Summer House and 90s Trend: Kelly and The Crew Discuss

Summary

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Let's Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa

Episode Summary: "Summer House and 90s Trend: Kelly and The Crew Discuss"

Date: April 15, 2026
Host: Kelly Ripa
Guests/Co-hosts: Jan Chile, Albert Bianchini, Michael Halperin, Lisa Mantineo
Main Theme: The episode features the “Let’s Talk Off Camera” team catching up after a hiatus, diving into recent personal stories, pop culture drama (especially the latest “Summer House” scandal), and riffing on trending 1990s nostalgia topics.

Episode Overview

This lively, candid episode starts with Kelly and her regular crew (Jan, Albert, and Michael) reflecting on their recent break—including personal family moments and travel mishaps—before jumping into a group therapy-style hot take on the Bravo “Summer House” drama and 1990s nostalgia trends. The discussion is fast-paced, wise-cracking, occasionally unhinged, and peppered with listener call-ins who add even more spice to the “Scamanda” storyline. They also tackle viral news stories (like the identical twins paternity case), all in the uniquely frank and witty Ripa style.

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Team Catch-Up: Hiatus Recap and Personal Stories

[03:39–19:05]

TSA Follies and Travel Woes

• Kelly recounts her humiliating TSA experience with Ugg boots setting off an alarm and having to walk barefoot through the airport.

  "I always wear the same outfit when I travel because it's my non alarm sounding outfit. And suddenly...AN ALARM GOES OFF." (04:15)

• Jan outs her husband for using a back brace to pre-board a plane under “disability” rules, then taking it off in the exit row.

  "How do you play both ends of this? Like, it's not cool." – Jan (06:25)

• Laughter and mock outrage about “miracle flights” — when passengers who need wheelchairs to board seem to walk off just fine.

  "Miracles occur every day. Miracles occur at flight." – Kelly (07:30)

Grief & Family Loss: Kelly’s Father-in-Law

• Kelly opens up with warmth and emotion about the sudden loss of her father-in-law, Mark Consuelos’ dad. She reflects on his legacy as an immigrant, Navy veteran, Special Ops worker, and loving grandfather.

  "He was an extraordinary man, a brilliant man and so funny. ... My only regret in life is that not everybody in the world got to know my father in law." – Kelly (12:32, 15:49)

• The crew shares stories of their own grandparents and reflects on the value of cross-generational relationships and gratitude.
• Special mention: Mark orchestrated a final family weekend that let everyone say goodbye—a move praised for its prescience and heart.

Holiday Recaps: Passover/Easter Feasts

• Kelly gushes about a double vegan Seder (“a dream”), while Jan finds the traditional meals less than inspiring.

  "I do like the horseradish." – Kelly (19:52)

• Albert’s family Easter escalates from a simple meal to a “feast that will feed for a month,” with a rundown of dishes—ham with orange-pineapple sauce, kielbasa, pasta timbale, cupcake-pan potato dauphinois, and more.
• Plenty of banter about food, Italian traditions, and Tupperware logistics.

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Hot Topic: "Summer House" and the "Scamanda" Scandal

[27:47–44:16]

Framing the Drama

• The episode’s pop culture centerpiece revolves around the “Summer House” cast’s real-life intrigue—namely, the reveals around cast members Amanda, Kyle, West, and Sierra.
• Kelly admits, despite her son being a producer on the show, that she knows “nothing!” about the scandal.

  "My son Michael is a producer on Summer House. So naturally, I know nothing." (27:56)

• The comparison is quickly made to the infamous "Scandoval" from "Vanderpump Rules," but the group clarifies this isn’t a cheating scandal per se.

Explaining "Scamanda"

• Lisa Mantineo (Andy Cohen’s producer) gives a rapid-fire breakdown:
  • Kyle and Amanda, recently divorced.
  • Sierra (Amanda’s best friend) and West (Sierra’s on-off guy).
  • West and Amanda are now together—shock to Sierra and Kyle.

  "So kind of rocked everyone's world because Sierra had no idea. And Kyle, Amanda's ex husband, who's also friends with West...had no idea." – Lisa (29:44)

• Kelly, Jan, and the group debate girl code and empathize with Sierra’s apparent betrayal.

  "That's a breaking of the girl code. Right, the girl code." – Kelly (30:57)

Social Media Fallout & Gender Double Standards

• The internet piles on Amanda, while West gets a pass and more followers.

  "Taylor’s oldest time. Yeah. I mean, men get away with everything. It's so gross." – Kelly (32:00)

• Rihanna unfollowing Amanda is noted as a pop culture bombshell.
• Listeners Carlin (from New Orleans) and Deb (from Denver) phone in with spicy takes:
  • Carlin: "Rihanna did immediately unfollow Amanda. So that was big." (35:21)
  • Both callers stress that Sierra is coming out strong—she’s buying her family’s legacy house—and that the show’s brewing reunion will be ratings gold.

Differing Perspectives and Empathy

• Deb adds context: Sierra hasn’t seriously entertained West for years, so the betrayal may be overblown, and sometimes chemistry just happens, referencing Kelly’s own love story with Mark.

  "If they fell in love...what are you going to do, lie about it?" – Deb (38:00)

• Shakira, another producer, weighs in with a reflective point about grief, intent, and not always getting the whole truth from a reality-TV edit.

  "If you've never been through it, then it's easy for us as the viewers to get caught up in all the drama..." – Shakira (43:59)

Kelly's Disengagement is the Bit

• Kelly plays devil’s advocate, noting she can believe everyone’s perspectives since she’s not “ensconced.”
• The team leans into group therapy humor, commiserating about girl code, double standards, grief, and TV drama all at once.

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Trending Pop Culture: 90s Nostalgia & Viral News

[47:35–56:38]

The Great '90s Trend Backlash

• Group riffs about the proliferation of "What were you like in the 90s?" social media trends, mocking the trope where parents pretend their kids are curious about their 90s selves.

  "Stop saying mom. What were you like in the 90s? I know your kids aren't asking you that and so do you. We all know it. The jig is up." – Kelly (47:58)

• The 1990s, for the crew, were mostly about prom drama—Albert “straight in the 90s,” Kelly recounting her role as many a gay friend’s prom date, and Jan hooking up on the lawn.

  "I went to a lot of proms. I was everybody's prom date because they weren't ready to, like, tell their parents the truth." – Kelly (51:48) "What turned you gay? Was it me?" – Kelly to Albert (49:02) "I have 10 kids right now. ... Albert's gayness is real estate based." – Albert & Kelly (50:44-50:50)

Viral Weird News: The Identical Twin Paternity Case

• Jan tells the wild news story about a UK woman who had sex with identical twins days apart; now DNA can’t distinguish paternity for her baby.
• Hilariously, the crew wonders about anatomical similarities and googles, “Are the penises identical in identical twins?”

  "We need to get her on this podcast. ... I haven't been sleeping at night because of this story." – Kelly (53:04)

• Kelly wants to book the twins (“or just their penises”) as podcast guests for “Grudge Judy.”
• Albert reads from Google about minor genetic/anatomical differences in identical twins, causing uproarious laughter.

