So Bad It's Good with Ryan Bailey
Oct 1, 2026 · 1 hr 45 min · 25 segments
THURSDAY! RHONY DAY, BABY! (fair warning i was in a cranky mood) Full, long form recap of Episode 4 of Real Housewives of New York. This show continues to charm us. My co host as always is the amazing…
Ryan BaileyHostTom HamlettGuest
I, it is a good ep, but I do gotta talk about, you did a brilliant thread that I have been thinking about, and you put it into, uh-
You did those two girls reacting to the Taylor Swift songs, and they, they've done this for a long time, and they just make the, you know, "Oh my God.
Oh my God." And you could tell that they weren't even thrilled with the Taylor Swift song that they were playing.
But you wrote, "This is what most fandoms, mainstream pop and reality TV specifically feel like these days.
Pretend gagging over mediocrity." And I thought that was brilliantly written and something that I've been trying to, trying to, uh, verbalize.
I mean, you summed up pop culture these days for me, where we're, we're gagging over the things that we shouldn't gag over, and it then is leading to more just homogenized art.
I, I j- I feel that a lot of people are putting minimal effort into things, be that, like, large pop s- pop sensations down to, like, creators.
People are cutting corners these days and, like, getting successful off of the corners they cut.
Like, I just feel like a lot of the stuff we're consuming right now isn't great, but we just wanna be a part of the conversation, so we, like, we, like, celebrate it.
I, it is a good ep, but I do gotta talk about, you did a brilliant thread that I have been thinking about, and you put it into, uh-
You did those two girls reacting to the Taylor Swift songs, and they, they've done this for a long time, and they just make the, you know, "Oh my God.
Oh my God." And you could tell that they weren't even thrilled with the Taylor Swift song that they were playing.
But you wrote, "This is what most fandoms, mainstream pop and reality TV specifically feel like these days.
Pretend gagging over mediocrity." And I thought that was brilliantly written and something that I've been trying to, trying to, uh, verbalize.
I mean, you summed up pop culture these days for me, where we're, we're gagging over the things that we shouldn't gag over, and it then is leading to more just homogenized art.
I, I j- I feel that a lot of people are putting minimal effort into things, be that, like, large pop s- pop sensations down to, like, creators.
People are cutting corners these days and, like, getting successful off of the corners they cut.
Like, I just feel like a lot of the stuff we're consuming right now isn't great, but we just wanna be a part of the conversation, so we, like, we, like, celebrate it.
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