Summer House: Amanda's Bday!

Hello everyone and welcome to everything I can with me, Danny Palagrino.

Today we're going to be talking about summer house and I'm feeling very energized by all the new people in the cast. [Music] I'm liking the new people. I'm liking that Ben and Bailey are getting in the mix a little bit more. It's got really shibodara's, I guess coming back next week and so the new people are really bringing it for me and I'm feeling it.

“And I think that's what's going to be the future of summer house. Obviously we're going to get rid of some of the OGs.”

They're going to go to their spin-off and then I'd imagine summer house is going to continue on with people like AJ and maybe Jesse and West. Although there's some of these rumors which actually let me back up a minute because I want to let everyone know that I'm recording this. Before I head to New York to watch what happens live. I'm going to be on watch what happens live. Probably it will have already happened by the time you're listening this because I'm going to be on after the summer house episode with Kyle Cook.

Kyle DJ Cook. I'm going to be on there. I'm very nervous and excited but you guys probably will have already seen that episode or that episode will have been taped because this podcast will come out right as the episode is airing. Does that make sense? But I'm recording it beforehand. I don't know. I feel like I'm trying to explain the plot of inception at this point.

But the truth is, I'm very excited to watch what happens live. I always love to have a great time there.

And then I'll tell you guys about how it went next week on the podcast when I'm back. But I want to let everyone know. So this is pre-watch what happens live. I'm recording this pre-watch what happens live. I'm so grateful they invited me back and I can't wait. But anyway, that's not the point. The point is, as of this recording, there are all these rumors about West and Amanda and perhaps those two have Italians.

“So I'm excited to watch what happens live to get to the bottom of this, but I don't know if I believe it or not.”

I don't know. I first I definitely did not believe it. There's like places like DuMois and some of these gossipy sites have been reporting that Amanda and West have been covertly sort of hooking up or dating or something like that. And I was like, absolutely not that feels so fake. I don't believe it for a second night. Although on the podcast, I think earlier in the season as we've been recapping somewhere else, there was a couple moments where I said, "Oh, let's keep an eye on those two. Remember on the beach when Kyle was yelling at Amanda, West went up to her and was comforting her."

And I was like, "Oh, that's like a duo that maybe we should keep our eyes on." But I didn't think it was like that romantic all. And so when these rumors came out, I was like, "Absolutely not. That's completely false. This made up, I don't buy it." And then I started to see all these pictures of the two of them together and I'm like, "Am I, am I being bamboos little now? Like am I being tricked into thinking it's real? Is it all publicity stunt? Or is it actual thing that's happening? I don't know, but we got to get to the bottom of it."

And maybe by the time this airs will have already been debunked or something.

“But what would happen? What would happen does that mean West would go over to the spin-off show? How would Kyle react if he found out West was?”

And then we're to see her fall into all this because here we are watching the show and I'm thinking, "Oh, West and Sierra might be a thing again." And then in real time, I'm finding out on social media, maybe it's West and Sierra. So what's the truth? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Let's talk about this week's episode. So we open with Jesse and Bed with Sierra.

It's 715 p.m. July 25th. And let's see, Sierra. Jesse says, "I guess I'm glad we're having this conversation. So many jokes I could make right now about our conversation, but I won't. I'm just glad we talked."

And then Jesse first, because last week on the show, remember, he confesses love to Sierra and Sierra's like with the fact.

And then after Sierra basically says, "I'm not interested and stop treating me like a piece of meat." That's when Jesse opens this episode just saying, "I'm glad we had this conversation." And then they fist bump. They fist bump. Eventually they hug, but Jesse's first instinct was to fist bump. And it's like, "Jesse, I had it with that man." And to me, I don't know how much longer I could watch, Jesse. He's just not for me.

And God bless if he is for anyone. I don't know who he's for exactly. I don't know if there was like a brand to sum in about Jesse. I'm not sure who exactly would be there or what they would be talking about, because I don't understand who the audience is for that man. I guess he's tall. It's like that. What he offers the people is that he's tall. I don't know. It's like Jesse. But he fist bump. Sierra, after that whole, how do you confess your love and then fist bump? Eventually, I like I mentioned they do hug. And they say they love each other and it's like, "I love you, Jesse." And it's cute, I guess.

And then immediately Jesse goes over to Westroom. And he tells West that he feels bad that Sierra's upset. And he feels like he misread the situation and disappointed himself and signature shit. And West was being really nice to Jesse. And this is the thing that is kind of a disconnect for me, because I'm like,

he's also very upset that Jesse wanted to make out with Sierra when he was like, "Do you mind if I make out with Sierra?"

And West is like, "Oh, I don't know, dude, like whatever." And it's like, "I want West to stick up and say, "Actually, I do mind." And I'm pissed at you. Why are you going after?

“Even, it's just, you're supposed to be his best friend. So like, why are you even entertaining the idea of a romantic day in Switzerland?”

It's a year when it's a year West's friend. It's completely inappropriate to me. And I want West to stick up for himself. And he's not doing that. And I'm like, "West, speak up. You see something, say something." But anyway, he like sort of consoles Jesse when Jesse walks in the room and he's like, "Oh man, I'm like, "Come on, West, say something." Meanwhile, there's some chefs prepping a man as birthday dinner and they're all getting super dressed up. And I'm thinking, "Oh, they're having a nice, nice, fancy dinner."

But then ultimately, they just have like chicken fingers and Caesar salad and it looked fantastic to me.

And they were eating on sort of like kid plates or something. I loved this. I'm tired of the theme parties. But I like a theme dinner. And this was to me like my ideal theme dinner for, if I was ever known, birthday dinner. Caesar salad with some chicken nuggets and they had like nice martinis. They were dressed up. I think there was mac and cheese on the table. It was like kid food, finger food.

