- Previously, on "Next Gen NYC"...
- Hudson-- nice meeting you, dawg.
- Yeah, (BLEEP) that boundary.
I'm having a little birthday party at my parents' house.
Love to have ya. - Really?
Well, yeah.
Oh, my God, ha.
This is moving a little differently than I thought.
- What's the plan for Halloween?
- You know House of Yes in Brooklyn?
- Hudson is back in town.
I think, if Hudson comes,
and Liam is flirting with Ariana,
do you guys think that I should let Hudson know?
- I don't know if it's necessarily your place just yet.
- He has, like, been very blatantly obvious
that he is, like--
- He's trying to (BLEEP) your ex-girlfriend.
Brooks, if you're actually leaving,
do you wanna talk outside before you go?
- Not really.
Your friends don't always reflect who you are,
but I'm just not comfortable around him.
- Brooks, but we're leaving Charlie here, like, alone?
- Girls' night!
- I'm okay with you.
I just never brought up the Kevin of it all.
- I heard through the gay grapevine
you felt I was, like, flirting with Kevin
on the trip.
- So, who was telling you that?
- A, by Charlie, yes.
- Georgia, first, she says it's the gay grapevine,
but now I have to go ask Charlie.
- Trick or treat!
- Oh, my God, I love it.
- Creds to Spirit Halloween.
- Okay, yeah, I'm jealous. I don't even--
There's no Spirit near me.
- Did you go longer?
- What? - Your hair?
- No, my extensions are falling out of my head.
- Well, they look--
It looks really good. - Thanks.
♪ I'm a psycho I do what I like ♪
♪ I'm the one loose screw ♪
- Halloween is one of the best nights in New York
'cause all the girls are dressed slutty,
and, you know, the guys all know
the girls are all dressed slutty.
- It's cold out, but no one cares.
We're gonna be wearing our slutty little outfits
and drinking tequila to keep us warm.
- New York during the Halloween season
is just disgusting.
It's like a petri dish of drunk idiots.
I feel like I'm the-the Greatest Showman--
- No, you look so good.
♪ 'Cause I'm a psycho ♪
- Rowan and I are hosting this Halloween party
at House of Yes.
- In deep Brooklyn.
- It's Rocky Horror theme.
On paper, it's gonna be a good party.
- On paper, it's gonna be great.
♪ Psych psycho ♪
♪ I'm not very nice ♪
♪ you better block me drop me ♪
♪ delete me as a friend I'm a psycho ♪
- I do not care. I want chocolate.
[phone ringing]
Hello. - What's up?
- What do I wear?
- Rocky Horror, is this a movie or something?
- I thought it was a chocolate factory.
Should we ask Mom?
Mom, do you know what Rocky Horror Picture Shop is?
- Picture Show, yes.
- That's so mean. - That's so rude.
- Wait, Georgia is calling.
Should I ask her, too?
- Hi. - Hey, girl.
- Hi, Georgia. How are you?
Welcome to the family chat.
[laughing]
- Oh, my God, like, I love Brooks' family.
Meredith is amazing.
Look at the notice on the door.
- Wait, are you kidding me? - No, I'm not.
- Two kilos of caviar.
we, uh-- - We could give it out to the homeless?
And then Seth Marks gives good pep talks.
- Every day is an opportunity to win
when we embrace the moment we are in.
- He's posting things on his Instagram story,
and I'm screenshotting them
'cause they have inspired me,
and I'm a Seth Marks fan.
- I'm so confused.
The theme is Rocky Horror Picture Shop or whatever.
- You don't know what that is?
- It's, like, iconic.
- Oh.
- Georgia, I love that you think I have,
like, hours to prepare.
[laughing]
- They're all going to a ball tonight--
Emira, Ava, and Georgia. The Frick Ball.
- I don't know.
- My night is going to be a lot of Ubers.
So, I'm gonna be going straight to Frick
on the Upper East Side.
- The Frick is a very fancy shmancy museum Uptown.
They throw this extravagant Halloween party,
very hard to get an invite to,
and, girl, I got an invite,
and, girl, I'm going.
- And then I'm gonna be trekking it all the way
to bumble (BLEEP) in Brooklyn
to see this boxing movie or something.
[sighs]
- I really like Rowan,
so I'm gonna go to Brooklyn for her
from the Upper East Side.
- We were supposed to go to The Frick.
Then last minute, we were like
let's maybe just do, like, House of Yes.
- I wasn't supposed to go to The Frick.
Were you invited to Frick?
- No, I wasn't invited to The Frick.
- I didn't even know what it was.
- Should I still do the cat eye?
Oh, sh--. (BLEEP) me.
Oh, (BLEEP). Sorry, wrong-wrong thing.
- Ariana has so much going on in her life, right now.
She started something with Liam.
- I wanted to see what this organizer looked like,
so I know what tools I have to bring by.
- Oh, you're building her--
I-I missed that. - Yeah, I'm building the organizer.
- That is very romantic.
- Hopefully, I can build it.
It'll be embarrassing if I can't, right?
- Okay, well-- - Oh, my God, are you okay?
- You're good, I'm good.
- And then, of course, there's the Hudson
looming over it all.
- He's gonna be at the party tomorrow.
- Oh, my God.
- He's acting like a little bit of a tool.
He's giving off this dickish energy,
like, for no reason.
Hudson's Instagram.
Ferrari this, Lamborghini here,
diamonds here, watch here.
- Hudson's Instagram when he was dating Ariana
was like, "I love Ariana.
"I love Jesus."
And then now, it's kinda like,
I'm out here with cars, partying,
and these are my cool outfits,
and still a little bit of Jesus in there.
- I mean, I-- it's my understanding
he still posts Bible stuff.
