#3461 RHOA S17E15: Rest in Peach

**Ben Mandelker** (0:21)
Well, hello, and welcome to the, we almost said The Real Housewives of Atlanta, but to Watch What Crappens, a podcast about all that crap on Bravo, that we just love to watch, including, and primarily, The Real Housewives of Atlanta today. I'm Ben Mandelker, and joining me today in a beautiful, is it a dark green shirt, or is it a slate gray shirt? One can never know.

**Ronnie Karam** (0:42)
It's a slate gray shirt that says Atari.

**Ben Mandelker** (0:45)
Whoa, it's Mr. Ronnie Karam!

**Ronnie Karam** (0:47)
What an exciting time. Hi, Ben.

**Ben Mandelker** (0:49)
Hi, I love your support of a legacy brand. So, it's like you're in Blade Runner.
How are you doing today, Ronnie?

**Ronnie Karam** (0:59)
I'm good. What's going on with you over there, baby?

**Ben Mandelker** (1:03)
I'm great. I had a nice little weekend. I feel refreshed. Dom and I went down to Laguna Beach for the night on Friday, just for the fun of it, which was great. I was like, you know, Orange County is back. It's back. Gotta go check in on Orange County itself. See how it's doing.
See if everyone's okay down there. And it was a lovely time.

**Ronnie Karam** (1:21)
And everybody was okay.

**Ben Mandelker** (1:23)
Yes, we actually ate at Ammar Santana's restaurant in Laguna Beach. You know, do you remember Ammar? Ammar, he went to Morocco once.
He got very far in his first season, which I think was Top Chef California. And then he came back. He's been back like once or twice. I love Ammar. Yeah, we love Ammar. We love Ammar. Didn't love his restaurant. I will say that though. I have to say.
I'm just saying this to let you know. This is a public service announcement, because apparently this is what I do on Mondays now, is that I announce the mediocre food experiences I had over the weekend. But it was definitely better than the Fry Fests. So there's that. But yeah, I was so excited for this finally tasting Ammar's cooking. And it was like, some stuff was very good. I'm not gonna lie. There were two things that were really very, very good, but the rest was kind of like, oh. And every time I eat a bad meal down in Orange County, I always think of Heather Dubrow in like her first or second season saying, there's no good food in Orange County. So we're gonna start the restaurant.

**Ronnie Karam** (2:33)
Yes, the Heather Dubrow restaurant.
And then she got ripped apart in the Orange County register or whatever. And they're like, how dare you? You're an outsider. You're coming in here telling us our Qdobo sucks?

**SPEAKER_1** (2:47)
Well, I believe that the Javier's is wonderful.

**Ben Mandelker** (2:52)
And we'll see you there.

**Ronnie Karam** (2:54)
Well, you have me terrified about this parasite thing that's going around because last week you're like, you can't eat any vegetables and everybody's getting this parasite in LA because of vegetables. And that's normally, you know, I'm a salad person. That's what I make for the week. I'll have like a salad every day.
Not now. Now I'm just eating, you know, avocado sandwiches with some cheese on there and then candy. So I'm going to, you know, I'm going to have diabetes because of this stupid thing that's around. But then, you know, whenever I go to the grocery store, everybody else is eating all the vegetables.

**Ben Mandelker** (3:27)
I did have a salad at a Mars restaurant.

**Ronnie Karam** (3:29)
I had a salad.

**Ben Mandelker** (3:30)
That was very mediocre.

**Ronnie Karam** (3:32)
I even got something delivered. I got a salmon thing like from Uber Eats and it was on a bed of lettuce. I was like, no. But I risked it.
Risked it. I didn't risk it. I risked it.

**Ben Mandelker** (3:44)
If you have to go running away, we'll understand. Luckily, now it's been more, they've isolated where the issues have come from. Although, Whole Foods apparently, I had read somewhere, I don't know, was it Whole Foods? I don't know. Whatever. The point is, you're alive and there's no parasites going to take you down, Ronnie.

**Ronnie Karam** (4:04)
Yeah, I made it. So I think I'm going to go eat some vegetables today. Lord knows I need them. So today is Real Housewives of Atlanta. If you want this recap on video, go get it. It's on Patreon. We do videos every day. You can also get them free a week later on YouTube.
Did you already say that?

**Ben Mandelker** (4:21)
No, I haven't. Go for it.

**Ronnie Karam** (4:22)
The parasite got to my brain.