#3501 RHOC S20E06 Part Two: Ain’t No Buddy Loves Me Better

Summary

Podcast Summary: Watch What Crappens #3501

Episode: RHOC S20E06 Part Two: Ain’t No Buddy Loves Me Better
Date: August 14, 2026
Hosts: Ben Mandelker & Ronnie Karam

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Episode Overview

In this lively and sharp-witted installment, Ben and Ronnie deliver the second half of their recap of The Real Housewives of Orange County Season 20, Episode 6. The focus is the women’s Las Vegas trip—complete with over-the-top showgirl antics, ridiculous roommate drama, and plenty of classic RHOC neuroses (EMF allergies, anyone?). True to form, the hosts blend loving mockery, pointed commentary, and plenty of tangential laughs to dissect every melodramatic moment in Bravo fashion.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Carol Luncheon – WASP Nostalgia & Snappy Banter

[02:58–14:34]

• The episode opens with a scene featuring Heather and her mother Carol, joined by Shannon.
• Carol’s high-society, Westchester WASP energy is dissected with affection and humor.
  • "Carol is, like, sharp as a tack." (Brandy, 03:04)
  • "This is the quintessential older, rich woman outfit." (Heather, 04:23)
• The group delights in the classic ‘mother-daughter’ bickering (“Why are you pretending you like these stairs? You hate stairs.” – Jen, 03:35)
• Local New York nostalgia and synagogue rivalries provide rich, inside-joke-laden context.
• Carol’s quips spark standout moments:
  • “The remedy is tequila.” (Carol, via Heather, 06:31)
  • “The other remedy is a daughter who pays a visit once in a while.” (Carol, 06:42)

2. Vegas Bound – Roommate Drama & Showgirl Dreams

[14:34–26:37]

• The Housewives head to Vegas; Emily’s knee-wrapped arrival leads to banter about her e-bike accident.
  • “Had you fall off an e-bike, you idiot.” (Tamara, 14:46)
• Gina and Emily fret over being split up as roommates—setting the scene for one of the episode’s central beefs.
• Carmela reveals her fear of flying, attributed comedically to her early days with Playboy:
  • “Like, you could just be afraid of flying. I understand the rest.” (Brandy, 19:51)
• Upon their Vegas arrival, the women are greeted by a showgirl and embark on a Showgirl Bootcamp, introduced by longtime Vegas pro Stacy.
  • “It takes a certain kind of grace to be a showgirl.” (Stacy, recounted by Jen, 22:46)
• Costume hilarity abounds (Heather: “Is there a full brief option?” 25:46), as well as classic self-deprecating digs and a healthy dose of reality TV meta-commentary.

3. Emily & Gina’s “Buddy” Dynamic – Jealousies & Strategic Alliances

[26:03–35:23]

• Central conflict: Is Heather trying to break up Gina and Emily’s close friendship (and roommate tradition)?
  • “Heather might be saying, you and Emily are constantly teaming up against people...” (Heather, 27:37)
  • “I just think Heather is always in an endless pursuit to find a buddy.” (Gina, as recapped by Emily, 28:21)
• The hosts poke fun at the artificiality of these ‘fights’ (“This isn’t a real fight anyway. I don’t know why we’re going to get worked up about it. It’s stupid.” – Heather, 35:10)
• These debates become as much about control as about genuine hurt feelings.

4. Electromagnetic Frequencies – Shannon’s Signature Paranoia

[35:23–40:50]

• Shannon is haunted by possible EMF exposure from her hotel room’s proximity to the elevator.
  • “I have a high EMF at my house, and I just need to sleep somewhere else. I cannot sleep around EMF.” (Shannon, 36:59)
• Flashbacks and ongoing miscommunications about electromagnetic poisoning produce some of the episode’s sharpest comedic bits.
  • “The whole city [Las Vegas] is built on light...the walls are light...it’s all electromagnetic frequencies, girl.” (Heather, 39:41)
  • “[Shannon’s] pitch: Why don’t you get poisoned by the electromagnetic frequencies and I’ll take your room and make sure you’re remembered.” (Brandy, 40:39)

5. Dinner Out – Awkward Apologies & More Micro-Dramas

[43:20–56:25]

• At dinner, Carmela’s insulin injection prompts empathic (and snarky) commentary about Housewives’ various wellness fads.
  • “All these women are injecting themselves with so much that I don’t think you’re going to offend anyone.” (Emily, 45:05)
• Vibrator talk leads to one of many moments where the hosts riff on the Housewives’ self-consciousness about sharing—and hiding—their personal business.
• The dinner devolves into yet another airing of grievances about the “buddy system,” with Heather forced to confront the perception that she’s controlling or micromanaging:
  • “It just, like, bothers me because, like, it feels like you’re, like, trying to control everything, Heather.” (Emily, 53:21)
• Repeated use of the word “aggressive” is lampooned (“That’s the 90th time someone has said that word today on this show.” – Jen, 48:30)
• Ultimately, the “fights” resolve in a flurry of mock-earnest apologies, with the hosts freely admitting the superficiality of the drama.

6. Showgirl Aftermath & Strip Club Plans

[56:25–57:13]

• The group decides to hit a strip club, but Vicki demurs (“I’m going to the bathtub tonight. I’m gonna love it. I’m gonna love it.” – Vicki, 56:55).
• More puns and running jokes emerge around the “funny duddy” / “Debbie Daddy” nicknames.
• As always, a sense of camaraderie and the gendered absurdities of the RHOC world tie everything together.

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Memorable Quotes & Moments

• “The remedy is tequila.” (Carol, 06:31)
• “Is there, like, a full brief option?” (Heather, on the Showgirl costume, 25:46)
• “I have a high EMF at my house, and I just need to sleep somewhere else. I cannot sleep around EMF.” (Shannon, 36:59)
• “Why don’t you get poisoned by the electromagnetic frequencies and I’ll take your room and make sure you’re remembered.” (Brandy, 40:39)
• “That’s the 90th time someone has said that word [aggressive] today on this show.” (Jen, 48:30)
• “You guys take it. Here’s my pitch to you. Why don’t you get poisoned by the electromagnetic frequencies and I’ll take your room and make sure you’re remembered.” (Brandy, 40:39)
• “As someone who has a lot of acreage between each boundary on their estate, the boundary is set.” (Tamara, 53:45)
• “Well, thank you, Shannon. Not Janet, for sticking up for me. That is hilarious. I hope you frig yourself later with a little gift I left under your pillow.” (Heather, 49:54)

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Important Segment Timestamps

• 02:58–14:34: Carol and Heather’s classic lunch; mother-daughter banter and WASP nostalgia
• 14:34–26:37: Vegas trip starts; showgirl bootcamp & costume anxieties
• 26:03–35:23: Gina and Emily’s “buddy” drama, fake fights, and the power of Housewives alliances
• 35:23–40:50: Shannon’s electromagnetic frequency paranoia hits new comedic heights
• 43:20–56:25: Group dinner: apologies, grievances, and discussion of friendship, boundaries, and micro-control
• 56:25–57:13: Strip club plans and wrap-up of the night’s events

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Final Thoughts & Takeaways

Ben and Ronnie excel in turning the manufactured drama and neuroses of RHOC into comedic gold, granting both new and diehard Bravo fans a way to enjoy the show’s absurdities without ever rolling their eyes at the hosts themselves. This episode is a gleeful tangle of buddy-system squabbles, overblown EMF health crises, and showgirl ambitions—all reimagined with quick-fire banter and loving satire.
If you want the full ridiculous ride of Orange County’s finest, Ben and Ronnie make every “Who’s your buddy?” spat worth the listen.

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[Jen Kober]

Bye.

[Heather McDonald]

Enjoy the show. So let's go to Benny and Mary's.

[Brandy Howard]

Oh, yes, here we go.

[Tamara Tattles]

This is.

