RHORI-The Friendship Feud Is Finally Over (Or Is It?) 💥

Lori (00:01.004)
Welcome to We Wine Whenever. This Lori.

Wendy (00:06.022)
I'm Wendy.

Kelli (00:07.461)
and I'm Kelly.

Lori (00:08.774)
And tonight we're gonna talk about Real Housewives of Rhode Island, episode twelve, The Fairy Tale is Over. F E R R R Y. I like it. I like it.

Kelli (00:22.131)
But wait, where was there a ferry? they took the ferry? To Block Island, okay. Ay, yi, yi, just reel me in, girls. Yeah, just reel me in, man.

Lori (00:22.498)
The what? my god, Kelly.

Wendy (00:25.19)
They took the ferry to Plock Island.

Lori (00:30.326)
That's the kind of question I would ask for ya boy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, listen, it's all it's all it's all too much. So we have some little filler scenes, rule is in her house, in her closet saying it's a mess. Alicia's packing with her mom and d and her daughter and then her s luggage falls down the stairs and she calls for a belly, which I thought was really funny.

Wendy (00:30.902)
Wendy (00:36.741)
Ha ha ha.

Kelli (00:39.475)
Cheers.

Lori (00:55.158)
And then we see Kelsey talking to Liz while packing and she's saying she's miss congeniality and she wants world peace. Liz in her confessionals says she's not gonna let things bother her or let her get to that place anymore. And she's on a mission to be in a good place wherever she is. And Kelsey says if she can't make if she can make up with Rosie, then everybody else can make up.

So Rosie and Rich are at the ferry and Rosie in her confessional says she made it clear to Kelsey that she doesn't want to be her friend, but that she can coexist with her, which I really don't think that's what that h no I was like, mm, okay.

Kelli (01:36.391)
I don't think she did that.

Kelli (01:40.615)
I don't think that that was communicated that way.

Lori (01:42.578)
Yeah, no, no, no. Liz and Jerry will find out they were engaged and married on Block Island. And so everybody is meeting at the ferry parking lot and I thought this was interesting. Jo Ellen comes up and hugs Liz and Liz like put her hands on Jo Ellen's arms, like almost like she wanted to push her off. I was like, Woo You saw that? You saw it, Wendy?

Wendy (02:08.902)
I saw that same thing and I rewound it to see like, did that really just happen? And it sure did. I was like, ooh.

Lori (02:15.108)
huh. It sure did. Yeah, yeah. She had a little nasty it was a little nasty moment. I was like, ooh, girl.

Kelli (02:22.918)
Yeah, you know it's funny how you start out thinking one way about somebody and then as the season goes on like Liz is not my kind of friend.

Lori (02:31.957)
No, no. And it's i it's it's it's wild because as much as she wants to portray this big self confidence, she's really not. Because if you were, you wouldn't you wouldn't behave that way. So, yeah.

Kelli (02:34.683)
Not my kind of-

Kelli (02:51.504)
Right. Totally agree.

Lori (02:54.457)
And Joel in her confessional says her relationship with Liz is like an abusive one that she keeps going back to. she wants to move on with her.

Kelli (03:03.698)
I mean the way these people talk about their friendships with Liz, it's like, why are you friends with her? She's mean, it's an abusive relationship.

Lori (03:08.513)
Yeah, I don't I don't Yeah, why? Like for what, right? Right. Relationship, yeah. so Joelyn says it's just like her mom, she keeps going back, like love me, love me, love me and they then they love her and then they're hurtful and mean and cruel. So at least Jo Allen knows her fucked up didness kind of a thing.

Wendy (03:09.104)
Yeah.

Kelli (03:34.384)
Yeah, I agree with that.

Wendy (03:35.546)
Yeah, but I I mean, to do it with your mother is one thing, but to do it with a friend, like, you know, just let it go. You know what I'm saying?

Kelli (03:42.032)
Yeah. Yeah.

Lori (03:43.146)
Mm, mm, yeah. But I think that's her big problem is she she just needs validation in her relationships. So I don't know. So Ruella and Brian in the confessional, Ruella says she is nervous being stuck on the island with Joelan, not knowing what card she's gonna pull up next. I mean, I don't know.

Wendy (03:47.108)
Yeah.

Wendy (04:10.768)
Well, she can't say in her confessional, I'm in denial. I mean, what is she what else is she gonna say?

Lori (04:10.838)
I don't know.

Kelli (04:11.302)
problem

Lori (04:14.477)
Right, what else is she gonna say? Exactly. Right. Yeah. And then we see on the ferry going over to Block Island, Jarrett and Alicia are a little bit seasick and then Ashley does the big Titanic move. Yeah. Yeah. And they all get to wherever they're going to in Block Island. They have pina colades pina coladas and Kelsey has tents set up on the beach.

Wendy (04:32.784)
Yeah.

Lori (04:43.233)
But it looked really windy and cold.

Kelli (04:45.864)
Well, they work old.

Lori (04:47.349)
They were cold. I guess since it was the end of the summer.

Wendy (04:48.678)
Think about it. Yep, it's the end of the summer, you're on an island, the wind's coming, just like if we go to the beach. Like you go to the beach at the end of the summer, it's windy and cold.

Kelli (04:50.854)
Yeah.

