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 Slutszer. Let's get to it.

Hi, everyone. Hope you're having a good week. As I record this, Carl and Lindsay are at a neighborhood

restaurant in my neighborhood having dinner. And I'm tempted to just go in there, but I don't want

to seem like a crazy person. Also, Luke is in town visiting Ashley and they were spotted on 14th Street in

D.C. a couple blocks for me grabbing drinks at Pearl Dive and that had dinner at Barcelona

wine bar. I am here for their relationship. I feel like Luke is such a nice guy and a really good match for Ashley.

I feel like she hasn't had a truly nice guy in a really long time. And I don't know, maybe I'm

jumping ahead of myself, but I would love to see Luke on the Real Housewives of Potomac. I just,

I would get such a kick out of it.

And I think he would love the women on the show. Absolutely. Like, get along with them

and all the guys as well. So we'll see what happens. So Ryan Bailey is on the podcast this week.

We have such a hilarious conversation. I hope you

don't mind the audio. He was driving through Arizona while we were talking. So it's such a great

listen. When we were chatting about BravoCon, he was describing it as like one bizarre, bizarre thing after another.

But that also reminds me of Salt Lake City.

I feel like the real housewives of Salt Lake City can only be described as one bizarre thing

after another.

I can never predict what's to come. I mean, Heather having auditions

for a choir and Whitney and Angie Harrington showing up in flapper dresses with a coordinated

dance for a choir. Like, try out choir. That's actual singing, not dancing.

And it's supposed to be. They're supposed to sing hymns and stuff. I just, I don't know. It is just

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