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 Slutsker. Let's get to it.

Hi, everyone. I hope you're having a great week. It's your favorite multi-feline feminist communist.

For those of you who follow me on Instagram, you may have seen in my stories this week that I have

had some rather colorful reviews as of late. I guess some of my political jokes trigger people. But this is just a friendly

reminder that it is my podcast and you can turn it off at any time. No one is forcing you to listen

to it. So if it makes you so upset, I'm sorry that it does. But, you know, just turn it off.

This is why I always say, if you guys have commentary for me or constructive criticism or anything you want to share, you can DM me.

My DMs are open at Mandy Sloot-Skir.

All right.

I did get a kick out of it a bit, especially, you know, being called a, what, multi-feline

feminist communist, knowing my father has, you know, escaped communism.

It was, whew, chef's kiss.

Anyway, uh, this week's podcast is so fun.

I have Zelle Brooks on.

She is the host of the podcast who asked me and she's also a comedian, but we actually

talk about some pretty serious topics this week, and I really

enjoyed our conversation. We didn't get a chance to talk about the Real Housewives of New Jersey,

so I'm going to share my thoughts for just a bit. But I feel like this season is a bit of a flop.

People feel like it's a chore to watch, myself included. It's not

particularly enjoyable. I do love seeing Dolores happy. Every scene with Dolores I enjoy,

but the whole Melissa Teresa wedding thing is just being dragged on and on and on. And it's very clear that both Teresa and Melissa and Joe Gorga,

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