🌸 Potomac Premiere! And an Amuse-douche of news: Porsha & Alexis

Hey Drama Darlings! In today's episode, we're diving straight into the explosive Real Housewives of Potomac Season 10 premiere! Amy Phillips is joined by Emily Dorezas as they discuss the latest drama and scandal surrounding the Potomac ladies. We kick things off with a recap of Karen's intense sentencing and release from jail, delve into Stacey's controversial storylines and mysterious ex TJ, and cover the jaw-dropping revelation at the Essence luncheon. Plus, welcome the new housewives Tia Glover and Angel Massie to the mix! We also highlight Ashley's dazzling divorce party, Wendy's new ventures, and the fascinating dynamic of the cast. Stay tuned for a wild ride through Potomac's finest drama!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Drama, Darling Drama, Darling drama, Darling.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Hey, everybody, welcome in, Welcome in. Wow. I haven't been
this excited for recap since just last week because there's
so much great television going on right now. But the
Real Housewives of Potomac has aired. You know, we are
one day late on the recap, please for give, but
here we are. Emily Deesis is joining me. Good afternoon, Emily, Hi,

(00:43):
Good afternoon, Emily. I'm gonna be I'm gonna be talking
like Stacy, but my gosh, so we're gonna be talking
about that good afternoon.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
In the movie spirited. Good afternon means go yourself. If
the show's early, I'll be saying the word later. But
your kids are in the room.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yet they aren't yet. Yeah, it is fall break, so
stay tuned. She will be galloping in here. To quote
the great Ashley Darby, get out of here, take your
size eleven shoes out of here, gallop away. And she
did some core up, some choreo with the hands and

(01:28):
the gallop, and it was, uh, I want to put
it straight up into a TikTok dance because it was
a move that I've never seen and I loved it,
and she looked gorgeous doing it, like she should have
done that coming down those stairs.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Actually, okay, I laughed my ass off, and then I
felt terrible because I know, I do think like, if
Stacy plays this right, she could have the audience on
her side. I don't know how she's going to play it.
I think she's going to do everything in correc So
I'm not knowing how it's going to go.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
We don't know, but so far she's playing it quite incorrectly,
but it is making for a very correct season. Before
we talk about that, first of all, welcome it, we
have to talk about Portia and the new announcement that

(02:24):
she is dating two people, one as a man and
one is a woman. So I guess she was at
Culture Con and she just mentioned, you know, that she
has two romantic interests, and this is three months after
her divorce has been final. She also, you know, she
sort of like, I don't know, earlier this summer she

(02:45):
hinted at it a little bit. I don't know if
you remember, but I think it may have been unwatched
What Happens Live, but it was something along the lines
of like, I don't like anybody I don't have any
interest in anyone or anything, and but who knows, maybe
do I like women enough who can fill this void? So,
but here we are. You know, she's weighing out the

(03:07):
two options, and good for good for huh good for?

Speaker 1 (03:10):
We don't know. We don't know the lad day right,
Ladah could be Julia per halfs. I have to say something.
And the huntings at Alabama State University, at Kenya's girls trip,

(03:33):
I slept together.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
And Andy, No, no, it's not your turn yet. Hold on,
I just asked someone else a question. Okay, I want
to hear this. You just told us you and Adriana's
left together. What else could you say? Actually, me and poor.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
There are darlings out there, And I know what you're saying.
Emily Porsia was not all at that trip because she
was not on that season when Kenya took the gals
to Alabama State University for a twirl even and I
am aware. It's all I could think of right now. Now.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
It's a perfect, perfect event where you never know. She
could have flown in, she could have flown out.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
They could have Julia and Portia could have been there
on a different event.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
I am Julia, and you should, but you know what,
stranger things have happened. You never know, and who knows
what will happen in Provo Con Julia.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
You know there's gonna be an oor g Bravo con.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
And they can I say something at the Provo Cone.
At the MGM Hotel after party, it was me Porsche
Captain Jason. It's just like a slew of random and
Bravo le parties.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
And when you say MGM, you mean that this all
went down at the hard.

