Joel Kim Booster
Appearances
SmartLess
Bad Dates Season 2 with Joel Kim Booster!
Do you think you got twin switched? Do you think?
SmartLess
Bad Dates Season 2 with Joel Kim Booster!
The story is also very Boil the Frog. Like you're like, okay, all right.
SmartLess
Bad Dates Season 2 with Joel Kim Booster!
So in my head, I'm like, does he sing every time or is it for you? Do you know what I mean?
SmartLess
Bad Dates Season 2 with Joel Kim Booster!
Natalie! Natalie! Yes! I've been sending you the packages. I've been sending you packages, Natalie.
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
You know, it's interesting you bring that up, Nick.
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
I mean, we chatted about this a little bit before I came on, but there were a few episodes, I think, where you, where my name was dropped and you, in fact, said the complete opposite of me, of you being a fan of mine. And we, we sort of worked it out on the remix over DM, but so no hard feelings. And also I kind of like,
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
if there's anyone who understands um popping off in the moment and um that's what i was hoping for um i think i completely understand that and i think um yeah no and listen i you know what did i say because i do i think i owe you up an apology but i want to know what i'm apologizing for You said that is not the kind of person I would want in my orbit. I used to be a fan. I am no longer a fan.
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
And when I did the apology, this was the only thing that was a little confusing to me. You said it was a weak move and little boy shit or something like that. And and this is what I will say about that is that like and I'll show you the text messages from executives asking me not to apologize and let it like die on its own.
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
So I did genuinely want to do that because I did genuinely like took the time. It was a lot going on after that all went down. And it took, trust me, like no one was more upset with me than my fiance. And that was like a really rough time. And so I regretted it pretty much immediately. But it took me like those two weeks to sort of really find the words to really like
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
How do I accept responsibility for this and take accountability for this without trying to like shift it in any sort of way? And, you know, maybe I wasn't super successful in that, but it was not a mandate for me to do that. And it was something that I did want to genuinely do because... And I said it like, listen, I'm not going to sit here and say that's not me because clearly it is.
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
That is a part of me that is...
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
not a part that i want to access all the time and i work very hard not to access and so that was the only thing you said because like when you were saying the other stuff to share like in shannon's presence i was like well you kind of got to play ball in that way but that was like i was like i i think i really did want it to come off like i was taking responsibility for it and so well
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
I was too harsh.
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
It was precipitated by real things, but the stuff that I said, I was saying shit that I didn't mean. Of course I'm not feeling for John Jansen. He's a monster. That's so clear, but I just was digging deep to say the most hurtful things I could in that moment. It just wasn't something that I'm proud of. And it's like an unfortunate little asterisk now to my entire career.
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
I think the first host of a reality dating show that has come after a contestant before the show has aired. And that's always going to be on my Wikipedia now. And I have to live with that. And that's a bummer for me.
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
Yeah. Listen, amongst Bravo fans, my inbox was crazy. And actually, the trailer dropping has re-upped that. But the Venn diagram of Bravo superfans and people who want to bring back the word mongoloid is much...
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
i'll take her circle than you think it is um they were like people were really upset and i think with good reason and especially i mean you can't watch that season of oc and not like be a little bit of a shannon stan i mean i went into filming the show like a huge shannon stan because i that half the season had aired already by the time i got there and she was having an amazing season uh in part because so many of the other women were being such
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
assholes so like how could she not you know and yeah so I think it's interesting I don't know how much it will affect the show and and if that I regret it mostly because the show's gonna be really fucking good I definitely don't want to watch
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
any less yeah no and like well and unfortunately for people who are expecting to see conflict with between me and the women there is no conflict between me and the women it all happened after we wrapped in fact I think there are moments and scenes where I like connect deeply with each of them and it is like very genuine.
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
And that is, you know, it's, it's a small part of the show, but it's, you know, the feedback I've gotten from the, like the people who are cutting together these episodes, I start getting episodes this week, so I'm going to see it. But, um, is that, you know, they're happy with the job that I did. And I think like the show is going to be really good.
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
And I think it bums me out when I see people being like, I'm not going to watch this because I hate that guy. And I'm like, you know, we're watching, we're watching guys, guys, guys, you're,
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
You know, I did send her a personal apology as well, because, you know, inevitably we're all doing press for this show right now. I don't think I'm doing any like duo press with Shannon anytime soon. But, you know, I understand her reticence to want to take that at face value. I, of course, understand that. And I think like we can probably coexist.
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
I think we'll have to in the context of this show.