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Notable Quotes & Highlight Moments

• On Grief & Family:

  "The shock of the inevitable. We knew it was going to happen, we just didn't know it was going to happen instantaneously on a random Monday." – Kelly (07:36)
  "My only regret in life is that not everybody in the world got to know my father in law." – Kelly (15:49)

• On Girl Code & Double Standards:

  "Men get away with everything. It's so gross. ... You don't date your friend's (guy), and I don't care if he's like, you know, one foot in the grave." – Kelly (32:00, 32:13)

• On 90s Nostalgia:

  "Stop saying mom. What were you like in the 90s? I know your kids aren't asking you that and so do you." – Kelly (47:58)
  "I went to a lot of proms. I was everybody's prom date because they weren't ready to, like, tell their parents the truth." – Kelly (51:48)

• On the Twins Paternity Case:

  "Is it. Are the penises identical in identical twins? Google that. This is why Google was created." – Kelly (55:26) "Just book the penises. If you can't get the twins, book the penises." – Jan/Albert (56:13)

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Noteworthy Segments & Timestamps

• Hiatus Recap/Family Loss & Holidays: [03:39–19:26]
• “Summer House” / Scamanda Explained: [27:47–44:16]
• Listener Call-ins on Summer House: [34:38–41:07]
• '90s Trend & Prom Tales: [47:41–52:29]
• Viral News—Identical Twins Paternity Story: [52:36–56:38]

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Tone & Style

Unfiltered, funny, occasionally profane, deeply empathetic, and very "off-camera." The crew teases each other relentlessly while pivoting gracefully from emotional real talk (family, grief, generational love) to pop culture snark and group therapy for reality TV fans. Listener calls add chaos and perspective, while the team embraces being in—or purposely out of—the know.

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For First-Time Listeners

This episode demonstrates what Kelly does best: letting the conversation roam organically across deep personal moments, pop culture obsession, and shared experience, all while keeping things irreverent and real. If you missed the episode, you’ll walk away feeling filled in on Bravo drama, 90s nostalgia, and with a few weird new Google rabbit holes to explore.

Transcript

[Kelly Ripa]

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[Kelly Ripa]

I definitely prefer the gay proms to the straight proms. Like I love, you know. Cause these guys like, they take you to prom and then they look at you like, well, I'm like, well what? No. Yeah. Chicken cordon bleu. It's gonna take a lot more than that to get my prom dress off. Nice try. Somebody gonna cue me or do I cue myself? Cue yourself. Okay. Oh my gosh. Welcome back everyone to another live episode of let's Talk off camera. And back by popular demand. This. This was insisted upon.

[Jan Chile]

Yes.

[Albert Bianchini]

Yes.

[Kelly Ripa]

I find that hard to believe. I'm wondering who it was. Today is an ltoc team episode. Ltoc Jam. I found out today stands for let's talk off camera. Was that yes? Yeah. Huh. As a matter we are back fresh from a hiatus. We had a hiatus so we've got a lot to get into. Much needed hiatus. As always, we are opening the phone line so you can call us at 844-305-2639. That's 844305. Andy. If you have questions for any of us here at let's Talk off camera

[Jan Chile]

and shout out to our producer Michael.

[Kelly Ripa]

Our producer Michael.

[Jan Chile]

Happy birthday.

[Albert Bianchini]

Happy birthday.

[Michael Halperin]

Thank you guys so much.

[Kelly Ripa]

I appreciate it. I wouldn't want to be anywhere else. Everyone, if you're recognizing that voice, that's right. That is Michael from Jenna and Hoda's show. Also, we're going to poach him. Yeah, we're going to poach him. We're going to take him. He is a newborn baby. Today I have two Children older than you, Michael. Two children and one that is younger than you. So. So I still feel like I could be your mom's friend.

[Albert Bianchini]

I have a relationship older than him. It's very bizarre.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yes, I have a relationship.

[Albert Bianchini]

We all do.

[Kelly Ripa]

I'm far older than him if it makes you guys feel any better.

[Michael Halperin]

I would have never guessed that. I thought you guys all had kids

[Jan Chile]

in middle school or now we like them more.

[Kelly Ripa]

What a bullshit. Well, you know, it's cruel to lie to your elders on your birthday.

[Albert Bianchini]

How dare you accuse a gay man of having a kid.

[Kelly Ripa]

I won't lie anymore.

[Michael Halperin]

Don't wor.

[Kelly Ripa]

Excuse me, we are on radio. Andy.

[Albert Bianchini]

Oh, sorry.

[Kelly Ripa]

Father of two.

[Albert Bianchini]

Father of two, Right.

[Kelly Ripa]

Father of two.

[Albert Bianchini]

But when he was my age, I don't think Andy. Maybe he did have Ben, but I don't know. I have to think about that. Maybe.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yeah, maybe Ben. Ben. Maybe he had Ben by then. So you're late to the party, Albert. I am late to the party. Happy birthday.

[Albert Bianchini]

Happy birthday, Michael.

[Kelly Ripa]

We are thrilled.

[Michael Halperin]

Appreciate it.

[Kelly Ripa]

We love working with you. And he's got a great voice listeners. Yes, you are not. I find that when he talks, I'm then going, yes, I'm trying to make my voice. Okay, let's get into the hiatus. What did y' all do? Well, we were all away.

[Jan Chile]

Yeah, we were away. I went to Florida.

[Kelly Ripa]

How was it?

[Jan Chile]

I'm gonna sell my husband out for a second.

[Kelly Ripa]

Please do. I love it.

[Jan Chile]

So we're at the airport and by the way, no issues with tsa. I know. There's been so much talk about it.

[Kelly Ripa]

I didn't have same. I had not one issue except that I did have to take my shoes off and I didn't have socks on. Which is another discussion. I. Well, I was wearing my Uggs.

[Jan Chile]

Britney.

[Kelly Ripa]

No, my Uggs never. I was wearing these same travel Uggs that I always wear cuz they never set off an alarm. I always wear the same outfit when I travel because it's my non alarm sounding outfit. And suddenly I walked through and an alarm goes off. And I'm thinking that can't be me, that's an accident. And he goes, it's a random alarm. You've got to stand over there and go through the other machine. So I go through the other machine and they're like, what's on your ankles? And I'm like nothing's on my ankles. And he's. And he's showing me like the boots. And I go. And he goes, can you pull up your pant legs? And I pull up my pant legs and I show him the ugg boots. And he goes, you have to put your ugg boots through the no screening machine. And I looked at him and I said, but I do not have sex.

[Albert Bianchini]

Oh, no.

[Kelly Ripa]

And he was like, too bad. So sad.

[Albert Bianchini]

Oh, no.

[Kelly Ripa]

So then I was tiptoeing. I met some very nice people that were, like, you know, very kind. They saw that I was traumatized by having to walk through the airport barefoot. Yeah, like, gross. Yeah, like. Yeah. It was not. Not my finest moment.

[Jan Chile]

Well, so what happened was we were at the airport, and, you know, it's that time where they're starting to announce the. The flight to take off. And they say people who have disabilities, you know, can board first.

[Kelly Ripa]

That's your husband. All day.

[Jan Chile]

So my husband straps on his back brace, and he's like, we're going to the front of the line. And there's people in wheelchairs. And he is like, like, going ahead of them. And I'm like, glenn, come on. Like, let's not do this. And he's like, nope, we're doing this. So then we board the plane first. Okay, I'm embarrassed. It's embarrassing. Okay, we board the plane first, and then we proceed to go to our seats, which is the exit row, because that's. He books that.

[Kelly Ripa]

Cause it's more room, more leg room. And he's a very tall man, Right.

[Jan Chile]

So now he takes off his brace, and they come over and they say, are you capable to assist in an emergency? And he's like, yep, fully capable.

[Kelly Ripa]

No.

[Jan Chile]

How do you play both ends of this? Like, it's not cool.

[Kelly Ripa]

He just. You know what? Two. Two things can be true at the same time, Chan.

[Albert Bianchini]

That's right.

[Kelly Ripa]

Something tells.

[Jan Chile]

Help anyone in a case of.

[Kelly Ripa]

I'm not saying he's going to help anyone else. I'm saying he's going to help himself off. That he will help himself.

[Jan Chile]

I'm saying I'm selling him out for that. But otherwise, it was a really good trip.