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Speaker 1 (05:24):
Fuck it is free.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
I scouted out a couple spots at the hard Rock
and I can point you in the right direction.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
Y'all.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
Well you're going to see what happened. We just want
a good match. It's okay. You can have a little
uh what love ties moment over ties? I don't know,
I leave a show, leave it all there. You can
you can pull each other for a chat in front
of the Poh my gosh, the Prince costume.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah, Julia is going to be treating this like Love
Island and she is going to be pulling people for
chats at Bravo con.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
Oh my gosh, it's going to be so dramatic. She's
going to just be so oh Captain Sandy immediately we
know back and.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
Captain Sandy is going to be like hard pass.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
Interesting. It can work that way anyway. Question, Yeah, okay,
let's talk. Yeah, we kind of got off topic.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
Do you think that there is going to be an
apology to Candy at any point? For Candy, remember Candy
saying like, now, I know Porscha was not wanting to
come out, and Candy was doing and I'm and Porscha's
not out. I'm not saying that, but we she was

(06:49):
fully denying that what Candy was saying, and Candy was saying,
you kissed me? And do you remember all that going.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
Down no recollection, of course I do.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
It was huge.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
My jaw was on the floor. I mean, Atlanta has
had some of the biggest bombs dropped, you know in
their reunions, Like you know, no one would be able
like Julia doesn't exist, you know, before you know she
exists because Candy exists. You know what I'm saying. It
all comes back to Candy. But no, I do not
think that there will ever be an apology. Will there

(07:23):
be a conversation like will someone bring it up? She's
probably gonna say something like, you know, I mean no,
And that was then. This is now. I mean at
the time I was speaking to that, and I'm not
going to speak on that. I don't think she's going
to touch that with a ten foot.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
Poll yeah, or well or dildo. But I think that
she does. It is worth a conversation. It's worth a conversation,
and it I think. And by the way, I am
so foggy on those details. It's just that when I
read this story, that's what I thought.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
I was like, oh, absolutely, yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
Candy, you know. But then I'm like, I could be
so wrong, and Darling's correct me if I'm wrong. If
it was like no, no, no.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
All the Darlings in a chat right now, you're wrong.
You are dead wrong. Emily is wrong. I agree with
Amy on.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
This good and you should she So you're you're.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
Bringing up the thing that that all came to the
top of our mind of course, you know, so I
think that she might do something vague like, Look, I've always,
you know, been open about my sexuality. I've never closed
any doors, you know, as far as what happened in
the past. Like, I don't want to go there just
because we're not Candy's not here, we're not talking about that.

(08:39):
Let's just leave the past in the past. I think
I just don't know. I just I just spoke for
poor Chap. I think I did it. Yeah, really good job.
I work in pr now.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
You have She's gonna have to say that because she
has this relationship with Faedra friendship wise, and I think, like,
if we're going to go there, it's we're gonna have
to talk about Phaedra and her fake as ali gations here.
We do not we were trying to get Phedra. We're

(09:09):
trying to turn the page kind of thing. So I
don't know if we'll be able to actually go back
and visit that on camera.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
And I don't really feel like it. I don't feel
like anybody wants to. You know, we're in we're in
Trader's territory now, like yeah, we need to Yeah, we
need to like continue this ride. You know, you don't
go backwards.

Speaker 4 (09:29):
You know, in a small world, wretched and Slade, they go.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
Back, they go way back. Speaking of Orange County, one
quick announcement that should get our attention is that Alexis
and Johnny Jay, Johnny Jay and I got married. We
got married up and Dealino is at my wedding and
so is Joe and I invited everybody. It was so
funny and camera and she was like she commented on

(09:58):
the you know, the wedding pictures the best, like the
most gorgeous, like amazing, like Lovefeld wedding our sin. It's tough,
it's tough, disgusting. I think that's what. You know. Shannon
would have liked her to say, this is fucking desgusting,
but she didn't. Uh so, there you have it. Glina
was there, Joe was there, and they were wearing like

(10:19):
these sage green dresses. And honestly, when I first saw them,
booke ending, well that sounds sexual. When I saw them
bookending Alexis, you know it's true. They were in soul
tized bookending Alexis and I was like, oh, they are bridesmaids.

(10:44):
How is that even possible? In discussing it's disgusting, and
then I was like, it can't be. So I went
to Galina's Instagram. Here I had to scroll and I
found out like she actually posted that, Like it's a
total coincidence. No, we're not bridesmaids. Thank you Glina for

(11:06):
putting that out there. I was very confused.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
Yeah, but to your point, I was like, this checks out.
This would be her bridesmaids, people that she just met
two weeks ago, and right.

