#3476 RHOA S17E16: Rum Bum Flameout and the Diddler Riddler

**Ben Mandelker** (0:00)
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**Ronnie Karam** (0:24)
I'm Ronnie. That's Ben over there. Hi, Ben.

**Ben Mandelker** (0:27)
Hi, how are you?

**Ronnie Karam** (0:29)
Good. Welcome to your show. It's Monday, and this is Real Housewives of Atlanta Day. As usual, if you want this on video, you can get that at Patreon. It's also where you get our bonus episodes. This week's bonus is going to be a trailer trash for Real Housewives of New York City, The Return. So we'll be doing that. We do Amazon Lives every Monday at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time.
And we also do Crappy Hour every other Monday at 5.3 Pacific Time. Sorry, Amazon Live is every Monday. Crappy Hour Live is every other Monday. Tonight is a Crappy Hour Monday, so we'll be on at 5.3 Pacific Time. It's free on YouTube and Patreon and Instagram. So find us any of those places, get links to all of this stuff and our link in bio on good old Instagram. Hey, everybody.

**Ben Mandelker** (1:26)
Well, a whole week kicks off right now, okay?
Very excited. So Real Housewives of Atlanta, I mean, they're definitely, they're getting to the finish line of their season, season finale this coming Sunday.

**Ronnie Karam** (1:46)
Yes. And this was the penultimate episode.

**Ben Mandelker** (1:49)
Yeah.

**Ronnie Karam** (1:49)
Season 17, episode 16, Halloween Hot Pocket.
I feel like they're still going. I think it's way too many episodes for this season, as we've said multiple times. This season needed a good 12 episodes.

**Ben Mandelker** (2:05)
It was 12 episodes.

**Ronnie Karam** (2:05)
That said, I was cracking up at a lot of parts of this episode. I mean, it really did have a lot of classic Housewives tropes. We had the starting a business with no business, actually, like having a business launch when you don't have the business. It's very she by charret, you know?

**Ben Mandelker** (2:21)
Rum bum with no rum, how dreadful.

**Ronnie Karam** (2:24)
You know, it's very that. Then we had, you know, the guy with the cheating allegations showing up at the party to confront people.

**Ben Mandelker** (2:33)
Well, yeah, it felt like kind of like to me, like a last gasp just to get to 18 episodes. I'm going to be honest. I think Kate Michelle was hilarious as usual. I think she's so funny.
But I was like, this is nothing is happening here.
There's no, I thought the fallout of Shamea and Portia would be more impactful. It wasn't, let's, it's time to, it's time to wrap this one up. Thankfully they are next week. So there's nothing for me to complain about. It's coming to an end. But yeah, we're just going to remind Bravo once again, that sometimes less is more because this season started off so well. I think the first three quarters of it was excellent and everyone's like, it's back, it's back, it's back. And this is to me how you sort of kill momentum on a season that was, had a really strong start. It doesn't take away from how good the rest of the season was and how strong this cast is, but like, you know, Bravo, let's, you know, how about if you take away four episodes from three different shows, you now have the budget to put a 12 episode show on like Ladies of London or Real Housewives of Miami. How about that?

**Ronnie Karam** (3:44)
Yeah, exactly. Take that advice, you know, lose some and win some. That's what I say.

**Ben Mandelker** (3:49)
Exactly.

**Ronnie Karam** (3:50)
Yeah. But here we are. We're in the lawyer's office. Shamea's meeting with her lawyer. It's like how we all meet with our lawyers with a body suit.
Yes. You know, banging out all over the place. She's like, hello, lawyer. He's like, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, hello, man.

**Ben Mandelker** (4:12)
Seriously.

**Ronnie Karam** (4:14)
I'm your lawyer, Maximillian.
I love that. Yeah. I love that name for a lawyer. Like a good old fashioned 1950s play. Yeah. It's my lawyer, Maximillian. Let's tell those boys what they're going to be dealing with. Maximillian, this ain't my first time at the rodeo.

**Ben Mandelker** (4:32)
Maybe he was formerly a pop star because there was that singer named Maximillian who famously had a one hit wonder, which was just a cover of Marvin Gaye's song, Sexual Healing. So like it would not be crazy if he was like, oh, music didn't work out. I'm going to go into law representing Real Housewives trying to make their butt into a rum bottle. I see the trajectory personally.