in two weeks.

First one in two weeks. And there's so much to talk about. It's just It's crazy what's happening out there in the world of Bravo. Oh, my God. Is there a breaking news right as we start crappy hour? Is that really happening, Roni?

Breaking this. Welcome Welcome to the Alexia News Network. Welcome. Oh, well, you know Peter. Lots has been happening out there. We have an announcement. It's a very sad, unexpected announcement. Kyle and Amanda have broken up. We absolutely can't believe it. It's not Peter's fault. Peter never did anything for that. He's an artist. He's a good boy.

He's an artist. You know Peter? Oh, well, you know Peter is an artist, and so if he breaks up a marriage, that's just what he does, but that's his art, so don't be mad at him. I absolutely can't believe it. I cannot believe that these two broke up this deep into their marriage. I can't believe it didn't happen sooner. But we are here, and both of them released statements, the same statement on their Instagram stories. Shall we read it? I'm putting it up on the screen. Sure. You ready?

Okay. Yeah. You start as one of them, and I'll go as the other one after.

Well, after much reflection, Manda and I have mutually and amicably decided to part ways as a couple.

We share this with a heavy heart and kindly ask for your grace and support while we focus on our personal growth and healing.

Kindly It feels ironic to ask for privacy during this time since I'm such a big DJ and I'm out there killing the game every night. But since we've also always tried to be open and honest about our relationship, but your kindness and respect will go a long way as we try to navigate our next chapter. Manda. Kyle. Marriage should be fun. You know what? Marriage should be fun. Manda, not fun.

Kyle, too fun. Yeah, not a huge shock that they broke up. This has been rumored for a while. Let's see, I read in Dumont. I mean, we've heard these gossip allegations for a little while. Oh, my God. What do I have? Someone wrote, Dumont, In regards to the Amanda and Kyle situation, she wasn't at the annual family reunion. His DJ show took close to his cousin's surf shop or his cousin's wedding this year. Oh, my God. I love, Amanda Dada didn't come to his DJ show close to his cousin's surf shop. She must be out of here. Kyle's close cousin got married a month ago, and she wasn't even with him at that. I don't think she's been at any family gathering since the summer of 2024. It makes me curious if they just put on an act for the summer 2025, filming of Summerhosen.

She just posted a video a few weeks ago where she's like, she made some joke about how we were sleeping in separate beds. Here's my bed. And then she was in a doll house or something. Remember that? A doll house, I think.

Yeah. That looked like a doll house, but yeah.

She's making jokes about it. Like, everything's fine, everything's fine. But now this happens. Do we think they're going to pick up the cameras again? Do we think this is all just Fodder for In The City, which is the spin-off that they're going to be launching after Summerhouse?

I don't know, but man, we've been rooting for those two to break up since they first made out in the Hot tub in season one. I said, Run away from that, man. I can't wait to see what 23-year-old he gets next. But good for them both. When she said, Kyle, when he said, You want me to support your bikinis, but without me, I've always wanted to be a DJ. She was like, Go ahead. I think that was when she was like, Bye. You know? Yeah. Go start your 4: 00 AM career, and let's see how long this lasts. I think they'd both just be in a happier situation if they could be more themselves. Kyle wants to still be a teenager, and Amanda wants to do whatever Amanda wants to do. Bikinis and going to bed early. Living in New Jersey. Minus the bikinis, that's what I like, and the living in New Jersey part. But I love being in bed, and I think that you need to find somebody that loves to be in bed.

That's it. A hundred %. I think, actually, if anything, that Kyle leaning into his DJ best life has moved him into his midlife crisis. I mean, he was emerging from his up to midlife crisis to his midlife crisis. He's just always in crisis, but now he's in that space. I think her advice to him was good. You should follow your passion. If you want a DJ, DJ, but also know that that's not going to be compatible with what I want because I did not marry a DJ. If they are leaving now, look, I think this is good. They know what they want. This is to clean each other's hands of each other. There's no kids. Don't have to worry about doing too much collateral damage. My prediction is that after the dust settles, Amanda will be with a new guy within a year and pregnant in, I'm going to say, 18 months to two years. I think it's going to be one of those things where she knows what she wants even more than ever after having gone through the Kyle Mill, and she's going to find someone that's exactly what she wants, and then she's going to have a baby with this person, and they're going to go on to suburban bliss.

Kyle will just do what he does. I think this is actually a really good thing for both of them.

Kyle will do what he does, youthful people. It's beautiful. What was your prediction now? How long? Let's write it down so we can remember.

I'm saying Amanda will be on the Lindsay Hubbard route, I think. I think she's going to be with someone very quickly. I think within a year, She'll be deep in a relationship. I'm going to say 18 months to two years. It's going to be baby news.

