Small State, Big Drama: RHORI Episode 1 Recap

Wendy (00:01.404)
Hi, welcome to We Warm and Ever, I'm Wendy.

Kelli (00:05.09)
I'm Kelly.

Lori (00:06.123)
and I'm Lori.

Wendy (00:07.674)
We are here doing Real Housewives of Rhode Island Season 1, Episode Number 1, Welcome to Rhode Island. What do you ladies think?

Kelli (00:18.157)
I loved it.

Lori (00:19.786)
I loved it.

Wendy (00:21.444)
Lori?

Kelli (00:22.04)
Lord.

Lori (00:22.666)
Well, it's a housewife show. Listen, this is not my wheelhouse. It's not my genre. do it. they seemed all right. I guess I liked them probably a little more than most because they're like close to Jersey girl type. You know what I mean? So that I've definitely found relatable. So we'll see.

Kelli (00:28.312)
But what did you think of the ladies?

Wendy (00:40.079)
Yeah.

Wendy (00:46.106)
loved it.

Kelli (00:46.254)
Yeah, I just felt like, yeah, good, you loved it too.

Wendy (00:49.57)
Loved it, yeah.

Kelli (00:51.33)
Listen, it was very early Jersey-ish to me, except for the fact that, and this is no shade to Jersey, but these women are wealthy. Wealthy. When Jersey first came on, Caroline was probably the wealthiest, but I don't know if it came close to what these women have got going on there. but.

Lori (01:08.652)
Mm-hmm.

Kelli (01:15.564)
The connections between the women to me, like it was so organic and it was very interesting throughout the episode to find out how intertwined they really were and how they knew each other.

Lori (01:28.192)
Yeah, because what was the last Housewives show where there was that real intertwining of connections.

Kelli (01:37.794)
The last one to come on, because I was thinking about this, was probably Salt Lake City, because the ladies knew each other prior to it. New York, the reboot, they did not. And I think that that's why it didn't do well. And quite honestly, I think this is why the New Jersey isn't gonna do well. But we'll see. I'm trash talking the New Jersey, so.

Lori (01:45.398)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Lori (01:49.536)
They did not know.

Lori (01:58.688)
Maybe.

Yeah. But you know, you're from a small town. You've lived in this whole, your town your whole life. you know, I'm sure when you go to work and wherever you go, I mean, we know you always know somebody because you grew up in this town. So it's that kind of connection that those housewives have.

Kelli (02:13.932)
That's it. Yup, I've-

Yeah, I've been in BRICK my entire life and it's a joke at the salon. Every time a new client comes in, I know somebody who knows them or I know them or their brother or sister. It's like three degrees of separation from Kelly, so it's a big joke. But that's why I loved this show so far.

Lori (02:35.616)
Okay.

Kelli (02:36.59)
starts out, meet Alicia, her daughter Selena, and her fiance Bill. They, she comes from a big Italian family, which we meet some of. And she and Billy got engaged when she was seven months pregnant with Selena, and they'd been engaged for nine years, but they don't seem to be in a big rush to get married. Her family seems to want them to get married.

Lori (03:01.504)
Well, Italian families are like that, are you kidding? And I like how they only moved 15 minutes away from where her family is, but her family is coming over for dinner and the whole aunt's, five of them or whoever it is, the cousin are acting like they got to drive, you know, an hour and a half when it's 15 minutes away. And we meet Aunt Judy, who I have an Aunt Judy who's awesome.

Wendy (03:01.698)
Yes.

Kelli (03:03.991)
Yeah, exactly.

Lori (03:28.758)
But Aunt Judy is definitely my favorite because before she gets out of the car, she's hitting on the flask. that's good stuff.

Kelli (03:35.98)
Yeah. Not only she hitting on the flash when they walk in, Billy's got lines, lines, God forbid, got shots lined up for them on the counter. Not lines, sorry. It wasn't that good. Yeah, this isn't Seaside circa 1988, sorry.

Wendy (03:43.962)
haha

Lori (03:44.876)
Not the 80s anymore

Lori (03:51.966)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Wendy (03:52.442)
I also, I like that Billy owns a bunch of restaurants and she said her favorite one is Pizza Mama. So, you know, that's interesting.

Kelli (04:04.716)
Yes, yeah. And then she starts talking, the aunts ask her, like, have you seen Liz? So she talks, she explains how she's known Liz since she was born, the other housewife, and I thought there was a connection with Alicia's mom with Liz, but I don't remember exactly what it was. I don't think Liz is all that much older than Alicia, but she is a little bit older. And then we go to.

Lori (04:04.79)
Yeah.

Kelli (04:33.164)
Liz's house, which I thought was amazing.

Lori (04:37.29)
Yeah, right on the water with a big long dock into the water. Very nice.

Wendy (04:42.266)
They said she lives in a castle. That's what they called it, a castle. It was beautiful. Yeah.

Kelli (04:43.587)
Yeah.

It was, it really was. So we meet Liz, her husband, Jerry, her pet. Kanji, Kanji. Yeah. So she and Jerry were married for six months and they found out through 20 and me or 23 and me, whatever the hell that is. I would never do it because I don't want to know.

Lori (04:54.848)
cat. very, Gandhi, her very expensive cat. That's a very expensive cat.

Wendy (04:56.931)
Hahaha!

Kelli (05:14.986)
they were related down the line and he had three daughters when they met. They own a dispensary. So as soon as she said they owned a dispensary, I thought this must be her connection to Dolores.

Wendy (05:17.464)
Yes.

Wendy (05:29.273)
Absolutely.

Kelli (05:31.05)
And then later in the episode we find out. Now, I noticed her jeans. Her jeans were so cool. Like I'm gonna look it up. You know it's amazing what you can find on the internet. Like when we talk about Beverly Hills, there's one scene of Kyle and she's wearing a lipstick and you know, I gotta know. So I'm looking up. I think I found out the lipstick she was wearing. Like you can literally find out anything. I mean it might.

Lori (05:33.194)
be fine.

Lori (05:41.068)
I have to look at them.

Kelli (06:00.108)
It might be bullshit, but I'm gonna probably go look for this lipstick now. But I'm gonna have to look into these jeans, because they were very cool. So now we meet Liz. So Liz hops in her dinghy to go have lunch with Kelsey, and she tells us that she grew up with Kelsey's boyfriend.

Lori (06:03.414)
Go look for it,

Wendy (06:16.504)
You

Lori (06:25.14)
And you like her outfit that she's wearing in the dinghy? Hysterical. Like her whole outfit was hysterical in the dinghy boat. It was like, I don't think so. think it's just her outfit that she was wearing. had on like these motorcycle type boots and this thing on her head. I was like, look at you.

Kelli (06:27.66)
Yes. I couldn't, I couldn't tell if it was like a, yeah, like I couldn't tell if it was like a boat thing or if that was just her outfit that she was wearing.

Wendy (06:28.16)
Yes, I did too.

Kelli (06:47.83)
Yeah. Yeah.

Wendy (06:49.1)
And her hat blew off in the water.

Lori (06:51.084)
Mm-hmm.

Kelli (06:52.28)
But then did she have a hood on when she got off the boat? Like I felt like the outfit had a hood. Yeah.

Wendy (06:55.257)
Well, think she put the hood on because she lost her hat.

Lori (06:57.418)
Yeah, no.

I don't know what's going on.

Kelli (07:01.37)
got it. It was a cool outfit, though. So we meet Kelsey now. Kelsey has been a lady of leisure for 10 years. She lives in her boyfriend's home, which has four kitchens.

