#3444 (REWIND) S18E01 Bottled Up

Summary

Watch What Crappens – Episode #3444 (REWIND): S18E01 Bottled Up

Hosts: Ben Mandelker & Ronnie Karam
Original Airdate: July 9, 2026

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EPISODE OVERVIEW

Season 18 of Real Housewives of Orange County (RHOC) kicks off with a bang—both literally and figuratively. Ben and Ronnie are in top form, gleefully mocking and dissecting the aftermath of Shannon Beador’s infamous DUI, her unraveling relationships, and the interwoven housewife drama that has resulted. The “Bottled Up” episode centers on themes of accountability, public humiliation, shifting friendships, and Bravo’s unique blend of tragedy and comedy.

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KEY DISCUSSION POINTS & INSIGHTS

Shannon Beador’s DUI Fallout and Public Rehabilitation

• The episode fixates on Shannon Beador's DUI scandal, the consequences within her social circle, and the barrage of headlines and jokes at her expense.
• [05:41] Ben: “There, I said it. And everyone is going to get so mad about Shannon’s DUI—you have the right to be. DUIs are disgusting. She deserves everything she’s going to get from the audience.”
• Ronnie and Ben volley brutally funny commentary about the housewives’ response—or lack thereof—to Shannon’s predicament, skewering the unusual lack of group solidarity.

Hair Drama and The Return of Pamela

• Ben and Ronnie riff on Shannon’s troubled look at last year’s reunion and her much-maligned hairdresser, Pamela.
• [04:21] Ronnie: “She looked like a big piece of corn… Her hair was up. Everything was wrong. I’m surprised Pamela did not get fired. In fact… she wound up coming as Shannon’s plus one to the party today.”

Sobriety, Denial, and Hypocrisy

• The hosts examine the tone-deaf, deflective responses from Shannon and her castmates regarding alcohol, with plenty of playful impersonations.
• Mockery abounds as Shannon insists she only has “two drinks a day” while housewives like Gina and Emily weigh in on her pattern of self-destruction and the broader theme of sobriety.
  • [12:16] Shannon (parody): “I’m basically a two person Max. The Max drink. I’m a two person Max drink right now.”
• Gina’s self-righteousness—after her own DUI—is put under a microscope, contrasted against her quickness to shame Shannon.

The Alexis Bellino Factor

• Alexis, newly dating Shannon’s ex John Jansen, is back, leading to old wounds and lawsuits being rehashed.
• The lawsuit from Alexis’s ex-husband Jim is dissected, with both mock outrage and a lighthearted tone.
  • [46:06] Ben: “You were literally dating someone desperate to be back on TV so that you could both get back on TV. Shut the fuck up.”
• The hosts highlight the Bravo-typical absurdity of two exes and their shared history being weaponized for plot.

Friendship Fickleness & Mean Girl Behavior

• The hosts call out Tamra’s and Gina’s inconsistent friendship, performative empathy, and a “kick her when she’s down” attitude.
  • [49:24] Ben: “Tamra is an awful, awful girl.”

Gina’s Empathy Deficit & Living Beyond Means

• Gina’s transition from sympathy figure to hypocritical agent is explored, especially as she essentially poor-shames Jen for eviction issues after years of “doing what you gotta do.”
• [109:02] Ben: “This is a perfect example… She’s like, poor shaming somebody after her whole storyline for seasons has been about poor Gina…”

New Characters & Cross-Franchise Ties

• Newbie Katie is introduced, notable for her real-life connection to Sutton Stracke from RHOBH—which the hosts delight in discussing.
  • [99:00] Ronnie: “We later find out that Katie is friends with Sutton Strack, who is, like, one of the wealthiest people on Beverly Hills, and yet she’s coming into Orange county through one of the poorest people on the cast.”

Classic Bravo Wealth Porn & Obsession with Real Estate

• Heather’s only storyline continues to be homes, with a new mansion in Beverly Hills as the backdrop—a recurring self-parody.
  • [53:12] Ronnie: “After we sold our Crystal Cove house, we bought this house in Beverly Hills... It was 40 million, we got it for 16 million.”
• Ben and Ronnie critique the “house as main character” trope and joke about the houses’ status compared to actual emotional progress.

Kids Grown-Up, Moms Stuck

• Both Shannon and Tamra are now “empty nesters,” leading to moments of sadness, introspection, and wicked laughter at how quickly the children have outgrown their “Real Housewife” moms.

Tamra’s Mother-Daughter Drama

• Tamra’s daughter Sophia is back on camera, leading to playful banter about tattoos, mothering, and Sydney (Tamra’s estranged daughter)—with Tamra inserting references at every turn.
• [90:04] Ben & Tamra (joking about Tamra’s Sydney obsession):
  • “Mom, stop saying Sydney… Mom, why are you doing the ET Song? Sydney fun home.”

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MEMORABLE QUOTES & MOMENTS

Shannon vs. Alexis Showdown

• [121:21] Shannon: “I have been upset that you were involved in the lawsuit where your husband sued me. And as a single mom for three years, I don’t want to tear up...”
• [124:58] Ben (Alexis): “Show me the letter. Show me the letter. Show me the letter.”
• [125:02] Ben (Alexis): “Because I think what the real issue is that I have your ex-boyfriend, and that’s the real issue… you need to move on.”

Peak Housewife Parody

• [07:00] Ronnie (as Shannon): “I can breathalyze. I’m breathalyzing right now because I’m so offended at you saying that I need to breathalyze.”
• [08:26] Shannon (parody, running Shipstation ad): “I do everything by myself except ship my products. For that I use Shipstation, which I love very, very much.”
• [38:00] Ronnie: “It’s like what Vicky does when she falls over. And you’re like, you… that was fake.”

Gina’s Accent & House

• [20:21] Ben: “I still think Gina’s faking an accent… There’s something fishy with Gina there.”

Ben & Ronnie’s Observations on Bravo Tropes

• [53:07] Shannon (parody): “Some people think it’s because there’s fragile things in the house, but it’s really so the kids don’t ever get fat.”
• [53:45] Ronnie: “It’s actually hilarious that she has literally moved to Beverly Hills and she’s still stuck on Orange County.”

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TIMESTAMPS FOR IMPORTANT SEGMENTS

• [03:50] Start of Recap — Season 18 Premiere commentary
• [05:41] Shannon’s DUI, Reunion aftermath, hair & bullying debate
• [14:05] Gina’s grudge & hypocrisy explored
• [18:40] Heather’s new house in Beverly Hills—“house as storyline”
• [25:05] Shannon’s empty nest & blame-shifting monologues with her daughters
• [29:42] The Beador daughters: generational differences and Paris dreams
• [34:13] The comedic anatomy of Shannon’s DUI explained
• [53:12] Heather Dubrow’s house flip and property porn
• [61:01] Emily’s kitchen reno—midseason arcs teased
• [66:28] Gina & Travis: Why their relationship is ending and the mess with exes
• [71:27] Jen’s financial and rental woes after her split
• [81:28] Alexis Bellino on dating John, dealing with Shannon’s ire
• [97:03] Prepping for Heather’s party—dress rehearsals and revenge looks
• [106:13] The “Wish Wall” and party games at Heather’s luncheon
• [114:05] Shannon’s party entrance on the “Bravo 360” camera
• [121:21] Shannon & Alexis final confrontation

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RUNNING THEMES

Bravo Law of Karma: Ronnie and Ben skewer the housewives’ self-inflicted injuries, calling out cycles of hypocrisy, revenge, and manufactured redemption.

Absurdity of New Age Friendships: The revolving door of “new best friendships,” performative empathy, and rapid forgiveness is mocked at every chance.

Wealth on Display: Real estate and “houses as character” are endlessly parodied, especially when the cast jumps from multi-million-dollar flips to basic cockroach-infested rentals.

Meta-Housewife Humor: The hosts repeatedly step outside the world of RHOC to mock Bravo tropes, production contrivances, and the women’s self-awareness or lack thereof.

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SUMMARY: HIGH-VOLTAGE BRAVO RECAP ENERGY

Ben and Ronnie deliver a densely packed, sharply witty review, slamming the cast’s lack of accountability, skewed group morality, and tendency to exploit others’ rock bottoms for screen time. With rapid-fire impressions and meta-observations, the episode cements why Watch What Crappens is a must-listen for Bravo superfans. The S18 premiere is packed with everything fans love: dueling apologies, emotional exploitation, real estate envy, and plenty of comic relief—especially at Shannon’s expense.

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End note:

The crowd-pleasing Watch What Crappens energy is relentless, and if you’re looking for serious, nuanced sympathy for any housewife here, you won’t find it. What you will get is a masterclass in reality TV shade, parody, and a laugh-out-loud breakdown of Bravo mess.

Transcript

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[Ben]

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[Ben]

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[Ronnie]

Hi, Ronnie. How are you?

[Ben]

I'm so good. This is a very special day for us here at Crappens because it is the beginning of season 18. So here we go. September 7th, 2023. And we are at the re year's reunion. Now look, we all knew something was really wrong with Shannon at last year's reunion. Mostly because of her hair. Her hair was a disaster. Her look was that her curly headed.

[Ronnie]

The.

[Ben]

The clips were raw.

[Ronnie]

The clips, it was, it was all it was. She looked like a big piece of corn, you know, like she was wearing that yellow. Her hair was up. Everything was. Everything was wrong. I'm surprised Pamela did not get fired after that after that Travis scene. In fact, Pamela not only did not get fired, she actually wound up coming as Shannon's plus one to the party today. So Pamela has. Is really working her way up the ladder here.

[Ben]

I think if anybody needs to consider rehab right now, it's Pamela because Pamela is clearly working under the influence. The clips we're not clipping today either. And listen, I'm not a hair. I literally do not care about people's hair or clothes. That's not. No, I'm not that kind of gay. I'm not that shallow to even care. So I'm not saying like, oh my

[Shannon Beador]

God, it's so tacky.

[Ben]

I'm saying literally the clips are like taped to the back of her head. Like, what are you can visibly see them.

[Ronnie]

They literally look like the slides that pop out of an airplane in a water landing. Okay. It was like, what is happening under that hair?

[Ben]

Yeah, Pamela. And I really like Pamela because she looks like old school Alexis Bellino, doesn't she? She came back looking like Alexis Bellino, which is weird. I feel like this show is bullying Shannon on every front. There, I said it. And everyone is going to get so mad about Shannon's dui. You have the right to be. DUI are disgusting. She deserves everything she's going to get from the audience.

[Shannon Beador]

I don't care.

[Ben]

Stop bullying Shannon. Okay, I'm not saying I don't care about her dui. I'm just saying it's not an excuse to bully the poor woman.

[Shannon Beador]

Let's.

[Ben]

But by the way, I was about to say, leave Shannon alone. No, don't leave Shannon alone, because you guys bullying Shannon is going to lead to the best Shannon season we've ever had. So keep it up.

[Ronnie]

Yeah, But I was going to say that Pamela to me, looks like Alexis Blino meets Aaron Leechy or whatever.

[Tamra Barney]

Her.

[Ronnie]

How do you say It's Leachy Litchy. Whatever. From Real Housewives of New York.

[Ben]

Lychee. I always thought it was lachey, but I think you're right.

[Ronnie]

I think it is Lychee and Nick Lachey. There's some Nick Lachey in there. Yeah. This was a savage episode because I feel like I've just gotten so used to these shows where someone gets a DUI and everyone gathers around and it's like, you need our support right now. We're gonna get you through it.

[Tamra Barney]

This.

[Ronnie]

They were like, oh, her. They were all like, her. She got a dui. I was like, this is kind of hilarious. So we see Shannon at the reunion, and Shannon doing the usual stuff, like,

[Tamra Barney]

do I go out and drink sometimes? Yes. Like, for you to say that I need rehab. For you to say that I'm calling people every single night. Hold on one second. I hear that it's about 11pm in Paris right now. I'm just gonna call my friend. They are saying that I need rehab right now. Can you believe it? They are saying. Okay, all right. All right. Marie Claire. All right, bye.

[Shannon Beador]

I'm here to say that I can. I can breathalyze. Breathalyze. I'm breathalyzing right now because I'm so offended at you saying that I need to breathalyze.

[Ben]

And Sheena's like, come on, Shannon. So then we see 10 days after the reunion. I did not remember that the reunion Was all about calling out Shannon for being an alcoholic. I didn't remember that. And watching it back, I was like, oh my God, this is so awkward. And then Heather getting that sad look on her face like, you know, the Heather nod, the black eyed Heather nod where she's like, shannon, no one said it was every single night Shannon. And I was like, oh no, Heather's doing the I feel sorry for you and your poor like, oh, she's giving her the double look. You know, I felt so bad for Shannon.

[Ronnie]

And it gets so Shannon to be there on the sofa with her crazy hair and that big yellow dress to

[Tamra Barney]

be like, I, I don't need a breathalyzer. I mean DUIs. I would never get a DUI like a DYI, because I am going to learn how to make fresh lemonade out of my lemons because of you.

[Shannon Beador]

I have been doing everything myself. I've been doing yourself it for so long. Raising three daughters who are now college.

[Ben]

Why isn't anybody feeling for that?

[Shannon Beador]

Can I get a drink please?

[Tamra Barney]

So cream cheese and salmon by myself. For years now.

[Shannon Beador]

I do everything by myself except ship my products. For that I use Shipstation, which I love very, very much.

[Tamra Barney]

Dyi, do it yourself. That is a perfect way to describe my entire relationship with John Johnson. In fact, it was just me in that relationship as far as I could tell.

[Ben]

So a reporter comes on the screen and it's like Shannon Bedor drove her car into a home and then decided to leave. Which I like to turn a phrase like. And then she made the decision to leave the home.

[Ronnie]

These headline, they show headlines, you know, she's arrested, dui, you hit and run. Here's what we know, blah, blah, blah. No, they really didn't. They should have put up some other headlines that were like, was found, you know, 50 yards from her car, walking her dog, claiming she was just out walking Archie the entire time. Because that's my favorite part.

[Ben]

That was the best part of the story. And they really do need. I feel like there's enough housewives news that they need to have a gay on the scene for. For whenever there's a housewives in. Cuz this just isn't cutting it. This lady's like, look at this house. I mean this house. This is where she hit the house. And then she just shows like a sad little brick that has fallen off the house. No, you need a gay to be over there. Like that.

[Shannon Beador]

Hit this house right here.

[Ben]

I'm gonna ask the house how it feels.

[Shannon Beador]

House, you got hit. You look stupid.

[Ben]

How do you feel about it? The house is crying, you guys. The house cannot even talk house. I need you to talk more a up more house, y'.

[Shannon Beador]

All.

[Ben]

This house is a. So we're going to have to go to the commercial break until we can find a talking house. In the meantime, Shannon was walking her stupid dog over there and acting like the dog just had to pee. Can we let the woman walk her dog? I mean, seriously, here's what I have to say. Not guilty. Thanks for coming to the news, y'.

[Tamra Barney]

All.

[Ronnie]

I love that. I would totally be down for that. Well, maybe. I mean, there is. We do know at least one unemployed news reporter in Orange county, but I don't think that Shannon wants to hear any reports filed by her, if you know what I'm saying.

[Tamra Barney]

This is Alexis Bellino reporting for Fox News 6. There was a car that hit this house, but the news just came in.

[Ronnie]

It was driven by an old slut. So, you know, we have to consider that with the authorities. Back to you, Phil.

[Ben]

This house has been hid in Orange County. It's a broken house, but it's not more broken up than Shannon B. Door is with John Jansen, who is now my man. So,

[Ronnie]

Johnny J. So now. Now we have. We see Shannon talking to Heather Badditch.

[Tamra Barney]

Because John said to me, you're a drunken idiot. So I got in the car, and I. I lost control, and I was like.

[Ronnie]

So you were acting like a drunk idiot, perhaps. Yeah. The best way. The best way to prove people that you're not a drunk idiot is to drunkenly get in the car and drive into a house.

[Ben]

Yeah. So five months later, and then, of course, it's Emily and Shannon. Oh, no. I thought it was going to be Emily and Gina. Sorry. So, Em, Shannon are having lunch, and Emily's like, how do you feel? Emily loves getting in lawyer mode and then grilling people on the stand. And every time she does it, they're already confessing. Like, Emily has the easiest lawyer job ever. She's never even gotten anything out of anybody because she just goes after people who are already confessing, and then she

[Ronnie]

uses it against them the rest of the season. So how do you feel?