- Hudson is still posting Bible verses.
Great.
- There was a girl on his story.
I don't know if he's ----ing this girl
or who this girl is, but she was, like,
wearing his sweatshirt and then wearing my slippers.
- Oh, my God.
What the (BLEEP)? - I'm like I don't even care
if you're ----ing the girl,
but the disrespect for my belongings is crazy.
- On that note... - Yeah, on that note--
- Let's go smash some ----ing pumpkins.
- Let's go smash a ----ing pumpkin.
- And go ----ing pretend they're Hudson's head.
[screaming] One, two, three. - One, two, three.
Let's go!
♪♪
Hey, um, any chance I got my period?
Can you see?
- Uh, no, you're good.
- No? Good? Perfect. - Yeah, you're good.
- Rowan and Ariana, are they coming?
- Okay.
- Today has been a lot.
I wasn't expecting the Riley conversation
to go in any way that it did.
And on top of all of that, my friend, Shai,
pulled some bullsh--.
I don't think that Hudson is coming.
I got a text from him saying he left,
but then Shai called me earlier and was like,
"I told him that Liam has been flirting with you."
- Oh, so, maybe that's why he's not coming.
- My friend, Shai, has been telling Hudson
my personal information about my life.
What the (BLEEP) is happening here?
- She was cool about it.
Like, when we talked on the phone, she seemed,
like, decently, like, okay.
She saw my perspective about it
and semi-appreciates what I did.
- I'm pissed. I was honestly in shock.
You're supposed to be my friend, mother----er,
and you're gonna betray my personal life,
my trust, my everything.
I don't get it.
But I'm not gonna bring it up at
the party Shai and Rowan are throwing together.
We can deal with this in our own time.
- Nobody wins with confrontation.
[screaming]
♪♪
- How ya doin'?
- Wait, am I the first here?
- I'm here.
♪♪
- So, are you a big, uh, Rocky Horror fan?
- I told my mom I was going to this,
and she was like, "You're not in the know."
- You're not in the know of what?
Or... - For the show.
- Oh, tonight. - Tonight, yeah.
We're watching a show in there.
- Oh, it's in there. - It's a show.
We're watching-- we're sitting down
and we're watching, like, a full show.
- Oh, this is a musical? - Yeah.
- I love musicals.
I was in a musical when I was seven.
Pirate Queen. It was super fun.
[horn honking]
- Let's get the frick outta here.
- What time do you think you're gonna go to bed?
It's, like, 10, right now.
- [indistinct]. - Okay.
- I'll get in the back. No, I'll get in the back.
- It's Halloween, and it's the time
to embrace spooky sh--.
- Hello.
- So, this is some spooky sh--,
being trapped in this car with Georgia
for an hour all the way to Brooklyn.
- Hi.
Um...
- Georgia is like a germ.
You can't avoid her.
You're gonna catch her eventually,
and sometimes she might make you sick.
She continues to bring things up that I don't want brought up.
- I heard through the gay grapevine
you felt I was, like, flirting with Kevin
on the trip.
I was literally-- I had ----ing--
- The first time she brought this up to me,
she heard it through the gay grapevine.
- [distorted] The gay grapevine.
- Which is really her friend, Cooper,
and maybe my assistant, Nate.
Now, she's saying it's Charlie.
- The way it was relayed to me,
okay, A, by Charlie, yes.
- I wanna get to the bottom of this
because, if it was my assistant,
then that's, like, a whole other problem.
I just want the answer of who brought that up,
so we can put this to bed.
♪ La la la la la la trick or treat ♪
- Oh! What's up?
- Come down. Come down. - I'm falling off of here.
These shoes have the most insane thing.
- Let's see that.
- Hey. - Hi.
- Have you been to a show here?
- I have not.
- Yeah, me neither.
- We're about to start,
and, like, a lot of people are missing.
- I know-- traffic.
[horn honking]
Man, the House of Yes is deep in Brooklyn.
Like, we couldn't pick somewhere in Manhattan?
By Uber, it probably takes, you know, 20 minutes
to get to Williamsburg or Dumbo, okay?
The House of Yes is not in Williamsburg or Dumbo.
It's far.
- Honey, we are in, like, the depths of Brooklyn.
- We're in the boondocks.
- We're in, like, Babylon, Long Island, at this point.
[laughing]
- I don't go to Brooklyn unless I invoice, honestly.
Next time, I'm invoicing.
- How we all doing tonight, House of Yes?
[cheers and applause]
- Hey. - Thank you for showing up.
- Yeah, you're welcome. Well, I was at Ariana's.
- Is she on her way? - They're on their way.
♪♪
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a cult classic.
It's very audience interactive.
- Liam, go!
- I don't know what I'm doing.
I don't know what I'm doing!
- Fantastic soundtrack.
- I have to say
I was originally exposed to it through Glee.
- Through Glee? - Yeah.
That's where. - That's funny.
I-I can't stand that show.
- Shai, is Hudson coming?
- Hudson is back in Atlanta. - Already?
I thought he had the 9:30 flight.
- I pushed my flight back tomorrow night
so that I can come to the event.
- Lowkey, as your boy, I wanna let you know
that, like, Liam has been hitting on Ariana a lot.
I had this whole conversation with him,
and then I see through Instagram
that he's, like, leaving,
and he didn't even text me, like, goodbye.
Whatever.
- I'm really, really rocking this Rocky Horror theme.
- You know, you look hot as (BLEEP).
- So do you.
- How was your date?
- What the (BLEEP) are you talking about?
- Your closet building date.
- Full disclosure, you've been aired out
while we were playing pool recently.
"Liam is trying to (BLEEP) Ariana."
