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. Hope you had a great week. A lot has been going on. I was in Mexico for four days

last week and I missed most of the drama with the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. And I still feel

like I don't understand everything that's happened. But apparently there were these awful accounts that were saying

terrible things about Jack Scarsall's son. And they were, turns out they were bots. I don't even

really understand what bots are. But usually it means that someone paid to have bots go after

the jacks. And so people are thinking maybe it's

Rina, maybe it's Diana, maybe it's Erica. And then Rina has the audacity to suggest it might be a

producer that I guess used to be their producer, but is a producer on Banderpump Rules.

Then this Patrick Summers guy comes back in, this slimy guy, and he's always lying,

and he's always inserting himself in drama, and no one knows who he is or where he came from.

It's all very dark, and I really, really hope that at the reunion, they're able to get to the

bottom of some of this nastiness on social media and figure out who paid for these bots and just

get whoever did that away from this show because it's taking away from what we're watching.

And what we're watching can get pretty

nasty too, but it just takes such a dark turn when you go after someone's child. Now, speaking of

Garcell's kids, it does appear that Garcel's son, Oliver, is getting in the mix. He's working at Lisa Vanderpom's restaurant

in Vegas. And I was really worried when that was announced and when Garcell talked about it,

just because it sounded like he was newly in recovery. And I don't know, I just don't know if

like a restaurant with a lot of drinking and sometimes

drug use is like the best place for someone who's in recovery or recently sober, but, you know,

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