Episode 380 - ‘Splashing and Whisper Fights’ with Stephen Krugle
Is This Real Life? With Mandy Slutsker
Is This Real Life? With Mandy Slutsker
4.3 • 20 Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Happy 2026! For the first podcast of the year, Mandy has Stephen Krugle (@facesbybravo) on the podcast to chat this week’s Bravo news and get into RHOSLC. Plus, hear Mandy’s thoughts on the Mary Cosby documentary.
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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 Sleutzer. Let's get to it. |
| 0:34.7 | Hi, everyone, and I hope you had a very happy new year. This week, I have Stephen Krugel, |
| 0:41.3 | who you all know as Faces by Bravo on the podcast. We had so much fun chatting about the latest |
| 0:48.1 | Bravo news and then getting into this week's Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. Speaking of which, I'm wondering how many of you |
| 0:56.8 | saw the TLC documentary, The Cult of a Real Housewife, which is about Mary and Robert |
| 1:04.5 | Sr.'s church, which they are alleging in this documentary is a cult. I've been sharing some of my thoughts on social media, |
| 1:14.4 | but I honestly couldn't even get through the first episode because I felt it was so poorly done. |
| 1:20.7 | It felt like a hatchet job, and they had a lot of talking heads, very few of which had any |
| 1:27.3 | connection to Mary or Robert |
| 1:29.4 | Sr. I'm like, why are you having these people narrate who don't actually know them? It felt very |
| 1:39.1 | odd and it felt like it started kind of weak rather than starting with, you know, her sister, some, a family that was |
| 1:46.6 | impacted, you know, by the church, all of that would have made a lot more sense to me. |
| 1:52.2 | And I just was very frustrated by some of the lack of fact checking, you know, just a bunch of |
| 1:59.0 | things being thrown out, like what her net worth is, |
| 2:01.8 | but not going into detail about any of that. It just felt, I don't know, I didn't like it. And I'm not |
| 2:08.1 | saying that Mary and Robert Sr. aren't running, you know, unsavory sort of religious. I don't know what |
| 2:16.3 | you call it a church. But it just, I don't know. It felt like |
| 2:21.4 | it was poorly done. And then to come and find out that many of the Bravo content creators |
| 2:27.5 | that were featured in it, specifically if they used clips from people's podcasts or little videos that they made, |
| 2:37.3 | they used those without contacting the content creators and getting permission first, |
| 2:44.3 | which is absolutely wild. And it just, once I heard that, I was like, I don't even think I can bring myself to |
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