In a change of pace, Sara and Rosalinda get to break down the relatively drama-free Sundance City girls in action. They first take a look at the infamous Stew-Chainz and get a sneak peek into Whitney and Justin's home life if you know what I mean... They discuss the technicalities of the "grandpa MFer" comment by Jen and try to wrap their minds around how Mary knows nothing about her cousin, who also happens to be their maid?! Next, they look at the main event - Shah's Sundance party or rather - Operation get Heather laid. In true Housewives fashion, the duo talks gossip about whether or not Lisa Barlow really is the "Queen of Sundance" or rather just the Queen of too many tequilas...(plz sponsor us VIDA!). Moving along, they start to talk about Brooks' self-titled fashion line and wonder how far his Adidas knockoffs will go. Finally, the two discuss the viability of the franchise in the future and how it compares to other franchises at the moment.
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In a change of pace, Sara and Rosalinda get to break down the relatively drama-free Sundance City girls in action. They first take a look at the infamous Stew-Chainz and get a sneak peek into Whitney and Justin's home life if you know what I mean... They discuss the technicalities of the "grandpa MFer" comment by Jen and try to wrap their minds around how Mary knows nothing about her cousin, who also happens to be their maid?! Next, they look at the main event - Shah's Sundance party or rather - Operation get Heather laid. In true Housewives fashion, the duo talks gossip about whether or not Lisa Barlow really is the "Queen of Sundance" or rather just the Queen of too many tequilas...(plz sponsor us VIDA!). Moving along, they start to talk about Brooks' self-titled fashion line and wonder how far his Adidas knockoffs will go. Finally, the two discuss the viability of the franchise in the future and how it compares to other franchises at the moment.
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Hey guys! Welcome back to Met Gala luncheon. I'm your host, Sarah Van Tuerenhout, and I'm joined
Rosalinda Mendez:Rosalinda!
Sara Van Tuerenhout:And this is the podcast where we break down our favorite reality TV shows and dive into the craziness that ensues. This week, we're looking at The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, Episode Six,"Sundance city."
Rosalinda Mendez:And now we're getting to the crux of everything because literally, we kept hearing about Sundance, from so many different people.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:Mainly Lisa. But yes, I'm excited to see Sundance. Honestly, besides that it's a film festival, and like some great movies go through there. I didn't know it was this big, big ordeal.
Rosalinda Mendez:Oh, yeah. I mean, Sundance is giant. So it was started by Robert Redford, I think back in the 90s, and it has been the place for indie film. It's the place that most independent small films get picked up and distributed. So it is a thing but it's now become... every time it becomes it's kind of like a little bit like it's got the same kind of reputation in terms of getting bigger, kind of like South by Southwest got bigger, because South by Southwest used to just be a bunch of bands come into play a lot of indie bands coming. So that could be seen by A&R people, kind of the same thing was happening with the films that were coming to Sundance, and it's just kind of blossomed. So it's getting bigger and bigger. So you have all kinds of, you know, big gatherings of different kinds of filmmakers, different kinds of writers, actors, activists, things like that are now having like, breakout sessions. So it's not just about the films that are coming. So yeah...
Sara Van Tuerenhout:Yeah. Because like when Lisa's called the Sundance Queen, like in my head Sundance is, like you said, an indie kind of Film Festival, and when I look at Lisa, she doesn't scream indie.
Rosalinda Mendez:Right, no, but you know, she's all about throwing a party...
Sara Van Tuerenhout:True. But we start this episode off with a sneak peek into Jen Shah. We finally get to see her in an office.
Rosalinda Mendez:Right, even though it's a little bit silly.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:Yeah, we see her assistant Stewart who she lovingly calls Stew-Chainz...
Rosalinda Mendez:Because he got drunk at a Sundance party and pretended to be a rapper.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:Yeah, and we see also Jen is rollerskating around her office, and is trying to do the hula hoop. She's having a great time. But I was actually just surprised to see her in an office, and clearly she does.... she has like some marketing firm.
Rosalinda Mendez:Yeah, but it's again, still not clear. I mean, the thing is, is like it's one thing to have a marketing firm and have a staff. But I still don't understand why she has eight assistants. I mean, I know a lot of executives here in Houston that run oil companies, and they don't have eight assistants. It seems like a marketing person probably should maybe have one, maybe two.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:But I mean, do they have someone at home?
Rosalinda Mendez:Maybe. But I'm not sure that they have this many people running around saying they're your assistant, and then you've got a main one, which is Stew-. So...
