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 had a good week. First of all, I would just like to start by thanking all of you so much for your kind and open and thoughtful reactions to the conversation I had last week about Zionism and the Real Housewives of New York and Israel, Palestine, and all of it. I truly was anticipating

a major backlash and a lot of hurtful comments sent my way, but that didn't happen. And so I am

very grateful, especially in this time that we're in with increased anti-Semitism. I'm not sure I could have handled it.

So I really, really appreciate all of you so much. So before we get into this week's episode

with Tain and Aid from Alter Call, I just wanted to share a few quick thoughts on Salt Lake City and Winter House. So the

Real House of Salt Lake City, I tried to stay up and watch it on Wednesday night, but I actually

fell asleep. And so that's why we didn't cover it in this week's episode so much. I feel like

that says something about how the season is going for me, at least.

I feel like it's a little bit of a slow start or where this episode may have been a little

slow. I also have a pretty big fear of heights, and I really hate gondolas.

They kept showing this ski gondola and all of them skiing down this mountain.

And it's just, oh, it's just makes me so anxious. I think there is a little bit too much of

Angie H going on, but I'm not sure what else we would have if not for Angie H. You've got Jen Shaw,

who is completely either in denial or just ignoring

everything going on with her trial when they cheered that it had been postponed as if that was a

positive thing that may help her. That was a little confusing. Thank goodness. Whitney's

at least saying in the confessional what I think

most of the audience is thinking, which is this actually gives more time to the prosecution to build a

case against you. Honestly, at the beginning of the season, when we knew that Heather and

Whitney were going to have a falling out, I had assumed that it would have been about Heather's support for Jen Shaw, right?

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