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 Sleutzer. Let's get to it.

Hi, real lifers. I hope you're all doing well. I have had quite a week. For the last, I don't know, maybe month,

my dog, Stasi, has been barking at this wall in my apartment near where my fireplace is.

And she like tries to climb it and like makes all these noises and barks and it's just been

driving me absolutely crazy. I couldn't figure out what was going on. Well, I'm doing a little

bit of remodeling and I had someone to look at my fireplace and it turns out I had a gas

leak behind the wall that had been going on for about a month. And that's exactly where the dog

had been barking. So I feel like an asshole for not understanding what she was trying to tell me.

And now it explains why I've been having headaches for the last month, but glad I got that

taken care of. And I've been a little down. I know I

told you guys months ago that I had been embarking on an egg freezing journey because I have

this situation with my ovaries. And I kind of came to the end of that journey this week where my doctor recommended I just stopped

trying because it wasn't working. So I just need to put a bookend on that and move forward,

but sending love to all women who are experiencing infertility and, you know,

it's tough.

But I'm really happy that the Potomac trailer was released because that gave me something to

look forward to.

Oh, my goodness.

I absolutely loved it.

I know there were some people saying they thought it was a bit disjointed and difficult to understand. But I just thought sort of as an homage to desperate housewives and saying, oh, you know, it's all smoke and mirrors in this town. And then kind of going through each of the women and the difficulties that they're experiencing kind of behind closed doors.

So you've got Ashley and her postpartum, how difficult it is, having two children that are under age two.

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