200. American Idol Controversies

Beyond The Blinds

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Tv & Film

4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2024

⏱️ 106 minutes

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This week your hosts are ditching the blinds and going straight to the controversies that plagued American Idol during the show's height. Remember Corey and Paula? What about Frenchie Davis? Remember when they put the 3 Divas in the bottom 3? Well, we haven't forgotten either! From voting scams to horrible contracts, American Idol has it all! Beyond the Blinds, out! Like how Ryan Seacrest tried to make "Seacrest, out" a thing? No? Maybe? Anyway, we hope you enjoy this episode, which is the opposite of family-friendly. Today, you can get up to 55% off your first order of Nature’s Feast for your cat. Just go to drmartypets.com/BLINDS to help ease your cat’s digestion, nourish their healthy coat, and support their health and happiness. Stop putting off those doctor appointments and go to Zocdoc.com/BLINDS to find and instantly book a top-rated doctor today. Visit BetterHelp.com/blinds today to get 10% off your first month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Nick Vinsan, host of Profoundly Pointless, Signal Award winner for Best Interview Podcast,
0:06.8	Exorcists, money launderers, Arctic Explorers, every week we explore something new from a side of life you may never have even heard of.
0:15.5	Check out profoundly pointless wherever you listen to podcast. Oh, You guys welcome to another episode of Beyond the Blinds. It is me
0:46.7	Troy McKeety and Kelly Williams and this week's episode is first of all we're
0:51.6	both very excited about it because it's like a little change in pace
0:55.4	We're doing something a little different a lot different for the show but like not really that different as far as our interests we love talking about
1:05.9	American Idol and scandal and crazy fuck shit, but we wanted to open the episode by kind of, I guess, getting your opinion, ideas thoughts about us like leaning into episodes like this because we are a bit blind exhausted.
1:22.2	I think I don't know if you've been able to tell but like we've been doing the show now for three years and we're a little bit blind item exhausted.
1:31.4	Yeah, so if there are any like celebrity documentaries you'd like us to cut. exhausted. really dove into that. I know I mentioned the show and what you're made of documentary a lot.
1:44.4	There are just so many other avenues that we haven't explored and we're excited to, but this one is just
1:50.4	controversies with American Idol Idol which I am so excited about.
1:57.0	I like can't put into work when I was like pulling because we both we separately
2:02.4	pulled I guess like controversy
2:04.3	scandals stuff that we were able to find and put it together in one dock for this and
2:07.4	it is so intense there's so much crazy shit and there have been so many scandals and deaths and lawsuits and sexual assaults and like just all kinds of crazy shit on American Idol.
2:28.6	No, I'm excited and before we get into like our opinions on American Idol and what it meant to us, I just, I don't know if people will understand if they weren't like old enough when the first episode premiered, which is June 11th, 2002, and that's right after 9-11, right?
2:45.7	We're sticking our boot in our ass, it's the American way, like we are ready to celebrate
2:50.0	America.
2:51.5	And I found that in 2003 38 million people were watching American Idol.
2:58.0	Insane.
3:01.0	It was like the Super Bowl every single week.
3:03.8	Was America on a once a week?
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