Summer House: Singles Nights & Casseroles!

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If you haven't watched it yet, go watch the gay hockey show. Anyway, that's not what we're here to talk about. We're here to talk about Summer House. Lindsay Hubbard is back. Oh, I was so excited. Now we all were, of course, nervous. When we found out Lindsay was having the baby, we thought, what's Summer House going to be like? Look at you! You have a baby! In a bar! So, why is Rachel Zoe and Splitz Richards and Dorit over at the bar in the Hamptons and we're seeing them out and about at a DJ booth having fun with the gals midday? And yet, Summerhouse, you tell us year after year after year after year after year after year. You pull our leg or what's that saying? Pee on our leg and tell us it's raining. You lie to us. You bamboozle us. It's the greatest bamboozlement I've ever accomplished. You bamboozle us into thinking that you're not allowed to film at these bars. So why is Rachel Zoe on camera at a bar? Huh? Cut! I got you, Bravo! I mean, why are they filming at a bar on Real House is the Beverly Hills of all shows, and then the show that's supposed to be filming at the bar called Summer House, where it's all about people going to the Hamptons, they're not filming at the bars. How do the Beverly Hills producers get them to sign the releases, but the Summer House producers can't? I know, I think they're different production companies, but the Summer House production companies step their ass up, because if Rachel Zoe can get them, I'm loving Rachel Zoe on that show, too. Although I was sort of excited about Beverly Hills. I don't want to dog them, but I was excited. There was like one episode that was like, okay. It was like an okay episode. And then I came on the microphone and told you guys on Everything Iconic. I was like, oh, it's starting to get good. And then it didn't. It just sort of like backtracked again. And so unfortunately, they've also been separated forever. It's like, I don't know. But I am still, I'm loving that new one. What's her name? Amanda. Although, isn't it confusing? Because on Summer House, we have a Kyle and Amanda. And then over on Beverly Hills House, we have a Kyle and Amanda. And it's just getting a little tricky in my head. Sometimes I see things that it's like, Kyle and Amanda are divorcing. And I'm like, wait, what? I get confused. I'm thinking about Kyle and Amanda over on Beverly Hills. anyway okay on summer house this week we open on sunday morning the kitchen's a mess and levi one of the new gals saw ben on raya ben the australian man on raya and that's when bailey says she sat on ben's lap the night before and she calls him the hottest man ever and here's what i gotta say i did get on the microphone at the very first episode of summer house and say how hot this ben australian fellow was and i do honestly regret that a little bit because although I'm finding him hot. Now that time has gone on, I don't find him as hot as I did that first episode. And I'm starting to think like, Bailey is going a little too hard with this Ben. She's gassing him up too much because he's going to watch this season and be like, oh, wow. Bailey, every confessional, she's like, he's the hottest man ever. I'm in love with him. And I would do anything to be with him. And I'm like, Bailey, cool your jets. Even though if that was me in the house, I'd probably be the same way. And that's how I'd be coming across as well. But I'm here as an audience member and I'm telling Bailey, you need to cool it. Because every single soundbite I'm hearing of this Bailey is just about how hot Ben is. And it's like, okay, get off his nuts. He's just going to disappoint you like every man on Bravo does. When have we not been disappointed by a man on Bravo? So we all need to cool our jets. But Bailey in particular. And it makes me sad because Ben just couldn't be less interested in Bailey. He's showing more chemistry with literally everybody else. The boys, the girls, everybody. And yet Bailey's the one who's like, he's the hottest man ever. And I like Bailey. I'm here to defend her, but I'm just, I can't defend her on that. I cannot defend her on that. Now, Mia is also one of our new gals. She's woke up with the blue cheese in her purse. I was a little confused about this. I was a little confused because I was so grossed out. Did anyone used to watch The Challenge on MTV? There was a gal named Jemmy who was just interviewed for a podcast by Kelly from Laguna Biatch. Is this ringing a bell? Anyway, Jemmy from The Challenge was just interviewed. And Jemmy used to have this fear of ketchup. And there was this one episode where they were basically torturing this poor gal who was on MTV's The Challenge to play a game. And yet they were attacking her with ketchup because she had a deep, deep fear of ketchup. And I always thought it was so funny that she was so scared of ketchup. But then now that I'm watching this, I was realizing like, oh, I think I have a deep fear of blue cheese. Because I am scared of blue cheese. I don't like the taste of blue cheese. It makes me very uncomfortable. and the fact that Mia woke up and there was blue cheese in her purse, it was in somebody's purse, I thought that would be a nightmare of me. Not that I carry a handbag often, but if I had my handbag out for the night and then I woke up the next day and there were blue cheese in it, it would be gone. It would be gone. And I've got to say, I've been thrifting lately. Going to the thrift shop, there's this one in the Valley that I really like. Anyway, they have all these handbags. And the thing about Los Angeles thrifting is that you could find nice name brands at thrift shops. Unfortunately, sometimes they overpriced this stuff. But anyway, that's not the point. The point is, they have this whole big handbag section. And I had gone there after I watched this episode of Summer House. And I was thinking, oh, you got to look in all these bags. If you're about to buy a bag at the thrift shop, you better bet your bottom dollar that you're looking inside of it, because you don't know when you're going to find leftover blue cheese. Because if I was reverse