The following podcast is a dear media production. Good morning everybody. How are you doing? It's America's sweet, Jackie Schimmel, fresh from BravoCon.

Just kidding.

A lot of people asked me if I was going to Bravo Con, why I wasn't at Bravo Con.

This, that the other thing. I'm still trying to dissect my relationship with Bravo in a healthy manner. I don't know if I'm mentally and emotionally and emotionally equipped to be a Bravo Khan participant and that's no shade.

I just don't know if that's my journey in life.

My Bravo preferences are in the home on my sofa with a martini and my fireplace and

peacock and fast forward and I just don't know that I'm social enough to do the Bravo

Khan thing but did I want to be there was watching all the videos very fulfilling

for me from a distance you betcha Iris I mean is very

I was very fulfilling for me from a distance. You betcha Iris. I mean Bravo is so layered and complex but brings so many people joy and I just kept thinking about Bethany Frankel, you know, sitting at home, tweaking the

fuck out, arranging her ringlight and her tripod to, you know, hot take the whole Bravo Khan experience and try to make herself the main

character of something that no longer concerns her because that is quite literally what she does.

And I think the reason that I have such an innate problem

with Bethany and the reality reckoning is that her motives

for everything feel condescending in nature. Okay? It's all of her arguments

and all of her hot takes and all of her you, reviews and lipglosses and, you know, bagel seasoning and

and championing for the little people.

It's built on a foundation of reinforcing

her superiority and relevance.

Okay, she has the most beautiful intellectual gift of playing both the valor and the victim

under the deeply wounded facade of helping the little people that are less brave or strong or financially stable or equipped than her.

And if you don't understand what I'm saying, it's let me go out and buy a bunch of designer makeup because I can afford it and you can

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