He's trying to (BLEEP) your ex-girlfriend.
- I wouldn't say it like that, take it easy.
I'm just getting to know her more, man.
Can't I do that?
- Devil's advocate, like, you know,
Hudson is our boy. - No, but I'm saying.
- Like, somebody ----ing his ex-girlfriend,
like, that's not, like, kosher to speak.
But, like-- - But I-I-I'm not even ----ing her.
What are you talking about?
- No, but you might, right?
I mean, don't you want-- that-that's the goal, right?
- No, that's not the goal. The goal is to get to know her.
I think there's bro code, and then I think
there's, like, trying to get rid of some competition
or trying to intimidate the new guy.
- Do you see our perspective on this situation?
Like-- - I get where you're coming from,
but where I'm coming from is, like,
I hope that doesn't affect me
trying to get to know all you guys.
And that's all I wanna say about it,
and I hope we can put it to bed with that.
- Hugs. - Hugs.
- Hi. - How ya doin'?
We're kinda matching. Look at us.
- I know. What's new?
- Let's go.
Yeah, drinks, let's go. - I'm gonna get a drink.
- Why? - No, they were just saying,
like, "You know, he's our boy."
And I'm like all right.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- That's actually ----ing crazy.
No.
Why are we cornering this poor man about my ex?
We haven't even gone on a damn date yet.
He built me a closet.
Charlie, I expect nothing less.
Shai, you're my friend.
- Yeah.
I'm about to lose it.
Yeah, I'm angry.
(BLEEP) you.
- Coming up...
- Do you think I'm ----ing happy with the bullsh--
that you guys-- (BLEEP) your dad, Brooks.
- Did you just really say (BLEEP) my dad?
- This is ridiculous!
♪ Trick or treat
♪ trick or treat trick or treat ♪
- So, I want to know who Rocky is.
Which one is Rocky?
- Um, the one right there in the black.
- No, I'm okay. - No, not Rocky Balboa.
♪ Looking for a good time ♪
- Something about Shai just rubs me the wrong way.
He's never done anything to me,
but it's things like telling Hudson
Ariana's personal business.
- Shai called me earlier and was like,
"Hudson is coming tonight, and I told him
that Liam has been flirting with you."
- Why did Shai say that?
- 'Cause they're boys now, I guess.
- What the (BLEEP)?
Ariana has been the one telling me
to give a Shai a chance.
Spoke too soon, babe.
- The Rocky Horror Experience at House of Yes!
[cheers and applause]
- Everybody had a great ass.
- Thank you.
- Guys, here we are. - We're here.
♪ I don't wanna wait around ♪
- Look at the step, Georgia.
Here, give me your-- yeah.
[laughing]
- I love my costume. I just can't see a thing.
Pigeons are not known for their eyesight.
- In reality, pigeons see things very differently than we do
'cause they have ultraviolet vision.
- The pigeon is the number one bird of New York City,
a very iconic staple of most urban environments.
- I like this. - Thank you.
- Is it a penguin?
- Come on. You're from New York.
I'm a New York pigeon. - I like it.
- Fun fact, the weird colored ones,
don't touch them.
- It's always wise to wash your hands afterwards,
generally. - Right, right.
It's wise to wash your hands after doing most things
in New York City, let's be honest.
- Hi. - Hello.
- How are you? - Good. How are you?
- What are you supposed to be?
- I just threw on [indistinct] vest.
- Oh. - Yeah.
I don't know, I don't have much costume worthy clothes.
You know, I wasn't gonna go buy a ----ing horse suit.
[neighing]
- Hi, gorge, how are you?
- Good. How are you? You look beautiful.
I love it. - Thank you.
- Come on, let's get you guys a drink.
- It's a cute party.
I mean, I think we're a little over dressed.
I'm wearing couture, honey.
I'll just pick my gown up off the floor.
Hi, gorge. - I like the outfit, Elvis?
- I mean, it's meant to be, um...
- This is my boyfriend, Brian.
- Brian, Shai. - Shai?
- How is it goin'? - Nice to meet you.
You're the one who has been calling my girlfriend
all the time.
I'm kidding, I'm kidding. - Yes, I'm sorry.
- Brian is a real estate agent.
We met in a basement in a fraternity
freshman year of college.
He was like, "Can I get you a drink?"
I'm like, "You mean...
from the pile of lukewarm Natty Lights
that I can reach for myself?"
And then I got myself a lukewarm beer,
and the rest is history.
- I'm Brian, nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you.
How long you guys been dating?
- Four years in about a week.
- College? - Do you have a ring planned?
- Guys. - We'll see, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- I think the best form of preparation that
I can give Brian is no preparation at all.
I want him to get to know people.
- Threw my neck out.
Like, every time I lean like this, it hurts right here.
- Did you work out?
- I've been giving my boyfriend a lot of head.
That could be it.
- Oh, my God. - Period, period.
As you should be. - [indistinct].
- He can make his own assumptions,
and we'll talk about it on the subway ride home.
- Where's Christian? - Yeah, where is he?
- I was waiting to see him. - Sorry, he-he took the night off tonight.
- Yeah, no.
I think the guys' night scarred him.
- I'm just gonna be totally honest.
I don't wanna be here.
- He's hiding safely away in Jersey,
and I'll meet him there later.
- I thought Hudson was gonna be here tonight.
- Um, he went home.
I don't know. - Like, back to Atlanta?
- Yeah.
- I saw on his story he posted, like, some lyrics.
I just went through a breakup. - I, literally--
I don't really honestly care.
I feel really good. I feel really happy.
- Good. I'm, like, almost there,
so I'm excited. - Yeah.
- With, like, the new apartment and everything.