Eighteen months to two years. I'm going to say probably five because I feel like getting out of a relationship with someone like Kyle, she's probably traumatized and exhausted. Even if she hasn't been around for a while, I think she's probably going to be like, I'm tired. I don't want to date any guys. All guys are stupid. They're all gross. I'm not going to deal with it. Maybe four or five years I'm going to give her. Then maybe once the show is over and she has a normal life, then I think she will. But I think it's going to be a while. What do you think is going to happen with all the money? Is there money? Is it just Loverboy money owed? I don't know. Or what do you think?

Money owed, money spent. I have no idea. I don't That's where it could get thorny, is that they do actually have a child, which is Loverboy. The question is, how much does she get? Does she get anything at all? I mean, Kyle has definitely put in a huge amount of blood, sweat, and tears, but Amanda has, too. Amanda has actually had to suffer from that. She's, I think, definitely entitled to getting a nice chunk of that Loverboy money. The question is, is she just like, I am so done with the situation. I just want to cut ties and move on? Or is she going to want some of that Loverboy residuals? What do you think?

I don't know. I'm reading comments here. Jennifer says, I think it's her parents that invested in Loverboy. Okay. Kay Cliff is asking, did they sign a prenup? I don't remember. Wasn't there some drama about a prenup? Where is that? You got to sign a prenup. I feel like there was drama about that, but I don't remember.

There probably was. I I think there was some story about that. But people are reminding us that her parents did invest. At the very least, that money will be coming back because the parents are investors. But do you mean it's going to be coming back? Well, meaning if they're investors, they're going to get returns, so there still will be some money.

Aren't they in a lot of debt, Loverboy? Wasn't that the plot that they're losing their asses last year? That's why Kyle was always freaking out at that moment.

I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what the situation will be, but I'm sure they could also just sell it off. I guess his goal was to sell it off, right? Make it big enough to sell off.

Yeah, they were trying to make a company to sell it, but it never became profitable enough to sell, according to them on the show. But I don't know. I know. Nothing. I know to stay single, people. I know to stay single. But you know what? Good for them both going off to live their best lives. Who gets the dogs? Amanda, I'm sure. How am I taking those dogs? He'll never be home to walk the dogs. Wiggy, wiggy. That's what I say. Wiggy, wiggy. So good for them both going off to live their best lives and giving us a good for a season of the city, I'm sure. It's time for a commercial. It's time for a crap and it's commercial. What do you want to talk about next?

Well, let's see. What do we have? Let me look over here at the big queue because there's always-We've got some good stuff.

There's a lot of really good stuff. The cast for Real Housewives' Ultimate Girls' Road Trip, Trip, Trip, Car, Car, Being in a Car, Car, whatever it's called, was announced. What do you think of the cast?

Let's go over it. I think the cast is really good. I'm going to bring up the cast right here. I think it's a good cast. I know some people were upset that there's no... Well, the first news that broke a day beforehand was that Nini Leaks is coming back to Bravo on the show, and then they reveal the cast, and she's actually not a a main cast character. She's not in the bus or whatever. Then people were upset because there wasn't an original Atlanta cast member on there. But Portia's on there. I mean, you have cast representation. You don't have Dubai or Dallas or DC on here, but that's okay. I think that would be ambitious to expect those things to be on here. But the cast is Lisa Barlow, Luwenda Lysaps, Portia, Vicky, Kyle Richards, Theresa, Giselle. I think it's a really good cast. I think also, how mad is Heather Gay that she is not on this show? How did that happen?

I don't know, but I love that Lisa got it over Heather Gay. I think I don't think that's so funny. Giselle was probably... I'm not getting on a bus with fucking Heather Gay. She stole my tequila in Thailand.

That's right.

Which, by the way, was the best thing that Heather Gay ever did. I think in her entire... She gets a lot of credit for her, receipt, proof, timeline, meh, which I really need to hear more in my life. But I think that she gets a lot of credit for that. I think the best thing she ever did was stealing Giselle's tequila on Thailand, and it became the mystery of the whole thing, and then it just turned out to be Heather the whole time, and she regretded nothing. That will forever be Heather's best thing, I think. But yeah, I think that she's probably miserable about it, and that's really funny to me. Lisa got it after all of this. After trying to shoot Lisa down It was so many seasons, Lisa ended up getting it over, Heather.

Why do you think Lisa did get it over? Because, I mean, Bravo has, they've often turned to Heather to be the center of the show, even when she's not center Snowflake, even when she's not in first chair. People see Heather as the queen bee of that show. But here's Lisa.

What do you think Heather? I think Heather sees herself. Heather is always centering herself on that show. She's always going and starting the fights between everybody and orchestrating everything. But it doesn't mean that everybody thinks of her as the center of that show. Maybe they were like, Lisa would be funnier around other people. Because one thing Heather has going against her, I think people are used to her on Salt Lake City, but when she's annoying, she's really annoying on other shows. Remember when they guessed it on Below Deck years ago? She seemed cracked out the whole time with Angie Harrington. Then she did the girls trip, and she's like, Oh, my God, look, I'm with the big dogs. Ditch me and all the big dogs.

