Welcome. Welcome back to Hot Takes and Deep Dives. This is Jess and I am here with our returning friend, very close friend of the show,

Jamie Stein, welcome back.

Thank you, it's nice to be here.

How you feeling?

I'm doing well, how are you?

I'm okay.

Well, I summons Jamie back. Well, first of all, I have to say how much everybody loved

your real world episode. Just like, oh, yes, the stories from your era as the associate editor or data logger for the real world.

That was really fascinating.

That may be your shine, well listen, we'll see how you perform today, but so far that maybe your shining moment.

All right, I'll try to live up to it. I'll try to pass it, actually.

Yeah, try to surpass it. Shoot for the stars. But so far that's what I'm submitting for your

Emmy package.

All right, well, I look forward to seeing that package

and accepting my award and thanking you from the podium.

OK, so there's a lot that's happened since we last had a true Empath channel episode from you that was devoted around the housewives.

Well, there's been Salt Lake City, Potomac now has the

reunions airing and on top of that there has been an incredible amount of

Bravo related news all that broke in the past week.

So I think to start, let's do the Bravo news first

and then we can really dive into Salt Lake City, Potomac, and then if we have the

if we have the energy, I'd love to just know

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