Episode 249 - 'Shots, Boats, and Bo Dietl' with Dan James
Is This Real Life? With Mandy Slutsker
Is This Real Life? With Mandy Slutsker
4.3 • 20 Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
This week Mandy welcomes back Dan James to the podcast. Dan not only has a PhD in media studies but is a standup comic with a new album (link below). Mandy and Dan discuss the Real Housewives of Orange County as it finds its legs this season and touch on the madness of the Real Housewives of New Jersey Reunion part 3 while contemplating how everyone - including the cast of VPR - moves forward. Plus, Mandy’s thoughts on Atlanta and Summer House Martha’s Vineyard.
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Transcript
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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. |
| 0:34.9 | Hi, everyone. I hope you had a wonderful week. You know, we thought that we were wrapping up Vanderpump |
| 0:40.2 | rules last week when the reunion was finished. But they had a secrets revealed episode and it kind |
| 0:48.5 | of got everyone riled up all over again. And then we ended the New Jersey reunion and people are still very, very |
| 0:59.6 | riled up about that. And I feel like both of these shows need sort of the Beverly Hills treatment. |
| 1:06.6 | Like we need to take a minute. We need to take some deep breaths. We need some space from these franchises. |
| 1:13.8 | And hopefully, as they begin to film again, we won't get leaks because, you know what? |
| 1:20.0 | Like let them film, let them go through their stuff. |
| 1:23.5 | And hopefully we can just have some space and forget how toxic everything was so that when |
| 1:30.0 | filming is done and we have a trailer and we have a season premiere date for the next season of |
| 1:36.2 | these shows, we are ready. We are, you know, revitalized. At least that's what I'm hoping. |
| 1:43.1 | I really feel like the real housewives of New Jersey |
| 1:47.5 | has become so toxic and I think a huge part of it is because the cast has these weird |
| 1:55.3 | relationships with people on social media there are these social media accounts that are claiming to have all of this |
| 2:02.3 | intel. And I believe some of them are getting fed intel from people on the cast or production |
| 2:08.1 | or what have you. And I just, everyone needs to shut their goddamn mouth. Like this is insane. It's |
| 2:16.2 | becoming crazy. People are getting death threats or alleged death threats. |
| 2:22.0 | People are being contacted at work. John Fuda's ex is being contacted in the prison system, allegedly, all this allegedly. |
| 2:30.4 | Like, this stuff is not okay and it all needs to calm down. And I really hope those of us who watch |
| 2:37.5 | these shows for fun can remind everyone around us that the purpose of these shows is entertainment |
| 2:46.2 | and to enjoy watching it. And I feel like the joy has been sucked out if you spend just one millisecond on social media |
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