engineering the situation and thinking like, oh, if I was on summer house and I went out and I accidentally had blue cheese left in my purse. I'd immediately go donate that purse. I wouldn't want it because I'm scared of blue cheese. And then lo and behold, the handbag would show up at the thrift shop and then people who were shopping for the handbags would look and find some old blue cheese in it because who's going to be going through the bag? I do like, I'm sort of in my thrifting era right now though. I love the thrift shop. I do. and yeah, I love the thrift shop. Sometimes, I went last week and they had all sorts of great vintage gift wrap paper and I bought myself a roll for Christmas but it was like completely wrapped, unopened gift wrapping paper. Vintage, the high quality, it was made in the 90s. High quality, it probably got lead in it but so be it. It was like a dollar for a roll and I was in heaven. They have all sorts of great stuff. They have a lot of good dishware too. That's what I think you can find best at a thrift shop. is dishes, dishware, glassware. You could find some really interesting stuff like that. Anyway, you got to be careful, though. Look in the handbags. If you're shopping for a handbag at the thrift, make sure there's no blue cheese in it, because Mia probably donated that purse. She was looking through that thing with the blue cheese in it. Anyway, this morning after, though, Carl's running around in just his underwear, and I would just like him to put something on. I never normally say that about a man. I'm always saying, take off the blouse, Take off your pants. Do what you got to do for the show to make it entertaining for the audience. I love when they show Kyle Cook's caboose because to me that's his best quality, especially at this point. The only thing I want to see out of him is that caboose. I don't need much else out of that man. And so I'm always the one who's going to be on the microphone saying, take it off. Take it off. I've seen Magic Mike Live in Las Vegas. I'm going to shout out the screen. Take it off. It's in my nature. However, with Carl running around and West was trying to make a casserole, and I'm thinking, Carl's excessive body hair, is probably everywhere in that casserole. I'm sorry to say it. I know that's gross. But Carl was in his just, they were just underwear. They weren't even his running shorts. They were just underwear. And I am on Carl's side this season. I'm rooting for him. But he's got a lot of body hair. And I say that as an Italian-Polish man who's got a lot of body hair. Like, I get it. But that's why I'm not running around someone making a casserole in just my undies, right? Like, what is going on? Because Carl's got hair. there's not a spot on Carl's body that's not, that doesn't have hair on it. I mean, that, if you look around, you're like, okay, I can't find a bare spot anywhere. And so he's trying to run around the kitchen while West is making his casserole. And you got to be careful, especially West. If I was West, I'm sorry, I probably would have saw something and said something. Because Carl's running around that kitchen with that hairy ass body, which again, nothing wrong with it. Gorgeous body. But when there's a casserole being made in the kitchen, and West seemed really intent on making that casserole. He said he had this recipe. Even though it ended up looking like shit, and everybody kind of implied that it looked like shit when they were all eating it, they were like, oh, it's like mush or something. The truth is, they were all probably turned off because Carl was running around in his undies while West was making that casserole. But West, as the chef of the event, should have said, hey, Carl, get your ass out of the kitchen. I'm making a casserole. I don't need your pubic hairs in the casserole. So put on some fucking clothes, right? Like this isn't, what are we doing here, Carl? It's fine. Keep Carl and his underwear in the room. That's what we have those bedroom cameras for. I don't need Carl and his underwear in the kitchen of all places. Or go to the backyard even, Like literally anywhere else. Like I'm fine with you being in your underwear. If anything, I celebrate it. Just not in the kitchen. In the kitchen. It's like people, it makes me nervous when people have the cats and they let the cats on the counters in the kitchen. You know what I'm talking about. You know what I'm talking about. People with the cats in the kitchen on the counters. Because those cats, I just don't know. I just don't know. And I'm allergic. So it's like, I worry. I worry. I'm kind of like weird when it comes to people's homemade food It's gotta be someone I trust I gotta know them intimately Because I don't know if they're gonna have a car running around the kitchen in their underwear While they're making their casserole Or if a cat's on the counter I don't know Did I have too much coffee today? Maybe so Okay So then what else is Carl's in underwear Jesse, Sierra, and Amanda are all in bed chatting Jesse likes that Mia's nice And Jesse's doing this thing where he's like kind of going back and forth about his relationship with Sierra, which I don't buy. I don't think they have any chemistry. Wait, did we talk about this last week? I don't think we did. So Sierra, she, I'm watching her relationship with Bailey and Lexi because when I did the, I think it was the Traders panel, or maybe it was when I interviewed her. I interviewed her a couple times. She was on the Traders panel, and then I interviewed her separately with Amanda at the BravoCon in November. And I remember when I asked about the new cast members, she sort of seemed like she didn't get along with the new gals. And so I'm watching this with my Angela Lansbury monocle, like I'm in Murder, She Wrote. And I'm trying to watch like, oh, how is Sierra reacting? And so far I'm not seeing any interaction with Bailey and Lexi and Sierra, but I'm wondering if that's going to be shown or, or maybe I'm reading too much into it and Sierra just like didn't form much of a relationship with them. But I am, I want us to keep our eyes on it because I did clock that. I clocked that T when I was in BravoCon