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
uh and doing the work for that i think part of the reason why they were like trying to be like hey maybe don't publicly apologize for this is that the news cycle is quick it over there at bravo and people i i'm sure she will find someone to be way more mad at than me in the history of the internet we joke about this i have never seen anyone in the internet go oh
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
I think it'll be whatever. I don't travel to the OC very often. I don't think we hang out in the same circles. I think it's probably something that I will be able to leave behind. Again, it's just going to be this weird asterisk thing.
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
And that is the thing is that there were ways I could have addressed the behavior that precipitated this in a professional way and not given her the opportunity to be you know sort of added on top of like all of the other shit that she has been you know been piled on her um and yeah well thanks for addressing
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
And the thing is, is like, I think I would have had I'm glad that we talked about it before I came in. I didn't. You know, there was a part of me that was like, maybe I'll just go and like bring it, you know. And but I was like, I also just like I wanted to know that this wasn't going to be like some sort of like ambush. And I wanted to explain myself to you specifically because like.
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
I think that what you said is not unfair given the context that you had, you know? And so I, yeah, I was, I was a little anxious coming here, but, um, yeah, more than I can say for other people that you mentioned before we started recording that you were in the
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
process of planning a wedding yeah we I spent all night my sympathies go out to you watching uh Real Housewives of Atlanta while creating a wedding website and sending out the save the dates um to all of the many people the much larger list of people that we ended up how yeah it always happens how how what where are you in the plan so um just sent out the save the dates it's a new year's wedding so it's this new year's and um
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
Yeah. So that's kind of like, we're kind of good for now for that. We've like at the venue, you know, we're just, you know, sort of figuring out all of the like food now and that, but it's, you know, 276 days away or something like that. What's your relationship with all the vendors? It is going to be interesting. We have like a really great wedding planner.
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
And she is like sort of dealing with a lot of that, but it was funny. Cause like my branding rep, like, and my PR person, as soon as I announced that I was engaged, we're like, how much of this wedding do you want covered? And I was like, huh. I don't necessarily want it to be like Joel and JM's wedding brought to you by Clorox, you know?
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
But like, if, you know, a liquor brand wants to pay for the bar, then like, I will post an Instagram story about it. I'm not too... Listen, the price tag on this thing is wild. And we're fine. It's coverable. But it is kind of like, oh, damn. One night, huh? Maybe we should just go to the courthouse.
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
We've just done our circuit of weddings. And it's weird because most... I feel like my friends who stayed close with their friends from high school go to weddings constantly. And I speak to no one from high school. So, like, I've only been to, like, a handful of weddings in the last couple of years. God bless. And, like...
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
It did sort of like we were taking notes a little bit and from some of these weddings. But again, it was like, oh, I don't care. All I cared about was like the food. And so like, you know, the snacks are really important. The meal is really important.
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
And it's like just as long as like creating because for me, it's like I just want to like throw have a really good experience for the people that I'm asking to fly to San Francisco for this wedding, you know, and like, yeah, it's going to be a really good party.
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
Neither one of us, when we entered the relationship, were gay marriage guys. I think the expectation for a while was that we were just going to be those weird 55-year-old boyfriends who've been together for a million years. And I think there's something shifted when I think we realized to say in front of... It's like when you tell your friends you're writing a book.
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
It's like, well, now you have to write the book. Because they will ask about it forever. And it is that thing of like...
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
when we really decided that like you know because my assumption for so long was that I would meet someone I would fall in love with that person and be in love with that person for the rest of my life but we had this conversation three years deep where it was like wow in three years we have both changed so much and you are not the person that I fell in love with you are different I'm still in love with you though this version and I am pretty confident I'm going to be in love with the next iteration and like iteration four will suck but we'll ride that out into iteration five and like
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
Once we had that realization, it was like, oh no, I really want to stand up in front of my friends and say, I'm going to do the work. Falling in love was not my choice. It just sort of happened. But the work of staying in love, these weddings that we've been to over the last couple of years, that's really a powerful thing. And we're not religious people. It's not about that.
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
It's about sort of like... us, you know, sort of like asking our friends to keep us accountable for promises we made.
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
Yeah. You know? Oh, I fucking hate saying fiance though.
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
It's a mouthful.
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
I just like, no. But my husband is going to ring. My husband is going to be great.
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
Do the work. Yeah. Like how you get your grade used to. I don't know how much communication was going on in that relationship. It seems unclear.
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
it is so frustrating because like last season with lindsey and carl we knew that relationship was dead on arrival you know but it was still fascinating to watch unfortunately i don't find the credit i i just want page's single season now you know like i don't i it's just so frustrating to watch him not hear any like not absorb so you're definitely team page oh for sure
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
It is very Shep and Santa in a small way.