Lori (07:14.412)
which is 16,000 square feet. 16.

Kelli (07:19.342)
Well, if you have four kitchens, you probably need close to that. 79 TVs.

Lori (07:22.124)
It better be big. Yeah, 70, 79 TVs. Yeah.

Kelli (07:28.494)
She didn't show his face, if you noticed, when she showed the picture, his face was blown, blurred out. They met on a boat and his family is one of the most prominent families in Rhode Island.

Lori (07:31.69)
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Kelli (07:42.368)
And then she drops that he dates other women.

Lori (07:44.854)
BOMB!

Yeah, that he leaves her for like five months and goes and lives with somebody else, some other broad in Miami and then comes back. What a life he's got, man. Switch it, Ro.

Kelli (07:55.744)
in Miami.

I mean, again, unorthodox, but it does sound like he was very upfront when they started dating. Like, this is my life.

Lori (08:06.956)
Oh yeah, I'm sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And listen, as a young girl, I'm sure you look at all that goings on and you're like, oh, well, okay. But as we see, as the episode goes on, she's getting a little older and I think it's getting a little old.

Wendy (08:26.412)
Well, she was 19 when she met him. And we also, she tells us that she was Miss Rhode Island, but he's the one who encouraged her to do that. And, you know, he lets her, she even said this, exact words, he allows her to live a life of not having to work and live in luxury. And it happened that my oldest son was sitting next to me when I was watching this and he's like, see, I like how she put that. Like, I like how she put that. And then when he heard that,

Lori (08:35.702)
Mm-hmm.

Wendy (08:56.268)
The boyfriend sees other women, he goes, I want that. Would you be all right with that? I said, absolutely not. Absolutely not. No, no, I would not.

Lori (09:02.72)
Mm-hmm.

Kelli (09:08.142)
I I don't know what this guy does for a living or if he does anything for a living, but it sounds like there's family wealth here. So it could be that he's not necessarily, yeah, he's not necessarily funding her lavish lifestyle, but it could possibly be his family that is doing so, but who gives a shit?

Wendy (09:17.988)
definitely.

Lori (09:18.124)
Oh, there's a big, it's a big night.

Wendy (09:22.892)
Yeah.

Lori (09:24.108)
There's a big mouth there.

Wendy (09:29.608)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Lori (09:30.622)
Right, right.

Kelli (09:31.692)
You know, she's had a good 10 year run. If she wants to make a change now, it would be interesting though to see like if she went to him and was like, this just isn't for me anymore. If he would, doesn't sound like he would change, but.

Lori (09:41.824)
Well, no, because she said, she said he is who he is. He set in his ways that he's, she doesn't think he's going to change. She did say that. So.

Kelli (09:53.453)
Yeah, but imagine that, like, just letting her walk away after 10 years and being like, alright, peace.

Wendy (09:53.919)
He's... He's...

Wendy (09:59.319)
Well, he's a lot older than her. I mean, that's the other thing. He's a lot older than her. you know, he's in a different place in his life. If I...

Kelli (10:01.421)
Yeah.

Lori (10:02.689)
Yeah.

Lori (10:08.182)
Mm-hmm.

Kelli (10:08.942)
Yeah, because Liz said she's the oldest and she went to school with him.

Wendy (10:13.748)
Yes. Yes. So my guess is you gotta be.

Lori (10:15.648)
Right. But who knows? He could have been a different grade. He could have been like a year older than Liz or two years old. You're like, who knows?

Wendy (10:23.671)
Yeah. My guess is he's probably 20 years older than her. I'm thinking we're looking at at least 20 years older, at least 20 years older than her. Yes. Yeah. Because well, listen, she was 19 when she met him. We find out at the end, she's 31 now. You know? Yeah. He, you know, he could very easily be in his 50s, right?

Lori (10:28.309)
Are we thanks?

Kelli (10:31.352)
You think that much?

Lori (10:32.266)
I would think so.

Kelli (10:47.886)
Yeah, you're right. Because Liz is probably, yeah, Liz is probably close to 50, if not 50, right? Like around that age, yeah.

Lori (10:48.252)
absolutely if not even a little older.

Lori (10:54.805)
Absolutely.

Wendy (10:54.806)
I think Liz's in her 50s, yeah, is my guess. I'm guessing, I'm just guessing.

Kelli (10:58.208)
Okay. Right.

Lori (10:58.358)
Yeah.

Kelli (11:03.628)
Well, that's a lot to give up, but you know, if she wants to get married and have kids, then that's definitely a choice she's gonna have to make. So then we go to Wakefield, Rhode Island, and we meet Joellen and Gary, her husband. They met in high school, but I'm pretty sure he dated her sister in high school. So I think we need more context about that, and I think we're gonna get it.

Lori (11:11.308)
then that's definitely, yep.

Wendy (11:14.325)
Yep.

Lori (11:26.518)
sister.

Kelli (11:33.218)
We got a little bit.

Lori (11:33.504)
Yeah, well, she said her sister dated him, but she wanted him. She chased him and she got him. That's what she

Wendy (11:43.168)
Yep. And he was a senior and she was a freshman.

Kelli (11:45.582)
There you go.

Lori (11:48.428)
Mm-hmm.

Kelli (11:48.738)
Right. She said her.

Wendy (11:50.016)
Listen, she looks like the kind of person, she gets what she wants.

Kelli (11:54.415)
For sure, for sure. She said her mouth gets her into trouble and she basically apologizes to him because she says it hasn't been easy being married to her. Interesting. They have three kids. is one, Jian is 10 and Jolie is three. And I love the way she spelled Jolie because if Joe were a girl.

Lori (12:06.322)
Mm-hmm. I know all about that.

Wendy (12:09.717)
Mm-hmm

Lori (12:11.084)
Apologize all times, my dear.

Kelli (12:20.43)
know, Joe's named after my father-in-law. So if we had Tess, and then if we had another girl, we were gonna name Joe Lee, spelled exactly like that for my father-in-law. I love

Lori (12:28.605)
that's cute.

Wendy (12:30.997)
How did they spell it? I missed it.

Kelli (12:31.574)
I. J. O. L. I. E. So Jolie, just Jolie. think I think Angelina Jolie, I think her last name is spelled that way as well. Her job sounds so cool, Joellen, she works in aesthetic sales, so she doesn't sell the equipment, but after it's sold, she goes into the plastic surgeons and many spas to teach them how to use the equipment.

Lori (12:41.991)
Mm-hmm.

Lori (12:46.344)
Yes, sounds fun.

Lori (12:58.538)
Mm-hmm. That's like fun.

Kelli (13:00.684)
That was very

Wendy (13:02.963)
That explains the lips.

Kelli (13:05.93)
It explains the whole thing. I mean, she looks... She looks good, yeah.

Lori (13:08.364)
Whole yeah, I'm not saying I wouldn't be right up on that bandwagon

Wendy (13:11.903)
She does.

Kelli (13:15.242)
Me too. Whatever machine I'm selling, you're being sold and I'm gonna show you how to use, you can use it on me. Yeah.

Lori (13:17.516)
Yeah, do it up machine, machine it up. Yeah, guinea pig, guinea pig, guinea pig.

Kelli (13:25.87)
Then we go back to Alicia's house in Providence, Rhode Island and Rosie arrives and they've known each other for two years. They've become close. Rosie was a newscaster. She's been on TV. She's been married. Yeah, I actually did really like those. I really liked the pink Jeep and then I really liked the trampoline shoes that they were walking in.

Wendy (13:41.918)
Shows up in her pink Jeep, pink Jeep.

