Episode 296 - ‘Projection, Deflection, and Using Ayahuasca Instead of Going to Therapy’ with Melissa Reich
Is This Real Life? With Mandy Slutsker
Is This Real Life? With Mandy Slutsker
4.5 • 620 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2024
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Summary
This week’s guest is host of the “Your Bish Therapist” podcast, the lovely Melissa Reich! Melissa and Mandy discuss how RHONJ has become a community show, break down all the craziness that was the Vanderpump Rules Reunion part 1, and get into this week’s episode of The Valley. TRIGGER WARNING: This episode discusses suicidal ideation around the 50:40 minute mark.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Is This Real Life, a Bravo podcast that relates our favorite shows to our own lives in the world around us. |
| 0:18.4 | I'm your host, Mandy Sleutzer. Let's get to it. |
| 0:34.5 | Hi, everyone. I hope you had a wonderful week. This week is my birthday week. I actually recorded on my birthday |
| 0:40.6 | because I took the day off. It was fabulous. And I wanted to get something recorded because I'm |
| 0:47.1 | spending Thursday evening to Monday morning with my dad and Joyce who are going to be in town |
| 0:53.5 | visiting. |
| 1:00.3 | So not covering Summer House on this week's episode, but we'll hopefully be able to cover it a bit next week. |
| 1:02.8 | So I am so excited for this week's guest. |
| 1:06.2 | It's Melissa Reich. |
| 1:07.6 | She is your Bish therapist. |
| 1:09.7 | We had an amazing conversation a few months back about |
| 1:13.8 | social media and mental health and how even if you get to like only 10,000 followers on |
| 1:21.8 | Instagram that it can change the neuro pathways in your brain. Because I was wondering, |
| 1:26.7 | you know, how much of the behavior that we |
| 1:28.3 | see on these shows is due to fame and how does fame change people's brains. So she's back. |
| 1:34.9 | We're here to really dissect the Vanderpump Rules reunion and we get a lot into the Valley. |
| 1:42.1 | So it is just if you guys are really into those shows, |
| 1:45.7 | this is the episode for you. I want to share a few quick thoughts on Summer House Martha's Vineyard. |
| 1:52.4 | First of all, I'm worried that it's not coming back for a third season. I really, really want it to. |
| 1:58.0 | So please, please start watching it. One thought on the argument that |
| 2:04.5 | took place between Brea and Simon, I don't think I realized how serious it was on Brea's end. |
| 2:10.8 | I was like, why is she trying to break up with him? Because he's in a flamingo costume. And I get |
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