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're having a good week. I know it's been a little chaotic in the world,

but hopefully you are finding some solace in Bravo. I'm kind of happy, actually, with the pace

things are going at. I feel like there was too much happening with the Real Housewives of New Jersey,

too much happening with Vanderpump rules. And it was just like the temperature was turned up so high.

And I think that as a group of fans were actually needing a little bit of a respite.

And some people, I feel like, have had difficulty turning down that temperature.

And they're wanting to keep things going. And I've noticed,

you know, on Twitter and stuff like the whole Teresa versus Melissa and now going after

John Fuda and why did he change his name and rest records and all this craziness. It's like deep breaths.

This show is over. It is just a TV show. You know, I feel like we've all gone

a little bit mad in our need of a bit of a break. And speaking of a break, I am going on vacation.

I promise there will still be episodes coming your way every Sunday. But in two weeks, I'm going to have a

special episode just focused on the first season of Summer House Martha's Vineyard, or Mount Vernon,

as I often mistakenly call it. So hope you guys enjoy that. That won't be an episode though with any new housewives.

But I'm not sure if they're actually going to even air new shows the week of July 4th.

Every once in a while, I'm like all ready for the new show.

And then because it's a holiday week, we don't get them.

But we'll keep episodes coming your way.

So this week is the season one finale of Summer House, Martha's Vineyard.

I'm very sad for it to be over.

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