[Kelly Ripa]

I was talking to a flight attendant, and they call it the miracle flights. Yeah, it's where, like, 12 wheelchairs wheel on onto the plane, and then when it's time to get off of the plane, they no longer need the wheelchairs. Did you know that they called it the miracle flights? We're on the radio.

[Albert Bianchini]

Sorry.

[Kelly Ripa]

No, speak out.

[Albert Bianchini]

Here's what pisses me off about said fucking wheelchairs is that those wheelchairs can't make it down the plane. So planes. Have a wheelchair. Have a plane wheelchair. That's narrow enough to go down. But all those motherfuckers don't really need a wheelchair, do they? Because guess what? Use the plane wheelchair. They walk to their seats. They run to their seats.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yes, it is a miracle. Miracles occur every day. Miracles occur at flight.

[Jan Chile]

How was your trip?

[Kelly Ripa]

My trip was, as, you know, complicated. You know, I was really like hunkering down for two weeks of rest and relaxation, which, you know, it's been, it's been like, it's been a lot for people listening and may not know at home. My beloved father in law, Mark's dad has been sick for a while, quite a while. And we never talk about it because we just kept hoping. I don't know, I don't know what we were hoping for because you don't get better from this. But, but we were hoping for a miracle or more time with him or whatever. And he died quite suddenly and very unexpectedly. And I keep saying it's the shock of the inevitable. We knew it was going to happen, we just didn't know it was going to happen instantaneously on a random Monday. And my phone was ringing and my nephew is getting married and it was my sister in law, Kelly, and she was calling me and we usually just communicate by text. She never calls. But I assumed it was something about the wedding or the travel accommodations because it's a destination wedding. So I assumed it was about that. And I answered the phone and she was crying. And as soon as she started crying, then I started having. I started hyperventilating. And she said, we're trying, we're trying to reach Mark. We can't reach Mark. And she told me what had happened and I was able to get Mark on the phone and I. It was one of those things that I was telling him that I was telling him this news and it was really, you know, I. I wish I was more articulate and artful when I told him, but I just said it, I spit it out, you know, and I was like, dad is gone and you need to call your brother immediately. And Mark being Mark, he said, okay, I'm going to sound rude right now, but I need you to do some things for me. And he gave me a list. And Mark is very big on lists. So he gave me a list of what he needed from me in second. And so he really like went into like damage control mode or crisis management mode. Like he went into a mode of how do I get there? What's the first flight? How do I. I need a car when I arrive because we're not going to want to try to like get an Uber when we need a car. I need you to call the, you know, the hurts people. It was just like thing, thing, thing, thing, thing. And when he went into work mode, then I went into work mode and then I had to call our kids and it was, that was the worst pain I think I'll ever experience in my life. But you know, my father in law was the greatest. He really was the greatest guy. Everybody the greatest. I mean, the greatest.

[Albert Bianchini]

Albert the greatest.

[Kelly Ripa]

There's nobody better. They don't make him like him anymore. And you know, I, we just keep sending each other funny videos and like amazing photos that we're finding. And you know, when I look at my husband, when I look at my kids, all I see is my father in law. They all have the family face.

[Jan Chile]

I mean they're identical. It's wild. I just saw what you posted today on Instagram and it's beautiful. And I really loved what Mark's. You guys both talked about on the show yesterday in terms of just like his story, his immigration story and just what he contributed to this country. And it's, it's amazing. And people need to like, people need to hear those kinds of stories.

[Kelly Ripa]

They really do. Because my, this country is a safer place because of the work my father in law did. And he came to this country alone as a 15 or 16 year old from Mexico. Came here alone, went into the armed services straight out of high school in the navy so he could go to college. He went to college. He got his master's degree while he was a young father and had three small children. And he was a, you know, worked for Special operations command for 30 years.

[Jan Chile]

Wow.

[Kelly Ripa]

He was an extraordinary man, a brilliant man and so funny. And once he became a grandfather, that was it. He became like a different, like he, he was like, we the kids, you know, Mark and his brother and his sister all say like, you guys don't know how scary Nono used to. Like, Nono was scary. And like our kids only know him as like, like mushy Nono who will give them donuts and take them to like he would take them to what's that donut place Was. It was very pop Krispy Kreme. His whole thing was like, like we were always, not just me, all of the siblings, like try to keep our kids like eating healthy, keep them away from sugar. And like we knew as soon as Nona was loading, I'm like, he's taking them to Krispy Kreme. And just so you know, he's going to bring back a dozen donuts, but they've already eaten a dozen at Krispy Kreme. By the time they get back here when they ask for their donut, know they're already sugared up.

[Jan Chile]

Yeah.

[Albert Bianchini]

You said something earlier today about when I forgot this, but that you got all the kids down to see him.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yeah.

[Albert Bianchini]

Which tell that. I mean, I thought that was wonderful.

[Kelly Ripa]

Mark just had a sense. He. He's very connected to his parents. It's one of the reasons I married him. I was like, this man is going to make a great spouse because he's very close with his parents. And he. He just had a sense. He had a sense. And he said, guys, we're gonna run an Airbnb. We're gonna go to North Carolina. He flew all the kids home. Joaquin was here, but Michael was working out of state. Lola was in London. He flew the kids home. And he's like, we're gonna take this weekend and spend it with Nonu and Nona. And they spent the entire weekend together.

[Jan Chile]

Oh, wow.

[Kelly Ripa]

And it was a fabulous, fabulous weekend. And the following. I think the following Tuesday he went into the hospital. So he just sort of knew. It's like, it's now or never. Like, we gotta get the kids home because. Because, I mean, we travel. Let's see. I'm trying to think of the last time we traveled together was I think 2021 or 2022, besides making periodic trips down to North Carolina. But it was always like one of us or two of us. Like there was never like all of us. And Mark really wanted all of us together.

[Albert Bianchini]

You know, he's such a. Mark is such a strong person. And I think when I found out about it too, I thought it just gave me peace to know how dedicated the both of you were to him, even with him living so far away. You went down there all the time?

[Kelly Ripa]

Well, all the kids.

[Albert Bianchini]

I know. It was. Yeah, it was everybody. Right. I'm saying, given your proximity, it was just incredible to watch and to know that you, you know, you're not going to regret. I wish I had gone. I wish I had seen him. Because you have. That you had. You did. And I just made me very.

[Kelly Ripa]

My only my regret in life is that not everybody in the world got to know my father in law.

[Albert Bianchini]

He was incredible.

[Kelly Ripa]

Incredible.

[Albert Bianchini]

We were telling stories. I was saying to Mark.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yeah.

[Albert Bianchini]

When he. We first moved into our offices in soho.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yeah.

[Albert Bianchini]

And we got all this furniture that we had to assemble. And Mark's like Let's do it ourselves. And then he was in town visiting.

[Kelly Ripa]

Oh. And he. I'm sure he put it together in three seconds.

[Albert Bianchini]

He did, but we were like, Mark and I were racing through all the furniture and he put together one chair in the time that it took us. We did five. And that was the only chair that stood the test.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yeah, because. Because you know why? Because he put it together correctly. You guys were like.

[Albert Bianchini]

He was yelling at us that we were going too quickly.

[Kelly Ripa]

No, I know, I know. He was like. He was an exacting person. He was a linguist.

[Albert Bianchini]

He was an incredible man.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yeah, Incredible, incredible man.

[Jan Chile]

My grandparents all passed away when I was super young.

[Kelly Ripa]

Me too.

[Jan Chile]

So I didn't have that relationship. And for, you know, for Luke and Kaden, I'm so psyched that they have a relationship with my dad. So it means so much. And I just love that your kids were so. Are so close with your parents.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yeah, it's very beautiful. Our kids have been very fortunate. This is their first loss. Like they've never lost a grandparent. This is their first loss. And I was trying to explain to them, like, you have to appreciate how lucky you were to be 28, 24 and 23 and have known some wild. No, no. All of your lives.