And that's the kind of food I like. Like a meachick and finger chicken tender all day long. And I'm happy as a clam's mac and cheese. That's all I want. I'm not interested in all the fancy. I don't need some like five star thing. Although that's great to sometimes. But for the most part, I feel like those fancy dinners. It's like, I'm not interested in it. I just want some chicken tenders. I just just need some breaded chicken fingers.

And that's all I want. And I Caesar salad with, I mean, if they had diicote, that'd be the perfect meal. Perfect meal. But they had chefs doing it. And I'm thinking like, I don't think you need it. Just throw some Tyson nugs and they're frying. You're good to go. Like, I don't know that they need to spend the money.

“I guess they have a TV show budget. So maybe that's why they did it.”

But otherwise, I was just thinking like, oh, you throw salad in a bowl. Some Caesar dressing in a cruton. And then, uh, throw some Tyson's in the air fryer. Or those, what are those bear? Are those bear naked? Those are the nuggets. I like the bear. B-A-R-E. That's how you, I don't know what they call. They taste like Chick-fil-A, but you don't have to feel bad about eating them.

And honestly, I think now they're better than Chick-fil-A. Last time I had the Chick-fil-A, it wasn't even good. It's shit now. Anyway, moving on, um, the chefs preparing a Bailey's excited that Dara's with KJ now. Because Bailey's got the crush on Ben. And so she comes in ready to flirt. And I was hoping, I do think that Bailey, like, she's got this crush on Ben, and obviously blows up in her face.

“But early in the episode before it blew up in her face, I was thinking like, oh, you need to love yourself.”

You should go and love yourself, girl. Because she's just so over the moon, over the top, and saturated with this Ben fella.

And I like Ben when I first saw him. And now, as time goes on, I'm like, okay, I've had enough of this man.

But she's like so into him, and she's like, I'm going to flirt with him now, that because she, at first last week, thought that Dara was going to be with Ben, because she thought Dara was flirting with Ben, but then Dara's with KJ now, which seems great, I'm into these two. But Bailey now is like ready to flirt. She's like, I happen on Ben's, I, ready to go with him. And Ben's not even interested. I've been seeing him interested not one time, and I feel bad for Bailey, because she goes through an all her eggs in that basket.

And he's not even interested. So then they all go to dinner, everyone's just fancy. Kyle's wearing his wedding outfit change, and then even before the dinner starts, Amanda takes like a solo photo with Ben. And I just want to point this out because I feel like Bailey, ultimately at the end of that episode, she, she has this awkward moment with Ben, and she's saying, well, like, you and Amanda flirt all the time. Like, I was just, whatever, and I just want to point out that even before the dinner, Amanda, I would see that photo,

doing a solo photo with Ben, that seems flirting to me. Like, why would you, I don't, I don't trust like the, I don't trust her. I think Bailey was right, that Amanda and Ben do flirt, more so than Ben flirt with the other women in the house. And so I don't think it's like so crazy that Bailey pointed that out at the dinner, but we'll get there. Also at the table, there were crayons, which I love. It was like Caesar salad, chicken fingers crayons. She's turning 34, but I love this child plates. I don't like it. You know, my son, we started feeding him salads and real foods and all the baby plates. I loved him because they sectioned to the high chair.

Like, we all need those. Okay. Not only that, but they have like different spots for, they have like different containers on the baby plates. You could put like one, like your side dish and one little pocket, you put the main meat and the other pocket, it's got like three.

But they start talking at dinner about Carl's bar because you remember last week on the show, Ben went over to Carl's soft bar. And Carl's pissed the cow out and invested the soft bar. But Kyle's saying he had to invest 500k to pay the payroll in lover boy. And I don't quite understand how lover boy is not successful because it's been on this TV show for a hundred years.

I've watched all these people drink it. Like, and look, I've never had the lover boy.

“But it must taste like piss water because how have you had such free advertising and you're not making it successful?”

I would imagine so many bravo people have tried it. Like, we've tried everything. I had Melissa Gorgall's sprinkle cake. I've had Ramona's Pino Grigio. I've had Kathy Wikili's canolies. Like bravo people will pretty much bite the bullet and order anything that these bravo lovers try to sell us. Right? Like we've had in the past skinny girl ham at one point. Now the skinny girl ham didn't last. And the skinny girl deli me it for some reason did not stay on the store shelves for very long.

But the point is we've all tried all these bravo products and lover boy has been consistently on the show. It's the only thing they've been drinking when they're having the theme parties. And it's a young audience of people that watch this show. So it's like, aren't people trying lover boy? Like, how is it not successful? And Kyle's going to put the 500k to cover the payroll. But then he says, you can't pay a car off 15k.

And it's like, this is why you should knock in a business with friends because look at this. Then it's like a tip for tat thing. Carl's like, oh, well, I invested 15k in the lover boy piss water. And now Kyle's like, well, I don't have the money to invest in Carl's non-alc bar situation. That's got to open up in the Brooklyn area. I said Brooklyn area. I don't know. But so this is why you shouldn't get in business with friends.

And so I think it's actually like standard.

“I think you should just maybe just not invest in it.”

Even if you believe in the business, I feel like you should just invest your money.

There's plenty other things to believe in. I don't know if it's safe to win your friends first.

Unless you're like sort of acquaintances, like I understand that. But like, when you're close friends, this is what happens. Because now you're both holding a grudge about how much you're invested in your flat businesses with your friends. Anyway, they go around the table and they see nice things about Amanda. And now I'm looking through every interaction between West and Amanda with the fine tooth gum. I got my monoclon. I'm the angel of the land's very up in their ass.

And I'm just thinking, what did West say about Amanda? And he said, since I've known you, I've seen you accomplish so many things. I just want to watch you do shit. And this is interesting to me because Kyle, remember on the show has said, like she's unmotivated. She's lazy. She doesn't do shit.

And now here West comes in, like Prince on a horse and says, I'm so proud of all the things they've watched you accomplish.