and I think there something there So keep your monocle on it But anyway so yeah they in bed Jesse said he ready to settle down and he sort of implies West isn And I like yeah that a crack of bullshit I don trust these men on Summer House when they say they want to settle down You know who else famously said they want to settle down Kyle Cook. And guess what Kyle Cook does every weekday when Amanda needs him the most? That's right, he leaves when she needs him the most. And she said, how about you keep your ass inside and stop getting drunk at events where you got a DJ. And I saw some DJ events on TikTok. They're starting to show up on my TikTok feed where people are posting the events that they went to where Kyle Cook DJed. And it's giving Sandoval. Remember when he went on tour with the extras and people were posting from those shows? That's what it's giving to me. And I'm thinking, oh, you need to do that to save your business? I don't buy it. I don't buy it. but Jesse Jesse's now thrown West under the bus a little too much for my liking and I wish later we'll get to it later in the episode West was kind of beating around the bush when it came to Jesse and he wasn't shooting it to him straight and so I was mad at West about that but in the meantime I was pissed at Jesse because I don't think it is I don't think it is appropriate for Jesse to go after Sierra whether or not Sierra is interested which clearly she's not I don't think she's ever going to be I don't think she's interested in that tall crooner but he definitely is just being inappropriate because West actually dated Sierra. So what do you mean you're trying to smooch her while you're getting drunk? He says something to West like, oh, is it okay if when we're both drunk, do you think I could kiss Sierra? Would it be okay if I just kissed Sierra when we were drunk? And West is like, uh... because it's, well, he was so thrown off by that question. And even the other people in the room, it was a KJ and Ben were in the room and like, uh, dude, what the fuck? What do you mean? What the fuck? What are you asking your best friend? If you could kiss his ex-girlfriend for when you're drunk? Uh, do you think it'd be okay if I kissed Sierra? It's like, if I can win it, Jesse, you dumb shit. He's supposed to be your best friend. You're on a TV show for God's sakes. Yeah, Sierra's hot. Everybody wants to make out Sierra, but have some decorum. Pull it together. Because anybody else, and what's the deal? Wait, okay. Am I complaining too much? I'm sorry. I'm going to perk it up. I got to be more positive. Okay, before I'm more positive, can I just also say one more thing about what I hate about these people? Why are they not bringing anyone home from these bars or clubs? Now, I understand this is not Jersey Shore. This is not Jersey Shore, but stylistically, it's sort of similar of a show to what Jersey Shore used to be. And now I'm noticing like they're never bringing home anyone. And these men, are they just hooking up while they're out? And that's an issue with why we need cameras at the clubs. Because there's no way I believe that these people aren't hooking up. I mean, they're famous now. Like when West goes to a bar and he's surrounded by a bunch of young people, I'm sure there are people throwing themselves at him or any of the cast members, right? Because they're young, they're single, they're going out. And so why aren't they bringing them back to the house? Like, remember in the early days of Summer House, the Summer House days of yore and yesteryear, I thought they used to bring people back to the house and then they'd wake up with the, and now they're not doing that. And I'm like, we need to bring that back. What's going on with everybody? Why is nobody hooking up with outside people? And Jesse in particular, it's like, stop trying to go after your friend's ex-girlfriend and go pick someone up at the bar, you tall crooner. Anyway, Jesse says he's, yeah, we've mentioned he's ready to settle down. Meanwhile, Amanda takes a bite of the casserole straight from the pan. Electric chair. Did you see that? Did you catch that? West made this big casserole that he was working on all morning while Carl was strutting around in that underwear without his blouse on. And Amanda just takes a fork and raw dogs the casserole that West made. Was it a casserole? I think it was spiritually a casserole, right? But anyway, yeah, Amanda just raw-dogged it. She didn't even put it on a plate. She just went straight with the fork. Now, the only time I support this is when it's your birthday. And I might have talked about this on the podcast before, but for my birthday, the thing that I always eternally want, I don't want a lot of attention, although I do want people to acknowledge me. I also just want a cake that I could put my fork into and not take a slice out of it. Do you know what I'm saying? Like, I want to just be able to eat straight from the pan. So Matt knows, my husband, he knows for my birthday. My mom used to do this too. It's like, I just want a boxed yellow cake mix with chocolate frosting. Maybe add some mayonnaise to make it moist. That's a trick. It's a trick. Don't knock it till you try it. But I want it. I want the whole sheet pan or whatever, however it's made, in a cake pan. and I want it just to be mine. And then if I'm having a party or if there's other people around, we could have a separate cake. But for my birthday, I just want the cake with the fork. But I certainly want to do that with a casserole that's going to be serving with everyone. And so for the first time this season, I could understand why Kyle was divorcing her ass because she just went straight in with the fork. And I can defend Amanda until I'm blue in the face about everything else, but I cannot defend her for that because that was an egg. I think there was egg in it, right? And I don't know that she double-dipped, but I certainly just think it was uncouth of her to dip that fork in and raw dog that egg casserole with Carl's pubic hair in it. Like, I just don't think that was appropriate. I just do not. But otherwise, I'm on Amanda's side. Now, Ben also says, speaking of settling down, he says he wants to settle down. I don't buy that either. I think he's one of those people that, like, Ben knows what other women want to hear him say, and so he says those things, but I don't think he ever means them. That's my take on him. Let's take a quick break here. We're going to come back. I still have two and a half more pages of notes, so buckle up, Buttercup. Pull over if you're trying. Thank you to A-Cast, and we'll be right back. 