Episode 201 - ‘Blindly Believing? A Deep Dive Into Bravo Blind Item Culture’ with Danielle (@brandsbybravo)
Is This Real Life? With Mandy Slutsker
Is This Real Life? With Mandy Slutsker
4.3 • 20 Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Danielle of the famed account @brandsbybravo joins Mandy for a special deep dive episode into Bravo blind culture. Mandy and Danielle look into the history of blind items, how blind item culture has manifested in the Bravo universe, as well as examples of blinds that ended up being correct… and ones that were quite false. They explore the relationship between blind items and conspiracy theories and share their favorite Bravo blinds.
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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 Slutskersker. Let's get to it. |
| 0:32.7 | Hi, everyone, and welcome to a special episode of Is This Real Life with Mandy Sludsker. |
| 0:40.1 | So because it is a holiday week in the U.S. and I am still on vacation but wanted to make |
| 0:47.5 | sure I brought you new content, we are doing a deep dive into Bravo Blinds. So I am joined by Danielle from the Instagram account |
| 0:58.0 | Brands by Bravo to kind of dive deep into the history of blind item culture, what this means |
| 1:07.5 | for the Bravo universe, how Bravo blind items have become so popular |
| 1:13.3 | and almost taken on a life of their own, |
| 1:16.7 | ones that we believe ended up to be true |
| 1:19.4 | and ones that are seemingly false, |
| 1:23.0 | our favorite blinds. |
| 1:24.4 | And of course, what brought us to to this topic which is the blind item on |
| 1:30.4 | Diana Jenkins and rumors surrounding the book Room 23. So we dive deep into everything and I hope |
| 1:40.6 | you guys really enjoy this podcast. If you like hearing podcasts that are deep dives such as this one, |
| 1:48.3 | please let me know because we can make more of these. |
| 1:52.9 | As always, if you enjoy this podcast, |
| 1:56.6 | give it a five-star rating and leave a kind review. |
| 2:00.0 | And if you have any constructive |
| 2:01.7 | criticism, my DMs are open. You can reach me at Mandy Slutsker on Instagram and Twitter. |
| 2:08.0 | I really hope you guys like this week's episode. Danielle from Brands by Bravo is such a fantastic |
| 2:15.9 | person, content creator, researcher. |
| 2:20.3 | She's really incredible at doing deep dives on her own. |
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