March 27, 2024 • 18 mins
Watch What Crappens host Ben Mandelker stops by to talk all things housewives!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
What would you talk about on your on your podcast?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Fine, Sylvie.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Fifteen Morning Show.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Well, okay, this is the fifteen minute Morning Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
We're still trying to get it together.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
I wanted you to hear what it's like behind the
scenes trying to get this ship to come together.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Wait, Gandhi's rolling a chair around to the other side
of the room.
Speaker 5 (00:27):
Back.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
What's going see we have a guest, Ben Mandelker.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Is how you say your name?
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Yeah, Ben mandel Car Yeah, So we have a guest here.
So we have a guest in here. It throws everything
off off the track. So Ben, we're doing this just
for you. I just want you to be impressed. But
the with it, all right, there's a reason why Ben
is here. We'll get to that as soon as we
get they figured out. All right, So the rule of
thumb on the fifteen minute Morning Show podcast is I'm
(00:53):
at home. We're all on zoom. If I don't see
you, you can't be on the podcast.
Speaker 6 (00:58):
All right, I'm out, Bye, everybody, No, get a camera.
Speaker 7 (01:01):
We're doing it.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Around the studio so many times.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Getting the camera. We're not doing a podcast without Gandhi. Ben,
you want to come back tomorrow forgure.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
That's fine.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I'm here all week, Gandhi.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Aren't you coming here with me?
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Okay, okay, okay, the chairs being rolled up to Okay,
there you go, beautiful.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
So I see scary and I don't see scary. Now,
nobody's eliminating for the podcast, I'm your spirit. All good?
Speaker 4 (01:30):
No, you can talk. I'm kidding anyway. Welcome to the
fifteen Minute Morning Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I can hear.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
You need a microphone, Gandhi, you need a microphone. You
need to be hurt.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
What's up?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
All right?
Speaker 4 (01:42):
By the way, fifteen minutes over? Thank you for listening.
All right, So it was what several weeks ago, Uh,
Andrew and Scottie scurried scurried out to the iHeartRadio Podcast Awards. Right, Yes,
they were up for an award for the Serial Killers podcast.
They did not win. No, they did not win.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
But we did find someone who did win.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
The co host of Watch What Crappens, the winner of
the Best Pop Culture Podcast at the twenty twenty four
iHeartRadio Podcast Awards, Ben Mandelker, is here.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Hi, Ben, hih wow. Oh, thank you, thank you so much. Everyone.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
All right, so you and Ron co host the Watch
What Crappens podcast. Tell everyone what it's about if they've
never caught it.
Speaker 8 (02:31):
So the Watch for Crappins podcast. It's a comedy pop
culture podcast. We focus on Bravo TV. We put out
a million episodes a week, usually fives maybe eight episodes,
and we just we basically recap everything on Bravo, every
single thing. But we also sometimes will do like Game
of Thrones, which is not unlike the Real Housewives, I'd
like to add. And you know, we've done like selling
(02:53):
Sunset or like we've sort of gone off network here
and there, but we're basically we're into Bravo.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Wow, Bravo must love you.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
You know.
Speaker 8 (03:02):
At first, I don't think that they did. At first,
they just saw us as this podcast that made fun
of them. But then I think they realized that actually,
we like are obsessed with Bravo and they're like, oh
wait a second, Yeah, so I think that Bravo likes us.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Now, where did Gandhi go?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
She's rolling around a nomad.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
This is what you're gonna look like when you have
one of those old people's like what are those things?
Rascal study Cam? Okay, so when Diamond found out you
were coming in today. Ben, she wet herself. You don't understand, okay,
because she is our local Bravo freak.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Okay, talk to Ben. Do you listen to Ben's podcast?
Of course?
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Are you kidding? Ben and I just spent thirty minutes
talking about everything Real Housewives. I had to let him
know specifically Real Housewives is my thing, okay, and we
chatted it up so much that Anne looked like he
didn't know what was going on. But we'll save that
for another time.
Speaker 8 (04:03):
I'm a light Real Housewives watcher, I would say listening
to your podcast.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I was telling Gandhi and Danielle this.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
I was saying, sometimes I just listened to the podcast
instead of watching the episodes because the impressions are really
what does.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
It for me? We get a lot of that.
