Im rewatching the girls next dood..
I have to stop mid episodes because Kendra just gets on my last nerve. Idk I can’t be the only one who finds her annoying🤷🏽♀️
I have to stop mid episodes because Kendra just gets on my last nerve. Idk I can’t be the only one who finds her annoying🤷🏽♀️
*Apologies for the typos 😑
If you all don't already know I have PhD in Girls Next Door and Girls Next Level so this breakdown is full of sassy commentary and calling out Holly’s BS.
*This episode was literally recorded four months ago. For context, they reference Tana and Trish hoping to book a Vegas show so this was before they even announced their disastrous show.
They are filming in a bed at the Wynn after Tana was unbanned and they talk about eating a pickle pizza. (The pickle pizza has been on my mind for months and it sounds so good and I am bummed I couldn't get one the last time I was in Vegas)
*They talk about the Vegas climate and Tana compliments Holly's skin. Holly attributes it to sunscreen use and growing up in Alaska (Holly’s skin looks great because she has regular laser treatments, Botox, filler, neck lift, and lower facelift. Sunscreen is important but let's not act like this is normal.)
*Holly talks about losing her Rolex at Circus Circus while staying there to explore some closed-off “haunted”
part of the hotel ( This story is so
Strange and doesn't really make sense)
*Tana brings up Zak Bagans, Holly’s ex and favorite subject to talk about. They talk about his lame museum. Holly brings up Zak talking shit about her to girls he “cheated” with. He told one girl that Holly was obsessed with him and wouldn't accept that their relationship was over. He said he felt sorry for her and insinuated that she was “handicapped” ( Zak is gross
but Holly IS straight up obsessed with him. If you all don't know the lore. They have been broken up for years at this point.He would never publicly claim her, never even met her kids, and acted like an all-around fuckboy for years yet Holly still stayed with him despite being in her mid forties and arguably having enough life experience to know better. She talks about him every single week on her podcast despite having a new relationship with an equally douchey guy. At this point it is giving mentally unhinged)
*Holly talks about her ex and her kids' names which are Rainbow and Forest. Says she originally wanted to name her son Dragon (I am all for weird names but Dragon is horrible)
*They talk about Holly's true crime
show. ( Holly loves to make money off of vulnerable women just like Hef)
*Holly brings up Criss Angel and says her kids went to one of his shows and thought he was lame. She says she is scared for the day they find out that she dated him ( Holly’s favorite subject is talking about most of her exes. She dated Criss Angel
for 6 months 20! Years ago and still regularly talks shit about him. If I dated Criss Angel I would do everything in my power to make people forget about that horrible decision)
*Tana talks about men who want to f**k their moms ( really don't need to hear about this topic again)
*Holly talks about her decision to leave the mansion and she has a new story now. For years she has said that she decided to leave Hef when IVF didn't work out. Now she is saying that her final straw was Hef asking Kendra to sit closer to him at movie night and getting pissed when she didn't want to because he “loved the drama” (Holly is a pathological liar. It's funny that Tana claims to be such a fan and close
Friend of Holly’s but always seems
Clueless to her Playboy origin story)
*Holly talks about her other obsession, Crystal Harris, Hef’s widow, and her campaign to stop Hef’s scrapbooks full of nudes from being made public. Holly is mad because Crystal is getting credit for doing something that Holly thought of first. ( Holly and Bridget are horrible to Crystal weekly on their podcast. They call her “Krusty” and display the worst mean-girl bully behavior.)
*Holly talks about her beef with Kendra and blames it on the producer of their shows ( Holly is always a victim. Never takes any responsibility for the shit storms she causes and then pretends like she doesn't know why nobody ever likes her)
*They talk about Vegas shows and Holly says her favorites are Carrot Top and the empire strips back ( you would have to pay me to go to a Carrot Top show)
*Holly talks about her new podcast which consists of her interviewing “biohacking” grifters, strippers, and super young OF/BOP house girls ( This is why Holly sucks as a human. She has spent decades talking about the trauma she endured being a young sugar baby at the Playboy mansion and the stigma that has followed her around. Yet she promotes seeking arrangements and fangirls over teenage OF models. Glamorizing and promoting the same system she claims traumatized her.)
************ SA Trigger warning ******************
Lots of talk about SA throughout this recap!
