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. Mine has been a definite mix of highs and lows. So let's start

with the high. My brother and sister-in-law had a baby this past week and she is happy and healthy

and mama's healthy and everything went smoothly. So we're very, very grateful. And I am going to

Minneapolis to meet her. So I'm recording this on Thursday, which is a few days before I normally

record my intro. So if anything absolutely wild happens in the Bravo universe, then I've missed it, and I'm sorry for that.

I'm also going to be on vacation the week after. And so I recorded an episode, a special episode,

actually, for you guys while I am out. So it's going to be new content and I think you guys will

really, really enjoy it. Now for the low of my week is I've had food poisoning for three days in a row.

It's pretty bad. So I'm finally on antibiotics and things seem to be looking a little bit better.

So if I sound a little bit out of it during my interview with Zach, that's probably why.

I was kind of in the thick of it, but I'm like, no, I'm going to record.

I'm fine.

It's not that bad.

Looking back, it was that bad.

Anyway, so we end up talking about the Real Housewives of New Jersey as Zach doesn't watch

the Real Housewives of Dubai, but I wanted to give you guys a few of my thoughts on Dubai.

First of all, I think a lot of people aren't watching, and so I'm kind of wondering if you guys could let me know if you're watching or not.

I do think it's objectively a pretty okay season thus far.

But the reason I think some people aren't watching is because there is such a lag time between when the episodes are filmed and when we see them. It just feels like

we're watching way too far back in history. It's a year has gone by since they filmed this.

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