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Special Forces
Traitors Dirt
Good TV or not?
Real Housewives of Potomac is Back
Real Housewives Sweet Spot
Seeing The Fighting Machine
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
The way I'm feeling these days, I am ready for
a fight. But anyway, yeah, it was, it was. It
was hard for her.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
If you did Special Horses together. And I'm not giving
anybody any fucking ideas, but if you and I did
Special Wars together, who would drop out first? I think
I would.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
You would.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Teresa Judais is and always will be just good fucking.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
TV no matter what she's doing.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Period. And then you fucked up twice, Jesse, Jay, you
fucked it up twice.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I gotta tell you, this episode for me was pure enjoyment.
I've watched it three times.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
No, you did.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
It's amazing. Angel the new girl, she came in and
called her breath tart. I mean, she's brand new. We
don't really know much about her, but we know that
she thinks Stacy's breath is tart, like this is poor Stacy?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Is it recording?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Are you sure you have a one hundred recording? Rap
Aports Reality? Welcome. My name is Michael.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Rappaport and I'm Keeby Rappaport.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
And this is rap Aports Reality. A retake. This is
take two oh no full transparency. Uh, this is rap
Ports Reality, the podcast where Kibi my wife and I
discuss all things reality TV, a lot of things popular culture,
and a few curated gems about our relationship. If you
(01:33):
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I know everybody says subscribe, rate review, but this is
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Reality full transparency. And I'll just take responsibility because I
(01:56):
am the quote unquote tech person. We recorded this podcast
a few moments ago, and unfortunately we are re recording
this podcast. I get asked all the time, Michael Rappaport,
if I'm doing a podcast, do you have any advice?
And the first piece of advice that I tell anybody
(02:18):
is make sure the recording is fucking recording. And I
broke rule number one of podcasting, where my wife and
I just did a fantastic podcast, not that this isn't
gonna be fantasm.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I turned in a really great performance.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
It's a great episode.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
We're gonna redo it, see if I can do it again.
I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
We don't even need to share this with you guys.
But I just wanted to share it with you guys
to show you number one how great HEB and I are.
And number two, if you have a cousin, a nephew,
a friend that wants to start a podcast, remind them
that Michael Rappaport said, rule number one, two, three, four
and five is to make sure you're recording the recording
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of the episode. That being said, Babe, where do we start?
Where do we restart this episode? Do you want to
start with Special Forces?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yeah, let's start there, babe. You know, the other day
when we were watching that last episode, the idea that
we only get one at a time is so disappointing.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
I know, nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Totally we're gonna wait till next week?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Is it two thousand and four? I get it. I
get it. It probably is better for the business of
Special Forces in Fox TV, And I get it. And
I feel like streaming is good, and I feel like, uh,
you know, consuming everything is where we are And normally
sometimes me and you will be watching something and I'll say, Babe,
let's let's ration it out so we don't watch the
(03:45):
entire series of the entire season asap and I normally wouldn't,
but Special Forces with Gia Judae and Teresa Judae is
so fricking good. And the fact that they kept us
on the edge of our seat and we have to wait.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Until next week. That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
We are doing spoiler alerts. Gia and Teresa Judice are
on Special Forces. Week two, Episode two. There was a
challenge on Special Forces where they needed to fight. Listen,
if you're gonna do combat, you're gonna be in a
Special Force, you need to have your fighting skills downpack.
They do this every season where they pair people up
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and you got to duke it out. They give you
a head gear. Why they don't give you the head
gear to cover your nose, I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yeah, but this season they're doing something new. They're bringing
couples in, like duos in like it's Teresa and her daughter.
And then there's the Tara Lipinski.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Tarleapinsky's on Traders Traders, but she kind of came in.
I will say this, I will give you a little
Traders dirt. Tara Lepinsky, in my opinion, came in as
a couple with Johnny Weir. I'm just gonna leave it
at that.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Interesting I'm just gonna.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Leave it at that. Johnny Weir obviously another Olympic champion,
Marcus Jordan and Larsa Pippen came in as a couple
of traders, that's true. And tar Lepinsky and Johnny Weir,
in my humble opinion, and I'm just gonna leave it
at this, came in as a couple on the new season.
(05:18):
They're both on the show. That's just my opinion.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Okay, okay, But I was back to the Special Forces.
I think that's something new on this show because we
have a married couple and then we have Teresa and
her daughter.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
An ex football player and a gymnas can't remember their name,
no disrespect. Yes, you're never gonna top Teresa and Gee,
you never gonna have a mother daughter duo? Can you
top that? I don't know who would be on it.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I don't know, but I'm saying I think that Marge
and Marge Senior there, but she couldn't do Marge Senior
couldn't be on that show. They could do Traders together.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Maybe Donna Kelson one of those goon suns. I don't
think Donna Kels's is gonna be on Special Forces. Shout
out to Donna Kels, another one coincidentally of my castmates
from Traders.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
She's itching to talk about it.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I'm just gonna say this, babe. I cannot wait. And
there's gonna be a lot to discuss about Trader season four.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Oh, We're going to go over every single episode on
this podcast.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
We're going to go of every every single episode. Things
that made it, things that didn't.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Make it, things that you did that I told you
not to.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Do, behind the scenes, behind the behind the scenes, buying,
the scenes in the hotel, all of it. All of
it will be revealed when Traders love that.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
I'm not pressing you for anything that I'm because it's
like one of my favorite shows. I would say my
top And I haven't pressed you on anything really because
I don't and I know you're itching.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I'm not going to say shit, No you're not.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
We don't want to get But I am going to say.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Shit about Special Forces this season where they were doing
the boxing, they were doing the fighting, the combat, and
Gia was set to go out there and Spa and
Gia was ready. She was scared shit as I would
be same, because you're doing a show you don't want
to get punched in the face on TV. You don't
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want to get punched in the face. In general, most
people haven't fought somebody in that kind of setting where
you stand in front of each other, there's no running
and you're like, you're gonna fight for it. It might
even be forty five seconds, thirty seconds, or a minute. Yeah,
that's a crazy feeling if you've never done that. Like
I did that one time boxing. One time, I sparred
somebody in the movie No when I was training to
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do Mighty Ephordity, and I sparred it, and I sparred
a guy that was way better than me to prevent
myself from getting hurt. Wow, So when you're sparring, I
suggest you spar somebody that's better than you. That way,
they don't hurt you. You see what I'm saying. I
see they have skill, they have skilt skill, so like
you don't accidentally get hurt. And I accidentally wound up
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giving the guy that was better than me a bloody nose,
and I was like, oh, no, I'm in trouble because
I just anyway, and right before Gea was about to
go out there and duke it out with one of
the other cast mats Teresa said.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
She said, I'm out. I can't watch my daughter, No,
my kid. I can't watch my kid fight and watch
I was hoping she would have said daughter like how
she says it, but she said my kid, which I
was disappointed. It would have been great if she said
my daughter. But she walked off, she took off the band.
She forfeited the whole game. She said, I won't watch that,
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which that's the reason why I brought up couples, Like,
if you and I were on together, I don't think
you'd want to see somebody beat the crap out of me, babe,
But you know, it take a lot for them to
get me. I'd be ready. I'm ready for a fight.
