#3447 RHOA S17E14 Part One: Saucy Tartan

Summary

WATCH WHAT CRAPPENS #3447 – RHOA S17E14 PART ONE: “SAUCY TARTAN”
(July 13, 2026)

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Episode Overview

In this lively episode, Ben Mandelker and Ronnie Karam return from a rare week off to recap Season 17, Episode 14 of The Real Housewives of Atlanta, titled “Highland Games and Explosive Claims.” Setting the scene in Scotland, the duo dive deep into the ongoing falling out between Portia and Shamea, marveling at the explosive end to an otherwise lighthearted “fry festival” of an hour. As always, their trademark mix of Bravo obsession, personal sidetracks, and sharp character critiques is on full display.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Post-Vacation Banter & Podcast Catch-Up

• Ben and Ronnie open by sharing updates after their break, with Ronnie recounting a neck procedure gone wrong hilariously (“I looked crazy... there was a certain kind of power in it” – Ronnie, 03:36), and Ben expressing gratitude for the audience’s patience.
• Unexpected highlight: Ben rants about being scammed at a French Fry festival, offering colorful consumer advocacy and potato love (“Don bought us VIP tickets – it was just a bunch of food trucks and $7 fries!” – Ben, 08:11).

2. RHOA: The “Highland Games” Episode

• Tone Setting: The first two-thirds felt like “humdrum fun and games, nothing was really happening” – Ben, 11:12.
• Things take a dramatic turn in the final act, mainly because “the dam just broke” with Shamea and Portia’s tension. Ronnie posits that Portia has been strategically “just letting Shamea look crazy all season” instead of engaging, which Ben calls “a game of chicken” (11:12–13:00).

Notable Quotes:

• “Shamia takes a lot of shit because she is kind of insufferable and deserves it, but man, she made it interesting at least.”
  — Ronnie, 11:12
• “I think both [Shamia and Portia] are playing a game of who can take the higher road, but then finally... it all came out and it was great.”
  — Ben, 11:43

3. Scottish Shenanigans: Highland Games & Haggis

• The group participates in traditional Scottish games (log toss, hammer throw, tug-of-war), sparking plenty of playful commentary and sexual innuendo from Shamia (“I’m used to flipping big logs. Hey Gerald.” – Ronnie quoting Shamia, 18:11).
• The cast reacts with typical squeamishness to haggis. Ben points out their version was “very refined, little fried balls of haggis—they looked lovely!”—contrary to usual reality tv fare (19:34–20:05).

4. Shamia vs. Portia: Friendship Fallout (21:22–32:12)

• The central dramatic thread: Shamia is bothered that Portia “is able to forgive other people and not me... but I’ve seen this before. I’m not buying it.” – Ben relays Shamia, 22:31.
• Ben and Ronnie deconstruct sidekick/alpha power struggles, referencing reality TV archetypes and comparing Shamia to a “background singer trying to be the lead.” Simon Cowell’s take on Melinda Doolittle gets invoked as a metaphor (28:47, 29:49).
• Ronnie: “She’s going to make a dick joke every day... but as far as entertainment, she doesn’t have anything. It’s kind of sad.” (24:05, 25:24)
• Ben: “If she were just being more authentic, we’d actually feel like she has stuff going on… right now, she’s just very presentational—Drama Club member.” (25:24)
  • This resigns the group to rehashing the same hurts (“She just doesn’t have anything without Portia in that relationship... she’s tried it with a lot of people this season and they just read her for filth.” – Ronnie, 24:05).

5. Shamia’s Emotional Spiral

• Shamia cries to her mother (“It’s Shamia’s daily call of sobbing and complaining about being a victim.” – Ronnie, 32:58), feeling attacked over various accusations, including the Angela/neighbor scandal.
• The cohosts have fun inventing “Morton Salt dynasty” gags (“who here is going to be the heir to a huge kosher salt dynasty?” – Ben, 33:06).
• Ronnie and Ben agree that while Shamia is at times a “victim,” she “doesn’t get to just be hurt when she chooses to throw shade herself” (37:01–37:26).

6. Secondary Storylines: Pinky & the Money Woes

• Pinky’s constant business stress resurfaces—she’s “frustrated… it just never ends. It’s always something; you gotta pay this, you gotta pay that.” (41:59–44:21)
• Ronnie and Ben give her a hard time for complaining about money while dripping in designer fashion: “Watching somebody in really expensive brands, like, it’s so hard, everybody’s asking for money...You have a fucking restaurant business. What do you think is going on over there?” (41:59)

7. Pelvic Floor Therapy Detour (47:18–50:41)

• In a vintage Housewives van ride, Drew candidly discusses pelvic floor therapy after her hysterectomy, prompting questions and running jokes about finger exams and Kegels. The cohosts consult their note-taker Shelby for a reality check on pelvic floor science (“This is a completely normal thing for pelvic floor therapy…She says this is not true about the having to have sex and knock your pelvic floor.” – Ben, 48:31–49:15) and both admit to learning something new.

8. Kilt Store Finale

• The ladies shop for tartans and kilts, leading to obligatory commando jokes, more Shamia innuendo, and quintessentially Crappens giggles (51:19).
• Ronnie: “Know. It was fine. A bunch of housewives going basically to a fabric store...then they start talking about kilts and shimmy is like…Free the balls. Yeah. I love dicks. I love dicks. We know.” (51:19–51:49)

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Memorable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• “I got a waddle job on my neck, so I’m still bruised. I hope no one’s triggered by it, because I do look like I’ve been strangled.”
  — Ronnie, 03:36
• “This french fry festival… was the biggest ripoff. We waited 30 minutes to enter, $7 for a little basket of generic fries. No water stations!”
  — Ben, 08:11
• “She’s [Portia] just letting Shamia look crazy… She knows, I can’t give you that storyline, have fun without me.”
  — Ronnie, 12:21
• “The problem with Shamia is this: she’s participating in a long tradition on reality tv… the sidekick separating away from their Alpha.”
  — Ben, 23:06
• “It’s like putting the ensemble member in the center of the stage—they just sing ‘Wanna roll the dice?’ and have nothing else to say.”
  — Ronnie, 28:17
• “If a man comes offering me teeth when I need money for bills, I’d take some Crest strips and $69,000 for bills.”
  — Phaedra, as recounted by Ben, 47:18

