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Chapter 1: What are the podcast hosts' initial thoughts on the RHOP reunion?
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And thanks for the support, guys. Love doing this every day. It's like such a great way to live life, for sure. So how are you feeling? How are you feeling about Potomac and all that good stuff?
Oh, my goodness. I loved this first episode of the reunion. I thought it was hilarious. Oh, my goodness. I felt great. How did you feel?
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Chapter 2: How does Karen's absence impact the RHOP reunion?
I did, too. I thought it was better than the season. This is a good one for reunions, even without Karen. You know, Karen didn't show up to the reunion, as we'll get into. But they still made it all about Karen. And it was just as fun as if she was there.
Yeah. No, Karen, she's never not there, even when she's not there. Like her presence is felt. And thank goodness Ashley had the foresight to go to Target and get a cheapo frame and put Karen's picture in it.
Yeah. And, you know, that picture frame shame is very on brand for Karen talk because Karen started out her career on Real Housewives by shaming Giselle with a picture frame filled with rules of etiquette that Giselle should follow. And so all these years later, season nine, Karen is in rehab and she is now framed at the reunion. So it's kind of a burn, but it's a fun burn, you know.
Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
Now, hold on. I was trying to think of a fun burn. I was going to say it's a fun burn. Like, I don't know, syphilis, a fun burn. I've got, I'm assuming that's not, but I feel like I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't think of one. Oh,
A jalapeno pepper added into your salsa. It's a little fun burn, right? Fun burns.
So what did you say is going on over there? What's wrong with you?
Oh, I had downloaded the wrong notes. I had downloaded the notes for a fully different episode. So I was just going to be like, vamp, vamp, vamp. But all is right. Order has been restored into the Potomac recapping universe.
All right, well, we see on screen December 20th, 2024, 12 hours after Karen was found guilty of Dewey and six other charges, including wigs that don't fit and having sex with chauffeurs with blue eyes. So we have a very serious...
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Chapter 3: What is the controversy surrounding Karen's DUI incident?
You strip yourself down to your most raw state so you can get that Charlize Theron Oscar. And here's Karen.
In her monster look. Yeah, I was kind of hoping someone would come in, you know, some like PETA person would come in and spray paint her wig just to make it even worse. Because I was watching that video over the weekend of Rihanna trying to get into a car. And one of the PETA people is there. And he's like, how could you wear fur? You're a terrible human being. A billionaire who still wears fur.
Fuck you, Rihanna. And one of the paparazzi guys is like, shut up. She looks good in that animal. She looks amazing in that animal.
Yeah, I think I think America is back in its fur era right now, whether they like it or not. A lot of things, a lot of things have gone back. So, yeah, Karen, well, we'll have to call Joanna Krupa to see what she has to say about this, because if I remember correctly, she was a very active member on Real Hostels of Miami. So Karen is now in her guilt and forlorn state.
And so producer is like, well, the verdict was read. What was your initial reaction? She goes, well. My heart dropped. We see her. And then we see a bunch of Karen headlines of me in the car. And she goes, this is very frightening, but I accept full responsibility for everything that went on with my car in that accident.
And by full responsibility, I mean, I happen to just have antidepressants and alcohol. I was not drunk driving. It was just poor, poor prescription planning. That's it.
Yeah, and we start, you know, she says she's taking responsibility while she's not really taking responsibility for anything, which is a very Karen answer. And we see flashbacks to the DUI video, which, by the way, if you haven't watched it, a preview does not do it justice. Go watch it. Okay. And so Ray is there and he's like, well, I had a couple of beers or something like that, right?
And she goes, yes, that's all I had. Listen to Ray now. What you will not do is tell me what I can and cannot do. And then the producer's like, so it's only a month till sentencing. How do you feel? And then we see another flashback to Karen in the car handcuffed. And she's sitting in the front seat, which... I don't think that's allowed, but you know, she's a grand dame.
