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 wonderful week. I still can't believe it's December and that the year is

almost over. I feel like winter snuck in so, so quickly. I just want to stay at home and have the

fireplace on and snuggle up with my dog and watch Housewives. And that's what I've been doing much of

today. So I finally caught up in Miami. I didn't cover it in my conversation with Brett today because

I was two weeks behind. I just feel like I've been so busy and I get tired and then I fall asleep

at night when normally I try and stay busy and I get tired and then I fall asleep at night when

normally I try and stay up and catch the Housewives episodes when they come out.

But I'm really loving Miami. It really feels like a breath of fresh air. It is less of the

dynamic of the new cast versus the old cast. I really appreciate what Alexia is doing

for the show trying to build new friendships. And after meeting her at BravoCon, I actually

believe she's being sincere. She was one of the kindest, nicest, most engaging people that I met throughout that weekend. And I truly am here for her

and Julia's newfound friendship. Julia has always been one of my favorite housewives. I love that

she's Russian and that she's married to Martina Navratilova.

This is the only fact that my dad knows about housewives is that Martina's wife is a housewife.

And it's just, it's, it's fun to watch.

You know, seeing Julia practice opera and having no musical background, no, you know,

singing background is absolutely incredible. The things that you need to be able to do with your

voice in order to sing opera are so complex. And I just kudos to her for how much she practiced,

for how happy she knew it would make Martina at the end of Martina's cancer battle.

And it was just such a heartwarming moment.

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