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 good week. I know it's been very eventful out there in the world.

I don't know what to say other than it's a good time to take some time to put your phone down,

to watch your favorite shows, and to just disconnect a little,

which is what I'm trying to do.

But, man, since coming back from vacation, I have failed.

So this week on the podcast, I have Moni.

Man, she is from the podcast, The Mix with Moni.

She is so great.

We chat all about OC and a little bit of Jersey, but I want to chat

Dubai right now because it was a really good episode, I thought. So for those of you who aren't

watching Dubai, there aren't that many episodes of the season. And it is pretty good. So I would

recommend watching. My first question about Dubai is that

they kind of like snuck it in there, but a number of the women, specifically Caroline Brooks

and Chanel Ayan have alluded to Stanberry's friend Michael saying when he is drunk that he pays for Stanberry's lifestyle.

This is very, very confusing to me.

It makes sense why she would be living with him during the construction because, I mean,

wouldn't she rather be in a rental or

in a hotel that's really nice if she has all this money? Some stuff doesn't add up. Like, why would

you stay with your friend if it's not working out as well? Or, I don't't know but something about this Michael guy is weird to me

like where did they become friends how long have they been friends for what does he pay for what

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