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Important Timestamps for Segments

• [02:28] – Hosts return and describe their week off
• [09:14] – French Fry Festival rant
• [11:12] – RHOA recap begins: “fry festival episode” / Shamia and Portia tension
• [13:32] – The breakfast porn search; Scottish porn jokes
• [17:34] – Highland Games and reality tv Scottish tropes
• [19:34] – Haggis taste test and cultural fish-out-of-water
• [21:22] – Portia & Kelly “make up”; Shamia’s resentment mounts
• [23:06] – Ben’s “sidekick/alpha” analysis
• [28:47] – Melinda Doolittle/American Idol metaphor
• [32:12] – Shamia’s call to Mom; comic sidebar
• [41:59] – Pinky’s financial meltdown
• [47:18] – Pick up with Kilt store and pelvic floor therapy
• [51:06] – Kilt shopping and commando jokes
• [51:55] – End of part one announcement

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Tone & Style

The episode’s tone is quintessentially Watch What Crappens: playful, self-referential, and sharply observational. Ben and Ronnie’s banter balances pop culture tangents with incisive reality tv analysis and affectionate shade-throwing.

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Conclusion

Part One of the RHOA S17E14 recap begins as a frothy Scottish adventure, but ultimately delivers insightful breakdowns of housewife dynamics, particularly the unraveling of the Portia-Shamia friendship. The last third ramps up the emotional stakes, leaving listeners eager for fireworks in Part Two. As always, Ben and Ronnie’s digressions (from potato festivals to pelvic floors) keep things fresh for listeners both casual and hardcore.

To continue the recap, find Part Two in their feed.

Transcript

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[Ben]

Who cares what happens when there's so much, So much that happens?

[Ronnie]

Well hello and welcome to Watch what Happens podcast for all the crap we love to talk about on Yo Bravs. I'm Ronnie. That's Benjamin over there. Hello, Ben.

[Ben]

Hi, Ronnie. Welcome back to your podcast.

[Ronnie]

Well, thanks. How are you? Welcome back to yours. As we had a week off, I had a week and an extra day which was.

[Ben]

You did Glorious.

[Ronnie]

How'd it go for you?

[Ben]

Oh, it was so fun. Of course, on that one day we have, we missed you. But we had the wonderful Raisani and Eric Williams fill in and I love those two so much and they were so great and I just want to give a big thanks to them for, for subbing in and also a big thanks to the audience for being patient with us while we took a one week break because we know there's a lot of good stuff on Bravo that was worth talking about. And you know, we, we know, we know it's hard when podcasters go away for a second and so thank you so much for giving us that time because it really helps us, like get refreshed and just like have just. It's just nice. And now I feel like ready to dive into the second year of Bravo. Second half of the year for Bravo. How was your time off?

[Ronnie]

And figuratively, it was great. I mean, I was out of it because I got a waddle job on my neck. So I'm still bruised. So I hope no one's triggered by like bruising because I do look like I've been strangled. And I went to the grocery store the other day and they were much worse. You know, they were all the way down my neck and my face was still all swollen and I was walking through there just with sunglasses, looking for whatever. People were just looking at me and then looking the other way and crossing the aisles, you know, there was a certain kind of power in it, I have to say.

[Ben]

He got into a fight. He survived the fight.

[Ronnie]

Like, huh?

[Ben]

Yeah, because it looks like you were been strangled but also attacked by a wild animal.

[Ronnie]

Yes, it really did. I looked crazy and I had Lego face because my whole bottom half was swollen out to here. And I was like, what did he change my face? What's happened? But now I still have the same old face but less waddle. So anyway, that was fun and it gave me an excuse to be in bed, you know, watching endless hours of tv, which, I don't know. It was great for me or not. It's so. It's weird how I do that anyway in real life, but then when you have to do it, it's it's like, why? And then the. The endless thoughts, you know, like, listening to my own thoughts. Really not having you to come talk to every day is crazy. Whenever we have time off, it really is. Like, who do I tell this to? Like, I'm watching McBee. I'm screaming at the TV and, like, I need to tell somebody this, and no one in my real life is watching McBee.

[Ben]

I was actually so happy because two weeks ago, I watched the wrong episode of the McBee dynasty. I watched the wrong screeners. Then we couldn't actually do the recap of it because we sat down to recap it, and I hadn't actually watched. I. I hadn't watched episode three. I'd watched episode four. So we just canceled it for the whole week. But it also meant that on our week off, I didn't have to watch the McBee dynasty because I'd already watched it. And honestly, what a dud of an episode that was, right? This whole engagement. So boring. But then again, I'm also someone who, you know, like, sat through, like, many millions of us. The two hour finale of Love island last night where nothing happened. Yeah. Until the last 10 minutes of that show.

[Ronnie]

But, well, the McBee thing, seeing the Jesse, who I've always just assumed was this nice, sweet guy. Well, we'll talk about it when we get to me. Yeah.

[Ben]

Yeah. Look, we've been away from each other for a week, so now we're like, everything but what I will say is Atlanta. We're talking about Real Housewives of Atlanta today. And it was, wow, what an episode. Also Patreon Atlanta.

[Ronnie]

I did that because I tried to turn on the fan and the fan didn't turn on, but the light turned on and I was like, why do I have a shining spot on my head? Because I'm an idiot.

[Ben]

Sorry, Ben, you also look like you. You sank down a little bit in your camera shot.

[Ronnie]

Oh, it's because I put my legs up. Oh. I said, like holding my knees during the podcast.

[Ben]

So it's. Come join us on patreon.com watch or crappens to get access to the bonus episode video newsletter. Ronnie's Knees ad free listening, all that good stuff. We have a lot to catch up on this week. I. We have Real Housewives of Atlanta. Can I just say, I have to say something before we start our Atlanta thing, which is that this weekend I went to a French fry festival in Griffith. What? Yeah.

[Ronnie]

I missed a french fry festival.

[Ben]

Consider yourself lucky. Okay, this.

[Ronnie]

Where was it?

[Ben]

Where was it?

[Ronnie]

I interrupted it was before you could even.

