Episode 282 - ‘The Neuropathways of Reality Stars’ with Melissa Reich (@yourbishtherapist)
Is This Real Life? With Mandy Slutsker
Is This Real Life? With Mandy Slutsker
4.5 • 620 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2024
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
This week’s podcast guest is everyone’s favorite psychologist expert, Melissa Reich (@yourbishtherapist)! Melissa and Mandy explore why Bravo seems to help so many people during tough times, what personality characteristics make for good reality stars, fans parasocial relationships with Bravolebrities and podcasters, and whether becoming famous changes a person’s brain. Plus, Melissa provides some insight into the behavior of a few of the cast of Vanderpump Rules, RHOBH, and RHOP.
Listen to the Your Bish Therapist podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-bish-therapist/id1702959562
Follow Melissa on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yourbishtherapist/
Follow Mandy on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mandyslutsker/
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| 0:00.0 | Trip planner by Expedia. |
| 0:02.0 | You were made to outdo your holiday, |
| 0:04.0 | your hammocking, |
| 0:06.0 | and your pooling. |
| 0:09.0 | We were made to help organize the competition. |
| 0:12.0 | Expedia, made to travel. |
| 0:15.0 | Made to Travel. Welcome to Is This Real Life, a Bravo podcast that relates our favorite shows to our own lives in the world around us. |
| 0:33.5 | I'm your host, Mandy Slutsker. Let's get to it. |
| 0:48.2 | Yeah. I'm your host, Mandy Sleutzer. Let's get to it. Hi, everyone. |
| 0:49.6 | I hope you had a wonderful week. |
| 0:51.9 | I have an extra special episode for you all today. So I have Melissa |
| 0:56.9 | Reich on. You all know her as your Bish therapist from Instagram and also a podcast by the same |
| 1:03.9 | title. And we get into so much. I mean, we're talking about psychology, neuro pathways, like how people's brains can |
| 1:15.7 | change when they become famous, why we as viewers have these parisocial relationships with |
| 1:21.6 | the bravo-lobodies and with podcasters and, you know, the drama that kind of comes along with |
| 1:27.1 | some of the podcasting spaces. |
| 1:29.2 | It's so interesting. And then we get into some of Melissa's thoughts on why some of the |
| 1:35.5 | Bravo Leverties behave the way that they behave. This was recorded about a week ago because |
| 1:41.1 | I am currently on vacation. I'm visiting my dad and stepmom and getting together |
| 1:46.9 | with my brother, sister-in-law, and niece. So I wasn't able to get into the episodes from this week |
| 1:55.1 | in terms of like Vanderpump Rules and all the housewives. So this is more of like an in-depth look into psychology and Bravo. |
| 2:04.3 | And I just think you are all going to love it. |
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