[Albert Bianchini]

Yeah.

[Kelly Ripa]

Like to have him and to have him be so present to the point where he would attend. I said this the other day on the air. He would attend back to school nights with me and people thought he was my husband.

[Albert Bianchini]

That's right.

[Kelly Ripa]

Which listeners, if you're outside of New York City, in New York City, my father in law was the average age of the dads in the schools in New York City. So it was not that unusual. But then like one year, Mark showed up and people were like, oh, my God. Kelly's traded her husband for a younger version of her husband.

[Albert Bianchini]

Oh, yeah, he was incredible.

[Jan Chile]

And I know Mark was super busy, which I think really probably helped him tremendously.

[Kelly Ripa]

It really did. And he, he said that to me. He said two things. He was grateful that his father was no longer suffering.

[Jan Chile]

Right.

[Kelly Ripa]

So that was like the gratitude. We were trying to approach everything with this word that is overused but important. Gratitude. Right. So we were grateful for the time we had with him. We were grateful for the time he got to spend with our children all their lives. We were grateful he was no longer suffering.

[Michael Halperin]

And.

[Kelly Ripa]

And we were grateful that Mark was, although not hosting the morning show, was able to be in rehearsal all day every day and then do previews at night.

[Albert Bianchini]

It wasn't even just A regular rehearsal week. It's tech week.

[Kelly Ripa]

Tech week. Well, I don't know what that means.

[Albert Bianchini]

Tech week on Broadway is like the worst week of any show ever. Because you're putting. You're building the show. You're not no longer just sitting in a room reading it like you're on a stage that you're going to enter from here. That's going to happen at this time. We're timing it out. So that happened on a Monday, and he had his first live audience coming in that Friday. Like, it's crazy that, that, that, that was the beginning of tech week, which

[Kelly Ripa]

it allowed him to focus. I just, you know, we're gonna have a beautiful memorial for him. And I think it'll be. It'll be like a beautiful. We're gonna do all the things that he loves. My father in law. Yeah. Not Mark. We're not gonna do anything Mark loves. We're doing things that my father in law love.

[Jan Chile]

Now, when you were in Palm Springs, we talked about this briefly.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yes.

[Lisa Mantineo]

You were a little Jewish.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yes. I mean, everybody said that. Like, it's a surprise. That wasn't my first.

[Jan Chile]

I feel like you were more Jewish than I was. You were in Seder way longer than I was.

[Kelly Ripa]

I was in double seders. I went to my friend Rosie Hertz's Seder and everybody was like, was the food terrible? Was the food terrible?

[Jan Chile]

And.

[Kelly Ripa]

And my friend Rosie is vegan, so for me, it was great. Like, vegan Seder to me was like a dream. I could, you know, do without the bitter herbs. I do like the horseradish.

[Jan Chile]

The horseradish is good. But in general, it's like, that meal is not ideal for me either. I don't love it. I don't even like Thanksgiving meal.

[Kelly Ripa]

Like, yes, she did have a. She did have a roast turkey breast for the non vegans at the, at the table that everybody was sang was delicious.

[Jan Chile]

For us, it's brisket at that meal, but it is, you know, that's. You had like a five hour Seder, right?

[Kelly Ripa]

Yeah, yeah, we had like a real. No, we had a real Seder. We had real, real Seder. But it was, it was fun. It was, it was. We had a great time. We had a lot of laughs. We had a lot of laughs at our end of the table and at the other end of the table. It was kind of quiet. And at one point, my friend Nan looked down and said, it's okay if you guys are having more fun. Our food is better down here.

[Jan Chile]

How was your food at Easter oh

[Kelly Ripa]

yeah, tell me about what's the food.

[Albert Bianchini]

I have a list.

[Kelly Ripa]

Okay, give me the list.

[Albert Bianchini]

So we was originally gonna be. We're gonna go out. It was gonna be a let's go out. And then it turned into, you know what, let's just do it here. Which let's just do it here to my family, as you know, is turns into like the feast that will feed for a month.

[Kelly Ripa]

Right.

[Albert Bianchini]

So I asked her to send me the list. You ready?

[Kelly Ripa]

Yes, I'm ready.

[Albert Bianchini]

Ham with orange and pineapple sauce, of course. Kielbasa with onions.

[Jan Chile]

What's kebab? What does that mean?

[Albert Bianchini]

So it's kielbasa sausage cut ups with sauteed onions. Here we go. Pasta timbale, which is with peas and pancetta. Pasta that's baked almost in like a cake pan. It was unbelievable.

[Kelly Ripa]

This is really like an all.

[Albert Bianchini]

It's only three.

[Kelly Ripa]

Easter is an all pork holiday. Go ahead.

[Albert Bianchini]

Potato dauphinois that were made in. I love that they were made in a cupcake. Yes.

[Kelly Ripa]

You can make them in a cupcake. And you flour out the potato. I saw that on Instagram.

[Albert Bianchini]

It's brilliant. Yeah, they were delicious. It's explained to Janly.

[Kelly Ripa]

Sliced potatoes that you put in a cupcake pan. You sort of flour them out and they're crispy and then tender and juicy on the. Yes, yes, I see your time too, Albert. I see it.

[Albert Bianchini]

And then roasted broccoli, roasted leeks with white wine. Sweet potato carrots with maple syrup.

[Jan Chile]

Roasted leeks with white wine. Sounds terrible.

[Albert Bianchini]

Peas, onions and panetta. Then of course the lard bread which is the prosciutto and yes, the bread

[Kelly Ripa]

with the cheese up in a cave.

[Jan Chile]

I don't even know how to start

[Albert Bianchini]

to start the meal.

[Kelly Ripa]

You're not Italian. These are Italian staples.

[Jan Chile]

None of Swenson.

[Albert Bianchini]

What did we start the meal with? The famous cold.

[Kelly Ripa]

Oh, oh, Pizza rustica. Oh, you had pizza rusta pizza rustica

[Albert Bianchini]

to start it, which is incredible.

[Kelly Ripa]

Oh my God.

[Jan Chile]

How many people were at this?

[Albert Bianchini]

And we'll to end the four. Oh, there were 10 people. So then she brings out at the end, there's all these desserts that are coming out. And then she brings out the grana pie, which is a grain pie, which is very famous Easter, Italian Easter thing. And she says, oh, Phyllis's mother in law made this. But Phyllis and the family don't eat it. So she puts it down and it looked beautiful. And I said, what's Phyllis's relationship with her mother in law?

[Kelly Ripa]

You know what you have to ask? You Know what? I just heard a dateline on this. People are poisoning people all over the place.

[Albert Bianchini]

I mean, it's an important question.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yes. Well, and we didn't get into. Besides that. Were there any other desserts?

[Albert Bianchini]

There were a ton of other desserts. I brought two things from Cinderella like it was a whole thing.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yeah, yeah.

[Albert Bianchini]

Red velvet cake.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yeah. Of course.

[Albert Bianchini]

The chocolate cake with the Easter egg shape on it.

[Jan Chile]

You know, the interview.

[Kelly Ripa]

How.

[Jan Chile]

Who's eating all of this?

[Albert Bianchini]

Jan. It just.

[Kelly Ripa]

Did Kyle bring his Tupperware? His famous. No, he didn't. Oh, my God.

[Albert Bianchini]

And he got in a lot of trouble that he didn't bring it.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yes. How did you get the food home?

[Albert Bianchini]

It was in. They ended up sending us home with their. With their Tupperware and with the big. What do you call them?