Speaker 4 (11:17):
And then like one old friend, You're so right, Yeah,
one friend is just stuck around for all of it,
just like well, just waiting for the next round of
people to come in strangers.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
So all right, I think we've done enough catch up.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
Do you have to say show to my friend of
the pod, Jessica Joy, Jessica, Hi, she sent me these
chills erin cups.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
Now they're they're not just cups. They are the Palm
Beach Collection, and they're espresso cups.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
Right, well, they're espresso cups. They're Dematassi Espresso. Awesome.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
They're gorgeous and I love that the Palm Beach Collection.
I love the little yellow handle and they're so delicate
and they got that like the banana leak, the.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
Wood like a bamboo handle.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
Oh, it's a bamboo handle.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
Thought, I have an email taking the stickers off. And
speaking of collections.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
Emily has the Jill Saron Palm Beach Bombage collection, Demiitas
Cups gifted by friend of the pod, Jessica Joy. Also,
I'd like to mention, as you can see if you're
watching this Tier two over on patron dot com slash
drama Darling. Yeah, the display in your background. You have
the packaging, which is worth the display. The boxes are like, yes,

(12:42):
they're very Beverly Hills. What is it Beverly Wait, the
Beverly Hills, Beverly Hills Hotel.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
Yes, yes, but Palm Beach but yes, the pink, the
white stripe, the the the elephant ear whatever that plant is.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
But yes, it's banana leaves. I said, yep, I said,
you guys, stay tuned. This is Emily first, I said.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
Image and we'll try to figure it out. But yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
Don't know what kind of leaves there is the pocular lead.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
That's what I'm going to do trending.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
I am astounded. All right, we've got to talk about
Potomac is back season ten season ten is here and
we start at Giselle's house of mirrors. She's got, you know,
all of the mirrors that you would find in like

(13:45):
a haunted what do you call it, like a one
of those things called a.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
Fun house, yeah, fun house yeah, and then mirrors.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
Yeah, picture pictures of herself.

Speaker 1 (13:57):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
I love it too. You gotta love a house. And
honest honestly, I don't know where that came from. Honestly,
Kierna is following in the footsteps of many housewives that
have come before her with her large, gorgeous framed portrait
of herself in her new condo. Did you see that?

(14:19):
When her mom, Michelle was visiting, so she is like, look,
you know, I am inspired by this is like, you
know what. I loved her description about why this is
hanging because honestly, we've never gotten that from people. You know,
she has never told us you know why she hung
so many photos of her wedding day, you know, I
mean she just was like, I love it. But Kerna

(14:42):
was like, this is hanging here because it is a
representation that I am a queen, that I can do anything,
that I can be anything, that like, the world is
my oyster and and I love that she is reminding
herself of that every day. Now. Me, on the other hand,
I'm no queen, not a one photo of me.

Speaker 1 (15:08):
I'm gonna call Kierna kay for the entire.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
Yeah, well you should, everybody is. But you know, I liked,
I like the name Kyerna, so I just needed to
introduce Kierna. But she is really stepping into her second
season with you know sans Greg. However, looks like somebody
is coming round, I gotta.

Speaker 1 (15:31):
Say, And maybe I'm forgetting something bad, but I didn't
mind Greg. I didn't think that they should be together necessarily,
but he wasn't a bad guy. It was just that
he was in her life while she was filming and
they were getting together and he hated filming, which is curious.
But I will say, more than anybody of all time,

(15:55):
we had three of k breaking the fourth wall this episode,
and I was like, she is if you're good, Like,
I've never seen someone go so hard for this is
the show we were filming. We're on a show. I
didn't think you want to be on the show, like,
I was.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
Right, Wow, Wendy did that too. She was like at
the reunion, I was like these ladies, you know, they
maybe the producers are just like, you know what, you
just got to call it like it is. I don't know,
but I think the Greg thing he wasn't He wasn't
really catching up to her in terms of where she
wanted to be in her life. And I don't think
that he was able to and ready to embrace where

(16:31):
she was going, meaning, you know, stepping into her own
as a housewife. So if he's able to do that
and meet her where she is and where she's going, great.
But in the meantime, I'm happy that she has this
beautiful condo and she's coming in with amazing confessional looks.
I thought that everybody looked spectacular in their confessions.

Speaker 1 (16:53):
Yea.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
And I love what Kierana was bringing. I love that
these these headbands, like these Crown had bands that are
really popular right now, I have several in my room. No,
I'm kidding, she has like she's really leaning into that.
So I'm excited about that. All right, we have to
open up with obviously we're in Jiselle's House of mirrors,
but before that, we get a little bit of Karen,

(17:18):
you know, and we get her audio, we get her
talking in the car as she's I'm yeah. Is that
miked up in her court? Was that her court date moment?
Or was that couldn't have been her? Yeah, that was
her on her waist to being sentenced.

Speaker 1 (17:36):
Well, no, what we got is the season opens September two,
twenty twenty five, so just about a month ago. That
was when they picked up cameras when she got released.
So I did appreciate that, like we are operating, Bravo's
operating in a world where Karen is released early, because
so far the trailer and everything is, you know, Giselle

(17:59):
writing to Karen in jail and like Karen's just away
and then we're cut and then we cut back. So
so so that's where we are. They clearly filmed most
of the season when Karen's in jail. But I do
appreciate that we open the season with her getting out
and then immediately September second, twenty twenty five, cut six

(18:21):
months earlier March first, twenty twenty five, sentencing day, and
then we're at Gizelle's.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
So the footage we saw of Karen getting in that
that's black SUV was her getting out of prison. Yeah,
Oh my gosh, I had that all wrong.

