RAPAPORT'S REALITY EP 42 - SEASON 3 OF TRAITORS HAS DROPPED/TOM SANDOVAL IS GREAT TV/SEEING SPECIAL FORCES/GOLDEN ERA OF RHOSLC/A GREAT REALITY TV TIME

Published Jan 15, 2025, 10:00 AM

Welcome to episode 42 of Rapaport's Reality! Starring Kebe & Michael Rapaport. This is the reality television podcast that the whole reality world has been waiting for. The Rapaport's are here to discuss:

Thinking of everyone affected by The California Fires

Season 3 of Traitors Dropping

Tom Sandoval Is Great TV

Special Forces

Golden Era of RHOSLC

Being Offended by RHOBH

Not Wanting To Know How The Sausage Is Made

Looming Shows

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Whether you like Durinda or don't like DURINGDA Durinda comes to play, she comes to perform. I think she's aware of her mistakes. I think she wants to do well and be liked.

And I think she definitely wants to be I don't know if she cares about being.

Liked, Babe, she wants to be liked.

She wants to be a kind of celebrity. I think she wants to be a celebrity, and I think she wants to keep working. That's what I really think. And I think she played it totally wrong with her big mouth.

She couldn't help it, That's what I'm saying. So like the volume later during the day.

Right away, nobody wants to see all that right away. I was getting like cringey flashbacks from her last seasons. I was like, there's not even any drinking and she's losing her ship.

She wasn't drunk, she was she was trying to play, and I think she went a little.

She went too far. These people don't know you, SI agreed.

In the beginning maybe four. Hello, Hello, and welcome.

Back to another episode of Rappaport's reality. My name is Michael Rapaport.

My name is Kivy Rapoport.

And this is Rapaport's Reality the Podcast where we the Rapaports break down all things reality TV, all things popular culture, and a few curated things tidbits from the week at large in our relationship. I hope everybody's feeling fantastic. Hope everybody's feeling really, really, realistically great with all things going on in the world.

Yeah, that's it. I want to send our love to the people in Los Angeles, man.

All over Los Angeles, all over California, Pacific Palisades, Alta, Dina, Pasadena, and everybody who's been affected worldwide by the fires of the areas. It's been a crazy, crazy, crazy time. Keep me's from Venice Beach, California, which is so close to those areas affected, and we know people that have been affected, and the you know, the dust is still settling and the fires are still Burning's over.

Yeah, it's not over.

So obviously we've spent a lot of time thinking, praying, watching, repeating, calling, you know, everybody involved and for everybody involved with the fires. So we are thinking about everybody out there and hoping that everybody recovers.

This ends soon, this too. Shell pass hopefully with not many people unscathed and hopefully people will be able to build back.

Yeah, truly, truly, truly, But this podcast, we like to keep things light. Yes, we like to keep things positive and to be totally honest. The premiere of Traders came on just in nick of time because last week we were deep into everything going on in the world and like we said, with the fires, and when we saw that Traders Season three of Traders dropped, we just literally dropped, everything turned off, shut three hours of sheer.

I don't want to say joy because I feel like that's not calling it what it was.

It was beyond joy. Yeah, let's just paint the picture. We're gonna start with Traders. Yes, okay, we'll start with Traders. We'll start at the top. We had been anticipating Traders season three. We watched Traders season two, adored it, loved it, ravaged it. It was so much fun to watch. Kibi definitely pushed me to watch that because I didn't watch a Trader season one because.

We're typically not a fan of these type of reality shows, like game reality shows. Yes, because this has all the elements there and with all our stars that we tend to like, I felt like you fell for it, and you fell hard.

Fell hard for season two.

So we have been really excited about season three and it dropped. I think it was last Friday and we saw that it was three episodes dropping the ones. I will say, Peacock, you gotta do what you gotta do. I don't understand the business model. I don't understand how or why some streaming services like Netflix they put the whole thing out. I don't care what it is. It could be twenty episodes of whatever show they put the whole thing out. It could be six episodes they put the whole thing out. Apple sometimes puts the whole thing out. Sometimes it doesn't put the whole thing out. Who everybody does their own thing personally. I will say that when I act on a TV show that's on Netflix, and I act and work my butt off along with the cast, the crew and everybody for let's say four months, like Atypical, and they put it up there, and people will come up to me on the stream be like, I watched your entire show yesterday and I'm like, shit, man, four months, you spent your whole Saturday watching it.