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So I don't want anyone to reach out to me and get it for me or anything because I ultimately do not need it. But I was initially trying to buy it and then it was sold out everywhere, the hatching Yoshi. And here's where I turned on it. I signed up for the alert that says, let me know when it's back in stock. And so with Walmart, I went on the Walmart site, and it would say, like, email me when it's back in stock. And so I just got an email alert that said it's back in stock. And guess how much it is? For a little hatching toy, Yoshi, it is, wait, where did it go? $148.99. I'm sorry, Yoshi, you are not worth that much, okay? In Nintendo or tariffs or whatever it is. And I don't know if that's like, is that a resale? Maybe that was because it was like a resale one. Maybe it's not. But I thought, like, I was willing to pay upwards of $20 for it. But I'm certainly not going to pay $148 for a Hatchin Yoshi that I'll ultimately show my son and really just get for me and play with for three minutes. And then it'll go in the corner somewhere. I mean, that's just, everything's getting too outrageous. $148 for a Hatchin Yoshi. I'm sorry. Is it going to hatch and have gold when an egg opens up? I mean I'm excited about seeing that Super Mario movie though I was just I told a story about Super Mario on the last on the Traders recap podcast about um it's a me Mario anyway you can go listen to that if you want I'm one more week of the Traders I think it's the finale this week and then we got the reunion so anyway where we at here Amanda we talked about her eating the castor straight from the pan not okay then we have everybody getting ready to leave and Kyle goes up to Amanda as they're getting ready to leave He's like, I'm sorry for yesterday. I don't think I'm good. And he said he was the drunkest he's been in a year. He says that to Amanda. And Amanda's like, that's not true. And then she tells him, he blames her for everything. And then Amanda says, when anything happens in her life, she'll tell him. And Kyle's saying, I'm not in a good place right now. The business is not good. I haven't really said anything. And you don't ask about it. And Amanda's like, well, why would I ask about it? Like, we're married now. And anytime anything good, bad, any sort of situation happens in my life, I go and tell you, but I'm supposed to read your mind. And he says to him, if you're miserable with me, then like, uh, because I'm not in a great place. And I feel like he's trying to, this is my, um, conspiracy theory. I feel like Kyle's trying to victimize himself. And I would imagine all of the men on Bravo have gone through this kind of nightmare in their head of like, they're all probably so worried that anything they do is going to be like Scandoval, where they become the most hated person in the world. I mean, remember when Scandoval dropped? And of course, everybody was just like, brutal with Tom Scandoval. But everybody hated that man. I mean, widely one of the most hated men in the world at the time. and so I think whenever something happens when a breakup happens on Bravo I think all the men in their head they're thinking like ah fuck like I don't want to be like Tom Sandoval like ah fuck which speaking of Vanderpump Rules has anybody been watching the reboot there are reports that it's coming back for another season and look but now I'm willing of course to give it a second chance because maybe the first season is just a flop and then next season they'll step it up and it'll be good they have deeper relationships, deeper bonds. My real issue is the fact that the Real House of New Jersey, still we have no answers about whether that's coming back. And you mean to tell me you're green light on the second season of Vanderpump Rules before we're getting a new season of Jersey? It's not okay with me. It's just not. Okay, I don't care if Teresa and Melissa hate each other, love each other, or somewhere in the middle. I need the Italian Jersey gals to come back. and yeah maybe at the time of their last episode we were all calling for it to go on pause but now i wanted to hit play in miami too where's miami at where's miami riddle me that bravo okay wait let's get positive i gotta get positive okay so then kyle and amanda fight then we see everyone going to the city and ben's doing a oh this was interesting so you know how they do those little clips of them in the city on Summer House, like when they go away from the Summer House. And they show them, a couple weeks ago, they showed Carl watering a plant with his Mackenzie Childs teapot Well this week we got a little footage of Ben and his apartment doing a workout And what was so funny to me about that was he wasn filming with anybody And so producers just were like hey we need B of you working out So they just went to his house to like film him working out which is such an unnatural thing to happen At least when they do workouts as a group or something, or you know how sometimes they'll be like, hey, do you want to go on a hike? And then they talk on their hike. Stuff like that happens. But it's so weird to me that it was just Ben alone just doing, I don't know, squats or something, or sit-ups. Then on Thursday night, there's a singles night, Australia singles night, that they're throwing for Ben. Now, West is throwing it. He says he's doing it for Ben, but ultimately, he also reveals that he's doing it for himself. And they should do more singles nights, because this is kind of easy casting. You just tell everyone, like, hey, bring your single friends, and we'll see what happens. Now, Amanda is there, and I thought, why is she there? Because she's not single. She's with that demon DJ. So I didn't