[Brandy Howard]

This is what I live for. Heather and her mother Carol arrive, and then Shannon joins. And Carol is great, because first of all, Carol is, like, sharp as attack.

[Heather McDonald]

I I.

[Brandy Howard]

And another thing we didn't talk about was.

[Jen Kober]

Little tax stabs.

[Brandy Howard]

Yes.

[Emily Simpson]

She's like, oh, Heather, well, thanks for bringing me to yet another restaurant in this wretched county that doesn't have purse stools.

[Brandy Howard]

It's like, mother, I told you we're

[Tamara Tattles]

still working to catch up.

[Heather McDonald]

They never stop with each other.

[Jen Kober]

Wow.

[Heather McDonald]

I like stairs.

[Jen Kober]

You do not like stairs, Mother. Why are you pretending you like these stairs? You hate stairs. I never said I hate. You've always said you hated stairs. Why is my mother such a liar? Compulsive.

[Brandy Howard]

So Carol Shannon comes, and Carol's like, oh, you look wonderful. You're getting younger. You're like Benjamin Button.

[Gina Kirschenheiter]

Oh.

[Emily Simpson]

Oh, yeah. Well, I thank you for that. I unfortunately am not allowed to wear buttons on my clothing because they contain heavy metals that could be toxic to my skin.

[Heather McDonald]

Sorry, I think you misunderstood me. I meant Benjamin Button at the beginning of the movie.

[Jen Kober]

Oh, wow, that's. That's great. Thank you, Carol. By the way, I have that exact outfit. I wear it to the pool.

[Heather McDonald]

Didn't we feel like Carol's outfit? I was like, this is the quintessential older, rich woman outfit.

[Brandy Howard]

It's just like it was to me. I was like, this is Westchester WASP

[Heather McDonald]

with jewels kind of be dueled to something on the shoulder, to the collar. I mean, I do think that Shannon has that outfit and they all showed up wearing black. It was just such a funny scene to me. Everything about this scene was gold.

[Brandy Howard]

Gold. And like, I mean, Carol is. She is definitely Heather's mother to me. I was like, oh, my God, this is where I grew up. You know, I literally, you know, they. They talk about Chappaqua. Chopa was just down the highway from me. It was like, a few stops down. It was where my favorite sushi restaurant was.

[Emily Simpson]

That's where I would go.

[Brandy Howard]

And so I see Carol and I'm, like, transported to these. These ladies of Westchester of my childhood. It's just. It's just like. It's like the LA west shout to the ladies of my synagogue. It's all mixed in together.

[Tamara Tattles]

She.

[Brandy Howard]

They went to the synagogue that was like. There was a synagogue that was there. There's like two synagogues in town. And, like, I went to one, they went to the other one, you know, so it's just like. It's just so I'm just like rivals because I went to some. I went to some bar mitzvahs there, but to me, it's just like. It's. It's just so I, I, you know, it's.

[Heather McDonald]

I.

[Brandy Howard]

It's like how you have these moments of recognition when you see certain people from, like, your neck of the woods when you grew up. It's like, this is totally what I grew up around. And it's so funny to me. And so Shannon. Shannon sits down. She has that chronic Flemmy cough.

[Emily Simpson]

So she's. You just see

[Heather McDonald]

this.

[Brandy Howard]

They let sit at the table, hand

[Heather McDonald]

to her chest, like, oh, oh. And I thought she was going to be mortified by the cough, as, you know you would be, or, you know, I would be. But she's like, Shannon goes, oh, I

[Jen Kober]

wanted to tell you. You know, my mom, she gets these coug Coughing jacks, too, so she has a remedy. Okay, mom, go ahead. That was your cue. Mother. Mother. She's like, oh, I've got it.

[Heather McDonald]

The remedy is tequila.

[Jen Kober]

Oh, well, if tequila cured things, that'd be a ham, but thank you, Carol.

[Brandy Howard]

The other remedy is a daughter who pays a visit once in a while.

[Tamara Tattles]

Mother, that's not part of the script.

[Brandy Howard]

What can I say? I'm a common genius.

[Heather McDonald]

Well, Happy Gilmore's mother doesn't have a cough.

[Tamara Tattles]

I don't know who that is.

[Heather McDonald]

Wasn't that him who played Happy Gilmore? Adam Sandler. Wasn't his Adam Sandler.

[Vicki Gunvalson]

Oh, right.

[Heather McDonald]

Mother.

[Vicki Gunvalson]

Who.

[Brandy Howard]

Who always went to visit his mother over in Quag. It's like she would go, you know, Adam Sandler. So Vicky shows up and she's like,

[Tamara Tattles]

it's really nice for me to find other people that love Puerto Vallarta the

[Brandy Howard]

way I do, because Carol's house is actually right up the hill. And so apparently Carol has a house in Puerto Vallarta up the hill from Vicky, which does not match with my perception of Carol. Like, I do not see Carol living in Puerto Vallarta, but apparently she does. And apparently Vicki visits with her. It's a little strange.

[Heather McDonald]

Yeah, that is weird. That's a. That's a weird piece of lore. So it doesn't match new lore.

[Vicki Gunvalson]

It just does.

[Heather McDonald]

It doesn't make any sense. So she's like, yeah, there's been a

[Jen Kober]

few times when I've watched she was there. And I'm like, hey, hey, Carol, could I ask you A question. Who do I gotta whoop it up to get a woohoo around here? She would just roll her eyes and call me a Debbie Daddy.

[Brandy Howard]

So Heather is like, shannon, I've noticed

[Tamara Tattles]

you're looking more haggard than usual, given

[Brandy Howard]

that you have a baseline of haggardness.

[Tamara Tattles]

So I brought you some skin care. Hold on. Let me bring up this giant bag that says the Bro for some reason. Here it is. My custom bag. Where is it? Let me look. Is it under the Tiffany jewelry? The Harry Winston? The takeout from Nobu? I know I have this skincare in here somewhere.

[Jen Kober]

Hey, I've got. I've got a little. A little vial of something that you need. Plenty of skincare. Just go find it. Any skincare. I don't care. Noxzema. Water. Just try something. Here it is. I found it. Try anything.

[Brandy Howard]

Try anything.

[Emily Simpson]

Oh, thank you very much for that. I didn't ask for it. Does this have any electromagnetic radioactivity in it? Because that will not be good for my skin.

[Jen Kober]

Oh, by the way, woohoo. I'm done with the process of becoming a Mexican resident.

[Heather McDonald]

Now I just have to learn Spanish faster.

[Jen Kober]

I'm gonna. I really want to learn to go into the neighborhoods and say, do you belong here? I'm calling I.C.E. i'll learn it. I'll learn it.

[Tamara Tattles]

It's coming slowly, Vicki. Now that you speak Spanish, maybe. Maybe it will work to give a recommendation to Shannon. How? Say laros pos in Spanish.

[Jen Kober]

So, Carol, I'm going to need to exchange numbers with you because you seem to have a lot of remedies for things. And Heather goes, oh, my two doctor friends, all with the remedies.

[Heather McDonald]

Carol's like, well, I was going to be a doctor once, but they said, I'm sorry, you're too attractive. You're gonna make the book. You're gonna take a boy's place. I don't think so, Mother.

[Tamara Tattles]

No one said this to you? You've never been found attractive?

[Brandy Howard]

Well, seriously. No, I was. I was an A student.

[Tamara Tattles]

Okay, well, we'll. We'll just let that go, okay? She just always telling tall tales of being a hot, young wannabe doctor.

[Jen Kober]

It's true.

[Heather McDonald]

You know, one time, Heather got out of the doctor, and I picked her up and I took her for ice cream. And the man who was scooping it told me, single.

[Jen Kober]

It's wherever I go.

[Brandy Howard]

I'm telling you, believe it or not, it used to be called Ben and Carol's, but I was just too attractive for the ice creams. They brought in Jerry and kicked me out. What can I say?

