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Hi, everyone. I hope you had a great week. There is a lot happening, and I am not talking about the

passing of the Queen, but the Real Housewives of Potomac trailer dropped this week.

Oh, my goodness, it was exhilarating. And I realized that my guest and I didn't even discuss it. And I think that's

because the night before we recorded, we talked about it on the phone for 45 minutes and completely

forgot to talk about it when we were recording. So I'm just going to share some of the highlights

for me. I am looking forward to seeing some

signs of alliance and friendship between Candace and Ashley. You all know I love an unlikely

alliance. And now that Ashley is divorcing Michael, I feel like it opens it up for a room for her to have a relationship with

Candace and maybe some of the other women as well. It was really interesting to see Ashley say

that she's planning to purchase a house with Michael, even though they're getting divorced.

I wonder if Michael wants to make sure that Ashley and the kids

have a good place to stay. And so they would like buy it together, I guess. I don't really know.

But it does remind me that back, I don't know if it was season one or two, when Ashley was really

going after Robin for buying a house and doing things with Juan,

even though they were divorced. So, I don't know, she's a bit of a hypocrite, but I'm sure she would

agree to that after, you know, looking back and watching how she treated Robin and then

seeing how she is right now. I think,

you know, it's different when, when you have children. And I am kind of interested in seeing how

the women approach Mia about all of the things she was posting online about a cancer scare.

I mean, she really made it seem like

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