[Tamra Barney]

And. Well, I am continuing to work on myself. I was just making a lot of very, very poor decisions. Can I get that tequila, please? Thank you so much. Thank you.

[Shannon Beador]

If I would get a decent amount of support from David Beador, I might be making richer decisions, but unfortunately, I'm making very poor, poor decisions because I'm left all alone to raise three girls

[Ben]

and Emily's like, oh, so do drink.

[Shannon Beador]

Do drink.

[Ben]

Listen. Yes, of course she drinks. It's called taking your medicine.

[Tamra Barney]

Okay?

[Ben]

And Shannon's like, wow.

[Shannon Beador]

I'm basically a two person Max. The Max drink. I'm a two person Max drink right now.

[Tamra Barney]

I. I listen, I drink two drinks per day Max now, are they tiki bowls? Perhaps, but are they straight vodka? Perhaps, but still just two drinks.

[Shannon Beador]

I have two drinks every time I turn on the television channel Max right now. And it's very. It's working out very, very well for me.

[Ben]

Is that the HBO sound?

[Shannon Beador]

It's called Max now.

[Tamra Barney]

It's not tv. It's drink your Max now, Bo.

[Shannon Beador]

So

[Ronnie]

that doesn't make sense.

[Tamra Barney]

It makes sense to me.

[Ben]

So then we see Tamara and Heather talking. And Tamara's like, do you think.

[Shannon Beador]

Do you think she has an alcohol problem? Do you?

[Ben]

And Heather's like, I do.

[Shannon Beador]

I do.

[Ben]

Let me nod my head with very black eyes.

[Shannon Beador]

I do.

[Ronnie]

I do. I do. Are we talking about Shannon or are we talking about Gretchen Rossi? Because they're both to me. So then we cut back to Emily and Chad, and Emily is like, do you ever feel like choosing sobriety is

[Ben]

maybe the best thing for you?

[Tamra Barney]

Well, I mean. I mean, I don't. I don't drink that often. I mean. I mean. I mean, two drinks a day is. I mean, that's barely. I mean, that's. That's like barely drinking very much at all. I mean, do you know how many hours go by between the second drink and then the first drink of the next day? It's barely anything at all.

[Ben]

And then we see Gina in a chef's hat, and she's like, I don't drink anymore.

[Shannon Beador]

And she's like 20 years ahead of me. And I looked at what I looked like, and I was like, I didn't fucking like it. And so I stopped drinking. But she still drink.

[Ronnie]

I have a lot of things to say about Gina this episode, but we'll get to that. But she. Gina is on my last nerve already.

[Ben]

Gina, you know, everyone's like, oh, my God, Gina's. Gina really has something to say to Shannon, because Shannon said so much to Gina when Gina. Gina got blah, blah.

[Shannon Beador]

No, she didn't.

[Ben]

She called her drunk driver attorney and saved Gina's ass. Now, did she hold that over Gina's head for eternity?

[Shannon Beador]

Yes.

[Ben]

But Gina didn't do the same thing and help Shannon in any way that now Gina can get revenge. Like, what's she gonna get revenge on? Help Shannon and, like, keep her out

[Ronnie]

of Jail Gina takes and takes and takes, and she does not give anything back. And that's gonna be a theme for the rest of this episode. You will see. So now the ladies are all having dinner and Shanka's head.

[Tamra Barney]

Every day I wake that. I wake up. I just. I think about what happened. I think about how I could have just said I had a three drink a day max, and I wouldn't be held accountable for that. But if I said two Amazon cape, it's like people are going to see, look, for that third drink, I should have said three days max. I think about that every day when I wake up.

[Shannon Beador]

Yeah, every day I think up. I wake up and I think about what happened.

[Ben]

And Tamara goes, is that after you have a drink? And then we get that. And then Shannon whips her head around and looks at her, and Shannon's like,

[Shannon Beador]

I am done with people saying, I'm the drunk that needs help. Because I'm not. I'm not. I had a really bad night. I just. I can't talk about this right now. Oh, my tear actually tastes like absolute. That's crazy. When I have that happen, that's actually delicious. Can I have an olive?

[Tamra Barney]

I can't do. I can't sit here. I gotta walk out. I gotta walk out now. For the record, I would have driven out, but, you know, hey, I don't really have a license right now. So I'm going to walk out.

[Shannon Beador]

I'm going to walk out because that's how I get everywhere at the moment.

[Ben]

So the upbeat music is playing, and, you know, it's a Trixie classic. Excuse me, Bend in knee. Don't you know I'm royalty? And then it's Emily's house.

[Ronnie]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Guys, let's save our music for deserving people, okay? When Emily comes on screen, all I really want to hear is, hi, I'm Teddy. Hi, I'm Teddy. Hi, I'm Teddy.

[Ronnie]

We're seeing other stuff. We go over to Jen's yoga class,

[Tamra Barney]

and she's like, all right, everyone, thank you so much. Like, you have 10 seconds. And then we move to a forearm plank. So thank you so much for getting to this pose. Thank you so much. And check us.

[Shannon Beador]

That's 10 seconds.

[Ronnie]

If I ever go to a yoga class and someone is yelling out like that, I would. I would very quietly be very angry. But of course, I wouldn't say anything because that's just not my nature.

[Ben]

Shannon's being wacky. Shannon. So she's not bothered at all. Ben, she's looking great. She's feeling great. She has a revenge body. Her. Well, not her revenge clips in her hair, but she's against the house.

[Shannon Beador]

Okay.

[Ronnie]

Yeah, revenge against the house.

[Tamra Barney]

Well, that house crashed into my car.

[Shannon Beador]

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[Ben]

So then we go to Heather's new house in Beverly Hills because it's a Heather storyline and Heather's only storylines are houses. It's been that way since her first season and it's not going to change. So she's with Terry and she's like, did you see that? A house that just sold in Bel Air with our same exact view for 188 million.

[Shannon Beador]

Come on. It had a helipad. We need a house with a helipad.

[Ronnie]

He's like, oh, it's like a car. And it's like a. And they had a car museum. All of the things. We're going to get a car museum and a helipad, and we're just going to show it to Gina and make her cry while she looks for her new downsized two bedroom house.

[Shannon Beador]

Don't you know I'm royalty.

[Ben]

So now we're at Gina's house with her kids making dinner.

[Shannon Beador]

She's like, let's do the meatballs first. Listen.

[Ben]

What?

[Shannon Beador]

You have to be careful with the meat.

[Ben]

I still think Gina's faking an accent and she's like, from Ohio somewhere. I just don't listen. I'm educated enough and. And I know she's not Jersey. She's Long island. Right? She's.

[Ronnie]

Yeah, Long Island.

[Ben]

I'm familiar enough with that accent. I was on the east coast for like a decade, so I know the accent and I just feel like she's not speaking it right. I feel like she's just a liar. She's undercover. There's something fishy with Gina there.

[Shannon Beador]

You know what? I've said it before and I'll say it again.

[Ben]

I don't boy up.

[Ronnie]

So now, yeah, she's teaching the kids how to make meatballs and telling them about salmonella and. And the dangers of rob meat. So it's a typical Gina scene. And then we go over to Tamara in bed with Eddie. He has those big leg compression things that, like, go around her legs, you know, like those big, like, I don't even know what you call them. They're just things.

[Ben]

I don't know what they are either, but I feel like Eddie's just a perfect example of somebody who's had too much protein powder and just works out too much. He' one big overly. You know, like when people get too muscular and then their muscles turn lumpy, like, lumpy muscle. He's just like a lumpy muscle.

[Ronnie]

He's like post muscle, you know, like that. That phase in his life is over. Where he's gaining muscle. It's now just sort of turning Arnold Schwarzeneggery, you know?

[Ben]

You know when dogs get old? Like, Bueller's old. He's an old man now.

[Shannon Beador]

I love you, Bueller.

[Ben]

I love you. I'm not old shaming you. But dogs get old and they get, like, lumps on them all over, like, little. And they're like little deposits of things. That's. I feel like that's what Eddie muscle is like. Was that too dark? I miss Bueller.

[Ronnie]

Oh, Bules. Either way, Tamara is straddling Eddie, and

[Tamra Barney]

she's like, oh, look, it's a disposable match.

[Ronnie]

He's like, why am I getting lucky tonight? I was expecting Sandy and her boyfriend to come in on skateboards.

[Tamra Barney]

Like, hey, kids, we just downstairs. Yeah, we're wild and wacky seniors.

[Shannon Beador]

Hey, Tam Tam, did you find my disposable cock ring anywhere? From the casket,

[Ben]

Mom.

[Tamra Barney]

Get out of here, bitch.

[Ben]

So then we go to some, you know, just other scenes around town. So Jen is walking into Shred's gym, and she's meeting Tamara, and Tamara's already working out.

[Shannon Beador]

She goes, oh, my God, I'm glad we're here together. Hope my armpits didn't smell.

[Tamra Barney]

They don't, but thank you so much for that warning. How's everything been good. Just busy as hell doing nothing. Match. Like, oh, yeah.

[Ronnie]

Like, what is Tamara busy with? Literally, she does nothing except for being on the Traders.

[Tamra Barney]

So she goes, yeah, we're spitting out time now between Big Bass and Orange county.

[Ronnie]

And so apparently they have a house up there now. And that's like. I guess she's. I guess it's Tamara's version of being Heather Dubrow.

[Ben]

Yes. Yes, Heather, do snow.

[Shannon Beador]

So Jen's like, wow, that house is, like, amazing. Thank you so much for showing me pictures of your house. I mean, that is. What a beautiful house, Tamara. What a beautiful house.

[Ben]

And she tells us, Tamara and I,

[Shannon Beador]

I think we're moving past everything that's happened to us. You know, Tamara trying to ruin my relationship and my life and basically everything about me. Basically how Tamara just got me on the show and then dragged me through the mud and tried to ruin me and then made Me take a colonic on national television. Maybe we'll get past that. I don't know. Thank you for asking though producers. Thank you. Thank you so much.

[Tamra Barney]

I see her for who she is which is a total not a. And so I'm just keeping it light and easy and exactly where I want to keep it with Tamara.

[Ben]

So then Emily comes in, she's like look how even bend down. Me and Shane were just getting so sexy right now. Don't even ask.

[Ronnie]

And she talks about like her journey over the past year she's lost 40 pounds from Ozempic and liposuction and going to the gym because she wants to keep it off and that's her storyline is that she lost weight.

[Ben]

Well congratulations on saying Ozempic and admitting it because that's very rare on these shows. So congrats. I give you, I give you props for that. So then.

[Ronnie]

But by the way she says that like one of the reasons why she's also going to the gym is because it's better than raging at Shane all over the house. Like no, I think I actually would like to see you rage as Shane. I would, I'm, I'm. That's content. I, I would be looking forward to.

[Ben]

It's more entertaining for us. I mean if raging as Shane burns calories that's do it. I mean there's finally someone will have a successful gym in the OC Just go scream at Shane, you know.

[Ronnie]

Yeah, works for me. So now we go, we wind up at Shannon's new rental and her, the, the girls are all there and they're sitting down with some chicken salad. Etc She's Carls.

[Tamra Barney]

I, I have to tell you this is a huge deal for me to have Diet Coke in this house but I'm, I'm trying to be a cool mom now cuz I guess you know, you make one get one DUI and suddenly your kids use it against you to advance their Diet Coke agenda.

[Shannon Beador]

Apparently I had a little Absolute and Grey Goose in my system at the same time. So my kids are allowed to have aspartame.

[Tamra Barney]

I thought my biggest failure was driving drunkenly into a house but apparently my biggest failure was raising children who enjoy Diet Coke. So learn a lot. Learn a lot.

[Shannon Beador]

Especially am I going to be a Coke hero or a Coke Zero? That's up to you kids.

[Ben]

So the kids are so old it's totally weird. I don't like it. Please age backwards like everybody else on the show. And Shannon's like well you're on your own now.

[Shannon Beador]

If you want to die of, you know, pancreatic, you know, gingeritis from this Diet Coke. Enjoy that. Okay, so you're on your own. I can't stop you. Okay, Stella. Are you kidding me?

[Ben]

And Stella is walking with a thing of laundry and she'.

[Tamra Barney]

What?

[Ben]

I leave tomorrow, so I have to do my laundry.

[Shannon Beador]

I just did the laundry. Stella, Diet Coke made you leak all over everything that I did.

[Ronnie]

Yeah, but mom, you were drunk and you dumped all the laundry on a house.

[Tamra Barney]

Well, I. It's. I have a tendency to gravitate towards houses when I'm drinking. And it's not my fault. It's just the way I was built.

[Shannon Beador]

It's just that I was doing laundry and John Jansen called me a stupid drunk face and I started the laundry on fire. It's John's fault. Ultimately, it's John's fault.

[Tamra Barney]

Well, America, I am an empty nester. I have recently purchased all seven seasons on DVD and have been watching them as a marathon ever since this dui. I have to say, Harry is a. He's a hero and an icon. But besides that, my. My children have moved out.

[Shannon Beador]

I'm no longer driving. Now I'm leaving my car in park.

[Tamra Barney]

Overall, I have started calling Archie Dreyfus and I. Turning over a new leaf. I have been. I leave my door unlocked in the hope that Joe Suzu will come through one day and drink something out of my. My fridge.

[Shannon Beador]

Well, I'm an empty nester. And so now I have moved to a rental in Corona del Mar. It's three bedrooms and I can walk to the beach every day. I just stand there and watch blonde sluts walk back and forth. Imagine them holding hands with David Bedor. It's old habits die hard.

[Tamra Barney]

Yeah, that'. I do like to sit at my. My window and just look at the. The waves and the people go by.

[Shannon Beador]

Go slide.

[Tamra Barney]

And then I walk to the beach because again, I can't drive to the beach. I just walk.

[Ben]

I'm actually so sad for Shannon because she loved her boat house.

[Ronnie]

Well, it wasn't her boat house. That was John's boathouse.

[Ben]

No, no, that was Jon's little house by the water.

[Ronnie]

Oh, you meant the one that.

[Ben]

The one he had like a nautical farmhouse. Remember? She had like, a farmhouse, but it was like, nautical theme.

[Ronnie]

Yeah. Yes, her nautical with the oven that was out of the way. Yeah.

[Ben]

It wasn't a triangle of usefulness or whatever. The Chip and Joanna boat that she took on.

[Tamra Barney]

Yeah, well, it's. Oh, I like to call that my Bermuda Triangle. So well, no, I. I have downsides. I don't need the space anymore because I live alone. My children have moved away, and as we all know, John Jansen has left me. And I've been sitting here paralyzed, replaying arguments in my head. And I'm. I'm so. I'm happy. I'm living on my. My dream has come true. Old age alone with no one by my side except skanky women walking on the boardwalk. I'm happy.

[Shannon Beador]

I'm in a great mood. I'm in a great mood in my tiny, tiny little packing container home. So let's just go sit over here, girls. And now let me update you, everybody. Sophie. Oh, God, I'm so happy. Sophie is a senior at Baylor University, which is so funny because Baylor bailing. John bailed on me. John's a Baylor. It went full circle quickly, didn't it? I'm happy for her. I'm so happy.

[Tamra Barney]

Adeline is in New York City at the Parsons School of Design, learning lots of things and being around the liberals. And Stella is a part of the USC transfers in Paris, far away from all of us. And we get together at the holidays, and Sophie expresses her Texas feelings and Adeline expresses her Parsons School of Design feelings, and Stella tells me to shut up. And we have a very happy time together as a family.

[Ronnie]

You know, it is like August, Osage county in that. At the holidays with that family now, like, as you know, Sophie is totally going traditional, kind of like conservative path down with Baylor, with Rhea at Adeline's in fashion school. You know, it is just nothing but back and forth.

[Tamra Barney]

And she's like, why? Why can't we just talk about nice things? Why don't you say something nice about your sister? Why do we always have to fight?

[Ben]

And you know it's going bad because Stella's one of those people who's like, guys, you should all go abroad. I've, like, totally done it. What an opportunity.

[Ronnie]

One of the biggest failures that we as humans have had is that we did not support real girlfriends in Paris long enough. Because if it were still in the air, I'm sure Stella would have made her way onto that show.

