Next Gen NYC -Crypto, Couture & Complicated Friendships

 Crypto, Couture & Complicated Friendships 

Next Gen NYC – Season 1, Episode 1: "Welcome to New York": 

🎧 Podcast Summary:

Welcome to the first episode of Next Gen NYC, where fame is inherited, drama is instant, and rent is astronomical. Ariana, fresh off the plane and fully embracing the chaotic charm of New York City, is escaping her family's high-profile fallout and building a life with her boyfriend Hudson—while dodging calls from her mom asking for money.

We meet Brooks, the effortlessly cool creative director, model, and member of a famous fashion family, who’s texting apartments and stirring the friend group pot. Gia FaceTimes in from her Jersey pool, introducing a tight-knit (and occasionally chaotic) friend group that includes crypto-rich Charlie, effortlessly chill Ava (daughter of Rachel Roy and Damon Dash), rising fashion star Emira, and free-spirited Georgia, who is—unapologetically—pro-germ.

Romance, rivalry, and real estate all collide as tensions rise over a possible hookup between Brooks' sister Chloe and Charlie. From tiaras in delivery rooms to Diplo at Katz Deli, this debut episode sets the tone for glam, gossip, and the high-stakes world of Next Gen NYC.

Takeaways

Ariana loves the unique energy of New York City.
Brooks Marks is navigating his career as a model and influencer.
Ariana's financial struggles stem from her family's issues.
Georgia considers herself a quintessential New Yorker.
Charlie is a crypto trader with a wealthy background.
Amira has transitioned from a beauty director to a successful model.
Ariana and Hudson are looking for an apartment together.
Friendships in NYC can be complicated, especially with family ties.
The cost of living in NYC is a significant challenge for young adults.
Reality TV often reflects real-life struggles and relationships. There are multiple ways to enter and exit New York City.
The fashion show had interesting aesthetics but lacked variety in silhouettes.
Georgia's impressive work experience includes high-profile events.
Personal hygiene habits can spark interesting debates.
Riley feels pressure to succeed as she transitions into adulthood.
Matti finds Georgia's eclectic style appealing.
Wendy appreciates Brooks' thoughtful nature in the group.
Pride Month is a time for celebration and self-acceptance.
The Tony Awards are a significant event in the fashion world.
Engagement with the audience is crucial for podcast growth.

Transcript

Matti  (00:01.145)
Hi, welcome to Rouge and Review. I'm Matti

Wendy (00:06.357)
And I'm mom, or queen. We are doing our first episode, our premiere episode, and we are going to be discussing the next gen NYC, season one, episode number one called Welcome to New York. It starts out with Ariana walking her two dogs in the confessional. She said, I love the New York energy. The second I got off the plane and walked out of the airport, the smell of urine and cigarettes, I said, this is my place. What?

Matti  (00:35.374)
I mean, I don't blame her.

Wendy (00:37.707)
Really?

Matti  (00:39.022)
I mean, it's just the New York vibe. That's what you get. You go to New York, you smell urine, cigarettes. There's flying rat shit everywhere. Oh, well, I'm not too fond of the marijuana, but there's marijuana everywhere. I there's the hot dog trucks everywhere. It's just the New York thing. You got Elmos on the corner. It's New York. It's the essence of the city that never sleeps.

Wendy (00:46.625)
Marijuana.

Wendy (00:54.508)
Yeah.

Wendy (00:58.295)
Alright. It's the New York thing.

Okay, so Ariana, a little bit about Ariana. She is 22 years old and she is the daughter of Kim Zolciak. Kim Zolciak was on The Real Housewives of Atlanta in the very beginning, in first season. And right now she's in the midst of going through a very messy divorce.

Matti  (01:16.11)
Mm-hmm.

Matti  (01:21.73)
with Kroy, Kroy Beerman, her stepdad. I thought that was her father.

Wendy (01:26.621)
No, that is her stepfather. He adopted her and her sister, Brielle. And then they have Kim and Kroy had four other children together. So she's got four. Yes, he was. OK, so the next thing we see is we Brooks Marks, and he's walking around the city, also looking for an apartment. And while he's doing that, he's texting with Gia. And on that text thread, they're talking about, well,

Matti  (01:34.402)
and he was on the Atlanta Falcons.

Wendy (01:55.831)
She is in New Jersey at her mother's house laying by the pool.

