The State of Every 'Real Housewives' Franchise with Alec Karam (+ Reacting to Bravo's Four New Shows)

Gabbing with Gib

Gibson Johns

Tv & Film

4.7 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Gibson Johns and The Daily Beast's Alec Karam touch down on all eight "Real Housewives" franchises and share their reactions to Bravo's announcement of four new shows. Shop the “Gabbing with Gib” Merch Store: https://shop.hurrdatmedia.com/collections/gabbing-with-gib Subscribe to "Gabbing with Gib" on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/471D8Gb Follow "Gabbing with Gib" on Spotify: https://bit.ly/3StiCtY Follow "Gabbing with Gib" on Instagram: https://instagram.com/gabbingwithgib Follow "Gabbing with Gib" on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gabbingwithgib Follow Gibson Johns on Instagram: https://instagram.com/gibsonoma Follow Gibson Johns on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gibsonoma Follow Gibson Johns on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gibsonoma Subscribe to Gibson Johns’ Newsletter: https://gibsonoma.substack.com/ Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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1:12.3	Welcome back to Gabbyn with Gibb. I'm your host, Gibson Johns. And today on the show, it's the state of every Real Housewives franchise, our quarterly episode. This time, it's with Alec Karam, who is a return guest, who is a writer for The Daily Beast. He recaps a lot of the shows. He writes different features about Bravo shows. He's kind of a Real Housewives savant, in my opinion. He has such incredible knowledge about all of it and such great opinions. And he's very steadfast in his opinions. And in our conversation today about all eight of the current Real Housewives franchises, we differed on several things. And I think it provided for a really good conversation. We went extra long, like almost an hour and a half. So definitely a treat for you guys today.
1:17.9	But before we get to that really quickly, because I'm recording this late at night before my early
1:22.0	morning Thursday flight to Tulum. I have a Bachelorette party this weekend. So please pray for me. I've never been to
1:30.4	Tulum. There's a packed itinerary. It's going to be very fun. But no complaints here.
1:35.5	I'm buckling up and I'm also recording this a date early before I travel. And also, before I also
1:42.9	get to the big announcement from this week, is on Tuesday,
1:46.1	I will do a mailbag episode, haven't done one of those in several weeks now. So submit your
1:51.4	questions via DM on Instagram on the at Gabbyn with Gib account or my personal account at
1:58.0	Gibsonoma. I will also have submission boxes there, I think, on Friday.
2:02.8	I will also tweet out and thread out and blue sky out prompts that you can reply to to submit
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