“And Amanda's probably thinking her head, like, why is this fella able to say that?”

But my husband's on Canada, Gamras, saying, at the beach and every chance he gets about how lazy my ass is and how not doing anything. I'm smoking weed every night. And so she's probably thinking, like, how come West can see that? I do all this stuff. But my own husband, the DJ, can't even see it with his eyes. And so that's interesting to me.

And then Ben, this is when everything kind of blows up because Ben talks about Amanda's eyes and his smile. And Bailey just blurt's hatch. I knew he was going to talk about how he wants to fuck Amanda. She says something like that. I want to, how she wants to sleep with Amanda. Which is completely nuts. And I love to. And this is what's going to get Bailey in a season. And so I just want to applaud her.

Even though it was unhinged to say that at the table, I think you were right. And be it's secured your second season contract and Levy needs to take notes or leave I, Levy, whatever fuck her name is. The growth of the edited out, which by the way, I do, I'm sure I've said this on the podcast before. I think like one of my biggest fears is number one being voted out of a reality competition series first. So that'd be number one, biggest fear.

And second would be to film a whole season of a reality TV show and then to get edit it out of it.

And it always happens when the people aren't bringing anything.

So what's fascinating is over on the real house that's Beverly Hills, there's a scale. I don't even know, is there an email Natalie or something? They have this new woman who's on the cast trip they all went to Italy, but this woman hasn't been given a confessional. She's not saying anything. She came in really late in the season. I think her name is Natalie. Yes, she's on a cast trip. Not given a confessional.

Barely given any two words to say in this show. And it's like that's such an nightmare. And the same thing is sort of happening with Levy. And Levy, I think, is she getting confessional since somewhere else, but she's basically being edited out of the show. And I feel bad about that because I'm like thinking, oh my god, imagine filming this whole season.

I'm going to be on the show.

The first time I remember it happening was on the real house in New York.

And if there was a woman who was like a party planner and she was like sort of there, but then they didn't give her confessional. And she was like supposed to be a main cast member and then they just sort of edit them out. And it's just, it takes a lot of work to edit out a main cast member on these shows. And yet they do at time and time again. And it's like, is that happening with Levy?

“That's why Levy needs to, she needs to look alive, wake up and do something crazy like Bailey's doing at the dinner table.”

Because just starts shouting out that people want to sleep with each other at this point because you need to get some camera time. Levy, you do. But Bailey shouts out, yeah, I've been wants to fuck Amanda out, whatever. And then me, I was making me laugh because she's like, well, what the hell? Like she was saying. I like me. I do like me. I'm liking all the new people, except for I feel bad for Levy. But it is very awkward, very awkward. And I do side with Bailey on this.

I think Bailey is right in that bend and Amanda been flirting. So then at the dinner table, Kyle gives Amanda some Cartier.

I have a lot to say about this Cartier. First of all, we love Cartier.

And first, I thought, oh, great. He gave her something. But then the card said something to last forever, but we have 30 days to swap it out. So that was what the card said. And then the editor shows us a whole montage of Kyle being not good at giving gifts. And then it's confessionally, he's like, I really started out, I get gifts.

And it's like, well, figure it out. And then it's revealed later in the episode

“that Amanda had told Kyle to get the specific watch that she got from Cartier.”

And she's like, I can't believe he went to the store and got it. And it's like, oh, my God, the bar is so fucking low. Because not only did he just simply go to the store and get the thing that Amanda said, she probably texted him a screenshot or whatever, like, get me this watch. But then he didn't even have like the confidence in his card to say to know that it was like,

he just got the exact thing she told him to get. And then in the card says, well, we can return it after 30 days. It's like, come on, why is the bar so low? And not only that, it's like, we saw that montage all the times the Kyle's been bad at giving a gift. And it was like, everybody tried to tell him, including the editors

and production of the show because they're putting together a montage of it. They're trying to tell Kyle like, hey, step your ass up and be better at giving gifts to your wife. And yet all he does is go get the thing that she told him. It was like not even, he couldn't even add anything else to the gift. It was like, he got the card he watched and granted, yes, that's an expensive watch.

It got blessed. But there was still zero thought put behind it. And even less thought put behind the card because he said you could return it in 30 days. So he didn't even think to himself, like, oh, I don't have to write that because she told me to get this exact watch. But couldn't even like add it a balloon to the fucking thing or something. Or a nice, a nice, a nice something, something else that she would like.

Like I just feel like, I don't, I don't think it's a good excuse. Like you can say I'm not great at giving gifts. But for your loved ones, you still have to figure it out. Like you still have to get him a gift. And I just feel like the bar is so low that it's like, for all this time he forgets

to get our gifts. And then now he finally like steps up.

And it's just a gift that she told him to get. I'll say come on. I was so pissed. He just went to the store and Amanda calls the mom and she's like, Kyle did good. He got me this thing I told him to get.

And it's like, okay, well, he's still going out in DJ and sleeping at college campuses until the wee hours of the morning. And you're getting DMs about him hooking up with other people. But got blessed that he went to the store and got either thing that he said, hey, go get me this.

“Come on. I get so mad. The bar. Why is the bar so low?”

Anyway, they're broken up now. So I guess that's silver lining. Let's take break because guess what? I'm already on the brim of freaking out. On the brim and I need to take a little breather. So let's take a break here. We're going to come back.

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Man, we're back. -Way-air! -Okay, so after dinner, Ben is mad at Bailey. And I'm glad they're both in the mix, but Bailey gets nervous by Ben.

And when he comes in the room, he's ready to confront her.

And Ben is worried that everyone thinks he's floating with Amanda. But he's like, "Oh, it's a friend's own." And it's like, "Well, actually, we've all watched it." And it's not only us to think this is like obviously producers do too, because they were able to put together so many different moments

so far this season, Ben flirting with Amanda. So it's not like, "So Bailey, get behind me. I need to defend your ass." Because I think that Bailey was right in that Ben and Amanda are flirting with each other. And I don't think it was, yeah, maybe it was an inappropriate time to say it.