So, okay. - Yeah.
- Are you and Hook still together, though?
- Yeah, we're still together.
- Okay. - Oh, it's shifted
since the last time I talked to you?
- Yeah. - You talked to him.
- There's been some new developments.
- Wait, what? Wait, what?
- I hate when there's new developments.
- No. - There's just some new developments,
and I'm currently in my investigative...
- Oh. - As you should be.
- ...era.
- I was in mine, too, as well. - Oh, I'm good at that.
- So, I'll be letting you know when there's something
to let you know about. - Here I am.
- My boyfriend was out of town filming a movie,
a short film.
I haven't gotten to see him since he's been gone,
and... um...
I don't know, I just have a gut feeling
about something that I'm gonna need to talk to him about.
Trust me, when it's time to talk about it,
I will, but it's a little premature, at this point.
- Figure it out first before you--
- Yeah, I need to get my ducks together.
- Yeah, bring the facts. - Well, whatever--
- As the zebra that I am. [laughing]
- Look at the name of this drink.
It's literally demon twink.
- How was The Frick? You guys had fun?
- The Frick was insane.
- Well, you missed a great show.
- Thank you for having us.
- There's a fortune teller in the corner,
if you're interested in that. - Oh, wait, we've been dying
to go fortune telling. - I know.
- Oh, she looks pretty legit.
- Oh, you're so hard on yourself.
- How did you know that?
- I'm very sensitive to energy.
- She's from the 19th century.
- Nineteenth century? - Is that right now?
- Oh, no, 19th century is, like, 1800.
- All right.
- Jesus, (BLEEP),
I've dealt with a lot of ----ing psychics
being thrown at me.
- You have beautiful energy, and if you're open to it,
I would love to just sit with you and talk.
- I will decline that request.
I'm, like, trapped, bro. I can't get outta here.
A ----ing psychic is accosting me.
That whole world triggers me.
- There's a serious power imbalance
between you and your dad.
- Stuff like this could so easily have been told
or anything, so, I don't know.
- Well, I have no idea of anything.
I've never met you. - I know, but it's like--
- I don't know anything about you.
- Can I hit the gong one time?
- Yeah, of course.
- It's all nonsense, but gongs are awesome.
- How is everything? - You look so cute.
- Thank you. - It's fun.
- Oh, my God!
- You literally have a spiderweb in your hair.
I can't. [laughing]
- Wait, Brooks, you didn't tell me that you
actually ran away from Charlie.
- I didn't run away.
- Shai said you were bobbing and weaving through the cars.
- Brooks, we're leaving Charlie here, like, alone?
Brooks starts sprinting away.
It looked like he was, like, training
for the L.A. Olympics.
- I didn't run away.
I was walking at a New Yorker's pace.
Um... - Did you talk to him tonight?
- No, I haven't spoken to him tonight.
- I feel like you should say something to him
and just keep it casual.
- He won't bite. I don't think.
- So, my personal experience, it's best to just be direct.
- I don't really wanna be around this person.
The things that I'm reading are wild.
If someone searches my brand,
being that it's self-titled,
my name will come up with his name.
It's really frustrating.
- It's Charlie. Like, you know him.
- It's okay. - You've been friends with him.
Like, if anything, he'll-- - It's okay.
You look so scared, Brooks.
- If anything, he'll just be like,
"I don't agree with you," and, like, walk away.
- Like, who cares?
- I'm not gonna go ride on his scooter with him
like we did back in the day.
It's really sad, honestly.
Like, four years ago, he was this super fun guy.
I just don't know what caused him to start
behaving so differently.
It's like a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde situation.
- You're the one who is in control of the tone.
- You're not gonna yell 'cause that's not your personality.
Charlie is not gonna yell if you're not yelling,
and it doesn't have to be a whole thing.
- Disengaging is not about avoiding conflict.
- Yeah.
- Just get it over with. - You should, yeah.
- I'll do it with you, if you want.
- I can have a conversation with him.
- Oh, yeah, you should totally gather the-the troops
and have a convo.
- Every single person at this party
has some kind of beef with Charlie.
Is this the deli? Are we taking numbers?
- Eww, I don't wanna do this.
- You're-you're gonna do it.
Do you need a drink? It's tequila.
- Yeah.
All right. - Okay, you got this.
I love you. - Kiss-kiss.
- Crush it, baby. - Kill it.
[laughing]
He just swerved and went to the bar.
- Hi, can I have a tequila soda, please?
♪♪
- I feel like you should say something to him.
- You got this. I love you.
- Kiss-kiss.
- Crush it, baby. - Kill it.
[laughing]
He just swerved and went to the bar.
- Hi, can I have a tequila soda, please?
- The most nonconfrontational, I can't.
- Ahh, me and this ----ing web
do not get along.
- How are you doing?
- I'm good. - Yeah?
- Yeah. - Yeah.
Kendall doesn't say a lot.
I can read her face. She's having fun.
Kendall is like a nice aioli, an herb garlic aioli.
Reason being, like, an aioli, it's not always present,
but when it's there, it's there.
You're like, oh, that's a good aioli.
But have you met Charlie? Have you spoken to Charlie?
- For, like, a minute. - Yeah.
- She seems like watching paint dry, frankly.
Like, she literally is like a shadow.
Like, I don't even realize she's there.
[laughing]
- She's in love with Liam, yes.
- Yeah, that's-that's word on the street.
- I think the odds are high on that one.
- Like, Vegas is, like, putting that she's in love with him
at, like, a-- at, like, a minus.
Yeah. - For sure, yeah.
- I got, like, pressed by Shai and Charlie about Hudson.
- What do you mean?