Lori (04:55.233)
Right.

It can be cold. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Joelyn says she's gonna go talk to Liz and Joelyn tellers tells her she misses her. Liz says agreed. Joelyn says, I think we have a genuine friendship. Do you? And then Liz, after the long telling pause, says, Yes, I do. Joelin says, Good because I thought I was crazy.

Kelli (04:58.832)
Yeah, yeah.

Lori (05:24.127)
She says she wants to move past everything that has happened and everything that's said. Liz says she agrees. She doesn't want to rehash. Joel and tells her that she doesn't think Liz mental a thing she says. Liz says, likewise. I don't know.

Kelli (05:40.488)
Yeah, like she's not, she's not like, she's making it as if Joellen was just as guilty as she was. And I personally don't think she was. Like I think Joellen was just trying to defuse the situation, but Liz isn't, she's not, she's just not saying it. She's just not saying it.

Lori (05:50.509)
No. No.

Right.

No. And Liz brought up how Joelyn said she hurt her and you know, talking about physically, like with the hair pull, and Liz says you continuously put your hands on me in production shows in the car where Joelin moved Liz's hand out of Alicia's face, and in the club where Liz tells her not to fucking touch her. And then Joelyn says sh that she kept doing that to try and calm her down. And Liz says, No, you did it to annoy me.

Kelli (06:27.539)
Again, I don't agree with it. I really think that Joellen seems like a very touchy, handsy person. Like Melissa Gorga, right? Especially when she drinks. She's touchy-feely. I feel like Joellen's the same way. And so when she wants to calm you down, she's going to, there's gonna be some contact. But in a loving way, a calm down, like holding her, like calm down.

Wendy (06:27.547)
Yeah.

Lori (06:27.692)
Which

Lori (06:35.661)
Mm.

Lori (06:49.398)
Right. Yeah, she's

Lori (06:54.015)
Right. Right. Well Joelin does seem like she can be very intrusive, but it it's one of those things where if you have a relationship with somebody and you know that's their gig, sometimes you just kinda let it go. You know what mean? But

Kelli (07:09.309)
Yeah, like maybe she should have known that Liz wasn't gonna be receptive to that.

Lori (07:15.923)
And Liz says things have been done and said on both their ends that have broken trust. Maybe they can start over from a new place and something has to be rebuilt. And in confessional, Liz says that the tension between them broke her heart and that she adores Jo Ellen. I was like, okay. Doesn't seem that way. Yeah, I was like, okay. She said Yeah. She says she's letting Jo Allen off the hook.

Wendy (07:34.106)
Doesn't seem that way.

Kelli (07:35.758)
Ha ha ha ha!

Actions speak louder than words, Liz.

Lori (07:45.119)
And then Roella Ruella thanks the girls for being around. Right.

Kelli (07:48.221)
See that, that's what I don't like.

Wendy (07:48.701)
wait, you know what? Wait, before that happened, Jo Ellen said to her, because Liz wanted to start their friendship off from this new place. And Joelyn said, no, like I I I think we should start from where we were at. Like start can continue building and make a better friendship. And we right, right. And she's like, I don't want to go back. Like I c you know, and she said, All right.

Lori (07:57.9)
Right.

Kelli (08:08.103)
right from where we were before this happened.

Lori (08:08.203)
Right. Yeah.

Wendy (08:16.254)
Then Liz says, All right, you know, I want to focus on the things that are positive. Like, you know, you're charismatic and you're effing fun. Okay, let's move on and like maybe we can make it better. But she wasn't willing to do that until Jo Ellen brought it up. She was just willing to, you know, start from scratch. How do you start from scratch?

Kelli (08:35.301)
And I don't like the fact that she said, like, I'm just letting her off the hook. Off the hook for what?

Lori (08:39.861)
Right. Hook from what? Right, exactly. Of the hook from what, yeah.

Wendy (08:42.062)
Right. Right.

Kelli (08:43.528)
Well, like...

Wendy (08:45.572)
You're letting her off the hook and you're saying in your confessional, you know, how you really, really missed her and you know whi which is it?

Lori (08:53.461)
Right, which is it? Exactly. Right. Pick pick a lane. Pick a lane, Liz.

Kelli (08:53.52)
Exactly.

Wendy (08:55.916)
Yeah. Yeah, d yeah.

Kelli (08:57.639)
Maybe it depends on what,

personality changing, inducing, partaking, Liz did that day.

Lori (09:04.873)
Is coming out. Thing is going on. Yes.

Wendy (09:08.302)
Yes, yes.

Lori (09:10.719)
Right. Right. Yeah. Yeah. So Rorella says that she hasn't been around as much as she would have liked, you know, being between feeling ill and having her chops busted about her husband. Which I was like, girl, I don't think anybody busted your chops. They were just trying to like get you to see the light here. I don't necessarily think it's busting your chops.

Wendy (09:11.984)
Yeah. Could be.

Kelli (09:36.507)
And when she said she was on her deathbed.

Lori (09:39.245)
I laughed so hard. I laughed so hard.

Wendy (09:39.8)
I know, I know, that was so funny.

Kelli (09:41.563)
with full beat and hair done. That's not deathbed, honey.