Speaker 1 (18:40):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
Wow, I don't know where she would have got Where
would she get that car? I guess like right outside
of the prison when people get picked up, like outside
of the gates. I mean they must have met her
out there, and then they miked her out and put
her in the car. I think the car was catched.

Speaker 1 (18:56):
That probably Bravos sent that and the vehicle's okay.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
All right, thank you for breaking this down for me.
I was like lost. I thought that that was like
her on her way to the sentencing. But then I
was like, but Ray would have been in the car,
So thank you. Okay. Holy cow. And she's like sniffling,
and she's like, is there Kleenex in here?

Speaker 1 (19:16):
Wow? She just takes this huge breath.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
Oh my god. Yeah, okay, that changes everything. Sorry, Darling.
I mean, wow emotional.

Speaker 1 (19:32):
I mean it is. And then I did also appreciate
Giselle pointing out to everybody she had four.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
DUI's yeah, so yeah, everyone's there, we go. We got
Wendy Ashley, who else? Oh yeah, Stacey eventually arrived, you know,
with just El's Kirna. So yes, she was like, look,
I you know, this is the fourth d U. I

(20:01):
and this, you know, she needed some accountability. But I'm
so bummed that she's you know, I appreciate it. She
had to say it for not only us as fans,
but like, I think that she really believes that, and
it's true. It's awful, like it's bad.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
Yeah, it's bad, and this needed to happen. There needed
to be consequences.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
And concubines as well.

Speaker 3 (20:24):
I mean, oh, oh, the fact that Ashley used Thomas
Jefferson's as like same initials dj as.

Speaker 2 (20:37):
Yeah, that was it. She is sharp. She is on
this season like no one's business. And but even before
everyone got there and there in the kitchen and they
were talking and they were just like, well, I hope
she's in like the AARP section, and I understood that
they had so much empathy and they started there. But
they have a beautiful Potomac ladies have an unbelievable way

(21:02):
of taking very serious matters and putting a little sprinkle
of humor on it that is not offensive, and they
lighten it up. I don't think, so okay, well I'm Karen.

Speaker 1 (21:16):
I'm like watching this back.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
I'm like, okay, I don't honestly, Well, okay, that's fine,
she might be like, Okay, but Karen would also do
the same thing. That's what I'm talking about. And I'm
saying the o geez, I'm saying that. I'm saying Giselle, Karen, Ashley.
Who else may be doing that? Maybe just those those gals.
Wendy Wendy, Yeah, she can take things a little bit

(21:40):
too serious though, So but those three they encapsulate what
I feel like is the tone of Potomac, right, and
no other city has it. And these ladies have the
magic of that type of shade and it's just incredible.
So anyway, Wow, So we take you know, probably about

(22:03):
ten minutes total on Karen, and we just launch into
the Stacy madness. Wow. Wow. First of all, I am
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You deserve to be the director of your own life.
She's like, I am standing in my truth and they're like,
what exactly is that? And then we get into well,
TJ was remorseful and he wanted to come on television
respect for always calling it television by the way, and

(29:56):
say he's sorry for lying. Uh, and you know we're
all questioning he online. He was like he was going
to come forward with the receipts. Those were the headlines,
and Stacy's talking about No, he sure didn't. He sure didn't.
That was the last we saw. Then it was like
crickets and here we are and we are getting a

(30:19):
totally different story from Stacy, and then we're getting this
wild after she basically is like, you guys are crazy.
Why would you question me? I'm standing in my truth?
And then she zooms away in her AUDI that apparently
is like Ashleys. So whatever, we get the unbelievable. I

(30:45):
don't know about coincidence, but the essence luncheon, Giselle and
Ashley flanked with someone else, an actress who is good
friends with TJ, who shows that the actual documents from
the agreement from TJ.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
I am having a heart, like Stacy's not helping me
have her back. But I don't believe tj.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
Oh, you don't. You don't believe that they had an agreement.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
This guy is. I I think it's I go back
to this idea that Stacy said, hey, because keep in mind,
this was like they were getting together during the strike
and everything, and he probably was out of work.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
That's right, sag strike Sagatria.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
Uh so I'm on board with Stacy saying hey, I'll
get your flight. Hey, I'll pay you to be on
these episodes because Bravo is not going to pay you,
and that way you can make some money, like I'll
help you. But I think that they were together. I
think that, but I think that there was money exchanged,
and I think he's running with it. And maybe she
didn't pay, maybe she didn't cover everything she thought she would,

(31:53):
but I don't think she was like paying him to
play a role. I think he was in a role
and she said, I know you're broke right now, I'll
help you out. Okay, that's my theory.

