ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Welcome to the SECOND EVER meeting of Bravo Book Club — FROM THE HAMPTONS! 🏖️🍰
This week, Lindsay is taking the Bravo Book Club to the East Coast for a very special summer reading assignment: Carl Radke's memoir, Cake Eater.
And because apparently reading a Bravo star's memoir poolside isn't enough... we're also taking a Bravoholics Anonymous Reality TV Tour to Carl's non-alcoholic bar, Soft Bar, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
So grab your book, your favorite beverage, and settle in.
This week we're getting into:
🍰 Carl Radke's Cake Eater what the book reveals about the person we've watched on Summer House
🧠 Carl's journey through addiction, recovery, sobriety, anxiety, depression and PTSD
📖 The parts of Carl's story that felt the most meaningful — and the parts Lindsay thinks the book glosses over
🍾 Carl's complicated relationship with Loverboy while navigating sobriety
👀 Lindsay Hubbard enters the memoir (but not enough) — including Carl's description of their relationship developing during his early sobriety
❤️ The difference between watching someone's recovery unfold on reality TV and actually reading their account of it
📺 How much more context the book gives us for some of Carl's Summer House behavior
🍰 The official Bravoholics Anonymous Cake Rating: 2.5/5 Cakes
And THEN...
🚕 We're going on our FIRST EVER Bravoholics Anonymous Reality TV Tour!
Lindsay takes us along for her trip from Manhattan to Soft Bar in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Carl's non-alcoholic bar, for a Summer House screening event.
We'll talk about:
🍹 What it's actually like inside Soft Bar
🏃♀️ The very Greenpoint experience of getting there
🎟️ A Summer House viewing party + Summer House Bingo
💥 Watching the episode where Carl and Kyle get into THAT fight... inside Carl's own bar
🥤 Non-alcoholic cocktails and the surprisingly Bravo experience of it all
👯♀️ Going to a reality TV event alone — and making friends with the other Bravo fans
🍟 And Lindsay's very serious hospitality critique: WHERE ARE THE FRENCH FRIES?!
The Soft Bar experience ultimately becomes its own little reality TV field trip — complete with a post-screening adventure through Greenpoint.
So yes...
We read Carl Radke's memoir in the Hamptons.
We visited his bar in Brooklyn.
We rated the book.
We drank mocktails.
We watched Summer House at Soft Bar.
Honestly, this is the most East Coast summer episode of Bravoholics Anonymous yet.
If you're obsessed with Bravo, Summer House, reality TV, reality TV books, celebrity memoirs, sobriety journeys, or just following reality stars into the real-world places they've created...
Welcome to the meeting.
