Episode 360 - ‘The Valley and Next Gen NYC: A Post Mortem’ with Aruna Kalyanam and Rob Rains
Is This Real Life? With Mandy Slutsker
Is This Real Life? With Mandy Slutsker
4.3 • 20 Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2025
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
The group chat comes to life as Mandy’s neighbor Aruna Kalyanam and friend Rob Rains come on the podcast to do a post mortem on season 2 of The Valley and chat a bit of Next Gen NYC.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Is This Real Life, a Bravo podcast that relates our favorite shows to our own lives in the world around us. |
| 0:18.4 | I'm your host, Mandy Slezger. Let's get to it. |
| 0:34.7 | Hi, everyone. I hope you had a wonderful week. I have an extra special episode for you all today. I'm doing |
| 0:40.9 | the Valley post-mortem and discussing Next Gen NYC with my neighbor Aruna and her friend Rob, |
| 0:50.3 | who is now my friend as well. I feel like this episode in particular is just a lot of |
| 0:56.9 | like the behind the scenes of how me, Rob, and Aruna have a group chat and the kind of things |
| 1:01.8 | that we talk about. And I feel like at the end, we just discuss like nostalgia about our |
| 1:07.4 | favorite places in D.C. So I hope you guys really enjoy. I recorded this a bit early |
| 1:13.4 | because I'm headed to Missoula, Montana to visit my cousin and her family. And I'm just really excited, |
| 1:21.3 | but if any major breaking Bravo news happens on August, I don't know, 14th, 15th, 16th, all of that. |
| 1:31.9 | Not going to cover it. Sorry, we'll have to cover it next week. Thank you guys so much for |
| 1:37.6 | listening and for supporting the podcast. If you enjoy it, go ahead and give it a five-star rating |
| 1:43.3 | and leave a kind review. |
| 1:45.1 | And if you want to get in touch, you can reach me at Mandy Sleutzger on Instagram. |
| 1:49.9 | I may be slightly delayed in responding just because I'm taking a little vacation. |
| 1:54.8 | But I'll be back next week. |
| 1:56.9 | And it sounds like all of our shows are now moved to Thursday nights because the Real Housewives of Miami are going to be on Thursdays, and we've got the Real Housewives of Orange County on Thursdays. |
| 2:09.5 | So I'm like, what am I going to do? I've got Sunday night free. I've got Tuesday nights free. Now Wednesday nights free. |
| 2:17.2 | Wow. Wonder when some of the other shows are coming back. But until then, |
| 2:22.0 | I am very happy with Miami and the OC. Okay, we're going to take a really quick break and then back with |
| 2:28.8 | Aruna and Rob. Hi, everyone. I am here with my neighbor, Aruna Calli Annum, who has brought so many fantastic guests to this podcast, but she is finally back and along with her friend and now my friend Rob Raines. I'm so excited, |
| 2:54.5 | guys, we're finally recording. Yes, I love that we talked about doing this at the end of |
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