Matti  (01:58.734)
Teresa, Teresa Giudice, or Giudice, depends on who you ask.

Wendy (02:00.555)
That's her mother, yes.

That is true, and it depends on when you ask, because sometimes Teresa would refer to herself as Giudice and then at one point she changed it to Giudice. Giudice I don't know. Real Housewives of New Jersey.

Matti  (02:17.89)
Yes, R-H-O-N-J.

Wendy (02:20.663)
That's correct. And Brooks, Brooks Marks is the son of Meredith Marks. And where is Meredith Marks from? That's correct. Real Housewives of Salt Lake City.

Matti  (02:28.077)
Salt Lake.

And he is a model, beauty influencer, and social activist, but I haven't really seen any of his social activism, so I'm intrigued to see what he is doing with that.

Wendy (02:46.381)
Yes. He also said that he is also a member of the Marks family. That is something that he needs to put on his resume. I thought that was interesting.

Matti  (02:55.821)
And I think he has a brand.

Wendy (02:58.795)
He does. Brooks Marks, he's got a clothing brand and he's also the creative director for his mom's company.

Matti  (03:07.574)
Yeah, but she keeps firing him. Yes.

Wendy (03:09.941)
Yes, on the daily. Then we meet Ava and Charlie, and we also meet Chloe. So Chloe is Brooks's little sister. And they're all at a photo shoot that Brooks is doing with his mom, Meredith.

Matti  (03:21.792)
Mm-hmm.

Matti  (03:27.371)
And she's dressed up as his head intern or whatever, right?

Wendy (03:32.738)
she, yeah, she was dressed, yeah, she was dressed up in the blonde wig.

Matti  (03:34.773)
In the blonde wig, yeah. Spilling the champagne all over him.

Wendy (03:41.439)
Yes, exactly. So, Brooks says that when he met Charlie, Charlie was in a relationship, but this summer, his friend Charlie is single and he feels like he's a new person, two different people. And Charlie's kinda hitting on his little sister Chloe and he's not really digging that because he doesn't like the way that Charlie treats women.

Matti  (03:51.405)
and he's a new person.

Matti  (03:58.988)
Mm-hmm. No.

Matti  (04:04.481)
Yeah, but in other confessionals, we've heard that Charlie treats women very well. So we're gonna see how this all plays out.

Wendy (04:12.727)
Well, it is his friend and he doesn't want his friend dating his little sister. I get that.

Matti  (04:15.915)
Yeah, it's a weird dynamic. I wouldn't want my friend dating my sister either. Because you're protective over your siblings. Yeah.

Wendy (04:19.467)
right. I would hope so, right? Then we see Arianna and her boyfriend Hudson and they're walking down the street in New York City holding hands. I thought that was very cute. they, for two years, but they have been on and off for nine years. They've known each other. They've been best friends for nine years. Yep, we find out she's been on TV since she was five years old.

Matti  (04:30.092)
They've been together for two years.

Matti  (04:37.707)
Mm-hmm.

Matti  (04:41.759)
long time.

Matti  (04:46.433)
Mm-hmm.

Wendy (04:46.919)
She got her first brand deal at 14 and she said the money that she was making doing three posts a week was astronomical. I don't know exactly how much astronomical. What was that motion you just did there? yes, that money is gone. Unfortunately, it was a weird motion, which is why I said, what is that motion you're doing? That's Matti Matti, Matti, Matti.

Matti  (04:59.315)
Zero. It's gone.

Matti  (05:04.566)
Probably a weird motion.

Matti  (05:10.311)
I was giving someone a handy.

Wendy (05:16.813)
So she's...

Matti  (05:17.748)
Not Matti's Rub-N-Tug.

Wendy (05:22.839)
You're gonna get a Matthew from me if you keep doing that, Ariana unfortunately says that her parents took all of her money and she doesn't really know where it went. And she didn't find out about it until two years ago. So now she's 22 when she was 20 is when she realized that her money was gone. And that's one of the reasons she moved to New York City is kind of to get away from all that drama, that and the divorce situation.

So her and Hudson are kind of talking about the whole situation and Hudson has opinions about Ariana giving her mom money because her mom is still asking her for money and Ariana looks at him and says listen I mean it's really none of your business but we we find out it maybe is a little bit of his business because one they're gonna be they're gonna be living together

Matti  (06:01.812)
Mm-hmm.