So she's in the front seat and she's like, do you know who I am? There's never going to touch me. This is like the ray of crimes. It's never going to touch me. So they call me the grand dame. I don't know what the fuck that's about. Andy Cohen gave it to me. Andy Cohen. And girl, you're talking to a presumably straight, but police officer. He don't watch your show. You got to know your crowd.
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Chapter 4: How does the RHOP cast react to Karen's rehab announcement?
Things you don't want to say if you're trying to tell everyone that you're not drunk driving.
She is just... I mean, they might have started out with one criminal offense, and you just see him, like, ticking more criminal offenses every second. Then she goes, now... I know that a lot of little children look up to me. Girl, you are still drunk.
There are no little children looking up to you. Now stop that. Go to the streets of Mumbai and meet the orphans there and they'll say, when will Karen come and meet us?
In the streets on the police scanners of Potomac. We've been called to another school. There are too many kindergartners and shifty wigs. We're having a crackdown.
yeah i'm just waiting to see like the armies of children raiding the the jail like uh it was january 6th she has her own happy meal she has her own happy meal they just sell little little toys like her props in the show you know little witches
hello this year for the girl scouts we've changed our mission all proceeds will go towards clearing karen's name she means so much to us i'll take six boxes of the i am lit thanks so damn those girl scouts by the way those little fucking drug dealers you know i'm so sick of these girl scouts I have a friend with a brownie, I guess. She's a brownie.
I shouldn't call her Girl Scout because, you know, I'm like, I should be harassing the brownies. They're who really deserves my ire today. This little fucking drug dealer is like, Mr. Brownie, will you support my brownie trip and buy me some cookies? It's like, sure. Send me 10 boxes of cookies. I've eaten 10 boxes of cookies. How do you stop eating those? I hate those little girls. I'm...
i'm i'm i'm on to you i'm on to you you little witches all right we're concentrating on alcoholism on this show but i'm watching you yeah i um i'm i i guess i'm fortunate that all my uh girl scout cookie connects have gone away so i am not i'm not they're afraid of your house a girl scout walks up to your house you know get a job what are you doing here child
out i don't know if they come with cookies it's a whole there's a whole different story going on you know i don't like children but children who bring me cookies you know like you know how it's like it's supposed to be like stranger dangers when the adult like lures children with candies and cookies i get lured when the children loves me with a cookie yeah exactly who's stranger danger now those little
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Chapter 5: What are the dynamics between Wendy and the rest of the RHOP cast?
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it's time for a commercial it's time for a crappin's commercial so ashley ashley of course really rises to the moment and she's like well i had a feeling that the grandam wouldn't be here today so um i made sure she would be here in white so here she is and she pulls out her cheap picture frame with karen there which is just great they just have it propped up on the side and they just cut to it at like random times over the course of the hour
Wait a minute. Wait a minute, everybody. Wait a minute. Stacey here. I just want to say, give her some grace. Give her some grace. Stacey's overacting is so fucking funny in this whole reunion. I loved it.
I love Stacey even more after this reunion. Me too. Like, I love the way she goes from like melodrama, but that she's like melodrama. But then when you come for her, she really stiffens up really quickly. And she's very funny. She does.
And she's just her whole like most offended person out of all of the people who have ever lived. It's my favorite version of her. I think it's so funny. So it's like, well, how? Oh, sorry, man.
I was just going to say, I feel like a melodramatic housewife, like a purely melodramatic housewife, that's like a special thing. And we actually don't get it as much as we think. Like people may act melodramatic, but there are some that just are melodramatic. And Stacey is definitely in that camp. So like she has won me over three times over.
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Chapter 6: How does Wendy's career change affect her personal life?
I'm also taking a stance against cops flirting with me every time they pull me over. This time I was put in the most sexy handcuffs I've ever seen. You're not getting a piece of this, sir.
All right, you're not getting a piece. To the little dear that was so afraid of my car for no good reason, I'll just say, I am going to get out of this place and I shall drive again, so next time you better stay off that median, because I'm coming for you. And to quote my good friend Rihanna, where are you?
