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 good week wishing a happy Passover to those who celebrate. I know this world

feels like a dumpster fire and there's just a lot of hate everywhere. And I've been feeling it a lot

more this past week or so. And just hoping that we can take the next hour to enjoy our favorite shows and laugh and I don't know,

bring a little levity.

I think this is the first week in a while that there hasn't been a real Housewives franchise on.

I'm not even sure since I started this podcast that there has been a lull

in the housewives. But luckily, Summerhouse, Summerhouse Martha's Vineyard, Vanderpump Rules,

and the Valley are firing on all cylinders. I absolutely love these shows and I'm so excited to get into them in more depth today.

If you want to hear even more of my takes on Vanderpump Rules and the Valley, go ahead and listen

to the Pink Shade podcast from this past Wednesday because I was on with Mary Payne talking

all things Vanderpump and The Valley.

One thing Mary Payne schooled me on was product placement and she was mentioning a number of things

that were product placements throughout these shows. And then this week we have an entire scene

filmed in an old Navy. So I am getting a little bit more with it and not so naive that they just happen to be

at an old navy.

So yeah, I don't know.

I feel like I'm so naive about some of these things and how they work.

It's very interesting which products get placed.

And if any of you work in marketing and do these kinds of deals with brands, I'm so interested in learning more about it. It is

absolutely fascinating to me. My guest this week is Kelly Williams from the Behind the Blinds

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