Speaker 8 (04:16):
Actually, we get a lot of people who are like,
I can't watch this show anymore, but I'm gonna listen
to you guys.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I'll just stay up to date with you guys.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
So in a way, yeah, but you're kind of bending
it into your opinion of what you with what happens
on the episode, so it's really through the eyes of
you and Ron.
Speaker 8 (04:32):
Yeah, basically, what we do is we just like recap
we say this is what happened, And then a lot
of times we just do these ridiculous impersonations that sound
really nothing like the Real Housewives, but we just do
them anyway, and people like it and so and then
we like pepper it in and sometimes we get into
like really the stupidest arguments, like the amount of arguments
we get into over Summer house talking about like Tim
(04:53):
Carl Team Lindsay and like for like three months we
have an argument about it and we get all into it.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
But it's great.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
How wife or someone from Bravo on these shows ever
confronted you? Did you ever meet them and what was
what happened?
Speaker 8 (05:05):
We've met several of them and they are almost all down.
They I mean, we've never heard. We've never had a
face to face, you know, confrontation where someone's like, shut
the hell up. We have recently had an issue with
a real housewife. I don't know, do you guys watch
the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Never that I do that one I do.
Speaker 8 (05:24):
So there was a big controversy on the recent season
where this woman Monica, who's a new cast member.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
It turns out she's pretty much like a con artists and.
Speaker 8 (05:36):
Okay, she's like a grifter con artist, and she had
secretly been maintaining like a troll account on Instagram and
had been like harassing her castmates for like three years, and.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
You know, so it came awesome.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
It came out in the season finale.
Speaker 8 (05:55):
It was probably the best season finale, Like, it was
such a good piece of television. If it does not
win an Emmy, I'm totally soon it should be going
up against the Yellowstone.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
But we should steal that idea.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
So it was really it was just start talking each
other ahead.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
So the rest of our castmates hate her, and so
what we do is on our podcast every year we
throw an award show and we give out awards for like,
you know, like best show, but also best Villain, best Newbie,
things like that, you know. And so we nominated Monica
as like best Newby and maybe maybe one or two
other categories best Villain. And Heather Gay, who we have
(06:35):
a relationship with. She's really cool. I'm a fan of
Heather Gay on the show, but she was so mad
that we nominated her in our fake award show that.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
She she followed us.
Speaker 8 (06:49):
Followed the podcast she unfollowed Ronnie and she unfollowed me,
and I'm like.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
But you know, this isn't a real award show, right,
Like the award show. Isn't it called the.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Golden cra Why would be upset because someone else was
nominated for the Golden Crappies.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Maybe she wanted a Golden Crappy and.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
She was nominated. I think she even won one.
Speaker 8 (07:08):
But like, listen, I love her. If she wants to
follow me again, she can follow me. We can, we can,
we cannot, we can hug it out. But I'm like,
are you really upset right now about the Golden Crappies.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
I mean, come on, girl, this is what I'm loving, Ben,
I'm loving that so many people take these shows so seriously. Yeah,
I know, I know, Diamond does. I mean she comes
in looking all pissed off some days?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
What's wrong? Did did something happen with your family? No?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Did you see Real Housewives of Brother? I'm like, really, yeah,
I feel that.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I feel that.
Speaker 8 (07:39):
And by the way, I just want to say, We've
been doing our little award show for like over ten years,
and now I can officially say it.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
It's no longer a fake award show.
Speaker 8 (07:46):
Because now that we have someone who got mad about
the nominations means that's an official, real award show. It's real,
it matters.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
How great? All right?
Speaker 4 (07:59):
So so Diamond, what what do you want to pick
Ben's brain about?
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Honey? Okay, So we started a conversation outside about favorite
seasons of different franchises. We've bonded on the fact that
we both love Rony Real Housewives of New York and
I'm not gonna I don't agree with the favorite seasons.
His are what one through three and then eight?
Speaker 8 (08:22):
I think my probably, I think my favorite season is
like one through thirteen or no, I think like season
eight I think is my favorite. I may have the
number wrong, but is the season where Countess Luanne got
engaged in a whirlwind romance with Tom Dugastino. It's just
it's such an amazing, amazing just a series of episodes.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
You don't you don't even.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
Know it sound like real plot, you know the guy.
Speaker 8 (08:49):
No, it's actually a different Dagastino, which I mean this willman.