[Ben]

It was, it was. It was at the Autry Museum in Griffith Park. It was the biggest rip off. It was like. People are calling it the French Friar Festival. This company, I'm putting this company on blast. Bootleggers. Not bootleggers. Bucket listers. Bucket listers. Let me tell you something. They're the org. They're like the company that does, like by the bell, pop ups and everything. And here's the thing. If this company brings a food festival to your city, do not go to it, because this was such a ripoff. Bought tickets. The tickets were expensive. They were like, I think over $50 ahead, maybe $60. Don bought them, but there was still like. And you get there and you wait in line. We had, we had the VIP tickets and we waited in line 30 minutes just to get into this festival, this food festival. And then it was just a bunch of food trucks. We're paying to go to food trucks. And then nothing was free. You then had to go wait in a 15 minute line to get tokens. And then when you get the tokens, you have to get in line for 15 minutes at a food truck. And then you buy, you turn in one token, which each token $7, and you turn in that token to get a fry. French fries from the food truck which they are making to order. So none of the fries are ready. So then you wait another 10 minutes. Could you even imagine spending, first of all, spending $7 on a little basket of generic french fries? And I thought the entire thing was gonna be like lots of different booths. Like when we went to the South Beach Wine and Food Festival, I thought it'd be a lot of little booths and these different restaurants would be there and then have all their fun little spins on french fries. Here's a poutine. Here's a waffle fry. Here's a this with this on it. None of that. It was all just regular fries. It was just like, here's a regular fry from Dave's Hot Chicken. Here's one from Marathon Burger. Here's one from this truck. It's like, how many regular fries can you get? I mean, it's all. Fries are good, but this is the biggest ripoff. And they had no water stations. So I just want to let everyone know I'm putting the company on blast because they wasted everyone's time and money. So there's my advocacy. Yeah, that's my advocacy for today, everyone. I, you know, welcome back.

[Ronnie]

The world's burning down. But, you know, this french fry company. But you know, I do get that. I would have been super pissed. That is really romantic that Don bought you tickets, because it sounds like something that he was so excited, you know.

[Ben]

Well, you know, he loves potatoes. He loves potatoes.

[Ronnie]

I love a potato.

[Ben]

You love potatoes.

[Ronnie]

I eat potatoes every day. And that's why it's so weird that you and I are even apart and we still kind of do the same things because I've been using this as an excuse to, like, eat whatever I want. So I've been getting fries every day. I've had Peter's fries, Whataburger fries, McDonald's fries, Wendy's fries, Burger King fries, frozen fries from the grocery store, the regular cut potatoes from. I mean, I've literally more fries than I had at the fry fest to a fry festival.

[Ben]

I only got two things of fries. It was. There was so much waiting that we just sold off all of our tickets. We just sold them to some, like, gen zers and we left. It was crazy. My friend Hannah, she spent $200 in terms of, like, tickets to get in there and buying the tokens, and all she got out of it were two small fries and a grilled cheese.

[Ronnie]

Oh, crazy.

[Ben]

That's disgusting. Hell, no. Shame. Shame on bucket listers. Yeah. And their shitty, shitty event.

[Ronnie]

Disgusting fry ripoff. All right, well, let's thank you, everyone, for your patience. Who's even heard of a fry festival? I mean, it was interesting for me. I didn't know that was a thing.

[Ben]

Thing I had to do.

[Ronnie]

We should do it better.

[Ben]

Yeah, we would do a. A very good fry festival. I believe so.

[Ronnie]

Here we go. Real Housewives of Atlanta Season 7 Episode 14 Highland Games and Explosive Claims so a lot of this episode was a fry festival? A lot of it, yeah. But, man, it got good towards. It got good towards the end. And, you know, Shamia takes a lot of shit because she is kind of insufferable and deserves it, but, man, she made it interesting at least.

[Ben]

Well, yeah, this episode, it was just sort of like humdrum fun and games. Nothing was really happening. And I was like, oh, man. And then all of a sudden, the last, like 10 or 12 minutes of this episode, I was like, oh, wow. It was like that. It was that generational that just. She's been holding it in and just putting it out there. Oh, that was. That was good. And like, the two. The portion. Shamia have been trying so hard to just not let their kind of even like, come onto the show this season. I think they're both playing a game of chicken of Like, I'm going to take the higher road. No, I'm going to take the higher road. I'm not going to talk about Shamia. I'm not going to talk about Portia. We're not going to do that. We're not going to. And then finally the dam just broke and it all came out and it was great.

[Ronnie]

We. I don't know that they've been trying to keep it off screen. I think Portia's been doing a good job of just letting Shamia look crazy because Shamia comes on and tries to start it in the first episode at Portia's party that she was having at her house with the new guy, you know where. What was that party that she's having? Like the singles? Oh, no, the couple's party.

[Ben]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ronnie]

To introduce her new boyfriend or whatever. And Shamia. Then Shamia shows up late and then she tries to kind of start with Portia. And Portia's been just like, I'm not going to give it to you. Like, I know what you're doing. I know you're coming on here to just start shit with me. It worked last season. I'm not gonna even give you that. Have fun. Let's see what you can do on your own without using me as a storyline. And I think she's been pretty good at keeping Shamia at bay because she sees what Shimmy is doing, you know, I think it's obvious. And then she just let her have it at the end and went so low. I mean, Shamia went so low first, but then Portia was like, okay, I'll match, you know. Yeah, it was like a low.

[Ben]

Crazy.

[Ronnie]

She was like, it was crazy. You know, I'll raise that a dollar.

[Ben]

Yeah. But the episode begins.

[Ronnie]

They are.

[Ben]

Everyone's gathering for breakfast and Phaedra has an update, which is that she wants to go on to Tasty Black, which is the website that K announced she likes to go to to watch porn. But unfortunately, I guess there's no porn in the uk. Or at least that site is not allowed in the uk. So Phaedra, she had a little bit of a stumbling block on.

[Ronnie]

Yeah, they said you can't get porn in Scotland. What do people do? I mean, what do you. There's only so much tv, for Christ's sake. Texas passed a lot where you have to do age verification or something to watch porn. And it's just so stupid, you guys. I mean. Okay, so I'll go through another step.