[Ben]

Oh, that would have been amazing because. But isn't that just such a useful, a youthful thing? I did that when I was young, when I moved to New York. I moved when I was 18, and I came home wearing a beret for my first Christmas. It's like, hi. Oh, and I had, like an ear. Like an ear cuff, like a little man crawling up My ear. I was like, yeah, I have a beret in an ear cuff. So I'm pretty artistic now. Guys, you should try that.

[Ronnie]

I act like Stella when I go to Target. I'm like, guys, you should be going to Target. I'm just saying,

[Shannon Beador]

live in spaces.

[Ben]

Just got back.

[Ronnie]

Oh my God. I was saying that you guys should

[Ben]

try living in spaces. So sorry, Ben, what were you saying?

[Ronnie]

I was singing that, that jingle all last night. It was in my head. I was, I was like, board game night. We were playing a game about being in outer space and I kept going living spaces every time someone mentioned space. And everyone was getting annoyed at me.

[Shannon Beador]

I need spaces. I'm sorry. I was thinking to John Jansen, all alone spaces. I'm alone now. This isn't even a living room. It's a shoe behind. So please don't leave me here. I'm sorry, what were we talking about?

[Tamra Barney]

I miss all the things in my life. I used to have spaces.

[Ben]

So they're like, oh my God, shut up. Stella, you've been out of town. Congratulations.

[Tamra Barney]

Well, she's been to nine countries in her first semester, much like how her father was in nine women in my first semester of pregnancy.

[Ben]

So Shannon's like, oh,

[Shannon Beador]

my mom, why

[Ben]

are you crying now?

[Shannon Beador]

She's like, well, I mean, I, I, I, I, I, I took Sophie to college, I took Adeline to college, and, and, and your dad took you. So it was my intent to come and visit you, but hold on, let me, let me lean my head back and touch the bottom of my eyes. And it was my intent to come and visit you, but because of my mistakes, I wasn't able to come and I feel bad. I need a drink.

[Ben]

Mom, put the bottle down.

[Tamra Barney]

I, I, I'm just, I'm so sorry. And I humiliated and I just put that I disappointed you and like, what kind of example? I'm at 59.

[Ronnie]

Mom, I just want to check. Are you sorry for humiliating us about the dui or what about, like, the years and years of stuff before that?

[Tamra Barney]

No, no.

[Ben]

What about that time you showed up at our dance recital and threw a crutch at our teacher's face?

[Ronnie]

Well,

[Shannon Beador]

there was a woman sitting in my seat and she had crutches and I wanted one of them gone. I couldn't fit.

[Tamra Barney]

I, I am sorry that I confused your teacher for a carnival game and confused the crutch for a beanbag and confused your school for the Orange county fair. But I had reached my two drink max for the day and things happened.

[Ben]

So Stella's like, mom, we're just glad that you're okay and that no one was hurt. Yeah. And they're like, yeah. And you take accountability. And Shanna's like, well, on the night

[Shannon Beador]

of the dui, I drove to John's house so stupidly, and we got into a big argument, and he said, you're a drunken idiot. Don't get in your car. But, oh, God, I did, and I got in an accident. Five seconds later, I wrecked up the engine so he could know how mad I was, and I lost control of the car immediately. So it was because John made me mad that I wrapped up the car like that, and that's what happens. So I take responsibility for John being a monster, literally.

[Ronnie]

If you really think about her story, that is the funniest dui.

[Tamra Barney]

She's like, I am not drunk, and I'm not an idiot.

[Ronnie]

I'm gonna rub this car crash into a wall. I mean, like, it's almost like a comedy. Like, if it were a comedy, it would be funny, but it's real life. It's not funny because dui, by the way, I'm. I'm not gonna keep saying this. We all know DUIs are horrific. I think they are. They're awful. And I think that they're actually taken to, like, people consider them too lightly. But it's. We are a podcast, and at a certain point, like, I. I'm not gonna do the disclaimer anymore. And if people get mad and say, oh, you're taking DUIs too lightly. No, I think DUIs are terrible. But what I think, though, is Shannon. Shannon's specific situation is kind of funny, and it is funny. And just to think of her getting it.

[Ben]

We're just saying DUIs aren't funny. But if you wanted one to be funny and you were casting for a comedy dui, Shannon Beador's agent is the one that you would call.

[Ronnie]

Because I'm just imagining her talking and

[Tamra Barney]

saying, and here's another thing, John Chance, if you ever talk to me, just

[Ronnie]

like her, just zooming all out of frame, right?

[Ben]

So Sophie's like. She goes, yeah, well, I.

[Shannon Beador]

Girls, girls. I've never broken a bone. I've never had a concussion. I've never been in an accident.

[Ben]

Wait.

[Tamra Barney]

I've never had a Diet Coke.

[Shannon Beador]

I've never had emotional debris stuck up my butt that David Benor had to get out with his thigh.

[Ben]

Because I think she's. Hasn't she been in a cast on this show? Is that in my head?

[Ronnie]

I honestly don't Remember?

[Ben]

And then she's like, I've never had a concussion. I know we've seen her in some kind of a head. Head swing, but maybe that was from Facebook.

[Ronnie]

Did you ever have a boot, Jo? She's always. Isn't she always, like, twisting her ankle

[Tamra Barney]

and stuff like that?

[Ben]

I mean, I remember the year Tamara had a thing that she had to roll around on her knee. But then didn't Shannon also have to roll around on her knee, too? And then Tamara was like, yeah, of

[Shannon Beador]

course Shannon has to run around on honey when I'm running around on money. Cause Shannon wants to be me, bitch.

[Ben]

But I think that Shannon has done all of these things that she's listing is my point. I've never broken a bone. I've never had a concussion. I've never been in an accident. I've never had a Diet Coke in my home. I've never had emotional debris stuck up my butt that David Beador had to get out with his thumb. She's done all this stuff.

[Tamra Barney]

Never had a Loya lover. Never had a good friend, and never had a real relationship with Tamara. Barney. You know, And I did. And then I had to. And then it all changed in 10 seconds, girls. 10 seconds.

[Ben]

And Sophie's like, well, it sucks, but this happened for a reason.

[Shannon Beador]

Oh, God. Well, you know, here. Here. Here's the truth. God had a plan. I absolutely believe that God wanted me to be drunk and drive that car. Car. That was God's plan. He said, you know what, Shannon? Have. Have a few and get in the car. God works in mysterious, delicious ways. Here's what God said. Shaken, not stirred.

[Ronnie]

Stella's like, yeah, and God's plan for me, I guess, was just to go to Paris and just become a better person than all of you guys. Sorry.

[Shannon Beador]

And on the seventh day, God said, let there be Michelob Light.

[Tamra Barney]

Let there be Schlitz.

[Ben]

So

[Ronnie]

Sophie goes, well, it seems like you're taking more initiative to figure out why things have happened in your life and, like, why you keep certain people in your life when they necessarily shouldn't be there.

[Shannon Beador]

Yes.

[Tamra Barney]

I. I call those people Diet Cokes. So I don't know why they're there. Maybe they should be removed.

[Shannon Beador]

Yeah, but I'm really seeing who my true friends are now. Tamara? No. Emily. No. Gina. No. Bartles. Yes. James.

[Ronnie]

So then we go back to the gym, and Tamara's like, so wait.

[Tamra Barney]

So wait a second. Jen. You saw Shannon? And Jen's like, yeah, I saw Shannon. She came to the studio the other day, sort of made a Lot of noise. Everyone left, and I didn't get my $50, which means that, of course, I was just rent late for rent by,

[Ronnie]

you know, $3,000 instead of $3,050.

[Tamra Barney]

But, you know, it's.

[Shannon Beador]

You know that life says she's working out now. Well, she took a class. I mean, I. I wouldn't say she's working out, but she did take a class.

[Ben]

Here's.

[Shannon Beador]

Here's what she took a lot. She. She did a lot. She stood there and she really absorbed this a lot. Thank you, Shannon. Thank you for doing that down, dog. Thank you. Thank you, Shannon.

[Tamra Barney]

Wow.

[Ben]

And what's her buns. Emily's like, oh, she came to class. Did she fall down a lot? Listen, I do not love this Shannon slander. I'm not gonna like this. I don't like this. I don't like Emily ganging up with Emily.

[Ronnie]

Emily, your whole bit is that you fall down, like, quote unquote, by accident. Like, remember, like, that's what she always does.

[Shannon Beador]

Oh, my God.

[Ronnie]

I fell down.

[Ben]

I'm goofy.

[Ronnie]

It's like the Vicky school of. Of falling down.

[Ben]

I didn't have fall down. Well, she. Tamara, in the beginning of this episode or at the beginning of the scene, Emily said something like she dropped something. She was like, I haven't worked out in a long time. She dropped something, and Shannon was like,

[Shannon Beador]

oh, what are you Shannon now, like, trying to be WAC klutzy?

[Ben]

So I think that's what they're saying. She's like, oh, so was she falling down a lot? And. Yeah, you're right. Emily. Ben. Emily is a Shannon. She's trying to be, like, a physical comedy stealer. Yeah, whatever.

[Ronnie]

Get your, like the. It's like. It's like what Vicky does when she falls over. And you're like, you. That was. That was fake. So Jen is like, you know what

[Tamra Barney]

I have a soft spot for, Chef.

[Shannon Beador]

I'm sorry.

[Ben]

I have a turkey sandwich in my. I have a turkey sandwich in my purse. I'm gonna eat wackily to get America on my side. While you talk about shaming it.

[Tamra Barney]

I have a soft spot for Shannon.

[Ben]

Such an average woman.

[Ronnie]

And we see Jen and Shannon, they're

[Tamra Barney]

talking, and Chad's like, well, I. I've been, you know, I'm doing. I've been going to a wellness program. I've been seeing a therapist. I've been seeing a psychiatrist. I've been seeing John Jansen with Alexis Bolino. The quiet women. That's really fun. Yeah, I'm doing great. I'M happy

[Shannon Beador]

when you feel like the rug is being pulled out from under you.

[Ben]

Oh this is Jen.

[Shannon Beador]

She's like when you feel like the rug is being pulled out from under you and and you're literally at rock bottom. You need a friend. You need a friend to be like hi, I'm a rock bottom. Could you help me? Hey, do you have $20? Do you have anything in your bank account? I don't. Do you want to baby my kids?

[Tamra Barney]

Can I borrow that rug? I told my landlord I would pay

[Ronnie]

in rugs this month

[Ben]

so.

[Ronnie]

Meaning mean. This is so mean.

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[Ronnie]

So Jen is like. Jen's like, yeah.

[Tamra Barney]

She said. She said something about the Trace amigos and that the year out. She goes, yeah, I am out.

[Shannon Beador]

I am out.

[Tamra Barney]

Yeah. She was surprised that you weren't doing it anymore. She goes, yeah, well, you know what? It was right after her dui, she was basically on tour telling people and the press that she wasn't drinking. And now she's drinking Diet Coke, which,

[Ronnie]

by the way, wow. So I thought the Diet Coke came in from the daughters. Is it that Shannon's brought the Diet

[Tamra Barney]

Coke into her lifestyle, into her world?

[Ben]

I guess so, yeah. Because. Yeah. So she's like.

[Shannon Beador]

And then someone in the queen room, and there's a bar, and she's over there looking around and looking around and then putting vodka in her drink, pouring it, pouring in the drink.

[Ronnie]

I love. This is a small moment. Jen goes, ah, vodka and Diet Coke. She's like, wow, that's so sad.

[Tamra Barney]

That's sad. That's sad. So Tamara's like, yeah, Shannon, I put together this live show, and it was, like, a lot about drinking and stuff. And I felt like it was just, like, in bad taste to do a show right after Shan. See what.

[Ronnie]

Oh, since when is Tamara ever concerned

[Ben]

about bad taste, Tanner? Tamara, the connoisseur of taste.

[Ronnie]

I know of discretion and letting people heal. Yeah.

[Ben]

Yeah, 100%. So she, like, back, stop.

[Shannon Beador]

Take a bit. Try to figure out what's going on. Stop drinking. How about that?

[Tamra Barney]

Tamara's like, she could have killed herself. She could have killed her dog.

[Ronnie]

And then just cuss to Archie sitting there like someone talking about me.

[Ben]

So then back to Shannon, and she's

[Shannon Beador]

like, oh, God, I just don't understand why I haven't heard from some people.

[Ben]

And Stella's like, well, it's surprising that they haven't reached out after John.

[Shannon Beador]

And she's like, oh, God. And he's dating someone else. They know, and I haven't reached out, and I don't want John in my life anymore. But for him to be publicly displaying his relationship with Alexis Molino, that slut, I mean, it's hurtful. It's hurtful. I.

[Tamra Barney]

The last thing that I want in my life is John Chance. Oh, wait, I think that's John out there.

[Ronnie]

Hi.

[Tamra Barney]

Hi, Johnson. Oh, you know what? It's just a palm tree. My bad, my bad.

[Ben]

So she says that 10 days after her DUI, John called her and said, I'm cutting ties with you.

[Shannon Beador]

You've ru.

[Ben]

Ruined my life and you've ruined my family's lives because of the publicness of who you are. Is publicness a word? A and B, you were dating a TV reality star and now you're dating another one who's you're dating. You weren't even dating a reality star at that time. You literally were dating someone desperate to be back on TV so that you could both get back on tv. Shut the fuck up.

[Shannon Beador]

You.

[Ben]

You low rent Al Gore. No one wants to hear it from you.

[Tamra Barney]

You.

[Ronnie]

Yeah, publicness, apparently is a word, believe it or not, so.

[Tamra Barney]

Wow.

[Ben]

Yeah, I didn't see that one coming.

[Tamra Barney]

Yeah, well, it's, it's out there in public. It has a lot of publicness about publicness. About six weeks later, he started dating Alexis Bellino, the one that started the ball rolling on my lawsuit.

[Ronnie]

And we see. I was like, the lawsuit? I was like, oh, yeah, because Jim Bellino files a one million dollar lawsuit against former Orange county co stars Tamara and Shannon in. Because of their. They did. Because they went to Heather McDonald's live show, right, and talked about Jim Bolino and his like chin implant or some, some.

[Ben]

No, they made fun of the trampoline park and said that they're dangerous or something, that people die. Someone said, like, don't people die at those or something? And they got sued for slander, by the way. We're not saying that people, they're, they're don't sue us. We're just saying what the lawsuit was about.

[Ronnie]

Yeah, but that was, that was a frivolous lawsuit, I believe, by, by Jim Bolino. He was always a dick.

[Ben]

No, look at me being quiet. I'm like. I'm quiet about people who will sue me, but very easy to control in that way. So then Stella's like, yeah, he's an embarrassment to this family. And Stella. Yeah, Stella continues. She's like, yeah, I'm like filled with rage thinking about him. I'm just thinking to myself, voi.

[Shannon Beador]

Oh, does that even mean anything? Stella?

[Ben]

I'm working on it, mother. I'm working on it.

[Tamra Barney]

Stella. Stella. Stella. What are you doing?

[Ronnie]

Oh, yeah, I express my rage through miming now because I live in Paris.

[Tamra Barney]

Oh, okay. Well, that's.

[Shannon Beador]

Stella. I'M getting so sick of hearing about Paris that I could drink you.

[Ben]

No, Mama, not us, Stella.

[Shannon Beador]

Okay.

[Ben]

Should have thought about that before I named you.

[Shannon Beador]

Really?

[Ronnie]

So now we go back to Jim and Jen's like, I have a question.

[Tamra Barney]

Were Shannon and Alexis friends?

[Ronnie]

And Emily's like, like, no, they do not have history other than Alexis's husband. Jim sued them.

[Tamra Barney]

Oh, yes, I remember that now. No, actually, I don't remember that whatsoever. Yeah, I just said that because I,

[Ronnie]

I, I'm not comfortable with quiet. So Tamara tell talks about. Tamara talks about the lawsuit.

[Tamra Barney]

She goes, yeah, in 2018, Jim Bolino sued Shannon I for defamation, and the case has been closed, and I can't really talk about any kind of settlement, but we both lost a lot of money. Shannon lost $300,000, and I lost $500,000.

[Shannon Beador]

Don't want to talk about it.

