Welcome to Is This Real Life, a Bravo podcast that relates our favorite shows to our own lives in the world around us.

I'm your host, Mandy Slootster. Let's get to it.

Hi, Real Lifers. I hope that you're all having a nice week. Wanted to thank you all from the bottom of my heart

for your birthday wishes and well wishes. It was so sweet to hear from so many of you. And a special

thanks to Jasmine, a listener who got me some lover boy. It is incredible. I had the espresso martini and some of the spritzers. I particularly

like the mango and the passion fruit one. And I believe that the hard teas are coming to D.C.

So I need to check them out. I think that they're going to be sold in Whole Foods, which is huge for Kyle, Amanda,

and Carl, and the rest of the lover boy crew. So this weekend was really interesting in D.C.

Because I ran into not one, but two people from the real housewives. And I feel like that never

happens here. So how that all happened was

I was out to dinner on Friday night and Samaj Bloodson, who many of you know from the podcast,

and he's got his own podcast now that you should all check out. So he texted me and he's like,

are you in D.C.? He was like, yeah, I live here. What's going on? And he said, Margaret Joseph's is doing this pop-up book signing at this nearby hotel. And I was like, well, when I'm done with dinner, I'll stop on by. So he said, oh, she's actually, you know, putting everything away. I was like, no big deal.

Like, we'll come see you.

I haven't met you yet.

So go to meet Samaj and who is there, but Bershon Shah, one of the new friends of

from the Real Housewives of New York.

I guess she was there to see Margaret and hang out.

And so we started talking.

I didn't really recognize her right away.

She was very friendly, got a photo with us,

and then we were actually seated at a table near her and her friends for the rest of the evening.

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