[Ben]

I know. I mean, for years it's.

[Ronnie]

We're looking at it anyway. What the hell?

[Ben]

I know. It's. It is hilarious. But I guess like the, the irony of like Scotland not allowing porn when you just have like a nation of free balling. Like, how do you not let people go to porn when you have like hot guys freeballing around in their kilts all day? Like, let people then like, like go off and watch their porn afterwards. So especially because kilts are such a. That, that is such a specific like porn genre too, right? Scottish. The Scottish motif. Right. That's definitely like a porn thing, right? Like a. I don't know.

[Ronnie]

I run into a ton of kil. Outlander thing. I think there's for everything. Really. I mean.

[Ben]

Yeah, that's true. That's true.

[Ronnie]

There's people who poof on each other. I mean like you can, you can find something for anything.

[Ben]

I guess.

[Ronnie]

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[Ronnie]

They go outside and it's a lawn day. It's very reminiscent of this real. I mean much classier because it's in Scotland. No offense, Rhode island, but it reminded me of Rhode island when they went to the big mansion in Newport and then they all just did nothing but hang around the mansion and play games on the lawn. They're fun. Somehow made that somewhat entertaining. This they weren't as lucky. It was like two guys in kilts and they, they said we're going to teach you a bunch of games that have been invented in Scotland, I guess. And they were like throwing logs and stuff. And of course shimmy is like, I'm used to flipping big logs. Hey Gerald.

[Ben]

It's like, oh God, Shamia, thank you.

[Ronnie]

The log, the log throwing is less exhausting.

[Ben]

Oh my God. I mean I kind of enjoyed it. This sort of reminded me of the Amazing Race. I feel like there was an episode of the Amazing Race where they had to do this, like take these logs and flip them around and everything. So they did this for quite a while for an entire segment of like the logs. And then there was what was. Even after the logs, they, they wind up doing. They wind up playing tug of war. There was something in between the logs and tug of war. I don't remember what it was, but they go to as a hammer toss. They do a hammer toss and then they do tug of war. The only thing that was really notable about the tug of war was when, quote unquote, Team Sturdy dragged the other team and Team Mighty across the line. And Kelly is just like, she just like falls over and she's just like on her back and her feet are just in the air and she just, just gets dragged across the lawn with that rope.

[Ronnie]

Mantle is like, oh, felt good. Like, I've been waiting to drag Kelly's

[Ben]

ass the whole trip.

[Ronnie]

So Kelly, basically, it's, it's wacky. So then they go back inside for treats. And now's the part where real housewives go to another country and just act offensive at any cultural, any cultural thing that they're offered today. It's haggis.

[Ben]

Yeah, we knew the haggis moment was coming. We knew there would be a. Oh, my God, it's haggis. But, you know, normally, whenever we've seen haggis on a reality show, because anytime any show goes to Scotland, they always present haggis. And they try to always serve them, like the most disgusting version, too. Like, you just see this big old bladder for full of meat and stuff and oats. But in this case, they got like very refined little, like fried balls of haggis. They looked lovely. And they were like, no. I'm like, I would have eaten that in a heartbeat. And they even had a nice little vegan one for Pinky.

[Ronnie]

Yeah, I'm. Isn't there a character named Haggis in something?

[Ben]

I think so. I also want to point out that I would have much rather have had this haggis than anything at the fry festival. I'll just say that right now there is a character named Haggis. Character Haggis. I'll look it up, everyone.

[Ronnie]

He's a giant in the Henry Griefer book series, Arthur. Okay?

[Ben]

And he's the fiercely Scottish, short tempered cartoon character from the Ren and Stimpy Show, Haggis McHaggis.

[Ronnie]

He's also, he's also a book witch of the woods in Pumpkinhead.

[Ben]

Hard Times for Haggis is a book also.

[Ronnie]

Well, you see, people come here, they learned about the French Five festival, they learned about nose hair porn, and they learned about characters named haggis. So I guess, what else do you need?

[Ben]

Yeah, so now they, so they, everyone tries the haggis, and now they go into. They go to the dining room where they're actually going to be served more haggis, which I think is kind of funny. But Portia's asking Kelly how she feels today, and Kelly's like, well, this morning was a little heavy. For me, but I'm okay. Thank you, ladies, for asking. And they're like, well, we love you, Kelly. She's like, yeah, it was a good day.

[Ronnie]

Thank you.

[Ben]

It was heavy. It was hard for me because the last night, like, she. She had a bonding moment with the ladies where she and Portia decided they just weren't gonna fight anymore. It's just not worth it.

[Ronnie]

Yeah. With all this stuff going on with the ex husband and not allowing the kids to film and this and that, she's like, let's just get along. So they decide to get along. And Drew's like, yeah, well, last night was liberating, and it was very spiritual, and I just felt like for the first time, we were really able to come together in Phaedra's room. Cynthia, myself, Kelly, Portia. And Portia's like. And I just. You know, Drew's always gonna try and start something in her innocent little voice. She's like, yeah, I was. We were in her room talking very privately, and Portia's like, well, I felt it last night for sure. And, you know, we made an understanding, me and Kelly, that we hear each other, but we're going to be friends now. And Shamia does not look happy about this. I think this starts Shamia's spiral.

[Ben]

Oh, yeah, good point. Yeah. And, yeah, Porsche's like, I want you to call me. I want you to be around me.

[Ronnie]

I want you to ask me for stuff.

[Ben]

And Shamia's like, the fact that Porsche is able to forgive other people and not me is crazy. But I've seen this before. I'm not buying it. But, hey, I hope it works out. Good luck. I'm like, but shimmy. Are you trying. Are you asking for forgiveness right now? I don't even know. Like. Like, yeah, it sucks, but, like, you're not, like, sitting here trying to get Portia to forgive you. You guys are both mad at each other.

[Ronnie]

Well, Porsche did forgive her. Kelly just wants to keep bringing it up over and over and over and over and over and over.

