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 Slutsger. Let's get to it.

Hi, everyone. I hope you had a wonderful week. It's been very chaotic in the United States at least.

You know, New York is flooded. Authorities in Las Vegas arrested someone for the murder of

Tupac Shakur 27 years later. The government is shutting down. It is absolutely wild. And it is crazy also in the

Bravo universe. You know, Bethany Frankel will just, she's like a dog with a bone. She just

won't let go of talking about housewives and Bravo and Andy Cohn

and trying to get everyone on her podcast to shit talk the network and shit talk Andy. And at this point,

it feels more like a personal vendetta than she's like I don't think she's trying to do anything to help anyone.

I don't think she's doing this for the good of reality stars and they deserve, you know,

they have rights to and they should unionize and all that.

She just has a bone to pick with Andy and she won't let it go.

And some of the stuff that she has been pointing out about him, I think is absolute bullshit.

Well, some of the questions he asks are, you know, very inflammatory and inappropriate.

It's with the goal to create press.

But if you are media trained and have a couple brain cells,

you can put together an answer that isn't going to draw negative attention. For example,

this week on Watch What Happens Live, Jackie Goldschneider was on and he asked her,

how long do you give Teresa and Louis' marriage?

And she said, eternity, they seem really happy, right?

An example that, you know, you don't have to get into the muck all the time.

But I do get what she's saying with that.

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