Lori (13:44.586)
And I think you've.

Wendy (13:49.79)
I do too.

Lori (13:52.478)
I want them, but I feel like I would break my hip.

Kelli (13:55.851)
You might have a problem. I don't recommend it for either one of you, actually.

Wendy (13:55.891)
Yeah, you would.

Lori (14:01.644)
No, no, like it looks fun and I would have done it in my younger days, but as of right now No

Wendy (14:02.084)
No, I would not. I would not even try it.

Wendy (14:07.378)
Yeah. I agree. I think we would break our hips.

Kelli (14:07.863)
Yeah.

I think you two are a little bit prone to... Yeah, you guys are a little bit prone to accidents.

Lori (14:13.29)
Yeah. I would have, the only way I could do it is if I wore them and I had that, you know, that big bubble thing that people go and they, they bounce into it. You know what I'm talking about? That big bubble thing. If I had that on, I could rock those shoes and just bounce all over. That'd be great.

Wendy (14:26.772)
Mmm.

Kelli (14:27.532)
Yes.

Yes, yes, just a little cushion insurance around you.

Lori (14:34.556)
Yeah, about about two feet.

Kelli (14:37.614)
HA!

For sure. Now she has a lifestyle show. She's been married to Rich for a year. She has a lifestyle show on Saturdays and Sundays. She's hosting a picnic and she's having some friends come by so they can film it.

Lori (14:41.58)
Yeah. Yeah.

Lori (14:56.748)
I wanted to say this. They were sitting there when they were doing their bouncy shoe thing and looking at this bird. People lived here. You don't know that bird is a heron. Like you call it a stork and a flamingo and a woodpecker.

Kelli (15:10.173)
Yes

Kelli (15:13.742)
You

Kelli (15:19.15)
We have them around here, the blue herons. They eat the koi fish out of people's koi ponds in the summer. If you have a koi pond around here, you have to have a net over it. They're nasty, they can be nasty.

Lori (15:20.778)
Yes! It's a Taron! It's a Taron, like...

Wendy (15:22.131)
Yeah.

Wendy (15:27.793)
Yes, yes they do.

Lori (15:31.85)
Yeah, that's sushi, man.

But I just couldn't believe it, didn't know what a heron was. was like, oh lord.

Kelli (15:40.473)
Well, I don't think we're, you I don't think anybody graduated valedictorian out of this group, you know? No disrespect. No disrespect at all. So now, so now we're, we're meeting everyone, but now we get into a little bit of meat here because Rosie asks Alicia if Joellen's gonna be nice. And Rosie met Joellen through Alicia.

Lori (15:43.678)
Yeah, all right. Nope.

Kelli (16:11.01)
because Alicia and Joe Ellen grew up together. Alicia was actually best friends with Joe Ellen's sister, the one who dated her husband.

Lori (16:19.732)
I couldn't keep track of it. I needed like a for the connections.

Kelli (16:23.214)
Yeah, I think as it goes on it'll be easier. So then we hear from Rosie that Joellen invited the girls to her house for a casual day and then Rosie overheard Joellen saying nasty things when she thought Rosie couldn't hear.

Lori (16:27.326)
easier yeah

Kelli (16:42.294)
And then Rosie says, well, you know, is it true? And then Alicia says something about them being swingers. So this is my take on Rosie. Rosie's gonna act all innocent, like she doesn't do anything wrong, but then she drops the, like, well, is the rumor true? And then she gets Alicia to say that Joellen's a swinger. I think this is Rosie's MO. I don't think Rosie is innocent.

Lori (17:01.58)
Drops, bongs, right.

Lori (17:09.258)
Most definitely.

Yeah, she's got, she's got a lot, she's got a lot of, know, Nancy Drew newscaster in her that she can't help herself.

Wendy (17:12.359)
Rosie's the pot stirrer.

Kelli (17:14.712)
for sure.

Wendy (17:21.267)
I like that.

Kelli (17:21.418)
Right, but she's not, yeah, but she's not owning up to it. She's trying to put it out there like it's everybody else. By the end of the episode, I felt.

Lori (17:23.948)
She's producing her own scenes already. Yeah, she's producing her own scenes. Yeah.

yeah.

Kelli (17:34.83)
And that's when we find out Alicia made a communion and confirmation with Joe Ellen's husband Gary. And she said, I'm not as close as Gary and Jen were. They had a little thing in high school. So that's how we find out that Joe Ellen's sister dated her husband.

Lori (17:52.286)
Mm-hmm.

Wendy (17:56.572)
I did love those gift bags when we see Rosie show up. OMG, those were amazing. I don't know if they were $1,000, like she dropped that number, but those were nice.

Lori (18:00.298)
yes. Very nice.

Kelli (18:02.242)
Yes.

Lori (18:07.882)
But maybe there was something in them. Maybe it was the bag and whatever.

Kelli (18:08.11)
And I'll see you tomorrow.

Wendy (18:11.856)
Yeah, but either way, she didn't pay for them. This was a collab for her segment. She didn't pay for them.

Kelli (18:16.066)
Yeah, right.

Lori (18:16.672)
Right, right, right. They were nice though. Yeah. Yeah, you can swing them over here.

Wendy (18:18.279)
But I did love them. I did love them.

Kelli (18:20.716)
Yeah, the picnic was very cute.

Wendy (18:23.622)
Yes.

Kelli (18:25.132)
Yeah, the picnic was cute. Joellen's a little shady in her confessional out the gate about Rosie. So Joellen and Alicia show up together at the picnic. Obviously, Rosie's already there. And then Ashley comes and we find out that she was from The Bachelor in Paradise and she's Rosie's good friend. So that's how she's gonna fit into this.

Lori (18:43.596)
from Bachelor in Paradise.

Wendy (18:50.643)
And she shows up with a bucket of Dunkin' Donuts because Dunkin' Donuts in Rhode Island, everyone likes Dunkin' Donuts. Okay, I think that's not just Rhode Island. I think they're pretty.

Kelli (19:01.784)
Well, I think she said like it's an East Coast thing and she's from Virginia, but she says I was raised by parents from Jersey. yeah, Dunkin' Donuts. could throw a stone, every corner you turn here, there's a wah-wah or Dunkin' Donuts.

Wendy (19:08.869)
Yes.

Lori (19:12.884)
I found an interesting fact about Dunkin' Donuts that I just found out is I took my daughter to Seton Hall to look at it and they have a Dunkin' Donuts on campus and it's the second highest grossing Dunkin' Donuts in the state. And they had an Auntie Anne's and my daughter's eyes lit up and she was like, okay, I think it's settled.

Kelli (19:29.101)
Wow.

That's very interesting.

Wendy (19:33.703)
Yes.

Kelli (19:41.998)
I think this school might be for me.

Lori (19:43.436)
think it's them, but I think it's them.

Kelli (19:46.255)
Ashley's been married to Hayden for, no, she's married for six years and they have Hayden who was one and Dawson who was three, they're kids. She says like, he's from Rhode Island, I'm not, so it's a little difficult to fit in. I mean, and then I would imagine coming into this group, it's even harder.

Wendy (19:51.131)
Jared, Jared.

Lori (19:59.809)
Mm-hmm.

Lori (20:09.812)
Now want to ask you a question when they're at the picnic and they're having this argument, did it seem overly produced to you? It seemed overly produced to me. Like sometimes it fools me. It wasn't fooling me.

Kelli (20:17.802)
absolutely. But this is...

But this is 20 years of housewifery. Like this isn't O.C. season one where it's like they could just have a picnic and not do this. You can't not do this now. It's so overproduced.