*Holly starts the episode with a preface that the first part of the slumber party aired before the interview, and the second part after to address
*H and B talk about Buffy’s pictorial and they both liked the ‘in the Buffy’ title better (Of course they like the worse version better)
*H is so curious about when the qualudes started appearing and they both put their detective hats on to think of people they could ask about it but realize that anybody who was there at that time is dead or hates them from that time
*They talk about the girlfriend that Katie said was trying to hook up with her. H says this girlfriend tried to do that with her the first time she went up to the bedroom but told her to “fake the f*ck” and she would explain later ( I am resentful I
Had to type that out)
*They are both downright giddy that they found out the curfew origin story (🙄)
*H says that Mary told her Hef’s wife was having an affair with a security guard and tried to blackmail him over it (This doesn't make sense. How would she blackmail
Hef about her own affair? Hef made it no secret that his first marriage ended because she cheated on him (🙄) so why would this one have been any different? H just loves to rag on the other women before or after her)
*Then of course she has to bring up Crystal again because all roads lead to Crystal!! H brings up Crystal’s book and how she wrote about dating a guy from the Bachelor franchise and then says “Well, in her book she didn't say she was dating him; she just said they went to an innocent lunch” and Hef got blackmailed with this information and says Crystal blamed it on Izabella in an Instagram story later because Izabella was working in PR at the time. (Why is chilling obsessed with stories about blackmailing Hef?!)
*H says Izabella wrote a book that was so nasty about Holly. H tells a story about “someone showing her a tweet” years ago that Izabella tweeted she was at the spa and heard Holly had just been there and was sad they didn't cross paths like they were old friends. H says Izabella was nasty about her again when her book came out because she was jealous that Holly's book was more successful (Sure Hollin, that is the reason. Or maybe it is because you were super nasty about her in your book)
*B thought it was interesting that Katie did baton twirling and pageants just like she did when she was growing up (Pretty normal things for girls who end up in Playboy actually)
********** Second Part***********
*They talk about B’s TMZ tour. B talked about the spooky stuff and I just don't care to recap it because I am not into her “ghost hunting” BS
*B is flummoxed at how polarizing the episode is. She says half the people hated it and half the people think it is the best work they have ever done (The only reason it was polarizing was that Katie was unhinged and sharing extremely controversial/offensive stuff and Holly’s shit editing skills that made)
*B complains that so many people ask for episodes with Tea but then Katie spills the tea and people are offended (B is so obtuse. People want tea not horrific stories of SA with no warning and choppy editing and weird rambling. The episode could have been a huge success if they edited out the SA story, the underage stripping story, and stuck with the parts of the interview where Katie was coherent)
*H asks what the line is between someone telling their story that has details about other people. H says there is no perfect answer ( Well, you can start with not outing someone's SA and including the victim's name and identifying details. Treat serious content and victims with care and protection. It is actually simple)
*H whines that people complain when interviews are bland so how can she win (umm, you could work on your interviewing skills. Come up with better questions that can help a guest reflect on their time at the mansion in an insightful but tasteful way. Keep B out of the interview with her timeline and ‘hold on we will get to it later’; stop
Burning every bridge with interesting people will make them inclined to come on your podcast.)
*They talk about Katie’s Howard stern interview. B is confused about how she even got to be on The Stern show and says her interview was one of the reasons that girlfriends like B were unsure if the girlfriends actually slept with Hef (Sure, B)
*H says she was always too scared to go on The Stern show because he would not hold back asking questions (smart of her; he would have eaten her alive)
*Holly “kinda forgot trigger warning existed because all that is on my for you Page is rape related” (What the fuck kind of explanation is this?!? I forgot people were sensitive about rape because all I hear about is rape? Same old Hollin, never gonna own up to a mistake)
*Then she relates it to the Cornell case and a news story about a woman being SA’d on a plane and only getting a $100 voucher. Holly seems annoyed that she has to say this and then gives a half-hearted apology for posting without a warning. ( Those two cases have nothing to do with this. Why can't she just own her mistake? Always passing the buck and acting like she is the victim. I don't care if the SA victim was a mean girl or a saint, she should not have been exposed like that.)
*B says she was kind of shocked when Katie talked about getting in to stripping when She was underage but is glad that Katie had positive feelings about because a lot of women view it as a thing that negatively affected their lives. (This is a baffling take. Anyone who is happy they became a stripper at 17 is definitely still in some kind of trauma. The conditions Katie described working in were horrible in addition to the fact that she was still a child. The fact that B thinks it's all good as long as Katie says it's all good is wild)
*B thought it was funny that the Bentley twins drove Bentleys, and of course H has to bring up Crystal, again! They talk about Hef buying Crystal a used Bentley from her music producer and H says someone even showed her the check Hef used to pay for Crystal's Bentley and she has a picture of it on her phone. ( They are such weirdos!! Why would anyone care about this and why do they care about it? And who the hell saved the check?!)