[Ben]

The problem with Shamia is this. Shamia is going down. Is participating in a long tradition on reality tv, which is actually one of my favorites, which is the sidekick separating away from their. Their dominant, their Alpha. And it always creates so much drama on reality tv because, like, whenever there's, like, a sidekick in an Alpha, that dynamic is so built in that when the sidekick tries to become the Alpha, like, neither of them really know how to deal with it, and they. They, like, lose their minds. And Shamia is trying to do that. But she's clearly not totally comfortable doing that, because as much as she spent last year being like, now I'm finally gonna step in the spotlight. I'm gonna be my own person. I'm not just gonna be a friend up. I'm not just gonna be this person that, like, you know, follows along with whatever Portia does. I'm gonna be Shamia. Here she is now saying, like, still wanting Portia's sort of forgiveness or. Or apology or whatever. She's, like, wanting stuff from this person that she now wants to be independent of. And it's like, yeah, this is why

[Ronnie]

you're still gonna have anything without Portia, like, in that relationship, you know, because last year, Portia didn't even know they were arguing. She's like, what? We're arguing? It was the whole season, and Shumi had been going behind Portia's back, like, oh. And it really hurt my feelings that Portia didn't support me when I came on this show. And she didn't want, you know, she didn't even want me to be on the show. And then she didn't, like, come celebrate me. She just sent me flowers. And I remember saying, she sent you flowers? I mean, that's nice, right? I don't get it. Of course, we saw Portia send flowers again this season, and it wasn't nice. So, you know, anyway. But Portia didn't even know. She's just like, we're fighting now. And Shamia is still trying to just bring up this stuff, I think, because she knows she doesn't have anything going on on her own. You know, she's tried it all season and there's just nothing. I mean, she's going to make a dick joke every day and talks about how much she likes you know, getting dick from Gerald, and then she'll cry about, you know, the drama stuff in her life. But she really. As far as entertainment, she doesn't have anything. And she tried it. She's tried it with a lot of people this season, and they just read her for filth. And so now she's going to try and come for Portia. And it's just. It's kind of sad because I don't really dislike Shamia. I just think she's flopping so hard on the show and it's. Oh, she just doesn't.

[Ben]

I just like this version of her worse and worse. I see. Shamia is actually a pretty sad person. I was completely on her side with the Portia thing. I feel like she probably has like, it was probably very exhausting being Portia's friend, and she probably put a lot into it, and I feel like she probably didn't. She. I feel like Portia was probably a good friend to Shmi in certain ways, but I. I have to imagine with Portia being the star that she is, that. That that friendship was a little bit more one way. Shamia going into Portia and Shamir probably got exhausted and probably, like, she finally has this moment where she can be almost, like, on equal footing with Portia. And now she's, like, feeling like, you know, she's getting some sort of resistance from Portia, and it's like, man, after all I poured into you, you can't pour something back into me in this moment for me. So I kind of got all of that. But I almost feel like this season has been a reaction where she's almost trying to overcompensate to be like. Like, well, I don't need Portia. I am hilarious on my own. I'm not. I don't need to just be Portia's sidekick. So she's trying to be this big extra person, and it's turning all of us off because she's trying so hard. And so when you say she doesn't have anything going on, I think maybe if she were just being a little bit more authentic or just, like, more chill, we would actually feel like she does have stuff going on and she. She would be more accessible. But right now, she's just very presentational, and she's just, like, over the top and, like, giving drama. Drama club member. And it's just like. I don't know. I see her as a very sad person. She seems like she is. You know, when it was pointed out later in this episode that she's fighting with everyone, it's like, that is actually kind of sad. Like, she seems, like, unhappy.

[Ronnie]

Yeah. And a lot of the fights revolve around, like, well, I'm happier than you. I mean, like, look how happy I am. Where's. You know, kind of. It's all tied to the Gerald. I don't know how to say this, but a lot of it, I think, is just tied to her home life and Gerald, because she's not happy over there. And this whole, like, Gerald won't let me out act because he doesn't want to see me kiss anybody, and all of this, that's too much. And it's like, he's demanding a son. He must have a son. Like, must give son right now to Gerald or I Don't know how Gerald will react. And I think that that's a lot because you're living in this huge mansion, you've got kids, you're doing all of this. And it's like, well, what if I don't give Gerald? What do you want? You know, there's a lot of stress.

[Ben]

Well, she seems. She seems like she is constantly putting herself in positions where there's, like, a dominant person telling her what she can and can't do. And so she's, like, pushing back against that.

[Ronnie]

And.

[Ben]

But, like, she's still finding herself in those situations. And that's, like a very sad place. Like, it's almost like she's just trying to be herself, but she doesn't know how to be herself. And like, yeah, she just. She's instead, like, being a very annoying reality star Persona instead. And it's like, oh, yeah, you want better for you, Shamia?

[Ronnie]

Well, yeah, it's kind of like a person. Like, it's like an ensemble member of a musical. Let's pick a. Let's pick an old musical like Guys and Dolls. Okay. And you're like, oh, my gosh, what's going on with this background person? And then you put them in the center of the stage, and they're just like, want to roll the dice? Wanna roll the dice? I love gambling. Like you have anything else to say. And then it's like, well, why are you bringing. Why are you bringing the. The ensemble member up here? They're just supposed to sing.

[Ben]

It's like Melinda Doolittle. Do you remember Melinda Doolittle?

[Ronnie]

Is that from. No. Oh, Melinda, do. Oh, my gosh. Yes. From American Idol, when Simon was like, you're just a backup singer.

[Ben]

And he was right. Melinda Doolittle had the best voice of that season. She just had an amazing voice. Yes, she was great, but ultimately she was a backup singer. And Simon was right because she just. No matter how good her voice was, she never really popped as a star. She just. She had the talent, but she didn't have whatever it took. And so some people are just background players, and there's actually nothing wrong with that. But, like, sometimes, like, it's hard to get out of. It's hard. Sometimes it's hard to get out of the lane that you're sort of slotted into in life. And she lost that season, ultimately to Jordan Sparks, who appeared on the Love island finale last night. So look at that. Like, it all comes together.

[Ronnie]

She did. I watched it. Where was Jordan Sparks? I mean, I was watching it while I was scrolling. I was. I was two hours of people like, oh, my God, we're on a relationship.