[Kelly Ripa]

Stackables. Stackable Tupperware. Yeah. Those are for pros. All right, we have to take a commercial break. We'll be back. If you know anything about me, it's that I love to do laundry. It just gives me such satisfaction. But did you also know that skin care can start in the laundry room? The first step of a sensitive skincare routine is choosing the right laundry detergent. All Free Clear is the number one detergent brand recommended by dermatologists for sensitive skin. Allfree Clear is 100% free of dyes and fragrance allergens. It provides an effective clean that's gentle on the skin while removing impurities like dirt and body oil that can irritate your skin. It's made with eight carefully selected ingredients to fight stains and be gentle on skin. How great is that? Allfree Clear has been a game changer for me. It leaves my clothes feeling fresh and my skin feeling happy. I especially love that it doesn't give my laundry a strong artificial odor like some other brands. You know what I mean? For an effective skin friendly clean wash with All Free Clear this month on Acorn TV's murder mystery May, you have to check out yout're Killing Me with the absolutely iconic Brooke Shields. Brooke stars as a mystery novelist who teams up with a young true crime podcaster played by Amalia Williamson to solve small town murders. The dynamic between them is so fun that you get this classic whodunit with a little edge and really witty banter. Watch. You're Killing Me. Premiering May 18th on Acorn TV. Learn more at Acorn TV. Change up your routine for the spring sunshine. A refresh can be as simple as amplifying your look with clean beauty from Thrive Cosmetics. Every product is 100% vegan, cruelty free and made with clean skin. Loving ingredients that work with your skin, not against it. Their Empower Matte Precision Lipstick Crayon delivers creamy, long lasting matte color in 18 buildable shades. Defining and filling lips with fullness. I'm also loving their Empower Gloss Ultra Glossy Lip Serum. It makes my lips feel super hydrated and moisturized. And the best part, unlike other lip glosses I've used, this one's glossiness lasts. And you know I'm already a huge fan because for every product you purchase, Thrive donates products and funds to 550 plus nonprofits and uplift their communities. Now that's beauty with a purpose. Amplify your spring look with Thrive cosmetics. Go to thrivecosmetics.comoff camera for an exclusive offer of 20% off your first order. That's Thrive Cosmetics. C A U S E M E t dash I C s dot com off camera. Okay, everybody, we are back, back, back. We just talked hiatus. We didn't get into Ashley or Seth's hiatus. Anything happened to you two?

[Michael Halperin]

No. I played a lot of pickleball though.

[Kelly Ripa]

Okay, that's good. That's something. My girlfriend Parvaneh sprained her ankle very badly. She's on crutches and now in an air cast from a pickleball incident.

[Jan Chile]

No, I've been like playing for a

[Kelly Ripa]

year and I'm finally, finally like decent at it now.

[Jan Chile]

So it's a lot more fun when

[Kelly Ripa]

you're better at it. Good. Be careful. It's a, it's dangerous sport. Seth, watch that toe. Ashley, I too got pulled at the airport. You did? Yeah, I got the random boot scan. Yeah. What's going on with the boots?

[Jan Chile]

But I had socks on.

[Kelly Ripa]

I did not because I was wearing Uggs. And, and, and I've traveled with these boots exclusively. They do not set off alarms. Yeah, same thing. I felt like Uggs are the socks to me. Yeah. I wanted to walk around with no socks on though. Really.

[Jan Chile]

Get down, grow the Shake Shack.

[Kelly Ripa]

Walk around that airport.

[Jan Chile]

Do you think they ever stop you because you're Kelly Ripa?

[Kelly Ripa]

No, no, no, no, no, no. Okay.

[Albert Bianchini]

I think the computer does.

[Kelly Ripa]

Please. I was like, somebody recognize me here?

[Jan Chile]

Okay, I do have to ask you because over this hiatus, the only thing anyone has been talking, talking about is Summer House. Are you even in the know of

[Kelly Ripa]

what's going on as, you know, listeners? My son Michael is a producer on Summer House. So naturally, I know nothing.

[Jan Chile]

Really? You called him and he.

[Kelly Ripa]

I called him and he's told me Nothing.

[Jan Chile]

Okay. Do you have any concept of.

[Kelly Ripa]

So I know that it seems like it's a different version of that vanderpump guy and that controversy.

[Jan Chile]

Okay, it's not. Because from my understanding, unless we find out more information, nobody was cheating on anyone. That was a full blown cheating incident.

[Kelly Ripa]

Okay, that was full blown. Okay, so what is. So what? Why is everybody up in arms then?

[Jan Chile]

Okay, wait, is Lisa around? Because Lisa is Andy's producer, and Lisa

[Kelly Ripa]

knows the ins and outs of this whole thing.

[Jan Chile]

Knows Andy Cohen's.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yeah, because I saw Andy talking about it on radio. Andy and Andy seemed devastated and, like, there was, like, a lot of devastation in everybody's voices. And so if there's no cheating scandal, I guess I'm just confused as to what the scandal is. Again, I don't know. And I'm going to be perfectly frank. I have never seen Summer House, even though my son produces that show. It's a show that I, you know, I am a die hard, die hard Real Housewives fan. We should talk about Real Housewives of Rhode Island.

[Jan Chile]

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Kelly Ripa]

Oh, my God. Oh, yeah.

[Jan Chile]

Oh, my God. Okay, we're gonna get back to that. Let's get back to it. But we do have Lisa, right? Lisa.

[Kelly Ripa]

Okay, Lisa, you're on.

[Lisa Mantineo]

So unlike the Scandival, this one is called Scamanda. And. And the four players here are Kyle and Amanda, who just in January filed for divorce.

[Kelly Ripa]

Okay, so they were married people.

[Lisa Mantineo]

They were married people for a number of years. And then the other two players in this situation are West Wilson and Sierra Miller. Sierra and Amanda are besties and confide in each other. West and Sierra have had an on again, off again relationship situationship. And what just came to light is that west and Amanda have been hooking up and they posted an Instagram post, a shared Instagram post, basically saying that, yes, they have been hooking up and they'd like privacy at this time. So kind of rocked everyone's world because Sierra had no idea. And Kyle, Amanda's ex husband, who's also friends with west, they all share that same shared Summer House had no idea.

[Jan Chile]

And again, Amanda and Sierra are best friends. And Sierra would always talk to Amanda about Wes. And now you're like, wait a second.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yeah, that's a breaking of the girl code. Right, the girl code.

[Jan Chile]

But also Amanda, she seemed a little broken at the time. And so I need to know what the deal is with Wes, because, I mean, he's funny, but, like, he must have some serious riz, because this guy lands girls left and Right.

[Kelly Ripa]

Oh, really?

[Lisa Mantineo]

He's super charming. Is he super charming? Andy west loves him.

[Kelly Ripa]

Andy loves him.

[Lisa Mantineo]

He loves him. He's a big fan. He calls him Westling.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yeah, Westling. I want to see his picture so I can get an idea.

[Jan Chile]

But Kyle was. Kyle has been.

[Kelly Ripa]

That can't be him.

[Lisa Mantineo]

Kyle is supporting Amanda because what's happened is the Internet, as it does, has like gone full blown force against Amanda. Everyone is teasing Sierra and all of Amanda's getting a lot of hate comments, but west really isn't. He's since gotten a lot of follows.

[Jan Chile]

So, like, he comes out the hero, she comes out the villain.

[Kelly Ripa]

Taylor's oldest time. Yeah. I mean, men get away with everything. It's so gross. It's so gross. Having said that, that it goes against girl code. You don't date your friends.

[Jan Chile]

Yes.

[Kelly Ripa]

And I don't care if he's like, you know, one foot in the grave.

[Jan Chile]

Yeah, I'm with you. I'm with you. They claim that they're in a very serious relationship. Right, Lisa?

[Kelly Ripa]

Yes.

[Jan Chile]

Yeah. This is like intense and maybe, I

[Kelly Ripa]

don't know, like they're going to take it to the next level. I don't know.