Lori (09:44.011)
Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

No, no. And she says she hasn't spoken to Joelyn since polo. Says she's not stupid, but there's always a story behind the story. And you don't look like my friend when you are collaborating with other people behind the scenes trying to stir the pot and dig up more info. Rella says she felt Joelyn was disingenuous because she was trying to speak to Rella about it in a public event and says if you're my friend you're gonna leave it alone and let her handle it.

Wendy (10:20.922)
But Rosie does jump in and and says to her, but at the polo y she said to you, Do you want proof? And you said, If you get proof, show it to me. So which is it? Right. No, there's not. There's not.

Kelli (10:21.435)
I mean, it's...

Lori (10:31.415)
Right.

Kelli (10:34.013)
There's nothing Joellen could have done in this situation where Rula was going to receive it. She wasn't gonna receive anything. And anything Joellen did, Rula's gonna call around on it and say, she did it wrong. She did it the wrong way.

Lori (10:36.811)
No

No. No matter what.

Wendy (10:40.505)
No.

Lori (10:46.101)
Right. Right. Right. Cause Rula can't look in the mirror and she can't look at the person right next to her. So it's gotta go somewhere, so it's been going there. And then Billy is talking to Joelyn's husband about people always giving them a hard time that h him and Alicia aren't married and she he says, I feel like she feels like I let her down. She complains he's not romantic.

Wendy (10:56.229)
Yeah.

Lori (11:16.553)
And then Elisa says that he proposed when she was eight months pregnant with bronchitis and he left it on the dresser, she had to pick it up and he didn't even get down on one knee.

Kelli (11:29.088)
wasn't his fault she had bronchitis.

Lori (11:31.414)
yeah, but it didn't take a great time. Yeah.

Wendy (11:31.598)
Yeah, but he's all on her while she's in bed.

Kelli (11:34.887)
You

Wendy (11:36.294)
She was in bed six, she had to have a fungical and then go back to bed.

Lori (11:38.796)
Yeah. Yeah. She said I had so much mucus. I needed a fudgicle. really? She don't bother me at all. She don't bother me at all. Yeah. Billy says he wants to do a reset and a proposal today with look her in the eye and tell her. Blah blah blah. So Liz

Kelli (11:45.331)
She's wearing on me, man. She is wearing on me.

Wendy (11:46.584)
I love her. I love her, love her, love her.

Lori (12:04.487)
asks Rula if there's anything that she wants to bring up to Joe Allen and Royola says the video at the castle, with all due respect, it's nobody's fucking business. I just wanna handle my own story my own way. So

Kelli (12:20.753)
And she says basically like, maybe you guys can tell her. And Liz is like, no, you need to. See, that's the problem too. Like I think, mean, listen, obviously Rula knows it's true. So she knows if she goes face to face with Joellen, like what is she gonna say? She knows it's true. She could say it's a lie all she wants behind Joellen's back, but you can't say it to her face, cause it's not a lie.

Wendy (12:24.473)
Yes.

Lori (12:25.103)
yeah. Yeah.

Lori (12:39.328)
Right.

Lori (12:44.863)
Right. And I think Kelsey got it really good 'cause Kelsey says it's moved on to you're a liar and Jo Ellen is like, I'm not a liar and I'm gonna find out every bit of info to show you that I'm not the liar and I think that's d I think she's totally right with that.

Kelli (13:02.225)
Now it's moved on from her trying to prove Billy guilty, not Billy, Brian, guilty and her innocent. Now, like that's where we're at now.

Wendy (13:02.49)
Yeah, that's what it's about.

Wendy (13:06.598)
Brian.

Lori (13:06.849)
Brian.

Absolutely.

Wendy (13:12.742)
Mm.

Lori (13:13.163)
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I thought that was funny when Liz was like, nope, nope, I'm not I'm not doing that. You y you can relay your own message.

Kelli (13:22.009)
Exactly. Yep. Yep. Me too, because listen, if you want a place on this show, this is what we do, conflict and resolution. Yep, you have to earn it. You didn't film half the season because of this.

Lori (13:28.245)
Yeah, absolutely.

Lori (13:33.485)
Mm, mm, mm.

Wendy (13:33.488)
Gotta earn it.

Lori (13:39.456)
Right, like girl, come on, right. What have you what have you done and now you want me to do like no No Earn your paycheck. Right? Yeah. So they all arrive at the Atlantic Inn, go to the rooms. Joelyn Face times her mom. Alicia said she's gonna close her eyes for a couple minutes. Joelyn says Liz is like family to her and

Kelli (13:43.729)
Right. Mm-mm.

Right, earn your paycheck.

Lori (14:06.347)
Her hus Joanne's husband says, Well, you know, look, talk to Rella and tell her that she asked for proof and that you don't appreciate being called a liar. So And then Alicia says her mom dropped her down a flight of stairs and now she has a phobia stairs.

Kelli (14:25.459)
She can't drive, she can't go downstairs, she can't go over a bridge. She's a little bit of a mess.

Lori (14:26.069)
Mm.

Wendy (14:31.942)
This is why I love her. I like her too. I like her too. How about when they Alicia and Joelan and Rosie were sitting on the porch and they were catching up Joelyn about what happened at the party? And they said, all of a sudden Brian walks up and Alicia said, Yeah, I thought he he I thought he was gonna blow his load. And Joelan's like, You thought he was gonna come? She's like, No, I thought he was like blowing his shit. She's like, That means come.