Sara Van Tuerenhout:*interjects* Stew-Chainz...
Rosalinda Mendez:Stew-Chainz the rapper. So yeah, so that was interesting. You're right, and yeah, and then we kind of move over...
Sara Van Tuerenhout:*interjects* To Mary because we can't have Jen without our polar opposite Mary. It's a little yin and yang situation. When you have one scene of Jen, you must balance that with the scene of Mary, and here Mary just keeps digging her grave. She just keeps peeling back her layers and I just want to stop. I don't want to see any more. Please. Save yourself.
Rosalinda Mendez:Right. Just don't say anything.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:Yeah, she just needs to be quiet because every time she opens her mouth, she just says some more outrageous things because we see the scene. I believe she's getting ready for I believe Justin's party that's Whitney's husband.
Rosalinda Mendez:He's having his 50th birthday.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:50th birthday.
Rosalinda Mendez:So it's gonna be a blowout.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:Yes, and she's getting ready, and you... we see her maid, which I believe her name is Charlinda.
Rosalinda Mendez:Yeah, I believe so.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:And we've seen her in a couple other episodes. But now we actually get to know a little bit more about her probably all that Mary knows about her. As we'll talk about in a sec, but she is her Mary's grandmother's brother's child. So this maid is related to Mary.
Rosalinda Mendez:Right, and she kind of introduces her in that somehow she came over to give a gift to Robert senior......Or junior, sorry, and fell in love with
Sara Van Tuerenhout:*interjects* Junior him. Which I'm assuming she just thought he was the cutest thing in the world, and then never left. Yeah, and decided to just drop her life and become a maid. That just sounds a little weird to me and my idea of family like I wouldn't make my family work for me.
Rosalinda Mendez:Yeah, well, I mean, the thing is I guess I mean, the way it sounded to me was like, maybe she came over, they got to, you know, talking, maybe, maybe Charlinda said she needed some help, and Mary's like, Oh, I can hire you, which I mean, I can see family helping family. But the thing that's just crazy to me is that, you know, she's dancing around with her, like having fun doing all this stuff, and then she very just casually says, like, or not not even casually, in some ways, it's like very hard, and she says, you know, well, I don't know anything about her life, you know, except for what she does for me. I don't know, any backstory. I don't know anything about it like that, and then she has, but at the end of the day, we're family, and I'm like, That makes no sense. Because if she is your family, you know about her, all of her family because they're YOUR family.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:Yeah, the whole thing just felt very callous, and just gave us further insight into the self absorbed nature of Mary, like we thought Lisa was self absorbed. At least Lisa kinda shows interest in other people occasionally. We haven't really seen an instance where Mary shows interest in someone else and asking about someone else, because truly, if you think about it, all of our scenes with Mary has been her talking about her, and how she's better than other people, and that everyone's jealous of her. So she really has this like, you know, narcissistic personality.
Rosalinda Mendez:Yeah. Because part of it is, is that even though when she was trying to help Whitney with her dad, and she said, Bring him to my church, and we will pray for him. It was kind of clear that that was like supposed to be like, I don't know, part of the show. Like, here's me. Look how great I am. I'm bringing my friends here. I'm doing the circle of love around him. But didn't we even mention she didn't even remember his name?
Sara Van Tuerenhout:Yeah, she didn't even bother to learn his name, and like, I don't even know this man, and I know his name is Steve. Hopefully, otherwise, that's very embarrassing for me. But yeah, it's just if you're going to pray for someone and asking, you know, I don't know for God's help or something. Like why would you even bother to learn... Like, "hey, Whitney, what's your dad's name?"
Rosalinda Mendez:Yeah, I was to me, it that just was like a little bit of a, aha, that's why Why is she? This just seems to be self aggrandizing for her, and this is a good prop, and you know, it's probably a good thing to film, because it made her seem like a very caring individual. But as we're finding out episode to episode is that she doesn't give any F's about anybody except herself.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:Yeah, absolutely not. I just, I don't know. It really leaves a sick feeling in my stomach, how she's treating Charlinda, because that's family, and she's now worked there for what, 17, 18 years? And this, like, why wouldn't you just help a family member out and give them money? Or like I get maybe hiring them to like work around the church, but like, be at your beck and call make your beds like that?
Rosalinda Mendez:I know, she's really treating her like she's an indentured servant.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:Yeah, the whole thing just kind of feels messed up to me, and just further shows how she sees anyone, really below her socioeconomic status. Anyone that's not her is below her in every way and don't deserve her respect or want like, her attention.
