Episode 363 - ‘Not So Quiet Desperation’ with Guest Host Rob Rains and Gianna Kinsman
Is This Real Life? With Mandy Slutsker
Is This Real Life? With Mandy Slutsker
4.3 • 20 Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2025
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Rob Rains guest hosts the podcast this week, chatting with energy and water policy analyst Gianna Kinsman. Together, Rob and Gianna analyze RHOM and its relevance during this moment in American history before previewing the upcoming season of RHOSLC and debate the appropriate level of engagement between house husbands and the cast.
Rob and Gianna would like to plug:
- Riverkeeper https://www.riverkeeper.org
- Lost City Books https://lostcitybookstore.com
- East City bookstore https://eastcitybookshop.com
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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 Slutszer. Let's get to it. |
| 0:34.5 | Hi, everyone. I hope you had a wonderful week. So this week I am out of town and my friend Rob |
| 0:39.7 | Raines is guest hosting on the podcast. He has been watching the Real Housewives of Miami all |
| 0:46.3 | the way through for the last few weeks and has a lot of hot takes. So I am so excited for him to guest host and have a guest on and all of the |
| 0:59.1 | things. So I hope you all enjoy. Without further ado, we'll take a quick break and then back |
| 1:06.7 | with Rob Raines. Selling your car can be super simple. If you choose, we buy any car |
| 1:12.3 | because they sought out any outstanding finance for you. |
| 1:15.8 | Just bring along your final settlement agreement. |
| 1:18.3 | If only they could make parallel parking simpler. |
| 1:21.4 | To the right bit, mate. |
| 1:22.7 | Yeah, back. Back a bit. |
| 1:24.4 | A bit more. |
| 1:25.1 | Bit more. |
| 1:26.6 | Oh, no, too far. |
| 1:28.9 | We buy any car. Selling made simple. |
| 1:31.8 | To sell your car today, enter your reg number now at webuanycar.com. |
| 1:38.8 | Hi, just leave on work now. Sorry, it's a bit loud. |
| 1:41.4 | Basically, so I was thinking we could get Macies tonight. |
| 1:43.8 | I had a big Mac on my mind all day. And delivery fee on the app is now from 99P. So you win? Of course you are. Love you. Bye. |
| 1:51.3 | Exclusively on the McDonald's app. |
| 1:54.0 | 18 plus service fee and small order fee may apply. Participating restaurants. Serving times and teas and Cs apply. |
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