I mean, what about Reality Hot Seat? That to me, I almost wonder if Reality Hot Seat was the thing that made the move to Lisa Barlow, because Heather was extremely domineering. She was overtalking everyone, and she was trying to be super, super funny, but she wasn't actually yes anding anyone. Everyone who watched Reality Hot Seat, which was a hot mess, was like, whoa, Heather Gay. Let some other people share the space. I almost wonder if production is like, Yeah, Heather, she can do her own show, like Surviving Morganism, but maybe she doesn't translate well on these spin-off type things.

Yeah, it's like a little kid. You have a kid, you love your kid, they're great at home, they're hilarious, but the second you go into a restaurant, everybody wants to murder your child. I think that that's Heather. I think this was smart with Lisa because she'll be funny. Just to go back to some comments on the other thing real quick. K Payfer says, I think there was something about a prenup. There was something about a penalty if Kyle cheated. So, yeah, prenup. And PH Balanced Shorty says, I think there was a prenup because Amanda's dad made them get one, but it was also to protect Amanda so she didn't get settled with Loverboy debt if they got divorced. Yeah, that sounds about right to me. Okay, so go ahead, Ben.

I was going to say, I also wonder if by putting Lisa on this show, they just may also realize that this is the chemistry that might be really good. Lisa might work with this group, and maybe it's a test. They put Heather and technically Whitney on spin-offs, but let's see how Lisa deals with other cast members of different shows, and let's see if she actually is really good with them. Because some people keep on getting the call. This is like Luanne's millionth spin-off at this point. They keep going back to Luanne because Luanne is actually really good at it. She always offers something really good, and she gels with the other women, but she's also very much Luanne. Maybe they're like, Let's see what else we can get out of Lisa. Here's something really conspiratorial, which is maybe this gives the network some leverage in a negotiation with Heather, where Heather says, You need me. Look how well I do on this show, on this show, on this show, now that I can say, Well, we had Lisa Barlow on this other show, and she did well. That's very conspiratorial. But hey, why not? It could be a situation where MBC was like, Let's just diversify.

Let's not put all of our eggs into the Heather Gay basket with our spinoffs.

Well, yeah, because she can't go to them and say, Oh, look how well Salt Lake City is doing, because it's not really. The ratings are pretty… It had a series low this past reunion, so it's not doing great. She's like, Well, I'm the center of the show. Then it's like, Well, maybe it's time to change that. Another thing we have to look at, if you're looking at evidence, is every person on this cast that has announced, except Giselle and Kyle, I would say, is at the height of delusion. I mean, they're all crazy. Normally on Girls Trip, you have some crazy and then some normies. They'll throw them like a Kristen Takeman, people to even it out. This one, it is Vicky Cuckoo Bird. Freaking crazy, and she's in her Trump era, so God knows what's going to… She's all empowered on that. You've got her, you've got Louanne, obviously. Portia, who's hilarious. I wouldn't say she's all that delusional comparatively. Theresa, nuts. Kyle's normal and boring, but she deserves it. She's been there forever. Giselle, normal, and Lisa Barlow. It's heavy, heavy on delusion.

Lisa is playing the role of Ramona, I think. I think she's filling the Ramona slot of someone who's going to be delusional, might get loud, might irk people. Heather would be a little too… She'd be trying to be funny. That's actually going to be Portia's role, I think, is going to be, or Giselle. Giselle is more of the comedian, and I think that Heather will be too try hard, and they need a Ramona there. Something, obviously, that we just omitted. I can't believe we did, and I feel like we're part of the problem now, is there's no Miami on here. I think Andy or someone said, Don't you worry, they're definitely going to Miami. But I would have liked to have a Miami cast member on here. I would have liked to have an Alexia or a Lisa or I mean, really anyone from Miami, I think would have been great on here.

I think the whole thing about this is they get into an RV or something like that, and then they just travel all over visiting housewives all over the country. I'm sure they're going to get tons of people. I think there's like see people who are going to be on this, so they're going to get a lot of people in there. But you're right. Miami has always been the stepchild, the red hair stepchild or whatever, which I shouldn't say. That's why I tied my hair red.

I think they should have had Alexia on this cast. I think there's room for an eighth person. I think they could have done it. It would not have taken away from anything. There's plenty of space in the sprinter van. I think that's a miss for Bravo, and I think it's a miss for helping get more eyeballs on Miami. They do always like… They just need to give Miami more love. It's really one of their elite franchises.

One of the best thing… Oh, sorry. Go ahead.

No, I was going to say, but like you said, they're going to visit a million housewives, and Nini Leaks is going part of it, which is crazy.