Matti  (06:07.692)
Yeah.

Matti  (06:11.135)
Yeah. And they've been together for so long and he she talks to him about it. Also, she's hiding it from him. So like it is kind of his business at this point. And it's bothering Ariana. So like at this point, it's becoming his business because it's messing with his relationship with her.

Wendy (06:23.529)
I agree. is kind of his business.

Wendy (06:34.475)
Right, and she feels like she's in a bad situation. I mean, it is her mother and she does have four younger siblings at home and she's like, what am I supposed to do, say no to my mom when she asks for money? And he's like, well yeah, I wish you would sometimes.

Matti  (06:45.321)
I think Kim's posting bottles of like thousand dollar. yeah. Yeah.

Wendy (06:47.917)
$200 bottles of wine that she's drinking. Meanwhile, her daughter's zealing her money, which is insane. And she doesn't even know how much money it was that's gone, because one of the producers asked her, do you know how much money? And her response was, I don't even know how much money, which is really sad. She wished that there was more transparency. And I agree with her, because that's not right.

Matti  (07:12.97)
Mm-hmm.

Wendy (07:18.099)
She never wants money to destroy her relationship with her family ever. And you can see that about her. I mean, although she doesn't mind working hard and making the dollar, she doesn't want that to become to come between her and her mom. Which I think is good because a lot of these. Absolutely. Then we meet Georgia. And she is drinking wine and she said.

Matti  (07:35.499)
Yeah, that's a good value to have.

Matti  (07:41.93)
Mm-hmm, my favorite.

Wendy (07:46.145)
This is my dream. I'm sipping wine and someone's painting me. So they were, where were they? Were they some kind of club?

Matti  (07:50.196)
Mm-hmm.

no, this was they weren't at the red. No, I think that was a different show we were watching. They weren't at the Red Rooster. No.

Wendy (08:02.189)
No, I don't even know what you're talking about. Now you're just making stuff up.

Matti  (08:05.867)
No, that's a place in New York. No, they were at some kind of event somewhere. But yeah, she was getting painted and then.

Wendy (08:11.125)
Anyway.

Wendy (08:18.434)
yeah, it was at the club. So she's inside, she's drinking wine and someone is... Yeah, Chloe Brooks.

Matti  (08:21.672)
and all of them are waiting outside and calling her and she's just not answering because she's getting panted and she's like, I'm ready for my close up Mr. DeMille.

Wendy (08:28.895)
Yeah, so Chloe and Brooks are standing outside in the line to get in the club and that's the club that Georgia's inside. And then they called Charlie, because he's the one who got them on the list. And he's like, no, no. And he's late. And he's like, no, can just get in there. So Brooks meets Georgia. we find out that Brooks met Georgia through Charlie. That's how they got to know each other. Yes.

Matti  (08:34.685)
Mm-hmm.

Matti  (08:38.215)
Yeah, and he's late.

Matti  (08:49.098)
Yeah, Charlie and Georgia have known each other for a long time. And like, Georgia used to sleep over at Charlie's all the time and like, they've known each other for a very long time. Good friends.

Wendy (08:58.623)
Yes. And then we meet Ava. Tell us a little bit about Ava. What do know about Ava?

Matti  (09:03.082)
Mm hmm. She is 24. Her father created the Rockefellers. What is it called? The producing like? Yeah, Your Rockefeller records and I can't even read my damn hammer.

Wendy (09:09.911)
Mm-hmm.

Wendy (09:19.841)
Her dad is Damon Dash and he co-founded Rockefeller Records.

Wendy (09:28.437)
He's a music mogul who, by the age of 19, made his first million dollars. And her mom is Rachel Roy.

Matti  (09:33.81)
Yeah.

Rachel Roy, the fashion designer.

Wendy (09:39.309)
And she has been she's grown up in the public eye and she's been modeling her whole life I thought it was funny when she was in the car with her dad and her little brother and and she's playing I spy with my little eye and she said

Matti  (09:47.324)
And he was like...

Matti  (09:51.497)
I spy something black and he's like, not any of our boyfriends.

Wendy (09:54.601)
Not here for more friends.

Matti  (09:56.412)
And Rockefeller Records, did some research. Two of the biggest artists that they worked with are Kanye and Jadakiss.