The way I'm feeling these days, I am ready for
a fight. But anyway, yeah, it was. It was. It
was hard for her.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
If you did Special Forces together. And I'm not giving
anybody any fucking ideas, but if you and I did
Special Forces together, who would drop out? First? I think
I would?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
You would? You would for sure? I have you know.
I was an athlete, I was a gymnast. I have
a lot of discipline.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
It's not even the gymnast mental.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I have like strong mental fortitude. Yes, I can take it.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Although do you think In last week's Special Forces and
again spoiler alert because if you're not watching Special Forces
and you're behind trust me, shame on you. But there
was a challenge where they were in a mock airplane
and they had to go into water, submerge underwater. Yeah,
Teresa freaked out by the way, and Ga before the fight.
(09:33):
Gia had to save Teresa from feeling like she was
gonna drown. I don't make light of it, right because
the great uh Eva, Marcel even Barcel like, she got
herself so ghacked up.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
She made it. She did it right, she did the thing.
But when she came out of the water, she said
I did it and then proceeded to flail about panic
and almost drown literally, I mean the way her body
looked thought it was not funny. This is the thing
about the show.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
That scares me.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Their insurance for the show must be through the roof.
I mean, I don't even know.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Because they have all sorts of medical people in all
kinds of day.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
She's like seventeen people in the water divers to say,
I get that was still that was very close. What happened,
by the way, when we're spoiling this, I really think
if I was listening and spoiling, I have to add
that even though we're giving it away, you're not gonna
believe it when you see it, even though we told
you when you go to watch it, you're not gonna
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feel like we spoiled it, because you're not gonna believe
your eyes when you see some of the things these
people are doing.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
And Teresa Judais is and always will be just good fucking.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
TV no matter what she's doing.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Period.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I'm bummed that she left because I knew she had
many more good episodes ahead of her. But I understand
I wouldn't want to see my daughter be punching your
daughter my daughter.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I am surprised, but not surprised that she left. I
feel like it will be the best thing for Gia,
not only on the show, but in life. She needs
to cut the cord. They have an ridibly close uh.
Some say, we don't say it, Some say dysfunctional relationships,
some say codependent relationships.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Some say Greg Gardens, we don't say that.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
We don't say that. And Gia couldn't be sweeter and
more lovable and likable and just humble and just what
a daughter.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
She's a beautiful door. Then she's beautiful. She loves her mom.
I get that she's had to grow up early. Both
her parents went away.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
I woke up this morning and I know people like,
what are you talking about? And the people that are going,
what are you talking about? You should know what we're
talking about. We're singing Gia's smash hit what she wrote
about her sadness in a front.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Or thirteen.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
I was all so sad. Miles Jordan play the clip
of Gia's song.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Waking up in the morning thinking about so many things.
I just wish things would get better. I'm trying to
get rid of them, but not this seems to stay
the same. Woke up in the morning, close song, walking
into school, thinking of one is going happen next?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Oh, that's the song. That's the song anyway, And you
could play the clip of that song and not have
to get the rights because no one owns the rights
of that song. It's not on Spotify, it's not on Apple.
That is a New Jersey real house riser of New
Jersey hit, a hit that never made it to the
charts anyway. Special Forces Teresa Judais, Juicy Jesse Smoley is just.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
That's where that's what triggers you, That's where it goes
downhill for me.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
You got, I said, babe, why are you getting?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
I know you like you stopped me from my eyes.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
I paused it.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
I know, but like sometimes I just have to like
get let the gas out, because like I don't know
how we're gonna sit and watch this person on the
show still talk about something that it's obvious to everybody
that it's not it's made up, and he's still gonna
double down, triple down, and we have to watch this
guy and it just insenses me. And I don't know
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why there's a sense of justice that's not being met here.
And I don't think it's good TV.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
It's like the thing we think it is good TV.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
It's like the thing with reality TV where I say,
I want my housewives to be crazy, but not fifty
one to fifty.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
The reason why I think it's good TV because he's
he's so polarizing and we want to see him fail.
And he failed this water challenge. He did it, but
fucked up twice, and you start because he was mister advice.
He was like it's gonna be okay. Eva, we got this, Eva,
and then you fucked up twice, Jesse, Yeah, Juicy j
you fucked it up twice. And I just think about
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right now, I think about when I was a guest
hosting the Wendy Williams Show, and I think about how
much fun I was having during the Juicy Jesse Smoley thing,
and how much fun I would have right now if
I was guest hosting the Wendy Williams.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Show talking about him, because it was too much fun.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
It's never ending fun. So I'm like, babe, enjoy how
fucking nuts.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
I don't know why, I really, it really takes me
out of it.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Shifting to one of the great premiere episodes ever, I
don't know if the season is going to be able
to sustain it. The Real Housewives of Potomac is back,
and the first episode was not only award winning the
first segment, the first I think it was sixteen to
seventeen minute segment. The opening segment of this season was
damn gold because Lagron Dame was released from prison and
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everybody's happy about that. It was dramatic she was seeing
although you don't really see her coming out of prison.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
You heard the voice of her coming out.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
And of course the women were articulating or their feelings,
their fears, and their humor. Because these women, I was
going to say, these these women, even in the darkest time,
when Legrondame's coming out of prison, they're making jokes because
they Ashley the Great Ashley Darby, she quoted Lagrondame when
she said she's Thomas Jefferson's conquedbine, and they had a
(15:12):
little chuckle about that, because remember when Lagrondame got arrested,
she one of the things that she said, amongst other things,
is that I'm Thomas Jefferson's concubine. Still nobody knows.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Why why she would say that, or so Uncle Ben
the black Bill Gates is also Thomas Jefferson. I didn't
get it. Nobody understands what she meant. It's amazing. I
got to tell you, this episode for me was pure enjoyment.
I've watched it three times. I know you did, because
(15:44):
I have laughed out loud, guffaw, guffaw over these women,
especially our girl Stacy. If you guys recall last season,
Stacy was in a sort of unrequited relationship with TJ.
And now we find.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Out and there were allegations, allegations, and they're playing out
in this season.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
I think they're playing out and I don't think they're allegations.
I mean, he's doubling down on Instagram that it really happens.
She paid him to be.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Do we follow him on Instagram?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Don't I think you did? Yes?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Oh, we need to make sure we follow this.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
There are allegations that he was paid, she paid him
to be on the show, and she's sticking with it.
She's not going to stop, and they want to get
to the heart of the matter, and they're not going
to let it go because he's saying it, she's saying it.
And now, to add insult to injuryes, she's back with
her husband conveniently, and they think that the divorce with
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her husband was also a storyline, alleged divorce.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
And with all that going on, more allegations, accusations which
have taken a dark turn. I think this is now
bullying about Stacy's breath. I personally will never speak on
a woman's breath with one of these women. If we
ever met a housewife and they had bad breath, I
(17:03):
wouldn't say anything. About it. Now, I will speak on
a motherfucker's breath.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
But I have to say you both of us are
hyper focused on breath. Like you tell me if you did.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
You see Twitter, there's a whole thing about her breath memes.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
It's so mean though, like it's terrible. It's I mean,
the whole show. They must have said. I think Angel
the new girl, she came in and called her breath tart.
