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. I hope you had a fantastic week. This week was pretty special because Luke from

Winterhouse launched a beer that was infused with his maple syrup called Happy Dog Lager. And

the launch happened in Minneapolis, where you guys know I am from and Brian Benny from

Family Karma was in town visiting. He too got a chance to meet Luke's family. I mean,

at this point, I feel like Luke has brought every single person he knows on Bravo to Minnesota

to meet his family, whether or not he is romantically

interested in them or not. And I'm wondering where my invite is at this point. I'm going to be in

Minneapolis in a few weeks anyhow. Speaking of family karma, I am so obsessed with this show and I find

so much delight from it that I know I haven't been

covering it as much, but I kind of, I save it to watch when it's cold out and I can turn on

my fireplace and cozy up under the blanket and cuddle with my dog and watch it. It is just

heartwarming for me. It feeds my soul. And I am

loving this auntie drama. It is so real. I mean, if you've ever had conversations with your mom or

your aunts or your grandmas and their group of women that they're friends with,

there's always some conflict happening at some point. And I find it to be so much deeper almost

than what's going on with the younger people on the show, because these are friendships that have

gone on for so long

and families that have known each other for so long. And to see Reshma not want to actually

address why she doesn't like Dharma is so funny to me, because some people just don't like to have

that direct level of like communication. It's very,

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