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. So I am on vacation for the 4th of July, but you are still

getting new content. And I am so excited for this episode. I recorded it a bit earlier. And it's one of my

neighbors and her very good friend. And we end up discussing the valley at length. I felt like I never got enough

time to get really in depth with the valley this past season. I am so excited for a season two.

And it was just fun to be able to just chat with other people about what they saw happening,

what their takes are, and just kind of get into all of it. So I hope you guys really enjoy this. As always, if you like the podcast,

go ahead and give it a five-star rating and leave a kind review. And if you want to reach out to me,

you can at Mandy Slutsker on Instagram.

All right. We'll take a quick break and then back with my neighbor Aruna and her friend Rob.

Hi, everyone. So today is a special episode. We are doing a kind of review, a post-mortem of the first season of the Valley. And to do this, I have on my neighbor, Aruna Callianum, and her friend Rob Raines, who is a heterosexual man married and watches Bravo not just because of his wife.

So very interested to hear how that came to be because it's not as common, but I think if more men were exposed to Bravo, they would enjoy it because it's very interesting.

Welcome to the show, guys.

Thanks, Mandy.

It's so great to be here.

And I've been a longtime fan of you.

Number one is my wonderful awesome neighbor, but also of your podcast.

And it's always fun to find other Bravo officinados in your orbit.

And then you can start talking about random shows and random episodes.

To me, it's like this great undisclosed connector among professionals in D.C.,

especially I will tell you in the tax world.

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