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
This is where I will be on your side a little bit, is that I'm not sure. I do think she was pretty clear in the conversation they had at the Australian restaurant about her career and stuff like that. But she is being way more forthright in that fucking bed. Yeah. Thank you.
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
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The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
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The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
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The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
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The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
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The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
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E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
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E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
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E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
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E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
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The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
Yeah, gotta get out of the bed.
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
I think it's a boy thing because I've never even thought about my outside clothes being on the bed. Like shoes, certainly never, never. But I am reminded of it. But like, I don't think I've ever thought about.
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
Yeah. I'm going to think and meditate on that for a long time. And I want you to do that. Yeah. And I do. For moving forward for sure. You'll think about it the next time you go to get in bed. I'm now suddenly like, oh my God, these are my outside clothes?
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
I really am obsessed with your outside clothes today. You found those on Instagram? Yeah. No, I was saying before like Instagram got me again, girl.
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
I will figure it out. Oh, I think it's like cost actually. Oh. I think it might be as simple as that, yeah.
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
Yeah. But we'll confirm after the podcast.
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
Ew, no, never. I am not a feet guy at all. And also, like... What are you doing in there, Jesse? They really got him when she was like, why did you take your socks off? And then...
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
I gotta say about Jesse, it's frustrating. I preferred Jesse so much more last season when he was like, I am a fuckboy, this is who I am, and was so charming, and you didn't care. At least he's being honest about who he is. I think this season, I think because of the cancer stuff from last season, he has made this arbitrary decision.
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
He kind of even admitted to it with that conversation with Craig and Amanda, I think, when he was like, well, isn't it time that I start to do this? And it's like, no, baby, it's clearly not time for you to do this. That is not who you are yet. And that's okay. He's under 30, isn't he? No, I think he's like 31 or something like that.
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
yeah but a cancer scare he I think that made him think like oh I should like be settling down now but it's so clear that he's not and here's what I will say I would be way more upset about that conversation with Sierra than I would about the toe yes like I think like the toe is whatever I mean I'm a gay guy so like
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
my bar is set a little bit differently but like that conversation with sierra i would if i like she she finds out about the toe on camera but like she's gonna see that yeah and that would be so shitty to watch like it's just it's a it's on a different level and i also just i don't think that he wants to date sierra either i think he's just somebody who needs
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
That's the thing is I think like most monogamous couples are like, there's this line and as long as I don't cross this line, it's not cheating and I'm good. And I think he did cross that line with a toe. But I think like looking at your relationship from a 360 perspective, like so many people just think as long as they don't cross the sex line, they're good, you know?
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
And for me, like I'm in a non-monogamous relationship. It's so much more about like the emotional like And like, you know, connective stuff like I could care less who sucks his toes, honestly. But like if you were like sitting down with someone being like, wow, you're the one that got away. Like, you know, I would be like, OK, fuck my drag.
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
Emeril, I think, is so interesting. Like, I love that he operates like a gay guy, but is straight. But I will say, like, he gives the energy of, like... like a B tier level Netflix dating show, like a too hot to handle or something like that. Like that's where he belongs. Cause right now he's using the show as a platform. Like we don't even see these women.
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
Like talk about him. He's covering the camera. He needs to get out of the bed too. You know? And like, I, I just, um, you know, he had that, like, it sounds like he has a very interesting backstory that I'd love to hear more about, but he doesn't talk to anybody else. He just goes out and brings back strange girls that we never see there. Uh, anything. No one's signing any releases. But you know,
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
Yeah.
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
They sort of gave us a peek behind the curtain last time when Carl was like, she was on my list last weekend. So it sounds to me like they each get an allotment of people they're allowed to invite. And, like, they're on so-and-so's list.
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
Right. And it's just you're like checking in with the randos at the table. You're like, what's your experience of this?
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
I think she's having a really tough season. Now I've met something out socially and she was so nice and so lovely, like surrounded by gay guys. And I think she thrives in that environment and is the best version of her experience.
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
I, I, I don't love what's happening on this season with her a lot. And the Garcelle leaving because she's so clearly much more interested and invested in her friendship with Kyle than she is with Garcelle is kind of a bummer. I think Garcelle, though, is leaving... quite honestly, at the right time because I think the tide was about to turn on Garcelle a little bit too.
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
And I think, yeah, I think she's leaving at like the height of her popularity and that's the smartest move that any housewife has ever decided to do for themselves. Makes sense, yeah.
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
And Dorit. And Dorit, and I think, like, what I read was that Bose, like, really comes for her about the staged break-in of it all.