Rosalinda Mendez:Yeah. So. So, I mean, so yeah, so the thing is, is it's just very, it's disconcerting seeing all the things she's done, and, you know, lately things have come out. In terms of her behavior. There's, there was a supposedly a leaked tape of her talking about some poor people in the congregation who got together to give her a gift, and she was basically like, it wasn't she was, you know, it wasn't worthy of her, and she didn't think it was good enough, and...
Sara Van Tuerenhout:*interjects* Because it was cheap or
Rosalinda Mendez:Yeah. So my thing is, is that literally, she something. can't even appreciate a gift from someone who's not of her socioeconomic background, and to me, the more and more that comes out, and like the fact that she's trying to sue people and trying to get things taken off of websites and all these things. So she's really trying to curate who she wants people to see her as, but it's really clear that that's just not her.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:Yeah, she just clearly is not a nice person and only cares about herself, which only further makes me believe that she did kind of contrive this whole relationship with Robert Sr., which I talked about in a previous episode. So if you want to know my thoughts on that, check out Episode Three, I believe. But yeah, I don't know. I I can't imagine it getting any worse. But as we know, with all Housewives, it can always get worse.
Rosalinda Mendez:Yeah, there should be kind of... something in stone that says that it can always get worse.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:It really can. But then we move on to kind of more fun topic, Justin's kind of club party that Whitney throwing for his 50th birthday.
Rosalinda Mendez:Yeah, it's really funny. You can kind of see, you know that Justin got the girl he wanted. He wanted a girl who could throw down and have fun.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:Oh, yeah. I mean, like, the first thing we see at this party, I believe is at Whitney's house, and you see him taking body shots off of Whitney. So I mean, you know, it's gonna be a good night.
Rosalinda Mendez:Yeah, their pregame was pretty amazing...
Sara Van Tuerenhout:And then you have a party bus with I believe, a stripper pole, and then they drive up to this big mega mansion, which apparently is owned by the real Queen of Sundance, but I you know, we'll give it to Lisa. But you know, wink wink, nudge nudge.
Rosalinda Mendez:Yeah, no, and so but you know, and basically this friend of hers always lends the house out. So they always kind of start at Whitney's, take the party bus, and then end up at the mansion, having a good time. But, yeah, it looked like yeah, an episode of Girls Gone Wild. But I mean, but again, you see him and he is so in love with her, and he is like having so much fun, and it's just very light. I mean, you can see why they're together.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:No, 100%, and I obviously, you know, we don't know, the background 100%, you know, on a personal level of how they got together. But, you know, seeing them as they are now I can't imagine why you would hate this couple.
Rosalinda Mendez:Right, and all the ladies are showing up to this party.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:Yeah. and actually, surprisingly, barring one incident, we'll talk about just after this. But everyone actually seemed to be pretty civil, and were nice, and it didn't end in a huge blowout, which was surprising that they even aired the party in general, maybe it was just because of the body shots, because everyone was actually being really nice, and it was actually very pleasant to watch.
Rosalinda Mendez:Yeah, except you had the best part of this whole thing with, you know, Jen, again, you want to be team Jen all the way, and then Jen will do something kind of silly, where she's talking about. Basically, she's rewriting history. I mean, she's telling the truth. I mean, is she telling the truth? Yes, but come on. You know, she's like, I never called, you know, you know, Mary an MFer, and then it's like, Yes, you did. It's on tape, and then her whole technical things like, Well, I didn't say it to her face.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:Well, yeah, we well we learned that part from Watch What Happens L!ve when Andy kind of questioned her about it. But yeah, in the moment, we see Mary go up to Jen, and ask, Hey, what was that whole thing about? and then clearly, neither of them want to mend fences...
Rosalinda Mendez:Right. But I think the thing is that even in that episode, Jen is still kind of like, I didn't say it to you. I mean, she even then says, I never said that to you, and it's like, Yeah, but the whole restaurant could hear it, and on Watch What Happens L!ve. She was like, oh, there was lots of music and whatever, and I was like, Yeah....
Sara Van Tuerenhout:*interjects* But everyone turned their heads when that happened.
Rosalinda Mendez:Like you were not that far away, and it well,
Sara Van Tuerenhout:It was rude, but it was true. But I'm you just made a scene. So people heard it, and if they didn't hear it, they heard it by people talking about it, who did hear glad they didn't let the fight blow up Justin's party. it. So it was a thing, and the fact that she now is just trying to say, well, because I never said it to your face. Well, it doesn't matter if you didn't say it to her face. You said it, and it was just rude and out of place. So...