Yeah.

I love that.

It's funny, all that hard work you put into it, somebody just binged it on a Saturday.

Flattering, and I'm glad. And we definitely binge things, but you know, you're almost like, damn, it's over, you know.

And as a fan of TV, we like to binge.

I would say I like to binge. I think you get kind of frustrated with the.

Binging reality shows. I can binge.

I binge every like I like the British mysteries and I the Harlan Coben series I Corbyn. I think it's I binge those like nothing because they're so good. A lot of them are British. Other the series is like four episodes or six episodes, so it's quick.

The season is the season.

Yeah, so but you you don't I wouldn't even say that you like to do reality shows like that. You like to save it because I'll be like one more episode, one more episode, and you're like, no, turn the TV up, and I really can keep going.

I mean three hours is a lot. It was a lot, but with regular.

Shows, whether it's a comedy or a drama, for me, I feel like two episodes in order to digest it and ponder on it, if it's something that I'm really into, I want to give myself that time to sort of absorb it. Otherwise I feel like I'm not really appreciating it. That being said, that's fair. Traders dropped three episodes and it came in the evening. It came on in the evening and we literally put our phones.

In the other room, got it right at nine o'clock.

We went to our respective bathrooms and did what we need to do to relieve ourselves.

Yes, face, wash the face, double cleanse.

Clean yourself top to bottom.

Ye. Set the blankets, set the pillows, total, set the mood and put.

The turn the remote on and move it because you don't want to bump into it. You don't want to stop anything. True.

And it came saw and delivered big time. Shout out to Alan Cummings, who he must have. First of all, he must be getting a great check, but he seems like he's having so much fun the costumes and the playing it up and the traators and he seems like he must be having a fucking ball. Alan Cummings, who is a great actor and performer, and he sings and he's the host of Traders, and we can't emphasize enough how good both I could vouch at. Season two and season three have been great. I don't know how great season one was.

Yeah, great. I love his outfits. I think it's part of the show. I can't wait till each scene when he comes into breakfast. What he's wearing is the best to me.

And he hams it up and they love him hamming it up, and he just he must just have so much fun doing the show. And just to tell you what the show is, just to get if you haven't watched it, and again, I don't know why you haven't watched it.

It's like a murder mystery.

Obviously it's not a murder mystery, but it's like clue and there's traders, and then there's faithfuls and everybody is sort of lying uh and cheating, and there's challenges, and there's groups and there's backstabbing. It's just like a perfectly mashup of all the great things about other reality TV shows, and they get all the other great people from all the shows.

There was a show called The Challenge never watched that.

Never watched, that of course Survivor, and then there's heavy Heavy with Bravo people and this season.

He's fucking back man Tom Sande.

You just can't get rid of him.

He just is good TV.

Because whether you like him or can't stand him, there's something about him where you just even if you.

Can't I'm the latter, Yeah, but he.

Makes for great TV because he I don't know if how much he's conscious of.

I don't think he's conscious of anything.

See I beg to differ. I think he's a little conscious, and he's also I think I feel like he's not playing with a full deck and he's totally not very bright. So but I think the thing that he thinks he has control of, he thinks he has control of. Like there was a scene where he's running in one of the challenges the camera and he ran past the cat like he was in a like a war movie, you know what I mean. It was very conscious to me. It wasn't that challenge gave no reason to run like that, and it was and it wasn't even fast. It wasn't particularly a fast run, but it was like where the arms were very very you know, like striding arms, pierced lips and furrows like I'm I'm going up a hill, and it was just come on, dude.

And so we got Tom Sandvil. We have I'm not gonna go over everybody.

We have the guy Sam who was married to Britney Spears Is.

They're all good. We have Wells from Big Brothers and.

We're very happy for Wells. He's from behind the Bar finally and uh, let's see what happens.

He's a big brother in Paradise.

