E1123 - RHORI Breakdown w Liz, Amanda's Beach Lie, Dinner With Kyle & West's Seating Choices w Ben Mandelker
The Viall Files
Nick Viall
3.8 • 26.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to The Viall Files: Reality Recap!
The Rhode Island era has arrived! Liz Mcgraw joins to break down the drama surrounding her Real Housewives of Rhode Island castmates and why the smallest state is already giving big TV. Plus, Ben Mandelker from Watch What Crappens stops by to recap the latest Summer House episode, including the West and Amanda of it all, Kyle's breakdown, why Amanda's hat looked like that, and why this scandal is working so well; as well as how RHORI stacks up against the RHONY reboot. You won't want to miss it :)
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
11:38 - Ben Joins
58:26 - Liz Joins
01:25:30 - Outro
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| 0:57.5 | What's going on, everybody? |
| 1:01.9 | Welcome back to another episode of the Vifiles reality recap edition. |
| 1:05.3 | I'm your host, Nick, joined by the other host, Natalie. |
| 1:06.8 | She's also my wife. |
| 1:07.7 | Aw. |
| 1:09.8 | And I'm also still pregnant. |
| 1:11.5 | Indeed, you are. |
| 1:14.3 | We also have Sweet Boy, Justin, and Mary with us. |
| 1:17.4 | We have a fantastic episode lined up for you today. |
| 1:21.4 | We have Ben Mandelker, and he is with us to talk all things. |
| 1:21.8 | Bravo. |
| 1:26.8 | Obviously, another just kind of jaw-dropping episode of Summerhouse. There's always like, wow. |
| 1:29.9 | For people watching this, this is how I was sitting on my couch while this was happening. |
| 1:35.7 | The entire time. That was a little dramatic. We were in bed. I was, I was, I was, |
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