#3530 RHONY S16E1 Part One: Snaking Suspicions

Ronnie Karam (0:21)

Well, hello and welcome to Watch What Crappens, a podcast for all the crap we love to talk about on EO Oh, braves, I'm Ronnie. That's Ben. Hi, little Ben Ews.

Ben Mandelker (0:33)

Hi, how are you? How's it going?

Ronnie Karam (0:35)

Good, good. Ben got me sick, long distance somehow.

Ben Mandelker (0:39)

Yeah.

Ronnie Karam (0:39)

So now it's my turn to be sniffling, coughing, and doing all of that fun stuff. So it's great. I'm doing great. Now well, bitch. Now well.

But really glad to be here. Today is Real Housewives of New York Day, the return, the reboot number four of Real Housewives of New York. Man.

Ben Mandelker (1:02)

Seriously, it is reboot number four.

Ronnie Karam (1:05)

It is.

Ben Mandelker (1:05)

We sometimes forget that there was an OG reboot back in the day, but yeah, this is reboot number four.

Ronnie Karam (1:12)

Yep, this is number four. You know who else has to reboot? People who step and shit a lot. That's what we do, you just reboot yourself.

But we're excited to cover that. Check out Ben's new show, What's Your Order on YouTube. It's YouTube exclusive and it's fantastic. He's got a lot of great guests over there putting Bravo things in order. Very funny, entertaining way. It's killing the internet. Thank you for making that. Can I just say a little bit more?

Ben Mandelker (1:38)

Well, thank you, Ronnie. Can I just say thank you to Christina Ariel, for Ariel, I'm sorry, for coming on to the latest episode where we ranked the top five friends of the Housewives universe and a programming note.

Well, as Ronnie mentioned, I was sick and then my guest was sick. So I had to basically, two recording sessions had to get postponed. And then I'm going to be traveling for basically two or three weeks. So there will not be a new episode, probably for like three weeks of What's Your Order. So thank you for your patience and please don't abandon it. But the episodes will be back after this week.

Ronnie Karam (2:14)

OK, perfect. Also, we're going on tour starting October 3rd. The announcement will be up on our website later this week with ticket links. So check back for that. If you want this recap on video, you get that at Patreon along with bonus episodes. This week, we are going to do a trailer trash for the Real Housewives of Potomac.

Ben Mandelker (2:37)

Let that sneeze out, Ronnie.

Ronnie Karam (2:39)

Yeah, I had to sneeze. Potomac, so that will be up later today, everybody. And today, it's Real Housewives of New York City, reboot number four, what say you, Ben?

Ben Mandelker (2:53)

You know, I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it. I think if I'm sure everyone was expecting me to be Mr. Sour Pants all over again, because I famously hated the original reboot right out of the gate. And this one, I enjoyed. I still think, obviously, it's a far cry from classic Rhony. We have to mourn those, that's over. We can't keep on comparing. I get it.

I think it's fine. I think it's good. What I will say is that I feel like we have more to have fun with as recappers than we did with the original reboot. I think losing Brynn is a wonderful thing. And I think that the new girls seem to be all right. I'm a little on the fence about Haley Glassman. I'm a little concerned that she's playing the role of Haley Glassman instead of just being herself. She seems a little affected.

Meaning that she seems like, I don't know, I kind of feel like she's being a little on, where she's like, oh my god, look at me, I'm stoned. But she's teetering, she's on the line, but she's okay, she's okay.

SPEAKER_3 (4:05)

I'm not.

Ronnie Karam (4:07)

She was my favorite one.

Ben Mandelker (4:09)

Really? I was just like, I was.

Ronnie Karam (4:10)

Yeah, I don't think she's faking anything. I think she's really legitimately cuckoo and stoned out of her brain all the time.

Ben Mandelker (4:16)

I think she's definitely cuckoo. She's definitely cuckoo. Yeah, I'm just saying, it was just like, it wasn't like Brin where right away I was like, okay, this girl is fake. I just was like, I had a few moments where she had, a few moments where she was like, I mean, I was so high. I mean, I don't even remember. I mean, I wasn't big enough. I was so high where I was like, okay.

It kind of reminded me of like that friend from, you know, your friend who like drinks for the first time at 23 or smokes weed for the first time at like 25 And then they're like talking like, oh my God, look at me, I'm so stoned. I'm like, okay, like you get it. But it was just, it was like a minor, it was a minor blip on the radar.