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 Sleutzger. Let's get to it.

Hi, everyone. I hope you had a wonderful week. A huge thanks to Rob and Gianna for holding them the fort while I was gone.

I had an absolutely fantastic vacation. I talk about it a little more on part two of Eminem Hour,

which you can find on your Bish Therapist podcast. That comes out on Tuesday. We had a great week in Bravo. We had the

third part of the Salt Lake City reunion. We've got Potomac that is just about ending. We've got

Southern Charm that's like right in the middle of the season. We've got Beverly Hills, which I feel like is having a

renaissance. I mean, finally, finally, Kyle is showing why she deserves a diamond. Guys, I have been after this

woman for years. And this week, I was like, yes, this is what I've wanted from you the whole time. Just

share with us what's going on in your life.

And this coming week, we get Summer House, which is, I think, one of my absolute favorite shows on Bravo.

I get the most joy from watching it. And I feel like it's lighter and fun, and I love their parties and their costumes.

But I think there'll be a little bit of a sort of dark cloud hanging over the whole season,

knowing that Kyle and Amanda split either at the end of the summer or during the filming of the

sort of summer in the city or whatever they're calling it with Lindsay Hubbard and I believe Lexi and Andrea. I think they're part of that. I'm not entirely sure who's part of that show. And I think we see cracks like right from the beginning from the beginning episode. I mean, we've seen cracks for for many, many years. But it'll be sad, I guess, watching it back. I mean, I feel like we got something sort of similar watching a few seasons ago when Lindsay and Carl broke up. And then we watched the whole season back to kind of see,

you know, who was at fault. And sometimes things just don't work out and no one really needs

to be at fault, although I will say that I feel like Amanda has made what her goals are,

what she wants out of life, out of their marriage, very clear from the

beginning. And I feel like Kyle keeps changing what he wants or his actions don't line up with

what he says he wants. You know, yeah, I want to have kids. I want to do all this stuff. But he's out

really late and he's taken up a new career DJing, which, oh, God, I can't even imagine.

That does not sound fun to be married to someone that is out all the time.

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