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
And, like, that really comes back to bite her at the reunion, is that they all sort of go in on, like, that sort of comment, which is, like, she says some, like, she says some pretty shocking things sometimes in a way that is, like, Garcelle, in a way that's, like, I'm glad she says most of the stuff she says, like, when she's, like, can we just call you a lesbian? Like, are you... It's, like...
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
I don't think Dorit knew anything about it, but it is a little sus. I don't put it past PK. Don't sue me, please. Allegedly. Allegedly, we don't put it past PK. Allegedly. Let's bookend it. But yeah, I think she was voicing what a lot of people were thinking. Now, do I think she should have? That's a different question. I'm not sure I'm equipped to answer yet.
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
But to answer your question, I'm not necessarily Team Sutton right now. Again, in real life, I hope to run into her at high tops again. But I just think I really didn't love the wallet comment. That's tough. And like, listen, do I do I stand Dorit in any way, shape or form? No. Do I think we're finally seeing a little bit of like who Dorit like when she lit that cigarette?
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
I was like, that is who you are. Finally, we are seeing who you are. And like, I am glad for that, like at the very least, because this was kind of a boring season.
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
That was mean.
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
You know, it's never, SNL is not calling anytime soon either. Um, it was like not a good impression even. Um, but yeah, I, um, It is strange. Like, I just think that, like, Sutton really wants to be friends with Kyle. And I think it drives her nuts that she can't get in there. And I think, like, it's very much like cool girl table. Like, it's a little Heather Gay, you know, too.
The Viall Files
E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
Like, in the way that she sort of rides for Lisa in a kind of, like, transparent way.
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E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
Yeah. I hope for and pray that it'll be interesting. In the same way it's been interesting to see Giselle without Robin, I think it'll be interesting to see Sutton without Marcel for a minute and see how that sort of plays out.
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E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
It is. And I think like, it's so sad that Crystal never really brought it in the way she needed to bring it because knowing her in real life, she's very funny and very sharp. And I think like at the beginning of the season when she had that little tiff with Sutton, I was like, yes, okay, this is gonna work.
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E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
And then I think she got so scared because Sutton was so much more popular than her that she really dialed it back. But I was like, I like you. Oh, you're that girl. Like I was like, yes, get in there. Like, let's really unpack this. But then she really just, I don't know. I think she, she, she like dialed back because she was, she got spooked. But yeah.
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E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
I do too. I talked to her. I guess part of the reason was, and I don't know if this is the complete full truth, was that they really wanted a season of all single women. And that didn't necessarily play out or pay off in an interesting way.
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E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
Nobody's married. Yeah, nobody's married.
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E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
That's the problem is that like, they think, I think they wanted like the fun single season to be this season, but none of them have worked out those, their exes yet. They're still in divorce mode. And so I, I'm hopeful that maybe next season we'll see. I think Boze is a fun addition. Like she really, they finally, she finally broke the one season wonder curse on that show. I think she is awesome.
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E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
I've never seen someone I've,
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E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
yeah but it's also like that's not even the best dick talk about making some hey erica at least someone had a peak i mean that's what garcelle's peak is like yeah yeah and like and now like she is like doing like she's back in a big way and like that's part of my frustration honestly with garcelle's storylines it's like i don't need to hear about another movie or how busy you are like
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E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
You're at work now. Focus on that. But I'm so happy for her success. I'm glad that she's leaving the show. Like the human, we're happy for her choices.
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E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
yeah exactly and that is the central conflict of any of watching any of these shows is like do you want like an interesting person or do you want like a cool nice normal person no I would be devastated if Lisa Barlow left
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E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
um i know and yeah and i don't know if i could i don't know if i trust to be her friend right you know like yeah um you said you were wedding planning watching real housewives of atlanta how are you loving this new season i am so like stoked about this season i think the soft reboot is exactly what it needed i think shamia like i'm so like
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E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
I don't know why I'm surprised, but like her being sort of the center and our entrance into this new era of the show. I think it's like she's great. She's like put in the time. I think she earned that peach and like she's been doing like I think I find her to be wonderful. I did not know that HVAC sales was so lucrative. Right.
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E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
And I have not yet learned or been able to, like, remember most of the names other than Brit. And Brit, Angela, Kelly, right?
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E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Angela in a marriage that is, again, like, doom's day. Angela Charles. Like, that conversation was hard to watch. When they say things on camera, like, 10 years is a long time. I'm like, babe. Yeah.
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E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
That's your that's your like on camera like filter. Yeah. And like what what are you saying to this woman behind closed doors?
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E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
We're able to squash it. I love Portia Williams. She's one of my all time faves. And I am really excited for a new season with Portia. Yeah.
