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 and a very Merry Christmas to all who celebrated.

We saw a Christmas miracle. The Gorgas and the Judices got together for Christmas and

Teresa ate Melissa's sprinkle cookies. Okay. I think we can officially consider the hatchet buried. I'm very grateful. I am

skeptical because I think they both really want to be on reality TV, but it's so much healthier

for them, for their families, for the kids, for everyone just to get along and not let things,

you know, bother you, like about the past. Just, you know, your parents are

gone, spend time with each other, you know, that's the only remaining member of your immediate

family that you have, you know, from the one that you grew up in. And so I've always thought

that they just need to get over themselves and figure it out.

And it appears they have. And I'm really, really happy about that. We didn't have a whole lot of

shows this week, but I do have Melissa Reich on for an M&M hour. We spend some time talking about

Potomac. We share about our holidays. And we just chit-chat. And I think it was a lot of fun. I do want to

thank you all so much for listening. I can't believe it, but at the end of this week,

it will have been eight full years of doing this podcast and next year in 2026 will be year nine of the podcast.

It's just absolutely wild. I never could have imagined it being like this. I don't know what I was

thinking. I just needed an outlet, a creative outlet, something different to do with the work and to, you know,

escape from all of the things in my day-to-day life. And what I didn't realize was this

community of people that would listen and also other podcasters and other content creators

that I would meet from different parts of the country,

different parts of the world, and we would all bond over our love of the Real Housewives.

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