The best part of this all to me, not only do we get to see Nini again, because I am excited about that, but Bethany's reaction has been hilarious. Commercials.

Here comes one right now.

Listen, are we all sick of seeing Bethany's clips on everything every day? I see Bethany's clips every day posted somewhere. I don't follow her. Don't do any of that. I see them all over, and sometimes they get really sick of it, but not on days like this. Bethany has a video. She's sitting in a really loud restaurant in a sweater and very dark glasses talking at the top of her lungs in a restaurant because she's one of those TikTok assholes who does that, who just sits alone in a restaurant. It's like, All right, here's what I think. She was doing that, and she's like, Listen, you know what? I heard the news. I heard the news. Nini's going to be on girls trip. I just want to say congratulations. That's great for her. I love that. I really mean it. Some people do things for different reasons. Some people do things for joy or for desperation, or they have to pay their rent, whatever the reason may be. I'm not saying what the reason is. But I've never seen somebody who sued a company for doing wrong things, and then the company hires that. Again, good for them, good for her, good for her, really excited for her.

I just want to point out that I pitched a show to Matt Anderson at Bravo. Look him up. He's a real person. He's not fake. Don't call me a liar. I pitched me and Nini on a road trip, just me and Nini, going around to see people. I'm not saying they stole my idea, but you know what? Enjoy the stolen goods. You know what? Ownership is a Possession is nine-tenths of the law or whatever. She is so Bethany and so better. Bethany, you're not the only one that pitched that show. They were going to come out with a show, Nini and Kim Zolciak, where they were on a road trip together. Stop acting like you came up with some idea. That idea fell through. O'ber and Gale. O'ber and Gale. Well, Bethany said that. She's like, Oh, and I know road trip is not the most original thing. There was a movie about it. There was...

Let me tell you something. I think we said it on... I know that I for sure have said it on this podcast where I said, I think they should do an amazing race thing, but make it all housewives. When Bethany says, Okay, you know what? I pitch an idea. Me and Nini Leaks, we go on a road I was like, You know what? They didn't like that idea, but they liked the idea of Nini Leaks on a road trip. I wonder what the difference is. Oh, because you're not part of it, Bethany. So go take care of your face, Clemedia, or whatever it is that's going on, and let us enjoy this thing. I mean, for someone who... Her reckoning has fully just disintegrated. It's just so sad. It's sad to see Bethany like this, just grasping onto her relevance and she's angry at the thing that left her that she claims implicitly, and yet doing whatever she can to comment on it.

I mean, it's hilarious. I love it. But she's got someone in the comments is saying, Go back to your face chlamedia, Bethany. It's so funny.

She said that it's not face chlamedia, by the way. She actually issued a statement. She's like, First of all, there's no such thing as face chlamedia. It's not a thing. Okay? For anyone who's concerned, it's just a regular little bacterial. You know what?

I woke up, I got a bacteria infection on vacation. Here it is. Look at it up close. Look at it. Look at it. Look at my bacteria. Bethany, sometimes it's okay to get off of the TikTok. I don't need to see your face bacteria. Stop it. Stop it. Also, Bethany, you're wasting this. No one is watching TikTok.

You're wasting this energy, Bethany. At this point, just come back to Bravo. Okay, just bury the hatch and come back to Bravo because this is getting exhausting. Either shit or good off the pot. You're either beyond this life, the reality reckoning, or you are about it. Because guess what? The constant oversharing on TikTok is not that different than just going onto Bravo and getting drunk on camera. It's just where do you want to expose yourself, essentially?

Yeah. I loved it. I thought it was super fun. I'm really excited for Real Housewives' ultimate girls road trip, whatever the hell they're calling it. I think it's going to be a huge train wreck, and I'm extremely excited for the three-hour episodes they're going to put of that because you know they are. That's what they do with those girls trips. They're like, Here, it's an hour and a half, six times.

It's going to be really good. Now, we can splinter off into one of two directions. We can splinter off to talk about Lisa Barlow, or we can splinter off to talk about Giselle. Which direction do you want to go in?

Well, why don't we... Well, you choose. I've been choosing everything. I'll follow you, my love.

Okay. Well, let's just talk about Giselle, because that way I can... Because I'm about to share my screen, and that way I can not share my screen anymore. But last night on Watch What Happens Live, Jazelle and Quad were on. And Quad had a little bit of an ax to grind, and she very kindly and sweetly delivered some shade to Giselle. And I'm going to actually just share it. We're going to watch the clip because, first of all, just hearing the way these two interact is so wonderful. And also, I feel like I'm just going to do it in justice if I tried to describe it. You just have to see in here. Sorry, I can't make Andy any larger here, but you'll just have to look and you will see. Okay?

Oh, so is his mama. I don't hear anything. Are you playing some sound? You don't hear anything? No. I don't hear it. Well, that's unfortunate. I need to hear a quad, so please play me whatever quad is saying. I need to hear it with my own two ears.