[Jen Kober]

No one ever told that. It. Seriously. Seriously. It happened. I look fabulous.

[Heather McDonald]

Listen, I had a gorgeous black jacket. That was her first Chanel pictures.

[Jen Kober]

That wasn't my first Chanel pick. I had the jacket, and you got the jacket.

[Tamara Tattles]

I had Janelle before you had Janelle, Mother.

[Brandy Howard]

No, I had Chanel before you had Chanel.

[Tamara Tattles]

I had the Chanel. You had the Chanel. Wait, are you using reverse psychology on me? You can't do that to me, mother. I'm the Chanel influencer around here.

[Brandy Howard]

Cut to Gina in her house.

[Heather McDonald]

Doctor Mother to you.

[Tamara Tattles]

Kata.

[Brandy Howard]

Gina telling her mom.

[Emily Simpson]

Mom, I had the tupperware before you had the tupperware.

[Heather McDonald]

Katana going.

[Jen Kober]

I had the channel first. No, I had the channel first. No, I had the channel first. Put it back on. Entertainment tonight.

[Heather McDonald]

It's like a rapid ears tv.

[Emily Simpson]

Yeah.

[Vicki Gunvalson]

I love this.

[Emily Simpson]

Guess what? With my mom, I was the first one to buy flip flops from the drugstore. Now I was the first one to buy the flip flops of the drugstore.

[Gina Kirschenheiter]

Gina,

[Heather McDonald]

we both shoplifted this flip flops from the drugstore.

[Jen Kober]

Okay, so Heather's like, my mother is never wrong. I don't even know why I bother wasting the breath. I should just smile and nod. This has been my whole life.

[Emily Simpson]

You know what? Heather, she was such a good little girl.

[Brandy Howard]

She always came home with a list of names of new friends.

[Tamara Tattles]

She wouldn't actually have the friends.

[Brandy Howard]

She just had the name of the friends. It was so adorable.

[Heather McDonald]

It was so sweet. And let me tell you, none of the other girls reciprocated. Heather was never on anyone's list growing up.

[Emily Simpson]

What.

[Gina Kirschenheiter]

What age was this?

[Brandy Howard]

Let's see.

[Tamara Tattles]

Heather, how old are you now? Whatever your.

[Brandy Howard]

Whatever age Heather was, subtract two years. That's how old she was.

[Heather McDonald]

Well, it was in fourth grade, and I went to pick her up at this girl's house. Oh, they took a walk.

[Jen Kober]

A walk?

[Heather McDonald]

You don't take a walk in Chippaqua. Chappaqua. Sorry. You're on a main road.

[Jen Kober]

And there they are coming down, singing.

[Heather McDonald]

I said, she's never going there again. Never going again after that. A main road. My daughter.

[Brandy Howard]

My daughter walking on 133.

[Tamara Tattles]

No, thank you.

[Vicki Gunvalson]

Like you.

[Brandy Howard]

Like me. Flexing my knowledge of the local roads in chap.

[Heather McDonald]

Is it really dangerous?

[Brandy Howard]

It's just the main.

[Emily Simpson]

It's.

[Brandy Howard]

The speed limit's probably 45. It's not like a little.

[Heather McDonald]

Sounds like nothing bad happens in Chappaqua on the. You know what I mean? It's I just don't feel like I've ever. I don't think I've ever heard anybody being like, whoa, those Ro and Chapa,

[Brandy Howard]

you know. You know what's based in Chapa, other than the Clintons, is Reader's Digest. Used to be headquartered there until I think I don't know what's going on with Reader's Digest. God, that's.

[Heather McDonald]

You know, you just made so many people think of just being on the pot and taking a poop. Because that's where the Reader's Digest is.

[Brandy Howard]

By the way.

[Heather McDonald]

That's the first thing I think is my grandpa with the stack of Reader's Digest on his toilet. And by the way, two concepts that were literature.

[Brandy Howard]

Well, it all came from Chappaqua. Two concepts that you're not really going to get in Orange County. Reading and digesting. So Carol, it's like, I'm never loving her to have friends in Chappaqua. So.

[Heather McDonald]

All right, let's go to Vegas flight.

[Jen Kober]

Vegas. The Vega.

[Heather McDonald]

The Vegas flight. Okay, so Tamara and Heather arriving to

[Jen Kober]

the airport and Emily comes Now Emily

[Heather McDonald]

has her knee wrapped and Tamara's like,

[Gina Kirschenheiter]

oh, my God, had you fall off

[Jen Kober]

an E bike, you idiot.

[Shannon Storms Beador]

She's like, well, there was an E bike there, but Luke insisted on driving him first. I fell off the ebike. It's all Luke's fault. I could have died.

[Vicki Gunvalson]

Yeah. Now I'm just here. I'm gonna have to spend this whole time in Vegas just limping around.

[Brandy Howard]

Limping.

[Emily Simpson]

Curtain.

[Brandy Howard]

I actually made up that line. She never said anything about limping. I just was like, I don't know when I'll have a chance.

[Heather McDonald]

You're just gonna get it in there. We still got two thirds of this show to go. Like, what have we There better be now or something.

[Brandy Howard]

There better be an hour presence. I better hear. I better hear something. That sound that has Lynn or sounds like Lynn somewhere in the word. Because I just was afraid we wouldn't get the third pun in.

[Jen Kober]

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[Shannon Storms Beador]

I, Vicki and I can limp together. We can both be Debbie Downers.

[Jen Kober]

I'm not a Debbie Downer.

[Brandy Howard]

Carmela, meanwhile, is decided to take a page out of Kyle's book, Kyle Richards. And she's, she's got a fear of flying, everyone. And she goes, when I started working for Playboy, I just remember having like panic attacks the whole five hours from Cleveland to lax. And I think that it's like leaving home and leaving my comfort zone. And I'm very OCD and I don't like to leave my kids or my dogs are home. Like, it's always afraid of something that's going to happen.

[Heather McDonald]

It's hard.

[Brandy Howard]

Like, you know, I honestly, I don't need to hear the history of why you're afraid of like, like you could just be afraid of flying. And I understand the rest. Like, afraid of flying is not some crazy thing. I just read a story last night about how Ryan Air just settled with something or came to the end of an investigation because a bird went into one of its engines and like a part of the engine broke off and crashed through a window. And a passenger got halfway sucked out the window and he had to be pulled back in. So I'm like, you don't have to explain why you're afraid of flying. You don't have to tell me why. Like, it's because it stems from OCD and you might miss your dog. You're just afraid.

[Heather McDonald]

Yeah, that's a somewhat reasonable fear. It's like, you know what?

[Jen Kober]

I'm afraid of someone coming in and murdering me.

[Heather McDonald]

Yeah, that's like, that's, that's, that's.

[Brandy Howard]

I think it might be my ocd yeah.

[Jen Kober]

You know what I'm really afraid of? Being burned alive.

[Gina Kirschenheiter]

Well.

[Jen Kober]

Well, that's.

[Heather McDonald]

That's reasonable.

[Jen Kober]

It's because I was in the Playboy Mansion when I was very young, and I had to go there from a flight from the Midwest, and I had ocd and I really needed it. Okay, we get it.

[Heather McDonald]

You need a Housewives thing, so you're going to be afraid of flights. But when she says, yeah, I can't be away from my children. Didn't you get a whole place away from your children during the week, or did your children live in the place with her? No, the kids go to school in the other place anyway.

[Brandy Howard]

They don't even go to school.

[Heather McDonald]

I don't. Well, remember sometimes when you've got people offering to buy, you sit in the Walgreens. That was the plot line. She's like, yeah, this guy was gonna

[Jen Kober]

buy me the lipstick and the Walgreens.

[Brandy Howard]

So they are. They arrive, they land, and then there's like, a showgirl. Like a classic showgirl that's like, welcome.

