Episode 175 - 'Novels, Tele-Noella’s, and the Beauty Lab & Laser Parking Lot’ with Metra Farrari and Samantha Specks

Is This Real Life? With Mandy Slutsker

Tv & Film, Tv Reviews

4.5 • 620 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2022

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

This week Mandy is joined by two novelists from Minnesota, Metra Farrari and Samantha Specks! They discuss how they met, what inspired them to write their first novels, and whether Luke accurately represents Minnesota on Bravo (hint: he does!) Mandy, Metra, and Samantha then dive into this week's RHOSLC, RHOC, and touch a bit on Vanderpump Rules. Plus, hear about Metra’s recent trip to the Beauty Lab & Laser parking lot!

Purchase “Dovetails In Tall Grass” by Samantha Specks: https://bookshop.org/books/dovetails-in-tall-grass/9781684630936 and Follow Samantha on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/samanthaspecks/

Check out Metra’s website: https://www.metrafarrari.com, purchase “All The Blues Come Through”: https://www.amazon.com/Blues-Come-Through-Heir-Myth/dp/1634894278, and follow Metra on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nice2meecha/

Follow Mandy on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mandyslutsker/

Transcript

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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.
0:34.6	Hi, everyone. I hope your first week of 2022 went all right.
0:59.3	I mean, like, who am I kidding? It was a dumpster fire in every possible way. So, but at least we've had some really fantastic Bravo content. One of which was the Project Runway Housewives edition that came out this week. I don't normally watch Project Runway, but I watched this week when the Housewives were on. And it was just
1:05.4	such a delight. So for those of you who don't normally watch, you definitely should. I thought of all the women,
1:12.1	Gina came across as the most kind and likable, but I was actually surprised at how much I
1:18.3	enjoyed Shannon Bador. That was a shocker to me. Even Luanne didn't annoy me. I mean,
1:26.3	they all were pretty great, actually. So give it a watch and
1:30.1	let me know what you think. Some breaking news from the beginning of this past week is that
1:37.3	Steve Lodge is engaged to be married again. Three months after him and Vicky broke up and he's engaged to a 37-year-old
1:48.2	school teacher in Orange County. He's 63. I don't know, like, maybe I'm too judgmental,
1:55.2	but it kind of creeps me out when people marry someone that could be their daughter or, I mean,
2:00.5	even granddaughter. It's like, what are you, I their daughter or, I mean, even granddaughter.
2:02.1	It's like, what are you, I don't know.
2:04.0	And so soon after ending his engagement with Vicky, it's clear he just stayed with her because
2:11.5	she was supporting his ridiculous run for governor of California, which was never going to happen.
2:19.8	I don't know.
2:20.6	And then Tom de Agostino, Luann's ex, got engaged on, I think, December 31st, which is his
2:30.6	birthday, but it is also their wedding anniversary from the day that they actually got
2:35.8	married. So I thought that was kind of creepy and weird. What is it with these housewives
2:40.6	choosing really awful men? Like I know there's a lot of crappy guys out there, but I feel like
2:46.5	they are so good at finding some of the crappiest, especially Vicky.
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