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 Slutsger. Let's get to it.

Hi, everyone. I hope you had a wonderful week. I spent the first part of the week in Naples, Florida before heading back to Washington, D.C.

And boy, did I need a little break. Oh, man, there's so much happening in the Bravo universe, though.

They announced that Bravo Khan is going to be happening in Las of Vegas in early November,

and I for once don't have a wedding that weekend.

So I am going to be there.

I hope a lot of you are going to be there as well.

I am so, so, so excited about it. I've already taken time off work. I'm like,

I'm there. There's nothing that can keep me. A couple of the big things going on in the bravo world.

So something that just caught my attention very briefly was that Tamara Judge's daughter,

Sophia, was in a lockdown at her school because I think another student brought a weapon to the

school. And just the text message that her daughter sent her and then the description that Tamara gave to

everyone in a video was just so heartbreaking and I don't know how many of you guys have experienced

this where you had a child at school and there was some sort of active shooter or a really close

call but she was saying that her daughter is just traumatized.

It's her senior year. She doesn't even want to go back to school. Like, we have to figure out in the

U.S. how to deal with these things. I was talking to Louis Staples, who was on the podcast the last week,

about whether or not he was coming to

BravoCon. And, you know, he was like, oh, well, maybe if it was in a different city, but like,

also I'm just not sure about, you know, the safety of coming to the U.S. I don't want to be in

some mass shooting. And it just broke my heart because of the way the rest of the world

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