Well, unfortunately, I guess there's a tech issue. It's saying that it's playing the audio, but I guess if it's not it's not coming through. So instead, I will wind up paraphrasing it, which is that quad went on, and she was like, Now I have something to say, which is Giselle, you said that we were recycling and reusing. And what's that all about? Because last time I checked, our ratings are higher than Potomac in Salt Lake City. I'm just mentioning it. I'm just mentioning it. And Giselle was like, No, I didn't say that. Robin said that. I never said that. No, no. And there's nothing against you. I'm just saying, Why would you say that? Because we are actually all original about it. She basically called out Giselle saying, Yeah, our ratings are better than yours, and I don't know why we're getting treated this way. I don't know why you're saying that. Then Giselle said, No, it was Robin who said it.

Our show is better. Our show has been better for three years running, at least, ma'am. How dare you? What was she saying? Robin and Giselle were saying they were recycling castments. Members or what? By bringing Contessa back, or what?

Well, I'm wondering because then someone, of course, pulled up the original clip, and it was actually Giselle. Robin was like, Oh, they're recycling someone, or whatever. For the clip that played, it was totally out of context for me. But I wondered if they were they talking about Phadra, that they're bringing Phadra in, because then Giselle was like, Oh, it's like they're recycling. Because, I'm sorry, Robin was the one who's talking about casting, and Giselle was the one who said recycling. So Now people are like, Oh, look, that's classic Giselle. She threw Robin under the bus, but it was Giselle who said it all along. We love Michael Horn, says Robin and Giselle were saying they were recycling people from love and hip hop. Oh, jeez. That's what it was. And so, quatt was like, Whoa, we have better ratings. So that was hilarious. Also, by the way, I think that Giselle accidentally outed that Robin will be part of this road trip thing, FYI. For anyone who's getting really excited.

Jeez, in case anybody wanted a speed bump on the road trip, here comes Robin, load her up. What are they going to bring Emily to? It'll save us a voice. Talk about recycling.

Seriously.

Hey, how dare you? How dare you?

Of course, Emily will be. You know, Emily and Gina will be there, though. I'm surprised they didn't put Emily and Gina in this bus because the worst seasons they have, the more Bravo seems to put them in front of our faces.

Yeah. Well, something else happened. I saw another clip. I didn't see this one, and I really wish I had the one that you were talking about because that's amazing. But I saw Giselle and Quad talking, and Giselle was going off on angel, and she's like, Well, that's not my... Her husband says that I want her life. I don't want that life. I've seen her life. Who would want that? And Quad's like, Well, why would you say that? She has a lovely life. She's like, Well, I don't want her husband. Would you want... She's getting like that. And Quad's like, No, you're being too hard on the girls. She's like, No, I'm not. I'm not being too hard on the girl. You watch a show? She's like, Yes. And I met them at Bravo Con, and they were lovely people, lovely people. How could you be so hard? And Giselle got really perturbed with her and was like, How dare you? And it makes sense that she was already getting annoyed with Quad because I was like, Oh, why is Giselle so perturbed with Quad? But it was pretty funny. I love seeing anybody stand up to Giselle, and especially Quad.

And I love that Quad told her, Yeah, our show is doing better than yours, so pipe down, ma'am. She really did. I love that she came on there because Married to Medicine is very second fiddle, I think. Just because it doesn't have a real housewife's name, I think that it doesn't get the respect. It doesn't get the fan reactions that Potomac does, but it's a lot of times a much better show. I'm glad to see Quad up there, confidently standing up for somebody, even if it's Angel, and kicking Giselle's ass with it. It was nice to see, You go, Quad.

Yeah. What was funny was that Quad, when Quad was talking to Giselle, they were both smiling, and they were holding each other's hands. She's like, No, no, no, this isn't a read. It's just I'm just saying. Then Giselle was like, Oh, well, that's interesting. Oh, really? Oh, oh, oh. Giselle was like, Well, didn't really know what to say. But Quad just very sweetly and lovely was basically like, We're the bigger show. Why are we not getting more respect from you, Giselle, and from you, Andy, and from the network at large? I don't know. I I think I'm really enjoying this season of Married to Medicine. I have been a little up and down on the past four or five years. I feel like it usually starts strong and then it hits this rut of stories about children and marriages that are shaky, and the guys all sit and have scars, and Dr. Jackie has a sex toy party, and it hits a rut for me. But I feel like this season, I'm just really loving the entire cast chemistry a lot. I'm so happy to be back fully invested in the show again, especially I feel like it's- Everyone keeps saying, it's like, Oh, this is the best show on Bravo, and no one talks about it.

