Vanderpump Rules’ War of the Roses
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, Rachelle Hampton is joined by Deepti Sahrawat, the host of Pop Culture Prisoner, to discuss a shocking cheating scandal within the cast of the Bravo reality series Vanderpump Rules, and why it blew up on the internet in such a big way. They talk about how the history of the show led us up to this point, the ways it’s so different from the usual cycle of reality scandals, and where the show can go from here.
This podcast is produced by Daniel Schroeder, Rachelle Hampton, and Daisy Rosario.
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| 0:00.0 | My guy, I use the point with Ms. Football. |
| 0:03.4 | This summer is time to get to know the players and your taste buds. |
| 0:07.1 | That's the line. |
| 0:08.1 | If 70% of the UK prefers the taste of Pepsi Max, you prefer Pepsi Max. |
| 0:13.5 | Firstly, for more, visit PepsiMax.withsportfryer.com to enter our quiz to win gig tickets and find your perfect playlist. |
| 0:21.1 | UK blind taste test with over 34,000 people versus UK's biggest selling food sugar cola. |
| 0:26.0 | But verification goes to Pepsi.co.uk forward slash FAQ. |
| 0:30.0 | Ariana does it concern you knowing that Tom cheated on Kristen a few times. |
| 0:42.0 | Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton, and I'm Difty Sarawath, and you're listening to ICYMI in case she missed it. |
| 0:50.0 | Slates podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:53.0 | And today, I'm joined by Difty, who has a podcast called Pop Culture Prisoner, |
| 0:59.0 | where she covers pretty much any reality television show that interests her. |
| 1:04.0 | She is a reality TV scholar, a fellow intellectual of the reality television universe. |
| 1:13.0 | Which means I'm sure some of y'all can guess where this is going. |
| 1:17.0 | But before we get into that, Difty, hello, welcome to the show! |
| 1:24.0 | Thank you so much, Rachel, for having me on. |
| 1:28.0 | I am beyond excited to talk about what we're about to talk about. |
| 1:35.0 | I am just so glad that you're here. |
| 1:37.0 | I feel like I say that all the time, but I truly have no idea what is happening. |
| 1:44.0 | Usually, I actually have a few questions asked by guest hosts to kind of get us warmed up. |
| 1:49.0 | But to be quite honest, I don't even have the patience for that. |
| 1:52.0 | We just need to get into what is going on. |
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