- I don't remember exactly what they said,
but it was like, you know,
"It's a little weird that you're, like, talking to her.
Blah, blah, blah.
You're just trying to (BLEEP) her."
And I was like, "No, I'm just trying to get to know her."
- They said that? - Yeah, yeah.
You know, me and Shai have only hung out,
like, a couple, handful of times,
not alone. - Yeah.
- I haven't hung out with Charlie.
- Yeah. - So, like,
that just makes me feel weird.
This whole thing with Charlie and Shai, it sucks.
I'm here to get to know people, and I don't know.
Sometimes I get in my head,
and it just makes me more anxious socially.
- Oh, yeah, he gets real close to my face.
- She hates it.
- It's like, ugh. - I'm a close talker.
- Yeah, close talker.
If you're that close to me, my mind goes,
how do I back up?
- I can see it in her face.
Like, I can feel when I get too close.
- The panic?
- I hit, like, that two-inch mark,
and she's like, "Oh, (BLEEP), he's there."
- Eww.
♪♪
- Hi. - Hi.
- How are you? - Good. You're so glittery.
- Can I chat with you for a sec?
- Yeah.
- I just wanna have, like, a really chill conversation.
I don't want to get contentious in any way but--
- You don't wanna get what? Pretentious?
- Contentious. - Okay.
- You know, we haven't really been talking that much
in the past year and...
- I think you behave a little bit, like, immaturely.
I just don't want to have to walk in a ----ing room
and have you be, like, giggling
and making things any more awkward than they already are.
Brooks's visible discomfort around me
is naturally going to make me feel uncomfortable, you know.
The first wince is fine, but it's like wince me once,
shame on you.
Wince me five times, you're, like, doing too much, bro.
I don't know why I need to get, like, giggle treatment
when, like, I'm talking to homey, you know, like...
- I don't feel like I've done that.
What-- when have I done that?
I do have a nervous laugh, a really bad nervous laugh,
like, abominable, like, probably my worst trait.
- What's-what's good, bro? - Get me out of here.
[laughing]
- First, when I'm speaking to Shai, the whole, like,
"I can't believe you guys are speaking,"
was kind of awkward.
I tried to, like, sort of neutralize that
at the ping pong night, and you instead, like,
sprinted down the street.
- I just really hit my max that night, to be honest.
- I hit my max last season every ----ing day.
I had to speak with Chloe.
I had to speak to your ----ing dad.
I had to speak to everyone.
- You didn't say, "I would love the opportunity
"to share sexual energy with your sister?"
- What would I rather be doing than having this meeting
with Seth?
Cutting my own dick off, (BLEEP) Chloe,
like, literally anything.
I just would like if you could show me the respect
and courtesy of behaving as though I'm not someone
you're trying to make feel uncomfortable.
- Like, why would I do that if you're sending messages,
quasi-threatening,
that I should keep your name out of my mouth?
- Sending messages, quasi-threatening?
- "Brooks better keep my name out of his mouth,"
is, like, a quasi-threat, in my opinion.
- Okay, well, I'm quasi-sorry.
- I wasn't expecting that convo to be this long.
I'm not gonna lie.
- Brooks seems like he's got it handled.
I feel like, if he needs me, he'll give me a special look,
but I'm just gonna kinda mind my business,
sip my sparkling water.
I have enough going on up here.
- I feel like we've really drifted apart.
- A few months ago, you came over,
and we hung out just us. That was fun.
- That was, like, nine months ago.
- That was since last season.
- That was in February.
- Okay, but that was more recently than the drama
you're referencing.
Why does that not-- logic not track with you?
Nine months is so long, but 12 months--
- I mean, we also saw the whole show air
where you were, like..
- Do you think I'm ----ing happy with the bullsh--
that you guys-- (BLEEP) your dad, Brooks.
Do you think I'm happy with the sh--
that you idiots said about me? - Are you kidding?
Did you just really say, "(BLEEP) my dad?"
- This is ridiculous, ----ing your obsession
with harping on that one note
when we're having a larger conversation.
- Honestly, I-I'm so over this.
I'm not doing this sh--. It's not okay.
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- (BLEEP) your dad, Brooks. Do you think I'm happy
with the sh-- that you idiots said about me?
- Are you kidding?
Did you just really say, "(BLEEP) my dad?"
- This is ridiculous. - I'm so over this.
I'm not doing this sh--. It's not okay.
I don't think there's anywhere to go.
You said, "(BLEEP) my dad." - All I wanted--
- My dad was the only person who tried to help you last year
when you were acting a fool.
Well, you don't respect your own,
so I don't know why you'd respect mine.
- You have the least respectable dad on planet Earth.
He's a ----ing house husband. He should be embarrassed.
Okay, that might have been a little much.
He's been nothing but nice to me,
so I'm sorry.
Yeah, to Seth, this is my apology.
- What's the problem? What's the-- what's the beef?
- I walk in a room, and he ----ing makes me uncomfortable
by, like, giggling or--
- Because you both are uncomfortable.
- I make you uncomfortable?
- You're, like, awkwardly laughing.
- Why the (BLEEP) do I make you uncomfortable?
- Because you giggle, "Oh, my God,
"I can't believe Shai is talking to Charlie."
- Okay, wait, wait, wait, Charlie.
- I think you've been through a lot of other things
that would make you more uncomfortable than that.
- Yeah, true. That doesn't hurt my feelings, Brooks.
You can Google me, all right? (BLEEP).
- You're just saying-- you wanna just tell him,
like, that you don't want to be as close to him anymore,
and that's fine, and maybe don't with the giggling
'cause that really triggers him,
for some reason. - Yeah, just be ----ing normal.
