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're having a good week. I'm recording this just a tad early because I'm going to be

spending the weekend in Charleston, South Carolina. Bapadoo. I'm visiting some friends who don't

actually watch Bravo. So who knows if we'll make our way downtown and get to see Craig's Pillow Store,

but I'm very open to it. Anyway, so because I recorded early, we only got into Summer House

and the Real Housewives of New Jersey. Unfortunately, Potomac and Family Karma were not on this week because

they coincided with the Super Bowl. And let me tell you, you know, executives at Bravo, we can

multitask. We can handle it all. You don't need to not air things because it happens to be the

Super Bowl. Although I know they want ratings and they

want people to watch it live. So part of me understands, but we'll just have to hang on for this

next week so that we can get our dose of family karma and the reunion for the Real Housewives

of Potomac.

So as I mentioned, I'm going to be in Charleston.

And just some news that I feel like I'm a little late to is,

unfortunately, Olivia Flowers, who is a cast member on Southern Charm.

Unfortunately, her brother passed away at the end of January. And I just feel so, you know,

bad for her. And my heart goes out to her family and her friends, his friends, everything. It just seems like a really tough experience to lose a sibling.

And then to have the attention of the show, which is filming, I believe, at the moment,

must be all-encompassing and very, very overwhelming.

So I'm glad that she has someone like Austin to lean on who has experienced the loss of a sibling,

but I'm also hoping that maybe she could get some advice at some point from Carl,

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