Episode 241 - ‘In Defense of East Coast Housewives’ with Anthony Lario
Is This Real Life? With Mandy Slutsker
Is This Real Life? With Mandy Slutsker
4.5 • 620 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2023
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
This week Mandy is joined by publicist/PR maven Anthony Lario to discuss the Real Housewives of New Jersey and Vanderpump Rules. Anthony points out the many differences between east coast vs west coast Housewives franchises, discusses how he got involved with the ladies of RHONJ, and shares his controversial take on Scandoval. Plus, Mandy’s thoughts on Summer House and Ultimate Girls Trip 3!
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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 and are enjoying spring if you are in the |
| 0:40.1 | northern hemisphere of the world. If you're in the southern hemisphere, I know I have some |
| 0:44.6 | Aussie listeners. I hope you're enjoying your fall. I'm really enjoying the weather in D.C. |
| 0:50.3 | This past week, it's just been lovely aside from the allergies. Something I have not been |
| 0:56.7 | enjoying is Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip 3. And because I haven't enjoyed it, I haven't |
| 1:02.9 | really talked about it much on the podcast, and I haven't had my guests go into it. I'm just |
| 1:08.8 | overall kind of feel icky about it. It feels mean-spirited and not fun in any way |
| 1:16.8 | to me. It just, it makes me sad because I really love the other two ultimate girls trips. |
| 1:23.0 | And overall, I really love the Real Housewives franchises. But this was not great casting. |
| 1:30.4 | And just the energy that Giselle brought, kind of trying to overproduce everything. |
| 1:36.5 | And then this witch hunt that she has with this Casa Azul bottle, all of it was just like too much and also parts of it felt really mean. |
| 1:47.4 | And I'm no Leah fan, but I did feel like they were ganging up on her. |
| 1:52.1 | And she's not feeling good. |
| 1:54.3 | Like, is she annoying? |
| 1:55.8 | Yes. |
| 1:56.3 | Does she act like a bratty teenager? |
| 1:58.8 | Yes. |
| 1:59.6 | Like I don't really ever want to see her on TV again. |
| 2:03.4 | But they don't have to go out of their way to be assholes. |
| 2:05.9 | And I felt like around Giselle, the worst aspects of Portia's personality came out. |
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