But honestly, we're on a TV show, and you guys were eating chicken nuggets. Like, I don't think it was, it should be so, such a special sacred place that they couldn't have Bailey mentioned it. And Bailey even said later, I don't forget when she said this, but she's like, "If one of the guys did that at the dinner table,

everyone just laughed it off." And Bailey's absolutely fucking right. Because if Jesse were to say that, like, "Oh, Amanda, Ben just wants to fuck Amanda."

“So that's why, you know, everybody would be like, "Ha ha ha!"”

I could have done the Heather and Terry Gibro laugh, right in his ear face. And that would have been the end of it. But instead, there are all crucified Bailey for saying something that all the guys would have been able to get away with. And I don't like that. And then, like, "What's going on?" Ben walks into the Bailey's room.

Like, "What's going on?" And it was funny because Bailey said, "You mean in life?" I love Bailey. She's very awkward by the other.

But Bailey's like, "Look, you guys talked about skinny dipping on your first date."

And she's like, "You guys joke about it." And they even showed a montage of Ben and Amanda flirting. So the editors think that too. Then Ben leaves the room and Bailey goes in cries in the restroom. And I felt bad for Bailey. I felt bad. Meanwhile, me was outside the door listening, and she told everyone.

And so me as a star, me as a star. And me and Sierra, they were talking about Ben's, they just go in in the room and how he's got anger issues, and they were like sort of turned on by it. And I kind of get that. I love that the cardboard cutouts are everywhere.

I don't know that they're really, it's like a weird sort of wears wall though, to just see like, "Where's Amanda's? Where's her cutout? Where's Lindsay's cutout at?" Like, sometimes they'll be talking like, "How did Carl's cutout get over there?" You know, like, behind the DJ booth? Like, "How is this happening?" They did all have a dance party, and I like that.

"Oh, and a dance. He's my baby." I like when they did the dance party in the DJ room with all the cardboard cutouts. And there's something I find comforting about that. But let's see, Levi and Bailey say they did say in the room like because Levi went and comforted and Bailey. And they say if Jesse said the comment, they would have all laughed, and she's right.

And Bailey said she's also triggered because she had the relationship with this guy. She was like an asshole tour, and she's like when these men talked to her like that. And so I'm siding with Bailey, but then all the women do go into the room and comfort Bailey. And though women all go out for the night, I thought they were all going to stay, and I was like, "Very scared about it."

I was very scared that all the gals were going to be like, "We're not going out." But luckily, they were like, "We're leaving you Bailey." See, Levi did stay with Bailey, and unfortunately, I kind of think that was the wrong move.

“I think Levi needs to start establishing relationships outside of this now.”

You do need to have an ally, and you do need to have a strong friendship in the group. So, I think Levi and Bailey have been trying to be that for each other, but Bailey, as at least, integrating herself more with the other people,

I do normally would not say that, but I do.

But they all go out, there's some self-loading footage of them out at night, and then 3am, they come home. And I don't know how many times I could say, but why are we going to places where they can't film? And if they can't film anywhere else, then we need to start sending them to a new summer house. 3am, they come home, though, Sierra and West are flirting. Sierra, this was funny to me. So, West, like, sort of sits on Sierra, and Sierra says that that's West's tell tale that he's flirting.

And it's like, like, that's his tell. It's like, if West sits on you, then it means that he's flirting with you. And, like, what our strange tell, because it wasn't like, it didn't seem like a very sexual way. It was just like West sort of sitting his, his big ass and those large thighs. And look, what we all want West to sit on our face, sure.

But I'm kidding, I'm kidding, but like he wasn't even sitting sexually. It was just sort of like, I don't know, just sort of sit in honor.

“And then Sierra's like, oh, that's how I know West is flirting.”

I was like, what is the same thing? They make buffalo chicken dip, which who doesn't love a buffalo chicken dip?

I'm sorry, I fucking love a buffalo chicken dip.

I do, ah, I has been makes a good buffalo chicken dip. He does it like, um, maybe like a super ball or something. He'll make it like a special occasion. And I'll eat the shit of that. I'm like very Midwest when it comes to like an appetizer like that, like a buffalo chicken dip.

Or, you know, those cocktail meatballs that it's like grape jelly. You guys know what I'm talking about? Cauté meatballs. It's very Midwest thing, but you throw a bunch of meatballs in a crock pot. And you put like grape jelly and chili sauce together.

And you just let it simmer in there. It sounds disgusting, but let me tell you something. I'll eat a whole crock pot full of those cocktail meatballs in one sitting. I will. And same with the buffalo chicken dip.

“Like you put that in front of me and I'm good to go.”

I don't care if there's a game on or not.

I will sit in front of the TV till the day is long. Eat in that buffalo chicken dip. And it happy as a clam. I like football when it comes to, if that means I'm getting some buffalo chicken dip. Then you point me in the direction of the football game because that's all I need in life.

But then meanwhile Kyle and West, they're drunk and they're talking about how West and CR are flirting. And this is so many layers because now in real time we're seeing like, well West is maybe flirting with Amanda who's Kyle's ex-wife. Like there's. And here we are watching the TV show and West is talking to Kyle about his crush on CR us. Like what's going on there's layers here.

But I was also very distracted because Kyle. Kyle you guys guess what? He had his shoes on the bed. Oh, I'm sorry. I can't even focus on what they're talking about West's crush on CR or whatever.

Kyle's got the shoes on the bed. I don't care how drunk you are. I'm seeing too many shoes on the bed. Too many dirty hooves on these beds. I saw a couple weeks ago West or Jesse had the shoes on the bed.

His dirty hooves on the bed. And they're going out to these clubs and I know they're not New York City but you're still going out. And these people are coming from New York. So I know those shoes have been out in the New York City streets. And so then you're coming to this house and you got the shoes on the bed.