I mean, she's brand new. We don't really know much
about her, but we know that she thinks Stacy's breath
is tart, like this is poor Stacy.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I'm curious did Ashley mention because Ashley.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Started She started it when she when they had little
exchange at the dress shop and she left, she was like,
you gotta fix that breath interconfessional.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
But I don't know, And I would love to speak
to the great Ashley Darby and ask her, did you
bring up the breath first or did you bring up
the breath after she started mentioning your singing, Because the
way it was edited, you see Stacy talk about her singing,
and then in the professional you see Ashley mentioned the breath,
and I wonder did the producer say, did you hear
what she said about her you're singing, and then she
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responded with the breath and then the breath, the breath.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
I don't think so, because I think the breath really
stinks because everybody said it. I mean, and the editors.
By the way, babe, what do you think about the
editors showing Stacy walking into Giselle's house and burping, and
then they reshowed it, and then they reshowed it, so
everyone's doubling down. I mean, do the producers think she
has bad breath?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I think maybe this is not fair, but I would
suggest Stacy, listen, people love you, people get you, drive
people crazy. If you want to control this narrative, what
I would do, get a good floss, get a good floss,
tongue scraper, a tongue scraper, and I would start looking
for endorsements. Like I was told I had bad breath.
(18:50):
I got this tongue scraper. It changed my life. I
was told I had bad breath. I got this toothpaste.
It changed I would do the whole mouth kit. You
get a tongue scraper, gets lost listering.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
She should be in a Listering commercial.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
You know. Once I realized my I had breath issues.
I did bup up up by and I'm thinking of
fourfold campaign. We're talking floss, a tongue scraper.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Toothbrush, toothpaste, and mouthwash.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Yep, fivefold campaign.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Control this fucking narrative because I don't want to see
anymore here anymore. It's too much. It was painful, it's mean,
and I know she's kooky, but it's mean. It is
fucking mean.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
It's helpful if it's true. Okay, it's helpful.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Maybe one comment would have been fine, because then the Gray.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Girls can't they can't turn away a good joke. I mean,
this is why I love the show. They beat, They
beat a joke and this is what I love. I
love it pure comedy.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
And Ashley Darby Man and then Giselle went on Watch
What Happens Live and the breath came up again.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
I know.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
And that's months later.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
I know, I know, poor Stacy.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
I feel bad, even though Stacey to me is kookie KOOKI.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
I mean, she is a character, and you know it's needed,
but I think every good housewife is different, you know
what I mean.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
She's one of the kookiest characters that's ever been on Bravo.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Yeah, but we were saying that about Teresa, remember we
were watching special before, like, Wow, she's just herself, like
this is she's like an anomaly. Like she her behavior,
her thoughts, the way she thinks, what she comes well,
how things come out of her mouth. Stacy's the same way.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
It's a great opening episode of the Real Housewives of
Potomac and that fucking Ashley and that Giselle they have
they are in their prime of being a housewife. And
when I say the prime of being in their housewife,
they have figured out all the tricks. They're veterans, yes,
And I say that with all due respects. They've done it.
They've both been ran through the fucking ringer. They've both
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had darts, little knives, everything thrown at them, beefs, online
slanner campaigns, highs, lows, and now they're like, oh no,
I got it.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Now they're on the sweet spot, on the sweet spot.
So when we talk about the sweet spot, I was
going to ask you, we've talked about this before with
other shows, And when they get into an area where
they're veterans, yes, and it's almost like actors yes that
know that the camera's there. Yes, they know how to
(21:22):
be themselves.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Yes, but they're also I.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Don't dare I say acting, Yes, that's the sweet spot.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
It's like, yes, Ashley's clearly aware of where the camera
is and this is a good thing. Yes, she's clearly
aware of being in the moment yep and performing within.
It's like a good actor, it's a great reality TV performer.
And years and years of experience, hours and hours in
front of the camera, you'll get to that point where
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you're you can be in the moment and also aware
of the camera. And I remember, you know, as an actor.
I remember one time when I was young, I heard
someone say something about Matt Dillon. They were like, and
he knows where he's very aware of the camera. And
I was like, what do you mean like and they
explain that to me. But as an actor, like when
I first started acting, like I didn't know the difference
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between a long shot, a close up, a wide shot
where there's a way to pace yourself, there's a way
to perform to the camera away from the camera. If
the cameras across the street and it's a wide shot,
why go crazy crazy art? Or maybe do go crazy
crazy art? Because it could be like a rehearsal. Ashley Giselle,
these women on Potomac right now, the veterans, they have
(22:35):
figured it out totally. They're in the pocket.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Totally, you know. I would add that it's a special
skill reality TV. Yes, act the presentational being, because I
was going to say in commercials, it's a different kind
of skill, like I wasn't acting in thirty seconds. It's
like a trick that you learn to be in front
of the camera sort of disappear and make the subject
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the thing that you're selling and with humor and everything.
And I feel like it's really a special skill. These
women in reality TV, Ashley especially has a down I
would love to see her act. I think she'd be
a great act I.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Think she'd be on a sitcom tent. I think she
could do it because she's got the face, and she's
got the humor and one hundred percent as far as
real life acting, Rapper ports reality. We went on a
(23:35):
rare trip to the movie theater to go see Dwayne
the Rock Johnson's new film, Very rare.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Because I was on the road with you in Providence
and we went to like a foreign theater, which is
different for us. Cineplex Cineplex. We had no idea where
we were going.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
With I think it was twenty three. This is like
a mall within the mall.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
It was a mall within a mall, sure, and it
was completely empty at twelve eleven o'clock show.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Twelve o'clock show the Poor movie Business on Friday. Now,
I don't expect it to be packed, but I've never
seen anything like this. This is the second time we've
been to a movie theater, in a giant theater, screen
out it's still the Rock. Yeah, and there was four
of us. And when I say four, I mean Kibi,
me and two other dudes were in the theater going
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to see Smashing Machine, which his performance is incredible. It's
truly an incredible.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
It really really is. And the longer time that's passed
and I more I think about it, same with Emily Blunt. Excellent,
excellent performances by both of them will surely be nominated
for Academy Awards and.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
They should absolutely be nominated. And what it's about, it's
about a real life early days MMA UFC Fighter MMA
is Mixed Martial Arts UFC is the brand. I know.
You just taught me that, Yes, yeah, and it's like
basketball is the what they played, The NBA is the brand,
UFC is the brand. MMA is what they do. This
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guy named Mark and this guy is one of the
sort of pioneers of MMA and he was This.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Is before it wasn't even in the US right where
they even.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
It was just starting to sniff around the US, but
it was in like Japan and they certainly weren't streaming
and you get the fights on VHS and it was
but this guy had drug promise, he had drug issues.
But he's like this gentle giant similar to the Rock
and he's going through this emotional Catharsis of drugs and
wanting to be a champion and never being beaten, and
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then he gets beat It's a very very very good movie.
It's directed by Benny Saftie of the Safti Brothers, the
duo who directed On Cut Gems excellent and now the
other brother has a movie coming out with Timothy Shamalama
Ding Dong Timothy Shamalay. They split up for now and
this movie is very very good. It's a little long,
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it's a little thin of story, but I highly recommend
seeing it. Apparently this was a huge flop at the
box office, and we get attack. We count attest because
we went to the theater.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
It was twelve o'clock on a Friday, get ten.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
People in there.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
I know that flop.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Four people flop, huh. But I think it'll wind up
making its money and being a success because Emily Blunt
and The Rock should definitely get nominated. The Rock will
definitely get nominated, and whether or not he wins Best Actor,
he'll definitely win some award.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
He should because he was born to play this part.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Very very very good. It's not like a rock performance.
