You guys,

welcome to episode 108 of the mushroom, the podcast of Deep Dives on the well-known,

more importantly not so well-known hookups of your favorite reality TV stars. It's me, Troy McEedy, and I am doing what I would consider, I guess, to be a milestone episode today because in a year and a half, this is the first time time I'm doing an episode about the show that the title of my podcast is based on or whatever.

And I have a really special guest here with me today.

You will remember her from the Honeyboo-boo-bo boo-boo-boo episode that we did

together I'm recording with Riley again how are you?

Hi I'm good I'm happy to be back I'm happy to have you back. We're doing a very special episode not only because of the name thing but like

Just because it's actually really shocking at like kind of dark that I haven't talked about this on this podcast yet like how have I gone this

on this podcast yet like how have I gone this long and not discussed Jersey Shore?

I know yeah it's kind of surprising that it took you what to 108 episodes. Yeah to be like, I should talk about the show that the name of this podcast came from.

Ridiculous, but I'm really excited.

Uh, I'm a pretty big Jersey Shorehead. I'm not like totally caught up on these newer

seasons of Jersey Shore. My brain for some reason is like rejecting the idea of watching it,

but I like that they're all together.

I like that they all seem happy.

You know, I want what's best for them.

But like, I'm, you know, I like old school, like 2008 Jersey Shore.

Yeah, so I remember when Jersey Shore first came out

2008, 2009, like that first season airing, I definitely watched that.

And I would just watch it as it came on like the reruns and stuff because I was never super like into it

But I did just like love watching it like I remember being at the gym and being on the elliptical and watching it and just being like

who are these people but also they work out so I should too.

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