Episode 238 - ‘Pizza Gate and Intentional Misunderstandings’ with Louis Staples
Is This Real Life? With Mandy Slutsker
Is This Real Life? With Mandy Slutsker
4.5 • 620 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
This week Mandy is joined by Louis Staples, a London-based writer and editor who has authored numerous articles about culture, TV, the internet and queer issues in publications like Rolling Stone, the Daily Beast, Vulture, and GQ. Mandy and Louis dive deep into what RHONJ stars are unironically calling “pizza gate” and chat a little Vanderpump on the side!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Is This Real Life, a Bravo podcast that relates our favorite shows to our own lives in the world around us. |
| 0:18.5 | I'm your host, Mandy Slutszer. Let's get to it. |
| 0:32.8 | Hi, everyone. I hope you had a great week. My week, unfortunately, hasn't been so great. I came down with COVID for a second time in just seven months. So a little bit concerning, but I am hanging in there. And as soon as my 10 days are up, I am heading to Florida to be with my family for Passover. |
| 0:59.2 | So really looking forward to that. |
| 1:01.7 | This week's podcast is with Louis Staples, who I am just so excited for you all to get to hear from. |
| 1:08.4 | He's a London-based writer, editor. You guys have probably read so many |
| 1:13.8 | of his articles that are featured in Rolling Stone and just like a bunch of other places, |
| 1:19.8 | Daily Beast. He is so fantastic. And he's so fantastic, in fact, that he's going to be the guest |
| 1:25.2 | this week and also next week. So we pre-recorded an episode |
| 1:30.0 | mainly about Real Housewives Ultimate Girls trip that is going to be next week when I am on |
| 1:37.3 | vacation. I think you guys will really, really enjoy hearing from him. I wanted to share a few thoughts this week with you |
| 1:46.4 | before we get to my conversation with Louie. First of all, we have a new summer house show |
| 1:53.8 | based in Martha's Vineyard featuring an all-black cast, and I am so excited for this. First of all, I love the aesthetic of Martha's |
| 2:02.8 | Vineyard. It seems similar to the Hamptons. I love looking at the houses and like the views of |
| 2:09.3 | the beach and, oh, and it seems as if we've got like a group of friends where there are some couples |
| 2:17.0 | that maybe are married, there may be a few |
| 2:19.8 | cast members that are like part of the LGBTQ plus community. I just feel like we need a bit of a |
| 2:28.1 | shakeup on the actual current summer house cast that we're seeing. And this is sort of what I feel |
| 2:34.0 | like we're all looking |
| 2:34.8 | for to see a combination of fun, of relationships, of like navigating adulthood. I'm so here for it. |
| 2:43.4 | The trailer just looked incredible. What also looked great was the Real Housewives of Atlanta |
| 2:48.6 | trailer. Now, I've seen it three times, and I'm going to blame |
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