[Ben]

So they're like, yeah, Alexis wasn't even married to him. She has nothing to do with it.

[Shannon Beador]

And Tamara's like, yeah, Alexis tell me that she did not agree with what he did. I said, that's happening in the match. You want to hear some comma. Do you want to hear some comma, God, saying to her, if you can't clean your ass up after crashing your car and almost killing somebody, man, I'm going to give your boyfriend to the girl you hate the most. Oh, wow.

[Ben]

Spoken like a Christian. First of all, karma, and then God, revenge, revenge, bestowing Alexis on somebody.

[Ronnie]

But also, isn't this your friend? This is supposed to be your friend, and you're reveling in this, in this situation? I don't. Tamara, yeah, this is like, I think really, like, this is just, like, shitty friendship.

[Ben]

Tamara is an awful, awful girl.

[Ronnie]

You should be there to help file this.

[Ben]

Yeah, she got mad. What was she mad at Shannon for? By the end of the season, they were all coming for Shannon. By the end of the season, was

[Ronnie]

it that Shannon was making things about herself or who knows what? But, like, either way, all of last season was Tamara, like, you know, becoming friends with Shannon again and yada, yada, yada. And now, like, Shannon hits a, Like a set, Like a, A house. I was gonna say I sit back, but a house. But, like, like, you're just being a shitty friend at this point, so. And just, like, laughing about, about Shannon's karma. It's not like Shannon's a victim here, but as your, as her friend, like, Tamara should be trying to help her get better, you know?

[Ben]

And then, you know, we also have to remember, when it comes to Alcohol. Tamara is the one who, like, purposely got someone wasted and tried to have her son, like assault them sexually on television. So I don't know that we really need Tamara as a moral virtuous.

[Ronnie]

She's not a moral compass.

[Ben]

You're not the Julie of this cruise ship lady. Yeah, okay, have a back seat. Why don't you go. Why don't you go like make some Christian quotes somewhere that make more sense? Weirdo. Karma and God's vengeance of Alexis Bellina. Tamara's still a monster and I'm so glad to have her on this show.

[Ronnie]

She's so good. So then we go back to the Shannon's household and sell. It's like, mom, if you ever see John with his new girlfriend, quote, unquote girlfriend, the most empower thing, empowering thing will be if you just walk right by and go straight to the boulangerie, get yourself a croissant and then have a cat go to the cafe. Oh, I keep forgetting you don't live in Paris. Mom, that's me. That's me who lives in Paris.

[Shannon Beador]

Listen, I do not want to argue, so I'm just gonna let things go and I'm not going to be that person anymore. And if someone applies upsets me, if someone does something cruel to me. Okay, Stella, I don't need you to serenade me while I do my monologue. I'm gonna tell them what I've done. What they've done. I'm no victim anymore, Stella.

[Tamra Barney]

So let, let it be known. I have no fear. Although I am a little concerned about the toxicity levels in this household now

[Ronnie]

that we have Diet Cokes.

[Tamra Barney]

So I don't know, I'm thinking that we maybe all should go to man soon. Okay, I'm not gonna sit here in a corner and avoid Alexis Splino. I'm gonna walk right up to her and say, well, okay, then.

[Shannon Beador]

I cannot walk up to her and say, excuse me.

[Tamra Barney]

I am gonna walk right up to Alexis Bellino and say, how do you do? And then I shall go find some cruditas.

[Shannon Beador]

I can't wait to tell her, enjoy my sloppy seconds.

[Ben]

And the girls are like, yes, mother, period.

[Shannon Beador]

T period. Turtles, period. T. Is that French?

[Ronnie]

So now we go to Heather's new house in Bel Air. It's with Terry and. And they're. They're settling in. And Heather's like, so this is what we need to go over. Terry Zach is coming over to talk about budgets and timelines for the house. Ohad is coming over from circa to talk about the guest house. 45 poor people are entering through a back door to clean the downstairs and the upstairs, and we shall never acknowledge their presence. Do you understand, Terry?

[Ben]

By the way, it cracks me up that there's a sign that says do not open on the refrigerator. Some people think it's because there's fragile things in the house, but it's really

[Shannon Beador]

so the kids don't ever get fat. Isn't that hilarious?

[Ronnie]

So she says, I'm always looking for a new project. After we sold our Crystal Cove house, we bought this house in Beverly Hills, and I tried to get onto a different franchise. Didn't really work out. So now we're stuck with another mansion. Oh, well, they wanted in the low 40s, and we got it for $16 million.

[Ben]

Yeah. It's on 8.3 acres. Wow. And she's like, I mean, we have the penthouse, but that's only two bedrooms.

[Shannon Beador]

We need a family home.

[Ronnie]

Enter Beverly Hills, as in, I would like to enter the Beverly Hills real house in Beverly Hills.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ronnie]

And so goes she.

[Ben]

Hey, you never know. Stranger things have happened. Do you think they would let duo on? I feel like they wouldn't.

[Ronnie]

No. I think the best. I think it's. It's. It's actually hilarious that she has literally moved to Beverly Hills and she's still stuck on Orange County.

[Ben]

I know. So. But they're showing Sutton on this show, so do you think that that's a. A hint?

[Ronnie]

Well, sudden's an upgraded good. So in board gaming, sometimes, like, you have things, like, you have resources that you can play with. So, like, you might have. Have. You might have some ore. But I have jewelry, and if. If you need to pay something with. Or I can pay with it with jewelry, because jewelry is just a better or. But if something needs to be paid with with jewelry, you can't pay with it with or. Because. Or is not good enough. So sudden is the jewelry. Heather is. You know, this analogy has really gotten away from me. I don't think it makes sense to a lot of people. The point is this. Sutton's allowed to go downstream. Heather's not allowed to go upstream.

[Ben]

That's my me. But I got. I mean, I see what you're saying. Like, Sutton's allowed to slum it, but, like, rich people are allowed to go visit poor neighborhoods, but poor people aren't just allowed to, like, show up for lunch at the Four Seasons.

[Ronnie]

No, no. Even though Heather is actually very, very wealthy, so.

[Ben]

Right. But she looks. She's, like, considered poor because she's not from. She's not from Right.

[Ronnie]

She's tame.

[Shannon Beador]

Did it.

[Ben]

Yeah. She smells like bowling alley, as we used to say. And I used to work in a bowling alley, but we used to be like, you can't date that girl. You smell like bowling alley. Meaning, like, she's above you. You know, we work in the bowling alley. You can't date above you.

[Ronnie]

Sutton's like, I'm sor. Do I smell San Clemente in here? Smells like Tustin.

[Ben]

I was gonna say, it smells like the Tustin auto show in here. Anybody smell that? It's where Ari comes from. That's why now if you close your

[Ronnie]

eyes, you can almost smell Space Mountain. It's like Anaheim.

[Tamra Barney]

So.

[Ronnie]

So Heather's. They got this new house, and Heather's like, we're going to take this new house down to the studs. And now Heather gives us a whole tour, and she talks about, this house was built in the 40s. So, you know, Carrie Grant's been in here. Lana Turner lived here. All these different people. You know, I walk around and I think, God, gosh, if these walls could talk. Like, these walls you're about to tear down. She's like, look at all the history that was in this house. Okay? Destroy it all.

[Ben]

Tear it down.

[Tamra Barney]

Tear it down.

[Ben]

Carrie Grant's been here. I mean, that's such a California thing to say, isn't it? This house. Carrie Grant's been here. Perry Mason walked by one time. Gloria Stefan flew over it.

[Ronnie]

And now me, someone who had a guest spot on Malibu country is added to the long list of celebrities.

[Ben]

If these walls could talk, they'd say, Line.

[Ronnie]

If these walls could talk, they would say, are you in SAG Aftra?

[Ben]

So they both, you know, do their normal Terry and Heather thing. Like, hey, are we gonna be able to fit all our cars in this house?

[Shannon Beador]

I don'.

[Ben]

I just don't know. That was absolutely hilarious, Terry, by the way.

[Ronnie]

We have to also talk about, like, okay, I don't understand the point of having a mansion in Bel Air, but a penthouse in Century City. Because what people who don't live in Los Angeles don't know is those are, like, very close to each other. Like, it's one thing if you have, like, a penthouse in San Francisco at a mansion in Bel Air layer, but the. The side by side things, unless they're doing a flip, it does not.

[Ben]

I think they're doing a flip because they made so much money from that house last year. I mean, that was, like, inspiring to watch. Really. Like, I love real estate. I'M dying. I love real estate shows. I'm sorry. I was complimenting Heather Dubrow, so, like, my body was rejecting it. But I love real estate shows and that was pretty incredible watching them build that mall house from the start, from the ground up, and then making $9 zillion off of it. So I'm sure they just going to do it again, you know, but it's also. Heather doesn't know what to do on this show. That's her only storyline is having a house. That's all she knows how to do. So she's going to stay on tv. She's got to have a house, you know that she's remodeling.

[Ronnie]

Yeah, I guess so. Well, either way, I just think it's. I'm like. But she. Yeah, if she says it's a flip, then I will. I will let it slide. But I was just like, that seems very, very strange. Strange. But it's Heather. So anyway, so they're walking through and everything, and they're. And they're, you know, I think the contractor is going through and Ohad's like, yeah, we're gonna have a party when this is all done. And Terry goes, or a stroke. That's not funny, Terry.

[Ben]

So then I'm forward because that's them. I can't. But also, by the way, I keep getting lost in the notes because I read Terry and Heather notes and I'm just like, I'm tired. Oh, one thing.

[Ronnie]

One thing that is funny, though, is that that she said that basically none of this furniture is theirs. They just got stage furniture to put in there. And then Shelby, our note taker, says they cut to a gong, which I guess is stage furniture. Which is kind of funny that she's like, get me the gong. Put the gong in here.

[Ben]

You know what I'd like to have?

[Shannon Beador]

An island.

[Ben]

Maybe some stools where people could sit around and gather. And a gong.

[Ronnie]

Get a gong. Just in case Cary Grant's ghost come back, comes back. I just want to gong him out of here. It's my house now.

[Ben]

Just in case Richard Marks, a stupid wife, tries singing the song he wrote me again.

[Ronnie]

I call it the Daisy, not the gong.

[Ben]

So then they start talking about the girls. And Heather's like, I mean, I'm in a better place with the girls.

[Shannon Beador]

And by that I mean no one

[Ben]

has threatened to murder me for a little while, so that's been fun. But I'm gonna have a party and spend obscene amounts of money trying to win them back, because that always works.

[Ronnie]

Yeah, Exactly. And Terry's like, well, I just. I don't want to see you go through what you went through last year because. Because that was. That was too much. Well, hopefully everyone will be nice, and I'm gonna have lots of activities that'll be fun, and I'll give Gina lots of gifts and watch her be a total bitch to me for the rest of the season. Despite all the things I give to

[Ben]

her, I know she wants things to be different this time. So she's gonna do the exact same thing she always does. She's gonna have a big, extravagant party to remind everybody that she's worth more than all of them combined. And then just sit there with a stick up her ass and nod her head and shake her head like she's starting the season the same way she does every single time. I love it.

[Ronnie]

So now we go to Emily's house, and Gina shows up, and she's like, oh, I was trying to make you a salad.

[Tamra Barney]

Wow, you're still trying to cook. That's so weird. There's, like, no sink in here.

[Ronnie]

And it turns out that Emily has been renovating her house, and now she's doing a kitchen Renault. So everyone get excited for that arc. In about, I don't know, 16 weeks, we get to see what Emily's kitchen looks like. Spoiler alert. It's going to look like every other kitchen we've seen on this show.

[Ben]

I was going to say I hope. I hope it looks like Tuscany.

[Ronnie]

I know. As long as it doesn't have Tamara's very strange, like, built in booth, I'll be happy.

[Ben]

I'm predicting faux painted walls and some, you know, splotchy granite countertops and some big, ornate wood Tuscan cabinet and possibly a caliente sign or one of those ceramic chefs. Yeah, she put cookies in.

[Ronnie]

You know, I'm happy that we're doing the renovation because this kitchen was stuck in the 90s, kind of like Shane's wardrobe. And I was like, you know what? That's fair. That's fair, that's fair.

[Ben]

So they're talking about Gina's house. And Gina's like, oh, you know what?

[Shannon Beador]

I'm gonna. I'm listening to La Quinta home for Elizabeth.

[Ben]

And then we see photos. Ex Real Housewives of OR County, Elizabeth Lynn Vargas list renovated La Quinta Estate for $9 million.

[Ronnie]

Hey, kids, you gotta see this house.

[Tamra Barney]

It's unbelievable.

[Ronnie]

Astronomical. Wonderful deal.

[Ben]

Unbelievable. Unremarkable. It's a house.

[Ronnie]

Come see this house. It's an open house. It's a beautiful house.

[Tamra Barney]

It's a place for families.

[Ronnie]

It's a place for shingles. Everyone lives here in the house. It's a house for joy and a house for Oi. Oh. Come to the open house.

[Shannon Beador]

Speaking of Elizabeth, Elizabeth's brother, do you remember Andrew? He bumped into Shannon on New Year's Eve in the market, and she had, like, a full shopping cart of booze.

[Ben]

It's New Year's Eve, and she wasn't, like, in the parking lot in a dumpster drinking it. Jesus Christ.

[Ronnie]

You know Gina has a shopping cart full of booze. Okay, shut up.

[Ben]

Yeah, they're all Ronnie Brand, babe.

[Tamra Barney]

That doesn't scream I'm on a new track.

[Ronnie]

I'm like, okay, no, but she, to be fair, she does have a new track of hair in her head, so.

[Ben]

So she goes, I just, she could use the new track. That's she needs a few new tracks. Okay, we'll give you that.

[Tamra Barney]

Gina, I just know that I was tortured by this woman over something that I took full responsibility for years ago.

[Ronnie]

I'm like, show all the clips of Shannon bringing it up again. And like, yes. Is it tacky for Shannon to keep breaking up?

[Tamra Barney]

Perhaps.

[Ronnie]

But also, like, she's kind of like, I did this. I did you a major favor. And then you pay me with dust. And she's. And Shannon was upset about it.

[Ben]

They do show some clips of Shannon

[Shannon Beador]

being like, there is no excuse to get a DUI in this day and

[Ben]

age and stuff like that. But I would, you know, I would like to remind Gina the most of the shame wasn't for the dui. It was for the not being great, grateful to somebody for helping you. It was like, for over somebody who helped you, which you still did. And you did it constantly. And every time you did it, she

[Shannon Beador]

brought it up again.

[Ben]

So if you don't want people bringing it up again, then stop people over that have helped you, you ingrate.

[Tamra Barney]

You know, I have no relationship with Shannon, and I don't believe in kicking someone when they're down.

[Ronnie]

Yeah. But welcome to watch what happens and listen to the recaps. Talking about you. Let's be honest. Like, look at her.

[Tamra Barney]

Small house, but seeing the news coming in the morning of Shannon's dui. I mean, this isn't hammer Ramina's code, but an iPhone on.

[Ben]

You know what, what was she talking about?

[Ronnie]

I, I, I don't really listen.

[Ben]

Hammurabi's code. Is that a Bible? Is that a Bible quote? Why for an eye is biblical. Right?

[Ronnie]

Maybe that's what Hamurabi Is I just is, as she's saying, like, an I.

[Tamra Barney]

I feel like this is not the good.

[Ronnie]

The proper use.

[Ben]

The code of Amurabi is one of the oldest deciphered writings of length in the world, written in 1754 BCE and features a code of law from ancient Babylon in Mesopotamia. The code consisted of 282 laws with punishments that varied based on social status. The is she talking about? Where'd she hear about this?

[Ronnie]

Oh, it's because I bought Hammurabi's code, and it's now in my house in Bell Air, next to the gong. So I don't think that coming in

[Ben]

with, like, Mesopotamian lore, like, I love

[Ronnie]

it, but, like, also, is this an eye for an eye? Isn't it? Like, you took something from me, I take something from you. So, Shannon, like, you have a dui. I don't think it's that. I. I don't think it works that way. Also, by the way, how did you miss the. The chance to say DUI for a dui, Right? Oh, yeah. Go for the joke. Gene know.

[Shannon Beador]

Come on.

[Ben]

Yeah. So they're like, should she just quit drinking? And Gina thinks she should have gone to rehab. And Gina's like, she spiraled. She spiraled right into a house.