understand why. I guess she brought somebody. Lindsay shows up, though, and I was excited for Lindsay to pop by, and I'm excited to see her get activated. I mean, right off the bat, she was giving us an R&R. She met Ben, and she's like, R&R. Doing her little Australian accent bit, which I liked. But she said she's not looking for the one, because she's got the family, which is what she always wanted. So now she says she's fucking around and finding out. She just wants to go around and sample the dick. I was going to say sample the dick, which is actually ultimately true, but it felt a little crass to be saying it that way. But honestly, who am I? Go sample. Go get a sample like you're walking through the aisles of Costco, which I also just went to Costco the other day. Did I tell you about the ice cream at Costco? I think I mentioned this on the podcast, so I should give an update here. uh costco's got a mint mint uh sundae and you know at their little food court area and i went and got it and it's delicious it's delicious so if you're looking for a nice summertime spring treat i know there's blizzards across the east coast right now but but uh the costco's got a mint and i love a mint i like a mint chocolate now i would recommend they do it either as like all mint ice cream or a mint and vanilla swirl ice cream with the Oreo cookie on top and the syrup. I would do it if I were you and I was going to do it again, or the next time I go, I would do it without the chocolate syrup, which I think when you can, or syrup syrup, I call it syrup, but people tell me it's syrup. Anyway, I would get it without that chocolate syrup. And I would just ask them at the counter. I know you pre-order it, but I would ask them at the counter like, oh, I don't want the chocolate sauce, right? And then I would do the vanilla and mint swirl. I like the chocolate. It's like little Oreo pieces on top. That's good. But it's really good. It's really good. And the Costco food court is honestly fantastic because you get a whole fucking pizza for $9.99, a whole big ass large, and it's good pizza. Or you get a hot dog. I even like their one, what was it? It's like turkey sandwich. It's like on a ciabatta. It's got a little cheese. Sometimes it does taste like it's been sitting under a heat lamp for six hours, but otherwise their stuff is good and it's well-priced. Okay, so what are we talking about here? Ben doing his workout alone, Australian singles night. Lindsay giving an R&R. Bailey says she matched with a lot of these men on her online dating. She's like, I already know these people. New York is small. Now Lindsay's meeting all these new replacement cast members, and she also is coming face to face with Carl. Carl says it's the summer of Carl. He calls it SOC. And meanwhile, there's another new gal showing up, Dara. Is it Dara? Darla? Darla. No, it's Dara. I've never heard the name Dara, but it's a beautiful name. But it's going to be hard for me not to call her Darla. Do you guys know a Darla? Who do I know that's Darla? Was that from Finding Nemo or something? Anyway, Dara, she's an influencer. And I'm worried about influencers on any of my reality shows because it's like, what are they going to be doing on the show? They're not going to get messy because they're influencing. And also there's a lot of cast members coming in and out of this show. And at a certain point, we need to lock everybody down. And so whether or not they're a good cast member, you just need to lock the cast in because we're getting to a point here. I'm like, I can't learn about new people each week. What are we watching here? New people entering the villa like I'm watching Love Island. I can't do it. There's too many faces and names. Mia's making a toast. what was this? Oh, she makes a toast at the event, which is actually very bold of Mia. She's got some, she's got some, what do they got? Like cojones Mia on her. She's got some, some brass. I like her. I like her. She seems confident. Um, Lindsay and Ben also kind of flirt. He can't say the word Carl though, which made me laugh. He said something about Carl. And then, And Lindsay's like, did you say Kyle? And he's like, call, call, call. And Lindsay's like, what are you saying? What are you saying? He couldn't tell with that accent. Okay, so then Bailey, I talked about how she's obsessed with Ben and doing a little too much, too strong. She says she's afraid of men though, Bailey. She's being vulnerable. She thinks everybody hates her. I like Bailey. I do. I'm liking all the new gals. I just think we need to lock it down. Now, we've got Darla, we've got Mia, we've got Bailey, we've got Levi or Lexi or whatever the fuck. And so now we're locked in. Now, you hear me, Bravo? I don't need another person coming through those summer house doors. I do not need it. If anything, spend the budget on a cast trip to somewhere other than that house we've been filming in for 100 years. Okay, moving on. West and Amanda. West and Amanda, are you guys clocking this duo? I'm liking this duo. They're fun. They seem to have a little chemistry as a friendship. I like it. Then we cut to Friday night at the house. That singles event was a little bit of a flop, was it? Am I wrong? It was a little bit floppy. It just felt like nothing really, I don't know. I was expecting to go somewhere else, and it didn't. Oh, the Dara, she dated West before. And so it fizzled out, but West is still friends with her. I just wanted to point that out. That's how she comes into the group. And I bet you they went on like one date set up by production. And then now West is having to pretend like, cause that's what they do on Bravo. They have to pretend like, Oh, we've known each other forever. Even on Beverly Hills. Also have you noticed like Kyle brought in Amanda. And then I saw this interview. It wasn't on Bravo's. I don't know where it was with Kyle. And she basically implied like she didn't know Amanda at all. Like she, yeah, Amanda moved in her house and she saw on social media, Amanda was like renovating her house. And that's the only connection Kyle had. but on the show they try to make it seem like oh kyle and amanda are friends and i'm like this they try