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Is This Real Life? With Mandy Slutsker

Episode 48 - 'RHONJ deep dive: from bridezillas to the Bergen Record' with Shira Weiss

Is This Real Life? With Mandy Slutsker

Is This Real Life? With Mandy Slutsker

Tv & Film, Tv Reviews

4.5620 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Shira Weiss, writer & neighbor to our favorite New Jersey housewives, shares her thoughts on the latest #RHONJ including the bridezilla that is Danielle Staub, the evolution of Teresa Giudice, and Jackie’s column about Jennifer’s children. Mandy and Shira also get into Vanderpump Rules drama, including Katie’s ultimatum, the firing of James Kennedy, and what the hell is going on in Raquel’s head. Check out Shira at shirasgotthescoop.com!

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0:00.0

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0:23.6

Okay, do I still get my... the phone. Yeah, but what if I never hear back? That's going to make me want to go jab and jam.

0:21.1

Uh, nope. Your Geico claims team is always there for you. Okay. Do I still get my post-workout

0:25.5

protein shake? Sure, Billy. Geico, great service without all the drama.

0:48.5

Welcome to Is This Real Life, a podcast that relates the quirkiest aspects of pop culture and reality TV to our own lives.

0:50.5

I'm your host, Mandy Slootker.

0:52.0

Let's get to it.

1:09.1

Hi, everyone. Welcome back. Hope you all had a wonderful New Year's and welcome to a fun and fabulous 2019.

1:12.0

There is a lot of tea to spill this week.

1:15.4

So we'll get started with talking about the Twitter war between James Kennedy and

1:19.9

Jacks Taylor, or should I say between James and basically everyone else on Vanderpump

1:24.9

Rules.

1:25.8

It started out with someone on Twitter making a comment about

1:28.5

Jacks, and James responded, and Jacks, he is just a sad man after his daddy died, coming for me

1:36.0

because I'm the only man he don't like. Brother, make peace with your dead father, please, so you can

1:41.4

be set free. That goes for Lala also. B.T.W., he made fun of George

1:46.7

when he left. Now, George refers to George Michael, who is a friend of James Kennedy's family and was

1:52.8

also James's godfather. Regardless of if Jacks made a comment about George Michael when he died

1:58.9

two years ago, that does not give anyone an excuse to

2:01.9

make fun of Jacks or Lala's dead parents. It's absolutely disgusting, but that's what we've

2:07.7

become accustomed to with James. Now, when Brittany heard about this, she said, and I quote,

2:14.0

The disgust continues at, it's James Kennedy, I pray you will find peace someday, end

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