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 Sleutzger. Let's get to it.

Hi, everyone. I hope you're doing well. Thank you so much for all of the nice notes and messages and

comments about the conversation I had last week with my dad and Joyce. My dad did not believe me

when I shared some of them with him verbally, so I actually took screenshots and texted them to him. He's like, what did you add on

that people had such a, such nice things to say about me? I think he just doesn't realize how

interesting his story is and that people really want to hear it. So I always try and tell him, and my brother and I have for a

long time been wanting to document, especially via audio, his stories, you know, his childhood,

his experiences, and especially everything that led up to getting out of the USSR and making

his way to the U.S., which was a long process.

And yeah, it's a really cool and amazing story, and I'm very proud of him.

And it's lovely to see him so in love and so happy after

such difficulty losing my mom. In other news, I was in L.A. last week and I had the best time.

It is such a wonderful city. The weather was incredible. I got to meet up with

Ryan Bailey and Stephen from Faces by Bravo. They are just such lovely, kind, wonderful,

generous, hilarious people. And we had a really good time. loved Tom Tom it was probably my favorite place I went

that whole week the food was amazing the drinks were great the ambiance was incredible

that guy from leisian vanderpump rules Richardson was the one that checked my vaccine card

was like I've seen you on TV before.

So that was really cool.

It did seem that everyone, like, in that space knew about Tom and Katie from Vanderpump

Rules separating.

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