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 a great week. I am coming down from the incredible high that was

BravoConn, 2023. Oh my gosh, it lived up to every expectation I had and more. It was one of the most

fun experiences of my entire life. I sound insane talking about it, but it was fabulous. It was so fun to be

around all the other people that love these shows as much as I do and to have the same kind of

shared sense of humor. And I don't, people say that when you went to the Taylor Swift

Erez tour concert, it was just very, like so much positive energy. That's actually what I felt at

BravoCon. I felt everyone was so kind to each other, had so much like in common. And it was just,

it was a blast. Of course, I did a cold after her and had to spend a day

and a half in bed and that was not as fun but i am recovering so apologizing in advance for my voice

and all of that um i've got not one, but two guests this week, my friend Jody

Tarangle, who traveled with me to BravoCon. We shared a hotel room. Like, we had the best time.

And then I have Nicole Sanchez on, who runs the Instagram account Bay Area Bravo and her and I met via the

BravoCon Facebook page because I sold her a Bravo Paloosa ticket and we talk about that a bit

and then we go into the four Housewives episodes that aired this past week. You know that even though I was traveling and even

though I got sick, there was no way I was missing any of these shows. One show that I didn't get to

recap, but want to talk about briefly now is Southern Charm. I think this week was a really,

really interesting episode. We got to see Olivia go visit

Taylor and her family at their like house, and they sat down and talked. And I think that the issue

for Olivia isn't just that Taylor had been lying to her about whether or not she made out with Austin, but the timeline didn't

match. It didn't make sense. So Olivia was in Los Angeles for a week. And right before she left

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