Episode 300 - ‘When the Leaks Become the Story’ with Brian J. Moylan
Is This Real Life? With Mandy Slutsker
Is This Real Life? With Mandy Slutsker
4.5 • 620 Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2024
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
It’s been 300 episodes of ‘Is This Real Life?’ To celebrate, this week’s guest is Dame Brian J. Moylan - writer, recapper, and author of the book The Housewives: The Real Story Behind the Real Housewives. Mandy and Brian jump right into this week’s RHOA drama, Summer House Reunion Part 2, RHONJ fakery, and touch a little on RHODubai. Plus, hear from Mandy’s Dad and Stepmom!
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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 Slutszer. Let's get to it. |
| 0:34.1 | Hi, everyone. I hope you had a wonderful week. This is an extra special episode because it is my 300th episode, |
| 0:40.8 | which is really wild to think that I've been doing this six and a half years. I know a lot of you |
| 0:47.1 | have been listening for many, many years and some of you are relatively new to the podcast. |
| 0:52.6 | So one story I'd like to tell is how this podcast came to be. |
| 0:57.6 | So I always like to say that people tend to find Bravo and tend to find certain shows during |
| 1:04.6 | really rough periods of their life, you know, whether it be during a postpartum depression |
| 1:09.4 | after experiencing a death, you know, something like that. a postpartum depression after experiencing a death, |
| 1:11.9 | you know, something like that. And that's how it went for me. I had been a fan of Bravo. |
| 1:16.8 | I had watched a number of the shows, but it wasn't until my mom's death in 2015 that it kind |
| 1:23.2 | of became a lifeline. It was sort of the only time my brain would shut off for a little bit and |
| 1:29.2 | be calmer. And it's the only time I feel like I even smiled for about a year was just watching |
| 1:36.6 | these shows. And many of you know, I've been listening to the podcast for a while that it wasn't |
| 1:42.7 | just my mom's death, but I also had an |
| 1:45.1 | apartment fire. It was the whole building. It wasn't just my apartment. But I was displaced for over |
| 1:51.0 | six months. I didn't know, you know, what had survived or what hadn't because I was out of the |
| 1:55.9 | country when it happened. And then I came back and it was less than two weeks when my mom passed. So |
| 2:00.6 | it was just a really low point in my life. And then a second low point happened in 2017. And I don't want to get into politics here. But the inauguration of Donald Trump. And living in D.C., you know, with the Trump presidency and all the kind of chaos that it brought to |
| 2:19.1 | my work setting was pretty difficult. And again, Bravo was an escape for me. And so, you know, |
| 2:26.7 | towards the end of 2017, I had been listening to a couple other podcasts about Bravo, housewives, |
| 2:32.9 | Vanderpump rules, and I got the idea to start my own. |
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