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 Slutszer. Let's get to it.

Hi, everyone. I hope everyone's doing all right. I've been putting off recording this part of the podcast

because for much of the afternoon, I have just been kind of paralyzed watching what's been

unfolding at a synagogue in Texas where a gunman is holding four people hostage.

And I guess over the course of the last few hours,

one of the hostages has been released,

but it's just been,

oh,

I feel so helpless and so hopeless,

and it's just so awful.

I don't know.

I ask that all of you, hopefully by the time you're listening to this, everyone has

been safely freed from this hostage situation, but please put these people and their families

in your prayers if you are a person who prays. And also, I just am thinking about my sisters and brothers in the

Muslim community who often unfortunately face a backlash of Islamophobia after these types of

situations. So my heart is with you as well. We all just need to stand together against hate and bigotry in all forms.

And now I am going to do a hard pivot to Bravo. Well, guys, this is a tough one. But something really

embarrassing happened this week. I was watching the real housewives of the

OC, and Shannon and her daughters are in Nashville visiting Shannon's mother, these girls' grandmother.

This woman is probably in her early 80s. She's wearing a navy blue blouse that I think is a Ralph Lauren blouse and I was looking at

it closely and I'm like that looks really familiar. I go to my closet. I own that same shirt.

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