*B talks about people being upset about Katie talking shit about Honda Civics and wants everyone to know that they don't always agree with guests' opinions and B totally likes Honda Civics ( lol ok B we will make a note of this)
*H reads some Patreon members' comments that were critical of the episode and it is deflect, deflect, deflect
-She can't control what guests say
-Katie rambled a lot and she had to do a lot of editing
-Guests aren't paid so they don't want to offend or talk shit about them (right)
-Her weird cuts were because she had to put commercials in the episode
-They were laughing during the laser segment because it was a weird tangent that went nowhere and she had to cut a lot out and by the time they got to the end she left in she couldn't hold her laughter in any longer. (Just edit the whole part out then! It literally didn't even make sense with the portions you left in and you are being rude AF by including a shot of you laughing AT your guest. How does she not get that?)
*H defends her decision to title the episode ‘Spilling Tea’ because what was she going to do title it ‘SA story’ (There are literally infinite alternative titles that would have been more appropriate.)
*H is jealous because Lorraine Nicholson is making a movie about the mansion starring Lily Rose deep and Holly's script/movie about her book has been going nowhere for the past 10 years (lol I'm sorry but this is funny)
*Back to Crystal! They talk about Crystal's new Patreon and podcast trailer. H says she saw the Claire interview teaser and thinks that it's “interesting” They are annoyed about Crystal putting her content behind a paywall because she talk shit about them having a paywall, ( wasn't Crystal saying that she would be down to be interviewed by them/come on the pod but wouldnt want to have it behind a paywall/used for their paywall content?) they are pissed she had a dog bday party after talking shit about dog bday parties, H thinks Crystal is acting like she is the first person to have a playboy podcast.
*H says she is drained from doing her other podcast. (The one where she interviews a stripper on stage at a strip club with her second clickbait headline about SA in one week. What a record! There is nothing wrong with being a stripper but I just think the stage of a strip club or as H called it a “Gentlemans” club isnt the place to talk about SA. Her guest is very open about the Sexual harassment and somewhat dangerous situations she has encountered working as a stripper. Something is really wrong in Holly’s head)
*H says she just can't seem to get away from SA stories and felt she had to do an episode to raise awareness about it. H says she normally likes to keep the topics on the lighter side for her other pod (For sure, she just loves to explore and promote the light-hearted pipeline of exploited child to teenage OF model. So cute and fun!)
*Talks about her guest being a volunteer Sexual Assault advocate which is great and makes me wonder if her guest was aware of H and B outing a victim on their pod
**********SA Trigger warning***********
*H does one of her signature abrupt transitions and asks B if she told her the story about someone she knows, allegedly on WhatsApp group chat that was sending sex videos “ and he said one of them was of me” B seems genuinely shocked and is like what?
*H talks about how she has hinted before about someone she used to date, and says we probably know who she is talking about who she suspected might be filming her during sex without her consent. H says she has talked to other women he has hooked up with who say he filmed them during sex but they didn't care because they were in a relationship with him and she says other women he has hooked up with have also said they have the same suspicion for the same reasons as H. H also says that she knows people who used to be friends with her ex and he would show the friend videos of him having sex with women and it was filmed the same way H thinks she was filmed. This friend also said he saw on the ex’s phone a WhatsApp group chat where he was sending sex videos. H said she talked to a police officer and he said there is nothing that can be done without the video but then she talked to somebody in the legal field who said there is probably more you can do than that. “Especially if there is a witness who said she saw the videos” (she switches the gender pronoun of the witness from male to female here. Not sure what that was about) and says she would like to see a hard drive searched. (This is a traumatic and sick story. If this is all true I hope she will pursue charges to prevent other women from being victims of this creep.)
Whew! That was a lot to get down.
It was in the news this week that Zak bought the underground bunker house in Las Vegas. I just saw a clip that Holly on TikTok posted of a tour she took of this house. Lately, she has been continually bringing up the fact that she believes he was recording their sexual encounters without her consent which is a form of SA. I am not doubting her claims but I wonder what her motive is in trying to tie herself to his real estate purchase?