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 good week. I have Rob Raines on the podcast this week. I am so excited

because he's been on the podcast filling in for me a number of times, but him and I haven't had a chance to

have a conversation on the podcast about what's been going on on Bravo. And I'm just very excited to have him back.

We didn't talk about Atlanta or Beverly Hills,

so I'm going to share my thoughts very briefly

before we get into my chat with Rob.

So, guys, I'm enjoying the Real Housewives of Atlanta. However, of the new girls, Kay Michelle and Pinky, I think I prefer watching Kay Michelle. I find her very open and vulnerable. And I love how she called out Portia for like, why did you react to the way that you did to me? So Kay Michelle was in the

hospital because many years ago, she got illegal silicone injections in her butt. And every once in a

while, she gets an infection because of it. And it's horrible. And so she was in the hospital.

She claims that Portia knew about this. And then when she

told the women and she said she stood up and there was like a pool of liquid underneath her,

Portia's first question was, was it a miscarriage? And obviously, that's not a very sensitive thing or

sensitive way of talking about it. And I appreciate that Kay Michelle just flat out told Portia when they were at, you know, having lunch one-on-one, you know what? I didn't like that you said that. Why would you say that? That was so, you know, not thoughtful. And then Portia was like, well, as someone who's had a miscarriage, and Kay Michelle's like, it doesn't matter if you had a miscarriage or not, how you handle it or how I wanted to handle it, you know, are different. And she claims that Portia knew that her and her husband were trying to have a baby. So that made it even more insensitive. And I do think that Portia is someone who just can be insensitive.

I think that's one of her faults.

And I appreciated that Kay Michelle just was like telling her to her face.

And I think Portia appreciated it too.

Now, Pinky, I'm starting to get the vibe that she is a lot of talk. And she, you know, they say, what's the term,

like, money talks, but wealth whispers. She is doing too much. She's saying that she has all this

money and she's such a great business owner, but yet she's going to file for bankruptcy.

But by definition, filing for bankruptcy means you did not manage your money well.

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