I want to be able to sleep if I knew that the shoes were on the bed after going out for the night. Or wearing them in the city. That was a man or anyone. And the girls aren't above either because I've seen the gals with their hooves on the bed with the shoes on. And I don't think that's appropriate.

And if I was going in one of those beds and say absolutely not. And they all need to learn. They need to learn. Even by the way, I said on southern charm. I think it was on southern charm.

“On one of the episodes, I think in the, I don't know.”

One of the episodes I saw one of the gals was putting the suitcase on the couch. And I thought, what the fuck are you doing? What the fuck are you doing? The suitcase rolls all through the airport and everything. You cannot just put it up on a couch or a bed or something.

Like you leave it by the door and put a towel down. Take all your clothes out of it. And then you a 409 that's suitcase sass and clean it up before you put it away. Like you don't not put it on a bed or on a. It's like, how are these people raised?

Like these things didn't feed you rabbits and have a book called. Don't go on my bed and your outside clothes or something like that. She's a fantastic writer. So check it out if you haven't. But it was something like that.

I forget the actual name, but she named a book after it. And she was right. And she should say it because you shouldn't just be going with your outside clothes on the bed. And here we are in shoes on the bed. Absolutely not.

Absolutely not. Anyway, they talk about Western CR floating, which great. The rest says it's like a sunset crush. So it's not like a breakfast crush or a afternoon crush. It's like a sunset like they have a crush on each other.

Like after they're drinking all night. Meanwhile, Sierra, you know, Sierra demand a their genuine friends.

I know I just said Levi should have went out with the others and left her friend Bailey in the house alone. But I do think it's important on reality TV.

“Like you do need to have one bestie and you need to make a genuine.”

And I'm not just talking about like a show bestie. You need to develop a genuine bestie in the in the cast. So that you have that ally because it is important for the audience too. Like the audience needs to know that these people are actually friends. Even though they are just probably cast on these TV shows together.

And they when the shows end, they're not going to be friends. But Sierra and Amanda seem like they're genuine friends on and off the show. And I think that's important. Meanwhile, Kyle and Amanda, they start there in that large closet or bathroom or whatever. Kyle, this is that after 3 a.m. Kyle's like, I've also connected to my wife.

And she's like, thank you for the watch.

And he's like, oh, this feels like when we first met or something.

And he's saying how great their connection is here. And I'm like, yeah, because you're wasted at 3 a.m. Like, what? That's not a real fucking connection. Like when you're drunk at 3 a.m.

And you're saying like, that's how it's supposed to be. I'm so glad we have this connection. And so you don't even, are you even to remember what you're saying right now? Like, that's not the connection that you're supposed to have with your wife. Where you can only connect at 3 a.m. after drinking.

And after you give her an expensive watch. That's nuts. Meanwhile, Western Sierra and the kitchen with that buffalo chicken dip. And Wes says, I don't know how to talk to you. He says something about before and after filming.

I don't know how and so he's talked to you. And I'm just thinking, like, where's the buffalo chicken dip? Like, I need to see the recipe. It looked to me like that buffalo chicken dip was made by those chefs that were there. That made the chicken fingers and the mac and cheese.

And they left it there for like their nighttime drinking. And that's nice. That's nice of those chefs. You know, my family was here recently. I think I met a total of the story on the show.

But I wanted to do something special because they had a lot of family here. And so I was like, looking into hiring a chef or whatever. And then a friend told me to hire the habachi where they come to your house and they do the habachi. And so I did that and it was really fun.

But the chef, you know, personal chef for the nice expensive, but I always see it on these,

on these reality shows and that was in my head. I thought, like, oh, these reality shows always hire a chef for the night for a fancy dinner.

“And I thought that's what I was going to do.”

But then ultimately I heard the bachi. But I'm curious how much those, I think they're expensive the chef for the night. But it's nice that the chefs left the buffalo chicken dip for them to make. Anyway, I know that's very neither here nor there. But, uh, Sierra and West, they have a serious conversation.

And all I was thinking about was the buffalo chicken dip. I love when new people, sometimes listen to the podcast. And I think they think that I'm going to be giving opinions on Western Sierra sometimes. And then I just talk about buffalo chicken dip for 25 minutes. And it's so funny to me because then I'll get messages.

Like, I tried to listen to your show and you just talked about buffalo chicken dip for 25 minutes. Get to the point. I'd say, well, that's what this show is, you know?

But it does always make me laugh because I think they think that I'm going to be.

You know, giving like some hard and fast opinion on things that are happening on the show. And I'm like, I just want to talk about buffalo chicken dip. Like, that's what I'm most interested. That's where I'm at my way. Anyway, welcome to all the new listeners.

I don't know if anyone knew this listening, but welcome. I love you. And just buckle up out of cups. So next we cut this Saturday morning. They're all waking up. West Wakes up Jesse with the kiss and he calls him a sweet boy.

And like that, I like that. Bailey's pissed now though. She went to bed upset about how Ben talked her. And now she's waking up, man as hell. She's mad as hell.

And so she's ready to give Ben the business. She, I don't think she even sucked at all that night because I saw a lot of the footage. She was awake when they all came in at 3 a.m. She, a wide awake, like fucking Katy Perry in 2010 or whatever that song came out. She was wide the fuck awake.

And then in the morning time, she also seemed wide awake. And it seemed like she was just in her head doing all night. And we've all been there, by the way. I mean, when you can't sleep and you're just sitting there and you're just, you're working yourself up in your head.

Or I'm sure we all do that thing where it's like, you replay conversations that you had. And like, I should have said this or should have said that.

“I had a meeting recently and I think I had too much die-coke at the meeting.”

But then at night time, all I was thinking, I was like, oh, I think I sounded crazy at the meeting. Like, like, did I sound crazy? And I'm like, replaying the conversations in my head. That I had at this meeting.