Lori (14:34.315)
Well, I'm a mess, so I that's why I like her.

Kelli (14:59.741)
She probably meant blow his top.

Wendy (15:01.67)
Alicia. Like when she does this stuff, it is so innocent. Like she like it's real. That's why I like her.

Lori (15:01.825)
Something, yeah.

Lori (15:11.552)
It's great.

Kelli (15:11.845)
I agree it's real.

Wendy (15:14.982)
It's real. I think it's funny too. I think it's funny too. I think it's funny too.

Lori (15:15.693)
I think it's funny.

Kelli (15:16.797)
Sometimes I just have a hard time with it.

Lori (15:18.507)
Yes, that's that's a little much. Yeah. So then Bill had candles all set up around two lawn chairs outside and Alicia says, my god, you weirded me out Billy says, I'm weirded out too. They were just so funny together.

Wendy (15:33.958)
They are so funny.

Kelli (15:35.357)
They were, but was it frustrating either of you was she wouldn't let him talk? Like she kept talking over him. I'm like, this poor guy looked so uncomfortable and she knows he's so uncomfortable. Just let him do it and get it over with.

Lori (15:39.891)
Of course. Yeah.

Lori (15:45.88)
comfortable doing it, yes. Right. Yeah. So he says they're yeah, he says they're like two ships in the night going off in different directions, caught off in stuff that's not important. And you know, they have had bad times, good times, scary times, and they put all their focus on Selena and, you know And then he's so funny. He said, which we will always do, but the two of us

Wendy (15:51.888)
She can't help herself.

Kelli (15:53.542)
I know.

Wendy (16:13.766)
Yeah.

Lori (16:14.507)
are always kicking the can down the road. Like, what? And yeah. So Alicia said this is the bo the best moment you've ever done for me. And then so they have bring and then it's so funny. So he does the whole proposal thing and they have champagne brought over and I'm laughing hysterical. She starts telling the guy, this is a big deal. He didn't get on his knee last time. He didn't ask my mother

Wendy (16:16.997)
Ha ha ha.

Lori (16:43.541)
He's like, focus on this moment, Alicia. He's just Yeah. Yeah.

Kelli (16:46.003)
Exactly. She kept saying over. He's not a romantic guy. It is the first time basically it sucked like, all right, we get it. Give him this moment now.

Wendy (16:46.234)
Ha ha ha

Lori (16:53.419)
Yeah.

Wendy (16:55.366)
Well, how about when he tries to pull the ring off her finger?

Lori (16:56.651)
So funny.

Lori (17:00.767)
yeah. So pulling her finger off. Yeah. Alicia says, I'm so proud of you. Sh and then I love this. She says, We were meant to be together or else I would have had I wouldn't have stuck around this long. You know a lot of guys like me.

Kelli (17:00.847)
Kelli (17:15.219)
Yeah, that was great. That was great when she said that. He's like, what are you talking about other guys for? He's like, well, you know, they like me.

Wendy (17:15.376)
Ha ha ha

Lori (17:17.197)
So funny. Yay. You know they like me. So funny. That's great. and they go inside and Rosie and her husband congratulate them. Rosie F says she got a new ring. Alicia says no, but she wants a second ring so big that her hand falls over. Brian comes down and congratulates them. Joel and goes to Ruella's room.

Wendy (17:22.778)
Ha ha ha.

Kelli (17:27.3)
That was funny.

Wendy (17:39.686)
Mm.

Lori (17:47.241)
And

Gary has to talk to Brian. He says Joelan's being called a liar. Brian says that him and Rula are good, but it keeps being brought up. He admits to everything and he's just like, I just want everybody to stop talking. So that's when Ruella said when she was on her deathbed when she was talking to Jo Ellen. Yeah.

Kelli (18:12.093)
ridiculous.

Wendy (18:14.126)
Yeah, it was ridiculous that yeah.

Lori (18:15.82)
Yeah.

So and then Gary tells everybody in the bar that Brian admitted to the video. I was like, my God. Yeah, yeah. And Alicia in her confessional says, This guy Brian has a lot of work. my god. So then they go outside for the clam bake, which I was very jealous of 'cause I'm very hungry and it looked delicious with all the seafood. And then this was great.

Kelli (18:24.915)
They're like, what?

Wendy (18:25.734)
I'm glad he did. I'm glad he did.

Kelli (18:28.093)
Yeah.

Kelli (18:33.789)
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Kelli (18:40.21)
Yeah.

It did.

Lori (18:47.297)
This is classic Alicia. Liz was saying she was cold. Billy says, it's okay, I got you and he picks up one of the outside heaters and he's picking it up and bringing it over to him. And Alicia's like, Billy, you carry that torch, you Greek stallion motherfucker. I was like, my god, she is so body. But she she definitely got lit. She definitely got a little lit at this, yeah.

Wendy (18:58.46)
yes.

Wendy (19:06.234)
Ha ha ha

Kelli (19:12.785)
Yeah. Yeah. She wouldn't stop talking at this table either.