Lori (20:26.783)
I know, I know.

Lori (20:32.542)
I not, I know, I know.

Right, Yeah.

Wendy (20:39.643)
So we find out that Ashley also met her husband on Bachelor in Paradise. That's where they met, which I think that's kind of cool, right? Like how often does that really happen?

Lori (20:47.948)
Right, that they stay together, yeah. And then when she goes to their coffee shop, just something interesting I noticed, I wanna see if either of you picked it up. She's talking to her husband, she got the laptop in front of her. I don't know if she was like peeling off her nail polish and putting it on the top. Did, I was like, what is she doing? Is that what it was, you think? You think she was peeling her nail polish off?

Kelli (20:48.598)
Yeah. Yeah.

Wendy (20:50.905)
Right.

Wendy (21:06.341)
I saw that. I absolutely saw that. I saw that.

Kelli (21:10.444)
I didn't notice.

Wendy (21:12.976)
I think it, I didn't know if it was nail polish or tips or something, but it was something off of her nails.

Lori (21:18.348)
Yeah, and she's piling up on the little laptop and I'm like, what are doing girl? good. I'm glad you saw it. Cause I was like, what's she doing? Yeah, what you doing?

Wendy (21:24.73)
I did, I noticed that.

Kelli (21:24.972)
Yeah, well you're on TV, you're being recorded!

Wendy (21:28.962)
No, I did. I saw it.

Kelli (21:31.362)
I did not pick up on that at all.

I don't know if someone asked like is Kelsey coming. I don't know how they got on the subject however Okay

Wendy (21:42.998)
I know I mean Joellen did start it so Joellen did say that you know For whatever reason she said it that I don't know she said that yes

Kelli (21:52.994)
That's what I'm saying. I know what she said, but I was wondering what led up to it.

Wendy (21:57.867)
Yeah, I don't know what led up to it.

Lori (21:59.05)
I don't remember either. were they playing truth or no? That was afterwards. Or never have I ever, blah, blah, No, I don't remember what brought it up. It's a good question.

Kelli (22:04.31)
Not yet. Not yet.

Wendy (22:04.512)
No. No.

Wendy (22:12.24)
But Joellen does say that Kelsey is going through a tough time. She's at a crossroads. And then that's when Rosie starts asking questions about it. And she's like, well, she's 31 and she's just at a crossroads. And that's when Rosie says, well, I heard she's a polygamist. And I think it was Alicia who said, what's a polygamist? I was like, actually, I was going to ask you guys, like, who's your favorite? I really like Alicia. I really like her.

Kelli (22:42.915)
Alicia and Liz by far the frontrunners for me.

Lori (22:45.78)
Yeah. Yes. Yes.

Wendy (22:48.601)
Okay, I really like Alicia. I think that she's very real. I don't know if you ladies watched Watch What Happens Live with all of them on. so did you watch it, Kel? Watch What Happens Live?

Lori (22:55.832)
no.

Kelli (23:00.78)
No, I haven't recorded it, but I haven't watched it yet. I watched the after show. I should have watched Watch What Happens Live.

Wendy (23:04.335)
So.

Oh, I didn't watch the after show. Well, on Watch What Happens Live, it comes out that, like Alicia says, like, this was so great. Like, I watched the show and it's like, really what happened. Like, this is really what happened. I thought that these, I was like, this is what I like about her. She's like, I thought these producers would be like these jerks from LA who told me like, I'm too fat and like, you can't eat. She's like, no, they just let me live my life. And she's like, this is a reality show. Like, this is why.

Lori (23:09.132)
I'll remember something.

Kelli (23:20.686)
Yeah.

Wendy (23:37.048)
I like about Alicia is that she... This is why I like Alicia. And she's like, what's a polygamous? Like she has no idea, right? She's like, I have no idea. then Kelsey says, you know, I heard that, you know, her boyfriend has another, you know, girlfriend in Miami and I think she has another boyfriend. you know, Joellen says, well, if you have questions about it, ask her, which I think honestly is the right answer. Don't talk behind her back.

Kelli (23:37.666)
So Alicia's the Terry of the show.

Lori (23:40.756)
Yes.

Kelli (24:02.754)
Right. Absolutely.

Lori (24:04.244)
Absolutely. Right. But, if you live such an alternative lifestyle, you cannot think that people aren't going to talk shit about you and that people aren't going to ask.

Wendy (24:06.159)
Don't talk behind her back.

Kelli (24:20.354)
Here's gonna be the biggest misconception between these ladies. They're gonna think that there are parts of their life that they can keep off the show. There is not. So Kelsey talking about her arrangement with Joellen earlier in the episode, she's gonna tell it her way. Rosie bringing it up at...

Wendy (24:45.465)
Picnic.

Kelli (24:46.21)
the picnic, she's gonna say whatever the F she wants. And Kelsey is just gonna have to deal with it because this is Housewives and you're making a show. So you're gonna put it out there. People are most certainly, you better believe they're gonna talk about it.

Lori (24:58.987)
Right.

Wendy (25:00.399)
Mm-hmm.

Lori (25:05.676)
I mean, people are gonna talk about it even if you're not on the show. That's what I'm saying.

Kelli (25:09.176)
for sure, but you, this is your life. You chose to go on a reality TV show. These women clearly already knew what your situation was. And listen, it's your situation. It is what it is. Don't apologize for it. Don't Meredith marks it. Just embrace it and own it. 100 % own it. But Joellen did bring it up.

Wendy (25:25.42)
Right, own it.

Lori (25:28.266)
Yeah. I'm just saying it doesn't make any sense to act like no one was going to talk about it. That's all I'm saying.

Wendy (25:34.403)
Right.

Kelli (25:34.447)
Absolutely, absolutely, absolutely. But then, you know, so then Joellen calls out Rosie saying, I heard you were talking shit about me and they start going back and forth. And is this when we find out that Rosie brought a $6 bottle of wine to her house? Rosie, I mean, I even buy wine that costs more than that for crying out loud. I've even upped my game to $15 a bottle. used to be a $10 bottle. I'm between 15 and 20 now.

Wendy (25:38.967)
No, but that-

Lori (25:56.822)
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yes. Right, right, Right. Yeah.

Kelli (26:04.046)
Up your game, $6. But, you know, then we, you know, later in the episode we hear her say like it was a casual day, it was just sitting on the counter, I just grabbed it. Okay. But, I don't know. And Rosie starts crying. That's, that's what I mean. Not only is it your picnic, but you just said what you said. You just brought up polygamy. And by the way, polygamy is when you're married to other people. When you're just dating, it's not polygamy.

Wendy (26:17.389)
Rosie starts crying. Rosie starts crying at the picnic. Like it's your picnic.

Wendy (26:27.673)
Right.

Wendy (26:31.7)
Right? No, it's not. That's called an open relationship. That was just an open relationship. Let me just give you the definitions. Right.

Kelli (26:35.126)
I mean, exactly. And that's basically what Kelsey said. when she, exactly. When she was talking to Joel and she said, I didn't realize I was entering an open relationship or, you know, and then I did. And it was very clear how he lived his life.

Lori (26:36.534)
Yes.

Lori (26:53.836)
I think she's gonna be a crybaby. I think she's gonna be a crybaby.

Wendy (26:57.228)
Yes.

Kelli (26:58.498)
You think, so somebody must cry all the time, because there's an upcoming scene. You think it's Rosie? Okay.

Lori (27:01.534)
I think it's her. I think it's her. I think it's Rosie. I think Rosie is very insecure. You check her, she... No. She said her goal in life is to have everyone like her. There's nothing else to say. There's nothing else to say. She's insecure.

