Part One: The Bastards of Reality Television

Robert sits down with David Bell to talk about some fucked up shit that happened in reality shows because, damn, that Kissinger series was hard. FOOTNOTES: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/mar/11/a-catalogue-of-exploitation-the-maker-of-adocumentary-about-the-jeremy-kyle-show-speaks https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/mar/13/jeremy-kyle-show-death-on-daytime-reviewa-shocking-expose-of-the-itv-series https://uk.news.yahoo.com/former-jeremy-kyle-show-viewers-ashamed- 100331877.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmluZy5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig= AQAAAAZWgpvLwCbf6hmmQQWlA3xWu_MZyFTeGYxHHhcO3AJO2qBXMvj8SdwkheQErRgVyOKss5QVZf lkaNF4Hb6rZCr-c4Ohyc_Ctyh- 58oGaoEstnukpGOzWDp_gmNDq1VrqvWn1TEzotD_TIOaQ9wQ5iTFYrUsxN7DcMlAGwByPqRX https://www.the-sun.com/news/4893340/jeremy-kyle-breaks-silence-steve-dymond-documentary/  https://www.the-sun.com/news/4893340/jeremy-kyle-breaks-silence-steve-dymond-documentary/ https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/fife/3102437/jeremy-kyle-lie-detector-itv-fife/ https://www.apa.org/research/action/polygraph https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/05/09/the-reality-principle https://gulfnews.com/entertainment/tv/three-love-island-suicides-raise-concerns-about-reality-show1.69761973 https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/jun/25/a-cruelty-free-loveisland-impossible https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jul/18/problem-with-loveisland-people-who-turned-it-down https://ew.com/tv/2020/01/30/ryan-jenkins-jasmine-fiore-megan-wants-amillionaire/ https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/may/27/why-suicide-is-stillthe-shadow-that-hangs-over-reality-tv-hana-kimura-terrace-house See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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There’s a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a few about Dwight D. Eisenhower. Bad guys (and gals) are eternally fascinating. Behind the Bastards dives in past the Cliffs Notes of the worst humans in history and exposes the bizarre realities of their lives. Listeners will learn about the young adult novels that helped Hitler form his monstrous ideology, the founder of Blackwater’s insane quest to build his own Air Force, the bizarre lives of the sons and daughters of dictators and Saddam Hussein’s side career as a trashy romance novelist.