Wendy (10:04.405)
good job. Then we find out a little bit about Charlie. He's the crypto trader from New York. He was New York born and raised. His dad is a retired investment banker and he makes a shit ton of money. Those are his words.

Matti  (10:11.859)
Mm-hmm.

Matti  (10:19.079)
And he's getting daddy's money to he's paying for his haircut with his card and everything it's pain in my ass

Wendy (10:22.707)
Yes, that's crazy. Yeah, so he got his money from his dad and he used that money to invest in the cryptocurrency, right? And haircuts. So one of the things I sent you was not too long ago, there was an arrest in New York City where a crypto guy, two crypto guys held another crypto guy hostage and they tortured him.

Matti  (10:29.91)
Mm-hmm. And haircuts, apparently.

Wendy (10:52.769)
to try and get his passwords to get more crypto. the story is, was, yeah, this was in the New York Post, right? The crypto kidnappers, they were accused, the accused kidnappers names were William Du Plessis and John Wolsek. And they were like the party bros. They this party bro lifestyle. They lived in this townhouse in Soho where,

Matti  (10:55.538)
to get more crypto.

Matti  (11:00.423)
It was a crypto captivity.

Matti  (11:04.946)
Mm-hmm.

Wendy (11:22.989)
They tortured this Italian Taurus slash crypto guy. Every day they'd be ordering all this fancy food. Their neighbors would say that they'd be like 1500 to $2,000 worth of food outside on their doorstep. Sometimes they wouldn't even get it. They would just leave it out there, but they would order all this food. And the guy that they were torturing, his name is Michael Valentino, and he was able to escape and

you know, they arrested these two guys. Well, when they went to arrest these two guys, it turns out that Charlie crashed at like that building. I don't know if he was in the same, like if it was a co-op building or, but he was there. He was on site, which is a little interesting. Yeah, he was like seen in the background and in photos. Yeah. little crazy, right? So we'll have to see how that whole thing plays out.

Matti  (12:04.423)
Mm-hmm.

Matti  (12:07.868)
Yeah. At the time?

Matti  (12:15.12)
Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Wendy (12:22.285)
Georgia feels like she is the most cut out person from New York that she's ever met. I mean she's a self-proclaimed perfect New Yorker, right? Her parents grew up between poor and middle class and...

Matti  (12:30.391)
New Yorker. Yeah.

Matti  (12:36.423)
And she's a generational New Yorker.

Wendy (12:39.957)
Yes, and we see that Charlie and Ava meet up with Georgia and Charlie says that she's like his little sister, which I like that. I like that he has that relationship with her. Last summer they used to meet up like six out of seven days of the week, but they're not that close this summer it seems. I don't know why.

Matti  (12:51.08)
Mm-hmm.

Matti  (13:03.761)
Mm-hmm. Mm.

Wendy (13:06.871)
They are asking Charlie who's on his roster because he's single now and he says that know Chloe's kind of cute.

Matti  (13:10.342)
Yeah.

Matti  (13:15.356)
Yeah.

Wendy (13:16.685)
George just lets us know that he also dated Lindsay Lohan back in the day. So, yeah, yeah, exactly.

Matti  (13:21.372)
Yeah, that's a pretty crazy girlfriend to have in high school.

Picking you up after school. Freaking Lindsay Lohan.

Wendy (13:31.511)
Mm-hmm.

So the next person we meet is Amira. She is a model and a content creator. She went to NYU.

Matti  (13:37.073)
Mm-hmm.

Matti  (13:43.047)
And she was the creative director at Paper Mag.

Wendy (13:50.253)
correct, the beauty director. Uh-huh.

Matti  (13:51.856)
a beauty director. And she also went to NYU with Brooks. That's why they have such a good friendship.

Wendy (14:01.119)
and also Riley Burris, which we haven't met yet, but we'll meet her.

Matti  (14:03.865)
Yeah, didn't introduce her again. She also went to NYU for music production.

Wendy (14:06.548)
NYU.

Wendy (14:12.137)
So when Amira was the beauty director for Paper Magazine, the same time she was building up her own social platform. And then she started working for Victoria's Secrets and then all of a sudden she kind of blew up. So now she's really doing her own thing, which is good for her. While we're talking to Brooks and Amira, Charlie's there talking about taking Chloe on a date.

Matti  (14:39.578)
Yeah.