[Ronnie]

I mean, and Emily goes, can you imagine Archie in the back seat? He's just like, what the. We just hit a house. I mean, he's like, 10 and 2, Shannon, 10 and 2. Which I was laughing. I felt so bad, the dog being a backseat driver.

[Ben]

I was laughing, too. It's just funny to me the ways that the rules vary on these shows. You know what I mean? Like, sometimes it's like, oh, my God, you're making fun of addiction. And then sometimes it's like, you know, turning to Shannon.

[Ronnie]

Yeah, but you also, by the way, if Emily had made that joke to

[Tamra Barney]

Gina, she'd be like, it's not that

[Ronnie]

you're joking about something, and I could have lost. I feel bad. So anyway, Gina's saying, you know, Emily asked what's going on with her, and

[Tamra Barney]

she goes, well, I mean, you know, I love Travis, and, like, the hottest part about my relationship is not my relationship.

[Ronnie]

And Emma's like, it was the outside actress.

[Tamra Barney]

Yeah. The problem was Emily. Like, it's like, when we started dating four and a half years ago, we were both freshly divorced, and, like, now everything with, like, Matt is wonderful, and we're co. Parenting, but the problem is, is that Travis is still getting dragged down by his baggage, and he's not fully to his divorce and he can't get the.

[Ronnie]

Basically, the issue is the ex wife. It's too much with the ex wife for Gina. Too much.

[Ben]

It's a messy, messy situation with Travis and the ex. I was looking it up to see what they were talking about, and tr. She's posting like, well, Travis, if you have such a problem, just sign the divorce papers. Like, he won't. Apparently won't sign the divorce papers. And then he's trying to get a restraining order on her. And he's claiming this. This was from last year, but he's, like, claiming she's a drug. She got pulled over for drugs, and she got arrested for drug possession, but she was pulled over for having Lorza pram, which is like lorazepram, which is like an anxiety medication. And she didn't have her prescription on her, but then it was dropped. Once she did have. He knew it was a prescribed drug, but he's still trying to make it sound like she's some kind of a drug addict. And then she was bringing Gina's DUI into the. Into the. I mean, it's messy. It's. It's a messy, messy, messy situation. But he, for some reason, won't sign the papers. And people are speculating that it's because he wants. He wants child support or he's pretending he's. He won't. He refuses to get a job so he doesn't have to pay her child support. I mean, the whole thing is just messy. And honestly, I don't love Gina on the show, but I don't blame her for not wanting anything.

[Ronnie]

I don't blame her either. I think that, like, it's. It's too much. And it's like, you know, at a certain point, you've got to be like, I can't deal with this. But that being said, I do think the irony is rich. We want to talk about Eye for an Eye. Last season, Gina basically ended her friendship with Heather because Heather said, listen, you've got to stop talking to Travis about Matt. Be. His name is Matt, right? You got to stop talking to Travis about your ex ex, because he's not your therapist. And eventually he's not going to hear anymore. He's going to want to go. And she got so mad, and now she's like, yeah, your ex is too much for me. I'm gonna go.

[Ben]

Yeah, yeah, it's. It's not a good situation. But it's also like, you moved your kids into it, too. So these kids have all been living together and growing up together. For a long time. So it's like, I don't know, it's an awkward situation all the way around, you know, so. But also, she's got another job now. She's possibly making more money and back on her feet and doesn't necessarily need to share a two bedroom with somebody and their kids. So, you know, who knows what it is with Gina? Because Gina, I don't know. You never know. So anyway, Emily's like, so what does your gut tell you you need to do? I don't know that I would trust Gina's gut. I just say, I don't know. I don't think you should. We should be asking our guts. My gut just lies to me.

[Ronnie]

Me, her. I think Gina's instincts have not always been great, you know, so.

[Ben]

Hey, Gut, what should I do? Pizza. Just said pizza.

[Ronnie]

Yeah, I had that. I had that gut reaction four nights ago. So now we go to Jen and Ryan at Las Brisas. It's a Mexican restaurant that I've actually been to. It's good. Everyone just little an endorsement for. From Ben Mandelker for Las Brisas. So Jen. Jen and Ryan are sitting down and they're. They're settling in and everything. And she's like. He's like, hey.

[Tamra Barney]

She's like, you can have a drink tonight.

[Ronnie]

He's like, yeah, because you know where I'm gonna take you later?

[Tamra Barney]

Where?

[Ronnie]

Downtown.

[Tamra Barney]

Oh, my God. Thank you so much for that vulgar joke.

[Ronnie]

I really appreciate that.

[Tamra Barney]

It was like, very funny.

[Ben]

So this guy showed up with a new wig.

[Ronnie]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Like, this guy looks like he's undercover and he's really. He looks just so guilty. And we know that he's going through a lot, like, legal issues or whatever, but he's just like, yeah, everything's great. Everything's great. So glad we have all this money that is totally gotten by legal means and not doing anything fraudulent. This was funny. I'm gonna go down on you later, honey.

[Ronnie]

Yeah, so. So she's saying, you know, she's like, you know, just.

[Tamra Barney]

I just need to slow down. Like, there's like, so much going on. I feel like everything's like, so busy all the time.

[Ronnie]

He's like, yeah, I know it's tough, right? Right now. Your divorce isn't final and falls on you because you want. It all falls on you because you want to keep the kids during all this.

[Tamra Barney]

Yes. Thank you so much for understanding that. Like, I don't want to make our date about being a downer, but we are going to need to have this conversation because I got to figure out what the kids and I are going to do.

[Shannon Beador]

It's just been really hard, you know, like, teaching all of those classes. I mean, the parking lot was so busy the other day, I had to teach my yoga class, Level one in a handicap space. I mean, it just felt really awkward, Ryan. Really, really awkward. And now. Now I have to catch myself up on rent because, like, I think it's like $24,000 or something.

[Ben]

And then she tells us that she's still not divorced and Will hasn't turned in his financials, and he was supposed to be paying most of her rent, but then he stopped. And she. She didn't even know until she started getting emails or texts from the landlord. Like, I got part of the rent. Where's the rest of the rent?

[Ronnie]

Yet? The issue is that the house that she had been in, she got kicked out of because the owner decided to sell it. They went. So Gina, importantly, Gina helped her find a new house. And now Will isn't working for the family anymore. Like, Will doesn't have the money. She doesn't have the money. It's the classic Orange county tale of living beyond your means.

[Ben]

Oh, my gosh, this is stressful.

[Ronnie]

It is stressful. You got to hand it to Gina. I mean, one thing that Gina did do was that she. She downsized. And we gave, you know, we.

[Ben]

We, we.

[Ronnie]

We made fun of her a lot. Tiny house. And it definitely became a storyline with Shannon about, like, the size of her house. But Gina did say, okay, these are the means I gotta live in. And she's lived in them, you know?

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ronnie]

So Jen is like.

[Tamra Barney]

She's like, I just feel like I'm asking you and my dad to catch me up, but, like, I still can't even breathe because, like, next month rolls around and my dad's footing my attorney

[Ronnie]

bills, and, you know, she says she's only getting $50 a class at the yoga studio, which we were always like, how is she? Like, how is the yoga. The yoga studio? Is this really going to be able to fund this whole. This whole house and all these kids? It turns out, no, it's not.

[Ben]

And Ryan's like, why don't you guys just move in with me? Honey, it sounds like a great idea.

[Shannon Beador]

She's like, but are you really thinking about it?

[Ben]

He's like, it's only. It's only logical. And she's like, but yeah, but what

[Shannon Beador]

if we fall apart? Then we can't stay there. I mean, I have to figure out another plan. Ryan I can't.

[Ben]

He's like, hold on, Ryan. Your limp penis picture is not going to do any good right now. Ryan.

[Shannon Beador]

Ryan.

[Ronnie]

He's like, what could go wrong? I. I have a lot of money coming from a really good source that surely will not land me into any sort of hot water.

[Tamra Barney]

It's going to be great.

[Ronnie]

Nothing will fall apart.

[Ben]

Yikes. Jeez. So he's, like, looking terrified.

[Tamra Barney]

Slam.

[Ben]

Both of them look literally terrified. And they just hold hands. They're like, it's going to be okay. It's going to be okay. I mean, this show, we. We have watched it tomorrow. Demise of so many people on this show. It's like Game of Thrones almost, where you just watch a show and you just wait for everything to go to. Because it always does on this show. Yeah, but this happened quickly.

[Ronnie]

Really quickly. Listen, we. We all lived through Lynn Curtain, and we've been waiting. You know, speaking of Game of Game of Thrones, like, you know, there was. There was Aegon the Conqueror, and then they waited centuries for Jon Snow, and we had Lynn King Curtain, and now we have Jen.

[Ben]

So that's true.

[Ronnie]

Lynn Curtain was the original Aon the Conqueror, and Jen is now here to pick up. Pick up the pieces and not pieces, but the. The reigns and continue on.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ronnie]

So anyway, poor Jen. Her life is falling apart. So now we go to Heather, who has more. She can buy and sell Jen's house 20 times over. Over. And she's at a bar ordering an espresso martini. Little does. I mean, this is perfect for Heather. Heather's favorite thing is to swoop in. Like, next thing you know, we're gonna have a scene next week of Heather, like, outfitting Jen and her old prom dress, Right? She's like, oh, this old thing? I decided to get rid of it. Jen, you put it on. You're perfect. You're like a little me now. Now I control everything you do.

[Ben]

She's like, oh, you know how on your Instagram page, it shows you things? Well, on my Instagram page, guess what it's showing me. Mother and son dances. Could you imagine giving your so to some hoe.

[Ronnie]

Ho is a. It's a slang I learned. It's like you click on one picture of Reba McIntyre to see what she's up to lately, and if she has any casting notices. And next thing you know, it's mother dances. Mother son dances. I don't even understand the correlation, but it just happened.

[Shannon Beador]

Oh.

[Ben]

So then Alexis comes D. And Heather. Heather's gossiping about Shannon, of course. And she's like, we barely speak. And it's very nice of me to invite her to a party because I. I don't want her to be kicked out when she's down, and I don't want her to be left out either. And I want to watch her suffer as everyone calls her a drunk. But now for inviting her, I'm the asshole. And then we see a clip of Heather FaceTiming Shannon and being like, I'm going to invite you to my lunch. Poor person.

[Shannon Beador]

Okay. Hopefully you take a bicycle there. Okay.

[Ben]

Also, Alexis Bellino is coming.

[Shannon Beador]

Hope you don't mind.

[Ben]

And Janet's like, how dare you?

[Shannon Beador]

I will maybe possibly come.

[Tamra Barney]

Shannon's brain was saying, I can't even believe it. This is absolutely disrespectful. The. The things that she had, the ball. She got rolling with that lawsuit. This. This. Who took my John Jansen?

[Shannon Beador]

And.

[Ronnie]

But what she actually says is, oh,

[Tamra Barney]

I'll think about it.

[Shannon Beador]

I will have to think about that and get back to you politely, Heather Dubro. Heather's like, how dare she? How dare she?

[Ronnie]

Listen, I don't want to kick her when she's down. I just want to publicly humiliate at her. So Alexis comes in, and Heather's like, obviously, I have a long history with Alexis. And we see a flashback of Alexis and Heather fighting, and Alexis saying, I probably had the worst year of my life. You know, And I'm sorry. Heather's. Alexis probably did say that somewhere, but Heather says, Alexis had probably the worst year of her life. Her mother, who she was very close with, passed away. She needs friends right now. And the producer said, I have to have dinner with her, so I want to provide that.

[Ben]

I was gonna say, are we supposed to believe that Heather and. Well, I guess they have stuff in common. They have a trans child in comma. Right. They both have a trans.

[Ronnie]

Yeah, I think that's. That's. Probably. That.

[Ben]

Probably that would be a big bonding thing, because my first thing is, like, these two are friends, but I guess that would be a big. A pretty big bonding moment, huh?

[Ronnie]

I just have memories of them having a huge fight. Were they in Mexico? Were they in Guatemala? No, they were in Mexico.

[Ben]

Right.

[Ronnie]

Like, they just remember.

[Tamra Barney]

I just.

[Ronnie]

They just never quite got along. But I can.

[Ben]

I can't imagine these two as friends, but I guess that would. That would bond you, you know, they were in Mexico.

[Ronnie]

That's where Alexis said she wants to go to the city of Guatemala, I believe,

[Tamra Barney]

because.

[Ronnie]

Because Alexis had said on that vacation that she. She brought her fake wedding ring because she keeps her real one in the vault. And Heather, Heather was outraged by that or something like, I don't know.

[Ben]

Yeah, I just remember it was never good with those two. So Emily is starting to make small talk with Al, and Heather's like, well, you've had a lot of life changes, Alexis. And Emily's like, oh, let me just ask you. Can I ask you about the ring that John got you? And then we see a split screen with the ring and it says, hashtag not engaged, hashtag promised. Alexis really is a. Alexis and John Jansen are such assholes for this. They behaved like absolute monsters on social media.

[Ronnie]

And Alexis has been a monster for so long, we just sort of have forgotten about it. But she has been an asshole. Like, that was always her thing. She was such an. So Alexis, the producers, I love them. They start playing this sort of like, seductive music.

[Tamra Barney]

November 18th is the day that John Jansen walked into my life. I met John at the Quiet Woman. Shannon does not own the Quiet Woman. I've been going there for over two decades. But anywho, John walks in and ends up sitting in my booth. And we just tried to fight the feelings. But like, after week two, John, I knew that was it.

[Ben]

I don't know Shannon. I'm not friends with Shannon. And unfortunately, your heart wants what it wants, and here we are, so take us or leave us.

[Tamra Barney]

Emily, can I ask you something?

[Ronnie]

Emily's like, yeah, this is going to

[Tamra Barney]

be hard for me because I, you know, I don't want to come in with you, like, right now. But, like, I. Like, we probably should have a conversation on the phone because, like, I heard the podcast you do a team and

[Ronnie]

we have the podcast of Two Teas in a Pod.

[Tamra Barney]

A Tamara like, hey, so someone wrote a story about John Dominic's gonna be filming.

[Ronnie]

And Emily's basically like, yeah, John's a douche. John's a big doucher.

[Ben]

Unfortunately, it really hurt my feelings. Emily, like, where did you get your information about John with Shannon? Did you, like, go out with him? And she's like, I was there. I've been there around John. I've been there for three years. And then we see a flashback of John being like, them. Gina. Who does Gina think the she is? Her. She's not your friend. You're done with her. We're done with her.

[Tamra Barney]

Yeah, well, that was a private conversation that Johnny was having with his girlfriend at the time, standing up for her. So I really don't appreciate you calling him a doucher for that.

[Ben]

It's like, well, you don't understand. For three years, Santa's been telling me nothing except that she pays for everything. He takes advantage of her. She goes, oh, do you just trunk it trust a drunk who just got a dui? Why do you trust her opinion? I mean, she's drunk.

[Shannon Beador]

Dewey. She got a Dewey.

[Tamra Barney]

Not to be confused with a Johnny. I got a Johnny. She got a Dewey.

[Ronnie]

So, like, whoa. So Heather's like, you know, the only thing I worry about for you, as my friend, is it's fast. It's fast as in these words are coming at you fast. I don't know if you're following along. Do you still understand words? Alexis?

[Ben]

Alexis. Like just.

[Shannon Beador]

All I ask is that you just

[Ben]

give him a chance. And when you get to know him, you're going to love them him as much as I do. He's my Johnny J. That's what I call him. He's my Johnny J.

[Ronnie]

Heather's like, oh, yeah.

[Tamra Barney]

Wow.

[Ronnie]

That Johnny J rebrand is mildly epic. Yeah, he's my Johnny J. So Heather goes, I don't think I've heard a better rebrand since Mayo went to Aoli. You. You guys got that, right? May I went to Aioli. It's relatable. It's funny, content.

[Ben]

Everyone's gonna get that in the flyover countries. It's me, relatable, Heather Dubrow,

[Ronnie]

Ayo Lee.

[Shannon Beador]

Good.

[Ben]

Wait, can I ask you a question? How do you feel about seeing Shannon or party? And she's like, here's the thing. I have no ill will. I just want to squash the elephant in the room. I'm gonna squash it.

