You guys,

welcome to episode 61 of the Smushroom, the podcast of Deep Dives in a well known

and more importantly not so well known.

Hookups of your favorite reality TV stars it's

me Troy McEady how are you good good to hear it we have a really reality

television-based episode today I mean I know that it always is

kind of adjacent whatever but like today it's like these are reality TV

trailblazers we're talking about today ladies and gentlemen roll out your red carpets

Seriously, we're talking about reality television royalty if you will and I'm very excited

Before we get to that I feel like I should let you know that I've survived a, I don't even know what you would call it.

A poltergeist? I don't know. There was a poltergeist in my apartment this week.

Allegedly, it could have been a poltergeist, it could have not been. In my opinion it was.

I've told you guys that I live in a building that is, it was built in like 1918 or something and so it just

harbors a lot of like energy whether that's negative or positive is up for debate. I've lived here for about a year now and

well yeah a lot of weird shit has happened which by the way is so crazy because I remember in the room that I'm sitting in right now

I remember right behind me I recorded the first episode that I ever did here if you go back and listen it was Drew Barrymore and Tom Green and I actually went back and listen to it just for the hell of it the other day because sometimes I'll go back and listen to really old episodes to just cringe at how weird and nervous I used to be on a camera,

microphone, whatever this is, whatever this do-hickey is.

And yeah, I was like so excited to be recording in here

and I had just moved in and it was really echoy

because I didn't have any furniture in here yet

and I was like talking about all

the possibilities and my hopes and dreams of living in this apartment building and

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