Episode 44 - 'Giving thanks for the Housewives' with Dr. James Mercer

Is This Real Life? With Mandy Slutsker

Tv & Film, Tv Reviews

4.5 • 620 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Dr. James Mercer joins Mandy to recap the RHOC finale. They discuss his friendship with Emily Simpson, Housewives Derangement Syndrome, everyone’s confrontations with Shannon, and what we’re looking forward to on the reunion. Plus, James dishes on his thoughts on his friends from #RHOD, why he’s #TeamDAndra, and whether D’Andra and LeeAnne’s friendship is reparable. Finally, in the spirit of Thanksgiving and #NationalAdoptionMonth, James shares how you can support foster care children through Lonestar Social Services (lonestarsocialservices.com) and Captain Sandy Yawn shares how to support the Jacksonville School for Autism (jsakids.org), which was founded by her sister.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	me, me, me, me, but also you. The Farrell fast forwards his favorite foreign film. Pippet, powder donut. Okay, what's my line? The only line I see here on the script is get options based on your budget with the name your price tool from Progressive. Oh, man, that's a tongue twister, huh? I'm sorry. I'm going to need a few more minutes.
0:25.4	Bulbous Walrus, the bulbous Walrus. The name your price tool, only from Progressive.
0:28.6	The owl run afoul of the comatose cock swain. Progressive casualty insurance company and affiliates price and coverage match limited by state law.
0:49.3	Welcome to Is This Real Life, a podcast that relates the quirkiest aspects of pop culture and reality TV to our own lives.
0:51.7	This is your host, Mandy Sleutzer.
0:53.1	Let's get to it.
1:09.3	Hi, everyone. Welcome to episode 44. This is a special Thanksgiving episode, and I am releasing it early so I can go spend time with my family and my dog
1:14.3	who has a broken toe. I didn't even know that was a thing that could happen. Anyway, my first guest
1:21.7	is Dr. James Mercer who is the author of the memoir Secrets and Shame.
1:33.9	He's also the person who helped put through Brandy Redmond's adoption of baby Bruin,
1:37.7	and he runs Lone Star Social Services in Texas.
1:41.1	He also happens to be friends with many of the housewives,
1:45.7	especially in Dallas, but also Emily Simpson in the OC, And he joined her for Watch What Happens Live last Monday. And so that was a lot of fun to chat about. Then
1:52.1	going to do a brief recap of Real Housewives of Atlanta. And then a nice message from Captain
1:58.6	Sandy about ways to give back this Thanksgiving. Hope you enjoy.
2:07.9	Hi everyone. Welcome to a very special Thanksgiving episode 44. I'm here with Dr. James Mercer.
2:22.1	Hello, hello. He's back. So some of you may remember him from the Real Housewives of Dallas. He was, he works with a Lone Star, Foster and Adoption
2:30.2	Agency, and he helped with Brandy's adoption.
2:41.6	He's also friends with many of the housewives, including the new housewife, Emily Simpson,
2:43.1	on the O.C.
2:48.8	And I think were you with her last week when she was on Watch What Happens Live?
2:50.1	I was.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Is This Real Life? With Mandy Slutsker, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Is This Real Life? With Mandy Slutsker and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.