[Ronnie]

Please tell the elephant, let's leave the elephant alone.

[Tamra Barney]

Just going to.

[Ronnie]

You know what? I want to discuss the beef in the room and squash the elephant, okay?

[Ben]

And they're like, Shannon's going to freak out. And she's like, well, I'm not going to play into her spiraling, okay?

[Shannon Beador]

I'm not going to play into it.

[Ben]

So Emily's just looking at her like, who the fuck is this person? Like, I'm used to trash on this show, but this is extra trashy, you know?

[Shannon Beador]

And that's.

[Ronnie]

So now Shannon goes to see her lawyer, Mike.

[Tamra Barney]

And she's like, so, Mike, I still struggle with everything that happened. I mean, you know, it took me three hours to walk here to this office.

[Ronnie]

And he's like, well, you know what we learned from these things, right? Legally, professionally. Well, you learn, I capitalize. But either way, you know, if you successfully complete probation, we can petition the Court, you know?

[Tamra Barney]

Yes, but. But there's a part of me that wants to accept responsibility for what John Jansen did to me that night by angering me so much.

[Shannon Beador]

So I don't want to get any special favors. That would be terrible. Please get this off my record. That would be great.

[Ben]

He's like, well, you know, all you have to do is successfully complete probation. That's something you and everyone else has a right to petition the court for. And by the way, give me that card. I'm going to stamp it. You get a free ice cream today. Shannon, you have been here so many

[Tamra Barney]

times on the mountain, I just. I want to know if they throw away my case, will they also throw away the case of Diet Cokes that Sophie brought into the household? Because I am not in favor of.

[Ronnie]

Of those.

[Shannon Beador]

I had to go to an alcohol school that lasts for nine months. And I have now learned the difference between an espresso martini and a chocolate martini. Both are somewhat delicious, but empty calories.

[Tamra Barney]

Also, I've learned that there's a very important distinction between an express martini and an espresso martini. An express martini is something you try to chuck down quickly and drive home before it kicks in. You gotta be careful.

[Shannon Beador]

And then I'll be doing 40 hours of community service at my church.

[Ben]

That does not count, ma'.

[Tamra Barney]

Am.

[Ben]

How are you guys letting her serve her community service at her easy church? I'm doing a quote unquote because this is a Shannon Bedor church. I'm not even sure what the hell kind of church this is. No, you need to get your ass out there on the freeway and pick up some. Some Bette Midler trash. You need to clean up the streets. The freeways for Bette Midler earned this.

[Tamra Barney]

Excuse me, I am doing hard work community service. Did you not see my one woman show? Shannon does Christmas? Well, I was the Virgin Mary. And I was Jesus. Okay, here's a scene from it. Oh, my God, I am tired. I need to stop at this hotel. Excuse me, do you have any rooms available? No. Okay, well, that's fine. You can just put me back on a pile of hay. Just discard me in the back. Oh, you were. Oh, okay. Oh, you really are gonna put me on the hay. That's fine. That's fine. I'll be back here. Well, guess what.

[Shannon Beador]

I'm.

[Tamra Barney]

I'm pregnant. I guess it was just me being the Virgin Mary. Oh, wait, here we go.

[Shannon Beador]

Couldn't talk at that time, so.

[Tamra Barney]

Ah, I'm born. I'm born and I'm Going to bring Diet Coke to the world.

[Ben]

So Mike's like, Shannon, if you're in the position where you can see another person who shouldn't drive and you share your story or you somehow stop them from driving, all of a sudden, sudden it'll all be worth something.

[Shannon Beador]

Or if I can get people to be inspired not to trigger people when they're in a car that they don't know how fast the car could go, if they slam on the gas, if they're very angry about it, then hopefully I could save horrible men from doing that to innocent women.

[Ronnie]

Shannon, why are you making that tapping sound with your foot?

[Tamra Barney]

Sorry, I'm just invisibly revving my engine to show that I'm mad. Mad, but I'm being responsible because I'm sober. So this car will not drive. This, this desk will not drive forward.

[Ronnie]

She does, Shannon does the thing where

[Tamra Barney]

she goes, I would never drink and drive. I would never do that.

[Ronnie]

I'm like, you literally did it. You, you literally did it.

[Ben]

And you know, Shannon's pissed off that this whole season is about her drunk driving and not finally being at her goal weight. Cuz Shannon, Shannon's plot line for years has been being insecure and trying to get back to her goal weight and going to the gym and having trainers be mean to her on. And she finally gets to her goal away and no one even mentions it because we all have to talk about her being drunk. You know, it's like, it's a.

[Shannon Beador]

Why so unfair?

[Tamra Barney]

So she says, I just, I, I, I feel like my whole life is starting over, so I just gotta keep moving forward. Which unfortunately was what got me into this mess in the first place.

[Shannon Beador]

Just more slowly. I'm moving forward more slowly and not into things things. I'm now moving forward and around.

[Tamra Barney]

The key is to move forward and not forward to end to the side. You know when they say you really need to stay in your lane, I, I really understand that now.

[Shannon Beador]

It's literal. It is literal.

[Ben]

So now we cut to Tamra and her daughter. Everybody welcome Sophia back to the show. Sophia's like, welcome back.

[Tamra Barney]

The biggest return since Lydia.

[Ronnie]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Tamara's like, you look nervous.

[Shannon Beador]

I'm shocked that you're doing this because you got a few needles. Are you nervous?

[Ronnie]

She's like, thanks for reminding me, mom.

[Ben]

Thanks, mama.

[Ronnie]

So Tamara's like, so where you going

[Tamra Barney]

to get your tattoo?

[Ronnie]

She's like, I'm thinking on my elbow.

[Tamra Barney]

She's like, yeah, well, what if you meet a guy who's like, I don't like tattoos on the arm. I don't.

[Ronnie]

Do those people exist in Orange County?

[Ben]

I don't like tattoos on the arm.

[Shannon Beador]

What if you meet one of those guys? What are you going to do without a man?

[Ben]

And she's like, I don't give a.

[Shannon Beador]

She goes, oh, hey, watch the language. What's your language, you little trashy?

[Ben]

She's like, I don't care.

[Shannon Beador]

I don't care, Mother.

[Ronnie]

I. I think the tattoo in the arm will be less of an issue than having Tamara as your mother. That'll be the bigger deal breaker.

[Ben]

Yeah, that's a tattoo, like, on your forehead. You know what I mean?

[Ronnie]

So Tamara says that. She basically says, For 10 years, Simon wouldn't allow Sophia to appear on. On camera, but she's actually been living in the household all that time. And now T. Oh, Sophia's back, as you mentioned.

[Ben]

And Tamara tries it.

[Shannon Beador]

She's like, save you text your dad at all.

[Ben]

She goes, I'm not talking about dad, Mom.

[Shannon Beador]

Well, you need to teach me how to do that winged eyeliner thing that you do. That, you know, the thing that makes it look like you have wings.

[Ben]

She goes, you take out a eyebrow pencil and you do it. Is wrong with you.

[Shannon Beador]

Yeah.

[Tamra Barney]

She's just like, a very kind soul. And, like, clearly I'm not like that. Like, she's such a good kid. I don't know where the hell it came from.

[Ben]

And then we see clips of Tamara,

[Ronnie]

the screen all over. So they go to the tattoo shop, and, you know, Tamara's talking about how, like, at first the tattoos on Ryan really bother her, but now she just wants her kids to be able to express themselves.

[Tamra Barney]

Like, actually, I think I could do

[Ronnie]

with a little less expression from Ryan. Okay.

[Ben]

Yeah, I. Yeah. Ryan needs to not express himself any further.

[Shannon Beador]

Okay.

[Ben]

Ryan needs to keep his expression to the 4chan. You know, boards corner that. Yes.

[Ronnie]

He talk with Bri, Brianna's husband.

[Ben]

Also, I love Sophia's you attitude towards Tamara. I think it's so refreshing, and I love it. It's like karma in teenage form. I think it's so cute. But her moon tattoo is so basic. It's making me rethink Sophia. It's like, what are you going to do now that you're finally getting a tattoo about your arm? I want a moon

[Ronnie]

just in case I forget what that thing is in the sky. I could be like, oh, yeah, it's a moon.

[Ben]

On the other hand, I do like that it's kind of solidarity with Shannon, Tamara's enemy, because Dr. Moon so never Mind. I rethunk that. So.

[Ronnie]

So Tamara's like, okay, I want to get a tattoo.

[Tamra Barney]

Also, this is how I'm expressing myself. All right? I want a 111 angel numbers.

[Shannon Beador]

Ha.

[Tamra Barney]

Because every time I see 111, I always make the same number, same wish that maybe one day Sydney will come home.

[Shannon Beador]

Every time a bell rings, it's because there's an angel ambulance about to pick it up. Because I broke that wings. Okay, put one, one, one on here.

[Ben]

So Sophia, she goes.

[Shannon Beador]

She's like, I was making say wish. Then one day, your sister Sydney, who hates me talking about her on television. Sydney. Sydney. Ms. Sydney. I can't wait for Sydney. My daughter, who won't speak to me on television, will come home. Sydney. Sydney. Sydney.

[Ben]

Mom, stop saying Sydney.

[Shannon Beador]

Here's Sydney's picture. Everybody, this is Sydney. Have you seen Sydney?

[Ben]

Man, Tamara really just gonna piss this girl off more and more every.

[Ronnie]

Mom, why are you doing the ET Song?

[Tamra Barney]

And Sydney fun home.

[Shannon Beador]

Sydney Fun home.

[Ronnie]

Mom, stop getting to that bicycle. Take that towel off your head. Mom.

[Shannon Beador]

No.

[Tamra Barney]

Sydney.

[Shannon Beador]

Every night, I leave a trail of Reese's Pieces coming from the cul de sac all the way through the front door.

[Ben]

Why are you trying to get Sydney to come back?

[Shannon Beador]

No, I just want Shannon to crawl over here so I could hit her over the head with an absolute bobbling collar. An idiot for getting a deep. You are stupid.

[Tamra Barney]

Sometimes when Shannon comes over, I hide in your closet, Sophie, with all your stuffed animals and see if Shannon could figure out which one is me.

[Shannon Beador]

She always gets confused between me and the real baby doll.

[Ben]

What were those real babies that they. They have? Remember when Tamara got one?

[Shannon Beador]

She's like, I'm gonna. I'm gonna be pregnant.

[Ronnie]

So we're just fusing all the stories together. ET Back. Back stories of Orange County. It's gonna be like, kelly Dodd,

[Shannon Beador]

You're a dork.

[Ben]

So actually, I had. You know, we used to make ringers for Patreon. We used to have, like, ringers in our housewives voices and stuff. And one of them was Leanne. When Leanne went through her, like, I'm a good person now because I go to. I go to, like, naturopaths and stuff, and she had the sound bowl, and she would just go, I'm at peace now. Nobody can make me mad. Dong. And so I had. I made a text ring for us. It was dong. And that's been my texturing ever since. I mean, ever since Dallas was on. But it's so loud. I recorded it so loud, and it makes Everybody crazy. And when it goes off in the car, it's like, dong. And you'll crash your car, you know? So I just went through there and I switched it to whichever one. I didn't even pay attention. I just had to switch it. And now it's, you're a dork. You're a dork. You're a dork.

[Ronnie]

Well, I would like it if we had an ET Stuffed animal setup a T in the middle, and you have like, Leanne and Kelly and then just like, you know, like Yogi Bear or something.

[Ben]

The wall of faces is just all the housewives. That's so funny.

[Ronnie]

Oh, gosh. Okay. We're deranged.

[Ben]

So kids will spend 10 hours. We're still doing, like, should I go

[Ronnie]

back to my one woman tale of Christmas? So,

[Shannon Beador]

yes.

[Ben]

I didn't even have anything to add to that. I was just like, that was like, doing this.

[Ronnie]

I shouldn't be doing this. This isn't my religion of Christ. Cross the line.

[Ben]

No, I was into it.

[Ronnie]

You're just like a kid again. You're like back at church watching the show.

[Ben]

Oh, yeah. So Tamara's like, I'm so happy that

[Shannon Beador]

you and Spencer are so close. Did you ever think that you guys would be that close?

[Ben]

She's like, no, Spencer's a loser. I hated him when I was younger.

[Shannon Beador]

What a idiot. She's like, yeah, but unfortunately, Sydney's on Simon's side. She didn't speak to us. It's so difficult. It's like a chumpstairs, but still alive. But they're dead too.

[Ronnie]

And Sophia's like, mom, I'm not your therapist, okay? Keep these thoughts in your head and talk about them to your therapist.

[Ben]

I loved that.

[Ronnie]

It was like, mom, I'm trying to enjoy my. My moon tattoo. Okay, so now we go to Gina's house. So Gina and Travis sit down and they're talking about, like, this situation and moving the house. And, like, obviously Travis wants to stay together. Together. He's like, you know, we've spent all, you know, four and a half years trying to build this nucleus of a family. And, like, it's awesome. But, like, you're. You're like, whether you think you're doing this or not, you're. You're pulling apart this. This family. Sorry, I'm like burping into the microphone. It's disgusting, but it's sort of like a reaction I have to Gino scenes.

[Ben]

Anyway, so, yeah, he's like, you're breaking this family apart.

[Shannon Beador]

It's like, but you Got to move out.

[Ben]

And she says, you know, her kids have been through so much since her divorce, but as a parent, you have to do things that don't feel good because, you know, it's in the best of everybody, even when it hurts. And she's like, you know, I'm a

[Shannon Beador]

huge businesswoman now because of Cara Gala, and I got to think about the yet.

[Ronnie]

Yeah. And so he basically is like, no, I don't. I don't want to go. Right. But she's just saying, no, this is what we have to do. So sort of sad.

[Ben]

Not. It's not really explained, except that he's in a weird relationship. But I'm. I'm very curious. It's definitely has my curiosity.

[Ronnie]

I. I will say this if you don'. The backstory. So my mindset was. Because I didn't know the backstory. I knew he had, like, issues with his ex, but I. I thought, like, you know, it's kind of shitty because they both have brought lots of baggage from their previous relationships, and she dumped a lot of her baggage on him, and now it's like she's like, he has baggage. And she's like, peace out. Which I thought was shitty. But now that you told the backstory, I'm like, what probably is is that this ex is. Sounds like she.

[Ben]

I don't know.

[Ronnie]

I don't know. It's. It's a messy situation, and the kids. Sounds like the kids are maybe getting dragged into it. And Gina's like, no, gotta protect the kids. Gotta get them out of here.

[Ben]

Well, I mean, I see what you're saying, but, like, we, like, looked at Gina last year, all the seasons she's been with Travis, and she obviously doesn't have chemistry with Travis. I mean, everybody. That's kind of a common thing that people comment on on the show. It's a common thing that people comment on on this show. There's not really any chemistry there. And especially when you see her back around, around Matt, you know, and all the drama that went with Matt, they obviously still have some kind of chemistry. I mean, they've been friends for years. And so you see her with. And I'm not saying she should be back with Matt or anything like that. I'm not a monster. But, you know, you. You see the difference is what I'm saying. So I don't think anyone's shocked that it's not really working out. And she did meet him when she was really down. I mean, she was going through it. And he. He does act kind of as her therapist and her sounding board and all of that. And maybe now. Yeah, it's like she's a little healed and she's ready to kind of fly. Fly the nest, fly the poop, fly the nest.

[Ronnie]

Stay tuned, everyone. Now back to more.

[Ben]

Hey. It's the most interesting gene has ever been. And who. Whoever knew that it would be from dumping Matt. But I'm curious.

[Ronnie]

We'll see. So now we go that. Now it's time to get ready for Heather's luncheon. So Tamara is. Tamara's getting ready over. Tamara's getting ready at her place. And she's like. She's like, tells Eddie that Shannon's gonna be there. He's like, Shannon's gonna be there. Like, how you gonna handle it?

[Tamra Barney]

Shelter. And that's it.

[Ronnie]

Cuz it's not a good relationship. Honestly, it's very toxic. You marry. You married Three Mile Island. What are you talking about, toxic? Come on.

[Ben]

Then you married Silkwood. Can we get the over it? You married. Also, you're toxic. Talking about a woman all the time. Eddie, just shut up. Okay, quiet. So Shannon is like, oh, I brought a dress.

