Episode 180 - ‘Pushing Narratives and Exposing Secrets’ with Tayne and Ade of Altar Call: a MAFS podcast
Is This Real Life? With Mandy Slutsker
Is This Real Life? With Mandy Slutsker
4.5 • 620 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2022
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
This week Mandy is joined by reality TV aficionados Tayne and Ade of Altar Call: A Married at First Sight Podcast! They discuss how watching reality TV shows has evolved to a year-round experience given the influence of social media before diving into this week’s RHOSC, RHONJ, RHOC, and a touch of Miami and Summer House. Plus, Mandy’s thoughts on LVP’s Congressional lobbying tactics.
Time stamps
- Interview with Tayne and Ade: 10:20
- RHOSLC: 20:09
- RHONJ: 50:32
- RHOC: 1:13:41
- RHONJ reprise: 1:26:28
- Miami/Summer House: 1:38:38
Listen to Altar Call: A Married At First Sight Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/altar-call-a-married-at-first-sight-podcast/id1522401890
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. |
| 0:32.5 | Hi, everyone. Hope you're having a good week. And if you are in the United States, happy Super Bowl Sunday, |
| 0:40.4 | or as I've been calling it, the Dr. Dre concert. I am so excited for this halftime. I realized, |
| 0:47.6 | like, I'm officially old. I am so excited for Dr. Dre, Snoop Dog, Mary J. Blige, Kendrick Lamar, |
| 0:53.9 | and Eminem. I just, I am, for those of you |
| 0:57.7 | who don't know, I'm a huge fan of 90s hip hop and early 2000s hip hop. And my go-to karaoke song |
| 1:06.9 | has usually either been juicy or forgot about Dre. And I can do both the Dr. Dre and |
| 1:15.7 | M&M parts. So I'll have to post that on Instagram again. It's, it's something. All right. So something |
| 1:25.5 | happened to me this week that really made me laugh. I thought I'd share it with you all. So it's very rare for my work life and my interest in Bravo and housewives to ever really overlap. But they did this week. I was in a meeting where a number of people were former Capitol Hill staffers, and we were all talking about |
| 1:46.9 | effective lobbying techniques, especially during lobby days, where a number of people meet |
| 1:53.8 | with members of Congress or their staff to push a specific piece of legislation. |
| 1:59.1 | And when it makes sense to use emotion or personal |
| 2:02.5 | experience and kind of when it goes too far and what's effective. And every single former |
| 2:08.9 | staffer was telling these stories about their worst experiences being lobbied. And all of them had the |
| 2:16.5 | same story about how for a period of three years, |
| 2:21.2 | they would get nonstop calls about the Yulin Dog Festival in China. And if you guys can remember, |
| 2:28.4 | this was actually covered on the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, and it was a pet issue of Lisa Vanderpump, |
| 2:35.1 | where there is this dog meat festival in China where they torture dogs. |
| 2:40.2 | And it's obviously an awful thing, but I'd always wondered, you know, like the purpose of having |
| 2:47.2 | the U.S. Congress comment on this, because it's not like the U.S. government can get it to |
| 2:52.4 | stop, but anyway, so what these people would do is they would call congressional staff and they |
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