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. Happy Mother's Day to those who celebrate in the U.S.

I think Mother's Day is different in other countries. I learned that, I think, just in the last

few years. I also just wanted to say a very, very sincere thank you to everyone who reached out

to me after I shared some things last week about how I had been targeted by some

anti-Semitism.

And it just meant the absolute world to me to hear from you.

I think one person said that it was the first DM they had ever sent.

I mean, that was like, oh my goodness.

So thank you, thank you, thank you.

And you have restored my faith in people, truly.

I think often the most extreme voices are the loudest and the meanest voices are the loudest,

but the majority of people are kind-hearted and, you know, not the ones, not the trolls. Well, a highlight of

my week was being able to see Andy Cohen at Sixth and I, which is a synagogue I go to. It's also a

cultural center in D.C. They host a lot of different authors and speakers and so forth.

And what was really cool about seeing Andy Cohen this time was that he was interviewed by

Representative Robert Garcia from Long Beach, California.

He's an openly gay member of Congress.

He's a huge housewife fan.

And during a congressional hearing, he used the phrase

receipts, proof, timeline, screenshots, and it went viral. He said since then, he has gotten so many

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