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What's up, listeners? It's me Melissa Gorga. Welcome to episode two of Melissa Gorga on display with me. You're truly Melissa Gorga.

I hope everyone had an awesome week and, you know, everyone's doing all things fun. But I am so excited today to introduce my guest for this episode.

He is none other than a people magazine writer and the author of the New York Times best selling book.

Not all diamonds and rosé with all of the housewives and all of the craziness. It's the whole inside story of the real housewives from the people who actually lived it.

So with no further ado, I'd like to say hi and have everybody welcome Dave Quinn. Hi.

Hey, Melissa. Oh my goodness. How fun is it to be on the other side of this? I'm thrilled.

Is it? It's so crazy. This is so exciting for me. You're the people magazine guy. Okay. You do the interviews. You do the writing and we're going to just flip the switch for a minute today because

let me just tell you, in housewives world, you're a celebrity right now. You are a celeb, a full bone celeb in the housewives world. I can tell you that.

Oh my God. That is crazy. I don't understand why at all. But I will take it and I appreciate it.

Is it surreal to you that I mean, obviously listen, you've always been very talented. You obviously write for people magazine, which is one of the most, I would say reputable. Right.

I mean, people really respect people magazine always has a pretty good writer to be writing for people, right. And my right. What do you do over there at people magazine?

Yeah, no, I mean, you do have to be a good writer. You have to be a fast writer. You have to turn stories around really quickly. You have to be a diligent reporter. You have to be kind of on top of things and know your know yourself. So yeah, that is a part of it.

It's strange to think that like, you know, I'm a fan first and I will always be a fan first. So it like even just being here right now, I'm still pinching myself, like I remember the first time, like I got a phone call from a housewife or, you know, had a housewife say like, oh, put your, put my number in your phone. I was like, oh my God, this is.

This is crazy, right. So the thing that like I was able to do this at this book became such a big thing that people are talking about it is just is very surreal to me, you know, because I'm not used to being in the spotlight. I'm used to being behind the scenes.

Well, congratulations on the book being a New York, I mean, you're a New York Times best selling author. That's huge. It's pretty crazy. I'm so proud of you knowing you for a while now just through interviews, through people mag and, you know, obviously we've become friends as well, because I truly love you. You're one of those solid people.

Anyone, by the way, in the reporting world that can have almost every single housewife talk positively about him. You, I don't know what you're doing, but you're obviously doing something right how you can balance and we're really going to get into this book.

And then the fact that you had all of these deep conversations on the phone with all of these girls and I want to know some juicy details and like who is begging you to keep things out and who wanted you to be nice to them. I want to know all these things.

But let me ask you this just from what you just said before who was the first housewife that gave you their phone number.

Oh, my goodness. You know, it may have been tamer judge actually.

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