Wendy (14:40.429)
And they both agree that you really should not be tating your friends' siblings.

Matti  (14:45.851)
Yeah, but they're like, you do treat a woman well, but still you shouldn't be dating your friends siblings.

Wendy (14:51.799)
Right.

Matti  (14:54.764)
then who said I've never gotten that treatment?

Was it Ava who said I've never gotten that treatin' Charlie?

Wendy (15:03.085)
It could have been. It could have been. Then we meet Gavin. He's the real estate agent and he's taking...

Who's he taking around? Ariana and Hudson, right? He's a real estate agent in Alphabet City, they call that, which is like Avenue B, Avenue A. And they're...

Matti  (15:19.919)
Yes.

Matti  (15:26.03)
Okay. Yeah, I didn't really understand what that alphabet city was things about. I like, is this Sesame Street?

Wendy (15:30.025)
Okay. So they're looking for an apartment together. Ariana wants to start a clothing line. She's worked online job. She's working online job now, so she has a steady paycheck. So in addition to, I guess, getting, you know, money as an influencer and a brand ambassador, she's also doing something else. Hudson doesn't have to worry about work because his family, his dad started the chicken chain down south called Zaxby's.

Matti  (15:43.332)
Mm-hmm.

Wendy (16:00.853)
So they've got some coin.

Matti  (16:03.705)
Yes.

Wendy (16:05.121)
So their budget was originally, Ariana said, was $6,000 and she would want to go as high as $8,000 was the max. But the realtor said they got to double it. And she seems a little bit shocked by that. So he does show them a couple different apartments. And it's New York City. Apartments are very expensive. You don't have a lot of square footage and you pay a lot of coin.

Matti  (16:14.256)
They gotta double it.

Matti  (16:19.139)
Yeah.

Matti  (16:25.797)
Mm-hmm.

Wendy (16:34.827)
I didn't realize this. Riley and Brooks are talking and Brooks is like, well, you know Ariana. She's like, well, I haven't really seen her since I was 10 because Candy and Kim had a falling out.

Matti  (16:44.462)
Yeah.

Matti  (16:49.347)
Yeah, I forgot that was, yeah.

Wendy (16:53.003)
because of Don't Be Tardy for the Party. That's what The Falling Out was about. You were singing it all day yesterday. Really? I'm not going to tell you because I don't want to hear it. Let's see. What else do we see? G is at home living with her mom and we find out that Brooks and G met at BravoCon. That's how they met each other.

Matti  (16:55.363)
Yeah, it's a good song.

Matti  (17:00.986)
Yeah, I completely forgot how it goes though.

Yeah.

Wendy (17:23.231)
And they come, know, she comes to the city and she's talking about in order for her to leave New Jersey and go to the city. She's saying there's only one way in and out of the city and it's through the tunnel. what if there's.

Matti  (17:33.135)
Yeah. And she's water going in the tunnel and it's a whole thing. Yeah.

Wendy (17:40.277)
Matti, we live in New Jersey. How many ways are there in and out of New York City?

Matti  (17:44.421)
There's the train, there's the tunnel. There's, you go through Hoboken, you go take the ferry. What else?

Wendy (17:45.921)
Yep.

Wendy (17:49.887)
Okay. There you go.

Bridges, there's bridges. Oh yeah, you could take the ferry from Atlantic Islands. There's many ways to get, you can take the path. There's so many ways to get in and out of the city.

Matti  (17:57.189)
when there's bridges.

Matti  (18:06.829)
Yeah, you could take the subway.

Wendy (18:09.805)
after you get to the path, you can get to the subway. Once you're... Yeah. But there's many ways. So I just want to let all of our listeners know. Well, yeah, mean, gee, he's not listening to us, but our listeners...

Matti  (18:12.909)
I don't know where the path is, but yeah.

Matti  (18:19.084)
GNO.

Matti  (18:23.361)
Maybe she is. Who knows.

Gia, if you're out there, there's different ways to get to New York. You don't have to drown in the tunnel.

Wendy (18:31.293)
No, you don't. So Elmire invites them to this fashion show. And that's what she's talking about. You know, that's why G is going to the city. And the fashion show happens to be in this old church. And that building was very cool that they had it in the fashion show. Georgia worked. I didn't know this. Georgia worked on and this is so well, actually, we'll I'm jumping. I'm not going to get there yet. So the fashion show is.