Yeah, sorry, bachelor in Paradise. And uh, we have a guy who's like a reality show staple, Boston, Rob from UH Survivor.

And of course we have Derinda.

We got Bob the drag Queen, Bob the Dragon.

We got Dolores from the Real Housewives in New Jersey, Dirinda from New York.

We have Chrishelle from Selling Sunset.

She's been great, she's great. We have Chanel from the Real Housewives obviously of Dubai, Danielle from uh Summer House. No, no, that's no, that's Ciara.

From Summer House.

The cast is great.

It's been fantastic, and the first three episodes were fucking great and full transparency to you guys, Full transparency to you guys. After the second episode we watched, so we're talking. I think they're both like fifty minutes. This is two hours.

We're grown ups. We took a piss pray and I said, Babe, can we get the popcorn? Can we get the key?

And you said no, already you know if you want to intermit it fast.

It was a little too fun, Like how could you not?

You kept saying, I'm having so much fun. I was like, you can have fun without eating. But that's the O talking in me, like you know what I mean, Like I can. I'm not hungry, so I don't want to ruin your but I said, I broke and I finally second episode. Halfway in the second episode, at.

The end of the second episode, you said, go get it, and I will say I did eat the majority of the bowl. You said, put it in a bowl because, as you know of reports reality faithful, there's been a lot of crumbs, there's been a lot of chocolate smears.

So she said, put in the bowl. And I said, because I was.

I was on a high, not from the I was having so much fun with you and so much fun with the show. It was just it was really why we created this fucking podcast.

Yeah, because we want to share how joyful we get watching.

A show, and I always go, babe, how would you do on the show? Because I'm watching it seeing myself, I'm like, I want to see, like, how would I do?

Because it's such a mind fuck they're filming.

Let's say, let's say they're filming for twelve hours, right or ten.

Hours a day, right?

For two weeks? Maybe?

Okay? How much can you keep up the bullshit?

And what kind of a person is keeping it up all the time, because there's obviously a sense of your playing a game the whole time.

I think everybody who comes on this show's playing it full out seriously the whole time. Because here's the thing with the Yeah, well, that skill that has nothing to do with like being tired of keeping up appearances. The skill of the game is the skill of the game. It's like, I don't see how anybody could go in there not having watched the show, like you have to. I have certain theories about like what it takes and why somebody wins. This is why I have really good instincts with Dolores. You know, it's a certain type of personality that could win favor from friends and enemies alike at the same you know, at the same time, and I just think it's a very I love the show. I would love to be on that show.

I try love to be on it too. The only thing that I wouldn't.

I think you wouldn't have the patients.

Oh, I would have the fucking patience.

I mean, I mean, you're competitive, you like to win, but you're not a communicator, so you'd be sitting over.

I'd be bullshitting these motherfuckers. I would be bullshitting.

Yes, I'd be bullshit and also i'd be listening and I'd be like I would fuck around. I would do good because because I would be focused, Like you're saying, I'm not a good communicator in real life, but I would be performing, performing and playing the win.

Although I feel like I don't know.

It's tricky because in the morning there's a part where the traders have to kill someone every night or get not every night, but the way the game goes, and then the next morning eliminate a person from the show. And in the morning they all show up for breakfast, and when they first people come in and there's a knock on the door, you see who got eliminated. Right now, I find that a lot of these people really play it up when they go, oh my god, they good, you're here, you made it. I just don't think this is a right angle all the time. I just don't there's a there's a there's a trader on here now. And I won't spoil it that. I think she's playing at totally wrong. Yes, too many tears, you know what I mean.

Yes, Yes, we.

Are going to give a spoiler alert. We are going to give a spoiler alert. I'm going to say it one more time. We are going to give a spoiler alert. Our girl from New York. And it hurt me to watch her get kicked off early. I think it was the first episode where it was the first it was the first episode they kicked them out. Yeah, they sent fucking de Ridna Medley home and they fucked her. I feel like she got fucked because there was so many housewives. There was four of them, yeah, no five total, right, and you could just feel like they were gonna pluck.

Yeah, because they felt like intimidated. It was a gang of housewives, a gaggle of housewives.