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E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
Yeah. I mean, yeah, you kind of have to be. Again, Drew seems fine as a person, but I don't engage well with her storylines on the show. I'm worried for her ankles constantly. I'm like, what bone is she going to break next? She's always broken.
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E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
And that's, like... And, like, why is this hot dog man, like, producing music now?
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E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
It's so strange. Like, it would... It would make more sense to be on Drew's side if he was a very successful music producer that could rocket her career to the next level. I would have a little more sympathy for her. But it seems kind of random and honestly, it does not seem like it's going to be a flexion point in her career working with Dennis.
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E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
And next week's the big... Well, we ended with Kenya Hardy. I know. And the thing is, is if Kenya didn't do, like, didn't do what she did, Like, I'd almost be on her side a little bit. Like, if I didn't know what was coming after this episode, I would sort of be like, she is doing a lot right now.
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E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
I know, but she, I mean, talk about taking it to way too far. Like, I don't know, like how she goes from like marching band at to revenge porn. Like it's such a big leap.
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E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
for a second yeah if none of us knew like after this last episode if none of us knew what was coming in the next episode I think we'd all be unanimously behind Kenya 100% you know again love her hate her like she is great TV and like she's still tweeting too my first housewife pairing on Watch What Happens Live And I'm going on again with an Atlanta housewife closer to the premiere of Love Hotel.
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E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
And it will be my third Atlanta housewife that I've been on with. I got Kenya Marlowe and now hopefully, hope against hope, Portia. But I would also love Shamia too, I think. I love those ladies so much.
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E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
uh love hotel yeah let's talk about it a little bit uh what can we look forward to um you know this is this is like on the honest truth the the most pleasant thing i think and surprising thing about this show and i think it's primarily because of the makeup of the women is you do get to see these women like really become friends and really like have their back there is conflict there is drama but it is all between the women and the men and it is nice to see them like just be
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E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
friends you know like it's nice to not see like the conflict between the women like take over the show it's so that i think people will be pleasantly surprised by and i think like luann is just it is like so it is exactly where you want to see you almost want to see luann as like the only one uh you know like
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E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
um she is there is like i i know for a fact that like the music they will play behind some of her scenes of it will be so goofy because she is like tenfold the comic relief of the show um in every episode she is just so wild but yeah it's interesting to see all of them i i'm excited like i hope the show continues and we get to see like heather gay on the show and like a different mix like
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E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
Yeah, it'll be interesting to see how this format sort of moves forward after this season. And I think it's going to be well received. I think it's going to be it's really a fun time. And there are some real like real thing.
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E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
coming up a few weeks away.
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E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
Yeah, I mean, like I said, like, I have some sit-downs with them, and it, like, it gets, like, real vulnerable from people like Giselle, too, who, like, I think I have probably not said the kindest things about Giselle in the past.
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E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
and i think she knew that coming into the show and we at by the end of the show like despite the fact that she recently said my dick was uh too small on her podcast we are like good i texted her about that and i was like hey what what why did you say that and like um we ended up but the end of the conversation i was like hope the girls are great like like it
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E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
she did really like we did really get like much closer like she said to me at the end of the filming she was like you know I thought you would be like kind of a little bitch and like I you know we hugged it out and it was like you know great and she all of them I think were gave me a lot of grace after it all went down do you think it's like just hearing you talk you know and watching all these women and all these different shows
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E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
It does feel like I flew a little too close to the center a little bit. It's all fun and games when you're separated by a television screen. But it is a little bit jarring. And like I said, they were all super fun while we were filming with me. And so I don't have any direct beef with any of them.
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E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
But like it is it is just like, yeah, it honestly like I couldn't when I got home, I didn't really watch Bravo for a second because I needed like a minute because it did like it just like re sort of contextualizes a lot of what you're seeing. And like suddenly it's like, oh, yeah, you know, it is funny when Ramona shits on the ground.
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E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
It just, yeah, it changes. I have now since like memory hold my way back into loving everything I'm seeing on Bravo. So it wasn't that traumatic.
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E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
Love Hotel premieres April 27th we will be watching it checking it out do so as well thank you again man anything else you want to promote where people can follow you I have a podcast called Bad Dates that comes out every week I actually truly don't know what day it comes out and Loot season 3 will be premiering later this year as well which I would love
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E910 - Joel Kim Booster, Grant & Juliana, Temptation Island, Summer House, Southern Charm, RHOBH & RHOA
catch up on great show our friend nick lehman writes for it yes love nick love nick um and in fact like much of my character is based around nick so um yeah it's it's great and this season is so funny and like i'm uh it's just a joy to work on so i'm really excited for people to see that and um check out like my instagram for tour dates here and there i hate joel kent amazing uh well thank you for coming joel you've been such a