Lori (19:16.629)
You wouldn't know she wouldn't stop talking either. So then they do Clamshell Confessional, which is like a newlywed game. Joelyn gets asked who is the most likely to have a safe word. Rosie answers that it's Joelyn. Joelyn says I was gonna say you. and then Ashley get it has the question, what is the quality of someone in this group that you wish you had?

And she says she'd love to command a room with confidence like Liz or the friendliness to dwell in. She would just like to walk in anywhere and be like, Hi Kelsey said, What is your favorite memory of an experience from this summer? And she says the masquerade dinner, 'cause we all s talked about stuff we didn't normally talk about. Liz got what's something you have never told this group or probably should. Slick move with Liz, 'cause she

passed it right on to somebody else. Yes. Yeah, she says this question is not for her and she tells the group ev 'cause she tells the group everything.

Wendy (20:17.616)
To Jared.

Kelli (20:22.171)
Yeah, and her and Gary both said, we're open books, we tell everybody everything.

Lori (20:30.591)
Yeah, okay. Yeah. And she said, who am I gonna direct this question to? Everybody wants me to say Brian, but I'm going with Jared. So he just said that, you know, Rhode Island is his home. Blah blah blah. And then so what moment Go ahead.

Wendy (20:31.237)
Yeah.

Wendy (20:48.314)
He I was gonna say Jared is so funny because he even said, like, you guys probably know more about me than I do. Like and I think he's probably right because Ashley's always, you know, talking and, you know he wasn't around that much. Like we didn't get to see Jared in the group that much.

Lori (20:56.128)
Yeah.

Kelli (21:00.295)
Yeah.

Lori (21:01.857)
Yeah. No. No. And

Kelli (21:04.881)
No, they're not that dynamic and captivating for reality TV, but we'll see. I'm sure they'll be back.

Wendy (21:12.942)
Maybe because of maybe because of the other storylines that were going on, you know?

Kelli (21:17.489)
Yeah. Yeah.

Lori (21:19.085)
Yeah, I mean all they had is the stupid coffee shop. Stay or go. You know what I mean? Like it's not that interesting. Your coffee shop, you know. Then Alicia, what was the moment that you truly appreciated with someone on this trip and why? She said when her and Liz went in the Rolls Royce at a castle and Rosie when I told her off and she accepted it and understood where I was coming from. So funny. And then

Kelli (21:23.111)
Right. Yeah. Yeah. Right.

Lori (21:47.948)
What's rule against what's the most embarrassing thing your partner has done in public. Come on now, production. Come on now, production. Yeah. And Kelsey was very nice. She says you don't always have to ask your spouse if you want to ask somebody else, you could do that. And then she gives it to Gary about Joelyn and he said she really doesn't embarrass herself much. I was like, smart man, Gary. Kelsey is the one person in the group who will stab you in the back.

Kelli (21:53.597)
They're like, that's God. That's God. Yeah.

Kelli (22:12.903)
Yeah, for sure.

Lori (22:18.517)
That smile on your face. Kelsey gives it to Rula. And Rolla says earlier this summer I might have said Joelin because what we have been through, but we have talked and I'll feel that way. And out of everybody in this group, I hope that no one would have done that. Alicia says we are all girls, girls, including Joelin. We all have you back. And then this is when I was like, boy, Alicia's had too much to drink.

Kelli (22:46.247)
Yeah, she just, I mean, especially because Joellen and Rula had already had their conversation. yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Lori (22:53.909)
Right. It was done and over with. Right.

Wendy (22:56.912)
think that they all knew that because then Rosie chimes in also. I don't that's the thing is Brian told not Brian, Gary told everyone that Brian admitted it to it, but they don't know that Jo Ellenerie had the conversation with Rula. And so

Kelli (22:59.036)
Right.

Lori (23:10.167)
With rula, right.

Kelli (23:11.205)
Right, because they came down into the bar area and then they went outside. Right.

Lori (23:14.878)
Right.

Wendy (23:15.183)
Right.

Lori (23:18.229)
And then what do you guys think of Brian's speech?

Wendy (23:22.462)
my gosh.

Kelli (23:24.409)
I think Brian trips over his words and I think Brian, you know, listen, he's guilty. He might as well be wearing the Scarlet Letter on his chest. I think he's so flustered when he's around these people because he knows they all know he's guilty. So like, what can he say? He should have just kept his mouth shut.

Lori (23:34.975)
Uh-huh. Absolutely.

Lori (23:43.105)
Right.

Right. He should have said exactly he should've said Jack shit is what he should've said.

Kelli (23:50.587)
Right. Or, you know, listen, I love my wife. I made a big mistake. I love her and we're moving forward. Boom.

Lori (23:56.748)
That's it. That's all he had to say. But you know, he had to give a big speech, you know, gotta look to the future. I'm not proud of everything, but I'm proud of this woman and how she handles things. I should thank you because now we're the most popular couple. Well let's look to the future. my god.

Kelli (24:11.699)
Oh my God. And listen, I do think he was kidding. I do think he was saying that in Jack, but Joe Allen was like,

Lori (24:17.245)
Mm-hmm. yeah. absolutely. No. And this is what Right, right. And this is when Alicia keeps saying to Joelin, You had her back, you weren't trying to ruin her. Tell her, tell her, tell her. But how about Rosie with telling Joelin, It's not your fault, the problem is sitting next to me.