I was like, wait, did I sound crazy? Because I had like an extra die-coke on top of like all the caffeine I had already normally had for that day. And I was just replaying all the conversations from the lunch. And I had them like, did I sound nuts? Like, I hope I didn't sound nuts.

And then I was up all night. Because I was just thinking about the conversation and like, stewing in my head. Like, why did I say that? But did I say that wrong or what, you know? And so I think that's what Bailey was doing.

And then she was getting worked up and mad about it.

She's like, I don't want guys. I'm not dating, speaking to me like that. And so then what else happened? Oh, so it's morning time and Jesse goes outside and he notices that they left a bunch of stake out.

He's like, oh, we left the stake out. That was a mistake. What a mistake it was to leave the stake out. At least we got mashed potatoes. And Jesse, he was like, thought he was doing like stand-up comedy

at this point when he saw the stake. The stake is out and that was a mistake. And I just know, I know he's going to terrorize us with some song and social media about like stake being a mistake or something like that. Like he was doing the word play and I'm like Jesse enough.

Enough is enough. Enough is enough, Jesse. I can't handle it. I'm already on the brim of freaking out. I can't handle Jesse anymore.

I just can't everything he says and doesn't this show just piss me off.

And I don't even know why.

I don't have much of a reason.

“Other than just every time he speaks, I think shut the pickup.”

And that's mean. And I maybe that's a that's a me issue maybe. I need to get over that. But every single time I see him on Canada camera and he speaks anything. Or even sometimes even when he doesn't speak.

He's just sort of lurking around there like that. That butler from the Adam's family. Who's that? Who am I talking? Who am I thinking of?

Lurch. Do you guys know him talking about lurch in the Adam's family? No, he just sort of lurks around that castle and then opens the doors. And he doesn't even speak much. Sometimes it's like even when Jesse's lurking around that summer house.

And like just open in the door for someone or something. And like get the fuck out of it. I don't know why he's like piss me off. That's a me issue. That's a me issue.

Meanwhile, then they all go to the winery vineyard. And Bailey is really awkward. She like won't sit in your bed. They have disposable cameras. And like a digital camera.

Somebody had a digital camera. Everyone's doing the analog.

“Everyone's doing the everyone's going back to basics.”

Like Christina Agalera and her album back to basics. Like they all want the people are getting the DVDs and the VHSs again. And I've talked about this on podcasts a long time ago. But today should just did a segment on it. And I was thinking.

Guess what? I've been talking about it and everything. I kind of for a while now. But they're all everyone's going back. Because I see it on the tiktok.

People are going back to buying VHS players. And buying TVs with the VHS players attached. And they're just people want to own the physical media. And I get that. I get that.

I just bought a Gloria Estefan CD. That's right. In the year of our Lord 2026, I bought a Gloria Estefan CD from 96 or something. I don't remember what it was. It was the hold me thrill me kiss me album.

She didn't even talk to me. I was one of my mom's favorite albums.

And I always in the car shoot.

My mom loved Gloria Estefan as did I. And she always would play this album. And so I went and I bought the CD because my trucks still play CDs. That's right. That's right.

I still have a truck from 2005 that plays CDs. So sometimes I buy the CDs from Amazon. And I was like, I need to get that Gloria Estefan. It's the one with turn the beat around on. And this song she does called Everlasting Up.

Everlasting Up. Oh, put it in such a good mood. It really does. If you haven't listened to Gloria Estefan's Everlasting Love, it's a cover.

The whole album's like covers. But it is phenomenal. It's phenomenal. But what was I talking about? Oh, analog.

So I like buying CDs. And I know people buy vinyl now. It's like vinyl sales are through the roof. And now CDs are come back. And the youths look at even on summer house.

They're wanting disposable cameras. And I even, for Christmas, I got one of those. It's called Camp. It's like a video camera. It's called CampSnap or something like that.

It's a video camera. And I love it because I could do videos of the of my son. And I feel like it's better because you're not. You don't get lost in your phone. Like you're just taking the video and then you're either putting it down or you're continuing to take video.

But then you're not like going to check Instagram or something. Like you can just take the pictures and then you can look at them later. It's also more fun because on your phone. I feel like you just go look at stuff instantly. And there was something really fun.

Even with the disposable cameras. I was thinking there's something was so fun about sending it in. And then you get the footage back later. Like you go and pick up the pictures.

“And it's like, you don't know what you don't remember the photos that you're took.”

That's fun. Remember doing that back in the day you go. He's to send him off to this place called giant eagle. It was a grocery store. But you could take your photos in there and then you'd go pick them up.

And you're like, oh, I don't remember taking that photo. Have fun. Or that photo didn't turn out or I loved it. I loved it. Let's take one more quick break here.

And then we're going to come back and we got more to discuss. We left the stake out. That was a mistake. [Music]

Come back. [Music]

All right, so the winery.

They have the disposable cameras. And Kyle's taking a picture of Sierra with the digital camera, which is different. But Kyle says they called them "ansal atoms" in high school. And Sierra's like, who's the fuck is that? You know, and I forgot too.

To be honest, I would love to call out Sierra. I'd be like, how do you not know that is? But I was also like, who's the fuck is that? I was like, did he say Amy Adams?

“Because then I can give you a whole thesis on how important she is to the culture.”

But I couldn't remember "ansal atoms." And Kyle says that people all would call in that because he would take good photos or something. I don't know. But Amy Adams, you guys, her work will live on forever. And we'll remember her long after "ansal."

[Laughs] Chopped at Gord just come on, Julia and Julia. I could have said, Julia and Julia. I love that movie. This is Marl Streep and Amy Adams.

They, uh, Marl plays Julia child and then Amy plays the gal who wrote a blog about Julia child. And I feel like Amy's storyline in that gets a lot of bad rap. It was a Nora, a friend of film. We love Nora. And people don't like the Amy Adams scenes of that movie.

