Episode 387 - ‘Cult Leaders and Apology Dunes’ with Brian J. Moylan
Is This Real Life? With Mandy Slutsker
Is This Real Life? With Mandy Slutsker
4.5 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2026
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
New York Times best selling author Brian J. Moylan joins Mandy to chat all things in Bravo this week. They get into this week’s RHOBH, including what Amanda Frances learned from being in a cult, before getting into this week’s Summer House, Southern Charm, and RHOP reunion.
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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. I hope you had a nice week. I found out something really cool this week. So you all know the |
| 0:39.9 | plastic surgeon that has been going after Kelly Dodd. Her name's Dr. Srinivasa. So she actually was my |
| 0:47.5 | friend's surgeon. She does breast reconstruction, specializing in women with breast cancer or who have to get preventive |
| 0:56.5 | double mastectomies. And she's apparently like one of the top breast reconstructive surgeons |
| 1:02.5 | in the whole country, let alone Los Angeles. And yeah, it's been wild watching her take down |
| 1:10.0 | Kelly Dodd. I mean, I don't know where she has the time to do this, |
| 1:15.3 | but her most recent video that she put out, Kelly said something about, oh, I'm going to, you know, |
| 1:21.5 | sue her for defamation. She alleged that I'm on Benzos. And then she found all of these different times when Kelly said on |
| 1:30.7 | her show that she has with Rick that she was taking Xanax or Larazapam or something else. |
| 1:37.2 | So it's like, oh my God. I've never seen anyone pick apart Kelly Dodd so well. And it's been enjoyable to watch because all |
| 1:46.3 | Kelly Dodd does is bully other people and say incredibly racist things, like way more than I've |
| 1:55.1 | ever heard Jill Zarin say. And she's never faced the level of blowback that I feel like |
| 2:00.4 | Jill Zarinrin recently got |
| 2:01.9 | in terms of having actual consequences for what she says and does. |
| 2:06.8 | So it's been enjoyable to watch. |
| 2:10.1 | I did want to share something going on in my personal life that is a little bit difficult to talk about. So I know a lot of you have, |
| 2:21.3 | you know, been listening for a while. And I've mentioned over the last six weeks or so that I've |
| 2:27.5 | been really anxious and struggling with my mental health. And that has been because my dad has been struggling with his health. He has a |
| 2:38.0 | very serious heart problem. And for a while, we weren't sure if there was a solution. And I'm trying |
| 2:48.6 | to figure out what to say because I want to maintain his privacy, but he is going |
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