[Jan Chile]

But this reunion's coming up, so. They haven't shot the reunion.

[Kelly Ripa]

Oh, they haven't shot the reunion.

[Jan Chile]

Like, sit gold right now.

[Kelly Ripa]

You know what we should do? We should volunteer to work for Andy this week. When is he shooting at least, you know, soon.

[Lisa Mantineo]

He's on spring break right now, so.

[Kelly Ripa]

No, I know that.

[Michael Halperin]

Yeah.

[Lisa Mantineo]

You don't need that tea. You have it.

[Jan Chile]

Yes.

[Lisa Mantineo]

So I. Coming up, like, I think this coming week or so. Yeah.

[Kelly Ripa]

Okay, Jan, what we need to do is volunteer to be like production aides for the reunion and then you can explain to me. Did you watch Summer House?

[Jan Chile]

I watched this.

[Kelly Ripa]

Okay. So you know this world.

[Jan Chile]

I was fully involved in this. I was shocked by it. I denied it for so long. There were like these rumors.

[Kelly Ripa]

So there were rumors.

[Jan Chile]

There were rumors that crept up and everybody's like. But even I was like, it's not possible. Because everyone's like, that couldn't be possible. And then they confirmed the rumors and everybody's mind is blown. But it's not scandal. Scandal was way worse.

[Kelly Ripa]

That was.

[Jan Chile]

I don't know, I. I mean, not way worse. It's just different. Very different.

[Kelly Ripa]

Okay, here's, here's my question. Were west and Sierra. I wonder if they call her Cece.

[Jan Chile]

No, I don't think so.

[Lisa Mantineo]

I don't think so.

[Kelly Ripa]

But my girlfriend's my girlfriend.

[Jan Chile]

She's a beauty.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yeah, she is beautiful. Gorgeous. I don't know anything about this show. I just know that my friend Justin Sylvester was talking about her and he. And he put her picture up on the screen and I was like, she should be a model.

[Jan Chile]

I don't know if there's any truth to this rumor, but there was something posted on Instagram and you know how much we can believe Instagram. But somebody said that Rihanna wants to set her up with Michael B. Jordan, Which I'm like, okay, I love that idea. I love it too. I love it too.

[Kelly Ripa]

I love that Rihanna is so invested in the Bravo verse.

[Jan Chile]

She really is.

[Kelly Ripa]

She really is. We gotta get her watching and listening to our podcast and talk show.

[Jan Chile]

Yeah, we have someone on the A caller calling in about Summer House.

[Kelly Ripa]

I guess Carlin is from New Orleans. Hi, Carlin.

[Michael Halperin]

Hi, beautifuls. How are you? Hello, beautiful.

[Kelly Ripa]

Hi, gorgeous. I just can't believe I said New Orleans when it's New Orleans.

[Michael Halperin]

And that's so wrong. Thank you. Thank you.

[Kelly Ripa]

That was an accident.

[Michael Halperin]

Just let the lens flow just like it's Carlin from New Orleans. You like the way that.

[Kelly Ripa]

Okay, so tell me.

[Michael Halperin]

You have already. You all have already said it. Yes. And I'm not even a watcher. It's just simple breaking girl code. So you've already exploited that. But the winners in this. First of all, Rihanna did immediately unfollow Amanda. So that was big.

[Jan Chile]

But did she follow West? Because that's not cool.

[Michael Halperin]

Yeah, but she's in the music business. Douchebags forever. Anyway, she wants to see what the hell he's gonna do next. The women.

[Kelly Ripa]

Is West a musician of some kind?

[Michael Halperin]

No, I'm just saying the music. The music business is full of douchebags. I mean, she's surrounded by.

[Kelly Ripa]

Right, right, right. Got it, Got it. You're right.

[Michael Halperin]

So the winners will be. Sierra already is winning because who she's picked up, she did the crying of buying the family house, the legacy house, the grandfather's house. She's already got Jonathan Adler wanting to decorate. Who's going to bring Nate and Jeremiah? Kyle is going to be winning because you can't even buy the lover boy drink. Shit. Love a girl, lover boy. Whatever he's a lover of, he's about to get out of debt because Diageo will be buying that soon. Trust me.

[Kelly Ripa]

Oh, yeah. Smart. You're smart, Carlin.

[Michael Halperin]

Don't tell anybody because then they're going to overlook my looks.

[Jan Chile]

Yeah, there are winners in this.

[Kelly Ripa]

We need to get Carlin in the studio next Time. Because she needs to be in here.

[Jan Chile]

And again, I'm not. I'm all about not bringing girl code, but I'm not about all the hate on her and not on him.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yeah. They share equal responsibility. Yes.

[Jan Chile]

And that's. That shouldn't be. That shouldn't be.

[Kelly Ripa]

But this girl is very beautiful.

[Jan Chile]

They're all beautiful.

[Kelly Ripa]

Sierra.

[Jan Chile]

They're all beautiful.

[Kelly Ripa]

They're all beautiful. Can you show me Amanda? I haven't seen Amanda. I've only seen. Sorry. I'm sorry.

[Lisa Mantineo]

Amanda's very pretty, but Sierra, not only is she beautiful, she is also a nurse. So she's got the brains, the beauty. She's a full package.

[Kelly Ripa]

Wow. Okay. I'm trying. I'm just like. Got it. Okay. Got it. Got it. Got the mental picture. Hey, Carlin, thank you for calling in. That was very helpful.

[Jan Chile]

We have somebody else calling in on this.

[Kelly Ripa]

Okay. We have somebody else calling. Wow.

[Jan Chile]

Yeah. Deb from Denver. It wants to talk about this topic.

[Kelly Ripa]

Deb from Denver. Okay. Debt.

[Jan Chile]

I want to fill you in, Kelly.

[Kelly Ripa]

Deb from Denver, you're on.

[Michael Halperin]

Hi, Kelly.

[Kelly Ripa]

Hi.

[Michael Halperin]

So it's so nice to talk to you. I really calling in about the Mark situation. But I want to tell you two things that I don't know why not anyone is talking about with the whole Sierra in West. So because you're kind of in unknown territory, I want to share this with you.

[Kelly Ripa]

Okay. Yes.

[Michael Halperin]

And Sierra, three years ago on the show. Three. Three. You know.

[Kelly Ripa]

Huh. Three seasons ago together.

[Michael Halperin]

Yeah. And it did work out. And that's a long story short. But for last year and all of this year, all the man does is try to get back with her. He does everything in the world and she doesn't give him the time of day because she's kind of sort of still punishing him and you know, whatever. So then him and Amanda getting to everybody acts like west and Sierra were in a real thing. She hasn't let him back in for. Since three years ago. So I don't see why. And. And everybody knows Kyle and Amanda are not working. And if they fell in love and Kelly, you know you fell in love with Mark. I do believe on the set of the show. And it's like, you know what, when if there's chemistry and it happens, what. What are you going to do, lie about it? Everybody's too old for that. So that's that. And by the way, Sierra is gorgeous and she is a model along with the nurse. She models a lot too.

[Kelly Ripa]

I love that. But Jan, you look like you had a responsorial I did. I did.

[Jan Chile]

Because I know that she wasn't letting him back in, but very much about this season is like kind of her kind of letting him back in. Like, there's a lot of flirtation. I'm gonna guess it hasn't aired yet. I'm gonna guess maybe there's something that happens between now and the end of the season. I don't know, Lisa. Maybe you can tell us.

[Kelly Ripa]

Deb, what do you think, Deb? Do you think maybe something's going to happen?

[Michael Halperin]

Oh, I honestly don't because all he does is wait around and wait around, and she acts like she's going to it. Oh, you got animals. And for me, that you scored points. And then. And then she's talking to everybody else about, you know, she just really can't get past. I. Look, I'm a triple Scorpio. I get it. You know, Anyway, and I wanted.