[Ben]

There was a scene where, like the final four were all sitting, watching video tribute. First of all watching, like, remember this happened. Remember this happened. And then it was like, different. Like, parents were like, hey, guys, we're so proud of you. And then various celebrities came on and were. It was like Lizzo saying, you guys are amazing. And then Demi Lovato was like, love watching you guys. And then ultimately Jordan Sparks came on and said, you know, like, oh, my God, you guys are great. And thanks for singing no Air during the karaoke competition.

[Ronnie]

Oh, my God. Yeah, I definitely had my thumb on the fast forward button for that one. But yeah, you know, but also I see Porsche's side of all of this. Like, Shamia, whatever's going on with Shamia, okay, you want to be more of a star. Your best friend is a huge star on this TV show. Your best friends brought you on this TV show for years to give you attention and stuff. And then you come onto the show as a full time member and it's like, okay, but if you want to be a star, then go be a star. Like, what are you coming into my. I kind of do get that. When at the end. I mean, we're going to the end already. Not much else happens in this episode. But I mean, I kind of get. It's like, if you want to be a star, then go do it. Why do you have to. First you come on my thing, which Porsche seemed to be fine with the first year. No matter what Shamia says, she seemed to be fine with it, but now you can't even do your own thing that I'm not with you. You have to keep starting fights with me to keep yourself relevant. It's like, if you want to go be a star, go be a star. But if you can't be a star without, like, climbing onto me and starting with me to make yourself to give yourself screen time. Like, I don't know what to tell you, lady.

[Ben]

Yeah, sorry. I just started thinking about Melinda Doolittle and the concept of Melinda Doolittle as, like, something that's in our pop culture, like, general. Like, it's out there. I just was laughing like, Melinda Doolittle. God, I loved her. I want.

[Ronnie]

So talented. I'm mad I missed Jordan Sparks because I haven't seen Jordan Sparks in years. So I want to know. Anyway, I'm not rewatching Love Island. Jesus Christ.

[Ben]

Okay, so better watch it again from the start. All Two hours.

[Ronnie]

So Portia is just. Portia and Kelly have just announced that they made up and they're going to try to be friends. Shamia is visibly upset and then goes to her room crying and calls her mom. And she's like, you know, like, I feel so attacked. And it starts with Angela, which she's right on it. That was some bullshit coming from Angela. And she's like. And she was trying to imply that I was sleeping with our neighbor George. And his wife even texted me and said, she's lying. And the mom's just like, huh, huh. You can tell she takes these calls all the time. She's just walking around the kitchen putting away groceries. She's like, okay. It's Shamia's daily call of sobbing and complaining about being a victim. Okay. Just watching, washing the fridge.

[Ben]

And she is like, I presented that to the group. And they were all like, okay. But you talked about her daughter. It just always feels like an attack to me. And Mama Morton's like, shamia, just remember, at the end of the day, who here is going to be the heir to a huge kosher salt dynasty? Mom, I'm telling you, we're not the same Mortons. You've got to get off that.

[Ronnie]

Okay, Shamia? Well, it's not easy when you are having to head up a jail full of women. Okay, mom, you're not Mama Morton from Chicago either. Who am I even talking to?

[Ben]

Jesus.

[Ronnie]

I'm just trying to make this more entertaining to me. Please.

[Ben]

Listen, would you own a string of Canadian coffee shops? It's hard, Mom. We're Morton, not Orton. We are not Tim Hortons commercials. Here comes one right now.

[Ronnie]

One thing my mom loves is to Bargain Hunt. She will go to a garage sale, to a flea market, any old sale at the mall. I'm taking her from sale to sale to sale to sale. And I finally found someplace online that I can just park her and she'll have the time of her life. And that is Whatnot.

[Ben]

Whatnot is an app that does live shopping. There's a whole community there on Whatnot. You're connecting with sellers and other shoppers, and it's kind of like hanging out with the group that gets you. And this is like a really fun way to shop.

[Ronnie]

You never pay full price, Sarah. You can shop name brands across makeup, perfume, clothes, handbags, jewelry, and more, all without the sticker shock. It's the best place to find great deals on products you love.

[Ben]

And there are amazing sellers with great, great taste. And they're going live all the time like 24 7. You can comment in real time and they'll just show you like close up of clothes. You'll be like hey can I get. Can I see that a little bit closer. I want to see that do detail on that shirt and they will show it to you because it's real time

[Ronnie]

and you can sell too. Do you have clothes, bags or accessories sitting in your closet that you don't reach for anymore? What not makes it easy to turn them into cash? Connect with shoppers who share your style and have fun going live while doing it.

[Ben]

It's amazing what you can find on there. I literally just purchased a mid century modern Dansk yellow paella pan for 35 and I've seen it listed elsewhere on the Internet for $80. It was a bargain.

[Ronnie]

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[Nick and Jack]

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[Ronnie]

So yeah, the mom's like listening to her as she's going on and on and she's crying about being a victim. But you did say something. I mean you she didn't say anything mean about Angela's daughter. But who does that? Who goes up to that was wow, you're so much nicer to your. You're so much nicer than your mother is. Which we didn't even clock when that was.

[Ben]

I think we did. It was clocked. Yeah, we clocked it. Because I thought that was really obnoxious. I mean, I think I clocked. I remember seeing him being like, that's crazy that you would say that to someone's daughter. Like, that's so tacky. And then she's gonna be. Later on she's gonna be like, why can't you. I'm just surprised you wouldn't have your daughter come over. I'm like, because we saw how you already talked to someone else's daughter in this group. I'm sorry, that was bad. Yeah, that was just tacky. Yeah, real tacky.

[Ronnie]

And you're not the victim here, okay? With Angela you kind of were. But you've also been saying all sorts of about Angela that could or could not be lies. I don't know, you know, so anyway, I'm not crying for you, but you're, you're crying enough for yourself, for all of us. So then we go back to the kitchen and Pinky is talking to K. Michelle and she's talking about the Shamia stuff and she's like, I feel energy with you guys, okay, like, so you need to talk about the vibes. I mean there's something still there. And she's like, well, I just don't feel the same about her, you know, I mean, I'm keeping the same energy, but this situation, I just watched a lot of change ups. I mean, how are you going to be standoffish with me? And then we go back to Shamia and she's crying still. She's like, even with Kimberly last night we had some stuff that we had to talk about, which we did end up finding some resolve. But I was just hurt that, you know, it came up in the group.

