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. There's been a lot going on in the Bravo world. Tamara Judge

allegedly quit the Real Housewives of Orange County, but maybe she's back. Teddy Mellencamp is back to their shared

podcast, two T's in the pod following brain surgery. I haven't listened to that podcast yet, but I'm actually very

eager to, you know, have been really, really pulling for Teddy and, you know, wishing her all the

best during this very, very difficult health journey. It sounds like what she's been going through

is obviously impact Tamara and Tamara just doesn't have any patience for,

I guess, filming and some of the arguments that they've been having. But it always makes me wonder,

does she think that Shannon was having an easy go at it last season when she was going after

Shannon? I don't know. I think I'd be interested to see Tamara's how she's

how she's handling everything this season. If she walks off, if she comes back, you know,

she had that weird situation at the end of the season where she announced that she may be

autistic and now she's saying she might have depression. I do hope she

figures out her mental health journey, but I also think she might be needed for the show

because she does kind of keep things moving. So we'll see what happens. Another thing that I

listened to this past week was Brittany Cartwright's episode of her podcast when reality hits

responding to Jack's interview that he did about his cocaine addiction. And it was

incredibly illuminating. I highly recommend everyone who watches the Valley to listen to that

podcast that she does with Kristen

before season two of the Valley starts. He still is only telling half-truth when he's talking

even about his addiction, even about what led him to go to rehab, all of it. And, you know, I really, really, really feel for Britney and

...