Countess Luanne, she went from.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Being she's a real countess, she was a real account
Her husband was a descendant of someone who created like
the Panama Canal.
Speaker 7 (09:07):
Did she give herself the countess.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
So she married into it.
Speaker 8 (09:11):
She married into it, and she was very prim and proper,
and she used to be all about manners in class.
She released a book called Class with a Countess. They
got divorced. They got divorced, and she sort of like
then decided she had a whirlwind romance with this guy
Tomda Gassino, who is not a supermarket heir. And then
they got divorced, and then she decided to become a
(09:32):
cabaret singer. And uh, but then she got arrested.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
You can't make it up.
Speaker 8 (09:40):
Actually, she got arrested, and then when she got when
she after that whole thing happened, she sort of like
resurrected herself as a cabaret star.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
And wait, wait, why was she arrested?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Then?
Speaker 8 (09:52):
Well, according to her, she just had a few too
many drinks in Palm on Palm Beach at a hotel.
But I don't know, like there was she was apparently
wasted at this hotel and the staff had to like
call security and she was hauled. She was hauled out
of the hotel in handcuffs, and they have this on security.
(10:14):
She got out of the handcuffs and as she's doing it,
she tells the police officers, I'm gonna.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Kill you all.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Oh, oh my god, oh time for it.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
And then she goes and she's.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
For a reset, countess.
Speaker 8 (10:27):
And then she goes on camera and talks about her
night of incarceration and how they gave her a blowney
sandwich that had a mustard backet in it.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Oh that sounds awesome. Sound she's really been through it.
I have met her.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
I was on Good Day New York with Rosanna Scotto
and their friends and I met her. She was very, very,
very nice, very and I think she had just stopped
drinking at that point, or she said she was stopping.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
But anyway, she's my favorite housewife of all time.
Speaker 8 (10:52):
Okay, all right, yeah, yeah, no, just because that whole trajectory.
How do you go from being like a countess who's
all about manners to now now she's like on TV
talking about By the way, we didn't mention that she
also slept with a pirate in the middle of it.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Pirate pirate who looks like Johnny Depp, say.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
A real pirate like rob ships and things, well, but
someone who dresses like it on ironically.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
Okay, how is it on ironic ever?
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Well?
Speaker 8 (11:25):
Meaning that like, most people dress like a pirate if
they're going to a costume party, and this guy was
just dressing like a pirate because it was his Look.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
Oh, who is the most bizarre? I mean it would
be hard to top this one. Who's the most bizarre
housewife of all of them?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
The most bizarre housewife? Gosh, there's so many. Okay, let's see.
I may diamond.
Speaker 8 (11:44):
We may have to do some like thinking here about
who's because like Rony has a bunch of I feel
like there's some really really weird one that's like we
can't overlook.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
I feel like it's on the in front of you.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
It's Mary Cosby.
Speaker 8 (11:57):
The Mary Cosby. She run's an alleged cult and she's
married to her her grandmother's husband.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 8 (12:11):
I knew there was something I didn't want to go for,
like another low hanging fruit that was it's Mary.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
None of this is real?
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Are great?
Speaker 8 (12:19):
Though?
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I really are?
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I mean you think about it for me.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
One of the biggest blow ups last year in all
reality TV was on vander Pomp with Scanna. All right,
so here we are almost a year later. Uh, what
do you know what's going on with these people? Do
they look back and laugh and say, oh, that was
some great TV. Are they all paleling around in the
background and they're all friends? Because I know there was
a lot of ship that hit the fan.
Speaker 8 (12:41):
I don't, so I don't think that like Tom and
Arianna our friends at all and they never will be
ever again.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (12:48):
I mean I think that, Like I think what we're
saying on the season right now is like a bunch
of the castmates are like, Okay, we hate Tom Sandoval,
but we have to film with them, so we just
have to like figure this out because we're not going
to ruin our jobs and we're not going to ruin
hour show because you high five each other at.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Some point be like, yeah, look, we got all the
press last year.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
I'm sure. I'm sure. I'm sure. Like Laala and James, like,
I'm sure James was like at.
Speaker 8 (13:11):
Home, like did you see the headlines right here on
the page up paste.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
You know, like I'm sure he was doing a victory lap.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Well, of course that was huge.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
But I think what put all of that on the
map for me was when Teresa flipped the table on
New Jersey.