He's very very very good in this film. I have
to I know we've discussed it off, Mike Babe. I
have to say again, I do not think the movie
business is helping itself in twenty twenty five by making
us wait thirty minutes the movie starts at twelve. Show
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a trailer, maybe show another trailer. Remind everybody to just
shut your phones and be quiet, and let's get the
show run. I shouldn't we the movie fans worldwide shouldn't
have to sit there for twenty five twenty I.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Think it was twenty seven minutes.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Yeah, of trailer after trailer and horror movies, and.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
The Railers never matched the movie or going to see either.
It's always something well right now. I think the movies
that people do go see are horror movies. That's why
there's so many being made.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Okay, but I'm going to see The Rock and it's
an MMA movie. Show me some mme trills that can
make it makes sense. I don't want to be in
the movie theater and have to see some movie about
black phones and killing people and the zombies killed so.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Dark and it doesn't really set you in the tone
to watch the movie or I mean, I get viscerally
upset once the movie started. By the way, all my
candy's gone for.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
One, which is a big problem.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
It's a big problem. And I'm like in a bad
mood because I've just watched gore and blood and stuff
that I didn't want to see.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
I didn't come to see that. But you got the candies, guy.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
I know, but this time you got a little. I
had to calm me down. I had to say hey,
because you were cussing out the screen, going what the
fuck and the da da da.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
But it's too much, I know.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
But you know we're going to enjoy the day.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
It's not okay, but I'm scheduling the day. The movie itself,
it looked at it two hours and five minutes long.
That was the running time of Smashing Machine, which I
suggest everybody go see. You get to the movie ten
minutes before then. It starts at twelve and then no, no,
it doesn't start at twelve. The rock comes on in
a half. It's just like I'm just saying, in the
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movie business in this day and age, they need to
treat it like it's twenty twenty five. People's attention spans.
I don't think trailers are what they used to be.
They don't lure you back into the theater. They annoy you.
They make me not not want to go to the
theater if I have to sit through that shit. That
being said, I.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Wonder if that's how the movie theaters make money too,
by showing ads. I because I don't understand how these
businesses are staying open.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
I don't either. Yeah, it was so it was.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
So desolate in there. Even the I wanted to get
a water and the water thing was locked up, you know,
like the which is crazy. Where all the drinks are
you take them? And I had to wait How many
five minutes for the manager to come unlock it.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Yes, and the fact that they're locking up water at
the concession. The people are stealing waters at the.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
I just think that they don't open up totally because
it's not really open up because there's no customers.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
No babe, those waters that were like in general population.
I think they locked them up because people steal them.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Oh that's sad.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
I mean, we're not at fucking right AID, right, That's
what it felt like. We're at a movie theater road right.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Some people in the country that are listening or places
around the world wouldn't understand that when you go to
CVS or Rite aid or the drug store, everything is
locked up. In New York City, you go into a
drug store and you have to press a button to
get your toothpaste.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Shout out to Stacy. Shout out to say, Stacey.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Of your toothpaste. Right, Oh, poor Stacy. Listen. You know
what I'm very conscious in that I'm older. We've been
flossing and talking about how bad it smells tm I,
but when you get older, you really got to do
that flossing because the floss if you've waited a day
the first yes, you got it, the smell that could
come out, as you know, and I'm very conscious of it.
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A lot of times. I can't smell my own breast.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
I know the bad Baby, you don't have smell.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
I have had bad breath before. I know it because
I could taste it.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
I think that's post coffee. Baby. You're blessed. You're not
a smell person. You don't. We wouldn't listen, babe. You
you're a person that does not.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
You're like, we wouldn't be together if you smell. Go
ahead say it. That's just a weird thing to say.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
No, I'm sorry. I don't think it is a weird
thing to say.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Human beings have smells.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
I get it, I think.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
But I sometimes will be like, oh my gosh, I
smell smell under my arm and you're like nothing, and
it's a little something. I'm over said. I was talking
to my mom about this, babe. She said, you were
so annoying as a little girl, because you'd get in
the car, you know, she'd pick me up from Jim
and I would I get in the car and be like,
you smell like my mom. I would say that to
your mouth, she said it was I would smell, but like,
(30:50):
there's no smell. But I had a thing where I'm like,
do you smell that? And she's like, that's your burger
king that I've just picked up. Like I just had
a thing. I was obsessed with smell.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Else, I don't have a good sense of smell.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
That's what I'm saying. I don't trust you because your
nose is always blocked up.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Babe, I've known you thirty years. You're not a smelly person.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
I wouldn't trust you.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
You wouldn't be this far along if you were smelly.
I told her this once before, when I was single,
I was dating. I went on a date or two
with this one, funny, nice, pretty, and then a smell
was exposed. This happened twice, and I was like, that's it.
I've heard these stories and I don't I didn't have
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the ball, Like I was thinking like should I tell
this person? Should I not tell? And I don't want
to tell you. I just I'm just gonna leave it
at that. Yeah, but it was so bad, and I
was like, now, if I was more mature, I might
do it in a gentle way.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
I don't think you could tell a woman, well, look.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
What they just did to Stacey on realized I was
a potona.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
That's why I'm telling you. I think they helped.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Her one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
They made for a good show.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
They made for a good show. I feel like it
needs to stop, though, and I don't feel like it's
going to be the end of it. And I will
tell you right now at the reunion, it'll come up
and hopefully it'll be like I've improved it. I took he.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
I don't want to see who's gonna judge her?
Speaker 2 (32:11):
You know what, it's gonna come up. You.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
All I can think about, though, is that she has
bad breath. And then we see her in the beginning
of the episode having dinner meeting her ex husband now
the husband she's back together with, and I couldn't help
but think.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
He looks like he stinks too.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Yeah, but I was like, do you think they broke
up because he thought she had bad breath?
Speaker 2 (32:32):
No, because he probably got the same. He looks he
sound it just he looks like his shit just bites it.
It's just weird.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
The whole thing is just too much. Anyway, Are you
thinking way too much about Stacy's breath?
Speaker 2 (32:43):
We didn't bring it up. I know, but it's like
they are harping on it. And then I mean the
memes on Twitter were rough. They were rough, and I
mean I get when people, you know, talk shit and
they have fun, but I mean, this is going on. Yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
I mean, if she's really sensitive, this could really send
her over.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
I mean that's the good thing is is that it's
a simple fix.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Yes, you can fix it because you have to take
money off of it, Stacy. We've given even great advice.
One call your manager. Yeah, call the manager.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Yes, we are on your side, and we're talking at
five tier program again. Flossing tongue, scraper, toothbrush, toothpaste, and
then we're talking about some mouth mouth. You could be
making money hand over fist. Anyway, tell a friend who
tell a friend about Rappaport's Reality. Even though we had
to re record this episode, it is a fantastic episode.
Make sure you subscribe, rate and review. Make sure you
(33:35):
follow us on Instagram at wrap Aport's Reality.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Love you Baby, Love you babe.
