‘Watch What Crappens’ podcaster Ben Mandelker dishes on monstrous Housewives, touring & TV crushes
any gay, or any podcast—we’re talking about Ben Mandelker, whose Watch What Crappens—the talk show dedicated to all things Bravo (and beyond!)—permanently sits atop the Apple Podcasts charts.
This is gay podcasting royalty right here!For over 12 years, Mandelker and co-host Ronnie Karam have produced the wildly popular pod, which dives deep into the wide world of television, from Below Deck to House Of The Dragon.
Of course, their main focus always has and always will be the ever-evolving Real Housewives franchise—and lord knows those dramatic ladies always leave them with plenty to discuss.Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.Watch What Happens has been hailed as a must-listen for reality TV fans (they won Best Pop Culture Podcast earlier this year at the iHeart awards), and is often pointed to as one of the first podcasts to successfully turn their operation into a “touring machine,” frequently getting face-time with fans as they put on riotous live shows all over the country and across the globe, too!However, Mandelker doesn’t spend every waking minute of his life talking about Housewives, so when he’s not recording, he keeps busy with writing, quoting classic movie sand TV shows, obsessing over Ina Garten, sewing his own clothes, and playing nearly every board game imaginable—he’s got a podcast about that, too, by the way, and it’s called Game Brain.Ahead of a very busy fall that will see the returns of The Real Housewives Of New York and Salt Lake City, as well as another tour for Watch What Happens, Queerty snagged some time with Mandelker, making him the latest guest of our rapid-fire Q&A series, Dishin’ It.
In our conversation, the podcaster opens up about pop culture as a gateway to finding shared community, board games for queers, and which Housewives cast he thinks he’d vibe best with.Is there a piece of media—whether a movie, TV series, book, album, theater, video game,.