A gaggle of housewives.

And I just felt back because hard Dda the one that whether you like Durinda or don't like DURINGDA Durnda comes to play, she comes to perform. I think she's aware of her mistakes. I think she wants to do well and be liked.

And I think she definitely wants to be I don't know if she cares about being liked, Babe.

She wants to be liked. She wants to be an ego.

Kind of celebrity. I think she wants to be a celebrity, and I think she wants to keep working. That's what I really think. And I think she played it totally wrong with her big mouth.

She couldn't help it, That's what I'm saying. So the volume up later during the day.

Right away, nobody wants to see all that. Right away. I was getting like cringey flashbacks from her last seasons. I was like, there's not even any drinking, and she's losing her ship.

She wasn't drunk, she was she was trying to play, and I think she went a little.

She went too far. These people don't know you.

These six five agreed.

In the beginning, maybe four and put it up to eight later during day, and I wanted to see her do well. That being said, the rest of the episodes come on. I don't know how they're rationing them out, babe. I don't know if it's I don't know.

If that's like Friday. Will three more come out or will two come out?

I don't know. But we're not going to be doing this ship till March.

Like I love it, but like, come on, man, I can't be doing this ship like because the way it's looking, it's like, Okay, there's a couple more weeks in January and then we're gonna go all February and then we're going into like this spring.

Yeah, it'd probably be over the third week in March.

That's that's a little rough. Yeah, that's a little rough in today's dating.

No, actually it'll go three six.

I don't know if it's you're you're assuming.

Maybe just one Friday new episode.

That's gonna suck only one a week.

Yeah that's not that's not okay, that's not gonna work for me. Yeah, that's not gonna work for me. The other show that we started watching, and Kibi wasn't totally into it, but I just had a feeling that was gonna be good because I saw some clips and I saw some interviews and we dipped into it last year strictly because Sibal, because we were like, yeah, we want to see everybody wanted to see me.

He was like jumping off for bridges.

It's sort of like the gift that keeps giving for me. I don't I don't care for the guy at all, but and I don't. I look at him and I'm like, look is Special Forces? I think it's on NBC or on Fox.

And the reason why I wanted to watch is because Cam Newton, the NFL former MVP, who's one of the bigger athletes I've ever met, like as far as a quarter like, he looks like stature, big motherfucker's like six six to sixty when I met him, and when he played, he was like six six two sisters. Didn't look like a basketball player and certainly don't look like a quarterback. He looked like some sort of bodyguard right right, And you know, and he's just got a funny personality. He's a very like him or don't like him player, And he was great, but he had an ego and.

He was great.

Behavioral problems, right, behavior.

Problems, and he was great and he would take and give punishment them. But then he wouldn't dive on fumbled ball, so he just was like a frustrating great star. I think he'll definitely be in the NFL Hall of Fame. Anyway, he's on the show, and I saw Denise Richards.

Oh my goodness, who I would suggest watching it guys, just for that or two episodes.

Man, yeah, guys, yes, I'm gonna do explain what the show is for celebrities that are literally on lockdown trained like they're going to be in the Special Forces and the training is intense.

And Denise Richards from the Real House to Beverly Hills, Lo and Behold, is one of the celebrities, along with Cam Newton, who again is an NFL beast, another guy named Golden Tate who had a great NFL career, Marion Jones, the Olympic athlete, so they have Olympic athletes. They have the one Olympic gymnast, so those make sense. They have Brody Jenner, who's Bruce Jenner, sorry, Carrie Hart, Caitlyn Jenner's son who's athletic. He's been carry Hart who's in shape. A lot of these people are in shape, and they make sense. And then you got Denise. Then you got Denise. You got a former soccer player, which makes sense, Travis Kelce's ex girlfriend who we don't know much.

About Kayla, but she's bad as she's badass.

And then again, I'm gonna say it one more time then Denise Richards, poor Denise and Denise. First of all, they need to put her back on the Real House as of Beverly Hills asap. She's fucking magic. She's like a plug and play on a reality TV show, like you.

