Episode 255 - ‘Bravo, Gossip, and Being an Accidental Influencer’ with Kiki Monique (@thetalkofshame)
Is This Real Life? With Mandy Slutsker
Is This Real Life? With Mandy Slutsker
4.5 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2023
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
This week Mandy is joined by Kiki Monique (@thetalkofshame), a content creator who focuses on all things pop culture, TV, Bravo, celebrities and trials. Mandy and Kiki chat all the latest Bravo gossip from BravoCon to Nene’s interview to whether reality tv unions are realistic. Then, Mandy and Kiki get into this week’s RHONY reboot, RHOA, and RHOC. Plus, Kiki's hilarious run in with Andy Cohen at the RHONY premiere party!
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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. |
| 0:34.0 | Hi, everyone. I hope you had a wonderful week for those of you in the U.S. |
| 0:39.8 | majority of it has been excruciatingly hot. I am looking forward to a cool down in the coming |
| 0:46.3 | days because it has been unbearable. Another thing that has been pretty unbearable was trying |
| 0:53.9 | to get tickets for BravoCon. |
| 0:55.7 | But alas, I succeeded. |
| 0:57.9 | I will be there. |
| 0:59.3 | I have a general admissions pass for two days and a VIP pass for one day. |
| 1:04.4 | And I got a couple Bravo Paloza tickets. |
| 1:06.6 | So like, I'm all good. |
| 1:08.1 | I'm so, so, so excited. |
| 1:14.6 | But I really wish they made the process a little easier. |
| 1:21.5 | My God, it was just so stressful going on and refreshing and refreshing and trying and having promo codes and it was a mess. Now I understand how the Swifties felt. But if you are planning on going to BravoCon, |
| 1:30.9 | you got tickets. Definitely let me know. I would love to meet up with all of you in November. |
| 1:37.0 | I am so, so looking forward to it. I just, I need to experience BravoCon. You know, I've just heard so many |
| 1:47.6 | amazing stories and it's so fun to meet up with all the content creators. And speaking of content |
| 1:54.1 | creators, I have Kiki Monique, aka at the Talk of Shame on the podcast this week. We dive into so many of the hot topics |
| 2:05.2 | and gossip that are circulating in the bravo sphere. And of course, we talk about the new |
| 2:11.4 | Roney reboot, Real Housewives of Atlanta, and Real Housewives of Orange County. Now, I was dealing with a sick dog |
| 2:19.8 | most of this week, so I don't have a whole lot of added commentary other than to say, I'm really |
| 2:25.3 | enjoying the shows that are on right now. Atlanta feels like it's actually coming into its own, |
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