A little bit odd, what did you think about that fashion show?

Matti  (19:05.22)
I thought it was cool. A bit confusing. didn't know that. Did it say who the designer was? Yeah. Yeah, it didn't say who the designer was, but I did think it was interesting. I wish the silhouettes were different, because it didn't offer much with the silhouettes, but I did think it was interesting with the dark makeup and the gothic.

Wendy (19:12.466)
No, I don't know who the designer, I don't know that. Yeah.

Wendy (19:19.115)
Yeah, I wasn't

Matti  (19:34.58)
mystical like aesthetics so that was interesting.

Wendy (19:38.701)
Okay. So then after that fashion show, then they're all going out for a birthday party, right? Elmira's birthday. And we find out that Georgia, because she's sitting on the couch and she's talking to the girls, that she worked on the Katz's Deli Diplo party. And I was like, wow, that's pretty impressive.

Matti  (19:50.244)
Mm-hmm.

Matti  (20:03.748)
Mm-hmm.

Matti  (20:07.554)
You were impressed by that. I was impressed by the other thing.

Wendy (20:10.117)
and the Anna Delvey House arrest party. I was like, Anna Delvey House arrest party. So she's telling them that Katz's deli became famous from when Harry met Sally. Do you know what Harry met Sally is?

Matti  (20:13.304)
Yeah. Yeah.

Matti  (20:24.725)
Isn't that- isn't that like Adam Sandler?

Wendy (20:27.33)
gosh, no, you don't know what it is either, so.

Matti  (20:29.88)
I don't know, but I did write down when Harry met Alex.

Wendy (20:32.916)
Yeah, so that's the movie that Katz's Deli... Yes. We went to Katz's Deli.

Matti  (20:34.371)
Cause she kept talking about it the whole night. Have you seen one of Harry Metz's Alley? Stupid. Have you seen one Harry Metz's Alley? Useless. She's funny though. I'll give her that cause that's some stuff I say. Like, have you seen Rujan Review? No? Stupid. Have you seen our latest clip? No.

Wendy (20:44.589)
Hehehehehe

Wendy (20:53.325)
So you can relate to Georgia. Okay.

So you've been to Katz's Deli, Matt? Yes, so one time... Yeah, we...

Matti  (21:07.35)
I have. You're. wait, is it like Irishy?

Wendy (21:13.581)
Katz is Jewish, it's a Jewish deli. We went to the city to see Uncle Rob and Uncle Tony and the Carnegie deli, we were not near it, we were downtown. we, it was, I don't know if it was before it closed. I'm not sure, I can't remember the time. I just remember it was the summer and it was very hot and they were staying downtown.

Matti  (21:20.835)
Okay.

Matti  (21:25.687)
Was this before it closed or?

Wendy (21:39.157)
and we started walking and we wound up walking to Katz's Deli but there was this big, actually we didn't go, because there was this big long line and I was like, we're not waiting to get in society to Katz's Deli. Not really, because I wouldn't wait. And then I caught a cab because my feet hurt and they were walking and I was like, I can't walk anymore, my feet hurt. Typical me in New York.

Matti  (21:48.739)
so we didn't go to Katz's deadly.

Wendy (22:05.601)
So then we see Ava comes in and Georgia touches the bottoms of her shoes. Okay, that was a little much.

After she touched the bottom of her shoe, what did she do? She touched her eye.

Matti  (22:23.213)
Touch your eye.

Matti  (22:27.651)
I think it's real, like, who cares?

Wendy (22:29.975)
Well, it's certainly real. I mean, they are all freaked out by it. She is not fazed in least bit. That's what Charlie said. Charlie doesn't care either.

Matti  (22:34.263)
Who cares?

We're all gonna die at some point.

Matti  (22:44.547)
I'm not scared of germs. I stopped taking my allergy medicine this season and I've never felt better. The germs are just, yeah, living in my system and the earth is just loving me and I love it right back.

Wendy (22:49.527)
Really?

Wendy (23:00.228)
You're a nut. So they're all sitting there on the couch and they're talking and Gia is actually talking to Brooks and then Charlie finds out that they're talking and he's like are you talking about me? And Gia's like Charlie it's not appropriate that you date Brooks's sister and Charlie says well why are you the mouthpiece? Like why isn't Brooks saying something?

Matti  (23:10.102)
Mm-hmm.

