Ria Was Thrown Off a Horse, Crazy Rich Asians TV Series + DWTS Week 5 Songs

Francesca Mariano (0:00)

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What's up, everyone?

Maria Ciuffo (0:13)

It's Chicks in the Office with Ria and Fran, giving you that Friday energy on a Friday. Happy Friday, everybody.

Francesca Mariano (0:20)

Happy Friday. Yeah.

How are we doing?

Maria Ciuffo (0:25)

Big.

Francesca Mariano (0:27)

I know the answer to that question, but everybody else doesn't know the answer to that question.

There's a lot to discuss that's happened in the last two days from when we recorded our Wednesday episode. Maybe we could insert Noah, just like insert two days ago when we were like, wow, we're so excited to go horseback riding. It's going to be so fun. Let's just play that back.

Maria Ciuffo (0:52)

We are going horseback riding today. It'll be my first time riding a horse, and I have my jeans and my red cowboy boots, and I'm ready to ride.

Francesca Mariano (1:05)

Now, unfortunately, things took a terrible, terrible turn.

Maria Ciuffo (1:08)

Things took an awful turn. Now I'll give a synopsis of what happened, but thankfully Fran was there to also tell the tale. And I like hearing it from her point of view, because she was so hurt for me and so... I was very upset. She was very upset for me, and I very much appreciated that. So yes, I was thrown off a horse.

I was thrown off Prairie Rose.

Francesca Mariano (1:42)

And you know, we should have known, we thought Prairie Rose was gonna be a sweet, sweet lady, and we should have known.

Maria Ciuffo (1:47)

Prairie Rose was a bitch, okay? Prairie Rose was a huge bitch. And usually I wouldn't say that about an animal, but Prairie Rose...

Francesca Mariano (1:55)

I still don't, I'll get to it. I still don't fully blame Prairie Rose, but...

Maria Ciuffo (2:00)

I'm also with you, but Prairie Rose did have a bit of an attitude problem.

Francesca Mariano (2:03)

For sure, she was sassy.

Maria Ciuffo (2:04)

In general, but she wasn't the biggest bitch of the bunch.

Francesca Mariano (2:08)

No.

Maria Ciuffo (2:08)

And you know, horse girls, they might be offended hearing me say that, but you're just gonna have to deal with it because I was thrown off. So you kind of have to deal with me saying that right now. So we go horseback riding and we're separated into three groups of girls. And so exciting. You know, my first time horseback riding, I've never ridden a horse because as you know, on this show, I've talked about it for years. My biggest fear is being thrown off a horse, hitting my head, losing my memory or something worse because of Full House when Michelle falls off the horse and that's amnesia. So I've never ridden a horse.

Now is the time. We find out that we're riding the horses weeks ago and Fran is just so giddy. How high? Yeah. Pun intended about the fact that she's getting to return to the horses. It's my first time we're experiencing it together. So we get to the ranch and vibes are great. It's like in terms of people who haven't ridden a horse before, it was like me, Brie and Alex who haven't ridden before, but we were all excited, the energy was good and I get up on Prairie Rose and I'm feeling confident. Things are looking up.

We start heading on the trail and now Fran's in my group with five other people, right? Yeah.

We start heading on the trail and in my head, I'm kind of like, this trail is kind of hard. I want to know your point of view on the trail.

Francesca Mariano (3:46)

It was, it was not one that I would have put someone who's never ridden a horse before on. Like that's not the trail ride I would have said a first time rider should be on.

It was tight, like we were really going through the woods. It was windy, it was upheld downhill. If you don't know, if you don't know what you're doing, you've never been on a horse before, it was definitely a little trickier and more advanced than what I thought it would be.

Maria Ciuffo (4:18)

Right, because they had taught us a little bit before, like hey, how to steer the horse left, right, go, stop, all of those things. But there were no helmets, which we were shocked by.

Francesca Mariano (4:30)

I was shocked.

Maria Ciuffo (4:31)

Genuinely shocked, I thought for sure there would be helmets, but there was none.

Morgan (4:35)