to trick us it's the greatest bamboozlement i've ever accomplished why did that would that sounded like fat albert or something what was that what was that noise i did hey hey hey I'll never repeat that okay so then Friday night at the house Kyle has a six hour drive because he arrived solo straight from his family reunion that Amanda did not attend and he did a DJ gig on the beach with his family but again Amanda didn't go and he was frustrated Amanda wasn't there that's odd to me like I don't know but didn't they always like spend holidays apart too and they've been married for a while now it's all very odd like But the truth is, I do have to kind of, I do have to call them both out for a second. As much as I'm on Amanda's side, there were too many red flags. Like, Amanda ignored way too many red flags of Kyle's. And yeah, I have empathy for her. But ultimately, like, we've been calling it out for 100 years now. Like, ultimately, this is all Amanda's fault for continuing. It's not all Amanda's fault. It's Amanda's fault for continuing on with the sham of a relationship. and obviously Kyle's way more wrong. Of course, of course, of course. But also I have to just point out that like Amanda, she had her, if she would have opened her eyes a little bit, and I know she was maybe smoking the weed at night. So the eyelids are probably heavy, extra heavy. But if she would have just opened up a little bit, remember that commercial? What was that commercial of the high in the nineties or the early two thousands of the gal that was high and melting into the couch. That's how I'm picturing Amanda. And I just want to open her eyes a little bit and be like, why didn't you look around and see this man's red flags for 100 years? I mean, he cheated on you before you even got engaged. I don't know. Okay, so then Lindsay's there this weekend. So excited. It's so excited to see her. There's also a lot of Uber Eats bags. I know they're getting that good promo. Good for them. Lindsay says she's got the mom strength from her 20-pound baby. You know, my son, Lucky, he's a heavy-ass baby. He's in 99 percentile for height and weight, so he's heavy-ass. And over 25 pounds now in only eight months. And it is a lot. I feel like I'm getting that dad strength. And when they say that dad bod, I'm like, how do you... Dad bod, the implication is that it's out of shape. And I'm noticing with the baby, I'm like, how... I feel like I'm more in shape because his heavy-ass carton is around all over the place. It's heavy. anyway Lindsay says she doesn't give a fuck about Carl she says she gave up that relationship and I do feel like she's telling the truth I don't think she actually cares gives a flying fuck about Carl or how did Ben say Carl let's take one more quick break and then we're gonna come back and I still have a lot to discuss a lot to discuss so sit tight we're back all right amanda arrives this weekend she's sick as a dog she gives kyle this awkward hug because she's meeting him he's coming from the family reunion that she didn't attend and then she's coming from just being in the city or whatever and he's prepping for another dj gig in the evening and Amanda's sick. She's like, oh, do you mind if I don't make it? And look, she's just so, she couldn't be more checked out of this relationship. And it's almost, it's making me feel like they were definitely broken up before this. I think they were. Maybe they were still sort of pretending to live in the same apartment or something, but I don't think they were together. This is, it's, I'm not feeling a vibe. I'm not feeling any sort of vibe that they were together. Anyway, Lindsay's making a pineapple upside down cake. And I would actually like us to discuss this for a while because to me, this is one of those kind of forgotten sweet treats that we do need to bring back. And so I would like to applaud Lindsay because I think a pineapple upside down cake is actually a fantastic thing. And we've gotten away from our original recipes. Nowadays, everybody's making all these TikTok things where it's like you throw a bunch of junk in a crockpot and it's disgusting. Or they like to bake where I don't like those ones where they bake and they just put the mix in like a Pyrex pan or whatever. And they do pats of butter on top and they don't even mix anything and then they just bake it. Like, I'm not a fan of this. I mean, this is not how I was raised. You do not cook like this. And so a pineapple upside down cake, that takes an effort and there's a skill involved and it's a classic. And I just feel like we need to bring back some of these classics. And so I think Lindsay's doing a fantastic job for the people and the culture. and I would just like to applaud her. So good job. Good job, Linz. You're my girl. Okay, so then outside, that's when Amanda goes up to Kyle and is trying to get out of going to that DJ gig. Meanwhile, Ben and Lindsay are inside sort of flirting. She said she can't get a read on him. And Kyle with his DJ set, he says he goes down at a, oh, this was shocking to me. This actually was shocking. Shocking. Kyle says for his DJ gig that night, he's not going on until 1130 for a two-hour set. I could never. You know, people ask me, they're like, are you going to go on tour again? Because I used to tour on the podcast. And then I had to take a break, obviously, because I had a baby and all that stuff. But honestly, like, I'm not good. A late night show, even when I was touring, I was like, okay, we need the shows no later than 8 p.m. Like, I can't. There were venues, they were like, oh, we can put you on at 9. I'm like, absolutely not. like nine o'clock is too late for me. You know, like that's, that's just too late for me. And I was asking when they were my touring agent I was like Hey can we do are there afternoon slots available Like do we have Sunday afternoon slots available Like, that's when I want to do at these late night, imagining 1130. 