Hello, everyone, and welcome to Everything Iconic with me, Danny Pellegrino. Merry Christmas

week. I hope you all having a wonderful holiday season and not stressing too much. I hope you're

finding some time to spend with family and friends where you're not stressed or feeling chaotic because of the holiday season. I know we all have a million things to do. You're buying presents. You're trying to wrap a present. I just try to wrap a heavy-ass pan for Matt. He doesn't listen to this podcast, so he's not going to be spoiled by that, but I did get him like this, he wanted this, like, specific pan. It's a long

straight, but I got it, and it came, and it didn't even arrive, like, in a box, it was like in a big giant box, and then in the giant box, it was wrapped in just like brown paper bag type stuff. And it's not like I bought it from Etsy or a garage sale or something. that's just how it came? And so then I'm looking at it like, how the fuck am I supposed to wrap this pan?

Like a big frying pan, a heavy duty one. And none of the paper holds up. So I put one wrap in paper and the wrap paper I tried to use for it was too flimsy and thin. and it immediately ripped.

Like I didn't even,

even before I lifted it off

the fucking ground

or the table,

it just ripped.

And I'm like,

can we make the wrapping paper a little bit thicker. I know they do sell the thicker wrapping paper, but I find the thicker wrapping paper is always a way too expensive. It's incredibly expensive. I just sometimes can't justify spending that much at a paper source on the thick wrapping paper, though I love my paper source, but that's neither here nor there. The point is, it's thick. And then those heavy-duty ones, I feel like they don't even come with a lot of gift wrap paper. You can wrap one little, I don't know, shoebox or something. And then all of a sudden you're at the end of the roll and you're like, where the fuck is it? The rest of the rap paper I bought for 20 bucks. And so sometimes you've got to use the flimsy paper. And it just is not working for the... Anyway, so my advice to you all is to, A, not rap gifts and to enjoy the holiday. Just enjoy it because, you know what, I like Christmas.

I like Christmas. Did you guys see Cher on Saturday Night Live? She was singing DJ play a

Christmas song, which I think is going to be a holiday staple for years to come. It's been out for two

years. It's been a Hallmark movie. She did a remix with Kelly Clarkson. It's all over the place, and it's a fantastic holiday song. So I was so happy to see her lip sync it on SNL, which, by the way, Cher can lip sync whatever the fuck she wants. I saw some people complain in that, like, Shire's lip syncing was off. I'm like, yeah, well, she's 80 years old and she's fucking Cher. So I don't care if she's lip-synkin, or I don't care if it's a hologram of her up there. If she didn't feel like showing up to Studio 3H or whatever, 30 Rock or wherever they film it. It was Bowen Yang's last episode too, and we love Bowen. And I thought, like, how great of an episode, the Christmas episode with Cher. And I think he's friends with Ariana Grande. Of course,

they did Wicked together. So, I mean, what a perfect way to go out on SNL. So I don't know. That was a, I thought so fantastic. Anyway, today on the podcast, we're going to be talking a little bit about Real House's Beverly Hills, a little bit about Potomac. It is our last episode of the year. I wasn't sure if I was going to do an episode this week because again, it's Christmas

week, but I thought, well, come on the year. I wasn't sure if I was going to do an episode this week because, again, it's Christmas week. But I thought, we'll come on the microphone. I thought we haven't really talked a ton about the Real House of Beverly Hills. And that's a little bit purposeful because I find it snoozy as hell. Snoozy is all hell. I mean, I could have been, throughout the course of this episode, I could have been visited by all the ghosts of Christmas, past, present, and future.

Because it was like I was taking a nap the whole time. I'm watching it. I'm trying my best, you guys, because sometimes when I come on the microphone and I say how all these complaints about Beverly Hills and people get mad at me. It's complaining about Kyle Richards and how she doesn't reveal enough or whatever. And look,

we're all tired of anything about Kyle Richards dating life. But the problem is the show

continues to fixate on it without just giving us breadcrumbs. And I think that's because

they don't have anything else going on. Even this whole episode with the dating stuff,

by the way, turn off this podcast if you were really into this week's episode of the Real House of

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