[Emily Simpson]

I'm. Hey, I'm Bri from Girls Night Out

[Brandy Howard]

Getaways, or as we call it, Gnog Ganag. So we're gonna have a great time. We're going to have. We're gonna turn you guys all into Vegas show girls.

[Gina Kirschenheiter]

Get in, get on the bus.

[Brandy Howard]

So Jen is like, I'm sorry, I

[Heather McDonald]

had to put the mic down. This is like a handheld mic, you know, in the hotel, and so I have to hold it, and I had to, you know, groom, so I had to put the mic down. Sorry about that. But, yeah, the. The showgirl welcomes them. They're going to take a showgirl class.

[Jen Kober]

They're super excited.

[Heather McDonald]

And Joan's like, oh, my God.

[Jen Kober]

After the wine party, we need to have some fun. Who doesn't want to be a lead show girl? When in Vegas?

[Emily Simpson]

So Tamara's like, I'm not expecting to

[Gina Kirschenheiter]

be a head Sugar at 58 years old. I may be the hottest this bunch, but I'm not gonna be a sugar.

[Brandy Howard]

Vicki is like, I don't even know how we're gonna do this.

[Vicki Gunvalson]

Like.

[Brandy Howard]

Like. Like, I'm not doing a high kick with one leg. I'll probably fall over. So now they go to shots. Now, let me see lots. We see Vegas, and they arrive at the Showgirl Boot Camp Experience, and we meet Stacy. I love Stacy. You know, she's been there for, like, 40 years. She's like, let me show you how.

[Heather McDonald]

He was my favorite. Yeah. She was like, hey, everybody.

[Jen Kober]

Welcome to showgirls classes, which is you. It takes a certain kind of grace to be a showgirl.

[Brandy Howard]

I've been doing this. I started at the sans casino. What is the sans casino?

[Tamara Tattles]

It's dust. That's what they should call it because

[Brandy Howard]

they tore it down anyway. 3, 2, 1.

[Tamara Tattles]

Places.

[Jen Kober]

Are they in the class yet?

[Heather McDonald]

Oh, yeah, they are. So Shannon's like, what is this?

[Jen Kober]

What if I fall?

[Heather McDonald]

And they get their makeup done? And Emily's like, jen, if Ryan said,

[Shannon Storms Beador]

let's go to the little chapel and get married, Would you say, yes? Check.

[Gina Kirschenheiter]

No.

[Jen Kober]

I need my kids there. I need my kids there. Who's gonna drive through the front window of the chapel and crash it everywhere if not for Grayson? Who's gonna. Who's gonna start. Who's gonna start the wedding chapel on fire? I need my kids.

[Brandy Howard]

And Carmela's like, I just don't think you should get married right now. You should just, like, pause, Because I think it's, like, a lot of pressure.

[Emily Simpson]

It's like, yeah, it's like, it's the feeling for my kids. Like, I want them to know that we're home.

[Brandy Howard]

Yeah. It's like, maybe just, like, a conversation. Like, Ryan are together, and we love each other, and this is a safe, stable.

[Tamara Tattles]

Why are you.

[Brandy Howard]

You guys are getting put into, like, crazy showgirl makeup. Why are you having this conversation right now? Why are like, you've got, like, feathers coming out of their head, and, like,

[Tamara Tattles]

yeah, I really don't think you should

[Brandy Howard]

elope at the little little chapel. No, the McBees did that last week. You don't need to do it this week. It's fine.

[Heather McDonald]

Yeah, we don't need that. We do not need it. But also her saying, like, oh, I

[Jen Kober]

just want to get married for my kids.

[Heather McDonald]

You just had your kid on camera crying his eyes out because you were divorced from the dad in the first place, and he can't adjust to the divorce. And now you're like, I have to

[Jen Kober]

do this for my kids. I need to get married.

[Heather McDonald]

Listen. Listen to the damn kids. So Carmela's like, my anxiety comes from wanting to give my kids safety and stability because of what I haven't had in the past. It's very touching. So then meanwhile, they're still getting, like, feathers put on and glitter everywhere. And Stacy's like, all right, I want

[Jen Kober]

to introduce you to Peter.

[Heather McDonald]

He's the costumer. And it's like, Lisa Kudrow's gay from the comeback RIP Guy, who was her s Following her around.

[Jen Kober]

Like, you're Great, honey, everything you do is perfect.

[Brandy Howard]

This guy Peter, he's been through it all too. He's like, okay, we're going to pin you, we're going to nip you, and we're going to tuck you and make you look like a million dollars. Trust me, babe, when I was 27 years old, I did this on Broadway. Jerome Robbins Broadway. Specifically, I was there. Now I'm here, so get in. Nip, tuck, suck.

[Tamara Tattles]

Yes. Nip, tuck, suck. We like that.

[Brandy Howard]

So not the suck.

[Heather McDonald]

That's the next. That's extra. This is Vegas. All right, so then we see them putting on their G strings and stuff. And Heather's like, oh, I don't know

[Jen Kober]

about a G string. Okay.

[Heather McDonald]

And, you know, it's like, is there

[Jen Kober]

like a full brief option?

[Emily Simpson]

Is there an I feel bad option?

[Brandy Howard]

So they.

[Tamara Tattles]

They're.

[Brandy Howard]

They're like all. They spend a long time getting costume. Vicki is really annoyed about her knee. She just wants her knee to be better. And then Gina and Emily have this

[Emily Simpson]

moment, and Gina's like, obviously, at dinner, it was like, a little tense between you and I. Yeah.

[Vicki Gunvalson]

I had to tell you to stay out of it, cuz you were so aggressive.

[Emily Simpson]

I didn't like that. And I want to talk to you about that. But, like, even more important, I went to lunch with Heather the other day, and, you know, we're rooming together, and

[Vicki Gunvalson]

she's like, well, was there an option that was. We were like, what do you mean?

[Emily Simpson]

Yeah, I had it brought up that it bothers her that we room together.

[Brandy Howard]

I love that. She's like, we have a. There's a real big beef between the two of us right now, and we're not on the same page, and we need to be on the same page. But more importantly, look what Heather did. Isn't she the worst?

[Heather McDonald]

Yeah, it's her. She's like, I'm going to pretend like I have a beef with Emily, but I'm just going to do a regular old scene of trying to trigger Emily into going to fight somebody. You know, it's like, oh, here's the

[Jen Kober]

next person we're going to fight. She's jealous.

[Heather McDonald]

So then we see the flashback of Heather, you know, saying, well, whenever it

[Jen Kober]

comes up that you and Emily share a room, a lot of the girls, including myself, get triggered. We're very triggered. You guys, you know, you guys get to talk ad nauseam. What about the rest of us? Who am I supposed to talk to? Besides Reba McIntyre? Besides Blair from Facts of Life? I mean, someone here who does Heather have at the end of the day?

[Tamara Tattles]

I mean, what am I supposed to do? Call Christy McNichol in the middle of the night? Wake her up from her sleep outside the convention, the house, the convention hall, trying to get into the. Sign autographs for the people? No, I'm not gonna do that.

[Brandy Howard]

I mean, what she's really saying.

[Shannon Storms Beador]

Well, let's just have her trying to control things. She doesn't want us together because she doesn't know what we're saying, and she doesn't have control, and she wants to listen to every little thing we say.

[Heather McDonald]

No, I mean, I think Heather might be saying, you and Emily are constantly. Or you and Gina are constantly teaming up against people, and it's not really fair. We all go to dinner and we're fine, and then you two go off together, and then you decide who you're going to be mad at. And then someone is yelled at the next night at dinner, and it's usually me. So could we stop this and just break the. Break them up for a minute?

[Brandy Howard]

Yes, exactly. That's 100%. I mean, she literally says, you guys get to talk ad nauseam. I mean, there it is. So. And now they're like, well, she just

[Vicki Gunvalson]

wants to control things. She wants to control.