The way I'm feeling these days, I am ready for
a fight. But anyway, yeah, it was, it was. It
was hard for her.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
If you did Special Horses together. And I'm not giving
anybody any fucking ideas, but if you and I did
Special Wars together, who would drop out first? I think
I would.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
You would.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Teresa Judais is and always will be just good fucking.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
TV no matter what she's doing.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Period. And then you fucked up twice, Jesse, Jay, you
fucked it up twice.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I gotta tell you, this episode for me was pure enjoyment.
I've watched it three times.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
No, you did.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
It's amazing. Angel the new girl, she came in and
called her breath tart. I mean, she's brand new. We
don't really know much about her, but we know that
she thinks Stacy's breath is tart, like this is poor Stacy?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Is it recording?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Are you sure you have a one hundred recording? Rap
Aports Reality? Welcome. My name is Michael.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Rappaport and I'm Keeby Rappaport.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
And this is rap Aports Reality. A retake. This is
take two oh no full transparency. Uh, this is rap
Ports Reality, the podcast where Kibi my wife and I
discuss all things reality TV, a lot of things popular culture,
and a few curated gems about our relationship. If you
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I know everybody says subscribe, rate review, but this is
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Reality full transparency. And I'll just take responsibility because I
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am the quote unquote tech person. We recorded this podcast
a few moments ago, and unfortunately we are re recording
this podcast. I get asked all the time, Michael Rappaport,
if I'm doing a podcast, do you have any advice?
And the first piece of advice that I tell anybody
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is make sure the recording is fucking recording. And I
broke rule number one of podcasting, where my wife and
I just did a fantastic podcast, not that this isn't
gonna be fantasm.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I turned in a really great performance.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
It's a great episode.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
We're gonna redo it, see if I can do it again.
I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
We don't even need to share this with you guys.
But I just wanted to share it with you guys
to show you number one how great HEB and I are.
And number two, if you have a cousin, a nephew,
a friend that wants to start a podcast, remind them
that Michael Rappaport said, rule number one, two, three, four
and five is to make sure you're recording the recording
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of the episode. That being said, Babe, where do we start?
Where do we restart this episode? Do you want to
start with Special Forces?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yeah, let's start there, babe. You know, the other day
when we were watching that last episode, the idea that
we only get one at a time is so disappointing.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
I know, nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Totally we're gonna wait till next week?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Is it two thousand and four? I get it. I
get it. It probably is better for the business of
Special Forces in Fox TV, And I get it. And
I feel like streaming is good, and I feel like, uh,
you know, consuming everything is where we are And normally
sometimes me and you will be watching something and I'll say, Babe,
let's let's ration it out so we don't watch the
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entire series of the entire season asap and I normally wouldn't,
but Special Forces with Gia Judae and Teresa Judae is
so fricking good. And the fact that they kept us
on the edge of our seat and we have to wait.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Until next week. That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
We are doing spoiler alerts. Gia and Teresa Judice are
on Special Forces. Week two, Episode two. There was a
challenge on Special Forces where they needed to fight. Listen,
if you're gonna do combat, you're gonna be in a
Special Force, you need to have your fighting skills downpack.
They do this every season where they pair people up
(04:27):
and you got to duke it out. They give you
a head gear. Why they don't give you the head
gear to cover your nose, I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yeah, but this season they're doing something new. They're bringing
couples in, like duos in like it's Teresa and her daughter.
And then there's the Tara Lipinski.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Tarleapinsky's on Traders Traders, but she kind of came in.
I will say this, I will give you a little
Traders dirt. Tara Lepinsky, in my opinion, came in as
a couple with Johnny Weir. I'm just gonna leave it
at that.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Interesting I'm just gonna.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Leave it at that. Johnny Weir obviously another Olympic champion,
Marcus Jordan and Larsa Pippen came in as a couple
of traders, that's true. And tar Lepinsky and Johnny Weir,
in my humble opinion, and I'm just gonna leave it
at this, came in as a couple on the new season.
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They're both on the show. That's just my opinion.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Okay, okay, But I was back to the Special Forces.
I think that's something new on this show because we
have a married couple and then we have Teresa and
her daughter.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
An ex football player and a gymnas can't remember their name,
no disrespect. Yes, you're never gonna top Teresa and Gee,
you never gonna have a mother daughter duo? Can you
top that? I don't know who would be on it.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I don't know, but I'm saying I think that Marge
and Marge Senior there, but she couldn't do Marge Senior
couldn't be on that show. They could do Traders together.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Maybe Donna Kelson one of those goon suns. I don't
think Donna Kels's is gonna be on Special Forces. Shout
out to Donna Kels, another one coincidentally of my castmates
from Traders.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
She's itching to talk about it.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I'm just gonna say this, babe. I cannot wait. And
there's gonna be a lot to discuss about Trader season four.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Oh, We're going to go over every single episode on
this podcast.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
We're going to go of every every single episode. Things
that made it, things that didn't.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Make it, things that you did that I told you
not to.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Do, behind the scenes, behind the behind the scenes, buying,
the scenes in the hotel, all of it. All of
it will be revealed when Traders love that.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
I'm not pressing you for anything that I'm because it's
like one of my favorite shows. I would say my
top And I haven't pressed you on anything really because
I don't and I know you're itching.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I'm not going to say shit, No you're not.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
We don't want to get But I am going to say.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Shit about Special Forces this season where they were doing
the boxing, they were doing the fighting, the combat, and
Gia was set to go out there and Spa and
Gia was ready. She was scared shit as I would
be same, because you're doing a show you don't want
to get punched in the face on TV. You don't
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want to get punched in the face. In general, most
people haven't fought somebody in that kind of setting where
you stand in front of each other, there's no running
and you're like, you're gonna fight for it. It might
even be forty five seconds, thirty seconds, or a minute. Yeah,
that's a crazy feeling if you've never done that. Like
I did that one time boxing. One time, I sparred
somebody in the movie No when I was training to
(07:29):
do Mighty Ephordity, and I sparred it, and I sparred
a guy that was way better than me to prevent
myself from getting hurt. Wow, So when you're sparring, I
suggest you spar somebody that's better than you. That way,
they don't hurt you. You see what I'm saying. I
see they have skill, they have skilt skill, so like
you don't accidentally get hurt. And I accidentally wound up
(07:50):
giving the guy that was better than me a bloody nose,
and I was like, oh, no, I'm in trouble because
I just anyway, and right before Gea was about to
go out there and duke it out with one of
the other cast mats Teresa said.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
She said, I'm out. I can't watch my daughter, No,
my kid. I can't watch my kid fight and watch
I was hoping she would have said daughter like how
she says it, but she said my kid, which I
was disappointed. It would have been great if she said
my daughter. But she walked off, she took off the band.
She forfeited the whole game. She said, I won't watch that,
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which that's the reason why I brought up couples, Like,
if you and I were on together, I don't think
you'd want to see somebody beat the crap out of me, babe,
But you know, it take a lot for them to
get me. I'd be ready. I'm ready for a fight.
The way I'm feeling these days, I am ready for
a fight. But anyway, yeah, it was. It was. It
was hard for her.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
If you did Special Forces together. And I'm not giving
anybody any fucking ideas, but if you and I did
Special Forces together, who would drop out? First? I think
I would?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
You would? You would for sure? I have you know.