But I do. And I just want to come out loud and proud and say it. And it is sort of disgusting to me. I actually auditioned for that movie where Amy Adams played a woman who, like, turns into a dog. And did not get the role.

And I don't think a lot of people saw that movie. And I didn't either. But I do want other people. I think people did to get good reviews. I don't know.

I couldn't see it because I was like, "Oh, I auditioned for it and they didn't give me the role." And so now I hold the grudge against it. But she had to, like, act like a dog in it. And I just remember thinking, like, you don't know. We need stuff for Amy Adams to do.

We do. We just do. We need other things.

“Other people liked it and I think it was a commentary on, I don't know.”

So what do I know? I'm still not going to see it. Okay, so then Amanda says, "Oh, she says to the table." She says, "Now, she got the watch out of Kyle, so she can leave this ass." It's out with the old, in with the new.

She was right. She got that watch. Now get out of that marriage. Throw the ring. Throw the ring at the pawn shop.

Get your cash and run. Baby girl. Run. Amanda. Run.

Get out of there, baby girl. Go to that pawn. She needs to go right to the pawn shop. pawn that ring. Would you give the ring back if you got divorced?

To people give it back, if they get divorced or just a few end then engagement? I would go right to the pawn shop.

“I think if you give me something, then I'm keeping it.”

But I want to want to look at something and always think of that other person.

Then I got other relationship with. So I would go right to pawn stars. And I'd say, "How much you give me for this thing for this wedding band?" And then you take the money and you rent and you invest in something else. And then a nice bag or a pair of shoes or something.

And whatever you like, I personally would hop on eBay and probably buy some old 90s vintage toys. I've been really eyeing up. Did I tell you for Christmas? You know, this is, I'm sorry. If you're a new listener, but I need to discuss this for upwards of 45 minutes.

So for the holiday season, remember I told you, I want to start doing the houses. I want to do the villages. I really want to start doing villages. But I know that I'm going to get too addicted to doing the villages.

And I'm going to want to buy too many villages. So anyway, recently though, I'm like, "Okay, this year, 2026. This is your, I embrace the Christmas holiday village." So I'm going to be doing it this year. Mark my words.

I'm doing it. I'm committing to it. And so I've been on eBay lately at night after the baby goes to bed. And I'm like, "Okay, how am I going to start my Christmas village?" Collection.

And I decided I really want to do this like 1990s, Lunetunes. They have like 1996 or 8 or whatever. They started coming out like these Lunetunes villages. And then this one company that's known for doing the really fancy Christmas villages.

They also do like a special set every year. And they have like a sesame street one that they did in the 90s or whatever.

And I'm like, "Oh, I need to pull the trigger and buy the sesame street one first."

And then go into the Lunetunes. And I've got like, it'll be like a whole pop culturey village of like 90s nostalgia village. So I thought that's going to be my entry point into Christmas villages. So I don't want to just start with like present day Christmas villages. I want to just do all like 90s but like classy 90s.

Like the Lunetunes and the Sesame Street one. They're like made. They're classy. They're not like plasticky. They're like nice Christmas villages.

But they're just from the 90s and they're starring like Sylvester and Tweety. Do you know what I'm saying?

And so every night I go on there and I'm like, "Oh, should I buy one of them for this year?"

And ultimately I haven't yet.

“But I've been eyeing them and I think maybe like come June mid-year.”

I think that's when I'm going to pull the trigger because I figured that's when they'll be cheapest online. Anyway, what am I talking about? I'm sorry to just make you all a sin of my journey with Christmas villages. And I know it's March and you guys don't want to hear about my Christmas village journey. But that's where I'm at.

I'm waiting till June and waiting till June. What were we even talking about? How did I get to Christmas villages? I don't know but I'm buying them. Oh, because leaving, leaving.

So I'd go to the pawn shop, get the money, and spend it on my Christmas villages that I've been eyeing. And by the way, for the Christmas villages, I just want to also point out like, "I'm not going to do it." We have this like one window that's kind of ledge. And that's where I'm going to put it.

So it's not a whole lot of space because it's not like we have a huge house or anything.

But it's a good enough space that I think it'll be just the perfect area to start my Christmas villages. And then my hope and also kind of like, "I think it'll push me to want to get a bigger home." Do you know what I'm saying? Because it's like once I start the Christmas villages, eventually I'm going to run out of room and that small window area for the window display.

And so I'm going to need a bigger area to do my Christmas villages. And so I figure, then that'll be like the push I need to get a bigger home. You know, the push I need to like make more money and get a bigger house is going to be like my Christmas village collection because I'm not going to have enough room in the window. So, does that make sense?

So it's like, that's going to be the reason that I work extra hard. So if you see me working hard in a lot of projects, coming up, just know that it's like in an effort to buy a bigger home to get more space for a Christmas village that's filled with Tasmanian devil and bugs bunny and Burton Ernie in a Christmas village form. Some make sense?

Okay, back to the summer house. Welcome new listeners to this show, everything I know. I'm sorry. I'm sorry for what I just put you through. And you can just, if you don't like this podcast, please turn it off.

Don't send me messages. Don't send me ink remasters about how you're pissed about my Christmas village monologue. Moving on, Sierra and Ben. Sierra and Ben talk. Sierra says she likes him as a friend and they're having a cute friendship.

He talks about his ex. So he said it is ex-loved him and he froze. His ex said she loved him and he froze and he fucked it up. He said it went too fast and then he told her he was going to be doing this show.

He basically said like, I'm going away for the summer and I don't want to commit to you.

And she's like, well, I'm not going to wait out summer. And I thought like, don't be a dummy, Ben. Like you like this woman, but like you were just putting her on pause. Because you were going on summer house and so you're giving up this. I don't know anything about this woman, but he says he had feelings for her.