Yeah, I feel like it's one of those that just can keep doing the same thing over and over, and I will start laughing every time. I mean, last night, the episode was Quad and heavenly, and Simone all fighting with each other, back and forth, which we've seen now. How long has it been on? Twelve years? I mean, it's been on a long, long time, and they are still doing the same thing. I was just laughing my ass off. They're coming at each other, having to hold them back. It's like, How dare you look up my VIN number? Why do you need to look up my... That's when I was like, I do not care about your VIN number. I only care about your property taxes.

Dying. It was hilarious. I have to say... It was hilarious. I have to say, for a show that has, in my estimation, the past four or five years become very, very repetitive, the truth is there's so much lore on Married to Medicine. When we do the recap, I'm always surprised at the random references both of us go back to. Oh, and then that was the time. That's the time they sat there and had a party outside after a quad was shooting the Sister Circle, and they didn't like what you're doing, the Sister Circle. There's actually so much that it has as deep a lore as any real housewife show. I'm excited. I love the fact that I tuned out a little bit the past three or four years. I checked in a little bit, but the lore is just still luring. There's still so much stuff. I love the newbies this season. I think Mimi and Brandy are great. I think Angel is a very solid supporting. I'm not felt this excited about Married to Medicine in years. When the show came out, originally, I loved it. I was telling everyone, anyone I saw, I was like, You got to watch the show.

You got to watch this show. But I cooled off over the years. I guess I'm just saying, congrats to me. I did some... I stuck it, and now look where I am.

Look at me. You didn't though. I watched a couple of episodes. I checked in on it. I really stuck in. But maybe that's the best way to do it, just to come back and see that it's still really good.

Yeah. It's nice to see that the show can be strong in its 12th year or whatever. Yeah.

Still going strong. I'm glad that they demoted heavenly, which I was not happy about, but she's still there as a main character. Basically, she's still there. We got to see heavenly do her campaign thing, her campaign, stumping in a parking lot today. I mean, come on. It's so good. That was wonderful. Still trying to fight with Toya while she's giving a speech. I mean, come on. No one beats heavenly in in the book. Other things that are going on. Small news, maybe, but satisfying all the same. It looks like Tom and Ariana finally settled whatever they needed to settle with their house, which is good. So they can stop going to court. God, could you imagine just having to still talk to Tom about moving out of that goddamn house in the valley? Get out. Just go. So congrats to those two crazy kids. And exclusive members only Palm Beach stars react to Bethany Frankl calling new Netflix cast, The Walmart Birkins.

Well, that's not a nice thing to say about someone's face.

It was a good variable. You've watched the first couple of episodes of that one, huh?

I love it. I love it so much. That's my next... I finished Heated Rivalry. Now I'm watching I Love LA, and then after that, it's going to be members only. But maybe I'll actually do members only. I watched the first episode. Maybe I'll do members only, then do I Love LA, because I think members only is just so great. It's exactly what I want. Bravo should have done it. I was thinking last night when I was heading to JFK yesterday, flying back from New York, I was like, It's time for Bravo to make another stab at Long Island. Not Summerhouse, Long Island, like Nassau County. We had Princesses, Long Island. We also had Secrets and Wives. I think we are due for a Real Housewives of Great Neck or Nassau County, whatever. I think that would give us some of the vibes of members only Palm Beach, because I think that Bravo missed the boat on Palm Beach. I I think Bravo was too scared that it was going to be very Mar-a-Lago-focused and that the audience would be really turned off by that. We don't want to support people who want to go to Mar-a-Lago and all that stuff.

But I think the truth is, the show is It's like that first episode, I was like, This is so me. It's so me. I think that you can probably get similar vibes in Nassau County.

Oh, my God. They're Monsters on that show. Monsters. It's like watching Jimmy Dean's Sausages, burning an air fryer with Bad Wigs on. I loved... I was dying laughing. Do I want to be friends with them? No, they're horrifying people. I've just never seen anything like that, where the whole community, they're dressed so crazy. They all look terrible, and all they do is talk about how terrible the other people look. I'm like, This girl's not ready for Mar-a-Lago. In Palm Beach, you got to look good. I'm like, You're wearing a curtain. You look crazy. You all look crazy. Your wigs are terrible. Your face, whatever you're doing to your face is, it's not like you're ugly. It's not that. It's like the actual work they're getting is just so insane. Why are you putting a life raft on your faith? What are you doing? I know. I was cringing, and I was going back. I watched the first two as well because I thought, You know what? What if we have a chance to recap this? I don't want to watch it all. But I watched the first two episodes, and it was on the same screen on Netflix.

