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I'm your host, Mandy Slutsker.

Let's get to it.

Yeah. let's get to it. Hi, real lifers. I hope everyone is doing all right. I know it has been a crazy week,

especially for those of you who are in Texas and Oklahoma.

My heart goes out to absolutely everyone in Texas. I am so sorry for the horrific week that so many

of you endured without power or running water or having to be on water boil notices.

I really hope things start to get better and encourage everyone to donate and to check on

their friends and relatives and loved ones to make sure everyone's okay.

The good news is that it was a fabulous week in Bravo for those of us who were lucky enough to have electricity and watch TV this week.

I absolutely loved the premiere of the Real Housewives of New Jersey. I think it is going to be a spectacular

season. And the rest of the shows were top notch as well. So I'm so excited about my guest today.

Many of you know Gibson Johns because of his live tweets of almost all of the Bravo shows.

He is amazing.

And we just have this very, like, lovely, wonderful, in-depth conversation,

breaking down lots of different housewives tropes, thoughts on, you know, the New Jersey

premiere talking about whether or not children are really off limits,

making comparisons between all of the franchises and getting into a lot of the nitty-gritty

of the, you know, why these women act the way that they do and, you know, who we relate to

and who we don't relate to and subtext.

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