It's Been A Minute: The molten center of 'The Real Housewives' multiverse

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🗓️ 3 March 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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This week, we're running an episode from our friends at It's Been a Minute that digs into the cultural phenomenon that is Real Housewives...and why so many of us can't look away.

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0:00.0	From MPR, this is Invisibilia. I'm Yo-A-Shaw.
0:12.0	Lately, I've been thinking about a very visible force in my life.
0:17.0	It's a force that has marked me for the past 17 years.
0:21.0	A force that I crave, that I've lost thousands of hours to,
0:26.0	that I've uncritically accepted.
0:29.0	Don't touch me. Don't you...
0:31.0	Don't touch me. Don't touch me.
0:34.0	Don't touch me.
0:36.0	This is Real Housewives.
0:38.0	If you've managed to avoid its claws,
0:40.0	Real Housewives is the massively popular reality TV show
0:44.0	that follows the lives of rich people, doing rich people things.
0:48.0	It's been around since 2006.
0:50.0	And yeah, I know a lot of people watch for different reasons.
0:54.0	But despite the nearly two-decade chokehold,
0:57.0	when people ask me why I am so obsessed,
1:00.0	I honestly don't know.
1:02.0	Ramona flies off the handle and whips a glass at Kristen's face.
1:06.0	Who does that?
1:08.0	Like, I'm not in it for the inside joke memes.
1:11.0	I don't have a Real Housewives group chat.
1:13.0	I got no smart takes.
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