Kelli (27:08.654)
But then she should not be running her mouth the way she is.

Wendy (27:13.079)
NO

Wendy (27:18.381)
It's actually.

Kelli (27:18.508)
unattainable.

Wendy (27:22.168)
I actually wrote down Ashley's new to the group and she cries a lot. That came out in the beginning. So Ashley cries a lot also.

Kelli (27:31.18)
Thought when they were saying she's crying again. I thought it might have been about Ashley

Lori (27:31.254)
okay.

Wendy (27:35.595)
Yes, it is about Ashley. think it's, I think, yes, Ashley. And I really like Ashley. I do.

Lori (27:37.15)
okay. Ashley's a cunt.

Wendy (27:44.81)
So, I mean.

Kelli (27:44.952)
I do too. I don't know if she's cut out for this though. We'll see. I think she's going to have to get some tougher skin.

Wendy (27:49.047)
Yeah.

Wendy (27:52.501)
I agree. I agree.

Kelli (27:55.279)
Yeah, and then we go to the scene with her at the coffee house with Jared, which I did not see her picking her nails off.

Lori (28:00.812)
You're not picking her now.

Wendy (28:01.291)
Yes, yes. But we find out too that, you know, while she's talking at the coffee house with him that, you know, they both are successful influencers. Like she has more followers than he does, but they could live off that between that and brand deals, but he wanted something else besides social media. So he really wanted to do this and she supports him. But you know, in the beginning he was spending a hundred hours a week there. Now as someone who used to have an ice cream parlor, a brick and mortar, I know the commitment.

and I know the hours and I was watching him work the counter while talking to her and do his job and that's what you have to do and I commend him and I get that she wants him home, right? She's got two small children and she wants to enjoy their life together and if you're tied to this brick and mortar, it's gonna be very hard to do and especially if it's not financially lucrative, which it isn't.

Kelli (28:31.118)
Mm-hmm.

Kelli (28:47.107)
Yeah.

Lori (28:57.45)
Right, yeah.

Kelli (28:57.452)
Right, and it's not just a coffee shop, it's a coffee shop and lounge, which means most coffee shops, at least around here, close by three. You're not closing at three. So you're opening between five and six a.m., because that's what time the coffee shops around here open, and you're going until possibly nine, 10 at night. That is long hours.

Wendy (29:01.429)
Yes.

Lori (29:06.154)
Right. No, not if you're allowed.

Lori (29:17.238)
That's long. Yeah.

Wendy (29:18.836)
Yeah. Yeah.

Kelli (29:20.652)
and she's home with two little kids. Like, it's very understandable why she feels the way she feels.

Wendy (29:23.146)
Yes.

Lori (29:26.422)
Mm-hmm.

Wendy (29:26.783)
No, I agree. I totally agree. And you could see at that point, too, she kind of started crying then while she was, you know, talking about it. I do like her, but I do think she's very emotional. And, you know, she's used to being on TV. It's not like she wasn't, you know, she knows reality TV, so she's used to being vulnerable, like, which I like that.

Kelli (29:32.546)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Kelli (29:49.303)
Not, yeah. This is a different scenario though. mean, Bachelor in Paradise, you're, never watched that part of Bachelor, but I'm assuming it's the same premise. This is, you're in a group of women and we all know what happens when you're in a big group of women. It's not easy peasy lemon squeezy.

Wendy (29:52.714)
What are you going to say?

Wendy (30:16.118)
Well, I think Bachelor in Paradise is kind of a bunch of bachelors and bachelorettes and it's, you know, every woman or man for themselves. So I think it's kind of, in that respect, it's kind of similar, you know?

Kelli (30:28.854)
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Lori (30:32.022)
So do we think it's kind of weird that they rented a house to have a party?

Kelli (30:38.09)
No, and I thought, I was thinking, I was like, that's so smart. So smart. Because you hire a staff to, I mean, I guess you could do this in your own house too, but she's got kids, she's got her mother coming over to watch the kids. She gets to go in a car and leave and go host a party.

Lori (30:44.768)
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Lori (30:56.096)
Right, I guess my point is that the house that they rented was way nicer than the house that they lived in. So it was kind of...

I don't know.

Kelli (31:06.562)
Well, maybe that's why she went to the house.

Wendy (31:08.96)
love that idea. I love that idea. Rent a house on the water and you show up and then you leave. I 100 % sign me up for that. It's like renting.

Lori (31:09.256)
I know,

Kelli (31:14.158)
Yeah.

Lori (31:16.641)
Yeah.

Kelli (31:17.186)
What I thought was hysterical was she's throwing a 4th of July party and she doesn't know what the 4th of July is about. How do you live in America and not know what the 4th of July is about?

Lori (31:24.338)
That was good.

Wendy (31:27.532)
Exactly. Exactly.

Kelli (31:30.2)
That was a little disturbing. I'm not a huge Joe Welland fan. Out the gate.

Wendy (31:33.13)
Well, you know why? You know why you're not? Because people say that she reminds them of Teresa.

Kelli (31:38.604)
Bye.

Kelli (31:42.246)
well, that's all you had to say. I don't get, I don't get Teresa vibes from her. I really don't, but that makes all the sense in the world.

Lori (31:43.212)
you

Wendy (31:48.832)
Well, think about it. Think about it when you're watching it now. Think about it. I know. Yep. Yep. I actually find her entertaining. I actually find her entertaining. I think she's a good addition. I think she's a good part of this group because I think that she is a strong personality. And I like that. I do like that. And again, I don't think she's the brightest bulb.

Kelli (31:54.089)
I will. That's all I'll be thinking about.

Lori (31:54.922)
Yeah, see if there's similarities for you.

Kelli (32:11.789)
for sure.

Wendy (32:17.139)
Again, I kind of like that too. I like that. It's entertaining. It's entertaining. You know?

Kelli (32:19.244)
Right. Right.

Lori (32:21.452)
Mm-hmm.

Kelli (32:22.872)
Yeah, I mean, I'm not a huge fan, but you know, we'll see. That could change, but not if what the streets are talking is true. The streets are saying it's true. Her mom shows up to watch her kids and she says that her mom, the maternal gene skipped her mother and her grandmother. I love that she's talking shit about her mother, but yes, she's got her over watching her kids.

Wendy (32:27.96)
I don't think it will. Yeah.

Lori (32:29.311)
I don't think I will.

Wendy (32:42.187)
That's...

Lori (32:46.689)
Yeah.

Wendy (32:46.813)
Yeah, sure mother's gonna love that too when she sees it.

Lori (32:50.376)
Yeah, it's really like, you, watch your own kids.

Kelli (32:53.516)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Lori (33:00.524)
And again, with her, you can just tell by the things she says and kind of her personality, like, I bet you her mother was nowhere near as bad as what she's making it out to be. I think she's somebody who really likes to get her way. And anybody who wants to deviate from that is like messing her up.

Kelli (33:00.832)
Yeah, so Alicia and Billy. sorry. Go ahead

Kelli (33:21.314)
I was thinking the same thing.

Kelli (33:29.676)
And she said like I was just being like a typical teenager. My mom was really hard on me. So I Mean, what's your definition of being a typical teenager, you know?

Lori (33:39.38)
and what's your definition of being hard on you? just, to me it just felt like there was some, possible disparity there between what really went on with her mother and what she's saying. I don't know, just cause her personality. I could just see her just really being a strong headed, bull headed, I'm gonna do what I wanna do and you're not gonna stop me kind of a gig.