Speaker 2 (32:07):
Okay, I disagree, but okay.

Speaker 1 (32:11):
And I think I just have a hard time believing
anything this guy says.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
Well, I have a hard time believing anything that Stacy
says if she has not answered one question directly, and
that's because there's a lawsuit because he is suing her
for the remainder of what she didn't pay him. This
document that apparently allegedly exists where it's an agreement between
the two of them where she is saying that she's

(32:39):
going to pay him fifty percent of her rhop SALARYE
and now he's suing her for the rest of the money.
Says that she's legally divorced from and it's been what
I don't know how long, three months. I don't know
if that's somebody else anyway, No, that was that was
poor Sho I was thinking about. Anyway, So she's been

(33:00):
legally divorced from him, and now Ashley's saying, where are
the documents they're supposed to be public? Well, that that
stinks too.

Speaker 1 (33:08):
In Virginia, Like I was also like, well where did
they get divorced? Was it Virginia or was it Maryland?
Like I don't know, So that was my question.

Speaker 2 (33:18):
But isn't it the same that.

Speaker 1 (33:22):
The time? Yeah, but maybe the time is different, like
maybe it's uh, after a year they go public in
Maryland or something like, I guess like right, you're giving.

Speaker 2 (33:33):
Her absolutely the ben every benefit of the doubt. Plus
I think she deserves at.

Speaker 1 (33:41):
What at TJ and how quick these gals all had
his back at the reunion. I just still am like
Stacey doesn't do herself one favor, and I can't.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
I wouldn't I've had his back because he they don't
want a liar on the show. They don't want they
don't want someone who's faking a storyline, And now it
all seems to be that way.

Speaker 1 (34:07):
Stacy doesn't have anything to say for herself, and that
is making me nuts. But I dislike TJ enough to
be the one person still kind of being like, hey, guys,
well let's listen to Stacy, because like I do feel
like I don't know why. I don't know why she

(34:29):
won't say things that like would be so easy to
clear up.

Speaker 2 (34:33):
Well what could she say? What are you waiting for
her to say? So?

Speaker 1 (34:36):
Like at the reunion, like when they were all calling
like he called they remember, they were like just call him,
call him right now, call him, and she's like I'm
not going to call him.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
Yeah, It's like, what do you want her to say
is what I'm asking, Like, what would clear it up
for you?

Speaker 1 (34:52):
He didn't like TJ was in a financial jam because
of the strikes. We're dating, and I can contend to
be part of the show because I wanted to film
with him, okay, and so I paid him out of
what I was getting paid.

Speaker 2 (35:04):
Got it. So you basically want her to explain why
there was a payment arrangement.

Speaker 1 (35:11):
If there was one, there was why, Well, according to him,
but she's fully denying it, or it's not even she's
not even she's not even denying it.

Speaker 2 (35:21):
Because Emily, that's called someone who's lying and not wanting
to blatantly lie. Well, I think what it is is
that and this is not a bad thing at all.
I think that you are you always want to give
a housewife the benefit of the doubt. You don't want
to be someone that gangs up on a housewife. And
you also don't want to make it so that TJ

(35:46):
is right, you know, because here's the thing.

Speaker 1 (35:48):
More of what it is, it's.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
The douchebag situation where he exploited her. You know, he's
the one who ended up turning on her. If in fact,
they allegedly had some you know, agreement, he threw her
under the bus on regarding like not getting paid the
rest of the money. So to me, that says they

(36:10):
were probably never in a relationship, because if he actually
had feelings for her, then he wouldn't have done that,
Like he would have been pretty chill about it, and
he also would have appreciated, you know, the offer. Why
he even agreed to this in the first place is
just beyond me. If he was, he was so inadequate
on that show to be her quote unquote love interests.

(36:34):
We never believed it. And now here we have this
her ex husband is back and she's explaining how you
know they were, Well this you sent me an evite,
you know, so now you've got an evite back into
this relationship. I understand the ladies. They're gonna call her
out immediately because the second that anyone is coming on

(36:57):
a show claiming to be anything but themselves, you know,
the ogs will not have it. And I don't blame them.
We need to protect the franchise from people coming in
and thinking that they can get away with this on us.
It is not QBC wherever she was, it's not the
Home Shopping Network. This is you can't play us, and

(37:20):
so that's where I go call it out. I don't
want to see people coming on the Housewives and thinking
they can run circles around the authenticity of it, because
that's all we have. Like we're barely hanging on to authenticity.
We're barely hanging on.