Kelli (24:24.157)
She did not like that. But it was definitely a joke, obviously.

Wendy (24:43.834)
Yes. Yeah, because like I said, they didn't know. Like they didn't know that the conversation happened. But what about while this is going on, Brian is talking to Rula with his arm around her waist. And do you see how he had it so tight? Well, he's like whispering to her? What did he say? thank you thank you for you know putting aside your ego. She goes, Ego, and then he said, I mean pride.

Kelli (24:43.987)
Yep.

Right.

Lori (24:49.943)
Right.

Lori (25:01.794)
Yeah.

Kelli (25:02.183)
Yeah, that-

Kelli (25:06.461)
putting aside your ego.

Lori (25:08.459)
Yeah. You go. And he goes Yeah. Yeah. Right. Thank you for putting aside your pride for the good of our family.

Wendy (25:12.678)
I'm like what? What and while he's like squeezing her.

Kelli (25:21.117)
Yeah, like the way he was holding her, you're right, it was a little...

Wendy (25:24.184)
It was so controlling. It was honestly, it was controlling. It was very controlling. It was controlling. And honestly, I really I was like Ugh.

Kelli (25:26.663)
Yes, that's the perfect word for it. Yeah.

Lori (25:33.399)
And there's there's a reason why production kept focusing on it also. You know, that's kinda telling too, 'cause it wasn't just like one camera shot so everybody could see, like, he's being so nice holding like it was it was really focused on it several times. So

Kelli (25:39.197)
Yeah. Yeah.

Wendy (25:56.593)
Yeah. Did not like that. Did not like that. I'll tell you what I'm excited about is that we have the husbands on this reunion. We have not had a cast of husbands on a reunion since Jersey. We haven't. We really haven't. And

Lori (26:00.235)
No.

Kelli (26:00.455)
No.

Kelli (26:07.386)
yeah.

Lori (26:12.77)
Yeah.

Kelli (26:14.897)
And I love these guys because they kind of remind me of the Jersey, not their, not their friendships, but just how they are. Like they just seem like Jersey guys, you know, they're like the guys were always around. So I like that. I'm, glad they're on it.

Lori (26:22.113)
Mm-hmm. Yes, yes.

Wendy (26:30.808)
I am too. And also, I mean, when was the last time we had a whole cast of married people or couples too? That's been a long time too.

Kelli (26:37.533)
So I was thinking that while I was watching this, I'm like, my God, are they all married? And then I was like, no, well obviously Alicia and Billy aren't, but they might as well be. And so basically Kelsey's the only one, but she is in a relationship. I was thinking that too, like we have no single housewives for the first time in a long time.

Wendy (26:44.846)
Not k and neither's Kelsey.

Lori (26:55.147)
Right.

Wendy (26:55.46)
Right. A long time. A very long time. Which I like. I mean I really do like it. I like the dynamic that it brings to the group, you know, I like that dynamic 'cause it's called housewives.

Kelli (27:00.786)
Yeah, no.

Kelli (27:04.731)
Right, because typically when we have a single house, and typically when we have a single housewife, if they're in a real relationship, they're not showing us because they don't want to fuck it up by being on a reality TV show. So it's kind of nice.

Lori (27:08.075)
Right.

Lori (27:15.243)
Right. Right. Right.

Wendy (27:20.1)
Yeah. I mean, you know what? The then the other thing is like when we have these housewives, right, and they start out as married and then they wind up as divorced. I that's one thing, right? But like with Salt but with Salt Lake City, I mean Heather Gay started out single. Like she started out single and she's still single. who else started out single?

Kelli (27:29.669)
yeah.

Wendy (27:43.963)
Well, I guess you could say the same thing about Sutton. You know what? Sutton started out single too. Like she started out divorced, right? And I think it's interesting that they would hire like housewives like that. I mean, I get it if you're in a relationship and it ends or you're married and it ends, but to hire somebody for a housewife franchise that isn't even couples, right.

Lori (27:47.371)
Right. Single, absolutely. Right. Yeah.

Kelli (27:50.781)
Yeah.

Lori (28:07.445)
Isn't it wife? Right.

Kelli (28:09.361)
It's just part of the evolution of the franchise though, because obviously we say this all the time, Housewives started out as married women with children in affluent areas of the country. You know what I mean?

Wendy (28:13.541)
Yeah.

Wendy (28:22.156)
Giselle also. Giselle was never married. Giselle's never been married.

Kelli (28:25.211)
Right, so it just, it's the evolution of the show, I, you now it's just who will make good TV. I hate that.

Wendy (28:29.626)
Yeah.

Wendy (28:34.542)
Mm-hmm. I do too. I do too.

Lori (28:36.393)
Up. And then they did little things with showing each person kind of 'cause you know it was the end of the season, their little blah blah blah. it was funny with Kelsey, hers said her and Bill continue to grow, as do the bills in Kelsey's life now that her ex is no longer paying the rent. And luckily she's learned to write a check. I thought that was funny. Yeah. Yeah.

Kelli (29:00.667)
She's like, comma, he's like, no dot. Comma, no dot.