[Kelly Ripa]

You know what, though? I have to say, Deb, Deb, as a triple Scorpio, you must know that, like, vengeance is such an amazing aphrodisiac. So every time she rejects him, it's got to feel good, don't you think?

[Michael Halperin]

Well, I think he really likes her, and he just has been vying and vying, and it's just she's not letting it up. And.

[Jan Chile]

Well, he likes her so much that he's with her friend now.

[Kelly Ripa]

Well, yeah.

[Michael Halperin]

Hello, Kyle. And he's been there for five.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yeah.

[Michael Halperin]

Can you hear me?

[Kelly Ripa]

Yeah, we can hear you. You just. You drifted out.

[Jan Chile]

I don't know.

[Michael Halperin]

Sorry. If. If she had. Is. If she does in the next. Well, I think the. Isn't the season over, you guys?

[Jan Chile]

No, I think there's a couple more episodes airing.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yeah. Thank you, Deb. Thanks for your input on this, Deb. We appreciate it. Yes. Oh, hello. We lost her.

[Jan Chile]

We lost her.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yeah, we lost her. That's a shame.

[Jan Chile]

Did you. And you did watch Rhode Island?

[Kelly Ripa]

I did. I watched Rhode island, and I believe that all people in the world stem from some part of New Jersey.

[Jan Chile]

Yeah. Real Housewives of Rhode island in New Jersey.

[Kelly Ripa]

I was like, this is like.

[Jan Chile]

Yeah, it was wild.

[Kelly Ripa]

Wild. I love it. I loved every second of it.

[Jan Chile]

And what did you think of the girl from the Bachelor?

[Kelly Ripa]

I didn't know her from the Bachelor, so I had no thoughts about her from that. Okay.

[Jan Chile]

Okay.

[Kelly Ripa]

So I didn't. As you know, I watched.

[Jan Chile]

She seems like the sane one of the group.

[Kelly Ripa]

I watched one episode of the first season of the Bachelor and I dipped. You know, I was like, this is not good. Yeah. You know how I feel about it.

[Jan Chile]

I know, I know.

[Kelly Ripa]

I love the Real Housewives as much as I cannot stand the Bachelor.

[Jan Chile]

Did you watch Atlanta? First episode.

[Kelly Ripa]

I haven't seen it yet. It's downloaded on my computer. Good, good, good. I know. I can't wait. I can't wait. Listen, I'm trying to get back on east coast time so I can't like let myself go down the Real Housewives rabbit hole at 11pm or I'll never get to sleep. Yeah, that. Which is what I am. My instinct tells me just watch the. Just put on Atlanta.

[Jan Chile]

I know, I know. I was up so late. I was up so late last night from that basketball.

[Kelly Ripa]

Right. Well, Mark was watching it in the bedroom. I had my noise canceling headphones on, but all I could see, you know, it's like it's the colors of the television flashing, you know what I mean? So like, even though my eyes were closed. I need eye shields is what I need. I need eye shields anyway. Well, thank God we covered. Now you're up, Summer house. Guess what? I'm just as confused as I was before. Deb gave me conflicting advice to what Jan said. You know what we need to do though is get Carlin from Nolan's here.

[Jan Chile]

Well, maybe Michael and Shakira have an opinion. Shakira, what is your thoughts? I feel like I know that it's more so about the girl code of it all, but also, and I think a caller was mentioned this and whatever, but I agree that after you get to a certain age, like just be an adult and if they have a. If they had a connection, then they had a connection and like, what is there to do? She was grieving. I think people grieve. That's a whole other element that people should add. And if you've never been through it, then it's easy for us as the viewers to get caught up in all the drama of it all. But I am sure that Amanda didn't intentionally get with west to like hurt Ciara in any way. And I think intent is really important.

[Kelly Ripa]

And that's my intent is always important. Very smart, Shakira. Also, I've never been so grateful to not be ensconced in anything in my life. Like I am with this because I have no opinion. Like, I believe everything Jan says and I believe everything she cares.

[Jan Chile]

I like your thoughts on it because you're not ensconced in it. Like, I like to hear what you think.

[Kelly Ripa]

The purity of. Yeah, like. Like, just so you know, Jan And Shakira, like, I would never date anyone affiliated with either one of you. You know what I mean? Like, I would just never. It's like, that's my girl code. Like, oh, you used to hook up with Jan, which is quite possible. Cause Jan hooked up with a lot of guys. Just saying.

[Jan Chile]

In the 90s.

[Kelly Ripa]

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[Jan Chile]

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[Albert Bianchini]

Jan just took her headphones out.

[Kelly Ripa]

Another live episode went on a rant. Let's talk off camera. And Jan just told me.

[Albert Bianchini]

Jan rant. That was.

[Kelly Ripa]

But I will never, like, I will never be the same. I just had a mini heart attack. My God. And now I'm.

[Jan Chile]

Should I say it? Should you want to hear it again?

[Kelly Ripa]

I mean, I don't know.

[Jan Chile]

Let's talk about the 90s trends. Let's talk about the 90s trends.

[Kelly Ripa]

Here's the thing, guys. Here's the thing. As a 55 year old woman, and there's a lot of people in my age demographic doing the 90s trend. If you want to make a cute montage of yourself from the 90s, go for it. If you want to show all the cute pictures of how adorable you were in the 90s, do it, but stop saying mom. What were you like in the 90s? I know your kids aren't asking you that and so do you. We all know it. The jig is up. Yeah, I know it.

[Jan Chile]

And I feel like certain guys are doing it just to put like thirst trap photos of themselves 100%.

[Kelly Ripa]

Like these men. Dad, what were you like in the 90s? Nobody asked you what you were like in the 90s. Nobody. Nobody. They don't even know what the 90s are.

[Albert Bianchini]

No one's asking.

[Jan Chile]

I want to know what Albert was like in the 90s.

[Albert Bianchini]

Straight.

[Kelly Ripa]

That is true. He was straight in the 90s. He was, yeah. What turned you gay? Was it. Was it me? Was it meeting me?

[Albert Bianchini]

It was not you. You always ask if you turn me. I was already gay and in a relationship.

[Kelly Ripa]

I know, I know, but you were like, you were one foot in the game.

[Albert Bianchini]

I told Jan this story earlier, but this weekend we drove by this house in Brooklyn that I said to Kyle, I'm like, I posed for a prom photo in front of that house that I went to the prom with my friend Tara. And then we all piled in a limo and at midnight, everybody went to the beach at Breezy Point to hook up. And I called my mother from a payphone and she picked up me And Tara, like 12, 15.

[Kelly Ripa]

And was that the first sign you didn't want to make out with Tara?

[Albert Bianchini]

No, I just wasn't in Tara, Definitely. I wasn't into it.

[Kelly Ripa]

Who was the girl you were pre married to?

[Albert Bianchini]

Stacy.

[Kelly Ripa]

Stacy, right. And I met Stacy.

[Albert Bianchini]

You don't think. I don't think. You met Brie?

[Kelly Ripa]

I met Brie.

[Albert Bianchini]

Brie. Bri. Kelly signed one of her books for Brie and she wrote, dear Brie, you dodged a bullet. Love, Kelly. Then she said, PS, poor Kyle.

[Kelly Ripa]

I was. I never met a man who was pre engaged and pre married to so many women who is so fully gay.

[Jan Chile]

Wait, what does pre engaged mean?

[Albert Bianchini]

Meaning we were like, right at the moment of getting. No, no, we were right at the moment of getting engaged. Like, very close.

[Kelly Ripa]

But there was real estate involved. If you guys got pre engaged, you were going to get a house on the beach.