Rosalinda Mendez:And again, we can just be curious as to who Heather which grandpa Heather did.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:I know. I'm so intrigued. Please, Heather. Drop a photo. I want to see this man.
Rosalinda Mendez:Exactly. So yeah, so that was that was short but interesting. You know, the thing is, I guess, again, I mean, I gotta say, if I'm one of these Housewives, I'm liking the editing if I'm Whitney. Because like literally, they have not done anything to Whitney. I mean, they sometimes make or seem a little bit silly, and a little bit, you know, like party girl-ish. But you know what, she's just light hearted and fun.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:Yeah, I mean, honestly, I wouldn't even take that as a negative editing shot of her. I, I do remember seeing some preview episodes from I think before the season dropped. It was like the, you know, little teaser and we do see Heather and Whitney getting, not between each other, but like getting into some heated words with other people. So I am actually kinda excited to see them get into the drama because let's be honest, we all watch the show for the drama. We don't care if these people are actually friends. We want to see it go down. But speaking of it going down, kind of we go to Jen's Sundance party.
Rosalinda Mendez:Yeah, and this is my favorite part because Bravo, we love a crossover. So we get some Vanderpump rules people that are coming in. So Lala and Katie come in, because they're both from Utah, and so they get invited to Jen's party because Jen's cousin has done a film about a rap group in Salt Lake City, and he's a documentarian, and so she's having the VIP party.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:Yeah, she's having the VIP viewing party, and it's actually an all around pleasant, pleasant event. Again, I guess the the ladies really pull it together for Sundance week, and are kind of civil, because pretty much the whole arc, I guess, if you want to call it for this party is kind of focusing on Heather's dating or really sex life, which actually is really interesting to see Heather out into the wild.
Rosalinda Mendez:Yeah, the funny thing is, is that you she goes on, like might go, this is this is a party for my cousin, and you know, he's doing all these great things and whatever, and then later, they're like, Oh, no, this is just a party to get Heather laid.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:Oh, yeah. Yeah, and like Heather outright says, "Oh, yeah, I'm just looking for sex. I don't really care about love," and there's some background on that, that I would like to touch on, which we before the party, there is a scene with Heather and Whitney, they went to go to a bar, and they were talking about kind of Heather's dating life in Utah, which kind of is stinted because she's a divorced woman and someone her age and her, I guess you could call it status or marriage status of being divorced, doesn't lend itself to a lot of options in the dating pool, unfortunately, in Salt Lake City. So I'm kind of glad that you know, she's feeling herself and she's out there, and, yeah, she's not looking for a relationship, but at least you know, she can still have a good time.
Rosalinda Mendez:Yeah, and you kind of see Heather's again, we talked about this before, where she really has this, somehow she feels like it's a stigma that she's divorced. She also, you get a little bit of an understanding, too, when she's talking to her children, because they're talking about going to church, and, you know, they're like, we don't want to go to church, because basically, people look at us as sinners, and you know, it's not as exciting, and yet Heather even says, you know, everybody was, we were all kind of in the circle until we got divorced, and even though, you know, we're still have the money, and we still are doing okay, whereas, you know, the kids don't get invited to the same parties, and she kind of feels like that's kind of extended to her and her dating life. So she's just pretty much cemented the fact that she can't date in Salt Lake City.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:Yeah, and I think also she has this kind of skewed outlook on love, because she's, she says she's never really been in love, and except for one time when she was 15, and it was unrequited. So she's never, you know, been in love where both parties are in love with each other.
Rosalinda Mendez:Right, and this is where she says she feels like she has common ground with Mary. Right, where she says, like, we married for faith, right? So she wanted to marry into Mormon royalty. So she did, and, you know, so that was she picked her faith over her actual feelings.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:Yeah. But it doesn't stop her from getting down.
Rosalinda Mendez:No, it doesn't. So the good thing is, is, since Lala and Katie are in town, they try to give her a little pep talk while she's there, like trying to make sure that she understands that, hey, you may not be looking for love. Like Mr. Right, you're looking for Mr. Right now. So they sent her over to deal with a techie guy that was working on the film, well and her game is pretty bad.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:Oh, yeah. I mean, she came on so strong, and she was just talking about, oh, how big your *his* equipment is, and it was just I don't know.