Kelli (34:04.333)
Yes.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly.

Lori (34:09.088)
You took your sister's boyfriend, so.

Wendy (34:12.702)
Yep. Yep.

Kelli (34:15.558)
Alicia and Billy show up first, no one's there yet. And then, that was right, they're like, this, is anybody here? Liz brings Dolow, so this is when Dolores enters the scene and she says that they met at a cannabis event, which we figured out, you know.

Wendy (34:20.298)
Thought that was hysterical.

Lori (34:31.532)
Mm-hmm.

Wendy (34:31.688)
Mm-hmm.

Wendy (34:36.691)
They have a raw bar, caviar wieners, caricatures, it's on the water, and there is a cannoli station. You had me at cannoli station. I'm telling you that right now. Cannoli station? I thought it was so funny when she told Alicia about caricature. She's like, characters? Again, why I like Alicia. She's like, there's characters? She's like, no, caricatures. This is why I like Alicia. Yeah.

Kelli (34:47.848)
mm-hmm. yes.

Kelli (34:55.238)
my gosh, she could not say the word.

Lori (34:57.686)
Excuse me.

Lori (35:01.878)
This is great. Yeah, I like the term for that.

Kelli (35:03.468)
Yeah, she just couldn't say it. So then we find out that Kelsey knows Joellen, since she was a teenager, because Joellen used to work at a tanning salon she went to, and Joellen was hooking up with the owner, and then she started hooking up with the owner and his wife.

Wendy (35:21.543)
Yep. That's what we.

Kelli (35:21.74)
I wonder if those people are still married.

Lori (35:21.814)
Okay.

Yeah, I don't know.

Wendy (35:27.219)
Kelsey asked if there was a beach in New Jersey. What?

Lori (35:31.23)
I know, like what? I Dolores was like what?

Kelli (35:36.588)
Yeah, I mean.

Lori (35:38.316)
Jersey Shore. call it a Jersey Shore. Shore equates beach.

Kelli (35:41.064)
Yeah, you haven't heard of the Jersey Shore. I mean, if you haven't lived on the East Coast, maybe you haven't heard of the Jersey Shore. But if you live on the East Coast, chances are you've heard of the Jersey Shore.

Lori (35:52.652)
But listen, sure, sure equals beach equals water. The word. All you have to do is go for the word.

Kelli (36:01.069)
Yeah. Yeah.

So, you know, of course, Joellen's gonna tell Kelsey that Rosie was questioning her relationship. She left out the part that what led up to it by her saying Kelsey is, you know, at a crossroads and is working through some stuff.

Wendy (36:17.873)
Yes, she did. She did. But then...

Lori (36:20.64)
Yeah, very convenient.

Kelli (36:22.262)
And Kelsey says, Rosie's not a girl's girl. And I kind of agree.

Wendy (36:27.955)
Well, Dolores jumps in at this point and she's like, is there a reason like she's asking about your relationship? Like, are you going through something? And then Kelsey starts crying as she starts to say, like, this is the only thing that makes me upset. Again, like this has been 10 years. Why is this making you upset? Like if this is what your situation is, just own it. Just own it.

Kelli (36:51.042)
Well, I think she started crying because she's having thoughts now that maybe she wants to end the relationship and move on to something else. That's how I took it. Not that, yeah, not that, I mean, I know she's upset that her relationship was being questioned, but I took it as she was crying because she's in this emotional state thinking about how she's moving forward as it is. Now,

Lori (36:59.264)
Yeah, that's how I took it too.

Wendy (37:01.449)
Okay, all right, that makes sense.

Lori (37:15.434)
Right. So maybe back in the day when people would question it, she'd be like, yeah, that's right. But maybe now that she's kind of like getting a little wishy washy, maybe now when people bring it up, it triggers, it's bothering her more. Like maybe in the past you could talk about all you want. She'd be like, yeah, whatever. So.

Kelli (37:20.846)
Mm-hmm.

Kelli (37:26.926)
Mm-hmm.

Wendy (37:29.05)
It's hurt. Yeah, okay, that makes sense.

Wendy (37:37.063)
Right.

Kelli (37:38.124)
Now, Laura, you didn't watch Miami, right?

Lori (37:41.9)
No. No, no, no. That's why I said blame it on me now.

Kelli (37:42.434)
You didn't watch Miami. Okay, Wendy, does Kelsey give you Stephanie Shojai's vibes? I think she looks just like Stephanie Shojai.

Wendy (37:56.744)
A little bit.

Lori (37:57.576)
Is that the rich is that the rich one? Is that the rich one with the plane? Is that rich one with the plane? I know you're talking about Yes, I'm with you, Kelly. I know who you're talking about.

Kelli (37:58.079)
Younger version not that Stephanie's I mean Stephanie's young enough. Yes Yes

Wendy (38:03.12)
Yes, yes.

A little bit,

Kelli (38:07.534)
I mean, I was like, I feel like I'm watching her. Like she's younger, obviously. I think she's 10 years younger, because Stephanie's 40 and she's 30, yeah. How about Dolores, yeah. How about Dolores having to tell Joellen to go say hi to her guests? She's like, well, you just have guests arriving. You should go say hi.

Lori (38:11.52)
Yeah, a way younger version of yes.

Wendy (38:17.97)
Yeah.

Lori (38:18.282)
Yeah, I'm with you on that one. I could see that.

Wendy (38:31.656)
love that she did that. I love that Dolores did that. Because supposedly Dolores is just meeting her and she's telling her how to host us to the party. I was like, you go, Dolore.

Kelli (38:33.25)
Me too!

Kelli (38:39.544)
Yes, absolutely. Absolutely.

Lori (38:41.492)
Yeah, yeah. She looks great, the way.

Wendy (38:46.812)
my God, she's amazing. I want to just tell you this too. is so funny. So Matt and I met Dolo in Red Bank a couple of weeks ago, right? And I told you how nice she was to him and like how they really connected. And he walked in when I was watching Watch What Happens Live. And she came out and she was sitting on, she was sitting on a bar stool, like in front of the bar. And

Lori (38:48.428)
It looks great.

Kelli (38:48.619)
Always.

Kelli (38:58.998)
Yeah. Yeah.

Wendy (39:09.896)
They flashed to Liz and Matt's pointing at Liz and it's like, there's my girl. There's my girl. I was like, that's not your girl. That's not your girl. That's Liz. And then I know I had to rewind it. And then I showed him where, you know, Dolo was sitting on the bar stool. He's like, that's like, yeah, like.

Kelli (39:18.69)
He's right though.

Lori (39:27.725)
well, I think that's what happens when you share dentists and plastic surgeons.

Wendy (39:33.48)
Do you think so? you think if we all went to the same dentist and plastic surgeon we would look alike? think so. Yes. It's so funny though, right?

Lori (39:39.912)
No, I think that they looked alike to begin with. was just saying that.

Kelli (39:44.622)
I mean, it has to be Dr. Karolak and Wall Township, right?

Wendy (39:48.048)
She said it was, Dolores said it actually. is, no, no, she said it. No, no, she said it someplace else. I saw it in an interview. I saw it in an interview. She said it was Dr. Karolak. Yeah. Yeah, it was.

Kelli (39:50.424)
She said they had- okay, on Watch What Happens Live she said it.

Kelli (39:58.497)
Okay.

Yeah, I figured if it's anything to do with the face, like he's the face guy. Yeah, I mean, they definitely, for sure, for sure.

Wendy (40:04.626)
Mm-hmm.

Lori (40:04.726)
Yeah. But they certainly do look exactly alike. It's wild.