And basically what he's telling us is like he told her I'm doing a TV show.

“So like, fuck off for the summer, but if you want to wait around for me, that'd be great.”

And she said no. And so I'm proud of her. She loves herself, whoever that this woman is. She does love herself because she said, well, fuck off. I'm not waiting around for you all summer.

And I hope she found another man because I don't care for this Ben fellow anymore. And I hope she's watching the summer house. And she's thinking, oh, I'm glad I dodged that bullet when it comes to Ben. Do you know what I'm saying? Sierra does tell him to be honest with her.

And yeah, I just hope she's moved on. Then we cut to the house. They all go back to the home. They do beer pong. I love beer pong.

I miss beer pong. I miss playing beer pong. And I know I could still do it. But I don't know if I have it in me to play beer pong anymore. I think I'd be too worried.

Remember back in college, I'd play beer pong. And it's like, that ping pong ball. I'm sorry. It would get so gross. You'd have hair on it.

It would get fuzz because you're bouncing on table and sometimes that ping pong ball falls and the floor falls. Goes somewhere else. And I don't think I could play anymore because I would just be looking at, you know, when it lands in the cup, you're supposed to drink the beer.

But because the ping pong ball develops. It gets fuzz and it gets hairs on it and stuff. Then that goes in the cup that you've got a drink out of. And I know that's part of the game. But I just don't know if I'm in the place in my life where I could do that now.

Where I could drink the beer that's got the hair and the fuzz in it in the lint.

“Because I remember that as so many times in college, even that as a 21 year old,”

I'd be thinking, oh, what the fuck I'm going to drink this beer. But when you're that age, you don't give a flying fuck. And now at my current age, I don't think I could do that. But I want to because I love beer pong. It's so fun.

Why can't I just, I don't know. Seriously, we already talked about beer and then talking. Beer pong. KJ says, oh, this is interesting.

And he tells everyone on camera.

I don't know if I like that about KJ. I hope I'm going to give KJ the benefit of the top because I am loving him so far. But I hope that he, at least ran that by Dara and said, hey, I'm going to talk about it on camera. But I hope that he, at least ran that by Dara and said, hey, I'm going to talk about it on camera. But I hope that he, at least ran that by Dara and said, hey, I'm going to talk about it on camera.

On screen, when you're miced up and start telling him because he was kind of bragging about it. I did not like that. He was bragging about it. He was like, oh, yeah, I don't even know if anyone asked him.

“I think he just sort of said, like, yeah, I fuck yesterday morning.”

Something like, it was in a nicer way. And I find him very sweet, invulnerable. And I'm loving KJ so far. But if we're going to have to see, I'm going to have to see Dara. Did she approve that?

Did she approve it? I sort of feel like Dara wasn't supposed to be a cast member. And then she got in the mix right away. And then they're like, okay, let's mic her up for professionals. And start bringing her to the house.

But they show KJ call and Dara million times.

He says it's deep. They got a deep relationship. Then we have Western men. They go and talk about Sierra about how Western loves her. He regrets how everything ended up with Sierra.

He misses her. He says Sierra knows that he misses her, but he doesn't know what to do. He seems a little lost with that. And then we end this episode with a scene from next week. We get a naked ban.

Kyle and Amanda talk about his DJing. Having ended in the previous for next week. Kyle tells Amanda like fuck off for something. And West is like, you can't tell your wife to fuck off. So this is another thing that I'm watching with my monoclon.

And thinking, wait, West is seeking it for Amanda. Is this West an Amanda thing real? What do we think? I didn't think so. I think it seems crazy.

It seems crazy, but then we've also crazier things that happen on Bravo. Am I wrong? A lot of stuff going on in Bravo. We lost, of course, the Real Estate Potomac is over now this season. But we got Southern hospitality back.

Woo! If you're not watching, you guys need to get to know Emmy. Just Emmy deserves an Emmy. If you don't know this woman Emmy on the Southern hospitality show. She has like an old school reality TV star.

Completely unhinged in the best of ways. And Southern hospitality is great. It's just one of glad award two because they got a lot of LGBTQ representation on the show. And so we like that. It's just a good show, by the way.

It scratches that old VPR itch that the new VPR does not scratch. And so I hope more people are watching. If you just like hop in on season two, right? Like if you want to go back, of course, I'd encourage maybe start from beginning if you can if you have the time.

But season one sort of a flop. So start with season two and then go forth and prosper. So we got that and what else is coming? Do we have news shows coming? Rhode Island House, why is this coming soon?

Atlanta is coming. You guys have heard good things about Atlanta. But I'm talking like not just from not I'm talking. I've heard like good things from behind the scenes. Right, like people who were like, Oh, this season's actually good.

And I always tell you, sometimes you hear things and people are like, Oh, this is a bad season.

“But then you'll see a lot of problems you're like, is it bad?”

But with Atlanta houses, I'm hearing like under the radar kind of like, Oh, it's a good season. It's a good season. So I'm hopeful and excited about that. Okay, anything else we've got to say? Thank you all so much for listening and I hope.

I hope next week on the podcast, I'll be able to report back about my watch. What happens live episode with Kyle DJ Cook and hopefully it goes well. I'm going to try to get to the bottom of some murmurs. And I'm going to have to, you know, get to the bottom of everything going on on the problem network.

I'm going to try to ask some questions. And if I see something, I'm going to say something. And hopefully we'll have a good time. But by the time you're listening, that's probably already aired. So anyway, I love you all so much for listening.

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“People have been asking, are we going to do one of those?”

What we call a great muds episode where we just sort of talk about other hot topics going on in the world. And so hopefully soon we'll get Hannah back here to do one of those great muds episodes. So I got to check in with her with that. I had lunch with her other day and she's like, are we doing more great muds?

And I'm like, yeah, we got to figure it out. So, we will figure it out. But in the meantime, I bid you a do. And I love you all so much for listening.