Lori (29:06.379)
Yeah. And Alicia and Bill are planning their wedding nine years later. she's taken on a big greater creative role in Pizza Mama and she's gonna do her own cracker line. I thought that was cute. And then and then of course they save Rula and Brian for last. So Rula forgave Brian about the video and hope to close the chapter of the most stressful summer of her life. Unfortunately the full wasn't much better.

Wendy (29:18.63)
Yeah.

Lori (29:35.095)
And then they say one month later and then they talk about how Brian is guilty of domestic violence and Rula filed a no contact order, blah blah blah. So

Kelli (29:48.593)
Yeah, and they picked cameras right back up. So, Joellen went to Liz's house, but did everybody else go over to Rueless for the most part?

Kelli (30:00.562)
I feel like they were kind of split.

Lori (30:00.663)
What do you mean?

Wendy (30:03.556)
Wait, there was more after that?

Kelli (30:06.961)
Yeah, didn't you see when the girls were at Rula's house?

Wendy (30:09.848)
No No, I stopped watching there because I thought it was Watch What Happens Live.

Kelli (30:16.241)
No, the girls went to Rula's house, Joellen went to Liz's house. You didn't see that?

Lori (30:20.319)
In this episode

Wendy (30:20.334)
Okay, you'll have to let us know.

Kelli (30:23.187)
All right, am I making this up? I swear I just watched it before we came on. And she told, cause whoever was there, somebody said, he's not allowed here, right? And she's like, no.

Lori (30:32.373)
I thought that was the coming episode for next

Wendy (30:37.186)
Next is the reunion. I didn't see that, to be honest with you. It must have been I mean, I I didn't watch it on Peacock, I watched it in the D VR.

Kelli (30:40.552)
Yeah.

Because she said she took the vehicle, whatever she drives, I forget what car she drives, she took it to the dealership and she said, I think I'm being tracked. And they said, we cannot touch that car. You have to go right to the police station. And that's why she went to the police station and that's why charges were pressed.

Lori (30:43.593)
I watched it on Peacock. I didn't see it.

Lori (30:58.253)
Please station.

Kelli (31:04.935)
Wow, so you...

Wendy (31:04.992)
no, I didn't see that either.

Lori (31:07.189)
I don't know what happened. I'm tired. I don't know.

Kelli (31:09.979)
No, I hear you. honestly, think I... No, I watched it on Peacock when I got home from work today. And I was so tired. This weekend was so exhausting. I actually dozed off at the end and then I caught myself. But I definitely saw that. I sure did.

Wendy (31:10.65)
Well you watched it in the D V R, Kelly?

Wendy (31:28.95)
you must have woke up at one point. Yeah. So I that's so weird. I just watched it too when I got home from work, to be quite honest with you. And no, I watched it in the D VR and there was still some left, but after that that whole statement, like it was going to the commercial, and I was like, okay, that's it. And I figured next is watch what happens live. Yeah, we're gonna have to check it.

Kelli (31:35.271)
Did you watch it on Peacock?

Lori (31:46.869)
Right.

Kelli (31:47.847)
Would we get off?

Yeah, yeah, check it. It wasn't a long scene, but that's what happened. I'm pretty sure all the other girls went to Rula's except Liz and Joellen for some reason. Which I don't know why Liz wouldn't have gone, I don't know.

Lori (31:52.119)
All right.

Wendy (31:53.242)
But I did l

Lori (32:02.262)
okay.

Wendy (32:03.771)
So

I don't know either.

Lori (32:07.093)
You'd think they you'd think that they would have made like a bigger a bigger scene out of that, like a bigger made a bigger deal out of that type of scene.

Kelli (32:17.331)
So I think Rula was trying to, I mean obviously he's caught red handed, he did it, but when she said that she tried just to go to the dealership and then they made her go to the police station, not that she's trying to downplay it, but she's definitely, she's definitely trying to downplay her going to the police, like they made her go to the police station, you know what I mean? And quite honestly, like what you said before about him holding her tight,

Lori (32:31.627)
Mm.

Wendy (32:31.878)
she is though. That's downplaying it.

Lori (32:42.124)
Mm-hmm.

Kelli (32:46.267)
I think that has more to do with what goes on behind their closed doors and the repercussions she might face from him for going to the police station. I wonder if he's back in the house. He probably is, right? Well, we saw them on Watch What Happens Live together. He's back.

Wendy (32:48.762)
Yes.

Wendy (32:57.754)
No, I agree.

No he is. No, he is. He they are yeah, yeah.

Lori (33:00.749)
Well.

Kelli (33:04.711)
Yeah, because Joellen told Liz I heard the mistress picked him up from the police station when they brought him in to arrest him.

Lori (33:09.974)
Right.

Wendy (33:13.37)
You saw that, Lori?

Lori (33:15.337)
I saw like I don't know what I saw. I really don't. Maybe I did see it. Yeah, so I just

Kelli (33:19.537)
Well, you were doing notes too, so sometimes it's hard, you know, and we were under the gun to get the episode out, so it's like, know.

Wendy (33:19.558)
So funny.

Wendy (33:23.366)
I know, I know, listen.

Lori (33:27.369)
And I have se and I've seen little like social media clips too. So I might have seen that whole scene. Yeah, you know how that gets.

Kelli (33:31.292)
Right.

