#67 Is This The Real Life?

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My wife — and I say this with all love and respect — is a huge fan of reality TV shows. She focuses on her favorites with an intensity normally associated with complex tasks like performing neurosurgery, composing a major symphony, or playing that game where you try to pull wooden blocks out of a stack without knocking them all over. No natural disaster short of a nine-point-five earthquake will deter her from watching her favorite show, America’s Next Top Super Shear Design Chef Genius Runway Hero Idol Loser. Every week she cheers for her favorites in the mistaken belief that if she’s loud enough her voice will carry across space and backwards in time and make the crucial difference in that contestant’s performance. She chooses her favorites based on a) whether or not they play nice and b) how good their hair looks.

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I spent most of this essay making fun of reality TV, so I guess it’s only fair that I point you to one of the networks which provides a lot of that kind of programming.  If you’re interested, check out Bravo TV for several of the shows that I hinted at in this episode.

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