Speaker 8 (13:26):
Well that's classic Teresa. I mean flipping that table that
was Brava will Bravo will literally bring out that clip
whenever they can, like you could lose. You could be
watching vander Pump Rules and like Tom's hand of Wall
be like you don't understanding hard is for me, and
brov will be like yeah, like the time that Teresa
flipped the table, and they'll like that's the whole of
the show.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Well, now, it wasn't that long ago.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
She was a part of our show by calling in
to one of the Bravo people who was with.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Me and Joe Gorga, and those people were standing by
in the background.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
And she was calling them like eating their ear.
Speaker 7 (14:05):
As the interview was going on, her name popped up
on the phone she was calling, so I was like
over and over.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Yeah, like a podcast.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
We were live on the radio at the time.
Speaker 7 (14:14):
I think because she heard Melissa and Joe, she was
probably like, well, I'd like my you know, one equal time.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
Like it's a whole season and we have to give
all the candidate flipping a table is so insane.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Yeah, that Teresa.
Speaker 8 (14:30):
I mean Teresa is not a very smart person, but
she has given us years of great television, years and
years and years and years.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
She is still she has still the star of that show.
Speaker 8 (14:40):
I mean, I I'm not like a huge Teresa fan,
but yeah, I'm team Melissa.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
To be honest, honey, I know, I'm sorry.
Speaker 8 (14:49):
I wish I had a better hero on that, but yeah,
I am team I think that's I think Teresa is
like a monster.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Well she's a monster.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
I actually made a comment Melissa was here.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
I it's my dream for one day you, Melissa and Teresa,
when you're a bunch of old broads living down in
West Palm Beach. I want to see you sitting on
the front porch together, laughing, getting drunk, drinking your wine,
getting your son and being friends again.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
And Melissa looked at me, that ain't happening. Okay, no,
that's tried.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
They've been very nice to me personally when I've seen them.
I'm not I'm like, I have to say either one.
I've heard Teresa is the nicest person. Actually, everyone I
know who's met or said that she is like literally
the sweetest person. But I maintain that sweet people can
be monsters, and I think that like she well, I mean,
like if you like the It's it's hard, like when
(15:41):
you talk about New Jersey, it's really you're on one
side or the other and you and you just have
to be on your camp and you just have to
defend it. And I just feel like I'm like, I've
looked at the evidence and I have to say, I
have to be on team Melissa on this one.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
But see, Diamond, why are you on team of Teresa?
Speaker 5 (15:56):
Teresa? Just because I think that you already said this
to Teresa may not be the smartest person, right, so
we're gonna give her a little bit of wiggle room here. Yeah,
if Melissa knows better, then she should do better. Right,
And so why do you continue to put yourself and
your husband at this point or allow your husband to
put you whatever way you want to look at it,
in this situation where you cannot stand his sister? Okay,
(16:18):
so why do you decide to work with her? I
don't get it, Like it's like, do better and Johnie
was there first. So at the end of the day,
if there's somebody who should leave the show, should be
the person who didn't contribute as much. And that's it.
Speaker 8 (16:30):
Cool, Well, Melissa is definitely not as good of a
reality star as Teresa. But I think that we're about
to see the new era of Melissa, because Melissa spent
the past decade trying to sort of do this quasi.
I just want the family to be together. I just
want to be friends. I want my brother to have
as sister back. And now she's like I said, you
(16:53):
know what, I don't care anymore. I'm sick of trying
to pretend like I actually care about this person. And
I think we can get the real Melissa now, which
will be compleey more interesting perhaps or a hair flip.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Look.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Congratulations again on the award the twenty twenty four iHeart
Radio Podcast Awards the.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
What category was it? Okay? Best pop culture podcast? Would
I don't want to set up?
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Of course, Ben and his partner ron is he your
partner or your partner?
Speaker 8 (17:24):
He is my he's my work partner partner. Although I
love him, I love Ronnie, but we're not.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
The podcast we want. We want everyone to take part
in Watch What Crappens. You can get it on the
iHeart Radio app and wherever you get your podcasts. Ben, Uh,
when everyone found out you were coming in, it really
it lit it lit the fire I mean, especially with
Diamond and Andrew.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Thank you so much for coming in.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Thank you so much for having me. This has really
been great.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
All Right, we can put the furniture back where it
was now. Thank you. Ben, have a great day. Thank you.