Yes, see that's what's hard when you're on social media and you don't remember where you saw things. Like it was so late last night when I was watching Atlanta and I was taking notes, poor Tess came in, she laid in my bed, she's like, oh, what are you watching? I'm like, I can't talk, I have to finish these notes. I have to focus on the show. She was like, all right, whatever. But it was like 11.30 and I had, know, the gazebo's up, but it was, I had to get involved, which.

Lori (33:41.057)
Where you saw it exactly.

Lori (33:54.75)
All right.

Lori (34:03.487)
Of course. Right, right, right.

Kelli (34:03.547)
I don't like that. And it was all to peel plastic for hours because every piece of that metal roof was wrapped in some sticky ass plastic that had to be peeled off.

Wendy (34:06.543)
He or ya.

Lori (34:16.237)
and you had to peel it all off. Messing up your nails.

Kelli (34:19.123)
It took probably five hours longer than it should have taken to build that thing because of that. But anyway, I digress. So it was late, but yeah, but that did happen at the end of the episode, which I'm sure next week at the reunion, we'll see that again. Yeah.

Lori (34:23.821)
dude, that's no good. Okay. Yeah. So we're

Lori (34:35.113)
yeah, we play it. Yeah.

Wendy (34:36.47)
Yeah, it'll definitely come up. So I l I listened to Watch What Happens Live on my way home from work before I even saw the episode. And Alicia was there and some of the questions Andy asked her were about the reunion and one of them was who had the most to answer for? That was Rula. Who left with not getting like the resolution?

that was needed. That was Liz. what were the other questions he asked her?

Kelli (35:13.971)
Well that makes sense since she just posted that like, I don't even want to call it an apology because it wasn't an apology but it was something.

Wendy (35:17.764)
Yes.

Yes, I yes, exactly. That does make sense.

Wendy (35:28.102)
who did you who have you talked to since the reunion is over? She said, Joelyn and Rosie at like the same, you know, at the same time. Did you go out with anyone to dinner after the reunion? And she said, Joelyn, Rosie, and Kelsey. I thought that was telling. I like that Kelsey and Rosie were there together with her. Lee we're we're not.

Kelli (35:51.123)
So that means Liz and Rula were.

Right, so Ashley, Kelsey, and Rosie. not Ashley.

Wendy (35:57.089)
Or Ashley. No, not Ashley. Not Ashley. Not Ashley. But no.

Lori (36:02.323)
No. Ashley Ashley doesn't really do anything. She like this is her job and then she's out.

Wendy (36:07.554)
Yeah. Yeah. I mean her children are small. She does have two small children. Yeah. what else was asked?

Lori (36:10.859)
Yes, absolutely. Yeah.

Wendy (36:18.734)
I don't know, that's all I can remember. Again, like my brain is fried as well. It's way too much.

Lori (36:21.195)
Yeah. Everybody's brain's fried. You're all exhausted. Yeah. It's just too much. It's all too much. It's just all too much. So we shall see. God, no.

Kelli (36:22.577)
Yeah, we're all exhausted. We're all exo-

Ha ha ha ha ha.

and I didn't watch the after show.

Wendy (36:34.402)
No. No, they don't have an after show, do they? yes they do. I didn't watch it either, yeah. I don't watch it either. Whatever.

Lori (36:38.251)
They do, yeah. No, no, no. So we shall see.

Kelli (36:38.481)
Yeah, they do.

Kelli (36:42.279)
The problem is we try to record this every Monday night and they air obviously Sunday night. So a lot of times we can only watch one on Sunday night and we have to watch the other one and we all work.

Wendy (36:54.894)
Right. You all work.

Kelli (36:56.561)
So we're not complaining, we're just trying to put it in perspective.

Lori (36:56.727)
So it's a lot.

Lori (37:01.141)
Yeah. Just trying to explain our empty noggins is

Wendy (37:05.466)
Yes, it would be nice if Bravo would s split it up and not give us two episodes in one night. Like that is too much for us. Really is.

Kelli (37:11.249)
Yeah. Right. Bravo. Do us a solid.

Lori (37:12.909)
There you go. Yeah.

Yeah. So we'll see we shall see with the reunion.

Wendy (37:23.14)
Yeah. And we know it's only a two part reun a two part reunion, which I'm so fine with. Like we don't need to have this long drawn out like just get to the meat of it. Let's see what's going on and let's move on.

Lori (37:24.491)
And it thank God.

Kelli (37:24.541)
Should be a good one.

Lori (37:29.175)
Thank God.

Kelli (37:29.233)
Me too.

Kelli (37:34.803)
Yeah, because when there's three, there's always a filler episode. And it's like, this is the reunion. We don't need a filler episode. Like I get it during the season you have to, but not the reunion. Just give us, give us the basics.

Lori (37:35.149)
Yeah, nice go by.

Wendy (37:38.543)
Yes.

Yeah.

Lori (37:46.977)
Yeah. Yeah. Two and done. Move on. So, I forgot to do our call to action. So if everyone could please do us a solid, follow us on social media, all the platforms. Please follow us on YouTube. Please give us lovely reviews. And we'll see you next time.

Kelli (37:50.291)
Right, Yeah.

Kelli (38:12.793)
Bye.

Wendy (38:13.04)
Bye.

Lori (38:13.794)
Bye.