Rosalinda Mendez:Yeah, like first she kind of says, Hey, I like that projector, and he's like, it's a printer. Or maybe it was the other way around.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:No. Yeah. She thought it was a printer, and he was like, it's a projector, and she wouldn't shut up about how big it was, and how, Oh, I didn't see it. I didn't see you behind it because your equipment was so big, and...
Rosalinda Mendez:Yeah, her game is bad. Like, Heather. I know. I think she needs to go hang out with Katie and Lala a little bit to get her game back on.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:Because like my thing there though. It's I mean, I'm obviously like, I'm sure the dating pool is kind of small due to how kind of judgmental it is there. But part of me is wondering if it's just because she has no game. She can't find anyone.
Rosalinda Mendez:I know. Like, I just she was lucky. There was an out of town guy who obviously was horny and like it was like...
Sara Van Tuerenhout:I know. I mean, clearly it shows you that. It is not hard to get laid if you're straight.
Rosalinda Mendez:I guess so. Yeah, it was it was to me it was really interesting that they that they kind of went there and I just love the fact that she goes, "I had to snap him up before some other Cougar comes and takes him. I'm like
Sara Van Tuerenhout:*interjects* She's like, "we got to go right literally.... now. It's like she was enacting some fire drill. Like, we gotta go. We gotta go right now. Let's go. Let's go. Like out the door out the door. It's just like, you know what? Good for her. I'm happy she got laid, and is having a good time.
Rosalinda Mendez:Yeah, no, yeah, way to go. Heather!
Sara Van Tuerenhout:And Jen's goal of getting Heather laid, which was apparently the whole purpose of the party was successful. So the party was a success.
Rosalinda Mendez:Yeah, sounds like the film was good. Heather got laid. There were no major fights at the party. It was all good.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:Yeah. Which speaking again, of the crossover, we have with Lala and Katie, there's a little bit of gossip controversy that I always like to sprinkle in here now, and there is this thing where Katie kind of shaded Lisa saying she'd never heard of her before, because she's from...
Rosalinda Mendez:*interjects* Park City.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:Yeah. So she would know the Sundance players, and she was like, I've never heard of Lisa Barlow before.
Rosalinda Mendez:I know, and Katie would also pride herself on like, you know, knowing all the movers and shakers since you know, clearly you know, her husband Tom is part of TomTom and, and they actually talk about going to Salt Lake City a lot. Like, it seems like often on Vanderpump rules, the girls will do girls trips and go to Salt Lake City, and before I think the last couple of seasons, they've talked about the fact now that they've got a little bit money in their pocket that they're buying houses in Salt Lake City. So and you know, Lala was there because she was doing her own film debut, because her husband Rand is a movie director and producer. So she was there for her film. So it was, it was it was a good crossover, and but you know, again, and you know, the Vanderpump rules, kids, you know, they are going to be out for shade all the time, and I would not go try to go into a shade contest with any of those kids, because they're going to beat you every time.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:So I mean, do you believe her? Do you think that Lisa Barlow is not really the queen of Sundance?
Rosalinda Mendez:I believe that she's the second person who said that because like basically, Whitney straight up said that when she was talking about her friend.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:Oh, the other woman.
Rosalinda Mendez:Yeah, and so like, don't tell Lisa. But like, literally, I think that's just her moniker because that's kind of her thing, and so she was like, Well, she's probably the queen of Sundance, to the other cast members of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:But like the Sundance people, probably. She's probably mid-tier you think?
Rosalinda Mendez:She's like an event planner. I mean, she does a lot of stuff. I wouldn't say she was the queen of Sundance, I think because she does a lot of events for a lot of different companies. She can get people extra tickets, she can get people in and it looks like she does really well at her job. I'm not trying to shade her business at all, I think...
Sara Van Tuerenhout:*interjects* Oh no, I mean, the shots we saw of the events were really cool. Like they had that, like peelable sticker lotto type thing that was similar to the McDonald's monopoly.
Rosalinda Mendez:Yeah, and she's got some free labor in the husband.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:Yeah. Where I love how she prepped him for that interview asking about "Oh, like, how do you like working for your wife?" And he was like,"Oh, well, she's a great boss. I love working for her," and they were like, "did your wife prep you for that?" And you can hear her laugh in the background. So she's there watching him give this interview and he was like, I can't say.
Rosalinda Mendez:He's like I can neither confirm or deny. Like, it was great.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:He knows his place.