The fifteen min In Morning Show
What would you talk about on your on your podcast?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Fine, Sylvie.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Fifteen Morning Show.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Well, okay, this is the fifteen minute Morning Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
We're still trying to get it together.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
I wanted you to hear what it's like behind the
scenes trying to get this ship to come together.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Wait, Gandhi's rolling a chair around to the other side
of the room.
Speaker 5 (00:27):
Back.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
What's going see we have a guest, Ben Mandelker.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Is how you say your name?
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Yeah, Ben mandel Car Yeah, So we have a guest here.
So we have a guest in here. It throws everything
off off the track. So Ben, we're doing this just
for you. I just want you to be impressed. But
the with it, all right, there's a reason why Ben
is here. We'll get to that as soon as we
get they figured out. All right, So the rule of
thumb on the fifteen minute Morning Show podcast is I'm
(00:53):
at home. We're all on zoom. If I don't see
you, you can't be on the podcast.
Speaker 6 (00:58):
All right, I'm out, Bye, everybody, No, get a camera.
Speaker 7 (01:01):
We're doing it.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Around the studio so many times.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Getting the camera. We're not doing a podcast without Gandhi. Ben,
you want to come back tomorrow forgure.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
That's fine.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I'm here all week, Gandhi.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Aren't you coming here with me?
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Okay, okay, okay, the chairs being rolled up to Okay,
there you go, beautiful.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
So I see scary and I don't see scary. Now,
nobody's eliminating for the podcast, I'm your spirit. All good?
Speaker 4 (01:30):
No, you can talk. I'm kidding anyway. Welcome to the
fifteen Minute Morning Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I can hear.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
You need a microphone, Gandhi, you need a microphone. You
need to be hurt.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
What's up?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
All right?
Speaker 4 (01:42):
By the way, fifteen minutes over? Thank you for listening.
All right, So it was what several weeks ago, Uh,
Andrew and Scottie scurried scurried out to the iHeartRadio Podcast Awards. Right, Yes,
they were up for an award for the Serial Killers podcast.
They did not win. No, they did not win.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
But we did find someone who did win.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
The co host of Watch What Crappens, the winner of
the Best Pop Culture Podcast at the twenty twenty four
iHeartRadio Podcast Awards, Ben Mandelker, is here.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Hi, Ben, hih wow. Oh, thank you, thank you so much. Everyone.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
All right, so you and Ron co host the Watch
What Crappens podcast. Tell everyone what it's about if they've
never caught it.
Speaker 8 (02:31):
So the Watch for Crappins podcast. It's a comedy pop
culture podcast. We focus on Bravo TV. We put out
a million episodes a week, usually fives maybe eight episodes,
and we just we basically recap everything on Bravo, every
single thing. But we also sometimes will do like Game
of Thrones, which is not unlike the Real Housewives, I'd
like to add. And you know, we've done like selling
(02:53):
Sunset or like we've sort of gone off network here
and there, but we're basically we're into Bravo.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Wow, Bravo must love you.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
You know.
Speaker 8 (03:02):
At first, I don't think that they did. At first,
they just saw us as this podcast that made fun
of them. But then I think they realized that actually,
we like are obsessed with Bravo and they're like, oh
wait a second, Yeah, so I think that Bravo likes us.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Now, where did Gandhi go?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
She's rolling around a nomad.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
This is what you're gonna look like when you have
one of those old people's like what are those things?
Rascal study Cam? Okay, so when Diamond found out you
were coming in today. Ben, she wet herself. You don't understand, okay,
because she is our local Bravo freak.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Okay, talk to Ben. Do you listen to Ben's podcast?
Of course?
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Are you kidding? Ben and I just spent thirty minutes
talking about everything Real Housewives. I had to let him
know specifically Real Housewives is my thing, okay, and we
chatted it up so much that Anne looked like he
didn't know what was going on. But we'll save that
for another time.
Speaker 8 (04:03):
I'm a light Real Housewives watcher, I would say listening
to your podcast.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I was telling Gandhi and Danielle this.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
I was saying, sometimes I just listened to the podcast
instead of watching the episodes because the impressions are really
what does.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
It for me? We get a lot of that.
