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Full Episode Description: On this patreon exclusive, Torry (she/her) and Haley Strong (she/her) from RHAP: We Know The Bachelor discuss their relationship to Survivor and reality tv as whole (0:37). Then they discuss The Dark Side of Reality TV: Survivor Season One. 

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Episode Transcript

(00:00):
Let's talk about this show, the dark side of reality TV.
It covers Survivor season 1. And I kind of like felt like a
fake fan because and maybe I didknow this stuff at one point,
but like the power bar stuff andthe Stacy Stillman stuff I
either A didn't remember or B never knew about.

(00:20):
So I was like. Shook by some of the things
we're going to talk about. Yeah, I do think I just cause,
like, I've been so neat, like, my late one of my fun
neurodivergent special interestshas always been reality TV.
So like, I think I have just been, like, enmeshed in this for
so long. And I have, like, a wildly

(00:40):
chronological memory. So like, I feel like I do
remember all of these things happening.
And I was excited to see Andy Denhart in this episode.
He is, like, reality blurred. Like, I've been reading his
stuff for years and years and years.
Yeah. He's like a great voice to have
to reference in this. Like, it was so funny.

(01:00):
It was so funny. And I was really impressed that
they got like, Kelly Wigglesworth for it.
Joel, I was like, who are you? No, literally, Joel, I was like,
who are you? But yeah, 'cause it.
Yeah. Kelly, Richard, who else did

(01:21):
they? They had.
Oh, Jervis came back. Oh yeah, Jervis, Jervis.
He came back, yeah. And then Joel and I was like,
well, I know the three contestants that I do not
remember Joel. But then when I saw pictures of
him playing Season 1, I was like, oh, yeah, I knew him
because I thought he was, like, cute or whatever.
But so we learned about like howthe TV show kind of got.

(01:44):
Made for the first season, so. Mark Burnett was the creator of
Eco Challenge, which aired on Discovery Channel from 1995 to
2002. And then they did a few seasons
in like 2019 and 2020. But this was like kind of a
like, it has so many elements oflike The Amazing Race and

(02:07):
Survivor in it. Did you watch this show?
I don't remember watching that. I think I was a little too young
for that at that point. Yeah.
And again, I don't think like I had that Channel like growing up
like like I like was limited by my parents channels.
We were a big TV family, so we always had the channels like we.

(02:27):
Jealous. We, like I, still pay for cable
to this day because we love TV. When I when I worked in
residence and had ATV and they paid for cable that those were
the best like 2 years of my lives in my life.
I love, I love TV. My husband loves TV.

(02:48):
We come from long lines of TV lovers.
Yeah, mine too. We.
Just like that's our we and like, we just like to have it on
and we'll read or we'll eat dinner.
Like, you know, we just love TV.Totally.
And also like for somebody who'slike, now looking back on it, my
brain didn't work like everyone.Else.

(03:11):
Reality TV was like a great thing to have in my back pocket
to talk about. Yeah.
Oh yeah. When you were like didn't want
to talk to people, it was like so too much Survivor last night
or like. No, no, no, seriously.
But I like I wrote this in the notes like it it, it was
monoculture. Like some of the like some of

(03:32):
these stats were monoculture. And because I feel like nowadays
everyone has kind of niche pockets of the Internet or TV
that they're watching because there's just with streaming and
cable and like blah, blah, blah,There's just a million like, not
that this is niche, but like I, I'm the only one out of my

(03:53):
friends and family that watch the Gilded Age.
So it's like I don't. Even know if I've heard of the
Gilded Age and I feel like I'm so up on pop culture.
Totally, totally. And it's like a big successful
show on Crave or HBO and it's like, it's like, I just think
everyone now has so many optionsthat you can really niche down
to your intern, your, your skills on the Internet or your

(04:14):
interest on the Internet. But back then, like I remember
like if you didn't watch Survivor on say the Wednesday or
whatever to talk about it on Thursday at school, or like my
parents at their job or when I visited my auntie.
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