Put your tend to like these people for reality shows that are really really to me too damaged. There's like a fine line between like really damaged and like, you know, middle of the ground almost damaged. Like maybe the show will damage you afterwards, but I just don't. I found it.

So sad, did you.

Oh?

Yes, like pathetic because of the reasons why she wanted to try to do the show to have less fear. And I mean she looks, as we all know, like a deer in head lights. Sometimes a deer like in headlights that's not quite there. I remember the scene where her jacket was upside down and deret and she became vicious, right, So there was no shaar, there was no deer in the headlights there, but on this show she was.

A confused deer with a headlight.

Confused and like cold and wet and damp. It takes places because the challenges the Scotland. They're in the water there in the air, they're climbing mountains, bridges, they're muddy. It's like awful. So like watching this woman who looks like she's gonna come undone.

But to me when she said, I am here because I want to try to conquer some of my fears.

And when I'm watching the show and I'm.

Like, Babe, I understand how somebody could go I want to try to do that because I know these things are scary as fuck and that they're frightening, and this whole thing seems frightening and it's kind of like don't touch the fire, don't touch the hot pot. And you're like, oh, I'm gonna tell I could see why somebody would want to do that. And when they had the interview with her, like and she's she talked about some of her life. I mean, she's been through a lot of trauma, and she talks about like, you know, sort of being sexualized her whole life, and you know, and basically. I mean, she didn't say this, but being a pretty girl you know has been you know, there's been great perks to it and benefits.

I get all that. I totally get all that. But what I'm.

Saying to you and that humanized her for me, and it also makes for great TV when she's out there in the cold. And the way they start the whole show is these Navy Seal guys who are real Navy Seal guys.

They walk up to.

Each some of the Special Forces.

And they pushed them into the water backwards as hard as they mean.

It was a real shove. I mean it was a shove.

Man.

The way they pushed Cam Newton like, he looked like he.

Got how how did that guy push him into the water. I mean, we're giving away you guys haven't seen about what We highly recommend you watching it. I just totally disagree with you about the dating. I mean, knocked the wind out of her into the ocean or wherever they're where they are, But she got.

Up and she made it through the fucking challenge and it was It was good anyway, at least for the first two episodes. With Denise rischards On, there trust me. If you love Denise on the Real House Rise of Beverly Hills.

You're gonna want to see it compromise like this, It's like terrible. I recommend watching the show because I think it's fascinating. Also, it's sort of like a human sociological experiment to me, like, you know, people doing the challenges, and how they react when they fail, how they react within themselves when they conquer a challenge, and then when the special Forces bring them in in the cloak of night covered with their head to interview them, to see like what they're about and why they're there. I find that human interest part of the show interesting, but I do also probably have a hard time using up those hours with that and not something a little bit uh. I really that's just where I'm at. You know, Georgina.

I am going to go to Georgia, Georgina, and as much as we loved Georgiana until it's sort of just like we realized, this is like a loop.

Well it is a loop, but I would stay with that loop. But every time I'm watching it, you're like, this is below you. I mean, so who wants to keep watching? So I'll just wait till your next trip out of town and finish it. But that's where I'm at with my reality shows. With all the drama in the world, I just don't want to see people getting shoved off boats and crying almost shitting their pants because they're jumping out of hell comes when they have no business.

Stephen Baldwin, Steven Baldwin, you're right, Stephen, another disaster by.

The way, babe, you're gonna say it, like, who wants to watch a cuckoo person like, you know, shit their pants doing dunk challenges like waterboarding child Like, no.

I'm sorry.

Stephen Baldwin, who obviously his brothers with Alec Baldwin and the other nineteen Baldwin boys Billy Baldwin, Jimmy Baldwin, Frankie Baldwin. Stephen Baldwin is good TV also because he's got that crazy vibe about him. He's got those crazy Baldwin eyes. They're like four different colors and you can tell. I mean, he did good with the challenges and they're Baldwins. They're from Long Island. You know, they used to fight.

Playing football, play some football and.

Football, baseball, you know, the hockey and all that shit. He's like I'm fifteen. He keeps saying he's fifty eight. I'm fifty eight. I'm fifty eight, and he's I'm the oldest one here. I'm fifty eight. And he starts to get overwhelmed by the challenges and then he'said, well, I'm doing a gig after this. And one of the things they said was.

