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 Sleutzer. Let's get to it.

Hi, everyone, and happy 2024. I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and New Year's and are ready

to come into 2024 with a bang because Bravo certainly did this week. Oh my gosh, I'm still

reeling from the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City finale. Oh, it's absolutely

perfection. Well, it's crazy to think about, but I've been doing this podcast now for six

years, which is really hard for me to even conceptualize. This started out as a creative outlet.

I didn't really care if anyone was listening or not,

although I hoped people would.

And it's become just this wonderful thing in my life.

And I appreciate all of you listening

and I appreciate everyone who sends messages online and shares their thoughts

and opinions. Now, I really enjoy that aspect of being online, but over the break, I took some

time away from social media, especially when I was in Florida with my family. And I really feel as though I feel so much better when I'm not on particularly Twitter.

And then something like the Real Housewives of Salt Lake season four finale happens.

And I'm like, oh my God, I need to go on Twitter and get everyone's takes.

But I'm just, I'm having trouble,

like, trying to figure out a way to use Twitter that is still fun and, like, you know, not so

crazy. It just seems like everyone's just yelling past each other, is just incredibly angry and

is not communicating in an effective way that if they're

actually trying to make some sort of change happen about whatever they're angry about,

it doesn't ever really seem to be solved through Twitter. So if any of you guys have decided

to get off Twitter and are better for it, please let me know because I am strongly considering

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