Speaker 1 (37:38):
And you know, my thing is like, don't treat the
audience like idiots, because we're not. And I do feel
like we're getting that from Stacy, So it is out
of character for me to be like, huh. I also
think Giselle and Ashley with this breadth thing, that's where
I'm like, it's below the belt and I think there's
really not a lot of coming back from that, and

(38:00):
it seems to be the thread that because it's in
the trailer for what's coming up, like it's going to
be the thing, and so I I just feel bad
for her.

Speaker 2 (38:09):
And well that that aspect is bad. Yeah, I completely agree.
I mean they didn't need to do that. They sometimes
these housewives they go so low at something so ridiculous,
you know, you know Ashley and her was there the
thing on her feet she had like calluses, Oh yeah,
the bunyions. It's not as bad. It's not as bad.

(38:30):
It's nowhere near as bad. It's tough. Yeah, yeah, and
like you can't. Yeah, I know, I feel for that.
That's not nice.

Speaker 1 (38:38):
It's not nice, especially if it's gonna like I get
if they mention it once whatever, it's weird, but that
it's going to be the thing. It's like you can't
unring that bell, no, especially if you're saying it constantly,
like Stacy's going to be walking around Bravo con going
to be assholes about it, like.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
Well, look, here's here's what I think is going to happen.
If Stacy can pivot, and I think she can because
if she's if she thinks she can get away with
anything on Housewives, then she can take the situation. She
can turn it around and instead of having a very controversial,
potential alleged cannabis line coming out that's going to you know,

(39:22):
be competitive with Happy Eddie, then she should make a
gum line or a mint line, and that would be
that could be how she pivots, you know. And so
but boy, she's coming. This whole season is going to
be about her, you know, like the inaccuracies, the potential lying,

(39:43):
the potential fraudulent personality and storyline. I mean, it's it's
gonna it's there's nowhere else to go. So so wow,
I mean, now the one thing I have to ask is, like,
at this women's luncheon for essence, I want to know
who the actress was, and I also want to know
how did she end up at that table and who

(40:05):
planned that out because that could not have been a coincidence.
There was no way, right, there's a way.

Speaker 1 (40:12):
I am sure she knew exactly who was going to
be there. She told TJ and then he got on
canva and made documents.

Speaker 2 (40:22):
Wow. I mean if he here's the thing though, Emily,
if he actually did make up a fake like legal agreement,
he could be sued for that. So I mean that's.

Speaker 1 (40:35):
Really end though. Like how much money are we really
talking about? That's what I'm also like, how much money
is he talking about?

Speaker 2 (40:41):
Well, it's not going to be a lot. It's her
first season. Yeah, so maybe it's like ten thousand. Let's
say it's ten thousand dollars. Let's say it's okay, let's
say it's twenty five. Let's say it's twenty Let's say
she got fifty thousand for the whole season. I have
no idea what the salaries are, but like I know,
you don't make a lot as a first season housewife.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
I don't think it's worth either of their time to
have this lawsuit over this. So I don't know he's
got to what is he going to fly back and
forth over this? Like I just don't get it. And
to Lisa Barlow's point, people you get sued like it can.
People can say whatever they want and see you if
it holds up in court. If if there is a lawsuit,

(41:23):
doesn't necessarily mean that it's going to hold up or
even that.

Speaker 2 (41:28):
It is dismissed. Deny, deny, deny, deny, dismissed. We already
talked about two months later when we see Stacy and
Timo and t Timu. Okay, so Stacy's a Timu. She

(41:48):
got an invite, so we we meet him. Interesting, Enna,
we were talking about Kay and her condo. Happy Eddie
is growing, They're doing some renovations. Things. Things to be
going really well for Wendy. God, I loved her dress
and her confessional that silver like with the angel wings,
you know, like that was great. Ashley is officially divorced.

(42:10):
She's planning her divorce party. And I loved hearing about
how so she's planning this divorce party and then her
official divorce and then we get those shots from the
photo shoot. Remember when we saw that like her and
like the topless thing with this photo like with the newspapers,
and it was such a bizarre Yeah, I was like,
this such a bizarre photo shoot. It was so funny.