Don't get boiling it. Yeah, because that's the really good part.

But he's good.

Yeah, he's good.

He's plugging play too, because he's kooky.

And I've never be honest, and I mean, this would no disrepect because I don't criticize other actors. I've never been mesmerized by his acting. But I was like, if he could, I.

Don't remember anything he's acting out.

He's been a lot of stuff, but I don't He's not Alec.

Alec is the statement truly great, and the other ones are really good looking. But the thing about Steven MoMA is like, if he could understand all that crazy, I don't know if.

He's aware of how crazy he comes from.

Oh No, this is a hard time with people that are like on the edge watching them. It's like I'd rather watch one flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, like and know that this is like a movie. You know, these are real people, That's what I'm saying. I have a hard time by the way, you know what, we saw a clip of ninety Day Fiance or showed you some clip this couple and a turkey and she wanted to wear a bathing suit and he had r in a you know, full you know, wetsuit to go to the beach. And I showed it to you, and I said, maybe we should be watching the ninety Days series again because at least it's real people that we have no attachment to. These aren't ex celebrities, kind of like in the world that we've lived in. Like it's a little upsetting to me, and you know, hopefully not foreshadowing for our life because you seem to think that you would actually be able to be on Special Forces. I'm like, hell no, not if you want me to be here when you come home, man, bust your ass. There's a challenge where they are in a moving boat and a helicopter comes by and they have to jump and catch a helicopter the landing gear of the helicopter and climb up. Are you kidding me?

Could you, No.

Babe, you could barely when I asked you to get me a glass of water at night to go downstairs. It takes you forever to get upstairs, and you are huffing and puffing when you so like, I don't want you to do that. I don't want you to go mad and decide that you're going to be on that show. To me, it would be mortified.

It would.

It would be here as well.

It's scary, but it's alluring. It's a little allurning because I know you. I keep saying it, but I'm like, I also go, well, you know, if you want to get in cold water, there's an ocean close by.

You could go into it anytime.

Sure at East Rivers right there.

Right there, there's no there's pools, and there's there's cold plunges.

That's right, there's other challenges that you could do.

Right.

So maybe that's my hesitance of really liking the show, because there was a time that when it was first being made, I think it was somebody asked as they asked you the first season, and I was mortified once I saw what it was and you actually about it, and I'm like, are you nuts?

Anyway?

Those shows have been great. And then I said it last week, the Golden era of the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City oil Boy.

One of the iconic scenes.

I mean they're going season by season and having like iconic moments, going back from gen Shaw getting arrested on the sprinter van and that whole thing.

Right, then we had Monica come in, who was.

A realityte and we had the trauma of the reality of Avante, and we had the obviously the iconic quote from Heather Gay you know about reality Vante and the whole sort of mystery around Reality Vante and figure out who is reality and.

That was so we're skipping a big part. It was a Heather with a black eye. I mean, that was a moment on TV history, like where she was did not admit who how she woke up with a black guy.

And that lasted two seasons, season maybe three, Yeah, maybe three because they dipped into it two No, but they were going back to it a.

Little bit last end of the end of Jen Saw and then the whole next season.

Yeah right, yeah. Salt Lake City is a let me ask.

You a question, babe. You know there's a scene in the last episode where all the girls were trying to figure out. Meredith suggested that Brittany after recording everybody on the bus, allegedly according to her. But then when they go back and Heather says to Meredith, well, let's go see if there's, you know, recording device. It was sort of tongue in cheek, I believe on Heather's part, but Meredith was dead ass serious. What do you think about that whole scene where they're all in the hallway in comparison to looking for a listening device, in comparison to the Housewives of New York doing like a kind of a thing about being what's her name being Rebecca being pregnant, like manufacturing something for the show. Why it works on Salt Lake, Because I think that it works on Salt Lake, and I want to know why you think that.