For the love of God, I already have Georgia
to deal with. - Oh, my God, guys,
I think Charlie is getting confronted by everyone,
right now. I'm not even kidding.
I don't want to go over to see Charlie,
but I am very curious.
- Don't forget to put the pigeon hat on.
Nice. - Good.
- I don't want to be haunted by multiple ghosts in a room.
You know, like, one is enough. - I think--
- I just can't really see that well.
I should have cut bigger holes, you know.
- That's great.
- That's the problem.
- I just feel like there's an elephant in the room,
and it's up to you if you want to address that.
- What? - Is it about your sister,
about your dad, like, your family? Like--
- No, no. - No, he's talking about, like,
my spring, I think. - Yes.
- Open season-- any questions, right now.
- Wait, about what?
- We got the whole ----ing crew over here.
- About the crypto sh--.
- Open for business, right now, one time only.
- Oh, my God, get your questions together.
Finally, oh, my God, I have so many questions.
- Were you involved in this at all?
- Ridiculous question-- I'm not even gonna humor it.
- You just said any question. - I'm not gonna say anything.
- Naturally.
- I've been seeing, like, insane stuff in the media.
I don't know what's true. I don't know what's fake.
- By the way, with all due respect,
not to take it there,
but Ariana is on ----ing probation.
- Excuse me?
Wait, what are you saying about me?
- I'm saying that you are in good company
with my legal trouble,
because I'm getting criticized for them. So...
- What the (BLEEP)? I'm-I'm sorry.
I should have stayed at the bar drinking my sparkling water.
- I think that's a pretty unfair comparison.
- Hold on. My legal troubles are quite a bit different.
- Our legal-- our legal troubled baddies
can be grouped together. - You're right. You're right.
I'm sorry. - Hold on a minute.
Our situations are not similar.
If you made a ----ing little-- what is it called--
Venn diagram of them, in the middle,
there would be nothing.
I should go sit over there.
- I care about my reputation.
- What Charlie does, is not a reflection of you.
Think about housewives, your mom's show.
There was a lady that was arrested.
Does that mean your mom is a criminal, too?
- By the way, let's be clear.
- It doesn't. - I mean, obviously not.
And you know what? My mom-- - It doesn't mean that,
so why does anything that Charlie gets into
have anything to do with you? - Let me be very clear, Brooks.
- I just don't feel, like, safe.
- Charlie is not going to hurt you.
- You think I'm gonna kidnap and torture you?
Is that what you think? [laughing]
- These guys just need to kiss and make up.
Kisses fix everything.
Even if it's Charlie and Brooks, I'm sure,
if they just did a little, they would feel better.
- I'm, like, really trying to hold my space.
- If you want space, I will be thrilled
to give you space.
- What you said is very fair, I think what you said
is very fair, and I think you guys should just agree
and be done. - Go in for another one.
- He's gonna give you space.
He's gonna respect your boundaries.
Now, you have to do the same.
[evil laughter]
- I feel like I've made a deal with the devil.
[laughing]
- Okay, everyone, we love each other. We're done.
- Yeah, we're done. We're done.
- What's Ava saying in all of this?
I wanna go-- is Ava over there? - Um, well, honestly,
like, I feel like they were trying to keep you out of it.
- We haven't chatted in a while, but he's been pretty nice.
- I don't give a (BLEEP). - Okay.
- He's ----ed me over to an extent that is irreparable.
- I don't know if she just, like, mispronounced a word,
irre-pair-able-- or if irreparable--
I'm sure that is a word, but it's very serious.
Seems like she's, like, gone to a thesaurus
to figure out more words that she can express
her and Charlie are never gonna be friends again.
- Take action like a warrior.
- Let's go read your fortune.
- I know. Let's do it. - Hello.
Can we have a seat? - Hello.
- Please have a seat.
- Love your energy already. - Oh, thank you.
- I do. I do. - Spirit says relax.
Take a breath. [laughing]
Relax your arms and your--
- I suggest you tell that voice,
that inner voice, to (BLEEP) off.
[laughing]
- I mean, listen, I love this (BLEEP).
- The four swords-- they're magic swords.
Oh, your mind and your energy is goin' this way.
Keep it all in your head. Keep it going.
This is exciting.
- I've had a few drinks, and I think she's fantastic.
I mean, she knows what she's talking about.
- Something is gonna pop up,
and then maybe something else will pop up.
- I think I needed that.
- Should we go over to Ava and see what happened?
She's right there by the bar.
- Yeah, let's go. - Okay, we'll be BRB.
- Okay, bye. - She's a--
- How is it going? - Good.
- Georgia wanted to know about, like,
your conversation with Charlie.
- I thought that there was a lot of, like,
miscommunication happening, and so I thought I could step in
and kind of, like, mediate. - Why?
- What the heck?
Like, we went into this fall very aligned.
- Last summer, he was just so disrespectful,
always making comments about,
like, my body. - Yeah.
Doesn't really make sense why she's trying to, like,
broker a peace accord.
- She's always on her thing. - She's so funny.
- Can I join you guys?
- Please, yeah. - Sit, yeah, please.
- How we doin'?
- How you doin'? - I'm good, man.
Hey, brother, there's no bad blood, right?
- I don't know why there would be.
- No, the conversation earlier.
No, but I'm saying-- - Hudson is our boy.
Somebody ----ing his ex-girlfriend, like,
that's not kosher. - I-I--
- Do you see our perspective on this situation?
- I don't want it to, like, affect, like, me
coming in and gettin' to know everyone.
You know what I mean?
- It's not gonna stop me from getting to know you.
Maybe getting to know Hudson might be difficult, you know.
- I consider myself a positive guy,
but I'm still gonna stand my ground.
If we have a problem, we're gonna have a problem.