Speaker 8 (04:16):
Actually, we get a lot of people who are like,
I can't watch this show anymore, but I'm gonna listen
to you guys.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I'll just stay up to date with you guys.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
So in a way, yeah, but you're kind of bending
it into your opinion of what you with what happens
on the episode, so it's really through the eyes of
you and Ron.
Speaker 8 (04:32):
Yeah, basically, what we do is we just like recap
we say this is what happened, And then a lot
of times we just do these ridiculous impersonations that sound
really nothing like the Real Housewives, but we just do
them anyway, and people like it and so and then
we like pepper it in and sometimes we get into
like really the stupidest arguments, like the amount of arguments
we get into over Summer house talking about like Tim
(04:53):
Carl Team Lindsay and like for like three months we
have an argument about it and we get all into it.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
But it's great.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
How wife or someone from Bravo on these shows ever
confronted you? Did you ever meet them and what was
what happened?
Speaker 8 (05:05):
We've met several of them and they are almost all down.
They I mean, we've never heard. We've never had a
face to face, you know, confrontation where someone's like, shut
the hell up. We have recently had an issue with
a real housewife. I don't know, do you guys watch
the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Never that I do that one I do.
Speaker 8 (05:24):
So there was a big controversy on the recent season
where this woman Monica, who's a new cast member.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
It turns out she's pretty much like a con artists and.
Speaker 8 (05:36):
Okay, she's like a grifter con artist, and she had
secretly been maintaining like a troll account on Instagram and
had been like harassing her castmates for like three years, and.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
You know, so it came awesome.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
It came out in the season finale.
Speaker 8 (05:55):
It was probably the best season finale, Like, it was
such a good piece of television. If it does not
win an Emmy, I'm totally soon it should be going
up against the Yellowstone.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
But we should steal that idea.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
So it was really it was just start talking each
other ahead.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
So the rest of our castmates hate her, and so
what we do is on our podcast every year we
throw an award show and we give out awards for like,
you know, like best show, but also best Villain, best Newbie,
things like that, you know. And so we nominated Monica
as like best Newby and maybe maybe one or two
other categories best Villain. And Heather Gay, who we have
(06:35):
a relationship with. She's really cool. I'm a fan of
Heather Gay on the show, but she was so mad
that we nominated her in our fake award show that.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
She she followed us.
Speaker 8 (06:49):
Followed the podcast she unfollowed Ronnie and she unfollowed me,
and I'm like.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
But you know, this isn't a real award show, right,
Like the award show. Isn't it called the.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Golden cra Why would be upset because someone else was
nominated for the Golden Crappies.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Maybe she wanted a Golden Crappy and.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
She was nominated. I think she even won one.
Speaker 8 (07:08):
But like, listen, I love her. If she wants to
follow me again, she can follow me. We can, we can,
we cannot, we can hug it out. But I'm like,
are you really upset right now about the Golden Crappies.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
I mean, come on, girl, this is what I'm loving, Ben,
I'm loving that so many people take these shows so seriously. Yeah,
I know, I know, Diamond does. I mean she comes
in looking all pissed off some days?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
What's wrong? Did did something happen with your family? No?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Did you see Real Housewives of Brother? I'm like, really, yeah,
I feel that.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I feel that.
Speaker 8 (07:39):
And by the way, I just want to say, We've
been doing our little award show for like over ten years,
and now I can officially say it.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
It's no longer a fake award show.
Speaker 8 (07:46):
Because now that we have someone who got mad about
the nominations means that's an official, real award show. It's real,
it matters.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
How great? All right?
Speaker 4 (07:59):
So so Diamond, what what do you want to pick
Ben's brain about?
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Honey? Okay, So we started a conversation outside about favorite
seasons of different franchises. We've bonded on the fact that
we both love Rony Real Housewives of New York and
I'm not gonna I don't agree with the favorite seasons.
His are what one through three and then eight?
Speaker 8 (08:22):
I think my probably, I think my favorite season is
like one through thirteen or no, I think like season
eight I think is my favorite. I may have the
number wrong, but is the season where Countess Luanne got
engaged in a whirlwind romance with Tom Dugastino. It's just
it's such an amazing, amazing just a series of episodes.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
You don't you don't even.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
Know it sound like real plot, you know the guy.
Speaker 8 (08:49):
No, it's actually a different Dagastino, which I mean this willman.
Countess Luanne, she went from.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Being she's a real countess, she was a real account
Her husband was a descendant of someone who created like
the Panama Canal.
