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Is This Real Life? With Mandy Slutsker

Episode 239 - ‘Ultimate Girls Trip and Second Season Derangement’ with Louis Staples

Is This Real Life? With Mandy Slutsker

Is This Real Life? With Mandy Slutsker

Tv & Film, Tv Reviews

4.5620 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week Mandy is joined by Louis Staples again! Louis is 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. Louis shares his thoughts on Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip 3, why he doesn’t think the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City works, and talks about what’s needed to address the authenticity crisis happening on the Real Housewives. 

Check out all things Louis Staples: louisstaples.contently.com 

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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.

0:21.7

Hi, everyone. I hope you had a wonderful week. This episode comes out on Easter Sunday. So for those of you that

0:40.6

celebrate wishing you a happy Easter, it also falls on Passover. So wishing everyone a happy Passover

0:48.9

who celebrates. And it also is Ramadan, which I think I forgot to acknowledge when it began the other week.

0:57.0

But hope everyone is able to spend some time with family and take some time away from work,

1:03.2

which is exactly what I am doing.

1:05.4

So I'm recording this episode early because I will be down in Naples, Florida with my family to celebrate Passover.

1:15.2

And also celebrate the fact that I got over COVID again. It's so funny, when you have COVID

1:22.9

and I feel like when I'm watching Bravo shows, for whatever reason, COVID just keeps coming up,

1:29.1

or maybe I only notice it because I was sick at the time. But like this week, Teresa Judey's

1:35.3

had COVID. I've been watching season eight of Married to Medicine, and it's like the COVID season.

1:43.0

So I'm just excited to kind of put that behind me for a bit.

1:48.0

Wanted to share some thoughts on this week's summer house and Jersey. Let's start with Jersey.

1:55.5

So I feel like since the last time I recorded some more information has come to light about this Pizza Gate story,

2:03.8

which kind of, it's just such a mess, but basically it sounds like there is a verbal agreement

2:10.5

between Joe Gorga and Louis, and then at some point down the line, when Louis put the money in, either Joe said he wouldn't

2:20.0

or I don't know, but Louie and Teresa ended up changing the name that they had apparently

2:27.5

agreed to verbally to the skinny Italian. And it was these pizza makers that they were going to sell.

2:34.6

And there are pictures now that are circulating of exactly what the oven looked like and the

2:40.6

branding and the picture of Teresa and her daughters.

2:43.9

So I don't know.

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