[Emily Simpson]

And Gina's like, I just think head is always in an endless pursuit to find a buddy. And you, like, trying to break up our friendship at our room. It, like, makes me, like, not want to be a buddy.

[Brandy Howard]

I just feel like also, like, Gina is acting, like, almost empathetic to Heather. Like, Heather just wants a buddy. But I also feel like every time Heather becomes friends with someone, Gina is the first one to be like, why?

[Emily Simpson]

Like, why are you doing that? Like, I don't trust your friend. Like, she.

[Brandy Howard]

I feel like she's always undermining those friendships. Now, I wish I had some hard evidence on that. I mean, I wish there was something where I could point to. I mean, there was the time where. Where Heather did try to dress up Gina as her own little doll, her own little My buddy.

[Vicki Gunvalson]

And I was like, wait a second.

[Brandy Howard]

Or even Gina was like, I don't want to be like this, but I feel like. Like, don't be empathetic to Heather's desire to find a friend and then also undermine her. I know it's a flimsy argument, but

[Heather McDonald]

at the same time, she's trying to get Emily to go yell at Heather. So, yeah, that's really. For now.

[Brandy Howard]

Now they are coming out in costume, and they're. They're in their Headdresses. And it's like. It's funny. And then Shannon is, like, eating some Reese's.

[Emily Simpson]

She's like, well, hello. Isn't it funny that I. About how fat I am? And then I eat a Reese's.

[Gina Kirschenheiter]

I know.

[Emily Simpson]

I. Oh. Oh, God. Oh.

[Heather McDonald]

So then Vicki's putting headdress on, going,

[Jen Kober]

I wonder what's going on at Cotur today. I just can't stop thinking about work. I'm a work girl, show girl, and I'm proud of it. You know what? Get a job.

[Tamara Tattles]

Get a job.

[Brandy Howard]

They all line up. Stacy shows them some moves. They all sort of do a thing. Their arms are out. They walk forward, they walk back, where they do a little thing that's. It's like a fun little. Little bit that goes on way too long. And. And then afterwards, Vicky.

[Gina Kirschenheiter]

Losing my balance.

[Jen Kober]

Difficult, and can I stand on heels?

[Heather McDonald]

And Vicki's like, I dare anybody, especially

[Jen Kober]

Emily, to call me a Debbie daddy right now.

[Heather McDonald]

She just wants to stop with the Debbie Downer.

[Shannon Storms Beador]

I know.

[Jen Kober]

Stop, please, I beg you.

[Vicki Gunvalson]

And then Emily's like, see, this is what I want. I want that Victoria. She's iconic.

[Brandy Howard]

So now they go to Caesar's palace, and, you know, it's killing Heather to be, like, adjacent to the Nobu Tower, but not actually be in it. And the guy is like, welcome to Caesar's Palace. We've got Sky Villas in the Octavius Tower.

[Emily Simpson]

Oh, my God. Wow. The Sky Villas are, like, so beautiful. There's, like, a part of me that

[Brandy Howard]

feels like, is this the way the Dubros live? And Heather's like, like, I mean, not really.

[Tamara Tattles]

I mean, this is basically, like, flying premium plus. Okay, show me Delta One.

[Heather McDonald]

Now they're discussing rooms, and of course, Emily says that she and Gina are gonna room together. And we see a flashback to Tamara

[Jen Kober]

being like, what's your booming situation?

[Heather McDonald]

Now they're saying, I told Gina that

[Jen Kober]

she and Emily can't stay together.

[Heather McDonald]

So now we're gonna have a fight because Emily and Gina want to stay in the same room, and now Heather's

[Tamara Tattles]

gonna be upset about it.

[Heather McDonald]

So Tamara tells them, you guys, you're

[Jen Kober]

on top of a room together. I don't know if you should be together.

[Shannon Storms Beador]

And Emily goes, if someone thinks it's a problem, then it's a their problem.

[Brandy Howard]

It's a show problem if this is the best you can do. So Tamara. Tamara's got. She was looking around.

[Emily Simpson]

She's like, oh, look at.

[Gina Kirschenheiter]

Look at this. This is nice. We got a dining room table for kids down Eat.

[Vicki Gunvalson]

And then

[Brandy Howard]

Sam offers. She suggests that they give Carmela the sweep because she's new to the group. And Vicki's like, but what about us? Like, where are we sleeping? I'm not gonna sleep on the street. You maybe sleep outside on the street. I won't do that. I won't do that.

[Emily Simpson]

And Tamara's like, oh, there's like two

[Gina Kirschenheiter]

big bedrooms over there.

[Emily Simpson]

Batch.

[Gina Kirschenheiter]

We'll go there.

[Heather McDonald]

So Vicky's like, you know what?

[Jen Kober]

She's. Tamara's up to something. You want me to be budsy woodsy

[Heather McDonald]

with Carmela, Then why don't you be

[Jen Kober]

budsy woodsy with Carmela? You do it first.

[Heather McDonald]

Maybe then I'll do it.

[Jen Kober]

You know, like, maybe if I see

[Heather McDonald]

someone being friends with a slut, then

[Jen Kober]

I'll be friends with a slut. But not until then.

[Gina Kirschenheiter]

If cat Mella just buys insurance from Vicki, she'd love it to death.

[Tamara Tattles]

Okay, well, okay.

[Brandy Howard]

If I don't sit down soon, I'm

[Emily Simpson]

gonna decapitate my leg.

[Brandy Howard]

So then we go on to Gina and Emily's room, and now they're gonna have a heart to heart.

[Emily Simpson]

So Gina's like, what's going on with Heather?

[Vicki Gunvalson]

Yeah, we've been rooming together since I met you. What is she doing, trying to break us up?

[Jen Kober]

Oh, God. Yeah. She drives a wedge. She drives away.

[Shannon Storms Beador]

Well, you can't even drive a wedge. They're covered in blue cheese.

[Emily Simpson]

No, a wedge.

[Jen Kober]

Just saying. Listen, Emily, I'm telling you, when I went to lunch with Heather, she was like, you were soft on Emily. And I don't like that you guys are going to go. You should be mean. An em. She's really coming for you.

[Shannon Storms Beador]

I'm like, you know, I don't like when Heather has an issue with me, but then she makes persuasive arguments to other people.

[Heather McDonald]

That's literally what you just did with this Carmela thing. When you had a problem with the purse, Then you called Heather about having a problem with the purse, then you made Gina have a problem with the purse, and then you told on Gina for having a problem with the purse.

[Brandy Howard]

Yeah, exactly. So Gina's like, you know what?

[Emily Simpson]

I do regret getting in. I do regret getting into it at dinner.

[Guest Announcer]

I do.

[Emily Simpson]

Like

[Brandy Howard]

what?

[Heather McDonald]

I'm sorry to laugh. I was just thinking, this life, it's so funny what we sit here and do like.

[Jen Kober]

And then she got mad at Heather, and then this whole thing, and then they were mad about the purse, And

[Heather McDonald]

I get myself so upset. Like, who are you and what are you doing?

[Brandy Howard]

So Then now they start talking about themselves, like, their relationship.

[Emily Simpson]

She's like, you know, I'm like, sorry, I feel me like, you know, because you're like, a person, strong person, personality. I'm like, I feel bad about, like, you know, dinner and everything. And like, sometimes, like, you know, when you're defending yourself, you're, like, very aggressive. And I like, I don't know why you went and told Carmela about the bag thing.

[Vicki Gunvalson]

Why is that a problem? I didn't know that was a secret. You're gonna tell me that?

[Brandy Howard]

That's, like, confidential, Emily, you were being a shitty friend. And we all see it. It's all on camera. You can try to spin it however you want.

[Heather McDonald]

But

[Jen Kober]

so.

[Heather McDonald]

And also, when either of them confronts each other, they both use the same

[Shannon Storms Beador]

wording, like, you were aggressive.

