INTERVIEW: Ben Mandelker From Watch What Crappens. Monday, July 28th, 2025 | Sarah Fraser
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Sarah Fraser
3.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
ICYMI, this was one of my favorite episodes from fall 2024. In this episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing Ben Mandelker from the popular podcast "Watch What Crappens." We discussed the journey of their podcast, including the surprising moment when agents sought the next "Watch What Crappens" during a pitch meeting. Ben shared insights into the challenges of keeping up with the Bravo and TLC content, the recent addition of a support team to manage their workload, and his past experiences, including driving Uber. We also delved into the current drama in "Real Housewives of Orange County" and "Real Housewives of Potomac," analyzing the cast dynamics and storylines. The conversation wrapped up with thoughts on the upcoming BravoCon and the excitement surrounding it, making for a fun and engaging episode filled with humor and industry insights.
Timestamps:
00:00:00 - Introduction to Ben Mandelker
00:12:34 - The Ups and Downs of Hollywood
00:24:16 - Tamra Judge's Recent Revelations
00:25:57 - Shannon Bedore's Contract Controversy
00:32:31 - State of Bravo and Future Events
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| 0:00.0 | This experience with Ben Mandelker from Watch What Crappence was so much fun. |
| 0:11.5 | You guys, they have such an iconic chart-topping podcast. |
| 0:14.9 | Watch What Crapins with Ben and Ronnie. |
| 0:17.5 | Ben stopped by the pod and I was honored. |
| 0:20.2 | If you haven't had a chance to watch, go check out there. |
| 0:22.4 | YouTube. |
| 0:22.9 | I was on their crappy hour a couple of weeks ago. |
| 0:25.2 | Ben and I cover it all, honey. |
| 0:27.3 | Tea in the Bravo world, the success of their podcast and comedy in general. |
| 0:31.1 | Let's go, Ben. |
| 0:32.3 | Ben Mandelker is here from Watch What Crapp is. |
| 0:36.9 | Oh my God. Ben, I have to tell you, you're legendary. I went to a |
| 0:42.4 | pitch meeting. I'm going to say five years ago to get an agent. Oh, my God. Myself and do you know who |
| 0:46.3 | Andrea Lopez comedy is? She does that Teresa Judice impression. Oh, yeah. She was just on, |
| 0:51.5 | watch what happened. She was a bartender. Amazing. She actually co-hosted my podcast because she's from D.C. No, we co-hosted together for about three years. And we got, I don't even remember how we did it, but we got a meeting with an agent. Anyway, so we pitched them some podcasting ideas and they said, we are looking for the next watch what crap is. Get out. We are looking for Ben and Ronnie. We need you guys. No. |
| 0:54.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:54.5 | And we're going to. podcasting ideas and they said we are looking for the next watch what crap is get out we are looking for |
| 1:12.3 | Ben and Ronnie we need you guys yeah and we basically left that meeting and we sort of half took their |
| 1:17.3 | advice we like we're gonna split up right we split up actually we didn't take any of their advice |
| 1:25.9 | we split up she went into comedy I continue rebranded their advice. We split up. She went into comedy. I |
| 1:28.5 | continued rebranded the podcast. The only thing I did do is I am obsessed with Bravo and TLC. I cover a lot of TLC shows. |
| 1:34.7 | The band or the network. Both are acceptable. All the above. Probably start both. That is literally, I have, I have never been in a position in my life or career where |
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