Rosalinda Mendez:Exactly. But yeah, so no, I think No, I think she probably does a good job. I'm just saying that she I don't think she's necessarily the queen of Sundance, but and I would it wouldn't be beyond Katie at just trying to throw some shade just to throw some shade because that's who she is.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:True. I'll take your word for it. I don't want to Vanderpump rules.
Rosalinda Mendez:Exactly. That's like, Project Runway fa x pas. Number one.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:But I was also surprised to hear about this Park City Fashion Week. That is so random. Aren't there enough fashion weeks?
Rosalinda Mendez:Well, I don't if there's no fashion weeks, but I'm just kind of trying to say, it's, it's kind of like, again, like South by Southwest where every I think season they have it or every year they have it that they add different things. So this is the first thing. Now the interesting thing is, is that I will have to say, I don't know, we haven't seen the tier of all the fashion shows or what's going on, and I don't know if it's just winter wear and like athleisure that they're doing, which, you know, I'm not sure there's a ton of people doing that in any other Fashion Week. So it kind of makes sense that you could have like a niche kind of fashion week where you're doing like, ski suits and you know, after ski stuff and things like that are more casual, which seems kind of like what it was.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:No, yeah, I mean, it definitely did look more like athleisure but you know, like designer athleisure like designer, sweatshirts, designer, sweat pants type deal.
Rosalinda Mendez:It is a joy.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:But from that party, we're really just going from party to party. We get into the topic of Brooks fashion line, which we first kind of get a glimpse of when he went to his mother store, Meredith, and you can see some of his stuff is there, and I'm not not gonna lie. It looks kind of like Adidas knockoffs and it just happens to have his name on it.
Rosalinda Mendez:Which we know from Project Runway is something you don't do.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:You don't brand something with your name when nobody knows who you are. It's like why do I care about what's his name? Brooks? Meadow? I don't even know his last name.
Rosalinda Mendez:Yeah, I don't know his last name either.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:So I mean, see it clearly. I mean, love you Brooks. But honey, why would I buy your brand if it has your name on it? Yeah, and in this, we do see Brooks getting ready for it, and you you start to see the toll that, you know, their separation is taking on the family. stress, which is apparently not one of the reasons why he came, he took off a semester. According to Meredith on Watch What Happens L!ve, all of her kids take off the second semester of their junior year to do an internship, which that he's a second semester Junior. So he...
Rosalinda Mendez:*interjects* Is getting his fashion line together.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:Exactly. So pretty much. You see him getting ready for his fashion line, and you can tell he's still totally kid, and I get it too, because I believe we're the same age, I believe we're both 21, and he was still asking his mom like,"oh, could you call the lady telling her that I'm going to be late?" Can you get me this? Can you get me that? Which I totally get. I still don't like having to call the doctor for appointments and things. So I can't fault him too much on that one.
Rosalinda Mendez:But as a good mother, she tells him he has to do it himself.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:Yeah. Because I mean, this is kind of his big first business venture into his fashion line. So he kind of has to be a big boy and call the lady and tell them, they're gonna be late, and of course, Murphy's Law kicks in with full effect, because I don't even know how this happened. The toilet just... just....
Rosalinda Mendez:*interjects* Randomly started overflowing, and then it set off an alarm.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:Yeah, the like smoke alarm went off, and the toilet was flooding everywhere, and they were already late, and now they were just getting even more late.
Rosalinda Mendez:Right, and then they're like, who do you call? Or what do you do?
Sara Van Tuerenhout:And he has no clue what to do, and his mom's obviously taking care of it.
Rosalinda Mendez:But his mom doesn't know what to do either. So I think she finally calls the landlord because I think they're renting, I don't think they own that, where they're staying. So she was trying to get the either property manager or somebody she's like, Oh, God, I don't know. It's just overflowing and everything is going on, and we got to go.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:Yeah, so you know, we'll leave the door open, and this better be cleaned up by the time we get back.
Rosalinda Mendez:Yeah. So the next thing we see after you know, there's a major kind of meltdown at...at the house. You see Brooks and Meredith and they're talking about, you know, the fact that his dad isn't coming and you know. Yeah, but we also see that he's two hours late. Yeah, we do. We see that he's really late.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:And...
Rosalinda Mendez:*interjects* And my favorite thing is like, when he's there, and he's behind stage, and he's seeing everything, and he's a little awestruck. He's like, "gee, I don't even know how I got to this point," and I'm like, and then he kind of corrects himself and goes, Yeah, I know. Cuz my mom.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:Yeah, I mean, I kind of did like that little self aware moment. You know, he recognizes he definitely would not have gotten this opportunity without his mom. But I think it was still kind of cute, and you know what, at the end of the day, yeah, his mom gave it to him, but he still had to put in the work of creating the line, and which my mom rolls her eyes at, and we disagree a little bit, and we can talk about that in a sec. But yeah, so he goes on the runway, and you can see the separation take a toll because he's really upset that his dad was not going to be able to make it to his show.
