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 and wishing a Merry Christmas to everyone who listens.

It's coming up this week. So we probably won't get as many new shows in the coming week,

but I'll still have an episode for you all next week. So look forward to that. This week has been

absolutely wild in the Bravo sphere, Bravoverse.

We've got the trailer for Summer House, which looks absolutely incredible.

We still have a lot of the fallout from James Kennedy's alleged domestic violence dispute.

And then we have Karen Hugar being found guilty of reckless driving and a number of

other citations. And oh my goodness, I think that this could make her potentially not come back

to the Real Housewives of Potomac. I don't think she realizes just how serious it is

to be found guilty of these crimes and to go to jail. And I don't know. I mean, I hope that

she acknowledges the wrongdoing that she has done and stops fighting this in court and asking for

appeals, but she was so delusional that she allowed this to go to trial, knowing that there is

camera footage of her being absolutely out of her mind. I wish she could feel shame because this is the problem

with people who don't feel shame is when they need to, when you really do something wrong,

they still don't get it. And I'm sorry, but no one should be a soldier for Karen after

today. We saw what we saw and she's got to take ownership. She's got to take accountability.

We saw Shannon do it. We've even seen Luann do it. We need to see Karen Hugar do it as well.

Well, my guest this week, B, you all know him as Pet Chat Boy, and he's got the podcast,

The B list. He's amazing, and we talked about pretty much all of the shows that are on,

except for Southern Charm, because we recorded the day that Southern

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