Is the reason why it works on Salt Lake, And Kibia is referring to real housewives in New York and we were really offended, offended, really offended by the whole fake pregnancy thing. And the reason why the sort of listening device uh scene in the real house of Salt Lake City works is because they've earned it. They earned it exactly because the reason why they started doing the listening device thing is because they actually went through a real incident and a real thing that brought up real emotions and real feelings and real frustrations. So when you're when you do that, you can get away with adding a little sugar.

To it, a little manufactured entertainment. I call it, like if with it.

And they've earned it.

They have earned it because we know the nitty gritty depth of everything they've gone through and who they are. We've seen them claw yes, we've seen these women real time. They're still doing it right, So, like I think I watched it over and over. I was like, what about these ladies? You know, it's so weird. Even what's the Greek lady's name? And and Angie she is even newer. Yeah, I believe Anne and and Mary calls her and Angie she is even newer cast member. Forget about Britney whatever, but Bronwyn is great. But these women are seen. They're almost I'm watching them now as almost if they're iconic. Like it's crazy how they got there so quickly. You know, you showed me an old clip of Ramona and uh Bethany having an argument that was like brilliant. I was like, whoa, this was next level television. Yeah, I feel like these the way these women are there getting there get it. They get it. They're they're there and they're smart and witty and yeah.

No, they get it. It's a skill. There's got to be a certain skill.

And the producers, you know, obviously we don't care to learn and understand the mechanism and the behind the scenes.

We truly don't know.

We go to show how made. I don't want to know.

Yeah, we don't want to know how the sausage is made.

I have some ideas and thoughts and theories, and you know, you even asking that question about you know, why can the Salt Lake City Girls women get away with a listening device scene? And why was it so offensive in New York? Even to sort of deconstruct that is something that I don't like to do.

But like I said, and we said this.

When the Real Housewives of New York did that whole fake pregnancies, like they haven't earned that. This is basically their second season. You can't be doing that shit. And you're like, not even halfway through the second season of your show, that's a whole episode.

Very it's very very manipulative and very like.

We're not the only one you would infuriate it, No, everybody.

I mean they've taken the audience for granted when they did that.

Yes, and I think it was bad producing and bad just a bad idea. But this whole scene that will go down in reality TV show history and certainly of Real Housewives of Salt Lake City history, with Danielle the new Girl literally starting to record Brittany. Brittany, who's the fucks Danielle?

I said, Danielle from the other show from Traders. There's a Danielle Traders.

Yes, yeah, sorry, Brittany from Salt Lake City recording them while the girls are they're going at it. Yeah, they're arguing. I mean, it's kind of like a free fraud. It's it's it's it's a bad argument. And it's between Whitney Rose, Whitney wild Rose respectfully and Heather and.

They're all I mean, at this point, they're all in it, like they're all arguing, and you hear like.

A boop boop like on somebody on their phone and Meredith.

No, it was Ange that looked over and said, Brittany, are you recording right?

And she was like, what so now.

I'm sending the text to my daughter. She got good news with the test score. Blah blah blah blah blah.

And chaos ensued, and I understand why chaos.

Meredith saw red Yo. She did one of her like mommy dearest screams out. It was great.

I'm surprised that she didn't get fired. They exactly worked it out amongst themselves. But that's something that I've never seen. It's never been discussed and been accused of, Babe.

This is the problem where we have with new people coming into the show. We're always trepredacious of someone new coming in because you know, we don't want somebody who studied you know of this. And again here's another person all on Megan Markle. I never watched the show right wrong, Yes she did, and trying to.

Just to give more context because Brittany is saying, and we watched the after ass after show, and she's double tripling down.

Doubling down that she wasn't recording, that.

She wasn't recording number one, and that she never watched the Real House as a Soul Lake City and she also never watched problems shows.

I'm like, then, how did you get on the show?

Yes? And why did you sign up? And then she said she was You know, I regretted that I didn't watch it because I didn't know what I was getting into. But I love you Andy and Bravo TV. You know, no offense. Believe I don't believe her. No, she's by the way, let's continue on away.

How do you convince somebody to do a show that you've never seen before?

You don't, it's a lie. Yeah, you don't. By the way, Heather brought her in, so she knew what Heather was doing with her life. I believe Heather is her fret.

She's doing her right her whole life. She became this person.