[Ben]

So then came Michelle back to is telling Pinky, like that's not. When she was like, I don't have

[Ronnie]

anybody here but Kelly.

[Ben]

And I'm like, I'm like right here, you know? And Vicky's like, yeah, you were sitting right there.

[Nick and Jack]

It's like, yeah.

[Ben]

Now Kim, Michelle is hilarious because her whole thing was that Shamia went at the club, Shamia put her hands on K. Michelle's cheeks and said, I'm the only one who's willing to be friends with you. And K. Michelle's like, her, that's so obnoxious. I can't, I don't like her anymore. And I Have to imagine that that got back to Shamia, and now Shamia's like, well, I guess I really only have Kelly. And then. I mean, all I have is Pinky. And now Kelly. Kelly's whole thing is like, wait, but we're friends. And I said to her, like, we're gonna be friends because she tells us. She goes, I don't care if you're mad because you're gonna be my friend.

[Ronnie]

To see her look at the galley that way and be like, I don't

[Ben]

got nobody in this group but you. And I think that's really unfair, because when I've done nothing but have your back, except for when I told everyone

[Ronnie]

about how crazy you were at the

[Ben]

club, it's like, Kim Michelle is so all over the map at all times. It's like, wait, I thought you were angry at her. I thought you didn't even consider her a friend. You thought she was like, I can't get a read on K. Michelle. But it's like, that's what I'm. I. That's what I love about her. I love how ridiculous she is.

[Ronnie]

Well, she told Pinky that Shamia had said that. And then whoever was it, Pinky was

[Ben]

like, are you guys okay?

[Ronnie]

You need to bring it up in the group. They kept trying to make her bring it up in the group. And at first she was like, I'm not gonna do this. Isn't the right time to do this. And then they brought it up again for her to bring it up, so she had to kind of, in the Real Housewives kind of a way. But she's like, wait a minute. Has this caught up with her that she's mad at me now?

[Ben]

So then came Michelle saying, I feel like I was trying to make sure

[Ronnie]

she was all right, okay? And I was all over the.

[Ben]

Like, I didn't get no dick from her. Vicki's like, no dick. She's like, none of my bills are like, oh.

[Nick and Jack]

Oh.

[Ben]

Like, oh. And none of my bills being paid.

[Ronnie]

Nothing.

[Ben]

So I played life, Adrian, you know, because she just, like, feels better. She just goes, I love that. I love when she said that. That was so funny. I'm just gonna act like, Phaedra, Michelle is so funny.

[Ronnie]

So we go back to Shamia, and she's like, you know, I don't want to keep talking about it, but it's hard to move forward when you've been wronged and when they're saying your feelings are invalid, you know, and I have to be the bigger person. And it's always Me, who has to just apologize. And I'm tired of apologizing. Oh, Shamia, your apologies, please. They're not true. And that YouTube apology. I'm never gonn. That YouTube apology she gave after the reunion last year, that was shitty. Forever rent free in my mind, where she's like, everyone of everywhere. I apologize if ever you were offended by anything.

[Ben]

Yeah, that I have done. Okay, yeah, that was shitty. That was a bad move. And that's what sort of undermined all of her things that she said this season. She's like, oh, well, I've apologized already. It's like, no, you just give a blanket generalist apology. Doesn't count. So now it's night time of day two, and everyone gathers for their evening with their evening looks. And Pinky is. She's on her phone with. With her. Her vp, and she's like, I just want to say today is a day. I'm so frustrated right now because of the text messages I see back to back. It's always just something. You gotta pay 50 here. You gotta pay 20 here. You got this lawsuit that just came. This judgment. Oh, my God. So she's once again, she owes money left and right to all sorts of different vendors. And I'm like, why is it so disorganized? Well, is it so chaotic? Why can't this be fixed already?

[Ronnie]

Yeah. And watching somebody in, like, brand, you know, like really expensive brands, like, all dressed up, like, it's like, gorgeous, expensive sunglasses. Like, it's so hard. Like, everybody's asking for money for me, and I just can't take it anymore. You've got to pay employees, and you've got to pay for food. Yeah. You have a fucking restaurant business. What do you think is going on over there? Here, look, let me just suggest something. Spend $40,000 on a TV show about yourself.

[Ben]

I know that's going to fix everything. Everyone knows that independent pilots are always the fast track to success. They do well every single time.

[Ronnie]

Kenya was nothing before her sitcom pilot Twirl. What was it called? Like, the twirl goes off like life

[Ben]

twirls on or something. Life Twirl. The golden twirls. That actually would have been good.

[Ronnie]

I like her thriller Gone. Twirl,

[Ben]

Twirl. Interrupted.

[Ronnie]

Yeah, don't forget the trauma.

[Ben]

Trolls just want to have fun.

[Ronnie]

So they're like, oh, God, Angela, you'll be fine. Everything's gonna be fine. Okay, everybody gather around. Pinkies. Sorry. I said, Angela, Pinky is crying about being broken. Owing people money again. Pay your employees so then Drew comes in, and she's like, what's wrong with everybody? So they surround her and like, we're here for you.

[Ben]

We're here for you, everybody. It is funny. Angela's very blase. She's like, we're crying over money. I mean, it's just money. Like, I get that. Like, there's more important things in life because she's like, money comes and money goes. I've. I get that. But also, like, you know, like, when it's okay for money to come and money to go, but when it all has to go, like, right now at this moment, like, five or ten figures. Yeah.

[Ronnie]

It's also very rich for Angela to say that, who just, like, lost millions of dollars on deals that she's claiming that Charles didn't help her pay. Yeah, but come on.

[Ben]

Like, you.

[Ronnie]

It's easy to say when you're rich, you know, and you don't have money problems. You're like, what? It's just money. Oh, really?

[Ben]

Yeah. Oh, just 20,000 a year. I actually think that what Pinky's really crying about is more like, it just never ends. It's like, it's always something. It's always got to pay this, got to pay that. It's like. Like, you're like, it's not that the money is going. It's this idea that, like, I'm just trying to turn. Turn the boat around, and I. It's like the currents are just. It's like, oh, no. But, yeah, I still owe this. I still owe this. It's like, when can we stop going uphill? You know? But Andrew's like, it's just money. Don't worry about it.