(42:32):
I was like, this is such a house to wife
move to, like have an entire photo shoot on announcing
your divorce, which was great, but it was just like, ooh,
I'm in the newspaper headlines and I'm she'sn't shirtless. It
was so funny. I loved it. So now we have
her payout. Are we talking that he's worth twenty million

(42:53):
and she was trying to get from that twenty million
what she was deserved. She didn't actually get twenty men, right,
because she just said I'm sitting I'm sitting pretty good.
So it's like they negotiated something siphoning something from Michael's
twenty million. Correct, Okay, great, great, So we never got

(43:14):
the number, which is obviously we're not going to get
those are in the documents. Go to the next essence
lunche and you might be able to see those documents.
So second bloom Ball, she's at this like dress place,
actually wants to repair a friendship with Stacy, so she

(43:35):
invites her there to just be like, look like, what's up.
This is what happened at this luncheon and this is
where we were talking. Stacy has absolutely no answer. She
is pivoting, She's doing everything but answering. It ends up
having to leave there all right, before we get to
the official second bloom I want to talk about some
of the two new housewives, because like we had such

(43:57):
a huge bunch of business to handle coming out of
the gates. I mean, we had the Karen stuff and
we have the Stacy stuff, and like everything needed to
be fleshed out. That we didn't even really officially meet
these gals until like five minutes before this ended, which
is fine. Actually, I kind of like that Tia who

(44:18):
was Giselle's British friend, and Tia Glover she is a
British Nigerian luxury real estate advisor who is ready to
make her mark in Potomac.

Speaker 1 (44:31):
And I really that doesn't upset Wendy because that didn't
go very well the last time. Remember I'm now spacing
on her name, but she was from Nigeria and.

Speaker 2 (44:43):
Oh yeah right.

Speaker 1 (44:45):
But there was like a weird thing where Wendy felt
taken advantage of with her casting.

Speaker 2 (44:50):
Yeah thea that Neka. Yeah, they had a whole thing
off camera before they even Yeah that. I hate when
that happens.

Speaker 1 (44:59):
Yeah, I like her cool.

Speaker 2 (45:02):
I like her a lot. She even got in there
with the Ashley stuff at the second Bloom party and
tried to, you know, help them get to the next
I don't know, point in their conversation or fight. That
was interesting. And then we also have Angel Massey, who's
a co founder of a high end outdoors outfitter who

(45:23):
is focused on expanding her brand and reconnecting with friends.
This was interesting. She's the one that's married to the
the Denver retired Denver Broncos player Bobby Yes. Yes, and yeah,
she does it all. She's a journalist, she's a mom
entrepreneur Wonderland Outdoors. That's very exciting. They have this whole

(45:47):
thing in Colorado, and of course there's gonna be a
cast trip there. I mean, I can only imagine, because
what a perfect way for her to showcase what she does.
They're gonna have a whole outdoors thing. I'm excited for that.
I mean, I don't know for sure, but I'm assuming and.

Speaker 1 (46:04):
Trying to launch it in Maryland. So they're gonna go,
They're gonna try.

Speaker 2 (46:08):
They're trying to launch it in Maryland.

Speaker 1 (46:11):
Yeah, that's what she said. Now that they're back and.

Speaker 2 (46:13):
Like, oh, I didn't realize that. Oh interesting, Okay, so
we'll be where where would they go to do that
in Maryland? Emily, since you're from there, like, what outdoors?

Speaker 1 (46:26):
Not western Maryland to the mountains, Okay, you could go, Well,
there's plenty of places.

Speaker 2 (46:35):
You guys have a good mountain range there, gorgeous, gorgeous
Maryland mountain range, just absolutely gorgeous.

Speaker 1 (46:44):
Well, we've got parts of the Appalachian Trail you could
go to. Yeah, out near Frostburg. There's tons of places,
and Wisp Mountain is out Wisps.

Speaker 2 (46:55):
Wow, sounds like Maryland. Emily knows exactly.

Speaker 5 (46:59):
At spot fucking ski, I go to the flats in
the Chesapeake Bay in the summer and we tie our
boats together and we get fucked up. So she's got
some kind of adventure that I can go in my
boat and get fucked up on and I'm going and
it better not be on canal days because I'm not

(47:19):
missing fucking canal days unless I got Oorals tickets.

Speaker 1 (47:23):
And then I don't even know.

Speaker 2 (47:27):
Wow, you are such a queen.

Speaker 1 (47:30):
I'm no queen. Yea god.

Speaker 2 (47:36):
I want Marilyn Emily to be on Potomac so bad.
She would bring such authenticity. These ladies would not know
how to deal with her ass.

Speaker 1 (47:46):
Giselle would kick me out of her house in.

Speaker 2 (47:50):
Seconds, Yeah, in seconds, and you'd be out front tailgating.

Speaker 1 (47:57):
Well, I was fucking agnore.

Speaker 2 (48:01):
Well, your tagline would be what.

Speaker 1 (48:05):
It would have to. I don't know. Let me think
quote the raven never more here from Baltimore, even.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
A sweats tackle.

Speaker 1 (48:20):
It's just a million question marks behind me after I say, yeah, question.

