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. I hope you had a wonderful week. It has been another hectic week in the Bravo universe,

but I have someone absolutely fantastic to break it all down with me, Mary Payne Gilbert from the

Pink Shade podcast. I am recording this just a few days more in advance than I normally do because

I am traveling to Milwaukee, Wisconsin this weekend

for a bat mitzvah. And those of you who follow my Instagram stories will see the text

that my dad sent melting down about forgetting his pants. Oh my goodness. What a crazy,

crazy man he is. I also am going to be on the Your Bish Therapist

podcast this week coming out on Tuesday. We actually don't discuss Bravo at all. It's completely

different. I talk a little bit about my work and a lot about how to remain positive,

optimistic, and get involved in advocacy around this upcoming 2024 election. I know 2016 and

2020 were really rough on people. And so just some tools that you can use to help you get through it and also ways to

channel your energy in things that actually make a difference.

So go over there and check that out.

So this week I chat with Mary Payne about Vanderpump Rules, about the real housewives of Beverly Hills,

but I'm not going to be able to get to Summer House or Miami because it is taking place when I am already traveling.

So we'll get to those next week. but did want to touch on Potomac.

So I really enjoyed this week's episode.

It was the last two, I think this trip to the DR has been really fun for the most part,

and I've actually really, really enjoyed it.

And, you know, there is good in this group of women. I just think there needs to be a

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