You know how they autoplay the previews? It was one of the ladies going, Oh, Oh, my God, your teeth, your teeth are beautiful. And it just panned right next door, and it was a Stranger Things monster, like,. And it actually makes sense because it was horrifying, and it was so funny to see them paired together on Netflix like that because it's terrifying. The main check is best friends with Jill Zarin or something, and she looks like Jill, Hillary, with one L. She looks like Jill. She has the same dead You know how Jill is very animated in the face and stuff? But her eyes are just always looking ahead. They're not really looking at who's talking. They're thinking about something else. This lady has the exact same thing. She wears a cape. You were talking about this earlier in the week on Salt Lake City. She wears capes, and she walks like she's always about to fall down. I don't know if she's drunk, but she's always about to trip.

She looks like she is staving off narcolepsy. Did I talk about how when she sat down with Romina, was it here on Crap? Because I don't want to repeat myself. But Romina sits down because Romina in the first episode is torn between Hillary and this other lady, and they're both like the alphas, and they're vying for Romina. Romina is prattling on, and Hillary is so bored, and she sits there, and her head is like, nodding like this. She's like nodding as if she's sitting like a green, but you can see she's actually just about to fall asleep. But she's also, you see her eyes, she's like, Oh, this could be my next pond. That'll be great. All right. Yes. I just love the scheming, but also nodding off to sleep at the same time while wearing a cape thing on her shoulders.

It's crazy. The whole community thing of like, We got to get in the Mara Lago. That's all they talk about. That's all they care about. To me, that's bizarre. I just can't believe there's a whole world that's like that. Miss CC7 is saying, Why do we need to platform bigots and racist? Listen, for me, it's not platforming it. It's watching what's out there and laughing these people because what else are you going to do? I mean, it's crazy. I'm not saying they're great. I'm saying they're terrible. They're horrible fucking people. I'm not sitting there watching it like, Oh, my God, these people are great. I'm watching it like, This whole thing needs to burn down. But what can I tell you? I've never seen anything like that.

I'm like, when we get into the discussion about platforming people who are like, Maga and want to go to Mar-a-Lago or whatever, when we I find I'm at a place where I'm like, Oh, no, we can't give these people platforms because I feel like that is how I feel. And yet at the same time, I'm like, The one who loses out is me. These are hilarious shows of awful people. That's Real Housewives is always about awful people, and you The whole point of the show was you sit there and you say, How do these people function in the real world? How do these people, they live such sheltered, bubbled lives, how in the world can they ever exist? And so, yeah, I don't want to give these people... I don't want to Tumbles. What's her name? Dj Tumbles. I don't want to give her a platform. But then I'm the one- Where did she come from?

Dj Tumbles.

I'm the one who missed that. I'm the one who gets hurt because I don't have something really funny to watch as a result. And then I got to go watch the Roni Reboot instead. Like, No, thank you. I want my entertainment.

I think the Roni Reboot is a perfect example of what happens when the network listens to the audience and says, Stop platforming terrible people. We get a show about mostly agreeable people, politically or lifestyle-wise or whatever, and then we're just bored to death. I'd rather just be annoyed with crazy people I don't understand. Ramona, I never understood her. I still don't understand. I don't get anything about her, how she functions as a human being. I don't know how, honestly. How does she just not get run over 10 times a week by angry people? But she's funny to watch. You got to separate. Sometimes you got to separate. Great… Morals from Housewives watching. This one is absolutely insane. We've seen a lot of Housewives rip-off shows, but I've never seen one that really focuses on such a unique group of people that I have nothing to do with and want nothing to do with. It's just such a different world to me that I watch it like, What? Dj Tumbles? How does that even happen? Where are you DJing?

If someone said, I am not going to watch that show because I do not want to support these women who the only thing they care about is if they can get into Mar-a-Lago, I will 100% support you. I think 100%, don't watch it if this is a bridge too far for you. But I'm just at a place. I'm like, This show is making me laugh. I don't think whether or not they have a show, I don't know if it's going to make a material difference in their lives, but it will make more of a material difference in my life.

I agree with a lot of these comments that are saying, like Kerry is saying, it doesn't make me laugh. It just makes me sad, agree to disagree. Yes, I think that that's fair. I'm not telling anybody they're wrong if they don't want to watch it or for drawing a line in the sand. God knows we do it all the time. You've got to have that line for yourself. For me, it's just like watching a circus. It's like watching animals in a zoo. I don't get it, but…

It's like if Michael Myers decided to retire and move to Palm Beach, he's like, You know what? I'm sick of killing people. I'm moving to Palm Beach. Get me a caftan, and see if I can get into Mar-a-Lago, because they all look like him. I don't know. I need to be able to make fun of awful people. It's just not as fun to make fun of good people. I'm really sorry that I cannot have a better justification than that, but that's just where I'm at right now.

Well, it looks like we've got time for another. What are you looking at now?