[Heather McDonald]

And now scenes later, Gina's like, you were aggressive.

[Jen Kober]

And then when you went and talked a bunch of about me when all I was doing was be curious. Being curious about a gift. Yeah.

[Heather McDonald]

You were not just being curious about this. You two are so full of it.

[Brandy Howard]

I can't.

[Heather McDonald]

So they keep talking themselves into Rosencrantz

[Brandy Howard]

and Guildenstern, Goldenstein, whatever.

[Shannon Storms Beador]

Yeah, yeah, right?

[Heather McDonald]

Yeah. So basically they agree to disagree because this isn't a real fight anyway. I don't know why we're going to get worked up about it. It's stupid. So they're back together and now their anger is turned at Heather.

[Brandy Howard]

Yeah, I think, by the way, this was totally a fight to be like, look, we don't always have each other's backs, guys. So now we go. Speaking of Heather, we go to Jen and Heather and Shannon, and they're. They're in this suite and Shannon's like,

[Emily Simpson]

do you hear that noise?

[Gina Kirschenheiter]

Do you hear that noise?

[Emily Simpson]

Jen, listen carefully, buddy.

[Gina Kirschenheiter]

Jen, listen. Do you hear it hover by the wall? It's in the walls. I swear to God.

[Emily Simpson]

Look at. Okay, do we have any Christmas lights? Okay, I swear, if you hang some Christmas lights, the. The elevator's gonna talk to us.

[Gina Kirschenheiter]

Look at it, Jen. Look. It's electromagnetic. Goes from the other side.

[Jen Kober]

I think that the girl from Strangers Things is stuck in the wall. No one's seen her for a long time.

[Emily Simpson]

I. I know this may sound far fetched, but I think there's a portal to another dimension. It has doors. They open up, but you go in

[Gina Kirschenheiter]

and then it swallows you up and you go to a different place.

[Emily Simpson]

Shannon, that's just an elevator. Oh. Oh, I didn't realize.

[Jen Kober]

This is the box. You go into the Box.

[Heather McDonald]

There's buttons.

[Jen Kober]

What button do you press?

[Emily Simpson]

I don't know.

[Jen Kober]

What button? Push. It's straight to hell. It's the elevator.

[Heather McDonald]

It's still the elevator.

[Jen Kober]

The Girl from Ipanema is playing. I don't even know what to do.

[Emily Simpson]

It's numbers, Just a cascade of numbers. But then, strangely, there's one number that's just an L, and L's not a number unless it's Roman numerals.

[Gina Kirschenheiter]

What sort of sick game is this?

[Jen Kober]

There's nothing wrong with this room. I mean, what is wrong with this room is that Heather got a better room, in Shannon's opinion. And now Shannon's upset that she doesn't

[Heather McDonald]

have the best room, which is true, because Shannon's like, I'm not a roomhound,

[Jen Kober]

but I have a high. I used to have high EMF at my house, and I just need to sleep somewhere else. I cannot sleep around. I emf. I can't do it.

[Heather McDonald]

And then we see a flashback to her and her first season walking through her house and a guy testing for electromagnetic frequencies with a little thing, and he's like, well, here's. Here's one, Shannon. It's right on the bed.

[Jen Kober]

Oh, well, of course it's on my side of the bed. I told you. I told you. I'm not crazy.

[Emily Simpson]

Heather, do you want to move your room? Yeah, can you. Can you move your stuff into Jen's room, please?

[Tamara Tattles]

And Heather's like, I'm already unpacked. Absolutely not. No.

[Brandy Howard]

This is when Heather. Heather, you know, she tries to be

[Tamara Tattles]

like, I'm a cool girl. I'm a joiner. I love showgirl stuff. I've got champagne.

[Brandy Howard]

But the real Heather was like, absolutely not.

[Tamara Tattles]

If there are electromagnetic frequencies, they won't hurt you because your brain's already rotted. Good night.

[Jen Kober]

Well, everyone's getting pissed at me. This is bullshit. This is bullshit. Some people have real, real allergies to electromagnetic frequencies. If this is. This is Ableist, I will not take this.

[Emily Simpson]

I never fight for the room. But I didn't get involved in the choice. And Heather just. She just goes into the room, and it goes, oh, oh, are you staying here? And she goes, well, well, I just took off my shoes, have the primary, and it's just like, why am I

[Brandy Howard]

not involved in the choice?

[Emily Simpson]

Like, why. Why do they stick me next to the portal to another dimension that's giving me electromagnetic poisoning?

[Jen Kober]

I don't know if anyone's checked my Instagram. Not to get political, but I am pro choice, and everybody knows that. What I mean is I should have a choice in my room, period. I just don't understand this.

[Heather McDonald]

They're all so used to Shannon being an. Just goes, keep your room.

[Tamara Tattles]

Does anyone have a purse stool for Shannon's brain that's been turned into mush by the elevator? Just put it right there on a

[Brandy Howard]

jar and we can all look at it.

[Jen Kober]

I'm trying not to let it ruin my trip, but then I was unpacking and then my back room's up to the elevator, and every time the elevator goes, I mean, that is pure electromagnetic radiation.

[Heather McDonald]

And then it just cuts to the room and it's just silent and it's like no electromagnetic radiation.

[Brandy Howard]

Meanwhile, you're in the. You're like in a casino surrounded by slot machines and smoke and booze. There's like literally nothing but toxins down there.

[Emily Simpson]

But the elevator, that's the real problem here.

[Heather McDonald]

The whole city is built on light.

[Vicki Gunvalson]

Lights.

[Heather McDonald]

The all you see are lights everywhere. The walls are light. Everything is air conditioned to the nth degree. It's just all electromagnetic frequencies, girl.

[Emily Simpson]

So Tamara's like, yeah, I wouldn't be

[Gina Kirschenheiter]

shocked if the nurses were in her head. Kids, Chris is in her teeth. Have to be saying something.

[Brandy Howard]

So Shannon's like, what?

[Emily Simpson]

Everyone, I just want everyone to come to my room. Please listen, Please, I am not crazy. There's a little girl coming out of the tv. In fact, I. I don't like her.

[Gina Kirschenheiter]

She.

[Emily Simpson]

She's. She's being drawn to the.

[Gina Kirschenheiter]

She's being drawn to the electromagnetic box of.

[Jen Kober]

To hell.

[Emily Simpson]

So please, everyone, please, you have to save me.

[Brandy Howard]

I also. You know what's hilarious is what Shannon's basically saying is, guys, this room is so close to an elevator, it will literally poison us to death. So I would like someone else to die and I will take your room. Thank you.

[Heather McDonald]

So you guys take it.

[Brandy Howard]

Here's my pitch to you. Why don't you get poisoned by the electromagnetic frequencies and I'll take your room and make sure you're remembered.

[Jen Kober]

It just matters for me because I am allergic to electromagnetic frequencies.

[Emily Simpson]

Jeez, commercials.

[Brandy Howard]

Here comes one right now.

[Heather McDonald]

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[Brandy Howard]

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[Heather McDonald]

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[Brandy Howard]

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[Heather McDonald]

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[Brandy Howard]

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[Heather McDonald]

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[Brandy Howard]

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[Heather McDonald]

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[Heather McDonald]

So now they leave and Emily shows off that she's got the Dior bag that Carmela gave her and now they go to a restaurant called Caramela.

[Jen Kober]

It's like Carmelo but with an A. It's worth the next four this is

[Emily Simpson]

where the next gen New York cast went just last night on Bravo because this is where Charlie got a reservation. Everyone was impressed that Charlie did something proactive for once and a lady opened a door.

[Gina Kirschenheiter]

They went through the back. It was amazing.

[Heather McDonald]

So now Shannon's fine with going to a restaurant that you have to walk through a refrigerator to get to. This is all very

[Jen Kober]

very picky.