I was an athlete, I was a gymnast. I have
a lot of discipline.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
It's not even the gymnast mental.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I have like strong mental fortitude. Yes, I can take it.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Although do you think In last week's Special Forces and
again spoiler alert because if you're not watching Special Forces
and you're behind trust me, shame on you. But there
was a challenge where they were in a mock airplane
and they had to go into water, submerge underwater. Yeah,
Teresa freaked out by the way, and Ga before the fight.
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Gia had to save Teresa from feeling like she was
gonna drown. I don't make light of it, right because
the great uh Eva, Marcel even Barcel like, she got
herself so ghacked up.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
She made it. She did it right, she did the thing.
But when she came out of the water, she said
I did it and then proceeded to flail about panic
and almost drown literally, I mean the way her body
looked thought it was not funny. This is the thing
about the show.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
That scares me.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Their insurance for the show must be through the roof.
I mean, I don't even know.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Because they have all sorts of medical people in all
kinds of day.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
She's like seventeen people in the water divers to say,
I get that was still that was very close. What happened,
by the way, when we're spoiling this, I really think
if I was listening and spoiling, I have to add
that even though we're giving it away, you're not gonna
believe it when you see it, even though we told
you when you go to watch it, you're not gonna
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feel like we spoiled it, because you're not gonna believe
your eyes when you see some of the things these
people are doing.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
And Teresa Judais is and always will be just good fucking.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
TV no matter what she's doing.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Period.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I'm bummed that she left because I knew she had
many more good episodes ahead of her. But I understand
I wouldn't want to see my daughter be punching your
daughter my daughter.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I am surprised, but not surprised that she left. I
feel like it will be the best thing for Gia,
not only on the show, but in life. She needs
to cut the cord. They have an ridibly close uh.
Some say, we don't say it, Some say dysfunctional relationships,
some say codependent relationships.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Some say Greg Gardens, we don't say that.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
We don't say that. And Gia couldn't be sweeter and
more lovable and likable and just humble and just what
a daughter.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
She's a beautiful door. Then she's beautiful. She loves her mom.
I get that she's had to grow up early. Both
her parents went away.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
I woke up this morning and I know people like,
what are you talking about? And the people that are going,
what are you talking about? You should know what we're
talking about. We're singing Gia's smash hit what she wrote
about her sadness in a front.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Or thirteen.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
I was all so sad. Miles Jordan play the clip
of Gia's song.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Waking up in the morning thinking about so many things.
I just wish things would get better. I'm trying to
get rid of them, but not this seems to stay
the same. Woke up in the morning, close song, walking
into school, thinking of one is going happen next?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Oh, that's the song. That's the song anyway, And you
could play the clip of that song and not have
to get the rights because no one owns the rights
of that song. It's not on Spotify, it's not on Apple.
That is a New Jersey real house riser of New
Jersey hit, a hit that never made it to the
charts anyway. Special Forces Teresa Judais, Juicy Jesse Smoley is just.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
That's where that's what triggers you, That's where it goes
downhill for me.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
You got, I said, babe, why are you getting?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
I know you like you stopped me from my eyes.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
I paused it.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
I know, but like sometimes I just have to like
get let the gas out, because like I don't know
how we're gonna sit and watch this person on the
show still talk about something that it's obvious to everybody
that it's not it's made up, and he's still gonna
double down, triple down, and we have to watch this
guy and it just insenses me. And I don't know
(12:59):
why there's a sense of justice that's not being met here.
And I don't think it's good TV.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
It's like the thing we think it is good TV.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
It's like the thing with reality TV where I say,
I want my housewives to be crazy, but not fifty
one to fifty.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
The reason why I think it's good TV because he's
he's so polarizing and we want to see him fail.
And he failed this water challenge. He did it, but
fucked up twice, and you start because he was mister advice.
He was like it's gonna be okay. Eva, we got this, Eva,
and then you fucked up twice, Jesse, Yeah, Juicy j
you fucked it up twice. And I just think about
(13:36):
right now, I think about when I was a guest
hosting the Wendy Williams Show, and I think about how
much fun I was having during the Juicy Jesse Smoley thing,
and how much fun I would have right now if
I was guest hosting the Wendy Williams.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Show talking about him, because it was too much fun.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
It's never ending fun. So I'm like, babe, enjoy how
fucking nuts.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
I don't know why, I really, it really takes me
out of it.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Shifting to one of the great premiere episodes ever, I
don't know if the season is going to be able
to sustain it. The Real Housewives of Potomac is back,
and the first episode was not only award winning the
first segment, the first I think it was sixteen to
seventeen minute segment. The opening segment of this season was
damn gold because Lagron Dame was released from prison and
(14:40):
everybody's happy about that. It was dramatic she was seeing
although you don't really see her coming out of prison.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
You heard the voice of her coming out.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
And of course the women were articulating or their feelings,
their fears, and their humor. Because these women, I was
going to say, these these women, even in the darkest time,
when Legrondame's coming out of prison, they're making jokes because
they Ashley the Great Ashley Darby, she quoted Lagrondame when
she said she's Thomas Jefferson's conquedbine, and they had a
(15:12):
little chuckle about that, because remember when Lagrondame got arrested,
she one of the things that she said, amongst other things,
is that I'm Thomas Jefferson's concubine. Still nobody knows.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Why why she would say that, or so Uncle Ben
the black Bill Gates is also Thomas Jefferson. I didn't
get it. Nobody understands what she meant. It's amazing. I
got to tell you, this episode for me was pure enjoyment.
I've watched it three times. I know you did, because
(15:44):
I have laughed out loud, guffaw, guffaw over these women,
especially our girl Stacy. If you guys recall last season,
Stacy was in a sort of unrequited relationship with TJ.
And now we find.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Out and there were allegations, allegations, and they're playing out
in this season.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
I think they're playing out and I don't think they're allegations.
I mean, he's doubling down on Instagram that it really happens.
She paid him to be.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Do we follow him on Instagram?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Don't I think you did? Yes?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Oh, we need to make sure we follow this.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
There are allegations that he was paid, she paid him
to be on the show, and she's sticking with it.
She's not going to stop, and they want to get
to the heart of the matter, and they're not going
to let it go because he's saying it, she's saying it.
And now, to add insult to injuryes, she's back with
her husband conveniently, and they think that the divorce with
(16:37):
her husband was also a storyline, alleged divorce.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
And with all that going on, more allegations, accusations which
have taken a dark turn. I think this is now
bullying about Stacy's breath. I personally will never speak on
a woman's breath with one of these women. If we
ever met a housewife and they had bad breath, I
(17:03):
wouldn't say anything. About it. Now, I will speak on
a motherfucker's breath.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
But I have to say you both of us are
hyper focused on breath. Like you tell me if you did.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
You see Twitter, there's a whole thing about her breath memes.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
It's so mean though, like it's terrible. It's I mean,
the whole show. They must have said. I think Angel
the new girl, she came in and called her breath tart.
