#3540 Crappy Hour 9/16/26: Baby Gorgeous Nuggets, Todd Tucker’s New Terrible Sizzle

Ben Mandelker (0:30)

How's it going?

Ronnie Karam (0:31)

Good, I've got a crick in my neck.

Ben Mandelker (0:33)

Oh no.

Ronnie Karam (0:35)

And it's like 90 degrees here and I'm in a hoodie. So that's where I am. I'm old lady Ronnie over here. What's going on with you babes?

Ben Mandelker (0:42)

Well, I'm here in the hotel in Manhattan, and look who's behind me.

SPEAKER_3 (0:47)

Oh, little Dom.

Ben Mandelker (0:49)

He was gonna wave, but he didn't see. He's got his AirPods in.

He was gonna wave. But yeah, we're here. I'm off to Europe tomorrow, which is so exciting. I can't wait for my little vacation. Although I'll be sad to be missing Bravo, because there's gonna be good stuff on.

SPEAKER_4 (1:09)

What's going on with you? We're on our way to Norway.

Ben Mandelker (1:12)

I know.

It's gonna be so fun. I don't think I even said it on the main podcast. I mentioned it on our Amazon, but I am going. I'm flying to Norway tomorrow. I was gonna do another culinary tour with that same company that I did it with last year because it was so good. So I was gonna go on a different route this time because it was just, I was like, I have to go back.

But unfortunately, the tour got canceled. So I had already booked tickets. So I'm gonna do two days in Oslo and then I'm gonna go down to Portugal. And don't worry, I will be back. I'll be back in just a week. So it'll just be a little, I'll be gallivanting around.

Ronnie Karam (1:47)

Well, you know that what this means for me, this is gonna be my annual week of. Where's Ben?

SPEAKER_3 (1:55)

Ronnie's time is coming to Ben.

Ronnie Karam (1:56)

Ben just left.

SPEAKER_3 (1:57)

I'm thinking, what the, Ronnie, where's Ben?

Ronnie Karam (2:01)

Every day of my life.

Ben Mandelker (2:02)

Everyone be nice to Ronnie, okay?

SPEAKER_4 (2:03)

Ronnie can't do this. I'm just kidding.

Ronnie Karam (2:05)

I'm just kidding. People are really nice to me when you're gone. But you know, it is sad when you're gone. I miss Danny.

Ben Mandelker (2:11)

Likewise. Likewise.

No, it's hard.

Ronnie Karam (2:16)

But there are really fun guests as usual coming on. Some of ours is where we get to spend time with podcast friends that we never really get to see during the year.

Ben Mandelker (2:25)

Yes.

Ronnie Karam (2:26)

This is Christmas. I know.

SPEAKER_3 (2:28)

I can't wait for the guests.

Ronnie Karam (2:31)

Let's talk about some bobble headlines, shall we? So we talked a little bit earlier this week that there's a lot of Below Deck controversy. Yeah. Shooting the new season now of Below Deck Med, and apparently, Joy and Coop are both on it. There was a picture posted on Reddit of them holding hands. And then Cat posted a video on TikTok. And they're like, hi guys, it's me, Cat. It was the weirdest video I've ever seen because I really like her on the show.

She's real weird on TikTok. And she was like, yeah, well, it screws when you're like, it sucks when you're like screwed over by someone that you like, and you know who I mean, Queen. And I unfollowed you, I unfollowed you, so you know who I am. And everyone went to see what she unfollowed, and she unfollowed Joy, the chef.

Ben Mandelker (3:24)

I can't believe it. I can't believe it. I want to know what the backstory is. And it's like, I want to know, but I also actually don't want to know because I don't think I'm going to care enough. It has no shade to this story. It's just like, it's going to play out on Below Deck, and it's going to, you know, it's going to be boring when we actually see it. Like, it's one thing to be like, oh my God, what happened? But then when we actually get to the episode, it'll be like Joy and Coop and we'll be like, why?

Why are you doing to this? I want Joy to get someone more interesting than Coop.

Ronnie Karam (3:54)

Yeah, me too, but, you know, Joy can continue making terrible decisions as far as men go. I mean, who am I to judge? That's what I do, you know? I guess as long as you just keep being funny and entertaining me about that Coop, that's another Southern Charm boy right there.

Ben Mandelker (4:11)

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I just, I get worried. I get worried for Joy. I just think that like, I don't know. I don't know, what sort of guy do you think Joy deserves? What sort of guy would you like to see Joy with?