[Ronnie]

Yeah.

[Ben]

That's not like, I'm tired of this rat race. I'm tired of it.

[Ronnie]

Yeah, well, you don't want to hear that with anything. Like, oh, my God, this divorce is so hard. It's just divorce. It happens every day.

[Ben]

Like, oh, no, no.

[Ronnie]

So now they're gonna go out and they get onto their sprinter van or whatever, and Cynthia announces that she'll be late because she has to go see a pharmacist.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ronnie]

Was that.

[Ben]

Which.

[Ronnie]

Why didn't she take everybody? Someone posted on Reddit. Remember when Cynthia took everybody to the titty doctor and I was cracking up?

[Ben]

And it just shows all the LA

[Ronnie]

of Atlantis getting Dr.

[Ben]

So and so. I forget that do that. That doctor had a crazy name, too. It was like, Dr. Boobies or something. Yeah. She goes to pharmacist, and we don't really get a We didn't really get an update on that. Was she on under the Weather? What was happening? And then they all get.

[Ronnie]

Goes to the pharmacist that you don't say, how come? What are you getting? I mean, etc, but say, I don't know. Just don't tell me you're going to go to a pharmacist and then don't tell me what you're, what you're getting. I need to know.

[Ben]

I would love to see what a Scottish pharmacy looks like. I'm sure it's just like any other pharmacy, but in my mind, because when I watch these shows, I reduce everything down to the. Each country's like, stereotypes. I'm like, oh, that's where you go if you want to get cough medicine and a kilt and some haggis. It's like cbs, it's like haggis cv haggis. So Kelly, they're in the, they're in the sprinter van. And Kelly is wearing a McDowell's uniform from coming to America, which is very funny. And turns out that her man, her man gave it to her. My man, my man, my man. And then it's like, Shamia is very proud because she's like, I introduced them at a Hawks game. And then of course, Kelly's like, yes, and he paid for my seventy thousand dollar teeth. And like the rest of us here watching, Phaedra's like, yeah, this girl's got to get her priorities together. Because if a man comes to me offering me teeth when I actually need money to pay my bills, I'm going to be smart enough to say, just give me some Crest Whitening strips and then give me the $69,097 $972 for bill.

[Ronnie]

So Kelly's like, well, you know, I'm just glad that I found somebody, you know, because I don't want to become hateful because my situation is bad. You know, I've got someone giving me love. I've got somebody giving my money. And so Asha Angela asks, what's his sign? And Kelly's like, he's a Pisces. And so they talk about Pisces and stuff like that. So then Drew's like, so then they start talking about having to pee. And then Drew says, well, you know, hysterectomy. And I noticed that now I go to the bathroom a lot more and I have really frequent urination. And then they ordered me to physical therapy and they do the pelvic floor thing and they're like, what? And Phaedra's like, okay, you've got your vagina, you've got your cervix, and then you have a pelvic floor that will sometimes fall to the point that you have to have sex to knock it back up. And then begins pelvic floor talk, which, wow, I knew nothing about.

[Ben]

I've heard of the pelvic floor, and

[Ronnie]

the way it describes it sounds like a finger. Like, you go to the doctor and they finger you to put it back in there. That doesn't sound very bad.

[Ben]

Well, our note taker. Our note taker Shelby has. She's a lady and she can. Sometimes she's. She helps us here with these things, and she says this is not true about the having to have sex and knock your pelvic floor. She says this is not true. You have to strengthen your pelvic floor muscles, because what actually happens is the muscles weaken that support the pelvic organs, and sex will not fix that. So there you go, everyone. And I definitely knew that as well. I 100% knew that. So they talk about the pelvic floor, and I. I don't know about this. Getting fingered during physical therapy, it feels like you're not. Feels like it's. It feels like a strange choice.

[Ronnie]

Well, listen, if it took. If it took muscle to hold anything in, I'm super glad I'm not a woman, because I would just have it on the ground because I don't have any muscles anywhere, so.

[Ben]

Oh, wait. So Kelly said, like, wait, you got fingered in, like, in, like, physical therapy? And Shamia's like, how long? And Drew says it's for five minutes. And Shelby has further insights for us. She says this is done so the therapist can make sure you are tensing the muscles correctly and can evaluate the strength and stuff. This is a completely normal thing for pelvic floor therapy. Sorry if you don't care about this, but in case you didn't, I didn't know how much two gay men would know about it. And I didn't want you to be misguided. Thank you. You assessed that correctly.

[Ronnie]

Yeah, I didn't know. So now they're like, haha. Now we know why you're really going to physical therapy, Drew. To get fingered. And just like, who's her doctor? Is he taking new clients?

[Ben]

So now they do Kegels. Kegels to tighten everything up. And Portia leads, like, a Kegel workshop. And they're all sitting there in the van and they're doing like, 1, 2, 3, 4, breathe in, tighten, hold everything. And they do the whole. They do the whole process. This. Which is exciting. I think that actually men have to do Kegels too. I think like for that's help. It's helpful for bladder. Bladder stuff.

[Ronnie]

Wow.

[Ben]

So we should get our kegels on, I guess. So king our pants as we go into the second chapter of our lives. The second half.

[Ronnie]

Second half. Good God. I think I'm well into that. Not to be negative, but like I'm honestly shocked I'm still here. Did I tell you about eating french fries every day of the week? Week. So now we go to a kilt store.

[Ben]

I love this. I want to go. I want to go Scotland specifically just to go to the store. This was gorgeous. This stuff, these fabrics, these tartans. Oh my God, to die for.

[Ronnie]

Know. It was fine. A bunch of housewives going basically to a fabric store. So they stand around, they're like, what's a titan? And then they explained to them what that is. And so then they start talking about kilts and shimmy is like, you know, it's only right for those men to go commando underneath those kilts. Gives them more fashion flexibility. Free the bat, free the balls. Yeah. I love dicks. I love dicks. We know.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ronnie]

You know, but.

[Ben]

But like let's. Let's relax here.

[Ronnie]

Congratulations, you've reached the end of part one of a two part recap for part two. Go look for the recap that says part two. See you over there, suckers.

[Ben]

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