I mean, she's brand new. We don't really know much
about her, but we know that she thinks Stacy's breath
is tart, like this is poor Stacy.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I'm curious did Ashley mention because Ashley.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Started She started it when she when they had little
exchange at the dress shop and she left, she was like,
you gotta fix that breath interconfessional.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
But I don't know, And I would love to speak
to the great Ashley Darby and ask her, did you
bring up the breath first or did you bring up
the breath after she started mentioning your singing, Because the
way it was edited, you see Stacy talk about her singing,
and then in the professional you see Ashley mentioned the breath,
and I wonder did the producer say, did you hear
what she said about her you're singing, and then she
(18:07):
responded with the breath and then the breath, the breath.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
I don't think so, because I think the breath really
stinks because everybody said it. I mean, and the editors.
By the way, babe, what do you think about the
editors showing Stacy walking into Giselle's house and burping, and
then they reshowed it, and then they reshowed it, so
everyone's doubling down. I mean, do the producers think she
has bad breath?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I think maybe this is not fair, but I would
suggest Stacy, listen, people love you, people get you, drive
people crazy. If you want to control this narrative, what
I would do, get a good floss, get a good floss,
tongue scraper, a tongue scraper, and I would start looking
for endorsements. Like I was told I had bad breath.
(18:50):
I got this tongue scraper. It changed my life. I
was told I had bad breath. I got this toothpaste.
It changed I would do the whole mouth kit. You
get a tongue scraper, gets lost listering.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
She should be in a Listering commercial.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
You know. Once I realized my I had breath issues.
I did bup up up by and I'm thinking of
fourfold campaign. We're talking floss, a tongue scraper.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Toothbrush, toothpaste, and mouthwash.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Yep, fivefold campaign.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Control this fucking narrative because I don't want to see
anymore here anymore. It's too much. It was painful, it's mean,
and I know she's kooky, but it's mean. It is
fucking mean.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
It's helpful if it's true. Okay, it's helpful.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Maybe one comment would have been fine, because then the Gray.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Girls can't they can't turn away a good joke. I mean,
this is why I love the show. They beat, They
beat a joke and this is what I love. I
love it pure comedy.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
And Ashley Darby Man and then Giselle went on Watch
What Happens Live and the breath came up again.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
I know.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
And that's months later.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
I know, I know, poor Stacy.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
I feel bad, even though Stacey to me is kookie KOOKI.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
I mean, she is a character, and you know it's needed,
but I think every good housewife is different, you know
what I mean.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
She's one of the kookiest characters that's ever been on Bravo.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Yeah, but we were saying that about Teresa, remember we
were watching special before, like, Wow, she's just herself, like
this is she's like an anomaly. Like she her behavior,
her thoughts, the way she thinks, what she comes well,
how things come out of her mouth. Stacy's the same way.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
It's a great opening episode of the Real Housewives of
Potomac and that fucking Ashley and that Giselle they have
they are in their prime of being a housewife. And
when I say the prime of being in their housewife,
they have figured out all the tricks. They're veterans, yes,
And I say that with all due respects. They've done it.
They've both been ran through the fucking ringer. They've both
(20:50):
had darts, little knives, everything thrown at them, beefs, online
slanner campaigns, highs, lows, and now they're like, oh no,
I got it.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Now they're on the sweet spot, on the sweet spot.
So when we talk about the sweet spot, I was
going to ask you, we've talked about this before with
other shows, And when they get into an area where
they're veterans, yes, and it's almost like actors yes that
know that the camera's there. Yes, they know how to
(21:22):
be themselves.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Yes, but they're also I.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Don't dare I say acting, Yes, that's the sweet spot.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
It's like, yes, Ashley's clearly aware of where the camera
is and this is a good thing. Yes, she's clearly
aware of being in the moment yep and performing within.
It's like a good actor, it's a great reality TV performer.
And years and years of experience, hours and hours in
front of the camera, you'll get to that point where
(21:50):
you're you can be in the moment and also aware
of the camera. And I remember, you know, as an actor.
I remember one time when I was young, I heard
someone say something about Matt Dillon. They were like, and
he knows where he's very aware of the camera. And
I was like, what do you mean like and they
explain that to me. But as an actor, like when
I first started acting, like I didn't know the difference
(22:13):
between a long shot, a close up, a wide shot
where there's a way to pace yourself, there's a way
to perform to the camera away from the camera. If
the cameras across the street and it's a wide shot,
why go crazy crazy art? Or maybe do go crazy
crazy art? Because it could be like a rehearsal. Ashley Giselle,
these women on Potomac right now, the veterans, they have
(22:35):
figured it out totally. They're in the pocket.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Totally, you know. I would add that it's a special
skill reality TV. Yes, act the presentational being, because I
was going to say in commercials, it's a different kind
of skill, like I wasn't acting in thirty seconds. It's
like a trick that you learn to be in front
of the camera sort of disappear and make the subject
(22:58):
the thing that you're selling and with humor and everything.
And I feel like it's really a special skill. These
women in reality TV, Ashley especially has a down I
would love to see her act. I think she'd be
a great act I.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Think she'd be on a sitcom tent. I think she
could do it because she's got the face, and she's
got the humor and one hundred percent as far as
real life acting, Rapper ports reality. We went on a
(23:35):
rare trip to the movie theater to go see Dwayne
the Rock Johnson's new film, Very rare.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Because I was on the road with you in Providence
and we went to like a foreign theater, which is
different for us. Cineplex Cineplex. We had no idea where
we were going.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
With I think it was twenty three. This is like
a mall within the mall.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
It was a mall within a mall, sure, and it
was completely empty at twelve eleven o'clock show.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Twelve o'clock show the Poor movie Business on Friday. Now,
I don't expect it to be packed, but I've never
seen anything like this. This is the second time we've
been to a movie theater, in a giant theater, screen
out it's still the Rock. Yeah, and there was four
of us. And when I say four, I mean Kibi,
me and two other dudes were in the theater going
(24:21):
to see Smashing Machine, which his performance is incredible. It's
truly an incredible.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
It really really is. And the longer time that's passed
and I more I think about it, same with Emily Blunt. Excellent,
excellent performances by both of them will surely be nominated
for Academy Awards and.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
They should absolutely be nominated. And what it's about, it's
about a real life early days MMA UFC Fighter MMA
is Mixed Martial Arts UFC is the brand. I know.
You just taught me that, Yes, yeah, and it's like
basketball is the what they played, The NBA is the brand,
UFC is the brand. MMA is what they do. This
(24:59):
guy named Mark and this guy is one of the
sort of pioneers of MMA and he was This.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Is before it wasn't even in the US right where
they even.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
It was just starting to sniff around the US, but
it was in like Japan and they certainly weren't streaming
and you get the fights on VHS and it was
but this guy had drug promise, he had drug issues.
But he's like this gentle giant similar to the Rock
and he's going through this emotional Catharsis of drugs and
wanting to be a champion and never being beaten, and
(25:31):
then he gets beat It's a very very very good movie.
It's directed by Benny Saftie of the Safti Brothers, the
duo who directed On Cut Gems excellent and now the
other brother has a movie coming out with Timothy Shamalama
Ding Dong Timothy Shamalay. They split up for now and
this movie is very very good. It's a little long,
(25:52):
it's a little thin of story, but I highly recommend
seeing it. Apparently this was a huge flop at the
box office, and we get attack. We count attest because
we went to the theater.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
It was twelve o'clock on a Friday, get ten.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
People in there.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
I know that flop.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Four people flop, huh. But I think it'll wind up
making its money and being a success because Emily Blunt
and The Rock should definitely get nominated. The Rock will
definitely get nominated, and whether or not he wins Best Actor,
he'll definitely win some award.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
He should because he was born to play this part.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Very very very good. It's not like a rock performance.