Matti  (23:24.488)
That was rude. You never call anyone a mouthpiece.

Wendy (23:26.983)
What? No. No you don't. I agree with it. no, this is not football. I can't believe you came up with that sports reference. How'd you get that?

Matti  (23:30.592)
This isn't football.

Matti  (23:40.45)
Like 2013

Wendy (23:42.381)
There you go. Charlie says, no, Riley agrees that this shouldn't be happening, but her friends used to call her save a host. So she's trying not to get involved.

Matti  (23:45.361)
go Falcons!

Matti  (23:56.69)
Yeah, but Gia says she's not a mouthpiece, she's just a good friend.

Wendy (24:01.067)
Yeah, I agree. I agree she was being good friend. And Georgia lets us know that she, cause after that whole situation, then they go to the bathroom, the ladies go to the bathroom together and they find out that Georgia doesn't wash her hands either.

Matti  (24:02.87)
Mm-hmm.

Matti  (24:13.945)
that's when they found out? Okay.

Wendy (24:16.095)
Well, that's when they found out she doesn't wash her hands and she announces that she's pro germ. know, she thinks that she has this, you know, built up her immune system that, you know, she talking about her body as a microbiome or something. I don't know what she's talking about. Yeah, I mean, Riley is Candy Burris' daughter. She graduated from NYU. Her mom gave her one year to get her access

Matti  (24:32.803)
You forgot to introduce Riley.

Matti  (24:39.298)
Mm-hmm. Uh-huh.

Wendy (24:43.755)
together and then she's going to cut her off financially. So she feels the pressure.

Matti  (24:46.614)
Yes.

and she wants to be a DJ.

Wendy (24:50.931)
She wants to be a DJ. She went to school for music production, right?

Matti  (24:55.532)
Candy wants her to be a lawyer, we think.

Wendy (24:57.941)
Well, I think she at one point was going to go to law school and I guess then she changed her mind. Yes. wait, I have it. don't have, wait, how did I miss that whole point? Chloe's face. I jumped over. Yeah. Yeah. I also, I know it is I'm looking. No, no, no, it's, it's, it's in my notes. I just skipped.

Matti  (25:01.932)
Yeah. We shall see.

Matti  (25:10.05)
I think we like kind of we were going to bring it up during the NYU section, but then like we jumped.

Matti  (25:19.936)
Is this just not in your notes? I'm not looking at your notes, I'm looking at mine.

Wendy (25:28.929)
Sometimes I do that, you know what? Sometimes I just skip around. So what it is we're gonna be doing on this podcast is we're gonna be talking about things like Next Gen NYC and we're gonna be... No, I didn't say we were done. I'm just kinda letting, I'm just letting them know kind of what we're gonna be doing. I'm letting, why can't they be adults? Who says they have to be adults? Okay.

Matti  (25:39.893)
Hey, we're not done.

Okay.

Let the children know.

Matti  (25:50.913)
They can be anyone. But you're speaking the truth, Queen.

Wendy (25:55.393)
I always, that's it, you got that right. You got that right. Well, Charlie doesn't care that Georgia doesn't wash her hands after he goes to the bathroom because he doesn't always wash his hands either. So that's good to know. Right, that's good to know. Because he said his penis is clean and he knows where it's been, he doesn't need to wash his hands. I think it's disgusting. I think he needs to wash his hands.

Matti  (26:06.931)
No. After he takes a piss.

Yeah.

Matti  (26:18.197)
What are your thoughts on this?

Wendy (26:23.541)
And if I ever meet him, I'll be sure not to touch his hands. That's just me.

Matti  (26:28.642)
I don't know. I was thinking about this. I think you go to the bathroom, you go number two, you definitely gotta wash your hands. You...

Wendy (26:28.929)
What do you think?

Wendy (26:38.754)
Okay.

Matti  (26:41.451)
take a pee after you've just showered, you don't have to wash your hands.

Wendy (26:47.617)
Let's be real, Matt. If you're in the shower and you have to pee, you're peeing in the shower. You're gonna pee in the shower.

Matti  (26:52.235)
Well, you're gonna pee. But usually I pee before I get in the shower. So like...

Wendy (26:59.243)
And that's disgusting too, peeing in the shower, I'd like to add that. Not that anyone asked, but I'm just putting that out there.

Matti  (27:03.176)
Yeah.

