How Reality TV Makes Us All Republicans

So Katie, what is your relationship to reality television?

Mm, shameful.

[laughs]

I grew up watching Keeping Up with the Kardashians and Real Housewives with my mom.

Okay, that was your entry point.

Yeah.

Real, uh, Kardashians, I remember being in like elementary school and being after school at my friend Ethan's house, and his older sister Abby was watching it.

And like from the first time I laid eyes on Kim Kardashian, I was like starstruck and in love.

[laughs] She's perfect.

I loved her.

[laughs]

This was probably 2007, 2008, so the show had just come out.

I just remember watching Real Housewives of New York and New Jersey with my mom.

Okay.

And how the Teresa Giudice table flipping prostitution whore scene became like a mainstay of culture in my household.

But as an adult, I would say that like, I don't know, I think reality television has really fallen off.

At least as an adult, it doesn't like-

Mm

... grab me as much as it used to.

And I think I alluded to this a little bit in the bonus episode that we did about it, but I mean, I was watching Love Is Blind for a while, and then that premise just kinda got stale for me.

I don't really seek out reality television as much anymore.

Okay, cool.