I-I'm not afraid to kinda get a little loud,
if I have to.
- I think everyone knows where I stand.
- He was saying, he was like,
"I don't want another Georgia situation."
He's like, "Can't we be in the same room
"and say hello and da-da-da?" - Well, what do you mean?
"I don't want another Georgia situation."
Then don't be ----ing horrible to people.
I just think Charlie is a cult leader.
Unfortunately, I'm watching, before my very eyes,
more and more of this group
being taken into the Charlie cult.
I'm like, oh, brother. I left the cult,
and now I've been trying to warn everyone.
Hey, this is a cult. Don't join.
And now, everyone is joining.
I don't know what to do.
Like, and he's acting like everyone else
is doing this to him. - It's the victim mentality.
- You did everything that makes people ----ing hate you,
so shut the (BLEEP) up.
- I'm gonna get to know people. - Yeah, of course.
I love Ariana. You seem like a great guy.
Like, yeah, I'm talking about you. - I can hear you.
I can hear everything. What are you saying?
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- I'm gonna get to know people. - Yeah, of course.
I love Ariana. You seem like a great guy.
Like, I wanna-- - I can hear you.
- Yeah, I'm talking about you. - I can hear everything.
What are you saying?
- I was just telling Liam how, like, retrospectively,
I felt a little guilty to Hudson,
who is my friend, just, like, setting something up
that I-I shouldn't be setting up.
- But I don't really understand why.
One, we've been closer for a lot longer.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Two, Hudson and I are broken up.
- Literally, a couple of days before,
he was expressing how he feels really, you know--
Hey, get in here. - No, no, no, I'm good.
I'll sit right here. - No, you're sitting on the couch.
- No, no, I'm okay. - We made so much space for you.
You gotta sit down. - Okay.
- Sorry, I-I'm sitting-- - Wow, this is the closest
I've ever been to you. I'll sit here.
- Is that a bad thing? - No.
Shai is trying to get me to snuggle up next to him
on this two by two couch.
Like, I'm good.
I just don't need to be, like, so squished.
I just don't need-- - Get on the ----ing couch.
- Okay.
- What's happening over here?
This looks like tea.
- So good.
- I-I just felt, like, a moment of, like, okay,
I feel like maybe I overstepped, hoping to set something up.
- I was gonna hang out with Liam with our without you.
- Li-Ana.
- Charlie, I do wanna ask you something while we're here.
I was talking to Georgia, and, basically, last year,
when we were in Atlantic City...
And originally, she said it was my assistant
that got it to Cooper,
and then Cooper told it to her,
but then she changed her story, and she told me
that you're the one who got it back to her.
I don't even remember telling that to you
'cause it didn't matter to me that much.
- I'm not gonna stand here and say
I definitely didn't do that.
So, I don't wanna lie to you. - Okay.
- I might have accidentally slipped the tea to her but...
- I just wanted to know 'cause I was like,
if that's the case, then, like...
- It very well might have been me, so don't--
don't do anything that would (BLEEP) with your assistant
or anything. - It's fine. It's fine.
- Yeah.
- So, mystery solved.
He has a very big mouth, but I'm not that mad about it.
I'm like, okay, whatever.
I just want to move on.
We all need to just move on.
- Listen. - I don't wanna sit here
and talk about my ex-boyfriend the whole time.
- No, I-I don't want to talk about your ex-boyfriend either.
- But that's how you guys started off the night,
is it not, you and Charlie?
- No, Charlie and I talked to Liam and was like, listen,
just letting you know that you-you're stepping in some glue
a little bit.
We don't want to betray Hudson's trust
the same way we don't want to betray your trust.
- I'm not stepping in glue.
Stepping in glue would be if they were still together.
That's expired glue.
- Honestly, like, I don't know how I found myself
in this situation when it's like heat on--
there shouldn't be heat on me, I feel like.
- Shai, you're involved in my breakup
because you inserted yourself into my breakup,
and you're playing ----ing telephone.
- The way he's handling it, right now, is like a bitch.
- I said to him last night, I said,
"Hudson, just letting you know, Liam is interested in Ariana.
"If you walk in tomorrow,
"I don't want you to be blindsided."
- That's kind of a (BLEEP) you to me.
- Yeah. - You feel like that?
- Yeah. If you're my friend,
why would you go about my business
and bring it back to my ex-boyfriend?
- I asked Ava and Rowan about this at lunch
the other day.
They both told me, "Hudson is your friend.
"Give him a heads up."
Do you guys think that I should let Hudson know?
- Well-- - I-I don't know if
it's necessarily your place just yet.
- I feel like you should ask Ariana
how she wants you to deal with it.
- Yeah.
And that's all it was. It was just a quick heads up.
- I-I can't. I can't.
Rowan is my girl.
I know she didn't say that.
- I'm pretty sure they said I should talk to him.
- I'm not gonna ----ing sit here and (BLEEP) Liam
on the ----ing bar counter, like...
- That's not what I said that was happening.
- Shai's face is, like, so shook.
It looks like he just, like, stormed Normandy.
His, like, eyes are, like-like, zoning off into the distance
just, like, overthinking the experience he just had.
[laughing]
- I'm gonna go talk to Georgia before she leaves.
- Okay.
- Hey, candy queen.
- Oh, hi. What's up? - Um, I talked with Charlie.
- Regarding?
- Regarding, um, what happened last summer
and in Atlantic City. - Okay.
- Like, I wanted to get to the bottom
of who got that information back to you.
He admitted to it. - Okay, good.
- So, I was just kind of, like, now I know I can't share,
like, information with him. - Yes, yes, yes, yes, I'm glad.
I'm gonna be honest. I don't know if you-- ugh.
