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 an okay week. As you're listening to this, I am probably in Las Vegas at BravoCon. And I am just so, so, so excited. I'm sure more news will be coming out throughout the week. But I am recording this early, so you're only going to hear whatever happened through the evening of Wednesday,

November 1st, okay? Because that's all I've got. I'm sure next week when I am recapping

BravoCon, there'll be a lot more to share. Of course, this week, me and my guest get very into the nitty-gritty of the Vanity Fair

article about a reality TV reckoning with Bravo, which my guest was, she heard a lot of new

things for the first time in that article. For me, I had heard most of it before and kind of felt

like the article fell flat,

with the exception of everything that went on with Ebony Williams and the fallout of

Ramona, being pulled out of BravoCon, all that was really interesting and sad and infuriating.

But everything else in that article just, I don't know.

I was not convinced, but we have a long, robust discussion about it. So I would love to hear your all's thoughts. So my guest this week is Catherine Collette. She is an author in Australia, and we talk a lot about

the article, and we get into Salt Lake City and everything going on with all the, you know,

messed up relationships between moms and daughters. And so many funny things that happen also alongside all of the drama.

And then, of course, we finish out with the end of this season of the Rural Housewives

of New York City. Next week, I will be back recapping all the shows. But again, if you guys

are at BravoCon or were at BravoCon and miss me, like, just reach out.

I am hoping to meet as many of you as I can.

And I will try and capture as much content as I can and as many stories as I can to share with you all.

I'm just, I haven't been this excited for something, I think, in like four years. So I am very, very pumped.

Anyways, as always, if you enjoy the podcast, go ahead, give it a five-star rating and leave a kind review.

If you have anything you want to reach out to me about, you can DM me at Mandy Sludzger.

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