Yeah, she's this thing. And so it's really interesting that a grown woman will sit there record other grown women, probably to in the after show they actually all admit it, probably to share with her friends, like, look at these assholes. I'm on the outside of this. I don't act like them. That's what I thought she was doing. And uh, that's not true. But what ensues afterwards, when they're all sitting down for lunch, they confront her again and said, you were recording us, and we're not cool with it because we've been through a lot with the reality fontife and then the whole gen shot shame. These are traumatic events and they're all restimulated. And then you know, here this woman says, you know, I don't know. Does she admit it first? And then she goes on to say no, no.

She made I didn't know was recording.

She kept going, and then she turns the entire conversation into yes, I'm sleeping with Jared. Yes, because she's a Mormon and she's not supposed to the previous episode she said we're not physical, So she uses this opportunity to tell them that she is. Duh. Everybody knows, the audience knows, the cast knows. It's very clear how she drinks what she wears. They're doing it. They're doing the dow. Okay. Now, the thing that I have a problem with is that hold on with me for a second in this scene. These women they fall for it. Why because they're all Mormons, and they all are privty this sort of emotions about withholding who they really are because the religion doesn't allow them to do so, right, So they all err on the side of sympathy with her, which I'm fascinated by because one minute you were pissed off. But the only person I ain't buying it in the moments, in the looks of the moment, because Bronwin doesn't buy it, but she pretends to in the moment like yes, yes, yes, And I love what she said to her, because like, don't use your trauma and pain but what you can't do and weaponize it against us. But Mary, at the.

End of the table, Mary Cosby, she.

Was like, girl bye, yes, girl bye, girl bye, good bye. This is the worst type of human being that well, in the moment they're getting in trouble, stub their toe.

Yeah and be like oh my toe like too.

So now we're done with the truth of the matter, man, get out of here. I don't like her. I hope she doesn't come back because of that, because she's faking the funk and I don't appreciate a housewife that fakes the funk like that.

But do you think that maybe she isn't faking the funk because the women in the court of law of Real Housewives Assault Lake City, they sort of heard her out, they heard her story, They were with her, and they kind of, you know, they don't think they forgot, but they forgave her.

Yeah, I did they because you know they did forgive her. But now we have this thing. I think watching the After Show sometimes is shitty because it's almost like knowing the sausage how the sautions is made, because according to most of them on the after Show, they're not having it and they think she's not ditsy and a liar. Still, so I'm like, how do they move forward with this person?

Well, maybe she won't come back. Yeah, maybe she won't come back, but she's done a good job of stirring it up and that is what we want. But that's like being on a TV or movie set shooting a scene, recording it and posting it before like the day off.

Yeah.

And also the argument could be made that, oh, you're on a TV show, you're already being recording or miked up. No, anyway, but this is different. They've all agreed to be on the TV show and do this thing amongst themselves. They did not agree to be in your phone, not at all, not at all.

So it was it was a.

Very I'm not feeling her at all. It's like her and her Jared, but.

It made for great TV, and it made for a great segment on another I mean, I don't like to brag, but I will do it.

I don't.

I try to stay humble, but I will speak the truth. And this was is another great episode of Rappaports Reality. And I know a lot of you are listening, and I know a lot of you have friends who love reality TV shows, So I would love for you to share. I would love for you to subscribe, rate, and review this fantastic episode of rap Reports Reality.

And I can't wait for next week. We got so much going on.

There's so much. I mean, we're We're in reality TV, Bravo TV history right now. It's so good.

It's all over the place.

Beverly Hills by the way, we got Potomac, I think they shot the reunion, and.

We've got Summer House looming. Beverly Hills is going to be back, you know, fantastic. We got Der with an m v P money come on out the Park.

Dinner.

Yeah, she's just kicking ass. So it's it's a great time for reality TV. And like we said, Trader season three awesome. Uh Special Forces. The first two episodes just for Denise Richards alone. I promise you thank us later and make sure you tell a friend to tell a friend about Rappaport's reality subscribe, rate and review, and Babe, you were fantastic once again.

Today I feel like you're I feel like I didn't keep up with you in the beginning there, but I love you, Love you, babe.

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