[Shannon Beador]

It's a little tight. Look at me trying to be in this trap. I can't fit. I get rid of the dress. Anybody going to laugh at this? Well, this is fun. Doing a scene basically by myself.

[Tamra Barney]

I decided to go because I am not going to appear weak. Okay. Although I do believe my immune system has been weakened by the excessive amounts of Diet Cokes in my house. But that's a different story.

[Shannon Beador]

The only thing weak in this house is that house that I equipped. I mean, fell apart like a loser and get it together.

[Tamra Barney]

Oh, but I, I am I looking forward to it? No.

[Ronnie]

No.

[Tamra Barney]

Would I rather get a root canal? Yes. Yes. But I, I actually, I actually schedule root canals every year because I believe that there are beneficial aspects to it for your whole body. And never mind. I'm just going to move forward. Diet Cokes, the worst the of in the world.

[Shannon Beador]

Oh, gosh. And of course, everybody's going to want to know. Oh, Shannon. Oh, Alexis. Oh, Shannon.

[Ben]

I love that Shannon has been a housewife long enough to kind of enjoy the fact that she gets the center square this year. You know, she gets the center orange. And she knows the whole party is going to be about her. She's getting all dolled up for it while saying that she doesn't want to go. So then we cut to everybody getting ready. Jen's with Ryan and she's like, well,

[Shannon Beador]

I mean, I feel like I'm okay with everybody. Maybe not Gina. I mean, I didn't get a text back from Gina. Him. I don't really know what's going on with her.

[Ben]

So we cut to Gina, and

[Ronnie]

Gina says that, right? And she's saying that she's gonna be bringing her friend Katie, who's the new cast member. So this is. Katie's way in is through Gina, which is weird. It's weird because what we later find out is that Katie is friends with Sutton Strack, who is, like, one of the wealthiest people on Beverly Hills, and yet she's coming into Orange county through one of the poorest people on the cast. Although now only second Forests. So congratulations, Gina. You moved up the ladder.

[Ben]

K looks familiar, right? Has she been on TV before, I wonder.

[Ronnie]

She does look familiar. I immediately liked her, by the way. I just want to say I. I feel like she has. She has disdain, and I appreciate that. Like, it just. It's. It just oozes out of her, and I just. I love a disdainful cat cast member.

[Ben]

Well, I read in an article. I read a headline. I didn't read the article. Who am I. Who am I kidding? But the headline said that Heather calls Katie Noella 2.5 or 1.5. Perfect.

[Ronnie]

Perfect. So then Tamara, then Eddie, Tamara says Alexis Bolino is going to the party. And he's like, what? He's like, so you guys are in a good spot.

[Tamra Barney]

She's like, yeah, we were in Las Vegas at BravoCon, and, like, we made up, and, like, we talked. We realized. Realized, like, we don't have to like each other. We just have to both go against Shannon. And it worked.

[Ben]

And he's like, don't get too close to Jesus jokes, honey. Okay? I don't trust her.

[Ronnie]

Who does he want her to get close to every single season? It's like, don't talk to her. She's not good for you.

[Ben]

I know, but Tamara's the one ruining everybody's lives at all times. Yeah. God, I want an enabler. I just need an enabler. What do I have to know such honest people? So anyway, Emily and Alexis are driving over, and Emily's like, wait, what's going on, Alexis? And Alexis is like, I need to have an espresso martini. Actually, she said espresso properly, which I was shocked. I have to give her credit for that. But she's like, I need an espresso because I had a sleepover last night. And Emily's like, oh, God. Because you had sex with John so many times.

[Tamra Barney]

Oh.

[Ben]

Oh, Did I mention the anal sex eluding scene I shot with Shane earlier?

[Ronnie]

Hilarious. He's a theran. And Alexis is like, yeah, we had a lot of.

[Tamra Barney]

Yeah, you know, Johnny, Johnny J is so good at it.

[Ronnie]

So then we go to Gina, picking up Katie, and Katie says, I met Gina because I was talking to my friend Sudden about moving to Orange County.

[Tamra Barney]

And she said, yeah, my friend Gina is an agent down there.

[Ronnie]

You should really reach out. And then she laughed and laughed and laughed. And then she said, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Go on, you were talking about something. And then I started to speak and she goes, I'm sorry. I just, I keep on laughing. It's so rude of me. That's how I first heard about Gina.

[Ben]

And Katie's like, so we met up and had coffee and I just love Gina's zest, I guess you could say for life.

[Ronnie]

Also, she had a six pack of Zest soap on the table. She said she just picked it up from Walt Disney Greens.

[Ben]

You tell me. You've hardly ever talked to Gina without telling me you've ever heard. I just really loved her Zest. Zest. It's literally the only thing she could afford on the menu. She. We went to a coffee shop. She said, I don't want an espresso, I just want a Zest.

[Tamra Barney]

Just get the.

[Ronnie]

Just the zest on the side, please, please. So then Gina's like, Gina's excited. She's talking to basically the PA who's driving the car.

[Tamra Barney]

She's like, oh, my God. Colleen, Colleen, this is Katie. She's my friend. I got a friend, Colleen. I got a friend.

[Ronnie]

Colleen's like, please shut up. I'm trying to listen to my book on tape in my ear.

[Ben]

And Gina's like, I like this. She's young. She's my age. 39 girlfriend, not 59. Shut up, Gina. You're going to be there soon enough, okay? She's like, I just want to live

[Shannon Beador]

in my youth a little longer.

[Ben]

You live in a two bedroom with six children. It's a over, okay? Your youth is gone. Just say bye to it.

[Ronnie]

How is Kristen Doty? Older than these. Both of these women. It's just blowing my mind. So now Gina is like, I'm going to warn you.

[Tamra Barney]

Shannon had dated this guy named John Jansen and they broke up. So there's this other woman and I don't know her. Her name is Alexis and they started dating and they're like, they went from zero to ten hundred and like, Shan's going to be there today. And like, so was Alexis, except Kitty's

[Ronnie]

like, wow, I guess this is new behaving, huh?

[Tamra Barney]

Hashtag zest.

[Ben]

So then back to Alexis and Emily. Alexis is like, so can you fill me in on Shannon's head space, please?

[Ronnie]

Oh, man, I don't know. I don't know if anybody could fill you in on what's going on in Shannon's head. And Shannon's just like, with Pamela.

[Tamra Barney]

Like, I just. Excuse me. Okay, so I know I said I don't want to die of coke, but could you just put one? Just. Just stuff it right in my dress just in case I need it. Just right there on the side.

[Shannon Beador]

It won't.

[Tamra Barney]

It won't stick out. Pamela.

[Ben]

And Shannon's in full on wacky Shannon mode.

[Shannon Beador]

She's like, I don't want wrinkles on my dress. Oh, stand like this, like a board. I'm standing like a board. I do not want wrinkles. Pamela, look. Pamela, look. I'm not moving Pamela.

[Ben]

And it just cuts to Pamela fully on, full on, ignoring her.

[Ronnie]

You know, Alexis is like, you know what?

[Tamra Barney]

I'm going in with an open heart and an open mind. And like, I hope Shannon can too, because I don't know what I'm walking into. I just. I just imagine an old lady who's depressed and lost the best man she could have ever gotten in her life.

[Ronnie]

It's just.

[Tamra Barney]

It could be a weird reaction.

[Ben]

So then we hear a song. We. Yeah, we lit. Yeah, we lit. Yeah, we lit. Yeah, we lit. Yeah, we lit. Yeah, we lit. And then we go to Balboa Bay and Heather's prepping for the party.

[Ronnie]

We're gonna party till at the Sun Come up and just like a Heather luncheon. So Heather's like, I know some people, Emily, think I'm crazy about party details. But at this party, there's no logos, no initials, no cucumbers, and no sand. The only thing I do have is an AOLI station, so that way more people get my jokes in the future.

[Ben]

So people start arriving and Heather meets Kate. She's like, sutton says great things about you. I'm possibly going to be on her show. So nice to meet you. For now. I'll probably know you for about six more minutes before the producers call and move me to Beverly Hills.

[Shannon Beador]

Go ahead. Try to have a scene.

[Ronnie]

I believe we're going to be doing what this is. This is sort of. It's like a special trade. You know, Beverly Hills sends someone down to Orange county, in Orange county sends someone up to Beverly Hills. So it was nice to meet you, but I'm. I'm most assuredly going to the real house now.

[Ben]

So Katie's like, I've met Heather before, very briefly, but this is the first time she said hello back.

[Tamra Barney]

That's. Oh, my God. Did bros really know how to do a party? There's, like, lots of stations.

[Ronnie]

Like, a lot of stations. And we see that there's, like, a tarot card reader and a permanent jewelry thing and a wishing wall, and there's,

[Tamra Barney]

like, a lot of instructions. Instructions and, like, things that you have

[Ronnie]

to do at a head of the braille party. I'm like, I think I like it better than a Gina Gina party, where it's just like, three streamers and a

[Ben]

bowl of punch at a house that

[Ronnie]

you borrowed from your friend Hawking Carabella.

[Ben]

She's like, listen, at my parties, you know, there's a slide everyone could go down because it's a public park. I mean, it's as simple as you can get.

[Ronnie]

So Heather's like, okay, everyone, one guest attendees at this fabulous, carefree and casual party. Every lady gets three wishes, and they will be revealed later. And the wish that's the most wishiest gets to be a servant in my house. Okay, go to it.

[Ben]

I just want to announce before we do it, no one is getting the third gate code to my community, so.

[Ronnie]

Oh, look, I have a wish right here, and it says, I wish to have Richard Marx perform a song in my basement. Well, ladies, you're in luck. Please follow me into the kitchen where Richard Marks is not only making fajitas, but also ready to sing a beautiful ballad to you. Thank you.

[Ben]

Gina is also dressed like a flesh colored thing that comes over you on the roller coaster, like, to keep you strapped in. I forget what those things are called.

[Ronnie]

Like a safety bar.

[Ben]

She looks crazy. She looks like a band aid. And she's trying to be bitchy, which Gina's always funny to me when she tries to be, because, I don't know, it just doesn't work like Caddy. You know what I mean? It just. She's, like, trying to be, like, funny and catty, but it never works. She's like, who did Jen bring?

[Shannon Beador]

I don't know.

[Ben]

Any of Jen's friends. It's like, ooh, this got her. You got her, Gina. So then she tells us the story about why she hates Jen now. So she gets a call over the summer from Jen, I need your help.

[Shannon Beador]

Thank you in advance. Thank you. Because I need to be out of my house in a week. Thank You.

[Ben]

And then it cuts to Jen at the tarot card reader. So table. And she, the. The tarot card person told her things were changing for the good and she

[Shannon Beador]

goes, so I help that. But then I get CCed on all these emails about her falling behind on a rent. And that's stressful for me because I

[Tamra Barney]

vouch for her as a new real estate agent. Any negative press is bad.

[Ronnie]

I'm like, oh, I'm sorry, Gina, that you might be getting some bad press on your new real estate agency while agent job. While Jan is getting evicted from her house house and has looking for a roof for her kids. This. I mean, Gina spends years talking about the struggle of, like, having to do what you have to do for your kids. And then someone else is in the exact same position and she's like, oh my God, I'm getting emails about it.

[Tamra Barney]

I don't like that. I hate her now.

[Ronnie]

I was like, what happened to your empathy, Gina?

[Ben]

Yeah. So then Jen comes over to Gina, wants to meet Katie, and she's like,

[Shannon Beador]

I don't even know if Jen is a witch. Aware that there's an issue.

[Ben]

And she's like, this isn't the time, time of place.

[Shannon Beador]

She's like, what am I supposed to do? Say, oh, Jen, can you pass a crab leg?

[Ben]

How's your eviction going?

[Ronnie]

I don't know. I think this is like, so shitty of Gina. And I also think that this is totally in line with her pattern of that she really does take things from friendships. But then when she is required to, like, give something back, she's just out of there. And she actually resents people who, who need her and they.

[Ben]

Those moments, you know, people often, this is one of those where people are

[Shannon Beador]

like, why do you. Why are you so mean to Gina? Like, what did Gina ever do?

[Ben]

Gina's an asshole. She's not a nice person. She's a terrible friend and she's an asshole and she's a hypocrite. And this is a perfect example of it. She's like, poor shaming somebody after. Her whole storyline for seasons has been

[Shannon Beador]

about poor Gina has to do everything

[Ben]

on her own and na na, na. And here's someone going through a divorce and having to deal with all of this and, and also a horrible man, which you, you should also be able to identify with. And you're just kicking them while they're down you'.

[Ronnie]

Head.

[Ben]

You're not a nice girl. Okay.

[Ronnie]

Yeah, I, I think it's. I think it's like, really? I mean, she literally like One of the, one of the rifts between her and Shannon was because Shannon made some comment about the size of Gino's house and Gina was furious about it and like, that was a wedge between them. And now here's Gina. Like, like, if anything, if you have

[Tamra Barney]

a client, if you helped place a

[Ronnie]

client, aren't you going to try to help them out so that way they could be future business down the road, especially if, you know, you're on a show together, etc and. Etc. I just think it's just really, really shitty.

[Ben]

Yeah. So then Tamara gets a hole in her pantyhose and Heather's like, do you want me to send someone out for a hose? Yo ho. That is hilarious. I said ho.

[Shannon Beador]

Me? Heather.

[Ben]

Dubro. I've said ho twice this episode. I learned it. I learned it on Instagram.

[Ronnie]

Hey, what is a prostitute's favorite condiment? A Holy.

[Shannon Beador]

No, a Holy. Get it, get it, everybody.

[Ben]

Hey.

[Ronnie]

No, I said a holy. Did I say it too quickly so it sound only like aioli?

[Shannon Beador]

Yes.

[Ronnie]

Well, maybe next time people listen to what the hostess says. Oh, Stis. Oh my God, another one. Two for one hostess. Except I'm not a hoe.

[Shannon Beador]

Speaking of holy, have you seen my one man nativity scene?

[Ben]

Oh, God, not now, not now. Shabby.

[Tamra Barney]

What if I said that there was a part available for you in it? Well,

[Ronnie]

have you spoken to my agent about it yet?

[Ben]

Please check my IMDb.

[Ronnie]

Is Taylor Armstrong attached?

[Shannon Beador]

Oh, God, not again.

[Ben]

Okay, so Alexis and Tamara are like hugging and Alexis like, ch.

[Shannon Beador]

Barney.

[Ben]

Oh my gosh, have we had our downside? Yes. And then we see get the out

[Shannon Beador]

of my cup opening that cut fitness

[Ben]

opening where Tamara's act so snotty and king of the world when the floor was slanted, it was on a slant.

[Ronnie]

And she's like, you know, what have

[Tamra Barney]

we on each other?

[Ronnie]

Yes. And we see it's Tamara being like,

[Tamra Barney]

but you know what?

[Ronnie]

I'm so thankful for our friendship now.

[Tamra Barney]

And she's just patented, you know, she just patented these boobs.

[Ronnie]

Jesus jogs. And like, thank you very much.

[Tamra Barney]

Much. Because they are beautiful, aren't they?

[Ronnie]

Look.

[Tamra Barney]

Look at my beautiful boobs.

[Ronnie]

And you know, Alexis is like shaking her boobs and showing them up and everything. Very proud of them. As she should be. So now they're all just like schmoozing and talking and joking and they're getting espresso martinis and things like that. And Emily is, you know, drinking hers and everything. And now they start talking about Shannon and Heather's like, well, Shannon Said she doesn't drink anymore.

[Shannon Beador]

Oh, really?

[Ronnie]

Because she told me she has a maximum of two drinks a day. September's like per.

[Tamra Barney]

Two drinks per hour.

[Shannon Beador]

Get it? Get it?

[Ben]

So they all cheers each other and like laugh and mock Shannon and Emily. They have put like stickers in the drink that say the year or something and they taste like crap. So Emily spits it out. She's like, oh. And so then we go to Shannon

[Shannon Beador]

arriving and she's like, well, after my dui, I've really kept a close circle around me, mostly of seat belts because I learned to wear those.

[Ben]

Those are important.

[Shannon Beador]

Who knew? Airbags, real close circle of airbags. You know, those things come out very, very quickly.

[Tamra Barney]

I keep a very close circle around me. Mainly a steering wheel that's wedged on my foot. Specifically, it's a circle and it's a raft around my foot.