Where are you now? Where are you? Where are you now?
I found antidepressants and alcohol in a lonely place.
So... And K to K. I would like to give this to K. K, nobody remembers your name, but I do. And it's K. Let's just stick with K. Can we roll that back? Do we have editing on this video, Ray?
Jassy! Jassy! You sent me special notes that really touched my heart. And to my car's chassis, I'm sorry for the median situation. We'll get you fixed.
Now I know she's no longer with us on the show, but Candice reached out to me and she's been a soldier. She's been a soldier for me. So, Candice, thank you. Thank you for being a soldier, Candice. Now, wait a minute. There's a special person on my list. And Wendy's just sitting there like, really, bitch? Like, it better be me. I would like to thank the Hamburglar.
You know, I was stopping at a McDonald's. I was about to eat a hamburger, and a little Hamburglar came and stole it away from me. Thank you for that. That's the reason I look so good today, to accept this award.
I was going to do a McDonald's reference, too. Yeah. We've been doing this for too many years together.
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Chapter 7: What are the business ventures discussed by the RHOP cast?
Because when everybody else is like... I've spoken to Karen. I spoke to her at Christmas. I spoke to her at New Year's. You never hear that from Wendy, but I think that that counts and alliance counts, you know, and I don't blame. Wendy for being annoyed.
And also I don't really blame her for keeping her foot on Karen's neck during this whole reunion, just because Karen, I mean, just because Karen didn't show up, doesn't mean that they can't still hold her accountable. So, you know, in fact, you could have passed for me.
You have to take that privilege of being able to totally go after someone and they can't defend themselves. So like, you know, there is a, yes, Karen does not have to face the fire, but at the same time, she also, they get free reign to say whatever they want about her, which, you know, I tend to believe in this case.
So Wendy is basically like, it's not that I never want to acknowledge that she has issues with me. It's just, I take people for what they show me and she's not shown me that.
And also I want to say that last year when my mother was being swagged through the mud, Karen was the one of the only people who stuck up for my mother. And, but that's also because Karen, you know, Karen's sticking up for, I think, the older person.
And she's also going to stick up for the mom because she can be like, you never come for mother like you've come for me when my mother, you know, all that. So Andy's like, OK, well, that's fair. Well, one interesting thing about that video was when she said she's going to come back as Karen and not the Grand Dame. Now, is Karen the one who wore the possum on her head or is that the Grand Dame?
I don't want that one back. Tell that one not to come back.
And I would like to point out that, for the record, my eyes almost fell out of my face when my name came up in footage.
And really, just any time I'm on the stage, my eyes are almost always falling out of my face.
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Chapter 8: What are the future prospects for the RHOP cast?
I don't even think Tamara did it first. I feel like someone else did it even before Tamara.
Oh, housewife? I mean, the chick from Shazza Sunset started her woosah thing, but I think before that, I don't think there was another housewife's weed. Was there? You know, I don't know.
I'm talking out of my ass. It's a Monday. It's what happens sometimes.
I don't know. I mean, yeah, I don't think you can be proprietary. But in your own cast. And her thing isn't that you can't start one. Her thing is like, but I hope you're not doing that without talking to me. Because, you know, that's the rule. You have to get permission from whoever came out with the first wick.
And then we see the clip of Karen being like, well, she can enjoy her three wick and I can enjoy my nine wick.
Yeah, and Ash is like, is it called Spacey Stacey? And she's like, absolutely not. I have not done anything of the sort. No, no. Although knowing Stacey, she probably would be releasing some sort of like edible potpourri. It's like, it's not weed, it's potpourri. And now it's a chewable, enjoy.
So Giselle's like, so you didn't have a meeting with someone and tell him that you're a celebrity?
And she's like, absolutely not.
She's like, because he asked you why on earth do I need to work with you? And you were like, because I'm a celebrity, yeah.
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