[Heather McDonald]

What you're going to be afraid of?

[Emily Simpson]

Well, Dr. Moon says that some electromagnetic frequency is better than others. And the ones that give you a worse room in Vegas are the most toxic of all, unfortunately.

[Heather McDonald]

So now they order drinks, and Emily's

[Shannon Storms Beador]

like, oh, my God, it's the Bellagio. That's where I got married.

[Heather McDonald]

And Vicki goes, oh, my God, you did?

[Guest Announcer]

How do you.

[Heather McDonald]

How did you know he was the one?

[Shannon Storms Beador]

It's like, I still don't.

[Brandy Howard]

Which is funny because they played that in the trailer. Like. Like, oh, no. Emily's having a crisis in her marriage.

[Vicki Gunvalson]

I don't know if he's the right one.

[Brandy Howard]

But in, like, reality, she's like, I

[Vicki Gunvalson]

don't know if he is. Anyway, pass the margaritas.

[Heather McDonald]

So they do a cheers. And Carmel is like, guys, I don't want to offend anybody by injecting insulin

[Jen Kober]

at the table, but let me. You know, it just started with anxiety and ocd.

[Heather McDonald]

The first time I got on a plane to go to the Playboy Mansion, I was really rather.

[Jen Kober]

Just shoot yourself up. Shut up. Jesus.

[Brandy Howard]

Gina does have a fair point.

[Emily Simpson]

All these women are, like, injecting themselves with so much that I don't think you're gonna offend anyone.

[Brandy Howard]

I think that's fair, truly.

[Heather McDonald]

That's gonna be on the appetizer menu soon at restaurants where you just go. And you're like, oh, my God, I forgot my GLB one today. Right?

[Jen Kober]

Here you go.

[Emily Simpson]

Go.

[Heather McDonald]

And I'll be the first person ordering it.

[Jen Kober]

So Tamara's like, come about.

[Heather McDonald]

Because, like, Are you talking about vibrators again?

[Tamara Tattles]

Did you bring those slutty things?

[Brandy Howard]

And Jen's like, I want my own

[Emily Simpson]

room if you brought me a dildo.

[Brandy Howard]

So Carmel is like, yeah, I threw them all in the garbage and.

[Emily Simpson]

Because, like, what? All the. All the vibr.

[Jen Kober]

In the garbage?

[Emily Simpson]

Like, you didn't share them with the girls. I told you, she's not a developer. She's a flipper. She takes vibration. She throws them out. She's a flipper.

[Heather McDonald]

And they. Shannon tells a story that the cleaning woman came up to her and said,

[Jen Kober]

we have a problem. And then she walked into her bathroom and all the vibrators were outside.

[Emily Simpson]

Isn't that funny?

[Gina Kirschenheiter]

Oh, sorry.

[Emily Simpson]

It's just a story that she tells us.

[Jen Kober]

It's a little.

[Emily Simpson]

You know, when you. When you. When you're both from Rancho Santa Rancho, you share things with each other. Sorry. I guess I just have a buddy, Heather, so.

[Shannon Storms Beador]

Wow, look, you're talking for Carmel again. There's a big shocker.

[Heather McDonald]

That's what Emily. I mean, that's what Gina was thinking.

[Emily Simpson]

Oh, you know what? Okay, you know what, Gina? I. I wasn't going to bring this up right now because I'm afraid I have some brain fog due to the elevator poisoning, but I will. Now, the other night when we were having dinner, I did start speaking to. For Carmela because I felt badly for her. Look who's rubbing off on me now. And I did start speaking for Carmela, and. And I saw how upset she was because. Because she didn't even participate.

[Gina Kirschenheiter]

So.

[Emily Simpson]

So that explains my. My. My reactions.

[Jen Kober]

Okay, well, I understand all this from your perspective. Carmela, like, it could have used the opportunity. And as a woman, I love giving women opportunities to stand up for themselves against other women who are attacking them for no reason. So I stand for women.

[Emily Simpson]

But, like, she. She did communicate. Well, it was like you were trying to communicate them for her. And, like, I. I hadn't even heard of what you saying.

[Jen Kober]

I'm sorry.

[Heather McDonald]

I'm sorry.

[Jen Kober]

I want you. What you were saying. And then so I jumped out. But, like, it's. Like, it's useless enough that we both say it.

[Gina Kirschenheiter]

Look, there's the electromagnetic radiation happening right now in your brain, Gina.

[Emily Simpson]

I can hear you having conversation with yourself. You're losing it.

[Gina Kirschenheiter]

Be careful.

[Jen Kober]

And you got so angry. And then you shut me up. And I have every right to speak as much as I do. I felt like a person on a no H8 campaign with tape put over their face like. Like they're prisoners. That's actually no hate campaign that's good for gay people. Oh, well, I guess I misread that one. Yay, gays. It hurt my feelings, Gina.

[Emily Simpson]

Well, last time I checked, the. The.

[Jen Kober]

The.

[Emily Simpson]

The. The. The people who were making sure we couldn't speak out about issues, whereas the elevator lobby. Anyway, you. You got so angry, and you shut me up, and I have every right to speak as much as you do. And she was like, I never download that. I was just, like, trying to have a conversation with Carmela. And by having a conversation, I mean screaming at her baseless allegations and claims that were deeply rooted in my own paranoia. And then when she tried to say some things, I just doubled down.

[Jen Kober]

But you were aggressive. You were aggressive. That's the 90th time someone has said that word today on this show.

[Heather McDonald]

So Heather's like, whoa, Carmel is at

[Jen Kober]

the end of the table. And she kept turning to me and saying, oh, my God. And I said, I know. It's the Chanel jacket I bought before my mother's.

[Heather McDonald]

Am I right?

[Jen Kober]

And then she said, what is going on? I said, oh, say it out loud then. But she felt like she couldn't talk.

[Emily Simpson]

Well, every time I tried to say something, it was like, I'm fighting against you because. Listen, I'm not going to scream to get my point. I think everyone knows after 12 years on Bravo that it's well documented that I do not scream to get my point. Thank you very much.

[Jen Kober]

Much. Well, Shannon, I'm sorry for that. I'm sorry. And I would just like to leave you with this. Ding. Oh, God, what's that? An elevator. Just with you, Shannon. Just with you.

[Brandy Howard]

I just want to say I definitely appreciate the support to step in the line of fire when it's, like, uncomfortable. So thank you, Shannon, and thank you, Gina. And, like, I think they actually are both right here. I understand Gina's perspective, and I need to be able to advocate for myself, but I really do have mad respect for Janet. Why'd I call her Janet? Who the is Janet? I mean, Shannon.

[Emily Simpson]

Have you been sleeping near the elevator bank? I think we really need to take our check. Get her. Get her to the hospital, get her checked out.

[Heather McDonald]

I can't even move. My Botox is so tight.

[Shannon Storms Beador]

It's, like, ridiculous.

[Heather McDonald]

Thank you, Shannon. Not Janet for sticking up for me. That is hilarious. I hope you frig yourself later with a little gift I left under your pillow.

[Gina Kirschenheiter]

Hey, Bach. Gina, what's wrong? You look like you glitched. What's going on? I feel like you have another fight in you. Do you have another fight?

[Emily Simpson]

She's like, oh, my God. Okay, I need to clear the air on this one. Heather, first of all, you have shrimp cocktail in your hair. I feel bad. Get out of your hair. I was really bothering me.

[Tamara Tattles]

Okay, it wasn't shrimp cocktail. It was the blood of Alfredo. But that's fine. Go on.

[Jen Kober]

When we went to lunch with Combat, by the way, everybody, welcome to a Gina fight episode. This is how it's done. All the people saying, I don't do anything on the show. This is like multiple fights I'm having

[Heather McDonald]

at a dinner table.

[Jen Kober]

Okay, now look like I have a problem. Heather, like, when we went to lunch with Carmela, you were like, I don't like that you share a room with Emily. I am a real problem.

