42 Minutes Of Reality

Intro/outro music: “Gay Bar Videogame” by The Wildbunch http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Wildbunch/Gay_Bar/Gay_Bar_videogame 1:32 Mike’s holiday gift for JS 2:20 Introducing this month’s show 2:51 Concept and episode structure 7:42 Ep 1 Highlights: Mike and Chad 12:36 Ep 2 Highlights: Curt and Rodney 17:22 Ep 3 Highlights: Tracy and Dan 21:24 Ep 4 Highlights: Rob and Greg 25:04 Ep 5 Highlights: John, Bret and Shane 27:15 Mike’s quick hits for Eps 6-8 30:42 Ep 9 Highlights: Joe and Mark 36:40 Debating how much producers were egging on protagonists 40:13 Segueing into worldview and common themes 42:37 JS makes comparison b/w views of ‘extreme preppers’ and ‘conspiracy culture’ 43:24 Returning to distinction b/w ‘normal’ disaster prep and ‘doomsday prepper’ identity 45:03 Other common themes – distrust of outsiders/foreigners and incoherence of scenarios 46:45 JS thinks there’s grain of truth to ‘economic collapse’ scenarios and we debate a bit about Venezuela [Go see website for coda from Mike on his ar

Intro/outro music: “Gay Bar Videogame” by The Wildbunch http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Wildbunch/Gay_Bar/Gay_Bar_videogame 1:26 Mike outs himself as victim of celebrity podcast catfishing scheme 2:06 Introducing this month’s show 3:17 Concept and structure 6:37 Our impressions of Nev and Max 8:07 Dual roles of hosts – investigation and therapy/counseling 9:23 Show’s tone ran contrary to JS’s expectations, particularly for MTV reality show 11:24 Nev’s personal controversies 12:42 The order in which we watched the episodes 13:43 Ep 1 – Sunny and Jamison (Chelsea) 14:43 Ep 3 – Kim and Matt 15:01 Ep 7 – Joe and Kari Ann (Rose) – Watch this one! 16:58 Ep 2 – Trina and Scorpio (Lee) / Ep 8 – Tyler and Amanda (Aaron) 17:58 Ep 4 – Jasmine and Mike (Mhissy) 21:30 Our initial impressions of show’s authenticity 23:15 How much we bought the narrative in Ep 7 24:12 Are motivational narratives for catfishers genuine? 26:28 How authentic are investigations by Nev and Max? 28:18 One moment of authenticity – catfishee