[Shannon Beador]

I don't know where everyone stands with me at this point, but I, I do know people will probably be judging me, but I'm not afraid. I'm not afraid.

[Tamra Barney]

Pamela, you walk in first because I, I just want to see how they're reacting.

[Shannon Beador]

I'm going to walk behind you. Be bigger, be bigger. Put your arms out.

[Tamra Barney]

Hey, why don't you just go in there and say, I'm Shannon and see if they throw any hard boiled eggs at you.

[Ben]

So they watch her walk in and

[Shannon Beador]

Gina's like, I can't heal be. I always feel bad for her.

[Ben]

And Shannon, meanwhile, is stand. They have one of those 360.

[Ronnie]

Oh my God.

[Ben]

Where you stand on it and the camera goes around you really fast.

[Ronnie]

But of course that's another dubro party. So she puts it outside on like the balcony where it's completely backlit. So Shannon does that.

[Tamra Barney]

I'm having fun. I'm on a 360 and we see

[Ronnie]

the 360 and it's just like this shitty backdrop and it's just a shadow. It's just like all. Shannon also wet it because the sun is blaring right into the 360 60s.

[Ben]

Also, the woman just got a DUI. Can we not try to make her dizzy right off the bat? Like this show is so bully.

[Tamra Barney]

Oh, I feel like I'm back in the car again.

[Ben]

So now, you know, it's like a lot of small talk and Emily talking, you know, them talking about how hot Alexis is and like how it sucks watching John leave Shannon for someone so hot. And Emily's like, yeah, like I won't leave Shane because he'd go for some 25. 5 year old Shane is not going to get a 25 year old.

[Ronnie]

He's gonna get a 25 year old Ottoman at best. Okay, this,

[Tamra Barney]

he is not the only

[Ben]

thing 25 about Shane is his latest Costco shirt.

[Ronnie]

Yeah, he is not pulling 25 year olds. Okay. So anyway, people come in, you know, Gina's doing a role.

[Tamra Barney]

I feel bad.

[Ronnie]

That's like her other thing too. She's obnoxious.

[Tamra Barney]

Then goes, I just feel bad.

[Ronnie]

So Shannon. Gina is saying that she just feels uncomfortable for Shannon.

[Tamra Barney]

Sh's like, well, I don't care. Like I am out of my relationship with John Jansen and I'm. I'm grateful that I'm out of it. Hold on one second. I think he may have be calling.

[Shannon Beador]

Nope.

[Tamra Barney]

It's literally no one calling on my phone. Not. Not anyone, not a child, not John Jansen.

[Ben]

So she tells Katie.

[Shannon Beador]

She's like, I got a dui and that has just been the most humiliating, shameful. I've literally been in the darkest time that I've ever, ever been in. And I think this had to happen for me to literally cut it clean and never go back. Never go back. Hold on. I have a text.

[Ben]

It might be John.

[Shannon Beador]

John. It wasn't. That wasn't even my text. Who's was that?

[Ben]

Please turn your ringers off, Shannon.

[Ronnie]

You just picked up a dinner roll.

[Tamra Barney]

Oh, you know, you were absolutely right. It wasn't even a phone. So yeah, Shannon's like, it was just the darkest time. It was. I don't think you understand the sadness of the situation.

[Ronnie]

Katie's like, well, I did have to have a one on one with Gina before I came on the show.

[Tamra Barney]

Oh, you know what? I. I'm sorry. You're.

[Ronnie]

You are going through something a little tough.

[Shannon Beador]

Have you been to her house yet?

[Ben]

No.

[Shannon Beador]

Then shut up. Katie. Your new year.

[Tamra Barney]

So Gina's like, well, I mean, look, you look great. You. You. You're obviously making good changes. Thank. Thank you. I. I am trying.

[Ronnie]

And I was like, yeah, you look really good. So all that matters is that she looks good right now. I guess.

[Ben]

Yeah. And Gina's like, you know, I never

[Shannon Beador]

want anything bad for you.

[Ben]

Even though I just said it's an eye for an eye. And karma and Sienna's like, well, you

[Shannon Beador]

know, you and I had some really good fun times together. I just, I hope we can go there again.

[Ben]

Yeah, until she betrayed you and ran over you and left fucking tire tire marks on your back for literally no reason. Please stay away. And Gina's like, oh, Go ahead.

[Tamra Barney]

No, I was just. I was thinking that, like, fun times. Good times are like children, and we had to protect them. I just wish there was, like, a CPS for fun times, you know? Oh, did I? I'm sorry, Gina. I should not. I promised I would never say do it again.

[Shannon Beador]

Wow. Called on me when I got my dui. Quicker than Child Protective Services would have been called by from literally anybody had I not saved your ass that morning.

[Tamra Barney]

Huh. Too bad CPS can't be called on John Jansen, because last time I checked, he was the child here.

[Shannon Beador]

Wow. I haven't had to call that lawyer since I saved your ass that time you got a dui. I was. Fun times. Oh, bonding. Hope we can go to lunch soon.

[Ronnie]

Does anyone want to hear my one woman nativity scene?

[Tamra Barney]

Getting kind of awkward in here.

[Shannon Beador]

I brought Jesus incense and myrrh,

[Tamra Barney]

more than David ever brought me. I'd like to add it.

[Ben]

So Gina's like, okay, but, you know,

[Shannon Beador]

last year really threw me for a whoop. And she's like, well, I apologize for any and everything that I ever did to hurt you, Gina. And Gina me gave goes, what? Thank you.

[Ben]

She.

[Shannon Beador]

Because I do not want to hurt people. Even stupid, poor ones who don't appreciate all the help and support I've given them in the past.

[Tamra Barney]

I literally can't believe this is happening. Honestly, I never expected Shannon to apologize to me, and I don't even know

[Ronnie]

what to do with this.

[Tamra Barney]

Wait. I have an idea. I'll use it against it for the rest of the season. Okay, great. That's. What.

[Ben]

Yeah, I would love to know why Shannon's apologizing to you, because I certainly don't remember her. Her ever having a reason to. Do you?

[Tamra Barney]

Well, I. I'm. I'm taking the 12 steps these days. Not the program. I'm just taking 12 steps to get

[Ronnie]

to the beach and go slat, slat.

[Tamra Barney]

And then I take 12 steps and go back inside.

[Shannon Beador]

I'm taking one step for every dollar Gina has in her purse. Okay, so.

[Tamra Barney]

So frankincense. It's not great. It's not.

[Shannon Beador]

All right, well, we'll talk later. Gina, I've spent enough time on you say, okay, Shannon. You're. You're forgiving. Kind of, maybe. Okay. God, that was so brave. Good for you.

[Ben]

So now Shannon's like, I'm gonna have

[Shannon Beador]

a conversation with Alexis Smelly Eno. Okay, so wish me luck. So she's like, alex, hello, Alexis. And Alexis, like, yeah. And then John stood on his head, and we still made Out.

[Ben]

He's got such good balance.

[Shannon Beador]

Sorry for interrupting you.

[Ben]

Lexus is, like, regaling. Regaling with John tails.

[Ronnie]

So they're. They're going to go have this conversation. And she's like, should I do it outside?

[Tamra Barney]

And he goes, yeah, but do it in good lighting, though.

[Ronnie]

So they go outside and they're. They. They're going outside and they're Pull. They want to go in the shades. They're pulling a table to the shade.

[Ben]

This is so funny how they're, like, resetting the scene.

[Shannon Beador]

Shanna's like, we are not going to stand the sun. I've had to put up with enough this year. We are moving it. Anybody going to move the table? Nobody. Nobody's going to help. So thanks a lot, production. Pamela. Pamela, you want to. No. Okay. Okay. Well, I guess I will be dragging this table over.

[Tamra Barney]

Okay. Okay. Alexis. So. Alexis, would you. Would you please stop moving? What?

[Shannon Beador]

Why?

[Tamra Barney]

She. You know what? She is running around me. She's taunting me in a circle.

[Ronnie]

You're just looking at the 360.

[Tamra Barney]

You know, you're right. That's not Alexis.

[Ben]

So Alexis goes, oh, God, we should go into the shade. This is probably going to be a long conversation.

[Shannon Beador]

Well, I don't think so. I don't.

[Ben]

Meanwhile, all the ladies are gathering at the window.

[Shannon Beador]

They're like, oh, my God, why'd they go so far away? I can't even see a bitch.

[Ronnie]

They're like. They're like curtains. They're, like, pressed up against the leftmost window of the room just trying to get, like, a glimpse of Alexis. His elbow.

[Ben]

So funny.

[Ronnie]

So Shannon's like, okay, so, hi.

[Tamra Barney]

I don't want to get into a deep conversation with you, but there are a couple of things that I would like to say. I have been upset that you were involved in the lawsuit where your husband sued me. And as a single mom for three years, I don't want to tear up. I don't want to tear up. I. Okay. I feel it. I feel moisture on my cheeks. Oh, you know what? That was the diet code from earlier. Delicious, actually.

[Shannon Beador]

I'm strict.

[Tamra Barney]

Really?

[Shannon Beador]

As a mother who has played Jesus and Mary, I would just like to say that for three years, being single and a mother, it has been so difficult being a single and a mother. And for you to lawsuit me as a mother who is single. How dare you?

[Ronnie]

How dare you.

[Ben]

Meanwhile, you just see Tamara's nostrils up against a window, and she's like, I

[Shannon Beador]

lost $300,000 defending myself for something that I. I didn't even Do. I didn't even do. And you. You started the lawsuit by sending me a cease and desist letter. So in my eyes, you are part of it. Alexis.

[Ben]

Alexis is just looking at her like,

[Shannon Beador]

what?

[Tamra Barney]

I. I can be in a room with you, but just. Here's this. I will. Here's a cease and insist that I am not interested in being best buddies. And I hope you can understand. Understand that. Ha.

[Shannon Beador]

Here's a piece and a list. I don't know what that means, but it sounded good. Please do not try to be my friend any further. I will not be friends with you.

[Tamra Barney]

Here is a crease, and I insist that Pamela get out here and iron it real quickly. Do you have a steamer, anyone?

[Shannon Beador]

Here's a SME and a Kleenex. Aoo. Oh, thank you. I will not be your friend.

[Ronnie]

You know, Alexis is like, okay, but

[Ben]

she's like, literally nobody asked you to be her friend, but okay.

[Tamra Barney]

I'm not asking to be best buddies. I know this is an uncomfortable.

[Ronnie]

Uncomfortable for both of us.

[Tamra Barney]

When you're the ex and I'm the new. You're the old and I'm the young. I'm.

[Ronnie]

You're the.

[Tamra Barney]

You're the wrinkly, I'm the less wrinkly.

[Ronnie]

And it's awkward. I get it

[Tamra Barney]

now.

[Ben]

The lawsuit, like, if you go back to any court documents, like, they'll show for you. There will be no proof of my name being on. On anything because Jim and I have been divorced for six months, so. Shannon, we're not longer. No, it's my turn to talk. I didn't speak when you spoke, so it's my turn now to speak when you're speaking.

[Tamra Barney]

Oh. Oh, okay. Well. Well, we're getting a little angry now.

[Shannon Beador]

No, no, no, no.

[Tamra Barney]

Get a little hot under the. If you were wearing a collar like a lady would, she would be hot under it.

[Ben]

But no, do not. Do not. Do not make ego, Johnny J.

[Ronnie]

On.

[Shannon Beador]

Not make me.

[Tamra Barney]

So

[Ben]

I had nothing to do with that. And Tamara knows I wasn't involved, and I don't know why you think I was involved.

[Tamra Barney]

Well, you sent Tamara and I cease and assist letters, and it was your signature. I will dig it up. I will remember the shape,

[Ben]

move on. Are we really going to rehash things from three years ago, or do we want to live in that? Are you going.

[Tamra Barney]

Are you going to write me a check for $300,000, Alexis? Because that's what I lost. And John. John Jansen was there the whole.

[Shannon Beador]

Oh, wait.

[Tamra Barney]

Actually, hold on. He is texting Me right this moment. And he says, oh, nope, that was my phone dying. It made it makes a buzz before it dies.

[Shannon Beador]

He knew the anguish I was going through. That's a lot of money to lose, Alexis.

[Ben]

She goes, show me the letter, then dig it up.

[Shannon Beador]

Show me the letter.

[Ben]

Show me the letter.

[Shannon Beador]

Oh, you don't think you wrote it?

[Ben]

Show me the letter.

[Shannon Beador]

Show me the letter.

[Ben]

Because I think what the real issue is that I have your ex boyfriend, and that's the real issue.

[Shannon Beador]

So guess what?

[Ben]

You need to move on.

[Shannon Beador]

Oh, okay, hold on. I have a text from John. John. Oh, it's my ringtone is Hanson.

[Tamra Barney]

Actually, all this time I thought it was Jansen. Turns out it's Hanson. Very, very, very different. It turns out. Okay, okay, you know what? We're going to move forward in this relationship. And look, here's what's going to happen. I'm not going to talk to you anymore about that court case that has already been buried and done, much like

[Ronnie]

your future with John J.

[Tamra Barney]

Dancing himself.

[Ronnie]

So I'm done with it. I'm done with it.

[Shannon Beador]

I'm out of money. It's not done for me. It is never done.

[Tamra Barney]

Well, you're never gonna get a dollar from me. And if you don't like it, there's the door.

[Ronnie]

Shannon bedor. Even though they're outside and there's no door, there's the door, Shannon Bedor.

[Ben]

I'm not talking really far. She's like, there, there's the door. And I love only Alexis.

[Tamra Barney]

Go down the hall, go down the arcade, make a right, then make another right. Okay, then Z.

[Ronnie]

Be an awning.

[Tamra Barney]

There's the door, Shannon boor.

[Ben]

And it's clearly such a planned thing to say, but it's like even planning it, Alexis rhyme door with door. I mean.

[Ronnie]

And so Alexis starts to walk up

[Tamra Barney]

and this is Alexis Bolino for Fox News 6. Goodbye.

[Ben]

So she goes, well, thank you for

[Shannon Beador]

taking John Jansen from me, Alexis.

[Ben]

And she goes, and.

[Shannon Beador]

Yeah, and I'm thankful he left you.

[Ben]

She goes, oh. Shannon turns straight to the camera and goes, oh, perfect.

[Tamra Barney]

Then Tama's like, okay, everyone, everyone, they're coming back. Scatter like cockroaches. Scatter like cockroaches.

[Ronnie]

It just ends with Shang like, her, her.

[Ben]

Well, I mean, I kind of liked it because, you know, Shannon's usual MO Is to be like, you're bringing on Alexis Bolino.

[Shannon Beador]

I refuse. I refuse to film a scene with her. How dare you?

[Ben]

And then they would get all this footage of. Of Shannon yelling at all the crew and refusing to do the scene. And this time, Shannon's will not.

[Shannon Beador]

I will show up with my revenge body and I will on a 360 camera. You watch me go, girls.

[Ronnie]

Oh, it was a tremendous premiere. Tremendous. Just. It was just full of electricity. I absolutely loved it. I'm so excited for this season. Obviously. Excited. We talked for two hours. Everyone have a wonderful weekend. We'll be Watch what Crappins would like to thank its premium sponsors. She answered the call, it's A.D.A. paul ain't no you thank thing like Allison King Our way is the Amber way It's the Foster and the Furious It's Amanda Foster it's always automatic with Ashley Auto. Put your hands together for Carly Clap.

[Ben]

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[Ronnie]

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[Ben]

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[Ronnie]

favorite streamer Caroline Peacock, Kristen the Piston Anderson.

[Ben]

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[Ronnie]

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[Shannon Beador]

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[Ronnie]

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[Ben]

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[Ben]

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[Ronnie]

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[Tamra Barney]

And Gwen Pentland.

[Ronnie]

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[Ben]

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[Ronnie]

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[Ben]

The incredible edible Matthew sisters. She eases our woes. It's Melissa St. Rose. She's the lady of the house. It's Rachel Sharrous. There's a chance of meatballs. It's Rebecca Cloud. She's our princess. It's Rebecca Prince.

[Ronnie]

She's the queen bee. It's Sarah Lemke.

[Ben]

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[Ronnie]

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[Ben]

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[Tamra Barney]

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