Let's talk about the other thing that people were talking about a lot. Well, one thing, real quickly, Luanne's daughter is now a medium. If anyone is interested in staging their house or communicating with the other side, have Luanne's daughter, Victoria, can help you out. That's fun. Another thing, speaking of New Roni, Jenna went on to a podcast explaining why she left. Basically, what she boiled it down to was like, You know what? Everyone was 20 years younger than me. Everyone I was having newborns. I have a kid in college. I'm just in a different place. Their careers, they're still hustling. My career is, I'm rich. She basically was like, I have no connection to these people. Then she said, Well, season 2, I was more connected, so I liked it. Then they brought on Raquel and whatever. But I think it also speaks to the failure of that show, of that reboot, that they put on someone like Jenna Lyons because she's Jenna Lyons, and she has no inherent organic connection to anyone else on that show. We're supposed to just it with the same adoration and love that we do all the other ones.

It really just is another example of why that reboot did so badly. If you want to check out that one, that podcast, go check that out because Jenna is always interesting. But the thing that I really want to get to here that people have been talking about is that someone asked Ben Affleck if he knows who Lisa Barlow is. It was on Access Hollywood, I believe. Oh, my God. They asked Ben, and he's like, Because he just got finished with Jenna Affleck, and now it's Lisa Barlow. He's like, Look, this is really hard. I don't want to get the lady in trouble. We go to these parties. There are a lot of people there. Matt Damon was there, too. They're both trying to… Ben's trying to be the nice guy and be like, I don't know. I mean, maybe I met her, but I don't know. There's so many people. There's so many people. There's so many. How about these apples? Basically, he has no recollection of who Lisa Barlow is.

Ben Affleck, you know that meme? It's just Ben Affleck standing outside smoking a cigarette going like, looking miserable. He just looks miserable. That's how he looked in the whole interview. That's just how he looks now. He's just really like, What the fuck? Why are you talking to me? What are we doing? Do we even make another movie? Was I awake for this movie? What is this movie? Is it now? Is it in a theater? What's Netflix? What is that? All right. I haven't been to Salt Lake City in 12 years. I don't fucking know. She's like, Yeah, but Lisa Barlow from the house- There's a He's like, Yeah, I do not know. Matt Damon is trying to help him. He's like, Well, maybe with South by Southwest. He's like, No, I mean, I don't fucking know who this person is. But Lisa Barlow is so cray-cray that in her own mind, she's like, Oh, my God. Ben Affleck was talking about me in the news. So I'm sorry. You guys have such a low life, but Ben Affleck was totally talking about me in the news today. What was your day like, Heather? Who talked about you today?

No one? That's right. Okay. Some upset, normans in long underwear. Sorry. Sorry, they don't have names. Sorry.

Then, of course, she responded, and she was like, It was the accountant, too. Love the movie. Heart, heart, heart. She was like, I have receipts.

I have receipts of when I was twelve years old and met you in some alley somewhere or whatever. Let me pose a picture.

He's like, because I think they showed him a picture. If I remember correctly, they showed Ben Affleck a picture of Lisa. He's like, I don't know. She seems like a nice lady. He's like, damn it. Am I going to have to do a Duncan Donuts commercial with her now for the Super Bowl? Which would be amazing, by the way. But, yeah. Basically, Lisa's prolonging her Ben Affleck moment. That was the other big thing that people were talking about the past few days. Oh, and one other thing I want to circle back to Jennifer Lyons. She said... Jennifer Lyons? Jenna Lyons, I mean. She said that one of the reasons why she left also is that she found out that the new girls would be even younger than the ones that were already on the show. She was like, This isn't for me anymore. To me, that's got me very panicked that we're actually going younger. I feel like that was the death knell of the reboot is that they tried to go young and hip and cool. I'm just so worried that they're just going to have a bunch of 35, 36-year-olds on Roni who are like, Oh, my God, I've got a baby, and I love fashion, and, Oh, my God, I'd die for this restaurant.

I'm just so worried that they're going to turn it into the East Coast version of what Beverly Hills What happens right now.

Well, I don't waste time worrying about New York because what's done is done, and there's nothing I can do. I'm going to have to show up when it's back and go into it with a new, fresh view on it. I will say I saw a pic because they just started shooting, I guess, and so they showed a picture. They had a thing with pictures of all the cast. I will say two out of three of the new ladies look crazy. They have crazy face. That's good. That was good to see. I don't know who they are, anything about them, But I do know they have fucking crazy faces. So that's all I need. That's enough promise to me. It looks like somebody over there is making an effort. I mean, I don't care. That would be good. If they're young and crazy. And also, Jen is older. She's my age, so she's probably like, They're all young. You go out and you're like, Oh, God, everyone's They're like, I'm 45. I'm like, You're a child. Get out.

Michael Horn has a great point. He says, Wait, if they're going to be younger, then maybe Ramona is returning. You look old, while you look young, okay?

All right, everybody. That brings us to the end of the audio portion of this. We will be moving to video chat with you all to take your questions and comments. But for everybody who is on audio, thank you so much for being here, and we will talk to you in a couple of weeks.

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