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, everyone. Happy New Year. While there were no new new housewives shows on this week. Me and my guest

definitely found a lot to talk about. So we go into, you know, all of our favorite moments of

2021 on Bravo, what we're looking forward to this coming year on Bravo. We dive into Vanderpump Rules, into some of the Bravo news that's been circulating,

and talk about OC and Salt Lake City.

So there is plenty of content for today, despite the fact that we didn't see a lot of content

on our screens this week.

Most of the Bravo news is actually discussed

by me and my guest. We kind of get in-depth, especially around some of the James versus

Noella stuff and the Lala versus Gigi from Shaw's and all of it. But one thing I don't know if I've

talked about on the podcast yet is it seems

like Carl and Lindsay from Summerhouse are actually together. So they were together for Christmas.

They posted that they were at a hotel together. Then for New Year's they posted about each other.

So I don't know what's going on, but I am definitely

here for it. I absolutely love the crag and page of it all, but I feel like Carl and Lindsay,

I'm rooting for even more. And I'm so excited to see Summer House that's going to start in just a few

weeks. Before we get to this week's episode,

which is with Emily Hanks from the I Speak Bravo podcast. She has the Instagram handle,

We Speak Housewives. I just want to do a little brief housekeeping. So a lot of you

DM me and message me and give me feedback about this podcast. I'm starting year five of the

podcast. I've had four full years. I've talked to a lot of different people. I'm always looking for

new people to talk to. So if you have an idea of someone that I should ask on my podcast, please send me

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