Wendy (40:09.412)
Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Kelli (40:13.582)
So, you know, now we're finally at the point where Kelsey's gonna ask Rosie what happened at the picnic. And Rosie says Joellen brought up her relationship. I don't know if she brought up her relationship, but she said she was going through a hard time. This is semantics, but it did lead to the questioning. And Rosie asked the questions about polygamy.

Wendy (40:33.211)
Yes.

Wendy (40:38.255)
Right. Listen, Rosie's a reporter. Rosie's a reporter. I just wanted to bring up, she showed up at the party with a bouquet of fireworks. What? What? Who does that?

Lori (40:42.316)
That's what I'm saying.

Kelli (40:52.81)
Mm-hmm. Well, it's Fourth of July. It's Fourth of July. We've brought fireworks to people's houses. You know how Eric used to set them off all the time? Yeah.

Lori (40:55.756)
I mean, I didn't think it was that terrible.

Wendy (41:03.407)
I don't know, I-

Lori (41:03.596)
I have written down like what okay, so what gift is it that you would have liked Joelle and I think that she could have brought what she could have brought like the $300 bottle of champagne and she still would have shit on it kind of a thing Yeah

Kelli (41:10.549)
yeah, because of course Joellen threw shade at it.

Kelli (41:17.816)
For sure.

Wendy (41:19.481)
And honestly, I didn't see anyone else bring anything.

Lori (41:21.932)
What's what I'm saying? I'm not a big Rosie fan already, but at least a girl brought you something. It's a little creativeness, a little ingenuity, thinking out of the box. At least she's trying to please you, right?

Kelli (41:22.24)
Yeah, exactly.

Wendy (41:23.941)
You're right. Yeah.

Kelli (41:27.662)
Mm-hmm.

Wendy (41:33.371)
Yes, yes, good point, good point.

Kelli (41:36.291)
Yeah, because she, you you shit on the $6 bottle of wine, which, mean, listen, like who was it, Alicia, she was like, if somebody brought, you know, I'd be like, that's so nice, you shouldn't have. No, really, you shouldn't have, which was funny. But you know, you just take the bottle of wine, you put it on the counter, you use it to cook with. Exactly, you cook with it. But I think no matter what Rosie brought, Joe Willam was gonna throw shade at.

Lori (41:42.142)
Okay. Yeah.

Lori (41:53.58)
And you cook with it.

Lori (42:00.778)
Right. Yeah.

Wendy (42:04.038)
So I want to give you this to these two things that I got from watch what happens live Andy asked Kelsey what her boyfriend's reaction to her being on the show was and wait till you hear this He is the biggest housewives fan. He is a reality TV junkie. He could tell you what season Erica Jane Divorced or had problems with Tom. Like he knows reality TV. He was all for it, but doesn't want his face on it. Okay Love that so love that right?

Kelli (42:26.968)
Amazing.

Kelli (42:33.55)
Mm-hmm.

Wendy (42:33.87)
Then he asked Rosie, like, was your reaction to Joelle and shading? How your, few views you had on your post on your, and she's right. She's like, well, my show isn't on social media. It's actually on a Saturday and Sunday mornings at 6 a.m. And she said the channel. So I don't know what she was looking at and

Lori (42:43.911)
yeah, and our show in the middle. Yeah.

Kelli (42:58.766)
That's interesting.

Wendy (43:00.1)
Yep. The other question he asked was he asked Joellen about the swinging thing. It's not true. It is not true. I know it's not, she's, he, she said she, her neighbor across the street had heard that, that rumor too. And all of a sudden started putting upside down pineapples on her front lawn. So then she ca-

Kelli (43:07.502)
I was kind of hoping it was true

Wendy (43:24.204)
She kept putting them on their front lawn and like it went back and forth and then all the neighbors said that she was swinging. She goes, it is not true.

Kelli (43:33.006)
funny.

Wendy (43:33.945)
The other thing was on Watch What Happens Live was Rula, right? So in the beginning we meet Rula, right? But in the very beginning they say she projects confidence and she's a boss. And she was there on Watch What Happens Live. I was like, we know nothing about her. So supposedly she's gonna have the most to answer for at the reunion. Her husband was there.

Kelli (43:40.066)
We haven't even met her yet!

Kelli (43:57.849)
Well, she's the one that she's the one that they're at some point alleging is cheating on her.

Lori (44:04.875)
Yes.

Wendy (44:06.021)
I would imagine so. Right, right. Right. And actually, supposedly the next episode will find out, I think, like what that's all about. But I think it's weird that she wasn't in the first episode. I just think that's a little weird. Right? Right?

Kelli (44:06.466)
Her husband's yeah, her husband's cheat allegedly cheating on her and that comes up in the season.

Kelli (44:16.055)
Okay.

Lori (44:22.405)
Mm. Yeah, it's odd.

Kelli (44:22.688)
I agree. Because how does she fit in? Like everybody else, know how they fit in. I guess we'll find out.

Lori (44:29.59)
Yeah, who knows? Yep.

Wendy (44:29.795)
Yeah, I think I hope we'll find out her husband was in the audience and they asked like whose husband like was a problem and it was her husband. What else did we find out about her? I don't know, but I did also hear that when they so they went to the last day at Dorinda's house for the ultimate girls trip.

and all the Rhode Island girls were there. They all were there. And supposedly, Dorinda was like, these girls are gonna need security at the reunion. They were fighting at Dorinda's house like crazy. yes. So then Andy gave them some advice. Some advice he gave them is like, don't look at social media. The only one who's really into social media who reads everything is Joellen.

Kelli (45:00.408)
Did they all go?

Kelli (45:13.793)
Interesting.

Lori (45:14.21)
boy.

Wendy (45:27.234)
She said, I put my name into chat GBT and it tells me everything that social media says about me. And he said to them, throughout the season, even when you watch the confessionals, try and remember where you're at with each other right now. And you could see that there is some tension. You'll see it when you watch it on watch what happens live between Rula and the rest of them. And Liz gets a little bit mad because

I'm not sure which one of them, one of them says Rula about something and there's something that happens and there's something that's big that's going to happen. And I guess we're going to have to wait and see it, but I do think that that Rula is going to be the one where the big tension is happening between them. And I think that she's the one that they're going to be fighting with at Dorinda's house when we ultimately see that on the ultimate girls trip. So I think it's going to be a very interesting, I think it's going be interesting.

Lori (46:24.78)
There's always gotta be somebody fighting or there's no show.

Kelli (46:28.652)
Yeah, yeah, for sure. So on the after show, was Kelsey and Liz together, Rosie and Ashley.

Wendy (46:29.708)
Now what happened on the after show? did you see on the after show?

Wendy (46:36.814)
Okay.

Kelli (46:41.792)
and Joellen with Alicia. No Rula. Rosie said that, you know, they keep asking me, why didn't you ask Kelsey directly about a relationship? Well, she didn't come to my picnic. So that's, so now I'm thinking that maybe Kelsey was supposed to go to the picnic and.

Wendy (46:44.237)
Okay.

Right.

Kelli (47:04.93)
didn't for some reason and maybe that's how it came up like, where's Kelsey? And that's when Joellen said she's just going through some stuff.

Wendy (47:12.174)
Right, that could be.

Kelli (47:13.846)
Yeah, so Rosie just needs to admit that she asked a polygamy question because she was being shady. Like she said she wasn't being judgmental, but yes, you were. Joellen brings up the $6 bottle of wine. and then Joellen said she also brought stale cookies. She also brought stale cookies to her house, but.

Wendy (47:34.551)
Lori (47:37.046)
See now, now you're going into the cookie arena.

