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 wonderful week. I am so glad that it's spring, at least in the

Northern Hemisphere. And the cherry blossoms are in peak bloom. And keep this in mind because

we have got Bravo cameras all over capturing peak bloom and they are going to be showing you this footage

on B-roll on the Real Housewives of Potomac season eight over and over and over again.

But keep in mind, it's only taking place in late March.

I finally got a chance to watch the first episode of Real Housewives' Ultimate Girls'

trip season three. I'm really enjoying it. I had been to Pouquet maybe like 13 and a half years ago

and had an incredible time. It was when I was living in South Asia and just watching like the food

and the ocean and everything just makes me miss it.

I am obsessed with Pepsi who runs the villa that the housewives are staying in.

And I also am into how good some of these women are at reading each other.

When Alexia told Giselle, you ask a lot of questions, but I think it's because you don't want to talk about yourself. Oh, man, I was so glad

someone said it, even if it was Alexia. And it's just been, it's so fun to watch. I really love these ultimate girls trips. We get to see

these women interact with each other. The fourth wall is broken time and time again. They're

constantly talking about the shows that they're on and you see who is obsessed with the fame of

it all and who maybe hasn't let it

gone to their head quite yet. And I think we've all known that Heather Gay has let this

entire experience go to her head. And she is so calculating in how she's like wanting to be

around Portia more because Portia has more followers than her on Instagram

and how she will say these asinine things such as we need to get Leah drunk, but then also go up

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