He's very very very good in this film. I have
to I know we've discussed it off, Mike Babe. I
have to say again, I do not think the movie
business is helping itself in twenty twenty five by making
us wait thirty minutes the movie starts at twelve. Show
(26:47):
a trailer, maybe show another trailer. Remind everybody to just
shut your phones and be quiet, and let's get the
show run. I shouldn't we the movie fans worldwide shouldn't
have to sit there for twenty five twenty I.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Think it was twenty seven minutes.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Yeah, of trailer after trailer and horror movies, and.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
The Railers never matched the movie or going to see either.
It's always something well right now. I think the movies
that people do go see are horror movies. That's why
there's so many being made.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Okay, but I'm going to see The Rock and it's
an MMA movie. Show me some mme trills that can
make it makes sense. I don't want to be in
the movie theater and have to see some movie about
black phones and killing people and the zombies killed so.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Dark and it doesn't really set you in the tone
to watch the movie or I mean, I get viscerally
upset once the movie started. By the way, all my
candy's gone for.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
One, which is a big problem.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
It's a big problem. And I'm like in a bad
mood because I've just watched gore and blood and stuff
that I didn't want to see.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
I didn't come to see that. But you got the candies, guy.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
I know, but this time you got a little. I
had to calm me down. I had to say hey,
because you were cussing out the screen, going what the
fuck and the da da da.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
But it's too much, I know.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
But you know we're going to enjoy the day.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
It's not okay, but I'm scheduling the day. The movie itself,
it looked at it two hours and five minutes long.
That was the running time of Smashing Machine, which I
suggest everybody go see. You get to the movie ten
minutes before then. It starts at twelve and then no, no,
it doesn't start at twelve. The rock comes on in
a half. It's just like I'm just saying, in the
(28:16):
movie business in this day and age, they need to
treat it like it's twenty twenty five. People's attention spans.
I don't think trailers are what they used to be.
They don't lure you back into the theater. They annoy you.
They make me not not want to go to the
theater if I have to sit through that shit. That
being said, I.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Wonder if that's how the movie theaters make money too,
by showing ads. I because I don't understand how these
businesses are staying open.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
I don't either. Yeah, it was so it was.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
So desolate in there. Even the I wanted to get
a water and the water thing was locked up, you know,
like the which is crazy. Where all the drinks are
you take them? And I had to wait How many
five minutes for the manager to come unlock it.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Yes, and the fact that they're locking up water at
the concession. The people are stealing waters at the.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
I just think that they don't open up totally because
it's not really open up because there's no customers.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
No babe, those waters that were like in general population.
I think they locked them up because people steal them.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Oh that's sad.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
I mean, we're not at fucking right AID, right, That's
what it felt like. We're at a movie theater road right.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Some people in the country that are listening or places
around the world wouldn't understand that when you go to
CVS or Rite aid or the drug store, everything is
locked up. In New York City, you go into a
drug store and you have to press a button to
get your toothpaste.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Shout out to Stacy. Shout out to say, Stacey.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Of your toothpaste. Right, Oh, poor Stacy. Listen. You know
what I'm very conscious in that I'm older. We've been
flossing and talking about how bad it smells tm I,
but when you get older, you really got to do
that flossing because the floss if you've waited a day
the first yes, you got it, the smell that could
come out, as you know, and I'm very conscious of it.
(30:00):
A lot of times. I can't smell my own breast.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
I know the bad Baby, you don't have smell.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
I have had bad breath before. I know it because
I could taste it.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
I think that's post coffee. Baby. You're blessed. You're not
a smell person. You don't. We wouldn't listen, babe. You
you're a person that does not.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
You're like, we wouldn't be together if you smell. Go
ahead say it. That's just a weird thing to say.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
No, I'm sorry. I don't think it is a weird
thing to say.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Human beings have smells.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
I get it, I think.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
But I sometimes will be like, oh my gosh, I
smell smell under my arm and you're like nothing, and
it's a little something. I'm over said. I was talking
to my mom about this, babe. She said, you were
so annoying as a little girl, because you'd get in
the car, you know, she'd pick me up from Jim
and I would I get in the car and be like,
you smell like my mom. I would say that to
your mouth, she said it was I would smell, but like,
(30:50):
there's no smell. But I had a thing where I'm like,
do you smell that? And she's like, that's your burger
king that I've just picked up. Like I just had
a thing. I was obsessed with smell.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Else, I don't have a good sense of smell.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
That's what I'm saying. I don't trust you because your
nose is always blocked up.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Babe, I've known you thirty years. You're not a smelly person.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
I wouldn't trust you.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
You wouldn't be this far along if you were smelly.
I told her this once before, when I was single,
I was dating. I went on a date or two
with this one, funny, nice, pretty, and then a smell
was exposed. This happened twice, and I was like, that's it.
I've heard these stories and I don't I didn't have
(31:32):
the ball, Like I was thinking like should I tell
this person? Should I not tell? And I don't want
to tell you. I just I'm just gonna leave it
at that. Yeah, but it was so bad, and I
was like, now, if I was more mature, I might
do it in a gentle way.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
I don't think you could tell a woman, well, look.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
What they just did to Stacey on realized I was
a potona.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
That's why I'm telling you. I think they helped.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Her one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
They made for a good show.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
They made for a good show. I feel like it
needs to stop, though, and I don't feel like it's
going to be the end of it. And I will
tell you right now at the reunion, it'll come up
and hopefully it'll be like I've improved it. I took he.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
I don't want to see who's gonna judge her?
Speaker 2 (32:11):
You know what, it's gonna come up. You.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
All I can think about, though, is that she has
bad breath. And then we see her in the beginning
of the episode having dinner meeting her ex husband now
the husband she's back together with, and I couldn't help
but think.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
He looks like he stinks too.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Yeah, but I was like, do you think they broke
up because he thought she had bad breath?
Speaker 2 (32:32):
No, because he probably got the same. He looks he
sound it just he looks like his shit just bites it.
It's just weird.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
The whole thing is just too much. Anyway, Are you
thinking way too much about Stacy's breath?
Speaker 2 (32:43):
We didn't bring it up. I know, but it's like
they are harping on it. And then I mean the
memes on Twitter were rough. They were rough, and I
mean I get when people, you know, talk shit and
they have fun, but I mean, this is going on. Yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
I mean, if she's really sensitive, this could really send
her over.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
I mean that's the good thing is is that it's
a simple fix.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Yes, you can fix it because you have to take
money off of it, Stacy. We've given even great advice.
One call your manager. Yeah, call the manager.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Yes, we are on your side, and we're talking at
five tier program again. Flossing tongue, scraper, toothbrush, toothpaste, and
then we're talking about some mouth mouth. You could be
making money hand over fist. Anyway, tell a friend who
tell a friend about Rappaport's Reality. Even though we had
to re record this episode, it is a fantastic episode.
Make sure you subscribe, rate and review. Make sure you
(33:35):
follow us on Instagram at wrap Aport's Reality.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Love you Baby, Love you babe.
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