Episode 213 - 'Fame, Fury, and the Housewives Machine' with Kate Casey
Is This Real Life? With Mandy Slutsker
Is This Real Life? With Mandy Slutsker
4.5 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2022
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
This week Mandy is joined by podcasting queen and interviewer extraordinaire Kate Casey, the host of Reality Life with Kate Casey. Mandy and Kate explore the complicated dynamics at play within the Real Housewives universe and how fame affects the women who participate, while touching on this week’s RHOSLC premiere and RHOBH.
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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 Slutszer. Let's get to it. |
| 0:32.8 | Hi, everyone. I hope you had a good week. Mine was a little tough. It's been so hard to watch |
| 0:41.5 | everything that has happened on the southwest coast of Florida and actually across many other |
| 0:47.7 | parts of Florida and the country as a result of Hurricane Ian. Many of you know, my dad and stepmom live in Naples, Florida, the majority of |
| 0:56.6 | the year. And it was my mom's happy place. And this week is actually her birthday. And that's always a |
| 1:05.6 | really hard time for me. I think it's harder for me than the anniversary of her death because it reminds me that |
| 1:15.0 | like I still keep going and living, but she doesn't get any more years. And I find it really |
| 1:22.8 | hard. And I've been spending a lot of time this week sort of thinking about some of the similarities |
| 1:28.4 | that exist between experiencing a natural disaster such as a hurricane and experiencing the loss |
| 1:37.0 | of a close loved one. |
| 1:39.0 | And I find that in both situations, in the immediate aftermath, you know, there's shock, |
| 1:45.6 | there's devastation, but there are people that surround you and show compassion. |
| 1:52.3 | And, you know, they're bringing you food and they're, you know, volunteering their time. |
| 1:58.0 | And they're showing up at the funeral and things like that. |
| 2:01.7 | And then, you know, as quickly as they all came, they all leave. And you're kind of left alone |
| 2:09.2 | to pick up the pieces of your broken life. And I think the same thing happens with, you know, |
| 2:16.1 | big storms like this. There's news crews and there's a lot of attention, with, you know, big storms like this. There's news crews and there's |
| 2:19.3 | a lot of attention, but, you know, in a few days or in a week, you know, the cameras will leave. |
| 2:26.7 | And it's the people that have to rebuild that are left alone. And it's a tough process that of rebuilding, whether it be, you know, |
| 2:37.8 | rebuilding your life after the loss of a loved one or after the loss of your home. And yeah, |
| 2:46.3 | my heart just goes out to everyone. And, you know, I encourage people to donate to World Central Kitchen, |
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