[Tamara Tattles]

I was being honest about it. Just how. I'm honest about how terrible this restaurant is because I'm having to hold my purse in my lap. Where is the stool?

[Jen Kober]

You have a calamari in your hair. First of all, get the calamari out of your hair.

[Tamara Tattles]

That's Alfredo's.

[Jen Kober]

Really? Really difficult to talk to. What was that?

[Tamara Tattles]

That's Alfredo's wedding ring. I took it from him as down payment. Until he builds me a purse stool, I will hold it in my hair.

[Jen Kober]

But I feel like when we all go somewhere, there's like a buddy system. You know, there's a debrief of the night and there's a debrief of what's going on.

[Shannon Storms Beador]

Yeah, you guys think that, but all we do is eat gummy bears.

[Heather McDonald]

That's not true. But also, you're allowed to, like, be with your friend. This whole fight is stupid. You're allowed to go be with your friend and talk about other people. I hate standing up for Gina and Emily, but, no, you're allowed.

[Brandy Howard]

This is they. Heather. As much as we understand why Heather is frustrated, because there is. They do, I think, sit together and talk about what they're going to do on the show. But ultimately, you know, they are also friends. Like you let them live. Let them share their room together. Keep the stupidity contained to one room. And please. So Emily is like.

[Vicki Gunvalson]

She's like, well, this is what doesn't make sense to me. It's been eight years that Gina and I have been sharing a room, and then all of a sudden, years later,

[Brandy Howard]

and Jen is like, maybe it's the buddy thing.

[Jen Kober]

Is that the thing? Is it the buddy thing, Heather? You know, like, the little doll that ran away from you, like, ripped itself out of a box. Your mother was mentioning something about ran away down. Down to Chippaqua Freeway or something to get away from you. I. I don't know. I'm just taking steps in the dark.

[Tamara Tattles]

Please do not mention Chappaqua.

[Brandy Howard]

So Emily is like, that town is

[Tamara Tattles]

too waspy for you, Jen, and it should not be in your mind house.

[Brandy Howard]

So Emily is like.

[Vicki Gunvalson]

She's like, the bunny thing is not my problem.

[Emily Simpson]

But you don't ever pick to her. Pick her to stay with.

[Vicki Gunvalson]

Well, she wouldn't want me to stay with her.

[Jen Kober]

Heather. Heather. Heather.

[Gina Kirschenheiter]

Stop.

[Jen Kober]

Everybody. Heather, do you want to be invited just to stay the night for one night with them? Do you want to, Heather? Let's do that for Heather, everybody. Thank you so much. Can someone just invite Heather to stay in a room? That would be great.

[Brandy Howard]

So mortifying for Heather. Yeah, sure. That's like inviting the.

[Guest Announcer]

The.

[Brandy Howard]

The weird kid over to be on the sleepover. So Gina's like, you're always invited.

[Emily Simpson]

Everybody's invited. It just, like, bothers me because, like, it feels like you're, like, trying to control everything, Heather. And, like, I don't want to feel micromanaged in my own things that I do on my trips with my relationships

[Tamara Tattles]

and how he goes. Done, done, like, career done, done.

[Jen Kober]

Yeah, that's a boundary. And as someone in real estate, I really understand boundaries now. So, like, put a little flexibility wagon at.

[Tamara Tattles]

As someone who has a lot of acreage between each boundary on their estate, the boundary is set.

[Jen Kober]

This is what's great. We're friends. We should be able to have these conversations together, which we just did, which I loved.

[Tamara Tattles]

And next time you come by my house with an iron mug asking for change and you bang it against my front. Front gate, I'll just say, that is my boundary. No solicitations, please.

[Shannon Storms Beador]

Well, you talk about how you don't have a buddy, and then you said, gina and I are paired up and Tamara, Vicki are paired up, and Shannon and Jen are paired up.

[Heather McDonald]

Shan's like, well, I'm.

[Jen Kober]

I'm paired. I'm paired up with Heather. Oh. Oh, geez. Thanks. That's great.

[Emily Simpson]

Yes, I am paired up with her, which is why it's so kind of her that my buddy will give me her room, and then she will sit next to the. The elevator of death.

[Gina Kirschenheiter]

Right, buddy? Right, buddy?

[Shannon Storms Beador]

Yeah. What are you talking about? Shannon? You're mad because she didn't even let you have the room you wanted.

[Gina Kirschenheiter]

Oh.

[Jen Kober]

Oh, God, no. Heather. Heather, no.

[Tamara Tattles]

No.

[Jen Kober]

Well, okay. Well, Heather, I will be honest with you as your buddy. What bothered me. Heather, there wasn't even a discussion. It was you. You were just telling me. Oh, please. I swear to you, if you had said from the beginning, let's flip a coin, let's rock, paper, scissors. There are certain ways to do things, and you have to do them at the beginning before I've unpacked.

[Tamara Tattles]

By the way, I'm sorry, Gina, for outing everything that's in your kitchen pantry. Rock, paper, scissors. Anyway,

[Jen Kober]

How else am I supposed to roll down?

[Emily Simpson]

Well, I. To me, it's like, you know, because, you know, by you not including me in the discussion of the rooms, to me, I. I like. To me that That's. That's me. That's. That is me demanding a nice room. But it's like. I'm just saying. I just wish we could have had a talk, buddy to buddy, because that's what we are.

[Gina Kirschenheiter]

Shannon and Heather, famously two of the

[Emily Simpson]

best buddies on Bravo, iconically.

[Jen Kober]

So we'll always be but somebody, if you ever for me or my family ever again.

[Heather McDonald]

And Jen's like, oh, my God, I'm

[Jen Kober]

just so over this. You know what? I don't want to listen to it anymore. I want this time with my girlfriend. So if that means I. I've got to go to my room and pack up all my stuff, I'm going to do it. Shannon, just take my room. Just take my room.

[Emily Simpson]

Gosh.

[Jen Kober]

Thank you so much.

[Emily Simpson]

Wow. Wow. You know what, Jen? You're my new buddy, Heather.

[Gina Kirschenheiter]

Enjoy being out in the cold.

[Brandy Howard]

So Tamara's like, cats, we should go

[Emily Simpson]

to the strip club tonight.

[Gina Kirschenheiter]

Since, yeah, I'm still here.

[Emily Simpson]

This is weird. We're having group dinner. I haven't even said anything.

[Brandy Howard]

And Carmela is like, oh, my God. I haven't been to a strip club in, like, 20 years. Oh, my God.

[Vicki Gunvalson]

Maybe they have amateur night.

[Emily Simpson]

Maybe we can showcase our moves. This would be hilarious.

[Heather McDonald]

So they're gonna go into the strip club, and Vicki's not. Because, you know, Vicki is the biggest sex shamer on Bravo, and she's like, I'm going to the bathtub tonight. I'm gonna love it. I'm gonna love it.

[Jen Kober]

I'm going to the bathtub, not a strip club. I'm not a Debbie Dad.

[Vicki Gunvalson]

And Emily goes, don't be a funny duddy.

[Emily Simpson]

Oh, my God. Looks like we have another nickname.

[Heather McDonald]

And that brings us to the end of Real Housewives of Orange County.

[Brandy Howard]

There it is. Thanks, everyone for being here. Ronnie, have a great time in Orange county. And we're going to talk to every single one of you on Monday for more Atlanta reunion and more ultimate or Ultimate Girls trip. Well, I don't know which one's gonna be on, if maybe both will be. And of course, Amazon Live. What?

[Heather McDonald]

Yeah, they're both on. I just watched a girls trip screener and it was hilarious.

[Emily Simpson]

Great.

[Heather McDonald]

Was really, really good. So I'm excited to recap that on Monday and we'll talk to you guys later.

[Jen Kober]

Have a great weekend.

[Heather McDonald]

Bye.

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