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 Slutszer. Let's get to it.

Hi, everyone. I hope you had a wonderful week. I feel like it has been such a whirlwind of a week.

There's so much happening and Bravo has consumed much of my week. I was so lucky to see Andy Cohen

at 6th and I on Thursday this week, his new book, The Daddy Diaries, we got signed copies,

and he got to sit down with Jen Saki, who is the former press secretary for Joe Biden.

And that was just such a fun conversation. It was so fun to be in a room of Bravo lovers

and to kind of see his energy.

And he talked about so many different things from, you know, parenthood to what it's like

to juggle his career with kids to everything going on with Scandival and housewives.

So I had such a great time. I also,

so my birthday is this coming week on Monday. And as a gift to myself, I decided to book an

astrology reading with Ali, Louber, who is on Vanderpump Rules.

And it was honestly an incredible, an incredible reading.

I've never had my astrology chart read.

It was a very like moving experience for me.

So if you guys are interested in that, I do recommend her.

She's really good.

It's also Mother's Day if you guys are listening on Sunday. So shout out to all the moms and people celebrating. And also just extending a hug, a virtual

hug to everyone out there like me who has lost their mom and for whom the day can be kind of tough.

But my dad and my stepmom Joyce are going to be in town this weekend and we will all celebrate

each other and my birthday. So I'm looking forward to that. I am so excited that the Real Housewives

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