1130 and a two-hour set. That means you won't get done until the next day. The next day. And I don't even know, who are the people that are up that late? I mean, those are young people. Why is this 43-year-old man DJing for the youngins? I mean, the other issue I don't seem to quite understand is like, Kyle as a DJ would have older millennials. Is he even a millennial? Is that considered millennial? If anything, he's an older millennial. And so as a millennial myself, I know that my playlist is probably not going to be attractive to the Gen Zs who are out at 11.30, 12.30 at night. And I'm a gay man. Gay men at least have better, I hate to say it, gay men have better taste in music than the straights do. They just do. You go to a workout class with a straight man, you want to run for the door immediately. Because believe you me, I go to the Barry's Boot Camp, and when it's a straight man putting together that playlist, it is torturous. It is torturous. And at that point, it doesn't even matter if it's a young straight or an old straight man. When they're putting together a musical playlist, I don't trust it. either women or a gay man need to put together a playlist. I don't trust the men. It was in one the other day, a straight man. It was like all ACDC. And it was like, the people in this workout class don't want to hear ACDC. I'm sorry, God bless ACDC. There's nothing wrong with them. But when I'm trying to do squats or crunches, I'm going to need you to play something poppy. I'm going to need you to put some chaperone and some Sabrina Carpenter and and I know, remix Whitney Houston on that fucking DJ. I can't hear ACDC. Like, what am I doing with that? Like, come on. And so Kyle's this older straight man. Like, what is he playing for the youths at that time? Because the older people, I don't think the older people, I'm not sure how many millennials and older there are out 1230 at night on a Thursday. I don't know. I feel like I'm always ageist against Kyle, but it's my truth. But Amanda says she doesn't want to go, and Kyle wants her to rally. If my husband was doing that, there's no way. Even if I wasn't sick, I'd be like, I'm not going that late at night. I'm asleep by 1130. Anyway, Jesse and Sierra, they're pretending to like each other, and I don't buy it. And this is when Jesse says to West, you don't care if I make it with Sierra, do you? If anything, you'd be drunken for fun. I was like, okay, Jesse. like West is like, whatever. Cause he doesn't think it's going to happen. But I also wish West would have been like, Hey, that's inappropriate. You know what I'm saying? Okay. So then everybody goes out. Amanda stays in. She's pretending to be, I think sicker than she really is. Cause she just doesn't want to go out. And I get that, but they all leave. Amanda makes a joke about like to the women. She's like, Oh, bring home some hot men. And that was when I wrote in my notes, like, yeah, why don't they ever bring in some hot men from the bars? You know, while Lindsay and Bailey get home just before 1am. And Lindsay, okay, so Lindsay and Bailey get home. Amanda's already asleep. And Lindsay, she gets into some shenanigans. She plays with these cardboard cutouts. Her and Bailey, like, scatter them around the house. And my truth is, I think that Lindsay's over this show and the shenanigans of this show. Of course, she's moved on to different phases in her life. But when she was putting around those cardboard cutouts with Bailey, it felt like she was going through the motions of like trying to be fun and silly at after a night out on summer house. Like she knew the cameras were in the corner and they were going to film this stuff. And she knows this new young cast is coming in. These young whippersnappers like Bailey and Lexi or Levi and Darla or whoever the fuck they are. And so Lindsay knows she's got to play the game. And so she starts with Bailey running around the house with the cardboard cutouts, but her heart was not in it. She's over the shenanigans. And I get that. And I don't, I don't fault her for it. I just have to point it out. Meanwhile, at 2.18 a.m., Sierra and Mia and Carl and Jesse get home. Then at 4.06 a.m., Ben, Kyle, West, and KJ get home. Now, Kyle, he said he had a two-hour set starting at 11.30. Guess what time that means it ends? 1.30. So why are you out till 4 a.m.? Caught! Got you! Candid camera! That's right, Kyle. saying, he's always saying, oh, he's just going to go out for work. Well, if it was work, then you would have ended at 1.30. How long does it take to put away your laptop in a bag and get your ass in an Uber? It shouldn't take more than half an hour. So you should be home by, what, 2, 2.30, not 4 a.m. Not 4 a.m. Wes brings up Jesse wanting to make out with Sierra, though. He tells the other cast members. He's like, it's inappropriate. Then the next morning, Lindsay's flirting with Ben again, and Bailey's jealous of how confident Lindsay is. as a flirter. And Bailey also said, it was like a very awkward, Bailey's had a lot of awkward moments with Ben. She said something about liking hairy men. And meanwhile, I was like, Carl's sitting right there, like his hairy ass. Like if you're looking for a hairy man, you're looking in the wrong direction because Ben saying he's going to grow a mustache. I'm like, no offense. And Ben's a gorgeous man, but it seems like it's going to take him a few months to grow that stache. Meanwhile, Carl can probably shave in the morning and wake up in the afternoon with a full stash. Do you know what I'm saying? So Bailey, if you're interested in the hair, then you need to look on over to your left and find the man who's picking up bagels in the morning. Do you know what I'm saying? Like Bailey's barking up the wrong tree if she likes a hairy man. She says like manly. She also said something about, Ben was like so interested in her and she's like, oh, everyone call me the village whore. And I was like, Bailey, girl, girl, girl, girl, girl girl um carl's hosting though a renaissance theme party and he says it'll be the best party ever and look i know this whole show is theme parties is anyone no i shouldn't i'm gonna be positive i'm gonna be positive is anyone over the theme parties i shouldn't have presented that question that was negative i was trying to be positive okay so how about we all just uh think of something positive about Summer House. What do we like most about it? Let me think about