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Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, you can listen to this episode or any of our other episodes at the same time, ad free over on Patreon. Hey everyone. This is David. Welcome back behind the Velvet Rope. Let's just get right into it. It's the holidays and it ain't no joke. We're here with

Sarah Farasia. It ain't no joke. That's the truth. We got to get through it. Well, we have to

get through it, but I'm getting through it because you texted me and you said, I have so much tea for you.

And I thought, ooh. I got tea. Listen, you've been busy. I've been busy. But it's been a year, sweetie. It has been a year. It's been the best of times and the worst of times all in one year. It's been, well, what a great lead in to Sarah next week when you and I record a little bit in advance. We're doing an entire show, your top 10. Who has had the best year from a

housewife? Only housewives can be on it. It could be a current housewife or a past housewife.

Then we're doing a show. Who has had the worst year? Now, I don't know about you. My list is

complete. I have it done. Who has had the best year? I think it's so obvious. Who has had the worst year? I think it's so obvious. We are doing a countdown 10, 9, 8, 7, all the way to number one. Let's see if our list is the same. You better go to that Wikipedia and pull out every franchise and every housewife name, and you better have a full list when we record next week and we do

10 we do the top 10 10 to one housewives only it could be a past housewife it could be from who's the

first housewife jina keo to who's the newest housewife uh angel massy okay we're included everyone here

okay baby i mean i didn't even think like vicky gunvillson would ever be on my list housewife, Angel Massey. Okay, we're including everyone here, okay, baby.

I mean, I didn't even think like Vicki Gunvelson would ever be on my list ever again. And I mean, I might have to include her. I mean, it sounds like you might be thinking about her. My list is locked. It's locked. Okay. It's locked and loaded. Well, yeah, until, you know, let's see how the next week goes. someone might, you know, get hit by a car,

that I'll probably give them the number one

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