Episode 172 - 'Producing Reality' with @notquitereality
Is This Real Life? With Mandy Slutsker
Is This Real Life? With Mandy Slutsker
4.5 • 620 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2021
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
This week Mandy is joined by veteran reality TV producer “Rachel” (pseudonym) to discuss this week’s Housewives and a little Vanderpump Rules. Rachel shares her thoughts on how Ultimate Girls Trip was produced, looking out for timelines (was this week’s RHOC filmed over 3 weeks?) and a bit of background of how episodes get made.
Check out “Rachel” on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/notquitereality/
Follow Mandy on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mandyslutsker/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Is This Real Life, a Bravo podcast that relates our favorite shows to our own lives in the world around us. |
| 0:18.5 | I'm your host, Mandy Slutsker. Let's get to it. |
| 0:34.9 | Hi, everyone. Hope everyone is doing all right, staying safe and healthy. Man, it really feels like |
| 0:40.9 | March 2020 all over again. Something about this week with just the rising COVID cases and |
| 0:47.7 | everything just feels just pretty dark. And it doesn't help that this is the darkest week of the year if you're in the |
| 0:56.9 | Northern Hemisphere. So the good news is that after December 21st, each day gets a little bit lighter. |
| 1:05.7 | And that's actually something the rabbi said at my mother's funeral, which was on December 20th, six years ago. |
| 1:13.1 | And he said after December 21st, which happens to be my father's birthday, he said, we let a little |
| 1:20.0 | bit more light in. And so I hope that as we embark on this Christmas and holiday and New |
| 1:27.2 | year's time, that even though things look |
| 1:30.0 | a little bit bleak, we think about that each day we let a little bit more light in. Oh, |
| 1:37.4 | man. Well, I have been isolating for a bit because I am headed up to visit my brand new niece. |
| 1:44.6 | She's three weeks old and got to be extra safe. |
| 1:47.5 | So I've luckily steered clear of the virus this week. |
| 1:51.4 | But who knows how long that long that's going to last when I'm up in New York City? |
| 1:56.9 | It sounds like COVID found the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills again. They paused production |
| 2:04.3 | because Erica, Rina, and Garcell, plus a member of production got sick or at least tested positive. |
| 2:12.3 | So there's that. The good news is that Kathy Hilton is back. Of course, as soon as she's back on board, they have to stop production. I'm assuming they'll be out through the new year and then hopefully back in January. I've been hearing these rumblings that like a big piece of news from like the Real House Voice of Beverly Hills is going to drop on Monday. |
| 2:37.2 | And I don't know what it is. I wonder if maybe they're, Brenna's leaving or they're bringing |
| 2:44.0 | back Teddy or who knows what's going to happen. But be interested to hear what you guys think as well. |
| 2:51.9 | Also, the Real Housewives of Miami is back. They are on Peacock. I never actually saw the first few seasons of |
| 2:58.7 | Miami. And so given how these next few weeks are looking, I may have some extra time to binge. |
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