To start today's episode, I actually want to tell you about a show I just watched.

I can't tell you how many people told me to watch the show, Jury Duty.

Earlier this year, Amazon Prime released a show available to everyone not just Prime

members that followed a jury as they attended a trial.

The show is shot documentary style with talking heads of the jury, similar to the office,

riveting, I know.

But there's one huge catch.

The trial isn't real.

Everyone on the show is a paid actor, the judge, the lawyers, the witnesses, and the entire

jury, except for one guy.

One guy was plucked from his real life, told he was selected for a real jury, and had no

idea for the entire trial that everything around him was carefully constructed.

It's a weird Truman show experiment that really divided audiences.

You watch as actors try not to laugh during outrageous sequences, like a witness that

does social media management for her dog.

All while Ronald, the real guy, takes it completely seriously.

The show is hysterical, but many people, while recommending it to me, had their concerns

over the well-being of the show's real subject, Ronald Gladden.

In the end, he shown that everything he's experienced over the three-week trial was a lie.

He has this kind of glossy-eyed look on his face.

His reality in that moment was completely broken.

Things like this have actually been around for a while now, and if you knew a bit more

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