But a lot of people do it.

Wendy (27:08.235)
Yeah. All right. I don't want to talk about that.

Matti  (27:09.385)
A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do.

Wendy (27:12.1)
Okay.

Matti  (27:13.665)
A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do. Um, yeah.

Wendy (27:18.208)
Alright.

So who's your favorite so far?

Matti  (27:22.401)
Georgia. She's eclectic, she's crazy, she... I don't know.

Wendy (27:25.132)
I don't have a favorite yet.

Matti  (27:32.16)
I like Georgia. I liked Ariana first because she was like, it smells like urine and cigarettes. I'd love it. But then like she, she just got kind of boring. No, I like Georgia. See, I like her outfits. She's, she's fabulous. And I liked her based on her Instagram before she opened her mouth on the show. So I stand by my statement. I think you're going to end up liking, let me do a prediction.

I think you're gonna end up liking,

They're like Hudson.

Wendy (28:07.73)
No.

Matti  (28:09.663)
Errr.

Wendy (28:12.405)
Not The jury's still out. I haven't made my decision.

Matti  (28:14.239)
Maybe Ava or Mira.

Wendy (28:19.615)
Is it a mirror or El Mira? A mirror. think I've mispronounced her name a couple times. I'm sorry if I have.

Matti  (28:22.066)
It's a mirror.

Matti  (28:27.877)
I think you're gonna like Amirite because she's fashion diva.

Wendy (28:32.333)
I think you might be right, but I'm gonna let the... Actually, know what, believe it or not, I really like Brooks on this. Now, every time Brooks was on Salt Lake City, he would annoy me. But so far on this, I like Brooks because I think that he is, he's not bitchy. I think he's kind and thoughtful and doesn't like conflict.

And I think that this group may need someone like that. That's not how I thought he was, to be honest with you. When I would see him on Salt Lake.

Matti  (29:03.831)
Mm-hmm

Matti  (29:08.861)
the duality of a gay person.

Wendy (29:12.333)
Is that what you're going with?

Matti  (29:15.103)
That's what I'm going with. We have two sides.

Wendy (29:16.745)
Okay. Okay. I don't have anything else to talk about with NextGen NYCADU.

Matti  (29:25.343)
Mmm... No!

Wendy (29:28.437)
No? Okay. Well, what do you have coming up this week?

Matti  (29:33.833)
What do I have coming up? Tom's River Pride.

Wendy (29:36.733)
Okay, that's right. Happy Pride is Pride Month.

Matti  (29:39.763)
Be who you are for your pride.

Wendy (29:43.575)
Don't sing, remember? What hap- Okay. Okay. And you have some, what else do have to do? You some big projects that are due this week for school and next week is finals and then graduation, high school graduation, which is pretty exciting. That's exciting, right?

Matti  (29:45.299)
That's not copyrighted.

That's definitely not copyrighted. That's a made up song from TikTok. Don't hide.

Matti  (30:04.639)
And then I graduate. Yippee!

What else, what else, what else? We're going to see Death Becomes Her soon.

Wendy (30:14.327)
That's coming up, yes.

Matti  (30:15.305)
June 25th, which just won the Tony Award for Best Costume Design, Paul Taswell, who also did the costumes for the Wicked movie and Hamilton. And what else did he do the costume designs for? He's done the costumes for a lot of things. He's very talented designer.

Wendy (30:18.506)
One Tony.

Wendy (30:31.295)
speaking of that, do you want to maybe our next episode we will review the Tonys? Okay.

Matti  (30:37.437)
The Tonys, yes. Paul Taswell also did Janelle Monae's outfit for the Met Gala this year, which was very fabulous.

Wendy (30:45.037)
Really? All right, well maybe you could pull those looks together and stick them on our social media so that people can see what you're talking about. And when I say social media, you know what I mean, right?

Matti  (30:53.116)
I

Matti  (30:56.988)
like Facebook, Instagram.

Wendy (31:00.215)
Tick tock. Tick tock.

Matti  (31:04.904)
TIKTOK

Wendy (31:08.193)
Alright, well I don't have anything else so I would like to thank everyone for watching and listening to Ruzhin Review and please do us a favor, like us, subscribe, tell your friends and give us a five star review. Until next time, bye!

Matti  (31:13.928)
Thank you very much.

Matti  (31:23.452)
Bye.