Rosalinda Mendez:But his dad did send him a video text, which was nice. A little video. I- my favorite thing that his dad said was, you know, get out of your own way.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:Yeah, no, that was cute.
Rosalinda Mendez:Which was probably the truest thing he said on that.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:Yeah. Well, my thing though, it's like, I get like, they did a little flash backwards, and they showed that, that it was a week earlier that Meredith had said she needed space, but I think for something as big as your first fashion show. What whether he did it on his own or not. He still had to put in some work he walked too. I think that's something your parents should go to.
Rosalinda Mendez:Yeah, I don't disagree. I think that um, and Meredith even says that, like, you know, in retrospect, we should have like taken his[Brooks] feelings. consideration before she kind of banished him[Seth] to be away, and it but at some point he should have just I mean, it's not like he didn't know that this was going to happen a week before. So he probably should have said, Can we just do this? Can we start this like longer term separation after Brooks's fashion show? Like, I think they should have been more self aware about what was going on with how the family dynamic was going to take it, because he was sad because his sister wasn't there. He was sad that he didn't have friends there. But it was a really big deal, and it is a really big deal. I mean, it's funny to me, you know, actually, Fashion Week is everywhere, is like part of almost every Housewife franchise at some point, you know, basically, you know, the New York women are always at Fashion Week, and then the New Jersey people...
Sara Van Tuerenhout:*interjects* Or even walking at it....
Rosalinda Mendez:Yeah, and the New Jersey, the New Jersey people...
Sara Van Tuerenhout:*interjects* Ramona eyes.
Rosalinda Mendez:Exactly. Well that was at Brooklyn Fashion Week.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:You're right.
Rosalinda Mendez:But they had, but yeah, so like, you know, some of the Jersey Housewives kids walked in fashion week. You know, obviously Yolanda's because...
Sara Van Tuerenhout:Gigi, and Bella.
Rosalinda Mendez:They're, they're, you know, we're at Fashion Week, and, you know, Rinna's kids have a fashion line and on OC Bronwyn's child has a fashion line, and so it's it seems to be the thing that if you are the offspring of a Real Housewife, somehow, you're going to end up in a fashion week.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:I wouldn't wish for that. That seems like a lot of work.
Rosalinda Mendez:It is a lot of work.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:So please don't sign up for The Real Housewives of Houston if they ever try again.
Rosalinda Mendez:I promise won't happen.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:But yeah, thankfully, again, we are released from the shackles of the To be continued.
Rosalinda Mendez:But we actually will continue the Fashion Week.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:Yeah, we didn't ever get to see the whole show. So that's a little bit of a cliffhanger if you want to call it that. But there's no big drama. It actually was a pretty drama free episode. So not that much happened, which was kind of nice. Although, you know, I'm a... I'm a reality TV show watcher. Give me the drama. I want to see it.
Rosalinda Mendez:I know. But it was kind of nice to learn a little bit about each of the housewives a little bit more.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:Yeah.
Rosalinda Mendez:And again, I think we had just the right amount of....Well actually, we could have done with no Mary this time.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:Yeah, I really, I'm so over Mary. If she doesn't come back for another season. I mean, we haven't even finished this season and I'm already over her. But if she didn't come back for another season, which I think she's definitely leaning towards considering all of the blocking and things that we've been talking about that she's doing. Like, I'll be much more happy. Although, question for you. Do you think that this is a franchise made to last? I'm getting the feeling no?
Rosalinda Mendez:Well, no, I don't know. It's it's hard to tell. I think it's too early. I think...
Sara Van Tuerenhout:*interjects* It's too early to call.
Rosalinda Mendez:...Because like Miami had a few seasons. I want to say even maybe DC had two, or maybe it was only one, but DC was really off the rails. Like, it went from just being outrageous to being boring. You know, they broke the law, which was like, a big deal when they like snuck into the White House.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:Oh.
Rosalinda Mendez:So that was I mean, there were lots of things that happened that were like, and the people weren't as interesting, at least in this case, the the girls are interesting.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:No, I like the show so far. I just I though, I guess like all Housewives are kind of taking a turn considering, I guess how old you want to say the medium is. It's kind of getting a little repetitive.
