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 Slutskersker. Let's get to it.

Hi, everyone. When you're listening to this, hopefully, if all goes well, I will be at BravoCon. And I am so looking forward to this trip and just spending time with all of our favorite people and everyone who enjoys these shows. It was so fun two years ago, and I told myself, I will do

everything to come back the next time that they have it. And I'm so grateful to be able to do that.

So before I left, I decided, okay, I'm going to have to put out an episode. I'll cover whatever I'm able to watch prior to it,

and I'll get my dad and Joyce to chat with me on the podcast so that I have some content.

So I hope you guys enjoy this episode. I'm going to start by sharing some of my thoughts on Salt Lake City and Potomac,

and then you'll get to hear from my dad and Joyce. At first, I just chat with them, mainly about the cruise that they went on in Europe, and then start asking my dad about the story of how he was able to leave the Soviet Union. I think it's really interesting and it's something to, you know,

keep in mind, especially with everything going on these days and they're not being a lot of

refugees let into the country, you know, just the stories that every single person coming to this

country have and the sacrifices that they make just to be able to come. And I just, I feel very strongly

about immigration and, you know, welcoming refugees. And so I'm just glad that my dad's able to

share this story. All right. So Salt Lake City. Wow. This was quite an episode. It, you know, ends with, or I guess it starts where last week ended, where Brittany shares this TikTok that she has heard that Meredith's husband, Seth, has been cheating on him with someone in Columbus, Ohio. And that's where we know

that he works. And Meredith is very upset about it. Now, the following day, Bronwyn, who's also

really upset and annoyed with Brittany, steals the unicorn that has Jared's voice that Brittany has been sleeping with and brings it to Meredith and they concoct a plan to throw it overboard.

Now, I laughed so much during the scene because they were dressed in these like inflatable costumes.

And for some reason, these inflatable costumes are so funny to me. I don't know what it is. It's just,

it's so absurd to see grown women in these costumes and then, you know, throwing this thing

overboard. Now, I don't think I thought of it as really mean, I guess, and maybe that's on me. I just

wasn't really thinking a whole lot

about it, mainly because I associate the unicorn with Jared, and I feel like none of the women

like Jared, and they all want Brittany to get rid of him, mainly because they actually care about

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