it for a second. What do I like most about Summer House? I do love this show. I love it. It makes me joyful. And I was so kind of feeling like it was on his last legs for a while. And I was thinking I outgrew it. And now I'm back on board lately. So that is positive. So I do want to say that. I want to say that I am loving it. I'm enjoying the show. But anyway, Carl's hosting this Renaissance theme party. We have West telling Lindsay about Sierra. I was distracted because he had his thighs out. And I'm a thigh guy. You know, I love the thigh guys. Lindsay says that Jesse was just calling dibs on Sierra in front of the other guys. Meanwhile, Jesse and Sierra are like spooning in the couch. And she was sort of doing baby talk with Mia in the bed also. And West is getting sort of jealous, I think, of Jesse and Sierra. But Jesse says he writes songs for girls immediately after meeting them, or young women. And he wrote one about his best friend, Sierra, and he sort of starts to sing it in the confessional. And I don't... What did he say? Something about his tiny piano. And I was thinking he's like a Lionel from Peanut Serves. Charlie Brown. What was Linus? Who's the one with the little piano? That's not Linus. Is Linus... Is it Linus or Lionel? Linus, is he the one... Who's the one with the bugs chasing after him. Do you always, that was actually one of the issues I've always had with Snoopy. It's just, it was hard for me to watch even those, the Charlie Brown Christmas special. I don't like that one character who's always got like the, the flies around him. Do you know what I'm talking about? It's like, I just wanted to reach through the screen and just give him a bath. Not personally, but I just wanted to like, just, he needs to be cleaned up a little bit. He always just had dirt and stuff. And I get it, but it's like, couldn't somebody just, do they have to make him so dirty? That wasn't Linus, was it? I don't know. See, I'm not an expert. That's like one. I'm not a Snoopy expert or Charlie Brown expert. I mean, I obviously have some vague familiarity with the characters. I'm not a dummy, but I am. But it just was never like, I'm not an expert. Okay, so where were we at here? What were we just talking about? Oh, Jesse's singing in the songs to the young women as soon as he meets them. Jesse, it makes me uncomfortable. I don't know why. Then Jesse and Wes are on this float. And Wes asks if Jesse was being serious about that. And Jesse tries to convince Wes it's okay if he makes out with Sierra. And then Wes is like, well, the other guys thought it was weird. And he's like, Ben was bugged out about it. And he's like, on paper, it is weird. Ask your boy if it's okay to make out with his ex. Other people would call you a weirdo or a dickhead. And I wanted Wes to be like, yeah, I don't like it, instead of blaming the other guys. Do you know what I mean? Anyway, we end the show next time on the show. Dara and KJ flirt. I'm interested in that. I'm interested in that. And then Dara and Ben flirt. Interested in that. Lindsay tells Sierra about Jesse, and Sierra calls him out. So Sierra, it looks like she might be getting activated. Don't activate me, because you've not seen me activated. Excited about that. That's the episode, you guys. Another week. and I want to thank you all so much for listening and we'll be back hopefully at the end of this week on Friday, I believe with our Traders season finale recap I think I think we will be I'm always saying those Traders recaps are basically bonus episodes because I've missed a couple weeks here and there but I'm trying to get I'm trying to do them every week and I'm excited for the reunion of the Traders more so, I think, than the finale because at this point I think spoiler alert, spoiler alert, spoiler alert not that this is a spoiler. Is it a spoiler? I just, it's just my opinion. I think Rob is going to win the traitors. I think he's going to win. I don't know that to be true. That's just my gut reaction. And I think he should win because he's the one who's tricked the rest of them. And I don't think anyone else who's left in that game is playing that good. So anyway, I'm not that excited about the finale, but I'm more excited about the reunion because I feel like the reunion is going to be juicy. Anything else I got to say? Find me on social media at Danny Pellegrino and then get my books wherever books are sold. If you want Sex and the City recaps. I'm doing them on the Patreon page, patreon.com slash everything iconic. You can get access to those by donating $4 or more per month. I do just one bonus episode a month where I'm recapping Sex and the City, and we're currently on season five. That's it. I love you all. Should we do a cheesy little cool down? I used to do the cheesy little cool down, I call it, where we take a deep breath in and we kind of relax a little bit. And I think I could use that this week. So Let's all take a minute and do a cheesy little cool down. So don't roll your eyes at me. Some of you might be rolling your eyes. Don't roll your eyes at me. Just take a deep breath in, baby. Just embrace it. And hold it. Breathe out. Sometimes you really got to embrace the cheesiness, you know? Because if not, you might not remember to take a deep breath every day. And you need to. Don't you feel like sometimes you get so tense? You got all the energy in your shoulders. That's where I hold it all, especially my right side, my right shoulder. Sometimes I'll notice, I'm like, God, I feel so heavy and tense. And then it's like, yeah, because I haven't taken any deep breaths in a while. And so you need to do that. Every once in a while, you need to do that. Love you all so much for listening. Bye-bye. All you have to do is try There's no turning back No, no It's all in front of you There's no turning back No, no It's only up to you I love you all for coming to be with us to share this moment To blessings, I'm so happy that I am part of this I need you for a long time She's like, you know, not a moment in time, not a moment that happens. Every once in a while, you know, you just know when it's right, and it's right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.