Rosalinda Mendez:Well, I think that they're thinking that some franchises.... I've kind of heard this kind of going around like everyone's like, either Orange County needs a total reboot...
Sara Van Tuerenhout:*interjects* Or just cut it off?
Rosalinda Mendez:Or just cut it off that it's over. Like it's it was the original, but it's time for it to go because like there's nobody that's very interesting on it anymore. The
Sara Van Tuerenhout:*interjects* And I think the same is being storylines are, you know, the people that are left can't really carry the franchise like it used to be carried, and so.. said about Atlanta, too.
Rosalinda Mendez:Yeah, but the thing is, I think Atlanta still has a lot of fire in it. So you still have a lot of fiery personalities, I would say, and obviously Potomac is poppin all the time.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:Yeah, I think it's the number one right now.
Rosalinda Mendez:So and then New York, you're gonna I mean, we were gonna watch Ebony come on. So that'll be interesting coming on, and you know, we got Leah last season. So even though we sadly don't have Bethenny, we still have Ramona and Sonja...
Sara Van Tuerenhout:*interjects* Yes, Ramonja!
Rosalinda Mendez:...Who technically they can carry the franchise, but I think they were hoping that you know, Salt Lake City would be something where they could offload maybe one of the one of the other ones which I think is going to be Orange County. Although, you know, again, it'll be interesting to see what happens with Beverly Hills because I'm not sure that that franchise... I mean, I love Kyle. I mean, I love Erika Jayne, but like and yeah, Dorit. I mean, the thing is, is I just I don't know what's going to happen with Erika Jayne, like...
Sara Van Tuerenhout:*interjects* Falling out of grace.
Rosalinda Mendez:Yeah, and because I'm not seeing the fact that she would want that ever portrayed on TV.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:No, I mean, because she wants to be perfect, and I love Erika Jayne, and I havent actually gotten to her season completely because I'm watching from the beginning.
Rosalinda Mendez:Oh, I love her too. She's my favorite one on there. But I don't see her being the kind of person who is going to want to have this splattered all over...
Sara Van Tuerenhout:*interjects* conversation?
Rosalinda Mendez:Yeah, especially because the innuendo is that they're not really getting divorced. They're getting divorced, so that, you know, he's not as liable or that you know, she gets to like, not be kind of drug through the mud, which is, I guess, at least chivalrous of Tom. But I think part of it is also so Tom is not in so much trouble. So who knows? But literally, I think they're looking for new options. So we'll see, and, I mean, obviously, I'm actually okay, if Dallas never came back. Like if I think if you watched Dallas, you would have the same feeling you're feeling right now about you know, is this going to be something that will last? I kept saying after the first season of Dallas, it's not coming back and it keeps coming back.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:It's like the thing that never dies...
Rosalinda Mendez:The herpes of housewives.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:This is why I'm saying why can't they do a Real Housewives of Houston. I'm mad. There are a bunch of big personalities here. I think it's BS that Andy couldn't find a cast of women that were crazy. Just go to Memorial. Just go to River Oaks. Andy please.
Rosalinda Mendez:Oh, you go to like Sugar Land.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:Oh, my--, that would be perfect.
Rosalinda Mendez:Do you have some 281ers in there? And yeah, it would be it would be off the chain.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:It would be gold.
Rosalinda Mendez:It would be gold.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:I think Bravo...
Rosalinda Mendez:We have crazy socialites here.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:I know, and we don't even see them on TV. They're not even being filmed. Could you imagine if they're being filmed? Oh, my God.
Rosalinda Mendez:I know it would be I mean, we had murders and all kinds of great things. We like...
Sara Van Tuerenhout:Great things - murders.
Rosalinda Mendez:Well, you know, it's like the crazy ostentatious thing that happened. So you know...
Sara Van Tuerenhout:F*** Dallas.
Rosalinda Mendez:Yeah, exactly. Dallas is just what it is... A bunch of plastic people.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:Says the Dallasite.
Rosalinda Mendez:Exactly. That's why I'm in Houston.
Sara Van Tuerenhout:Yeah.
Rosalinda Mendez:Anyway, so that wraps us up for this....
Sara Van Tuerenhout:Yeah, that's our episode. Thanks for listening to our rambling so far. If you wouldn't mind dropping a like, a comment, subscribing, that would be greatly appreciated, and we will see you on the next one!
Rosalinda Mendez:Yeah, take
Sara Van Tuerenhout:Bye!