Speaker 2 (48:24):
Marks and just like a bunch of like ravens fly
and like our rape because oh the Baltimore Ravens die
but brilliant. Yeah, and then you just like you tie
in all of Edgar Allan Poe's works. You're like, I'm
under the floorboards knock. You know why I can't do

(48:45):
the Maryland.

Speaker 1 (48:48):
I can't imagine many people know a lot of ed
Girl I don't. I mean, I can't quote that neither.
I just know that one will use.

Speaker 2 (48:56):
Yeah, that one. Yeah, but okay, wow, God bless you,
Marilyn Emily. All Right, So we go to the So
we got our new Housewives. We're at second bloom Ashley's
entrance entrance as a duchess slaps, just fumbling over that
gorgeous dress and the pyrotechnics.

Speaker 1 (49:16):
Jesus, no, I mean this is after the LA fires, right,
or was it before it was a cup?

Speaker 5 (49:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (49:29):
No, it's after. It's after the LA fires. How dare
you actually?

Speaker 2 (49:33):
She's like, we're fine. We're in Maryland. We are seconds
away from you know, we're miles away from the Appellationians.
So we're good. Well they're not even dry.

Speaker 1 (49:44):
No, they got they got their rain, they got their
flammable fabrics that she didn't even. That's the other thing.
I'm like, that fabric is so flammable. What are you
like one spark and this thing's going up.

Speaker 2 (49:56):
What fabric isn't flammable if it's not sprayed with fire retardant. Yes, right,
but that thing but that especially like I mean like satin, yeah.

Speaker 1 (50:08):
You know, it was like it was like a fabric
I don't even understand, and I'm wow, she's done. When
we all Jackson Pepsi commercial.

Speaker 2 (50:16):
We all know Emily knows her fabrics. When she is
not podcasting, she is flying to mood and she is
putting her hands on every fabric.

Speaker 1 (50:31):
I don't know if.

Speaker 2 (50:35):
Cut cut cut cut, cut, cut to your d ms, Emily.
I'm making my daughter's Halloween costume and it's from K
pop Demon Hunters and they have this very what happened you? Then?
Like cut to November, so many pissed parents like you

(50:57):
said to use a Polly esther for this hat? Anyway?
Yeah that was a.

Speaker 1 (51:06):
Child exploded next to the lander.

Speaker 2 (51:13):
Oh lord, so any who? I mean, it didn't take
It looked like a gorgeous party, and it did not
take long for Ashley to confront Stacy about you know anything,
because Stacy's like, I hope you appreciate my attendance after
our last discussion, and she's like, you lie and then

(51:37):
just gallop away and you know you misrepresented yourself in
this group. So and then Tia she's like, if she
shows her divorce papers, will you be sultismat? And then
Stacy again she deflex deflex deflex and is like, I

(51:58):
don't handle divorce like you do Ashley, which says nothing.

Speaker 1 (52:03):
It says nothing, and it actually I'm yeah, it's like,
you can't match her. You can't match match Ashley's sass
with bullshit because you won't show one receipt for anything.
And Ashley wins all day because it's like all day,

(52:23):
every day standing in her truth, and you are.

Speaker 2 (52:25):
And in pyrotechnics. Yeah, oh lord, Okay, this is gonna
be one heck of a season. The trailer at the
end looked amazing. Potomac is back, cherry blossoms are here,
and we're we're living, we are living for it. So yeah,

(52:49):
well you guys, thank you so much for listening. Basically,
we've got a lot over on the Patreon dot com.
Slash drama Darling Miami Reunion is over there, the first one,
which was a lot to discuss. And also you know,
we're going to do great British Bakeoff and below Deck
over there Orange Counties on Friday.

Speaker 1 (53:08):
We're going to get back to London.

Speaker 2 (53:10):
Salt Lake City will be here on the public actually Thursday.

Speaker 1 (53:13):
And yeah, let me know, guys, let me know, you're
on a scale of one to ten. How wrong I
am on Stacey cant I would love to hear about that, Darling.

Speaker 2 (53:24):
Yeah, because where can they tell us? They can tell us,
do not go to Instagram, Drama Darling show, do not
go there. I'm kidding. Guess what. I was on our
Instagram this weekend and I got I went to the
messages and I answered a lot of messages, talked to
a lot of people, so I dare you see I

(53:44):
see if I respond. You know one was from almost
a year ago. I was like, this is such a
great point. I'm so sorry it took me a year
to respond. Patreon is where it's at, too for chatting,
and if you've got really serious matters, you want to
discuss drama darlings with a z at gmail dot com.

Speaker 1 (54:07):
Okay, I'll take my Stacey thoughts there. I'll email you.

Speaker 2 (54:11):
Don't email me, Emily, please please, That's what thanks drama,
Hey guys, Darling