Wendy (47:40.196)
That's Teresa! I told you, I told you!

Kelli (47:40.577)
It's too much, is, Teresa, it's too much. So Rosie said that she was shooting her lifestyle show the day prior and there were cookies and they were like, do you want us to pack these up? And she was like, yeah, I'm going to my friend's house tomorrow, I'll take them with me. And that's why there were like chip clips on them and that's why they were all packed up that day. So Alicia says,

So Alicia and Joellen are talking about how they don't really know what Rosie does. know, Alicia's a little shady though because she's one way when she's with Joellen, but then she acts like she's Rosie's friend. So she might be one to watch too. For sure, yeah. So Alicia's like, well I did the morning announcements in high school and then she tries to say the Pledge of Allegiance and.

Lori (48:22.399)
you

Wendy (48:23.799)
Well, they said she's a flip-flopper. That's what she is. That's her role. She's a flip-flopper.

Kelli (48:36.558)
She said part of the Our Father in it, like Deliver Us From Evil or something. I'm like, wow. But Joe Allen's like, so you and Rosie are the same. That's the same thing. Like as if Rosie's career isn't good enough. Liz and Kelsey didn't always get along, but now they're cool.

Wendy (48:36.748)
She can't.

Lori (48:40.392)
Lord, whoa.

Kelli (49:01.046)
Alicia and Joellen talked about how long they've known each other. And then Alicia and Liz talk about how long they've known each other. So Liz's husband and Joellen's husbands, their families are kind of like family with each other where they have traveled together. Liz and Joellen. So they're close, yeah. Rosie's married, no kids. Liz went into a little bit more about how she's related to her husband.

Wendy (49:18.123)
Okay.

Kelli (49:29.398)
They've been together for 10 years, married for, they were together for 10 years and married for six months when they found out. And it's her great grandmother, her mom's mom divorced her dad for one year, married an Irish guy, and then divorced him and remarried her first husband. So I don't know if her mother is a, if Liz's mom was a result of that one year marriage to the Irish guy.

Wendy (49:29.858)
That's so funny.

Kelli (49:56.665)
but she was raised by somebody else. I think that's what it was. Like the mother kind of, the great grandmother, something like that. Yeah. Ash.

Lori (50:05.91)
guess something.

Wendy (50:08.821)
Either way, they share familial DNA.

Kelli (50:12.768)
They do, but I mean, they're not gonna have kids, right? Rosie and Ashley, exactly. Kinda throw shade at Liz driving the boat to lunch and Liz is like, well, maybe that's because they don't own boats. Like just the way she said it was funny. Like Rosie was like, this isn't the OC, we don't drive boats to lunch, but you know. Okay.

Wendy (50:15.518)
Right, right, right. And who cares? Like who cares?

Lori (50:37.472)
Why not? If I had one I'd drive it to lunch.

Kelli (50:40.726)
Yeah, if I had a boat I would drive it anywhere the hell I wanted to. Yeah.

Lori (50:44.086)
That's it.

Wendy (50:45.442)
I mean, did you notice that Kelsey got dropped off by her driver? Like Kelsey's not driving herself anywhere because she don't have to because she lives in a 16,000 square foot house.

Kelli (50:55.168)
Right, and then Kelsey and Liz are talking about her lemon seed aversion and how her housekeeper helps her pick them out so that the producer says, but you'll eat McDonald's out of the trash. And she's like, yeah. So she goes on to say that if she's drunk, like she'll like door dash McDonald's and then not want it and throw it in the garbage, but then wake up the next morning hungry and be like, where'd I put that McDonald's and take it out of the trash and eat it. So.

Lori (50:55.212)
Got 79 T.

Lori (51:22.124)
Well she probably has a really clean trash I'm sure.

Kelli (51:26.51)
Yeah, so that was about it But I really loved it. I really I really do like all of them I I kind of feel like Joellen's is gonna be problematic and so is Rosie So I don't typically like the problematic housewives, but we'll see

Wendy (51:26.978)
Okay.

Lori (51:28.618)
That kind of dough, that kind of dough.

Lori (51:48.278)
Right.

Wendy (51:51.956)
Yeah, I agree with you. mean, like I said, Alicia's my favorite. I had to pick a favorite right now. I do like Ashley, though. I do like her. There's something about her that is very likable to me. I don't know what, but I want to see a little bit more about her.

Kelli (52:08.002)
Yeah, I think she just has to toughen up a little bit, but we'll see.

Wendy (52:11.678)
Yeah. All right.

Lori (52:12.021)
state.

Kelli (52:13.814)
I heard something interesting on Juicy Scoop with Heather McDonald this week. She said that three of the women from Mormon Wives moved to OC.

Wendy (52:25.042)
It's true. Yeah.

Kelli (52:26.546)
and they're gonna start a whole new show out there. And she said that this might be why Jess is like starting like some drama to make sure that, cause she can't move, right? Cause she can't move, right? She's got her business and yeah, I thought that was interesting.

Lori (52:29.388)
Mm-hmm.

Wendy (52:38.224)
with Chase and Miranda. Right.

Wendy (52:45.352)
Right. And she's getting divorced. I think it may be true. I think that there's there may be some truth in that. Listen, I know Heather McDonald, you know, she projects a lot of stuff. And I think this is her speculating. Right. I don't know that she but what she said is true that they did move down there. They are going to that like that. All that stuff is true. And I think that she may be very correct in that because yeah, it does make sense. And Dakota, we just saw is his

Kelli (52:58.542)
Mm-hmm.

Kelli (53:07.468)
Yeah, makes sense.

Wendy (53:14.368)
portion on Vanderpump Villa is being edited out. So it's not going to be shown.

Kelli (53:21.39)
Really?

Wendy (53:22.505)
Yeah, I think, didn't Gina send us that? I cousin Gina sent us. I think cousin Gina, I know, sometimes, I know. Sometimes I want to leave the chat, but I'm like, wait, I can't, I'm in the chat. Yeah, so I know. Yeah, so yeah. Yeah, no, you are.

Kelli (53:25.806)
she possibly could have. We send so much to each other. Sometimes I can't keep up.

No

Lori (53:39.22)
I'm in the chat and I just say nothing.

Kelli (53:41.57)
Yeah, Laurie's very silent in the chat.

Lori (53:44.877)
I always am though, aren't I? Even in our tracks, like, I'm...

Kelli (53:47.192)
Yes.

Wendy (53:49.406)
You know, sometimes we have to call you out like, Lori, are you coming? Are you here? Lori? Yeah. So Dakota is being edited out of Vanderpump Villa and also the Bachelorette is not completely off. They may be waiting to see what happens at the next hearing, April something, whatever that April date is.

Lori (53:51.316)
Yeah, where are you? Did you hear us? We've been talking.

Kelli (53:52.29)
Yes, right.

Kelli (53:56.323)
We're here in your driveway to pick you up, Laura. Are you ready?

Kelli (54:17.742)
Well, this all leads me to believe that there may be some damaging stuff against Dakota. Not defending Frankie Taylor, whatever her name is. I can't do it. What the hell? Yeah, I know. But that leads me to believe that maybe something's gonna come out about this guy, Dakota, that's damaging.

Wendy (54:29.834)
Taylor, Frankie, Paul, Taylor.

Lori (54:32.268)
community.

Lori (54:41.268)
Ladies, I gotta go.

Kelli (54:45.071)
All right. Well, we're done. Have a good night. Thank you. Bye.

Lori (54:45.238)
I gotta go, but yep. Good night everybody. Bye.