He would not say the nicest things regarding,
like, that topic either, like, regarding you.
- Like, how so? - It's, like, nasty.
- Well, I want to know, because if it's--
like, I consider Charlie as one of my closest friends.
- If that's the case, then I wanna tell you this,
but I want you to know that I don't agree with it.
I don't condone it. I think it's gross.
But, like, whenever it would get brought up,
it would always end with him laughing and saying,
"Well, this can't even be the case
"because Kevin is a gay man."
I want you to know that that was said multiple times.
If you consider Charlie your best friend,
that's something you should know.
And I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.
Are you okay? - Yeah, I'm leaving.
- Okay, (BLEEP).
- Huh?
- (BLEEP).
- Okay, wait, I'm leaving. I wanna get de-micced.
I'm leaving. - Did you tell Rowan thank you?
- Yeah, no, I'm-I'm done.
I'm getting out of this place now.
I'm leaving. I'm leaving. - Wait, what happened?
What happened? - Take me off the mic, now.
You have said some nasty sh--.
- What?
What the (BLEEP)?
- No, Emira, Emira.
What just happened?
I don't understand where this just came from.
I've never seen Emira like this in my life.
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- You have said some nasty sh--.
- What?
- What the (BLEEP)?
What could I have possibly done?
- Receiving a text today that says,
"I hear Liam is flirting with you,"
is, like, oh, my God.
Like, just get off my-- - He texted you that?
- Yeah.
Going forward, I'd appreciate it
if you kept my business to yourself
and don't go to him.
Keep me out of it.
- Yeah.
- He's a ----ing piece of sh--, and he's dead to me.
- Why did Emira just get mad at me?
- Well, Georgia just said-- - No, I--
- You don't wanna hear it.
Okay. - I told her the truth.
She was like, "Where have you been hearing--"
Never mind.
I don't know. You know-- - No, I won't get mad.
I don't care. You can tell me whatever.
It's totally chill.
- I have defended this loser. - You have.
You did not even do any of that.
- I have never once talked about his crypto sh--.
Literally, (BLEEP) you.
- I told her what you said
whenever Kevin stuff would be brought up,
what you were-- - What Kevin stuff?
- Remember, over the past year, I'd be like,
"Why doesn't Emira like me?" And it'd be,
"She thinks you're flirting with Kevin," or whatever.
And then you would laugh. And every time,
you would say... - What?
- "This is ridiculous because he's a gay man."
- No. - Pfft.
- Oh, my God. - Yes.
- No. - Okay, lie. Fine, lie.
- I don't ever remember saying that. I--
- Charlie.
- I don't know what you're talking about.
I would-- - Oh, my God!
- If I remembered it, I would say it.
- Okay, maybe you don't remember.
Maybe you don't remember.
That's fair, if you don't remember.
- Yeah, I don't-- I don't remember saying that.
- Okay, maybe you don't remember.
- I don't think that, by the way.
I-I-- look, you know how I feel about certain things,
but I don't say sh-- like that. I--
- You did multiple times. - How did it come up?
- She was like, "Charlie is my best friend,"
and la-la-la, and I was like, well--
- She said that? - Yes.
- I consider Charlie as one of my closest friends.
- Oh. - And I was like,
"Well, there's something you should know,
"that he thinks about the whole Kevin thing."
So, I-I outed you.
- You lied about me, is what you did.
- That is not a lie.
You've said that multiple times.
I will go to my grave corroborating that.
- I didn't say it. I just didn't say that.
- You did say it. You did say it.
I don't lie. You lie. - I respect her.
- I don't lie. You lie. - I don't lie.
- You lie. - When?
- Oh, my God. - When do I lie?
When have I lied?
- Okay, I'm going home.
I feel like you have a right to know what just happened,
but yeah... - Oh, okay, well,
thank you for telling me and lying about me, I guess.
- You're welcome. I did not ----ing lie.
You're the liar.
- I feel like a ----ing idiot.
I have defended this man time and time again.
- Who told you he's a lost cause? Who told ya?
- You can have a conversation with him
and beat the absolute dog sh-- out of him.
- I would, for the show, box the sh-- out of that guy.
Like, no-no money, for the show, recorded it.
- I'm not holding back. I'm not defending him anymore.
- No, I'm just saying.
- I'm not protecting him anymore.
I'm not-not saying what I need to say about him.
- You guys should get it.
For the show, me and Charlie, boxing ring.
- What an absolute piece of sh--.
- Right. - This is our car.
I love you.
- [indistinct]. - No, I'm good.
I just need to get the (BLEEP) out of here.
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- Georgia just told Emira that apparently I said
that Kevin was gay.
- When did this happen?
- When she was homeless, staying at my house.
Oh, God damn it.
I, like, fix one bullsh--,
and then some other sh-- happens.
- Yeah. - He's so ----ing scared,
right now, because Emira was the last person in his corner,
and that ----ing sent her over the edge talking about that.
- Do you think Emira is mad at you for saying that?
- I ----ing hope not. I'm glad she knows,
but, like, I don't know if that was the right context
to tell her. - She looked really upset.
I'm like-- and she was like-- - No, I know.
I feel so ----ing bad.
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- Next time, on "Next Gen NYC"...
- Ugh. - [indistinct].
- I'm so excited about this.
- Oh, my God, my fat ass.
Are you ----ing kidding me?
- I found out some information about my boyfriend.
- Oh, my God...
- Happy birthday. - This is Ariana.
- Nice to meet you.
- What do you say we turn the bike
into a little date night?
- It seems sincere. - Seemed sincere, but--
- But his track record isn't the best.
- It was an evil move of Georgia.
- Did you ever say anything like that?
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