Speaker 7 (09:07):
Did she give herself the countess.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
So she married into it.
Speaker 8 (09:11):
She married into it, and she was very prim and proper,
and she used to be all about manners in class.
She released a book called Class with a Countess. They
got divorced. They got divorced, and she sort of like
then decided she had a whirlwind romance with this guy
Tomda Gassino, who is not a supermarket heir. And then
they got divorced, and then she decided to become a
(09:32):
cabaret singer. And uh, but then she got arrested.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
You can't make it up.
Speaker 8 (09:40):
Actually, she got arrested, and then when she got when
she after that whole thing happened, she sort of like
resurrected herself as a cabaret star.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
And wait, wait, why was she arrested?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Then?
Speaker 8 (09:52):
Well, according to her, she just had a few too
many drinks in Palm on Palm Beach at a hotel.
But I don't know, like there was she was apparently
wasted at this hotel and the staff had to like
call security and she was hauled. She was hauled out
of the hotel in handcuffs, and they have this on security.
(10:14):
She got out of the handcuffs and as she's doing it,
she tells the police officers, I'm gonna.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Kill you all.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Oh, oh my god, oh time for it.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
And then she goes and she's.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
For a reset, countess.
Speaker 8 (10:27):
And then she goes on camera and talks about her
night of incarceration and how they gave her a blowney
sandwich that had a mustard backet in it.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Oh that sounds awesome. Sound she's really been through it.
I have met her.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
I was on Good Day New York with Rosanna Scotto
and their friends and I met her. She was very, very,
very nice, very and I think she had just stopped
drinking at that point, or she said she was stopping.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
But anyway, she's my favorite housewife of all time.
Speaker 8 (10:52):
Okay, all right, yeah, yeah, no, just because that whole trajectory.
How do you go from being like a countess who's
all about manners to now now she's like on TV
talking about By the way, we didn't mention that she
also slept with a pirate in the middle of it.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Pirate pirate who looks like Johnny Depp, say.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
A real pirate like rob ships and things, well, but
someone who dresses like it on ironically.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
Okay, how is it on ironic ever?
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Well?
Speaker 8 (11:25):
Meaning that like, most people dress like a pirate if
they're going to a costume party, and this guy was
just dressing like a pirate because it was his Look.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
Oh, who is the most bizarre? I mean it would
be hard to top this one. Who's the most bizarre
housewife of all of them?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
The most bizarre housewife? Gosh, there's so many. Okay, let's see.
I may diamond.
Speaker 8 (11:44):
We may have to do some like thinking here about
who's because like Rony has a bunch of I feel
like there's some really really weird one that's like we
can't overlook.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
I feel like it's on the in front of you.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
It's Mary Cosby.
Speaker 8 (11:57):
The Mary Cosby. She run's an alleged cult and she's
married to her her grandmother's husband.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 8 (12:11):
I knew there was something I didn't want to go for,
like another low hanging fruit that was it's Mary.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
None of this is real?
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Are great?
Speaker 8 (12:19):
Though?
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I really are?
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I mean you think about it for me.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
One of the biggest blow ups last year in all
reality TV was on vander Pomp with Scanna. All right,
so here we are almost a year later. Uh, what
do you know what's going on with these people? Do
they look back and laugh and say, oh, that was
some great TV. Are they all paleling around in the
background and they're all friends? Because I know there was
a lot of ship that hit the fan.
Speaker 8 (12:41):
I don't, so I don't think that like Tom and
Arianna our friends at all and they never will be
ever again.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (12:48):
I mean I think that, Like I think what we're
saying on the season right now is like a bunch
of the castmates are like, Okay, we hate Tom Sandoval,
but we have to film with them, so we just
have to like figure this out because we're not going
to ruin our jobs and we're not going to ruin
hour show because you high five each other at.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Some point be like, yeah, look, we got all the
press last year.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
I'm sure. I'm sure. I'm sure. Like Laala and James, like,
I'm sure James was like at.
Speaker 8 (13:11):
Home, like did you see the headlines right here on
the page up paste.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
You know, like I'm sure he was doing a victory lap.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Well, of course that was huge.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
But I think what put all of that on the
map for me was when Teresa flipped the table on
New Jersey.
