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. This week is usually the M&M hour, but Melissa has

some stuff going on, and so we will record again next month. I ended up having my friend Ari Davis

on the podcast. She is great. She watches all the shows. We discuss Real Housewives of Orange

County, Real Housewives of Miami, and a little bit

of Potomac. The trailer came out this week. It looks hilarious. Also getting out this week,

Karen Hugar from a prison, I think, somewhere near here, where I am in D.C. And I hope she learned

some lessons while she was away. You know, I hope she

humbled herself a bit, acknowledged the problems that she caused with drinking and driving,

not one, not two, not three, but four times. But I will say, watching the trailer and not

seeing her made me a little bit sad. So I hope that she is back and that she is

improved and maybe doesn't go by the Grand Dame anymore, but just, you know, actually is a little bit

more honest and truthful with everything in her life. But the trailer did look hilarious. I am so curious to see what second season

Stacy is going to bring. I mean, my gosh, that woman is just she is something else. And I cannot

wait for the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City to start, because that is probably my favorite franchise

that is on at the moment, followed by the Real Housewives of Miami.

Guys, if you're not watching, please, please start watching and go back. Watch from the

beginning. It's fantastic. Such a good show. So many compelling characters, I find it incredibly fascinating and fun and bright, even though there are dark things that are going on. I love, you know, just, I don't know, all their outfits and where they film and it's always usually sunny and I don't know. I like that these days.

That's kind of like, but just wait. Like Salt Lake is going to come and it's going to be like snow and

mountains and cold and, you know, it'll match how I feel this fall.

Anyways, I had a great time recording with Ari. Just after we finished recording,

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