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're doing well. I think you guys are really going to enjoy this week's podcast.

I have Nick Lee back on.

He is known on Instagram as at R.H.

Out of Context, Real Housewives Out of Context.

He is so funny and he's joining us from Down Under in Australia,

even though technically he is a

Kiwi from New Zealand. We just had so much fun diving into the news about Taylor Armstrong,

joining the Real Housewives of Orange County. And let me tell you, I did not see this coming.

But I'm here for it. I think Orange County can take all the help

that it can get at this point. I just, I don't think we could do worse. So looking forward to

seeing what Tamara and Taylor have to bring. And of course, we talk about Dubai, Atlanta, and Beverly Hills. Not a whole lot of other

Bravo news that I've noticed in headlines recently, but did want to just say something briefly

on monkeypox since it was declared a public health emergency in the United States this week.

There is a lot of misinformation circulating around this disease, and I just think it's really

important that if you are looking for information on monkeypox to only look at credible sources,

unfortunately, this disease is affecting a population that I care very deeply about,

and that, you know, is a big part of the Bravo community,

which is primarily men who have sex with men.

And so it's just really important that if you are eligible and you have access, that you get

vaccinated.

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