Speaker 8 (13:26):
Well that's classic Teresa. I mean flipping that table that
was Brava will Bravo will literally bring out that clip
whenever they can, like you could lose. You could be
watching vander Pump Rules and like Tom's hand of Wall
be like you don't understanding hard is for me, and
brov will be like yeah, like the time that Teresa
flipped the table, and they'll like that's the whole of
the show.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Well, now, it wasn't that long ago.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
She was a part of our show by calling in
to one of the Bravo people who was with.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Me and Joe Gorga, and those people were standing by
in the background.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
And she was calling them like eating their ear.
Speaker 7 (14:05):
As the interview was going on, her name popped up
on the phone she was calling, so I was like
over and over.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Yeah, like a podcast.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
We were live on the radio at the time.
Speaker 7 (14:14):
I think because she heard Melissa and Joe, she was
probably like, well, I'd like my you know, one equal time.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
Like it's a whole season and we have to give
all the candidate flipping a table is so insane.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Yeah, that Teresa.
Speaker 8 (14:30):
I mean Teresa is not a very smart person, but
she has given us years of great television, years and
years and years and years.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
She is still she has still the star of that show.
Speaker 8 (14:40):
I mean, I I'm not like a huge Teresa fan,
but yeah, I'm team Melissa.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
To be honest, honey, I know, I'm sorry.
Speaker 8 (14:49):
I wish I had a better hero on that, but yeah,
I am team I think that's I think Teresa is
like a monster.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Well she's a monster.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
I actually made a comment Melissa was here.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
I it's my dream for one day you, Melissa and Teresa,
when you're a bunch of old broads living down in
West Palm Beach. I want to see you sitting on
the front porch together, laughing, getting drunk, drinking your wine,
getting your son and being friends again.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
And Melissa looked at me, that ain't happening. Okay, no,
that's tried.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
They've been very nice to me personally when I've seen them.
I'm not I'm like, I have to say either one.
I've heard Teresa is the nicest person. Actually, everyone I
know who's met or said that she is like literally
the sweetest person. But I maintain that sweet people can
be monsters, and I think that like she well, I mean,
like if you like the It's it's hard, like when
(15:41):
you talk about New Jersey, it's really you're on one
side or the other and you and you just have
to be on your camp and you just have to
defend it. And I just feel like I'm like, I've
looked at the evidence and I have to say, I
have to be on team Melissa on this one.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
But see, Diamond, why are you on team of Teresa?
Speaker 5 (15:56):
Teresa? Just because I think that you already said this
to Teresa may not be the smartest person, right, so
we're gonna give her a little bit of wiggle room here. Yeah,
if Melissa knows better, then she should do better. Right,
And so why do you continue to put yourself and
your husband at this point or allow your husband to
put you whatever way you want to look at it,
in this situation where you cannot stand his sister? Okay,
(16:18):
so why do you decide to work with her? I
don't get it, Like it's like, do better and Johnie
was there first. So at the end of the day,
if there's somebody who should leave the show, should be
the person who didn't contribute as much. And that's it.
Speaker 8 (16:30):
Cool, Well, Melissa is definitely not as good of a
reality star as Teresa. But I think that we're about
to see the new era of Melissa, because Melissa spent
the past decade trying to sort of do this quasi.
I just want the family to be together. I just
want to be friends. I want my brother to have
as sister back. And now she's like I said, you
(16:53):
know what, I don't care anymore. I'm sick of trying
to pretend like I actually care about this person. And
I think we can get the real Melissa now, which
will be compleey more interesting perhaps or a hair flip.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Look.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Congratulations again on the award the twenty twenty four iHeart
Radio Podcast Awards the.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
What category was it? Okay? Best pop culture podcast? Would
I don't want to set up?
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Of course, Ben and his partner ron is he your
partner or your partner?
Speaker 8 (17:24):
He is my he's my work partner partner. Although I
love him, I love Ronnie, but we're not.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
The podcast we want. We want everyone to take part
in Watch What Crappens. You can get it on the
iHeart Radio app and wherever you get your podcasts. Ben, Uh,
when everyone found out you were coming in, it really
it lit it lit the fire I mean, especially with
Diamond and Andrew.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Thank you so much for coming in.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Thank you so much for having me. This has really
been great.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
All Right, we can put the furniture back where it
was now. Thank you. Ben, have a great day. Thank you.
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