[Albert Bianchini]

It was the whole thing.

[Kelly Ripa]

In West Ham. In West Ham, Right. And I was like. I was like, albert, would you have stayed. Would you have stayed heterosexual if it was a house on the beach in.

[Albert Bianchini]

On further Lane? Fuck yes. Jenna. Meadow Lane. Calvin and Jason.

[Kelly Ripa]

Lily.

[Albert Bianchini]

I have 10 kids right now.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yep, yep. Albert's gayness is real estate based.

[Albert Bianchini]

Oh, 100% real estate. I go back right now for a house on the ocean in Hampton.

[Kelly Ripa]

Listen, he's married to the doyenne of the Hamptons real estate market.

[Jan Chile]

Yes.

[Kelly Ripa]

Can we say that? Kyle?

[Albert Bianchini]

Yeah, I like the Doyenn.

[Kelly Ripa]

I think Kyle would like that.

[Albert Bianchini]

He would love it.

[Michael Halperin]

Yeah.

[Jan Chile]

Meanwhile, this whole trend's going on. My kids have never asked me what I was like in the 90s. Like, it's not a thing.

[Albert Bianchini]

What were you like in the 90s?

[Jan Chile]

I mean, I was hooking up on the lawn during prom.

[Kelly Ripa]

Oh, really?

[Jan Chile]

Yeah, of course.

[Kelly Ripa]

The prom in 90s. Yeah.

[Jan Chile]

91 was my prom. I mean, early 90s, early 90s, but yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Kelly Ripa]

Like, I was dating mark in the 90s. I met Mark in 93.

[Albert Bianchini]

How many proms did you go to in your life?

[Kelly Ripa]

Would you say gay or straight?

[Albert Bianchini]

All of them.

[Kelly Ripa]

Like, mostly the. Like, be right before a guy came out of the closet, he took me to the prom. That was like the preemptive, really. That was.

[Albert Bianchini]

I see you at a lot of proms.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yeah, I went to a lot of proms. I was everybody's prom date because they weren't ready to, like, tell their parents the truth. So I was the prom date. And then I went to a couple of, like, straight proms where I was like, the straight date. And I was like, you'd be a great prom.

[Jan Chile]

You're a good prom date.

[Kelly Ripa]

Oh, my God. I am a good time, Charlie. I'm A party motor. Yeah, I'm fun. I'm a fun prom date. No doubt about it. But, yeah, I pre. I definitely preferred the gay proms to the straight proms. Like, I love. You know, because these guys, like, they take you to prom and then they look at you like, well. And I'm like, well, what? No. Yeah. Chicken cordon bleu. It's going to take a lot more than that to get my prom dress off. Nice try.

[Jan Chile]

All right, Kat, one more thing I want to get into, because we talked about it a little on the show, and I know you had some real thoughts about it.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yes.

[Jan Chile]

So I presented you guys with an article on the show about. So they're in the uk, Albert, just so you know.

[Albert Bianchini]

Yeah.

[Jan Chile]

There was a baby born. Okay. And this woman had happened to have sex with identical twins four days apart. Okay. And the courts ruled because they cannot. They can't tell who's the dad because the DNA. Because the DNA is the identity.

[Kelly Ripa]

Identical DNA.

[Jan Chile]

So we talked about that.

[Kelly Ripa]

Right?

[Jan Chile]

So, like, so we have all kinds

[Kelly Ripa]

of things about it. So many thoughts and questions. Like, I need. We need to get her on this podcast. Okay. Because I just feel like I. I also believe I haven't been sleeping at night because of this story. Mark.

[Jan Chile]

Mark was not a fan of this story over anything.

[Albert Bianchini]

Twins, though.

[Jan Chile]

Like, I know, but this is.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yes, I love twins. I love twins, but these are diabolical twins.

[Michael Halperin]

Yeah.

[Jan Chile]

Do we think it was a version of Parent Trap where they were like. Like she didn't know she was having sex with the same twins?

[Kelly Ripa]

That's what I would like to ask her here on Grudge Judy.

[Albert Bianchini]

We should have a segment on the podcast called Grudge Judy. We really should.

[Kelly Ripa]

I want to know who to be angry with. I don't know. And I know that you as a former Maury producer.

[Jan Chile]

I was a Maury.

[Kelly Ripa]

You could have gotten the story on this.

[Jan Chile]

I could have gotten the story, but at the end of the day, the DNA test will not prove who the father is. So I guess both of these men have to be the father at this point until they said maybe as an adult, they might be able to prove it.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yeah. I don't want to hear any bullshit out of these two guys about child support. Okay? I don't want to hear one word like, oh, I'm unemployed. All right, well, let Jeffrey, your brother, pick up the tab, because as we can all agree, it could be either one of you.

[Jan Chile]

I mean, and if it wasn't a Parent Trap thing, who's having sex with With.

[Kelly Ripa]

This is why I. I need to know who to be angry with. That's what I need to know. I have not decided where to place the blame yet. Jan, what. What is your instinct? Give me your gut. As a former Maury producer, what is your gut instinct?

[Jan Chile]

Tell you feel like she has sex with both brothers. Knowingly had sex with both brothers. And it's not because I'm, like, siding with, like, going against the woman. I just feel like, how could you not know?

[Kelly Ripa]

Well, because if they're identical twins.

[Albert Bianchini]

Yeah.

[Jan Chile]

Really?

[Albert Bianchini]

Yeah.

[Kelly Ripa]

If they're identical, are their penises the same? I don't know. All right, you know what? Forget her. We should have both identical twin brothers here. And, Albert, you will introduce Inspect.

[Albert Bianchini]

Let's get on Google and find.

[Kelly Ripa]

Get on Google.

[Jan Chile]

We need to find every single thing identical. Yes.

[Kelly Ripa]

Is it.

[Albert Bianchini]

Are the penises identical in identical twins?

[Kelly Ripa]

Google that. This is why Google was created. Thank you, Google.

[Albert Bianchini]

Let's see. Yes, identical twins can have very similar penises, but they're not literally identical.

[Kelly Ripa]

Oh, okay.

[Albert Bianchini]

What does that mean? However, there are differences because the development isn't controlled by genetics. Factors like conditions in the womb, blood flow, differences between each birth, nutrition, and hormones during puberty.

[Jan Chile]

So that's one thing that's not identical.

[Kelly Ripa]

Wow. We're gonna have to get the whole. We want them all here. Jan, this is your job. You have to book the twins.

[Jan Chile]

Although no names have been released, I'm gonna. I'm gonna come. I'm gonna get to.

[Kelly Ripa]

I know. If it's one person that can find the names of the woman and the twins, it's Detective Chalet.

[Jan Chile]

It's a while, Jen.

[Albert Bianchini]

Just book the penises. If you can't get the.

[Kelly Ripa]

Yeah, if you could just get a picture of the penises.

[Albert Bianchini]

Book the penises to come on the podcast.

[Jan Chile]

Michael, birthday boy, do you have any thoughts on this?

[Michael Halperin]

I do not.

[Albert Bianchini]

Thank you very much.

[Kelly Ripa]

You know what, Michael? That's the only dignified answer. Thank you for bringing dignity to us on this, the day of your birth.

[Michael Halperin]

Anyway, time always here for it.

[Kelly Ripa]

All right, guys. I hope you enjoyed that. If not, too bad. So sad we can't do anything about it. Can't wait to talk to y' all off camera next week. Bye, everybody. Let's talk off camera with Kelly Ripa is a production of Malo Jo Productions from Malojo. Our team is Kelly Ripa, Mark Consuelos, Albert Bianchini, Jan Chile, Seth Bronquist, Ross Therian, Devin Schneider, Michael Halperin, Julia Desch, and team Radio Andy Lisa Mantineo, Michael White, Shakira Perez.

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