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 Slutsker.

Let's get to it.

Hi, everyone. I hope you are staying cool, as much of the world appears to be going through a pretty intense heat wave, including here in D.C.

Wow. There are so many things that happen this week, and I am so excited for this week's episode because we finally get to cover every single housewife show

that was on this week. And I am so excited about it. We finally get to talk a little bit

about the Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip, Season 2. I think they're calling it X Wives Club.

I'm really sad that it's over, but

what's the same smile because it happened? And I just hope that Peacock and NBC Universal and

Bravo keep making these ultimate girls trips. They're so fun to watch and to consume.

And I feel like we need more.

And I want them to come on sooner.

So this was filmed last September.

Why did it take 10 months for us to get this content?

It was absolutely incredible.

And I may just do a rewatch because I loved it so much.

Speaking of Ultimate Girls Trip, all of you internet sleuths found Marco the butler. And it turns out he's not a butler. I believe he's an actor. He lives with his wife in Puerto Rico. He's not looking for hookups.

He's looking for work. He did dish a little bit on his Instagram about what it was like to work for

Durinda and to be part of this production. It turned out that someone dropped out at the last minute.

And so through a friend of a friend,

he got connected and he said he just wanted to do a good job. He also said Durinda was kind

to him and he really felt for her because she went from living in an empty house for

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